Charlene Tilton
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Terror warning for Americans in Europe
U.S. citizens are being urged to remain vigilant at popular tourist spots and transport hubs.
Also: 11 and 12-year-old arrested for armed robbery
Two young boys were arrested in North Las Vegas for holding up two clerks at gunpoint to steal some cash. Surveillance video from a donut shop shows an 11-year-old, with his shirt pulled over his head, point a BB gun at the clerk and demand money. The 12-year-old accomplice was waiting outside the store.
The clerk described the boy as only up to her chin, but she believed the BB gun was a loaded handgun. The boys then went to a Subway restaurant across the street, where they are accused of executing a similar plan.
According to North Las Vegas police, the 11-year-old boy was brazen enough to hold his BB gun to an employee's head at Subway. The 11-year-old boy's mother didn't apologize for her son's actions, but she did acknowledge that her son and his 12-year-old partner deserved punishment.
Police said this wasn't the first time the 11-year-old committed such a crime. Investigators alleged that police were able to track him down because of his prior felony charge.
The clerk described the boy as only up to her chin, but she believed the BB gun was a loaded handgun. The boys then went to a Subway restaurant across the street, where they are accused of executing a similar plan.
According to North Las Vegas police, the 11-year-old boy was brazen enough to hold his BB gun to an employee's head at Subway. The 11-year-old boy's mother didn't apologize for her son's actions, but she did acknowledge that her son and his 12-year-old partner deserved punishment.
Police said this wasn't the first time the 11-year-old committed such a crime. Investigators alleged that police were able to track him down because of his prior felony charge.
CBS radio reporter, wife arrested for growing marijuana plants
Rednecks and other assorted weirdos
Rednecks and other assorted weirdos
Redneck Windshield Defroster
If necessity is the mother of invention, then duck tape is probably the father.
Well, at least when it comes to this Redneck Windshield Defroster.
Take a look at more Hilarious Redneck Inventions over at Oddee.
Inventing language, the easy way
Fresh pastures meant a cosier life for early humans – if they hadn't, we would never have loosened up enough to learn to speak
Amazing 1903 photos that showed the secret kingdom of Tibet for the very first time
Amazing 1903 photos that showed the secret kingdom of Tibet for the very first time to be auctioned off.
The pictures date from the notorious expedition of Edwardian adventurer Francis Younghusband in 1903-04 and gave the western world their first glimpse of life in the hidden kingdom.
Dogwood Winter
As Autumn begins it is time to plan the Vernal plantings ...
Folklore of the eastern United States tells gardeners not to plant until after the dogwood trees have bloomed. The reason: Dogwood Winter, known regionally as Blackberry Winter.
Dogwood Winter generally arrives following an extended mid-spring warm spell and brings several days of cold, cloudy, disagreeable weather, often accompanied by frost and perhaps a flurry of snow. It usually occurs during May and coincides with the blooming of dogwood trees and blackberry bushes, from which it derives its popular names.
Dogwood Winter appears to be one of several weather "singularities" -- one time events common to North America, such as Indian Summer and January Thaw, but in a retrograde thermal direction. As someone once described it: "It's spring, then suddenly winter returns."
The American, or flowering, dogwood ranges from Texas to Minnesota eastward to the Atlantic shoreline from Florida to southern New England. This small tree, often as wide as it is tall, favors the well-drained but moist, fertile sites of mixed hardwood forests and pine forest edges.
Many gardeners believe that the safest time to plant cold-sensitive species, such as tomatoes, comes in the returning warm weather following Dogwood Winter. Native Americans also watched for dogwood blossoms as signs to begin planting crops.
The dogwood's beauty and utility have long been celebrated in North America. Early colonists reportedly used every part of the dogwood except "the rustle of its leaves."
Folklore of the eastern United States tells gardeners not to plant until after the dogwood trees have bloomed. The reason: Dogwood Winter, known regionally as Blackberry Winter.
