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HELO - Health and Lifestyle Oracle

2017-09-03T07:41:00.001-07:00

HELO – HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE ORACLE:
HELO WEARABLE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY.

The HELO smart wrist band is a sleek, revolutionary, health and fitness bracelet. Created by and sold exclusively by Wor(l)d Global Network, it is powered by Toshiba’s cutting edge, state-of-the-art advanced chipset for wearable technology.

This is the first fitness band to combine the science of active sensors and incorporate them with the beneficial health effects of natural mineral stones.

Coupled with real time health monitoring, it provides the wearer with continuous health status feedback, 24-7-365.

The world has now entered the future of comprehensive wearable health technology.

Who is it for? The entire family.

WHY IS IT NAMED “HELO”?

HELO stands for Health & Lifestyle Oracle (‘HELO’)

HEALTH AND FITNESS MONITORING FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY

The HELO smart wrist band monitors not only heart rate, steps taken, calories burned, distance covered and sleep quality, but, offers many more total health parameters such as:

• ECG/EKG (Electro-cardiogram)

• Blood Pressure

• Mood Sensor

• Fatigue Sensor

• Remote monitoring of other people’s vital signs

• Germanium semi-conductor stone plates

• Anti-oxidizing Himalayan Salt stone plates

• Provides emergency SOS GPS location for everyone in your family

• A Panic button, with GPS location coordinates

• ECG/EKG (Electro-cardiogram)

This allows you to monitor your entire family’s health, 24-7-365…at your fingertips, right from your own wrist.

Watch this two minute video to see how the HELO empowers you to have more control over your health, your life and the life of your loved ones.

VITAL SIGNS MONITORING

The HELO Wristband Offers Continuous Monitoring of:

*Blood Pressure Rate

*Heart Rate (arrhythmias)

*Breath Rate (respirations)

*ECG/EKG (Electro-cardiogram)

*Respirations (breaths) Per Minute

*Blood Oxygen Levels

*Blood Temperature

HELO EKG AND HELO VITALS:
HELO EKG Testing.
The HELO smart watch is capable of performing advanced vital sign detection. The HELO can check your….Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, Breathe Rate, Mood and Energy Levels, Heart Check, and an ECG (commonly know as EKG or Electrocardiograph).

Blood Pressure:
HELO Monitors your Blood Pressure.
Thanks to its Toshiba ApP Lite processor, the HELO wristband can perform Blood Pressure measurements with ease. Light sensors illuminate the skin measuring differences in light absorption. HELO uses this data to calculate your Blood Pressure measurement. The more measurements HELO wristband performs, the more accurate it becomes.

ECG.
HELO ECG (Electrocardiogram) Measurements:
The HELO health monitor can perform advanced measurements not normally seen on wearable technology. The HELO performs an ECG (Electrocardiogram) test by a combination of sensors, real-time heart-rate, and blood pressure readings. When HELO is done analyzing your current heart input, the test measurements and your status are displayed on the HELO App. The test can be repeated or you can store the information for later comparison or review by your personal physician.

Heart Rate:
HELO Measures your Heart Rate.
The HELO health monitor measures your heart rate in beats per minute. Once the measurement is completed, HELO displays the information on the HELO App and allows you to choose to repeat the test or store the results to compare at a later date.

Breath Rate:
HELO Measures your Breathing.
The HELO wristband can measure your breathing in breaths per minute, and with all of its features enabled it’s powerful enough to actually notify a loved one automatically if breathing levels drop down below a predefined level! WOW! When the HELO wristband is finished performing the breathing test, it displays the breathing test results on the HELO App. You can repeat the test or choose to save the results for future comparison or for your doctor to review.

Mood and Energy:
HELO Measures your Mood and Sleep.
The HELO health monitor uses its Toshiba ApP Lite processor to calculate sensor data while using a technically advanced algorithm to measure your mood and energy. Once the HELO health monitor has finished its mood and energy calculations, the results are displayed on the HELO App. You can preform the test again or save the results to compare at a later date.

Heart Check:
HELO Performs Heart Checks.
The HELO wristband performs a heart check by using a combination of your heart rate, blood pressure, and ECG results. Once the test is complete the HELO wristband transmits the information via Bluetooth to the HELO App on your smartphone or tablet. The results are displayed on the App at which time the HELO App will point out any potential problems that may need to be addressed. You can run the test again or save the results for your review by your health provider.

FITNESS AND HEALTH PARAMETERS MEASURED:
• Sleep Quality Pattern
• Calories Burned
• Mood Analysis (emotions)
• Fatigue/Energy Analysis
• Stress Levels
• Number of Steps Taken
• Distance Walked

THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY
Research studies show that different minerals can have healing effects upon the body. Each mineral was specially chosen because of its proven, medically verifiable effects upon the human body.

Here is the well-documented science behind the effects of these minerals.

POSITIVE ION CHARGES EMITTED BY ELECTRONICS – EMFS

Most people in today’s hectic world are surrounded by modern-day electronics. …smart phones, computers, computer monitors, routers, modems, televisions, electronic devices, UV rays, power lines, and more.

These electronic devices generate EMFs (electro-magnetic fields) which continuously bombard our bodies with positive ions.

