[NYDAILYNEWS] Mayang Prasetyo and boyfriend Marcus Volke had not been seen in days when Brisbane cops found him cooking her body parts at their apartment, the Brisbane Times reported. A chase ensued, and the 28-year-old Volke killed himself with a knife while hiding in a bin next to the apartment complex, authorities said.
Neighbors had noticed the smell of "rotting meat" the last few days, the newspaper reported.
"I smelled something a few days ago, but we've had sewerage problems through the building over the past few weeks, which building managers have been trying to solve," neighbor Courtney Thoresen-Reichart told the Brisbane Times. "It smelled like off dog food, so I just thought someone had either been feeding their animal or the dog had made a mess."
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Sez a syrupy sweet cabernet:
"Not shiraz, not syrah, and not gay!
That hot note of chile?
Why judge? I mean, really,
Why can't I just be what I say?"
[CNBC]
what's that work out to per month on a 30-year mortgage?
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Oh, goody. More conspicuous consumption for a new Gilded Age...because the first one turned out so well with Russian Marxism, Italian and Spanish fascism, German National Socialism, Wilsonian pseudo-fascism, Rooseveltian quasi-socialism, Mao, Uncle Ho, Pol Pot, The Shining Path, yada yada yada. Sigh.
I'm sure Jeebus must have asked, somewhere, "How much is enough, for crissake?!"
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The ways they said it is spread was true and may still be true. But with mutations and all the survivors allowing a mutation to escape it is only a matter of time before it changes.
We better have a plan for it when it does happen or we are really in bad, bad shape.
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I'm thinking about the study that found ebola could survive for weeks on glass and plastic surface in cool conditions; Say an airconditioned hospital.
Assumptions being made here, which may turn out to be wrong.
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This article quotes many of the scientists at the center of the action in The Hot Zone (published almost 20 years ago).
Basically there are two camps: the CDC people (who dominate the media and insist "all is well") vs. the USAMRIID people (who say aerosol transmission can't be ruled out, and there's no proof that someone who is infected but asymptomatic can't spread the virus to others).
How refreshing that the MSM, for once, is making an effort to present the out-group's views.
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It it's all the same to you, I'm going with the USAMRIID crowd. After Fort McPherson closed, a few folks migrated to contract positions over at the CDC. Their initial reports on the organization were not favorable.
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It is high time that the 'top men' start acting rationally:
Acknowledge the unknowns, assume that the worst reasonable assumptions about Ebola are true, stop playing politically correct games and STOMP OUT THE FIRE WHILE IT IS SMALL.
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[Transmissibility via "direct contact" with fluids only] reflects an incorrect and outmoded understanding of infectious aerosols, which has been institutionalized in policies, language, culture, and approaches to infection control.
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Being at first skeptical that Ebola virus could be an aerosol-transmissible disease, we are now persuaded by a review of experimental and epidemiologic data that this might be an important feature of disease transmission, particularly in healthcare settings.
No one knows for certain how Ebola virus is transmitted from one person to the next.
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Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed
I'm guessing it spreads easier than the vaccine.
I will also note on Phil_Bs remark, Oncology treatment facilities (Lymphoma, Myeloma, Leukemia, etc.) keep the facilities near a toasty 70 deg F to minimize transient bacterial infections.
[Breitbart] "Our political class is not comfortable with the idea of using border control and immigration law to protect Americans," immigration expert Mark Krikorian told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot Radio. "They don't really like the idea of keeping out people who want to come here." ...."come here" and become voters. One of the logical conclusions of cultural relativism: if every society, every culture, and every person is 'equal' (not equal under the law but 'equal') then borders are meaningless and just an oppression created by the ruling class to subjugate people.
The Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) pointed out to Bannon, "The Ebola guy in Dallas (Thomas Erick Duncan) should never have gotten a visa even if he didn't have Ebola. Even if he was completely healthy. He was a single guy who quit his job, has relatives here and has no money. Did anyone think he was going to go back?" Go back? Certainly not. Stay on and become a member of the entitlement state and receive free, premier health care for deadly disease? Certainly yes.
Repeat after me
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Why you want pay back that money son? There's a bro right down there outside the terminal who will trade straight cash dog, small fee. Even register you to vote..boom...welcome to America.
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President Barack Obama plans to heap "a lot of pressure" on foreign leaders to do more to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, he said Monday.
After meeting with health and national security aides, Obama told reporters the White House is developing protocols to screen airline passengers "both at the source and here in the United States," an indication that tougher restrictions on those who have visited West Africa are coming after an infected Dallas man entered the country on a commercial flight.