Dogwood Winter generally arrives following an extended mid-spring warm spell and brings several days of cold, cloudy, disagreeable weather, often accompanied by frost and perhaps a flurry of snow. It usually occurs during May and coincides with the blooming of dogwood trees and blackberry bushes, from which it derives its popular names.
Dogwood Winter appears to be one of several weather "singularities" -- one time events common to North America, such as Indian Summer and January Thaw, but in a retrograde thermal direction. As someone once described it: "It's spring, then suddenly winter returns."
The American, or flowering, dogwood ranges from Texas to Minnesota eastward to the Atlantic shoreline from Florida to southern New England. This small tree, often as wide as it is tall, favors the well-drained but moist, fertile sites of mixed hardwood forests and pine forest edges.
Many gardeners believe that the safest time to plant cold-sensitive species, such as tomatoes, comes in the returning warm weather following Dogwood Winter. Native Americans also watched for dogwood blossoms as signs to begin planting crops.
The dogwood's beauty and utility have long been celebrated in North America. Early colonists reportedly used every part of the dogwood except "the rustle of its leaves."
The Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis
In 1621 French scientist Pierre Gassendi decided to name the strange natural displays of light he had observed in the sky. He took the name of the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora and combined it with the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas. The world had a name, finally, for these mysterious light shows - aurora borealis.
'Big UP Deal' Protects 271,000 Acres in Michigan
Article continues: 'Big UP Deal' Protects 271,000 Acres in Michigan
Duluth, Minnesota Teams Up with the Sun to Take Out its Trash
The Duluth waterfront, on Lake Superior.
Photo: rococohobo under a Creative Commons license.
Duluth, Minnesota is taking out its trash- and the sun is helping out. The City on Lake Superior announced on Thursday the debut of its Toss It Green initiative, to install twenty solar-powered trash compactors along its Lakewalk. The containers, half of which will be for trash, half for recycling, have built-in solar panels to power them, and will hold up to five times more refuse than traditional garbage cans. That means Duluth city workers won't have to head out every week to pick up and replace full bags. In fact, they never have to go out unnecessarily- each compactor has a sensor and a communication system, to alert workers when they are full. And if it rains? Each compactor also has a battery to keep it running when the sun isn't out.Article continues: Duluth, Minn. Teams Up with the Sun to Take Out its Trash
A painless way to achieve huge energy savings ...
Stop wasting food
Scientists have identified a way that the United States could immediately save the energy equivalent of about 350 million barrels of oil a year — without spending a penny or putting a ding in the quality of life: Just stop wasting food.Sharing the Wealth
A rich man is driving down the highway and he see's a man in the median eating handfuls of grass, he tell his driver to pull over and he yells to the man, "What are you doing there?"The man says, "I am broke and hungry and this is the best I can find."
The rich guy says, "Come with me and I can help!"
The poor man says, "But what about my wife?"
The rich guy says, "She can come too!"
The poor man says, "But my children are just up the road, what about them?"
The rich guy, reluctantly say's, "They can come too".
The poor man says "How about my aunt and uncle, and sisters?"
To which the rich guys replies,
"Just how big do you think my lawn is?"
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When Donald Duck met Glenn Beck
This is a perfect example of how the lunatic fringe truly are:
"This is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed from dozens of classic Walt Disney cartoons from the 1930s to 1960s. Donald's life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house payments. As his frustration turns into despair Donald discovers a seemingly sympathetic voice coming from his radio named Glenn Beck."
"This is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed from dozens of classic Walt Disney cartoons from the 1930s to 1960s. Donald's life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house payments. As his frustration turns into despair Donald discovers a seemingly sympathetic voice coming from his radio named Glenn Beck."
A turn of a phrase
Crackpot
Meaning
A crazy person; a crank.
Origin
There are countless words in the language that began as two-word terms, later to become hyphenated and later still to merge into a single word, for example, 'zigzag', 'forewarned', 'ninepence' etc. Crackpot is on that list.
To discover its origins, we need to ignore the Vikings and realise that 'crackpot' is a shortened form of 'cracked-pot', which splits into its constituent parts, cracked and pot.