Positive ions oxidize the body’s cells, causing mysterious body aches, headaches, muscle stiffness, accelerate aging, slow down our metabolic (life) cycle, and make us more susceptible to dis-eases and a general, sometimes unexplainable, stressed, run-down, no-energy feeling.

When a negative ion replaces a positive ion, it creates a ‘positive gap’.

The negative ions emitted by the HELO’s natural mineral stones replace the positive ions emitted by surrounding electronic equipment, thus reducing this continual oxidative load on the body’s cells.

The resulting ionic transfer has an anti-oxidizing effect on the body, helping the body to relax, maintain its ionic balance, relax muscles, and reduce pain.

WHAT POWERS THE HELO?
Toshiba’s ApP Lite Technology

This state of the art health wristband incorporates Toshiba’s ApP Lite™ (Application Processor Lite) advanced chipset technology from Toshiba Corporation’s Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company (“Toshiba”).

Hypo-Allergenic Silicon Wristband

Removable Titanium plates are integrally positioned into the HELO’s patented hypo-allergenic silicon band. The patented clip-on plate system contains slots for its natural mineral stone plates. Simply place your stone plates in whichever slot is the most comfortable for you.

HELO STONES

Each stone has a different health purpose

99% pure Germanium Stone.
Himalayan Salt Stone

ENHANCING WITH MINERALS

MAKING THE HELO EVEN BETTER:
The HELO wristband is one of the only health monitors on the market to give the customer the ability to add components to the HELO wristband that can give you amazing benefits to your lifestyle. Even the HELO wristband itself is made of materials to encourage good health, not the other way around.

The HELO Wristband:
The HELO wristband is made from a Hypoallergenic silicon rubber. The Hypoallergenic nature of the silicon prevents rashes or irritations while still maintaining a comfortable feel.

The HELO Mineral Plates

Discover the power of having the same natural minerals and elements that our body is comprised of; right on the HELO wristband.

HELO Himalayan Salt Plates.

HELO Himalayan Salt Plates are designed to increase the health benefits of the HELO wristband. Himalayan Salt contains the same 84 natural minerals and elements found in the human body. Our skin tries to absorb everything it comes in contact with, so why not try to have something good on it.

HELO Germanium Plates
Discover how Enhancing with Minerals can Benefit Your Life

PROVEN SCIENCE BEHIND THE PROPERTIES OF NATURAL STONES

Germanium:
Germanium is commonly used as a semiconductor. It is used in integrated electronic circuitry and transistors. Some Germanium compounds are anti-bacterial. They are toxic to bacteria, but harmless to mammals. The HELO uses Germanium to facilitate the transfer of ionic charges.

Pink Himalayan Salt:
Pink Himalayan salt is primarily sodium chloride. It also contains the same 84 minerals and elements which are naturally found in the human body.

Working on the same principle as a Himalayan salt lamp works, Pink Himalayan salt crystals neutralize and purify the body from positive ionic discharges released by electronic devices.

This positive to negative ion displacement helps to create mood boosting effects to dispel depression and low energy.

IMPROVED BLOOD CIRCULATION:
HELO’s wearable stone technology improves blood circulation by increasing the oxygen level in your blood.

The Far Infrared Rays (FIR) activate water molecules in the body’s cells, thus enhancing oxygen distribution in the blood stream. Improved oxygenated blood circulation helps the body to relax.

Higher blood oxygenation promotes healing. This leads to a more restful and better quality of sleep.

BUILT-IN PANIC BUTTON FOR PEACE OF MIND:
If you or your loved one are having health issues, or feel you are in a dangerous situation…possibly alone, out jogging, stranded, whether you are hiking, climbing a mountaintop, or simply have a flat tire, the HELO smart band wearer can simply press the HELO’s panic button. (twice)

Using SMS technology, coupled with Google Maps downloaded to your Smart phone, the HELO will automatically notify your loved ones to let them know you need immediate assistance.

Notification is by phone call and by an SMS message. (SMS is the abbreviation for “Short Message Service”, also known as a text message).

PROTECT YOUR LOVED ONES.
HELO SOS and GUARDIAN Feature

HELO Wearable Technology Keeps Your Family Safe

The HELO wristband has the power to send an emergency SMS text message to your friends and family in the event of an emergency. The SMS text message includes the GPS location of the person in trouble. Add up to 3 people to the emergency contact list. Some advanced features require a paired smartphone or tablet with active data connection and subscription service.

Check out this Video of the Emergency Feature in Action >>>> http://helonigeria.helo.life/info

GPS POSITION:
Via the Toshiba ApP Lite™ chipset technology, the exact GPS coordinates of your location are provided to your loved one via Blue Tooth technology from your HELO to your phone, and from your phone to the cell phone tower.

Once received by your loved one, he or she can then give the exact GPS coordinates to law enforcement, emergency medical teams (EMTs) or call a close neighbor to immediately come check on you or your loved one.

HELO APP FOR SMART PHONE:
Once you purchase and receive you HELO smart band, download the HELO app from the Google Play Store on your smart phone (Android or ioS) to be able to monitor your own major health parameters, or the health status of a loved one.

Receive continuous feedback and data presentation in real time. not only to monitor your own health, but for:

Aging Parents:
Monitor aging parents or an elderly relative who lives alone, whether they live across the street, or across the country.

