Safety messages should be displayed on e-cigarette kits following a rise in the number of fire incidents linked to the devices, fire bosses say.
Figures obtained by the Press Association earlier this month revealed that e-cigarettes or related equipment including chargers were involved in more than 100 fires in less than two years.
The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents all 46 fire authorities in England and Wales, said this could be the "tip of the iceberg".
Jeremy Hilton, chairman of the LGA's Fire Services Management Committee, said: "The spiralling upward trend of fires connected with e-cigarettes is a major cause for concern and much more needs to be done to combat it.
"We expect this to continue to rise as more smokers switch to e-cigarettes.
"Alarmingly, there is no way of knowing the true figure as we understand many cases are going unreported.
"We are urging e-cigarette manufacturers to introduce clear, prominent and graphic new warnings spelling out to users the dangers of using incompatible chargers with e-cigarette batteries."
In August, David Thomson, 62, was killed when an e-cigarette on charge exploded and ignited oxygen equipment he was believed to have been using.
Various security measures are used to protect the US President when he travels: a rocket-grenade launching limo, hundreds of Secret Service staff - and perhaps even a body double.
When Barack Obama rolled into town for the G20 summit in Australia, it seems his lookalike wasn't far away.
As the President was driven through the streets of Brisbane in his heavily guarded limousine dubbed The Beast, a "decoy" Barack Obama was snapped by a local newspaper photographer - apparently in a decoy Beast.
The unnamed possible Obama lookalike even did the obligatory wave for the cheering crowd, the Courier-Mail reported.
If this is a presidential decoy, it's not the first time a world leader has had a body double.
Former dictator Saddam Hussein apparently had multiple lookalikes during his time as head of Iraq and it has been claimed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had up to six.
[AnNahar] A surgeon working in West Africa's Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to the United States for treatment on Saturday, according to a person in the federal government with direct knowledge of the case.
The surgeon, Dr. Martin Salia, will be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the person said. A Sierra Leone citizen, the 44-year-old Salia lives in Maryland and is a legal permanent U.S. resident, according to the person, who was not authorized to release the information and spoke on condition of anonymity
The doctor will be the third Ebola patient at the Omaha hospital and the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the U.S. The last, Dr. Craig Spencer, was released from a New York hospital on Tuesday
In a statement Thursday, the Nebraska Medical Center said it had no official confirmation that it would be treating another patient, but that an Ebola patient in Sierra Leone would be evaluated for possible transport to the hospital. The patient would arrive Saturday afternoon.
Salia is a general surgeon who had been working at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown, according to the person familiar with the case. He came down with symptoms of Ebola on Nov. 6 but test results were negative for the virus. He was tested again on Monday, and he tested positive. Salia is in stable, pH balanced condition at an Ebola treatment center in Freetown. It wasn't clear whether he had been involved in the care of Ebola patients.
Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year. The disease has killed more than 5,000 people, mostly in Sierra Leona, Guinea and Liberia.
The State Department said in a statement late Thursday, that along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it had been in touch with the Maryland wife of an unidentified Ebola patient about transferring him to the Nebraska Medical Center for care.
The hospital in Omaha is one of four U.S. hospitals with specialized treatment units for people with highly dangerous infectious diseases. It was chosen for the latest patient because workers at units at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital and the National Institutes of Health near Washington are still in a 21-day monitoring period.
Those two hospitals treated two Dallas nurses who were infected while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who fell ill with Ebola shortly after arriving in the U.S. and later died.
The other eight Ebola patients in the U.S. recovered, including the nurses. Five were American aid workers who became infected in West Africa while helping care for patients there; one was a video journalist.
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Ebola patient in Nebraska "extremely ill"
OMAHA, Neb. — A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone was in extremely critical condition Sunday at a Nebraska hospital, his doctors said.
Dr. Martin Salia, who was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday, arrived in Omaha on Saturday to be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment unit that has successfully treated two other Ebola patients this fall.
Salia is "extremely ill," said Dr. Phil Smith, who is helping oversee Salia's treatment. The 44-year-old Salia might be more ill than the first Ebola patients successfully treated in the United States, according to the hospital.
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Discussing this with MRS. Ret. the other night and I wanted to know why is it necessary to send known carriers to all different hospitals for treatment; wouldn't the logistics and hazards involved mandate using the same location(s), rather than expose entirely new medical populations to this disease?