Obama downplayed the chances of Ebola spreading within the United States, calling the odds of an epidemic here "extremely low." Lets look at the record The man has been wrong on every single frickin' policy point he's made. If he says "extremely low" it's time to go prepper.
Ms. Youngor Jallah,35, was with US Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan when he was taken to a Dallas hospital for the second time. She took his temperature (104) and blood pressure, made him tea, helped him move, called 911, warned the EMT's, and was in ambulance with him.
Ms. Jallah was called by the CDC on Sunday to say she can go back to work.
She told MailOnline: 'They said I can go back to work but I do not know what I will do. I will not go back yet'
Doctors say that no-one is at risk of catching the virus unless they come into contact with a sufferer who is exhibiting symptoms. It can take 21 days for a patient to begin to come down with the dreaded disease from the time they first come in contact with a sufferer.
It was Ms Jallah who told Mr Duncan he had to go to hospital and who called 911. She travelled with her stepfather in the ambulance, bringing the contaminated blanket with her and warning the emergency workers to be careful of 'viruses' because he was from West Africa. They immediately put on their masks.
Yet in spite of this close and prolonged contact with Mr Duncan - who neighbors reported was 'vomiting wildly' before the arrival of the ambulance - Ms Jallah and her family were left completely in the dark as to what precautions they should take.
MailOnline first reported the family's distress at having no instructions from the CDC and revealed that they had placed themselves under quarantine.
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. Some won't learn even from experience.
#4
Dallas Ebola victim's stepdaughter - who took him to hospital as he was 'vomiting wildly' - is given all clear to return to work as a nursing assistant
This cannot be correct, can it? She should be in maximum precautions/enforced quarantine; if she doesn't get it she should never waste her money on a lottery ticket because she's used up her lifetime allotment of luck.
#5
Ms. Jallah has been quoted in multiple articles regarding her experiences with Patient Zero up to his 2nd coming to the ER. Somebody is either horribly misinformed, or is using horribly bad judgment.
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I used to know a woman who was really nuts. She would lie about anything and say anything. Stuff just came out of her mouth without anything in between. If given the option of telling the truth or lying, she usually opted to lie. Why? I don't have a clue. You just organized your own life so her lies didn't spill over into your life. It became kind of interesting after awhile. It is different when you have such a person as President of the U.S. for two terms. You can't do a great deal to insulate yourself from such a nutjob.
#9
Next Job after the WH:
Obe heads to Las Vegas - Is he the new Jimmy the Greek ?
Ebolaoutbreak: Spread of deadly disease across Europe is 'unavoidable', warns WHO chief
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Jessee Jackson is now in Texas to make certain people are informed about ebola. He is now The Ebrola.
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A televised interview from Dallas with (I believe) the same woman I mentioned previously, from last week. Her story as quoted in the interview is slightly different from the DailyMail's, in that she didn't actually ride in the ambulance with Patient Zero, but went by private car & took the contaminated blanket into the ER on her own.
The Highland Park school district sent a note Monday to parents of Armstrong Elementary School students, assuring them that their children aren’t at risk of contracting Ebola through the daughter of Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.
Jenkins’ daughter attends Armstrong. Because the county judge has met with people who came into contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, a few parents had expressed concerns.
The note to parents said Jenkins “has asked us to pass along the assurance of public health officials that he and his family are not at risk for exposure to Ebola as a result of his work on the case.”
#14
meantime enterovirus 68 has already killed half a dozen and is on the upswing and we will likely lose 5 to 15 thousand from seasonal influenza this winter
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A tale of two narratives:
Obama: 'Extremely low' odds of U.S. Ebola outbreak
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Ebola outbreak: Spread of deadly disease across Europe is 'unavoidable', warns WHO chief
#16
Still loose ends & more possibilities of stumble-bum behavior.
From the CDC definition list:
Quarantine and Isolation
Isolation and quarantine help protect the public by preventing exposure to people who have or may have a contagious disease.
Isolation separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick.
Quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.
Twenty U.S. Quarantine Stations, located at ports of entry and land border crossings, use these public health practices as part of a comprehensive Quarantine System that serves to limit the introduction of infectious diseases into the United States and to prevent their spread.
Authority and Scope
CDC has the legal authority to detain any person who may have an infectious disease that is specified by Executive Order to be quarantinable. If necessary, CDC can deny ill persons with these diseases entry to the United States. CDC also can have them admitted to a hospital or confined to a home for a certain amount of time to prevent the spread of disease.