Cracked:
Cracked is itself a shortening of 'brain-cracked' (or cracked-brained'). 'Cracked' simply meant 'impaired'; 'faulty'. Both of these terms were current in the 17th century. For instance, in Randle Cotgrave's, A dictionarie of the French and English tongues, 1611, we find:Estropié de caboche, ou de ceruelle, frantick, witlesse, braine-sicke, brain-crackt.And in John Canne's A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England, 1634, we find:If Mr. Bradshaw had found such a reason in Mr, Johnson's writing, he would surely have called idle head, cracked-brained, fool etc.
Pot:
In the Middle Ages, 'pot' was used to mean 'skull' or 'head'. For example, this piece from Guy de Chauliac's translation of Grande Chirurgie, circa 1425:Ye pot of ye heued
So, a 'cracked pot' was a 'faulty head' and crackpot is synonymous with our more recent terms 'numbskull', 'blockhead', 'brain-dead' etc.
The first record that I can find of the term 'crack-pot' (with a hyphen at that stage) is in a Broadside Ballad, recorded by John S Farmer in 1883:
My aunty knew lots,
and called them crack-pots.
***
See it's easy to tell a wingnut - they're Crackpots!
Strange vending machines
Order a pizza made from scratch in Italy, or get a gold bar in Abu Dhabi.
Also: Federal Welfare System Not Helping The New Poor In Economic Crisis
Contrary to popular myth, (a repugican shrieking point by the by) it's quite difficult for anyone with any assets at all to get onto welfare:
The nation's welfare system of cash assistance, for decades the core of help for mothers and children in financial distress, has become a shrunken piece of the U.S. social safety net.
The welfare rolls have absorbed relatively few of the Americans who have tumbled lately into poverty or unemployment.
The number of families getting welfare checks, federal figures show, increased by about 185,000 between the start of the recession in late 2007 and this spring. During roughly the same period, the number of families living in poverty rose by more than 400,000 to record levels, according to the Census Bureau, which reported this week that, in Washington, three out of 10 children were poor last year.
State by state, welfare programs are a patchwork, with little connection between the condition of a state's economy and the number of people who have gone onto welfare.
Taken together, this new portrait of welfare answers a central question that hovered over the impassioned debate of the mid-1990s, when Congress and the Clinton administration transformed welfare from a federal entitlement into a state-run program of temporary assistance that emphasized work. How would the reshaped welfare system respond, policymakers and advocates wondered then, if the economy plunged into long, serious trouble?
Nearly three years after the start of a grave economic downturn, it now is clear that "despite extremely high levels of employment, that has not translated into welfare increases as much as many people expected," said Douglas J. Besharov, a University of Maryland professor who has studied welfare for years.
Welfare's role will be further diminished after Thursday, when emergency funds Congress began providing early last year to help states cope with hard economic times run out. Despite urging from the Obama administration and welfare directors around the country, lawmakers decided not to extend the emergency welfare money, which gave states more than $4 million, in part to subsidize wages to help people go to work.
Congress also was scheduled this year to renew the entire welfare program, known officially as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, but deferred the task until at least next year.
R.I.P. to four famous U.S. car brands
Two are old favorites, one's a brute, and the fourth was called "a different kind of car company."
Also: Incredible ways people fall into debt
One woman went bankrupt running up $30,000 in calls to a 900-number psychic line.
Also: Home renovations that don't pay off
You may think these improvements will increase your home's value, but they often don't.
Also: 
Service with a Smile
A Grandmother was surprised by her 7 year old grandson one morning when he had made her coffee.She drank what was the worst cup of coffee in her life. When she got to the bottom there were three of those little green army men in the cup. She said, "Honey, what are the army men doing in my coffee?"
Her grandson said, "Grandma, it says on TV-'The best part of waking up is soldiers in your cup!'"
The Beginner’s Guide To Zen Habits
A variety of techniques are used to restore identity with the nature of Buddha, including shouting and beating. The discipline, or zazen, may be aided by concentration on texts and problems, or koan.