She thinks its for training, because in a 'drill,' everybody walks through the motions, but if its the real thing people step up and do it right.
Maybe I'm cynical, but if a Navy ship screws up a real General Quarters or a fire ( USS Forresttal comes to mind) the damage is isolated to that ship. You bring an infected person into a metro area and if you do not have a good quarantine process ( and voluntary so far isn't getting it) then you could unleash that into millions of folks.
This just seems nuts to me.
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When was the last time some poor bastid in Peoria got sick and a foreign country hauled his arse away to a fancy hospital in Switzerland for expensive treatment ?
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why is it necessary to send known carriers to all different hospitals for treatment; wouldn't the logistics and hazards involved mandate using the same location(s), rather than expose entirely new medical populations to this disease?
Don't recall where I saw it, but somebody mentioned that a single Ebola patient tended to swamp the resources of typical hospital.
[AnNahar] Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... has reopened air and sea borders with Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the countries worst hit by the Ebola virus.
The frontiers had been closed since August 21, but the restriction was lifted with immediate effect, Senegalese Interior Minister Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo said Friday.
"Senegal has decided to partially open its borders with the Republic of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as of this Friday... this measure applies only to air and maritime borders excluding the land border," Diallo said in a statement.
Guinea shares a land border with Senegal, which will remain closed.
The announcement came after Liberia lifted its state of emergency Thursday, announcing huge gains in the fight against Ebola.
Smaller, more mobile treatment units are being deployed in remote areas of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to act quickly to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.
No mention was made of neighboring Mali in the statement, which has recorded deaths from the Ebola virus. The land border between the two countries remains open.
The World Health Organization announced on Friday that 5,177 people have now died of Ebola across eight countries, out of a total 14,413 cases of infection, since late December 2013.
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have suffered the most during the deadliest ever outbreak of the disease.
In its latest toll, WHO said that through November 10, 2,812 people had died in Liberia, out of 6,878 cases.
In Sierra Leone, 1,187 people had died as of November 11 out of 5,586 cases, WHO said.
Guinea, where the outbreak began late last year, counted 1,166 deaths and 1,919 cases, also as of November 11.
Senegal was declared Ebola free by the WHO in October after a single, non-fatal case was earlier detected in the country.
[AnNahar] Sierra Leone's Ebola burial boys wrap the highly-infectious body and present it to the family for dignified last goodbyes before it is taken gently away.
Removal of the dead is a necessarily traumatic experience for those left behind, but the process is a far cry from the way things used to be done.
In the panicked early days of the outbreak, when the only consideration was sanitation, teams of what looked to shellshocked relatives like space men would come to pick up the dead.
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[BBC] A three-month Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ended after claiming at least 49 lives, the country's health minister says.
Felix Kabange said no new cases had been registered since 4 October, though he warned against complacency.
The country's outbreak is unrelated to the one in West Africa which has claimed more than 5,000 lives.
Ebola was first detected in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Saturday's announcement came 42 days after the last new Ebola case in the country - Ebola outbreaks are usually declared over when two full cycles of the virus' 21 day incubation period finish without further infections.
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[Tolo News] The members of Wolesi Jirga ("Lower House of the Parliament) strongly condemned the recent child sexual assaults and rape of girls in different parts of the country, demanding death penalty to the perpetrators same as to the Paghman rapists.
The politicians claimed that carelessness of the government and also involvement of local government officials in these cases have caused increased rape cases throughout the country.
The MPS accused the local government officials of backing the rapists, and demanded death penalty to the rapists.
These statements were expressed after 5 cases of rape and child sexual abuse took place during the last week in different corners of the country.
The anger of the Parliament members and citizens were provoked more when a three-year-old girl was gang-raped in northeastern Takhar province.
"Today if sexual assaults occur, it is just because we don't have a right minister," MP Ramazan Bashardost said. "The police commanders are also not the right persons and unfortunately these persons have been appointed by the support of the Parliament."
The House members claimed that only those cases are confirmed by the local government officials that have gone public otherwise many other cases of violence and sexual assaults are not followed up.
"We had many fellow members in the House that raised their voices against the law eliminating violence against women but now why are they silent on the issues of rape of women and kiddies," said Aziza Jalees, a female politician from Takhar.
Another female politician representing Kabul, Nazeefa Zaki, strongly demanded President Ghani to hang the rapists to death.
So far from the beginning of this year until now, more than two hundred cases of violence and sexual assaults on women and kiddies have been registered in northeastern Takhar province, however, many perpetrators of these cases are yet to be identified and detained.