Nothing on that page refers to "separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick." The stations are mis-named, they are only for anyone appearing sick on entry, not for a Patient Zero, or Zero+n, etc.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] In the first known transmission of the current outbreak of Ebola outside West Africa, a Spanish nurse who treated a missionary for the disease at a Madrid hospital has tested positive for the virus, Spain's health minister said Monday.
The female nurse was part of the medical team that treated a 69-year-old Spanish priest who died in a hospital last month after being flown back from Sierra Leone, where he was posted, Health Minister Ana Mato said. The nurse is believed to have contracted the virus from that priest.
The World Health Organization confirmed there has not been a previous transmission outside West Africa in the current outbreak. WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that so far there have only been confirmed cases in West Africa and the United States, and no known transmission outside West Africa. The organization is awaiting official notification of the case from Spanish authorities.
The woman went to the Alcorcon hospital in the Madrid suburbs with a fever on Sunday and was placed in isolation. Mato said the infection was confirmed by two tests.
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[BREITBART] Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics showed on Sunday.
The figures, which covered the period through Saturday, put the total number of deaths at 678, up from 557 the day before. The daily statistics compiled by Sierra Leone's Emergency Operations Centre also showed 81 new cases of the hemorrhagic fever.
The overall corpse count from the epidemic reached 3,439 out of a total of 7,492 cases in West Africa and the United States as of Oct. 1, the World Health Organization said last week. The U.N. agency's statistics varied from those compiled by Sierra Leone.
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Has anyone seen a recent compilation of total infected statistics? Is it still doubling every 3 weeks? Worse? Flattening?
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Most recent stats I can track date to one week ago, Oct 1st.
See e.g. ebolastats-dot-info and their references.
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Looks like domain names ending in dot-info cause comments to disappear?
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ok, try this then
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_Africa#Timeline_of_cases_and_deaths
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It appears to be flattening the past few weeks. New case rate is no longer exponential, and (within the noise) may even be declining. A promising sign.
#6
Will Africa suffer, and beaucoup,
From offspring of red dove and cuckoo?
And how much shinola
Will cover Ebola
Now fledged from its nest near Yambuku?
#7
There was a young shrub name of Dubya
Who said, "You should not let AIDS trouble ya.
We will help y'all out,
Though someday they will shout
That my Ebola fund should be tubbier."
[Iran Press TV] This year's Hajj pilgrimage has been free of epidemic diseases such as Ebola and MERS, says a Soddy Arabian ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... minister.
Saudi acting Health Minister Adel bin Muhammad Fakeih said on Monday that there were no reports about any patients with Ebola or the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
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[ARABNEWS] A total of 650 pilgrims were found sleeping in a rundown private school in Al-Aziziah next to Mina without food, water and transport on Sunday, allegedly victims of a fake Haj firm.
The pilgrims, from various Arab countries, claimed they paid SR1.6 million to the operator in Buraidah, Qassim, to take them on the holy pilgrimage. They allegedly paid between SR2,000 and SR4,000 for transport, two meals a day and accommodation.
Some pilgrims claimed that the company in Qassim operated under other names in the region. They were allegedly transported in 13 buses to Al-Sail, where a company official apparently told them that they would have to wait until the day of Arafat before trying to enter the holy sites. This was because the police would not check Haj permits on that day.
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Did Mo get two hots and a cot? NO!
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If you like your Haj firm, you can keep your Haj firm.
[Dhaka Tribune] A person was killed and 20 others were maimed as the plaintiff and defence groups of a murder case locked in a clash over establishing supremacy at Tetultola under Gazooria upazila of the district on Saturday night.
The dear departed is Monsur Prodhan, 66. The body was sent to Munshiganj General hospital morgue on Sunday morning for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
Tension was prevailing in the area in apprehension of further clash over the death.
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[AnNahar] The first unarmed drones arrived Monday in Ukraine to help OSCE teams monitor the implementation of a fragile one-month truce in the separatist east, the pan-European security group said.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe will deploy four unmanned aerial vehicles along Ukraine's border with Russia and in the war zone as part of a peace deal agreed by Moscow and Kiev on September 5, OSCE front man Michael Bociurkiw told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He said the vehicles were still clearing customs and would only be deployed once they are reinforced by teams of civilian experts who operate them from the ground.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Sunday that La Belle France and Germany also intend to send drones to Ukraine in the coming days.