Mentally Challenged:
Monitor a loved one who is mentally challenged with Alzheimer’s, dementia, a child with Down’s Syndrome, or others with cognitive mental health challenges. You will be able to view not only their vital signs, but via BlueTooth technology, the HELO also provides you with your loved one’s GPS coordinate location, should they become confused, lost, or unable to find their way home. All they need to do is push their Panic Button (twice). The smart band alerts whichever primary emergency contact(s) you specify via SMS and an e-mail with your exact GPS location.

Child Health
Monitor your child’s health in real time, whether you are at home or at work.

Your Partner/Spouse’s Health
Monitor your spouse’s health.

Your Health
Monitor your own vital signs. (heart rate, breathing rate, number of steps taken, etc.)

The HELO technology wrist band promotes health, fitness, and peace of mind, for you, and your family.

HELO HEALTH & LIFESTYLE ORACLE AVAILABILITY

The HELO is not available in stores.

It is only sold online, by Wor(l)d Global Network distributors.

ONE FOR YOU

Purchase a single HELO smart wristband for your own personal health and fitness monitoring.

FAMILY PLAN

Purchase a HELO smart wristband Family Plan and start monitoring the health and fitness of your entire family.

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MINERAL WATER POT

2015-07-08T03:52:00.001-07:00

WATER PURIFICATION MINERAL WATER POT
This unique Mineral Pot promotes health and youthfulness through water.
Mineral Water Pot provides clean, pure water with added benefits of Far-Infrared Ray ( FIR ).This unique filtration system imitates the natural mineral spring water, eliminates contaminants in water.
How does FIR activated water function in our body? Water that has been purified is activated by FIR entitle from bio-ceramic beads incorporated in the unit. Bio-ceramics is a material treated to emit FIR.This has a special effect on water molecules and infissesa form of energy found to be vital for living things.
The human body is 70% water, an essential nutrient that helps transport nutrients and waste products in and out of cells and is necessary for all body function of digestion, absorption, circulation and excretion. As a rule, eight (8-oz) glasses a day should be taken to replace water lost daily through breathing , sweat, and other activities. Hence the need for clean, pure and mineralized water.
THIS MINERAL WATER POT HAS HIGH ENERGY AND BIO-MAGNETIC 8 STEPS FILTRATION SYSTEM :
1. CERAMIC FILTER:
The Ceramic Filter is made from a highly compressed ceramic diatomic substance. It is highly resistance to heat as tested by professionals.
The Ceramic Filter Diamotor is 0.2 micro diameter of bacteria; which is 0.5-1.0 micron. Its function is to filter all dirts, sand particles and bacteria to ensure that your water is free from any harmful disease such as Typhoid, Cholera and Dysentery.
2. ACTIVATED CARDON:
Removes Chlorine, THMS, Organic Chemicals, unpleasant odor and color. The end result is pure crystal mineral water.
3. SILICA SAND:
Removes acidic components from the water and therapy brings about a PH balance.
4. ZEOLITE:
Removes heavy metals such as lead, mercury, gold, and silver. Heavy metals can accumulate in our bodies, high level of heavy metal lead of a wide range of terminal illness.
5. MINERAL SAND:
Release mineral, adjust the PH of the water to mild alkaline which helps restore the PH balance of the body fluid.
6. BIOCHEMICAL BALL:
Increase Oxygen and Minerals for our body need.
7. MINERAL STONE:
This andosite contains various nourishing minerals such as Potassium, Sodium, Calcium and Magnesium and other micro elements which are essential for good health.
8. M AGNETIC WATER TAP:
The earth’s magnetic field, generally promotes vitality for the human body. To exploit this essence, the outlet tap of the water system is fitted with magnets in line with the latest water technology. Magnetized water has free moving hexagonal structured water molecules in harmony with body fluid. Just like mineral spring water.
It promotes health and vitality and impacts many therapeutic properties.

HEALTH IS WEALTH

Apple chief Tim Cook: I'm proud to be gay

2014-10-30T05:55:00.004-07:00

Apple chief Tim Cook: 'I'm proud to be gay'

Mr Cook said he made his announcement to try to help people struggling with their identity

Apple chief executive Tim Cook has publicly acknowledged his sexuality, saying that he is "proud to be gay".

Mr Cook made his announcement to try to help people struggling with their identity, he wrote in a Bloomberg article.

He has been open about his sexuality, but has also tried to maintain a basic level of privacy until now, he said.

This week Mr Cook challenged his home state of Alabama to ensure the rights of gay and transgender people.

"I don't consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I've benefited from the sacrifice of others," he wrote.

"So if hearing that the CEO [chief executive] of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy," he added.

Mr Cook said that he had been open about his sexuality with many people, including colleagues at Apple, but that it still "wasn't an easy choice" to publicly announce his sexual orientation.

Terror "Wi-Fi signal" delays flight

2014-10-28T14:19:00.001-07:00

'Terror' wi-fi signal leaves LA-London flight grounded
By Zoe Kleinman

Wi-fi networks appear when detected by mobile devices.

A wi-fi signal named "Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork" (sic) has resulted in a long delay for passengers on a plane at Los Angeles airport.

A passenger alerted American Airlines cabin crew when his smartphone identified the network as one available nearby and police were notified.