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“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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Of course, it will all depend on the meaning of "rape". IIRC, in Islam, to be convicted of rape, there must be four male witnesses. So if the rapist takes a little girl away from his buddies, and no one sees it, it isn't rape.
At that point, they can stone the little girl for adultery and being a temptress.
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Lionel, It all depends on when and if the Royal Navy shows up.
Mogadishu -- The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, has expressed concern over the violence on 15 November during preparations for the parliamentary elections in Somaliland. There have been reports that some members of parliament may have been detained and that the violence has led to a number of casualties.
"Somaliland has been making positive strides towards democratic elections. Violence risks setting these gains back," said SRSG Nicholas Kay. "I call on all parties to exercise restraint. The democratic process should be fully respected."
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HARGEISA, Somaliland -- Bitter wrangles over no confidence motion against Somaliland Parliament speaker and Wadani opposition Party leader Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (Irro) continue to split the assembly into factions, Garowe Online reports.
As part of the intense political deadlock, Somaliland's Deputy Security and Internal Affairs Minister Ali Gardheere and Police commander-in-Chief Abdullahi Fadal Iman on Saturday announced that security forces briefly arrested five Members of Parliament for throwing stones at soldiers in front of Hargeisa regional court.
Some sources within the parliament disclosed that the detained lawmakers-Saed Elmi Roble, Bashir Tukale, Mohamed Salah, Ibrahim Mahdi Buuba and Nasir Ali Shire-were supporting Speaker Irro who is facing tough opposition from ruling party MPs.
Pro-opposition leader Parliament secretary Abdirasak Saed Ayanle is also being held at Hargeisa central prison, security sources added.
Speaking at a press conference at Imperial hotel in Somaliland capital of Hargeisa, opposition leader Irro noted that security forces denied him entry into the parliament building.
"Heavily armed forces surrounded parliament building, parliament can’t convene since the government used force," said Irro.
Meanwhile, violent protests in Togdheer regional capital of Burao claimed at killed at least one person and left four other civilians wounded.
Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud (Siilaanyo) called for calm according to a press statement from his office.
"I tell the parliament, you shouldered responsibility to safeguard national interests. You are not expected to engage in dispute and put this nation on the blink," read the statement.
Nearly 53 MPs representing ruling party of Kulmiy are said to have lodged a no confidence motion against parliament speaker.
Somaliland, located in northwestern Somalia declared its independence from the rest of the country as de facto sovereign state in 1991 but it has not been recognized internationally yet.
Maybe this is why...
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth. He'll likely die in office of old age... was discharged from a clinic in La Belle France on Saturday after he had received medical treatment in the French Alpine city of Grenoble, police told Agence La Belle France-Presse.
An ambulance escorted by a number of vehicles was seen leaving the medical facility Saturday afternoon, AFP reported.
Police confirmed Boutflika was in the convoy of vehicles which was headed to Grenoble Airport.
Bouteflika was taken into care at Grenoble mutualist clinic on Friday.
The clinic did not say why the ailing 77-year-old president was hospitalized and did not give an update on his condition.
The president has been in poor health since 2013 when he was treated for a "mini-stroke" in Gay Paree.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] London's Bermondsey Square Hotel no longer serves alcohol and pork to guests after its new Muslim owner decided to run the venue in accordance to Islamic law, a British daily reported Friday. The process of colonization proceeds apace...
The owner, who is also said to be a Middle Easterner, turned the hotel into one of the first in the UK to impose a strict Islamic policy which bans the consumption of liquor and pork on its premises, The Daily Mail said.
Dishes that included traces of alcohol -- such as beer-battered fish, a pudding with âdrunken cherriesâ and rum ice cream -- are now denied to customers, hotel staff explained. Attempts were also on the way by chefs to replace pork varieties with chicken and beef sausages for breakfast meals.
While at the bar, customers were told only non-alcoholic beer is available, the staff said. Drinkers were offered only non-alcoholic beer and elderflower cordial, the British daily said.
The £220-a-night hotel was previously voted as the trendiest place to stay in the UK.
The sudden changes have reportedly prompted the cancellation of many reservations, the newspaper said, stimulating a surge in business for nearby restaurants. Workers at the hotel fear they would lose their jobs unless the hotel begins targeting a different clientele.
Like Saudi princes?