Bociurkiw said it was still unclear if those unmanned surveillance vehicles would be part of the OSCE mission or flying separately.
"Negotiations (on the subject) are ongoing at a very high level," he said by telephone.
He added that the OSCE intended to double the size of its monitoring mission in east Ukraine from 80 to 160 personnel. Its entire team in the war-torn former Soviet country would also grow from 250 to 500 staff members.
"We will remain an unarmed civilian mission," Bociurkiw said.
The September 5 agreement, also signed by two separatist leaders, calls for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations about the Russian-speaking region's future status within Ukraine.
It was reinforced by a September 19 deal for the rivals to set up a 30-kilometre (19-mile) buffer zone along the front line and to pull back their heaviest guns from eastern villages and towns.
Ukraine's parliament separately approved President Petro Poroshenko's proposal for the rebel-held region to enjoy three years of limited autonomy while political negotiations continue.
The agreements have helped calm fighting across most of the region. But sporadic violations have still killed 80 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians -- as well as an undisclosed number of gunnies -- since the first deal was signed.
Pro-Russian gunnies continue to stage daily raids on a key airport outside their main stronghold of Donetsk, and separatist leaders have vowed to hold their own independent election at the start of next month.
For a map, click here. You can enlarge the map, if you open it separately.
By Chris Covert
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Pro Russian militias say that a new Ukrainian offensive is set to begin Tuesday north of Donetsk city, according to various Russian language sources.
Meanwhile, the fighting at the Donetsk airport enters its ninth day without a clear resolution.
Pro Russian propaganda websites claim that the militias have taken the airport outright, while others say a small, determined force of Ukrainians are holed up in nuclear bomb resistant bunkers on the airport grounds.
One of the tactical issues at the airport is primarily the air control tower. According to pro Russian sources, Ukrainians have been using the tower to direct artillery strikes into Donetsk city. Photos from the area have emerged which show severe damage to the control tower. Sources in Russia militias have been firing on the control tower with mortars and antitank gun fire.
A news item/opinion piece published recently in Kosmolskaya Pravda by a Russian journalist said that the airport is an "extremely advantageous" position, perhaps in all of Donetsk because the airport sits atop a plateau which overlooks Donetsk city. He also wrote that approaches to the control tower are covered by snipers and mortar observation teams, which ensures militia forces can't get close enough to force a decision. A number of underground tunnels totaling 64 kilometers wend their way around the airport, including drainage tunnels beneath the tarmac and runways, some of them said to be six feet (2 meters) in diameter.
According to the military blogger Colonel Cassad, militias made two other attempts to capture the airport earlier in the year, both failures with a heavy butcher's bill for the militias.
The losses for the militias in the current assault in the last nine days total 80 dead, or about a rifle company, and several times that in wounded. A report in the Russian language Vesti news outlet said that 11 militia tanks were destroyed.
Losses for the Ukrainian forces because of militias shelling the airport cumulatively are said to be eight dead and 208 wounded, with four armored vehicles destroyed, but it should be noted those Ukrainian losses are estimates only by militia sources. Another six Ukrainian armored vehicles were lost by militia direct gunfire, including three tanks.
Militias have lost tanks and other heavy equipment in the assault, which some Russian sources say is, at this point, a Pyrrhic victory.
One town near to the airport said to be a marshaling area for Ukrainian support of the airport is reportedly Avdeyevka, north of Donetsk city. A number of rocket and tube artillery units are emplaced at the town to help cover Ukrainian positions with artillery fire support, and it also is a suspected springboard for a new Ukrainian offensive.
Both sides are under a ceasefire, which both sides claim the other has violated. The new demarcation line to be set under the Minsk accord runs just north and northwest of Donetsk city, which has both sides, but especially the militias angry. At the time of the truce the militias claimed that their forces were moving to capture large areas of Donetsk oblast since significant Ukrainian forces were tied down in Ilovaisk, Lugansk and near Mariupol on the coast of the sea of Azov in August, and now all those gains will not only be lost, they will also give the Ukrainian military better firing positions for their artillery.
This issue alone threatens the ceasefire, such as it is.
Some Russians in Donetsk claim that the rebel governments of Donetsk and Lugansk were not consulted before the September 19th truce was signed, and it was pushed to go into effect at the urging of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Two days ago Ukrainian military commander in Donetsk offered to leave the airport in exchange for six undisclosed towns, an offer the militias have seen as insulting, especially since the militias believe they are on the verge of taking the airport without negotiations.