Obese But Healthy?
A new study questions whether being obese but "metabolically healthy" is enough.
Also: Culinary DeLites
Culinary DeLites
The winner in a test "tastes like Mexican restaurant chips," says one voter.
Also: The 10 healthiest ethnic cuisines
When it comes to the diet benefits of their foods, certain cultures rise above the rest.
Also: Carrots Used to Be Purple Before the 17th Century
Before the 17th century, almost all carrots cultivated were purple. The modern day orange carrot wasn’t cultivated until Dutch growers in the late 16th century took mutant strains of the purple carrot, including yellow and white carrots and gradually developed them into the sweet, plump, orange variety we have today.
Before this, pretty much all carrots were purple with mutated versions occasionally popping up including the yellow and white carrots. These however were rarely cultivated and lacked the purple pigment anthocyanin, which gave carrots back then their distinctive purple color.
It is thought that the modern day orange carrot was developed by crossing the mutated yellow and white rooted carrots as well as varieties of wild carrots, which are quite distinct from cultivated carrots.
Some think that the reason the orange carrot became so popular in the Netherlands was in tribute to the emblem of the House of Orange and the struggle for Dutch independence. This could be, but it also might just be that the orange carrots that the Dutch developed were sweeter tasting and more fleshy than their purple counterparts, thus providing more food per plant and being better tasting.
Bonus Factoids:
- It is actually possible to turn your skin a shade of orange by massively over consuming orange carrots.
- Orange carrots get their bright orange color from beta-carotene. Beta-carotene metabolizes in the human gut from bile salts into Vitamin A.
- The origins of the cultivated carrot is rooted in the purple carrot in the region around modern day Afghanistan.
- When cultivation of the garden style orange carrot lapses for a few generations, the carrots revert back to their ancestral carrot types, which are very different from the current garden variety.
- In ancient times, the root part of the carrot plant that we eat today was not typically used. The carrot plant however was highly valued due to the medicinal value of its seeds and leaves. For instance, Mithridates VI, King of Pontius (around 100BC) had a recipe for counteracting certain poisons with the principle ingredient being carrot seeds. It has since been proven that this concoction actually works.
- The Romans believed carrots and their seeds were aphrodisiacs. As such, carrots were a common plant found in Roman gardens. After the fall of Rome however, carrot cultivation in Europe more or less stopped until around the 10th century when Arabs reintroduced them to Europe.
- British gunners in WWII were able to locate and shoot down German planes at night due to the invention of radar, which the Germans knew nothing about. To cover up the invention and extreme effectiveness of radar, the British spread about an urban legend that said that they massively increased the night vision of their pilots by having them consume large amounts of carrots. This lie not only convinced the Germans, but also had a bonus effect of causing many British people to start planting their own vegetable gardens, including planting carrots. This urban legend has persisted even to this day.
- The largest carrot every grown was 19 pounds; grown by John Evans in 1998 in Palmer, Alaska.
- The Vegetable Improvement Center at Texas A&M recently developed a purple-skinned, orange fleshed carrot called the Beta Sweet. This carrot is specialized to include substances that prevent cancer. It also has extremely high beta-carotene content.
- Almost one third of all carrots distributed throughout the world come from China, which is the largest distributor of carrots in the world. Following them on gross production is Russia and then the United States.
- Although the orange carrot was not cultivated before the 16th and 17th centuries, there is a reference in a Byzantine manuscript around 512AD which depicts an orange rooted carrot, suggesting that at least this mutant variety of carrot could be found at this time.
Your dog can't talk, but he can Tweet
Social networking has become the rage even for Fido. He may not be able to type, and has no opposable thumbs to hold a smartphone either, but with a little help from an electronic dog tag that attaches to his collar, he can still Tweet.
Will The Wolf Survive
Senators from four states unite to try to strip the iconic predator of its protected status.
Also: Amazing Stories of Animals Rescuing Humans
Animals have a knack for saving other animals, but they've also been known to put themselves in the line of danger for humans -- and we're not just talking about pet dogs that protect their homes from burglars.