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Ordinarily, I wouldn't bet on this place lasting very long; however, there is a large Muslim population in the UK so who knows. Doesn't seem that the usual welfare jihadi would frequent this place as it is pricey.
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They have to do something before the oil balance of payments goes negative. They're OK for the winter, Europe can buy or freeze. By next spring, though, the cash reserve will be getting thin.
Aside from a warm water port, Vlad seems to be worried about Russia becoming irrelevant. Taking hostages is an easy way to be relevant.
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$70/BBL oil will shut the bear down. Drinking itself to death is the future
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So the USSR falling was really just a stealthy Chapt 11 bankruptcy reorganization under the leadership of KGB elements?
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Sort of. However, the new management is pretty much the same as the old management. They still don't have a product that sales well in or out of the country. Maintenance and upkeep usually only gets the old model running for a few extra miles. The Russian oligarchs management team hasn't been as successful as the Chinese in understanding you can get away with lots of economic corruption and maintain power if you exploit rather than demonize and threaten the outsiders.
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New Great RussianWiki will shut down western wreckers. The turbines powering it's query machine will be larger than punt "Grand" Coulée damn, and that'S only the Parser! Forward, ever Forward for Socialism, Justice, Bread, Tomatoe and a thin towel.
Putin is securing the various Land-Air-Sea corridors to access routes to Russia's bases in the Crimea, to include those "land bridges" currently part of the separatist regions of East Ukraine. IFF THE US-NATO/EU DO NOT WISH TO SHARE CONTROL OF THE BLACK SEA REGION VEE THE HARD BOYZ = GLOBAL JIHAD + THREAT TO BOTH RUSSIA + EUROPE, RUSSIA W-I-L-L CONTROL BY-N-FOR RUSSIA.
Perhaps moreso given ...
* WAFF > [Welt.DE] TURKEY SECRETLY WORKING ON ATOMIC BOMB?, to include the LRBMS [Short-to-Medium Range] to carry + deliver them???
* SAME > [Todays Zaman] TURKISH MINISTER TO ISRAEL: LEAVE AL-AQSA MOSQUE OR WILL SEND YOU PACKING [running].
Turkey EU Affairs Minister Volkan Brzkir.
* RUSSIA TODAY > ISIS HAS 200,000-STRONG FORCE, SAYS [Senior] KURDISH LEADER.
NOT the 20,000-31,500 Fighters as US + Western Analysts may believe, + also controlling a combined loyal-n-captive population of over 10.0Milyuhn.
Developments in East Asia in recent years hint at the possibility that communication between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is not all that it might be when it comes to coordinating military activities. Incidents such as the surprise stealth fighter test during former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ visit in 2011, or the 2007 anti-satellite test, are prime examples of the CCP’s leadership being seemingly unaware of what its military is doing. This suggests weakness in coordination between the center and the military, and helps explain numerous episodes where the civilian apparatus seemed oblivious to the PLA’s activities and confused about officers’ statements that made the PLA appear “rogue.”
The PLA detests political intrusion by the party into its own affairs and has subsequently carved out more autonomy for itself. Thus, the claim that in recent years, “civilian CCP leaders seem to have adopted a hands-off approach to the day-to-day affairs of the PLA” seems to plausibly describe the relationship between the military and the civilian leadership.
This could have far-reaching implications. In 2012, outgoing President Hu Jintao hinted that the chain of military command “might be more fragile than commonly understood,” although the true meaning of this statement remains abstruse. Certainly, confusion in the chain of command is not a new problem for China. Past examples include the 16th Party Congress, when Jiang retired from his post as general-secretary, but retained his seat as chairman of the CMC, while Hu became the new general-secretary. This led to ambiguity as to who was China’s commander in chief and ultimately in charge of the PLA, particularly for potentially explosive issues like Taiwan, where conflict control is complicated by the involvement of the United States.
Prominent analysts of Chinese foreign policy have hypothesized that the CCP general-secretary and chairman of the Central Military Commission is generally not being informed of issues at the operational level, such as specific weapons tests and training exercises or small military patrols outside of China’s immediate borders. Given the apparent absence of any requirement for the PLA to provide operational information, China lacks an explicit mechanism to make sure that coordination between civilian and military authorities takes place. An exacerbating factor is China’s stove-piped bureaucratic system, which aggravates difficulties in horizontal and vertical coordination as well as information sharing between the army and the civilian apparatus.