Despite that, pro Russian militias are suffering from a lack of ammunition and support for repair and maintenance of heavy equipment such as tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers.
According to a Vesti news source, it has been "weeks" since ammunition has been delivered to militias forces by Russia. It also was reported that a close adviser to President Putin advised the militias not to attempt to force a decision at the Donetsk airport, advice which the militias promptly ignored.
Even though a Ukrainian assault under the best of conditions is expected to fail, the lack of ammunition for the militias will be a factor in the coming fighting.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[Iran Press TV] Deputy prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic says that the United States is leading the battle against pro-Russians in eastern Ukraine, Press TV reports.
During a Press TV exclusive interview Andrei Purgin said that Ukrainian army operations in the country's eastern regions are being directly controlled by the US.
He went on to say that Ukrainian troops are even using the same methods of warfare that the US used in Iraq.
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Some estimates range as high as 23% of all Russians are on medication for some type of mental disorder. That leaves a whopping 77% running around un-medicated !
[Washington Post] CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter brings some in-house news: CNN Worldwide will trim its workforce by approximately 300 positions, or about 8.5 percent of the unit's 3,500-strong labor force. CNN Worldwide includes CNN U.S., CNN International, HLN, CNN Digital and others. The cutbacks are part of a bigger cost-cutting initiative at CNN Worldwide's parent company, Turner Broadcasting. Buyout packages, layoffs and "other measures," according to Stelter, will accomplish the shrinkage.
The move to cut costs at Turner and CNN has been no secret. Earlier this year, CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker told his people that they'll have to do less with less, a nice break from the more-with-less management cliche. What parts of the CNN operation will absorb the pain remains to be seen. As we've reported before, CNN's digital politics shop was undergoing a reinvention with a host of new hires that don't appear to be affected by the latest downsizing.
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Three alleged bandidos were banged by their rivals in Samandi mountainous area of Kurrum Par belt here on Sunday.
Police sources said that proclaimed offenders, Rafiullah, his brother, Parvez and cousin, Munir were coming to Wanda Aurangzeb village to celebrate Eid with their relatives when they were ambushed by their rivals. Two of them, Rafiullah and Munir, died instantly while Parvez succumbed to injuries on way to hospital.
The sources said that the dear departed were wanted to law-enforcement agencies in murder, kidnapping, robbery, attack on police and terrorism related cases. They said that a police party of Dadiwala cop shoppe immediately rushed to the area where the incident took place and took into possession the bodies of POs and their weapons, including two AK-47 assault rifles, spare magazines and bullets.
The bodies were later shifted to a hospital in Naurang town for fulfilling legal formalities.
The police sources said that the government had fixed the head money for Rafiullah, who was a hardened criminal and was a serious threat to the peace of Kurrum Par region and neighbouring Mianwali district of Punjab and Karak.
They added that heavy contingent of police backed by commandos of Elite Force and
Anti-Terrorist Squad had launched an operation against the killed proclaimed offenders last month, but they managed to disappear in the mountainous area bordering Mianwali and Karak districts.
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[DAWN] THE government has made a sudden appeal for cash assistance from donor agencies to deal with the destruction caused by the latest floods.
The appeal comes a week after the donors had been assured that no assistance would be required. It has been delivered to them through a bureaucrat in the finance ministry, instead of by the minister himself, who, it seems, is too busy in a roadshow to raise funds for the Diamer Bhasha dam project.
The donors want a detailed damage assessment, as well as an action plan for rehabilitating the victims, before the request can be entertained. The authorities say that a variety of flood relief funds have been set up by the federal government as well as the Punjab government, and the donors should simply deposit cash assistance into these.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Scientists have successfully grown penises in a laboratory and say they could be tested on humans within five years. Ummm...That sounds like it may not be suitable for a family publication...
The work is being carried out the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, North Carolina. The laboratory grown penises could help men who have suffered a serious injury to the region, had radical surgery for cancer or who have a congenital abnormality. Scientists there are now assessing engineered penises for safety, function and durability, The Guardian reports. Durability's important. And safety. Y'don't want the thing putting somebody's eye out or something...
It is hoped the US Food and Drug Administration will give the green light for testing on humans within five years.
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So in follow on research, will the scientists be able to get Republicans politicians to grow some balls???
#7
Adopting too big of a willie
Will make the ambitious look silly:
They'll go boing, then go clunk,
Fall, propped up on their junk,
Flail arms, and cry "Get me down!" shrilly.