After an investigation lasting several hours, police at the airport said no crime had been committed.

The flight from LA to London on Sunday was eventually rescheduled for Monday.

Many broadband subscribers re-name their home wi-fi network to personalise it.

When a device comes within range of the network, its name will appear on a list of potentially available wi-fi connections.

While some use their family name or the name of their house, others take a more satirical approach.

'Sometimes it's funny'
"It can be a kooky way of saying you support a local football team or you want to bait your neighbour who supports the opposing team," said Stuart Miles of tech review site Pocket Lint.

"Some people use it as advertising. It's an unwritten code of spreading a message that you're allowed to do - but obviously sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's not."

In a discussion about favourite wi-fi names on community site Reddit, users admitted to using titles like "FBI Surveillance Van", "ISIS HQ" and names that sounded like computer viruses to alarm passers-by.

The acronym LAN (Local Area Network) - the name given to a network linking a small group of computers in a home or business hub - has also been the subject of puns.

'Get off my LAN', 'the promised LAN' and 'WuTangLAN', a homage to US rappers Wu-Tang Clan, are popular choices.

Bale nominated for Ballon d'Or

2014-10-28T04:50:00.001-07:00

Bale nominated for Ballon d'Or

Gareth Bale scored 22 goals for Real Madrid last season

Wales forward Gareth Bale is the only player from the home nations on the 23-man shortlist for the Fifa 2014 men's world footballer of the year award.

Bale, 25, scored 22 goals for Real Madrid last season, as the La Liga side won the Champions League.

Five Premier League players in Thibaut Courtois, Diego Costa, Angel Di Maria, Eden Hazard and Yaya Toure have also been nominated for the Ballon d'Or.

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo will be looking to retain the award.

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, who has won the award three times in the last four years, is also on the shortlist, alongside team-mate Neymar.

The 23 shortlist will be reduced to three in December before the winners are announced on 12 January, 2015 in Zurich.

There is no place for Barcelona striker Luis Suarez, who played a crucial role in helping Uruguay qualify for the last 16 in Brazil but was suspended from all football-related activity for four months for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini.

In terms of Premier League clubs, Chelsea have the most players on the list with three - Courtois, Costa and Hazard, with Manchester United (Di Maria) and Manchester City (Toure) each supplying one.

Real Madrid and Bayern Munich players dominate the list, with each club supplying six players.

World Cup winners Germany have the most players nominated with six, with Spain and Argentina three apiece and France and Belgium two each.

Wales, Portugal, Sweden, Brazil, Netherlands, Colombia and Ivory Coast each have one of their players in contention.

Carlo Ancelotti, who guided Real Madrid to the Champions League, Super Cup and Copa del Rey last season, has been nominated for the coach of the year award.

Chelsea's Jose Mourinho, Manchester City's Manuel Pellegrini and Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal, who guided Netherlands to the third place in the World Cup, are also on the 10-man list for the coach award, alongside World Cup winning coach Joachim Low.

Fifa world men's player of the year shortlist: Gareth Bale (Wales, Real Madrid), Karim Benzema (France, Real Madrid), Diego Costa (Spain, Chelsea), Thibaut Courtois (Belgium, Chelsea), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, Real Madrid), Angel Di Maria (Argentina, Manchester United), Mario Gotze (Germany, Bayern Munich), Eden Hazard (Belgium, Chelsea), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden, Paris St-Germain), Andres Iniesta (Spain, Barcelona), Toni Kroos (Germany, Real Madrid), Philipp Lahm (Germany, Bayern Munich), Javier Mascherano (Argentina, Barcelona), Lionel Messi (Argentina, Barcelona), Thomas Muller (Germany, Bayern Munich), Manuel Neuer (Germany, Bayern Munich), Neymar (Brazil, Barcelona), Paul Pogba (France, Juventus), Sergio Ramos (Spain, Real Madrid), Arjen Robben (Netherlands, Bayern Munich), James Rodriguez (Colombia, Real Madrid), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany, Bayern Munich), Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast, Manchester City).

Fifa coach of the year shortlist: Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid), Antonio Conte (Juventus/Italy national team), Pep Guardiola (Bayern Munich), Jurgen Klinsmann (USA national team), Joachim Low (Germany national team), Jose Mourinho (Chelsea), Manuel Pellegrini (Manchester City), Alejandro Sabella (Argentina national team), Diego Simeone (Atletico Madrid), Louis van Gaal (Netherlands national team/Manchester United).

10 Commandments smashed by "Agents of Devil"

2014-10-27T05:50:00.001-07:00

Agents: Man says devil made him do it; 10 Commandments smashed
By Ben Brumfield

The damaged remains of a Ten Commandments monument are gathered on the Oklahoma State Capitol grounds.

Though he told authorities that the devil made him do it, Satanists disapproved, after a man allegedly shattered a stone copy of the Ten Commandments last week.

The man is accused of running his car on Friday into a controversial 6-foot-tall granite tablet of the Biblical edicts erected near Oklahoma City's Capitol, CNN affiliate KFOR reported.

He then left his car standing, along with the monument, which -- as photos showed -- was smashed asunder through the second commandment: "Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain."