From dolphins that rescued a surfer from sharks and a whale that helped a drowning athlete to an elephant that protected a young girl from a tsunami, these amazing, selfless animal heroes remind us once again of the unique species we co-habitat with that we need to protect.
Now you can swim with a tiger
There's swimming with stingrays or dolphins, but just imagine what your friends would say if you took a dive with a tiger. It can happen. "No one else I know does it," smiled Kathy Stearns, director of the Dade City Wild Things animal sanctuary in Florida.
A couple of months ago, a zoo in Oklahoma City donated a three week old white tiger to the sanctuary. Stearns picked up the tiny animal she named Diamond and flew her back to the Bay area. From the very beginning, Stearns says she was very hands on with Diamond. "She's one of those rare things. She's real sweet natured, gentle. She's a talker. She loves to talk, she does a lot of grunting noises," smiled Stearns.
Like most tiger cubs, Diamond likes to eat and play, but she's also got another love... the water! "It's really great, she loves it. She thinks it's a lot of fun," said Stearns. The 20-pound tiger cub has mastered the art of "tiger" paddling in the sanctuary's backyard pool. "She's so great about keeping her claws in. She doesn't extend, even when she's reaching up to you, so she's really gentle in the water," explained Stearns.
If you're over 18 and have $200 to spare, the opportunity to take a half hour dive with Diamond is yours. Stearns says the money will go back into the sanctuary to help care for Diamond and her new animal family. The opportunity is not going to last forever, because once Diamond hits 40 pounds, law forbids the public from interacting with animals like her.
A couple of months ago, a zoo in Oklahoma City donated a three week old white tiger to the sanctuary. Stearns picked up the tiny animal she named Diamond and flew her back to the Bay area. From the very beginning, Stearns says she was very hands on with Diamond. "She's one of those rare things. She's real sweet natured, gentle. She's a talker. She loves to talk, she does a lot of grunting noises," smiled Stearns.
Like most tiger cubs, Diamond likes to eat and play, but she's also got another love... the water! "It's really great, she loves it. She thinks it's a lot of fun," said Stearns. The 20-pound tiger cub has mastered the art of "tiger" paddling in the sanctuary's backyard pool. "She's so great about keeping her claws in. She doesn't extend, even when she's reaching up to you, so she's really gentle in the water," explained Stearns.
If you're over 18 and have $200 to spare, the opportunity to take a half hour dive with Diamond is yours. Stearns says the money will go back into the sanctuary to help care for Diamond and her new animal family. The opportunity is not going to last forever, because once Diamond hits 40 pounds, law forbids the public from interacting with animals like her.
Small Tigers
Tigers roaming the famous mangrove forests of Bangladesh are nearly half the weight of other wild Bengal tigers in South Asia, a study finds.
Animal News
A dragonfish with teeth on both jaws and tongue is pictured in this image provided by the Census for Marine Life. even has teeth on its tongue. Though terrifying in appearance, the fish are only about the size of a banana.
What Colors Were Dinosaur Feathers?
The fossils of some small meat-eating dinosaurs were covered in filaments that are widely thought to be the precursors of feathers. And among these filaments, a team of Chinese and British scientists have found the distinctive signs of melanosomes, small structures that are partly responsible for the colors of modern bird feathers.
Re-Calculating Dinosaur Heights
Weird Science realizes it can't dunk on the raptors
Weren't they big enough already?
Figuring out how tall a dinosaur is would seem to be a fairly simple matter: line the bones up and figure out what its posture was like. But that's ignoring a rather significant factor, namely the cartilage that sits between the joints. In alligators, that cartilage accounts for about 10 percent of the hindlimb's length, leading to speculation that the dinosaurs might be significantly taller than their skeletons alone would suggest. How substantially isn't entirely clear, though. Birds, the only living dinosaurs, have less cartilage than alligators, but the immense bulk of dinosaurs might have required much more.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
The Daily Drift
The Daily Drift
Today's horoscope says:Anxiety may be the topping on your current emotional sundae, but you can refuse to partake in this dish even when it's served to you on a platter.