In a crisis, this lack of a reliable management at the highest levels may lead to unintended and far-reaching consequences, such as accidental escalation. Yet the Chinese foreign policy establishment continues to rely on temporary mechanisms created on an ad hoc basis. During a politico-military crisis, these mechanisms are often as inefficient for information processing as they are ineffective for coordinating actions, since quality information does not reach those in charge in a timely fashion.
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...Part of the problem is also that China - for all its internal political controls - is still to a disturbing extent a warlord-type set up where the provincial governors run things with autonomy....and the provincial commanders do their own thing with surprisingly little interference from Beijing...where the political and military leadership is too busy with political infighting to maintain real control over the military.
Now, that's not to say the provincial commanders won't follow orders when they're told to - but to a far greater extent than the Western militaries, they may act on their own if they feel it's called for.
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I know they can use the appearance of lack of control to great effect. Sort of, good cop, bad cop, "we can't control them", etc.
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Now, that's not to say the provincial commanders won't follow orders when they're told to -
That's one of the reasons outside troops were brought in to suppress the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square rather than using the local garrison.
[Ynet] Italian authorities said Saturday that more than 900 people had been rescued at sea in 24 hours, in a blow to hopes that the approach of winter would stem the flow of migrants attempting perilous crossings of the Mediterranean.
Most of the rescued people were initially aboard boats that had got into distress in open waters in the channel between Libya and Sicily, a narrow but treacherous strait in which thousands have drowned in recent years while trying to reach Europe.
“The fact that an adviser who was never on our staff *nicely parsed*
expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is not a reflection on the actual process that was run,” Obama declared at a press conference here, speaking for the first time about the comments by MIT economist Jonathan Gruber.
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Finally something me and Champ can agree upon:
“If you asked me, I’d say that’s a pretty good week...”
Actually got a pretty good month, and its only halfway done.
[DAWN] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government has begun restoring school and college curriculum by including the lessons deleted by the previous government.
The relevant officials said during the last government, lessons tending to create a sense of nationalism and those with positive impact of Islamic history and culture were deleted from textbooks.
Provincial information minister Mushtaq Ghani told Dawn that the current textbooks were printed by the previous government and that the current government learned about them only after they're introduced in schools and colleges.
"The present government has restored almost 90 per cent of the lessons regarding Islam, ideology and nationalism with more details in textbooks," he said.
The minister said next year, the students would be taught a changed curriculum.
Different governments have changed the contents of textbooks in line with their policies.
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[DAWN] MULTAN: A teashop owner on Saturday was allegedly set on fire by some college students after he refused to serve them free tea.
The victim, Naeem Bhatti, who runs a teashop in Mumtazabad area near the Government Technology College, told Mumtazabad police that he was picked up by seven students of the college, including Moeenuddin and Muavia, on gun point after he refused to serve them tea for which they were not ready to pay.
He said the suspects doused him with petrol and set fire. He was later shifted to the Nishtar Hospital by Rescue 1122 personnel called by some onlooker.
According to the hospital doctors involved in Bhatti's treatment, he suffered 60pc burns and his condition was critical.
The police have lodged an FIR (No 589/14) under Section 365/324 against two nominated and five unidentified accused.
Additional SHO Tariq Hasan said both the nominated suspects had been jugged. Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
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Why didn't they sell the petrol and buy the tea if they wanted it that badly??
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Not at this point. Hillary would bury them. After she (1) runs and looses or (2) decides not to run, it'll be safer.
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The MSM is going after Cosby because he is preaching self-reliance, responsibility, and family in the black community? They don't like blacks straying off the plantation.
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"Da Wife" sez the complainant looks more like a willing participant whose life did not change positively enough (translation: ka-ching) from the relationship.
[CollegeInsurrection] James Kilgore, who was involved in illegal activities with the leftist Symbionese Liberation Army in the 1970s, has been an adjunct professor of global studies and urban planning at the Urbana-Champaign campus for the last four years. But the university did not renew his contract after board members raised questions about his employment once his criminal activities became public earlier this year.
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.
[AnNahar] A surgeon working in West Africa's Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to the United States for treatment on Saturday, according to a person in the federal government with direct knowledge of the case.
[AnNahar] 
HARGEISA, Somaliland -- Bitter wrangles over no confidence motion against Somaliland Parliament speaker and Wadani opposition Party leader Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (Irro) continue to split the assembly into factions, Garowe Online reports.
Bouteflika
“The fact that an adviser who was never on our staff 