He walked into the Federal Building on foot, where he made threats against President Obama and the federal government, KFOR reported, citing U.S. Secret Service agents.

The man told the agents that the devil made him wreck the religious monument, which was placed at the capital in late 2012.

He also said that he was mentally ill and had stopped taking his medication. He has been detained at a mental health facility for evaluation.

Condemnation of the destruction came quickly from two sources that have railed against the monument -- the ACLU of Oklahoma and the Satanic Temple.

The ACLU filed suit last year against the presence of the monument on state property, and on Friday, said that it would keep fighting for its removal, because it feels it it violates the Constitution.

But organization was also "outraged at this apparent act of vandalism."

"The Ten Commandments constitute a strong foundation in our clients' deeply held religious beliefs," the Oklahoma ACLU said in a statement.

The Satanic Temple has demanded to have a monument of its own erected next to the Judeo-Christian one.

And it still wants it, but "only alongside the 10 Commandments," it said in a statement posted by KFOR.

"If our monument stands at the state Capitol, we want it to compliment and contrast the Ten Commandments, with both standing unmolested as a testament to American religious freedom and tolerance."

The Satanists could well have that wish fulfilled, but only in part.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has vowed to have the Ten Commandments monument rebuilt.

Ebola: U.S envoy condemns Ebola response

2014-10-27T02:49:00.000-07:00

Ebola: Visiting envoy Samantha Power condemns response

Health workers in Guinea, which is Samantha Power's first stop

The US ambassador to the UN has begun a visit to the three nations worst hit by the Ebola outbreak, criticising the level of international support so far.

Samantha Power has landed in Guinea and will visit Sierra Leone and Liberia.

She told NBC some nations who offered backing "haven't taken responsibility yet" in supplying aid and doctors.

More than 10,000 people have contracted the Ebola virus, with 4,922 deaths, according to the World Health Organization's latest figures.

All but 27 of the cases have occurred inside Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

'Getting lapped'

Ms Power told NBC as she boarded her plane: "The international response to Ebola needs to be taken to a wholly different scale than it is right now."

She said: "You have countries at the UN where I work every day who are signing on to resolutions and praising the good work that the US and the UK and others are doing, but they themselves haven't taken the responsibility yet to send docs, to send beds, to send the reasonable amount of money."

Samantha Power has been critical of the international response

Ms Power told NBC the "mere fact of going as a member of the president's cabinet [shows] that we shouldn't be afraid", adding that her five-year-old son was "obsessed" with Ebola.

She will visit national Ebola coordination centres and meet US and UN workers, although it was not clear whether she would meet survivors of the outbreak.

Ms Power last week said the international community "isn't just losing the race to Ebola. We are getting lapped", and even praised Cuba - under a US embargo for decades - for its supply of doctors to Sierra Leone.

The Pentagon announced that a new commander, Maj Gen Gary Volesky, had taken over the US military mission to fight Ebola in West Africa.

It said that troops from the US 101st Division who arrived in Liberia 38 days ago had established two new laboratories and that a 25-bed hospital should be operational in the capital Monrovia by November.

The US has pledged 4,000 troops to build hospitals and to train health workers in West Africa, some 600 of whom have already arrived.

'Frightening'

However, new rules in some parts of the US on quarantining returning health workers have drawn criticism.

Strict quarantine rules were imposed after a US doctor tested positive for Ebola on his return to New York

A nurse put into isolation on her return from treating patients in Sierra Leone expressed anger at the way she was dealt with at Newark airport.

Kaci Hickox, of medical charity Doctors Without Borders, said the experience was frightening, and described seeing a "frenzy of disorganisation, fear and most frightening, quarantine".

She said she was kept in isolation at the airport terminal for seven hours and given only a cereal bar to eat.

New York, New Jersey and Illinois have imposed stricter quarantine rules than those at the federal level.

In the three states, anyone who has had contact with Ebola victims in West Africa now faces a mandatory 21-day quarantine period.

The White House said the states' stricter rules could put off aid workers and others travelling to West Africa to help mitigate the crisis at its source.

Although Ms Hickox tested negative in a preliminary test for the virus, she will remain under quarantine for three weeks and continue to be monitored by health officials.

The stricter measures were put in place in New York and New Jersey after a doctor, Craig Spencer, tested positive for the virus on his return from Guinea last week.

US President Barack Obama said in his weekly radio and online address that Americans had "to be guided by the facts - not fear".

Ebola virus disease (EVD)
• Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage

• Spread by body fluids, such as blood and saliva

• Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 70%

• No proven vaccine or cure

• Fruit bats, a delicacy for some West Africans, are considered to be virus's natural host

El Clasico honours: Real Madrid 3 - 1 Barcelona

2014-10-25T11:26:00.002-07:00

Real Madrid took the El Clasico honours as they beat arch rivals Barcelona in a captivating game at the Bernabeu.

Luis Suarez started for Barcelona after a four-month ban for biting and set up Neymar to arrow in the opener.

Barcelona's Lionel Messi spurned a glorious chance before Cristiano Ronaldo equalised with a penalty.

A powerful header from Pepe put Real ahead before they added to their lead when Karim Benzema finished a brilliant counter-attack with an angled shot.

The Real fans roared their approval at the end as as the home side came out on top in a match-up between two of the world's most star-studded line-ups.