Postpone any definitive decisions for a few days, or you could make some rash decisions that you'll live to regret.
Instead, ground yourself with yoga, meditation or physical activity of some kind.
Not only will it take the edge off your anxiety, it'll give you more energy to deal with this situation.
Some of our readers today have been in:
Paris Ile-De-France France
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Edithvale, Victoria, Australia
Seoul, Kyonggi-Do, Korea
Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia
London, England, United Kingdom
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Coffs Harbor, New South Wales, Australia
as well as Italy, Scotland, Sweden and in cities across the United States such as Brockaway, Shippensburg, Rockford, Joliet and more.
Today is:
Today is Saturday, October 2, the 275th day of 2010.
There are 90 days left in the year.
Today's unusual holiday or celebration is:
World Card Making Day
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President Obama's Weekly Address
Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
The White House
October 2, 2010
Over the past twenty months, we’ve been fighting not just to create more jobs today, but to rebuild our economy on a stronger foundation. Our future as a nation depends on making sure that the jobs and industries of the 21st century take root here in America. And there is perhaps no industry with more potential to create jobs now – and growth in the coming years – than clean energy.Weekly Address
The White House
October 2, 2010
For decades, we’ve talked about the importance of ending our dependence on foreign oil and pursuing new kinds of energy, like wind and solar power. But for just as long, progress had been prevented at every turn by the special interests and their allies in Washington.
So, year after year, our dependence on foreign oil grew. Families have been held hostage to spikes in gas prices. Good manufacturing jobs have gone overseas. And we’ve seen companies produce new energy technologies and high-skilled jobs not in America, but in countries like China, India and Germany.
It was essential – for our economy, our security, and our planet – that we finally tackle this challenge. That is why, since we took office, my administration has made an historic commitment to promote clean energy technology. This will mean hundreds of thousands of new American jobs by 2012. Jobs for contractors to install energy-saving windows and insulation. Jobs for factory workers to build high-tech vehicle batteries, electric cars, and hybrid trucks. Jobs for engineers and construction crews to create wind farms and solar plants that are going to double the renewable energy we can generate in this country. These are jobs building the future.
For example, I want share with you one new development, made possible by the clean energy incentives we have launched. This month, in the Mojave Desert, a company called BrightSource plans to break ground on a revolutionary new type of solar power plant. It’s going to put about a thousand people to work building a state-of-the-art facility. And when it’s complete, it will turn sunlight into the energy that will power up to 140,000 homes – the largest such plant in the world. Not in China. Not in India. But in California.
With projects like this one, and others across this country, we are staking our claim to continued leadership in the new global economy. And we’re putting Americans to work producing clean, home-grown American energy that will help lower our reliance on foreign oil and protect our planet for future generations.
Now there are some in Washington who want to shut them down. In fact, in the Pledge they recently released, the Republican leadership is promising to scrap all the incentives for clean energy projects, including those currently underway – even with all the jobs and potential that they hold.
This doesn’t make sense for our economy. It doesn’t make sense for Americans who are looking for jobs. And it doesn’t make sense for our future. To go backwards and scrap these plans means handing the competitive edge to China and other nations. It means that we’ll grow even more dependent on foreign oil. And, at a time of economic hardship, it means forgoing jobs we desperately need. In fact, shutting down just this one project would cost about a thousand jobs.
That’s what’s at stake in this debate. We can go back to the failed energy policies that profited the oil companies but weakened our country. We can go back to the days when promising industries got set up overseas. Or we can go after new jobs in growing industries. And we can spur innovation and help make our economy more competitive. We know the choice that’s right for America. We need to do what we’ve always done – put our ingenuity and can do spirit to work to fight for a brighter future.
Thanks.
Dead Teen's Classmates Discover His Brain in Jar
Kids Came Across a Jar with a Brain Floating Inside and Their Dead Friend's Name on Label During Field Trip at Morgue A Staten Island couple is suing New York City after the shocking discovery that their dead son's brain was on display in a jar at a city morgue.