#14
A certain clip from the movie 'Young Frankenstein' is called for here.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: For the experiment to be a success, all of the body parts must be enlarged.
Inga: In other vords: his veins, his feet, his hands, his organs vould all have to be increased in size.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Exactly.
Inga: He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: That goes without saying.
Inga: Voof.
Igor: He's going to be very popular.
First hatched by proud cock-growing docs
Were stem cells and feathers in socks,
But they gathered in flocks
And were prone to the pox
And they panicked and fled from a fox.
It's been a while since we've heard much about Fethuallah Gulen, current archenemy of Turkey's President Erdogan. Apparently he's been busy in Cincinnati and elsewhere in Ohio.
[CincinnatiEnquirer] Horizon Science Academy in Bond Hill has the usual classrooms, books and lessons to teach kids seeking an alternative to regular public and private schools.
The charter school also employs seven foreign teachers, mostly from Turkey, brought to the U.S. on H-1B visas for jobs it says Ohio teachers are unqualified to fill.
Concept Schools, founded by followers of Fethuallah Gulen, a Turkish Islamic holy man secluded in the Poconos, already is under federal and state scrutiny for possible irregularities in teacher licensing, testing and technology contracts.
An Enquirer investigation has found that reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... -based Concept Schools, which runs Horizon and 17 other charter schools in Ohio, annually imports dozens of foreign teachers in numbers that far surpass any other school system in the state.
At least 474 foreign teachers, again mostly from Turkey, have arrived at Concept's Ohio schools between 2005 and 2013. The schools are collecting about $45 million in state funds annually to educate 6,600 children in kindergarten through high school.
Critics say H-1B visas were designed to help companies temporarily employ highly skilled foreign workers in biotechnology, chemistry, engineering and other specialized fields ‐ not K-12 teachers.
The Ohio Department of Education is weighing complaints from former Concept staffers that unlicensed, foreign teachers were used.
Ohio teachers, meanwhile, say plenty of qualified teachers are available for jobs being filled by the foreigners, especially since about 40,000 are still without teaching jobs because of the recession.
Concept officials defend the practice. They say it's the only way to find qualified math and science instructors, adding that the international teachers add to the cultural experience of students.
"These teachers are hired legally and are here legally," company vice president Salim Ucan said. "It's not like we're sneaking them across the borders. These are highly qualified people who have gone through the legal process to come here and make a difference in the lives of kids."
Academically, Concept students perform no better or worse than children at the nearly 300 other charter schools in Ohio. Ten of the Ohio Concept schools ‐ more than half ‐ received Ds on the state's most recent performance index, a measure of how many students passed key achievement tests. Horizon Science Academy was one of the schools getting a D.
About 88 percent of this year's 448 students students are black, and 5 percent are Hispanic. More than 91 percent qualify for free or reduced lunch, so the school provides free breakfast and lunch to all students.
Like all charter schools, Horizon is run by a private company using state funds diverted from the local public school system. Many charter students have trouble learning in conventional public or private schools. Others seek an alternative to public schools, which may have their own performance or discipline issues.
School officials say Horizon's low test scores reflect the "transient nature" of the student population.
"We don't turn any kids away, even the ones that aren't really wanted elsewhere," said Michael Bidwell, the school's instructional coordinator. "Some of these kids have been at multiple schools, sometimes within the same school year. But we're not going to give up on you."
Terribly noble, to be sure. But historically Gulen schools serve Muslim populations. Why this outreach to a mainly poor African-American community?
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Why this outreach to a mainly poor African-American community?
Given the success in gaining converts in prison they probably figure the home turf to be a good place to convert more to Islam.
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.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] In the first known transmission of the current outbreak of Ebola outside West Africa, a Spanish nurse who treated a missionary for the disease at a Madrid hospital has tested positive for the virus, Spain's health minister said Monday.
[BREITBART] Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics showed on Sunday.
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[Washington Post] CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter brings some in-house news: CNN Worldwide will trim its workforce by approximately 300 positions, or about 8.5 percent of the unit's 3,500-strong labor force. CNN Worldwide includes CNN U.S., CNN International, HLN, CNN Digital and others. The cutbacks are part of a bigger cost-cutting initiative at CNN Worldwide's parent company, Turner Broadcasting. Buyout packages, layoffs and "other measures," according to Stelter, will accomplish the shrinkage.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Scientists have successfully grown penises in a laboratory and say they could be tested on humans within five years.