Real's celebrations following the 229th meeting between the two were also heightened with the victory helping them close the gap to one point on La Liga leaders Barcelona.

The visitors may have taken the lead but were ultimately disappointing as they failed to match the greater cutting edge in attack and solidity in defence of the home side as they suffered their first league defeat of the season.

A game between these two Spanish giants is usually one to savour and it was even more so this time considering the array of talent on show.

Real had the likes of Ronaldo, James Rodriguez and Benzema, while Barcelona had Messi, Neymar and Suarez in the opposition camp.

Suarez starting added to the spectacle as he played for the first time since his ban for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup came to an end.

The Uruguayan made an immediate impact when his crossfield pass found Neymar, and the Brazilian cut in from the left and curled in a low shot for the opener.

The goal only served to spark Real into action during a fast and furious opening. Barcelona keeper Claudio Bravo had not conceded a goal in his side's eight league games prior to the match and had to be at his best to keep his run going.

He got a left palm to a Benzema effort before the Real Madrid forward thumped a header from Ronaldo's cross against the woodwork and smashed the rebound wide.
The game was living up to the hype and Barcelona should have added to their lead when Suarez sent in a low cross for Messi only for the Argentine to uncharacteristically sidefoot wide from close range.

However, Real were level when Gerard Pique handled a low Marcelo cross and Ronaldo dispatched the penalty to score his 16th league goal of the campaign.

The home side started the second half brightly and their pressure eventually broke a vulnerable Barcelona defence when Pepe powered in a header from a corner.

The goal gave the Los Blancos a firm grip of the game as they sat back and comfortably soaked up Barcelona's pressure, while continually hitting the Catalan club on the break.

And, when Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta lost possession on the halfway line, Real lethally struck for their third. Isco, Ronaldo and Rodriguez combined before the latter slid a pass through to Benzema, who angled in a precise shot.

Does U.S have too much Oil in its reserves?

2014-10-25T05:40:00.003-07:00

The U.S. has the world's largest emergency stockpile of oil.

Does America have too much oil in its reserves?

Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon fired off a letter this week asking the Department of Energy to study the "size and make-up" of the U.S.' Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

It comes fresh on the heels of a report on Monday from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office that also called for a similar review.

The U.S. has the largest emergency stockpile of oil in the world. And now that the country's oil production is booming, there's questions if America needs to hold so much crude in reserve. The Department of Energy didn't respond to a request for comment.

Congress created the reserve in response to the 1973 oil embargo, which caused a supply shock and a recession.

But the United States is now on track to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world's largest energy producer next year. That's thanks in large part to new technologies such as hydraulic fracking, which has made the extraction of oil and gas from shale rock commercially viable.

"The recent shale boom is having a profound effect on United States energy policy," Wyden wrote to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.

The talk of shrinking the oil reserve is a major shift from the political debates of the past years, when Americans were being squeezed by high gas prices.

In 2008, the Congress passed legislation that temporarily halted deposits of oil into the reserves.

Three years later, when the global economy was at risk of an oil supply shock due to the war in Libya, the United States and 28 other nations tapped their strategic reserves.

Fast forward to today, and the situation looks very different. Oil prices in the United States have tumbled to the lowest levels since 2012, and gas prices have fallen below $3 a gallon in many parts of the country.

Currently, there's enough oil in storage to meet the nation's needs for 106 days. In contrast, most oil consuming nations have 90 days of oil supply in storage.

Wyden says energy policies put in place as recently as 2007 are now "at best irrelevant, or at worst detrimental, to national environmental and economic goals."

Ebola: Millions of doses of Vaccines planned by 2015

2014-10-25T01:31:00.001-07:00

As the world reels from its deadliest Ebola outbreak, health experts are fast-tracking tests for various vaccines, and hope to have millions of experimental doses by next year.

There is currently no cure or vaccine for Ebola, which continues to spread in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The virus has killed nearly 5,000 people -- mostly in the three nations -- and left twice that number infected.

Scientists racing to stop the Ebola epidemic are trying various experimental drugs on patients, including ZMapp and TKM-Ebola.

In addition to drugs, there's a scramble to develop vaccines, with scores of companies working on experimental doses, the World Health Organization said this week.

Health care workers in affected nations will get the first opportunity to try the experimental vaccines.

GlaxoSmithKline and the Public Health Agency of Canada are already conducting the first phase of clinical trials for two experimental vaccines, according to the WHO.

The latter hopes to have 12 million experimental doses by the first quarter of next year.

The GSK vaccine is being tried on healthy volunteers in the UK and Mali; the Canadian one is undergoing testing on healthy volunteers in the United States.

"If the vaccines are determined to be safe, tens of thousands of doses could be used in West African trials beginning in January of next year," the WHO said.

Other vaccines in the works include those by Protein Sciences and Inovio, and another one by Russian scientists.

Ebola is spread by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person. The push for vaccines comes as new cases of Ebola were confirmed in New York and Mali, the latter the first case in that nation.

Ebola: Perfect Terror Weapon

2014-10-24T05:22:00.000-07:00

Ebola: Perfect Terror Weapon
Uncommon Wisdom Wrote to me

In theory, Ebola is the perfect terror weapon: scary, gruesome and deadly. Could the so-called Islamic State or other groups turn the disease into a weapon?