Which brings us to ...
Which brings us to ...
Dean accused of using students as servants
Cecilia Chang allegedly threatened to revoke scholarships over housework, investigators say.
Also: Was there ever any doubt ...
BP's new CEO finds a clever way to Bedbugs make their way into federal office in D.C.
The federal building that houses the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington is heavily secured - but officials couldn't keep the bedbugs out.
Farmer: 600 pounds of trout scooped from pond
A North Carolina trout farmer thought something was fishy when one of her ponds wasn't fishy enough.
Druids are official
The religion with practices that predate Christianity is formally recognized by the government.
Also: Saudi father says daughter kidnapped by genie
Saudi police backed by a civil defense aircraft and hundreds of town residents have launched an extensive operation in search of a teenage girl whose father says she has been kidnapped by a jinn (genie). The 16-year-old Saudi girl disappeared from her house in the central town of Alkharj a month ago but was found later in Riyadh. She vanished again three days ago, triggering a massive search campaign by the police, civil defense and residents of the town.
“Her father believes she is possessed by a jinn, who threatened to take her to Riyadh last month and carried out his threat. He says this jinn speaks out through her and told them that he would take her to Riyadh…and that is what happened as they later found her in Batiha neighborhood in Riyadh…he then threatened that he would take her away and make her disappear forever…he said he would take her outside the country.”
The unidentified father’s theory has been refuted by Moslem scholars on the grounds jinns can not transport humans. Sheikh Ahmed al Aseeri, preacher at Alkharj state prison, as said the girl could be suffering from mental problems. “This story about a jinn taking the girl away can not be believed because jinns are not able to carry humans or make them disappear…they can control minds but not bodies so this theory is not correct,” he said.
The girl is short and lean and was wearing a white shirt when she disappeared from her house before dawn three days ago. “She was in her room at around 2.00 am before she vanished…..her mother said her daughter cheated her when she gave her the wrong key for her room…the next day, they found out that she was not in her room.”
“Her father believes she is possessed by a jinn, who threatened to take her to Riyadh last month and carried out his threat. He says this jinn speaks out through her and told them that he would take her to Riyadh…and that is what happened as they later found her in Batiha neighborhood in Riyadh…he then threatened that he would take her away and make her disappear forever…he said he would take her outside the country.”
The unidentified father’s theory has been refuted by Moslem scholars on the grounds jinns can not transport humans. Sheikh Ahmed al Aseeri, preacher at Alkharj state prison, as said the girl could be suffering from mental problems. “This story about a jinn taking the girl away can not be believed because jinns are not able to carry humans or make them disappear…they can control minds but not bodies so this theory is not correct,” he said.
The girl is short and lean and was wearing a white shirt when she disappeared from her house before dawn three days ago. “She was in her room at around 2.00 am before she vanished…..her mother said her daughter cheated her when she gave her the wrong key for her room…the next day, they found out that she was not in her room.”
Five Dumbest Things You Can Do On Facebook
If Facebook is to be believed, then 98 percent of the people you went to high school with have rock solid abs, earn a six-figure salary, have completed several iron man triathlons , have a time share in Maui, and still have equity in their home.
Unearthing a war's lost Pacific wrecks
A Web-based mission searches for thousands missing in action after World War II.
Also: The Oldest, The Largest, The Ugliest Hotels
Would you believe the oldest hotel in the world is the Hoshi hotel in Komatsu, Japan? It was founded in 718 and for 46 generations the hotel has been run by the same family. It has 100 Japanese-style guest rooms, a private guest residence, as well as outdoor hot spring baths, and the guest are always welcomed with the traditional tea ceremony.
The Oldest, The Largest, The Ugliest Hotels.
Thirteen Of The Weirdest Things Found In Lost Luggage
Lost luggage has become a global phenomenon. Here are the weirdest and most peculiar examples of lost luggage out there, from precious jewellery to unborn babies!
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