Some experts think so. Others think not. Today we’ll hear from both — and let you decide.

Which expert do you believe?

Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen wrote an Oct. 20 editorial titled A Dark Winter of Ebola Terrorism . He begins by describing a 2001 planning exercise in which government officials practiced their response to a fictitious smallpox outbreak.

After 25 days, the number of cases has risen to 30,000, with 10,000 expected to die, and the National Security Council is advised that, absent large scale and successful vaccination programs, the epidemic “could conceivably comprise as many as 3,000,000 cases of smallpox and lead to 1,000,000 deaths.”

So what about Ebola?

Unlike smallpox, which is hard to come by, the Ebola infection is raging right now in parts of Africa where Islamist extremists could have easy access. As physician Scott Gottlieb of the American Enterprise Institute points out, with Ebola, “Mother Nature has created the perfect bioweapon in many respects, as long as the attacker has suicidal aspirations.”

Ebola has up to a 21-day incubation period — more than enough time for terrorists to infect themselves and then come here with the virus. In a nightmare scenario, suicide bombers infected with Ebola could blow themselves up in a crowded place — say, shopping malls in Oklahoma City, Philadelphia and Atlanta — spreading infected tissue and bodily fluids.

Or, the virus could also be released more subtly. Terrorists could collect samples of infected body fluids, and then place them on doorknobs, handrails or airplane tray tables, allowing Ebola to spread quietly before officials even realize that a biological attack has taken place.

The scenario is definitely terrifying. I have no doubt that many terror groups would love to attack the U.S., Canada or Europe in this way — if it were possible to do so.

Is it possible?

***

Today Stratfor, the Austin-based private intelligence firm, published a report, Evaluating Ebola as a Biological Weapon . Security analyst Scott Stewart begins with the startling news that terror groups have already tried using Ebola.

Ebola and terrorism are not new. Nor is the possibility of terrorist groups using the Ebola virus in an attack. As we have previously noted, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo attempted to obtain the Ebola virus as part of its biological warfare program. The group sent a medical team to Africa under the pretext of being aid workers with the intent of obtaining samples of the virus. It failed in that mission, but even if it had succeeded, the group would have faced the challenge of getting the sample back to its biological warfare laboratory in Japan.

The Ebola virus is relatively fragile. Its lifetime on dry surfaces outside of a host is only a couple of hours, and while some studies have shown that the virus can survive on surfaces for days when still in bodily fluids, this requires ideal conditions that would be difficult to replicate during transport.

Regarding Thiessen’s point that terror groups could send infected suicide bombers to public places, Stewart says ...

One problem with this scenario is that it would be extremely difficult to get an infected operative from the group’s laboratory to the United States without being detected. As we have discussed elsewhere, jihadist groups have struggled to get operatives to the West to conduct conventional terrorist attacks using guns and bombs, a constraint that would also affect their ability to deploy a biological weapon.

Even if a hostile group did manage to get an operative in place, it would still face several important obstacles. By the time Ebola patients are highly contagious, they are normally very ill and bedridden with high fever, fatigue, vomiting and diarrhea, meaning they are not strong enough to walk into a crowded area.

The heat and shock of the suicide device’s explosion would likely kill most of the virus. Anyone close enough to be exposed to the virus would also likely be injured by the blast and taken to a hospital, where they would then be quarantined and treated for the virus.

I would add another point to this. Any terror group capable of sending suicide bombers into the U.S. doesn’t need to lace the device with Ebola. The bomb alone would create plenty of terror. Since they haven’t overcome that basic challenge yet, adding Ebola to the equation doesn’t seem likely.

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I’m linking to both these articles because they contain a useful investing lesson.

To make good trading decisions, we must always consider both sides of an argument. We have to look at facts and not let ideology or emotion get in the way.

Thiessen and Stewart are both smart people who have different opinions on this point. Follow the links above to read both their articles in full. Try to read critically before you accept either conclusion. Every investor needs this skill and these two articles are a chance to practice it.

Which expert do you believe?

Do you see flaws in the logic? Does one writer make a better case? I’d love to know what you think. Please leave a comment on our website or send me an e-mail.

First Ebola patient in New York City

2014-10-24T03:01:00.001-07:00

First Ebola patient in New York City

Craig Spencer is a doctor who recently returned from Guinea and has tested positive for Ebola -- the first case of the deadly virus in New York City.

Spencer came back to the United States last week after treating Ebola patients in Guinea, where he worked for Doctors Without Borders.

When did he return from Guinea?

Spencer came back to the United States last week after treating Ebola patients in Guinea, where he worked for Doctors Without Borders.

He completed his work in Guinea on October 12 and left the country two days later via Brussels.

He arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport on October 17, but he exhibited no symptoms of the virus until Thursday morning, said Dr. Mary Travis Bassett, New York City's health commissioner.

The physician, who works at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, was checking his temperature twice a day. He has not seen any patients since his return.

Did he have any symptoms?

The 33-year-old did not have any symptoms after his return, but developed a fever, nausea, pain and fatigue Thursday morning, authorities said. He began feeling sluggish a couple of days ago, but his fever spiked to 100.3 degrees the day his symptoms appeared.

How many people has he been in contact with?

Spencer was in contact with four people after he started exhibiting symptoms, authorities said. Ebola isn't contagious until someone has symptoms.

Three people -- his fiancée and two friends -- are being placed on quarantine and monitored, health officials said. The fourth person is a car service driver who had no direct contact with him and is not considered at risk.

Spencer also went for a three-mile jog and visited a bowling alley in Brooklyn prior to feeling symptomatic, according to Bassett.

The bowling alley closed Thursday as a precaution, but it said in a statement that health officials have determined there are no risks to customers.

He also traveled on three subway lines. "At the time that the doctor was on the subway he did not have fever ... he was not symptomatic," Bassett said.

Nigeria Continues to Rise at United Nation

2014-10-23T09:02:00.001-07:00

The giant of Africa continues to rise at United Nation

As Nigeria continues to receive congratulatory messages on its Ebola-free status as declared by the World Health Organization WHO, Nigeria has won a seat at the United Nations human rights council, a body responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the world.
Nigeria won the seat with majority votes.

Pension Scam suspects to be re-arraigned

2014-10-23T08:47:00.002-07:00

The 2011 Pension scam suspect to be re-arraigned

The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed the 26th of January 2015 for the re-arraignment of eleven suspects linked with the Pension Scam of 2011. Justice Gabriel Kolawole said the long adjournment was to allow both the prosecution and defence streamline all the outstanding issues stalling the case.

Who is a Girl Friday?

2014-10-23T03:42:00.003-07:00

Who is a Girl Friday?

The term girl Friday is generally used to indicate a female administrative assistant who handles many organizational tasks. It can also be used to denote a woman who is a personal assistant and takes care of another individual’s private matters. In a less common context, it can refer to a female companion who plays a general supportive role, not necessarily performing tasks but acting as a person’s encourager and devotee.

On a business administration level, the term refers to a woman who juggles a host of business matters and typically does so for one person in particular. Generally, a woman who fits this role is well organized and handles a multitude of business and administrative matters, keeping a particular individual organized and on task. For example, a lawyer may claim that a female legal assistant is his or her girl Friday in that the legal assistant is crucial in managing the lawyer's caseload, setting appointments, and generally keeping that particular attorney organized and on task.

A girl Friday can also refer to a woman who manages personal matters for an individual. This type might otherwise be considered a personal assistant. She would generally handle a wide variety of every-day responsibilities, such as shopping, running errands, organizing dinner, and acting as a chauffeur.

In other instances, a woman who acts as a personal encourager or coach is sometimes referred to as a girl Friday. This role differs from both the administrative or personal assistant roles in that the individual doesn’t necessarily perform specific business or personal tasks. Rather, when used in this context, it refers to someone who is more of a personal cheerleader and devoted friend, in other words, the female version of a “wing man.” Often, but not always, this particular role coincides with either the business administrator or, more commonly, the personal assistant role as the individual whom the girl Friday assists tends to become very dependent upon her.

Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Carusoe, indirectly gave birth to the term girl Friday. In the book, Carusoe rescues a native from cannibals and refers to him as “man Friday” because of the day of the week the rescue took place. Man Friday becomes Carusoe’s loyal friend and assistant. In this way, the book gave rise to the term man Friday, which refers to a loyal and close male assistant.

Bomb blast in Bauch State kills 5 and 12 wounded

2014-10-23T03:24:00.001-07:00

A statement on the incident issued in Bauchi by the State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Haruna Mohammed, indicated that 12 others sustained severe injuries.

He said that the incident occurred at about 9.45pm when explosives planted in the park detonated.

He said the injured had been rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Azare, for treatment and the scene of the incident cordoned off.

Haruna said that no arrest had been made yet, but that investigations had commenced on the incident.

The Safest Day of the Week to Drive

2014-10-23T01:53:00.003-07:00

What is the Safest Day of the Week to Drive?

The safest day of the week to drive in the US is Tuesday, according to 2010 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) records. The deadliest days of the week to drive are weekends, with Saturday being the most deadly. NHTSA also reports that the safest time of day to drive is between midnight and 3 a.m.

More about driving safety:

*Most car crash fatalities are due to passengers not wearing seat belts.

*States have different laws regarding driving safety. For example, Alabama has a ban on texting for all drivers, whereas Missouri has a ban on texting for novice drivers.

*In 2009, over 33,000 people were killed in car crashes, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, making up 23% of all traffic deaths. The majority of those that died were aged between 35 and 49.

Google unveils Inbox, a new app to fix email

2014-10-23T00:40:00.002-07:00

Google unveils Inbox, a new app to fix email

How do you solve a problem like email?

Google's Gmail team thinks it knows how: with a new app called Inbox.

Inbox, which launched Wednesday, offers a different way of handling the daily avalanche of email. Specifically created with mobile users in mind, it sorts and turns emails into reminders, highlights the important bits and adds outside information it thinks is helpful.

Even as people are turning to other tools to quickly communicate from their phones -- messaging apps, social networks, text -- email remains an invaluable if sometimes infuriating way of communicating from mobile devices. You can filter out spam, something Gmail excels at, but there's still a huge volume of legitimate email to deal with.

A lot of companies have taken a stab at improving the email experience. Gmail recently started categorizing emails automatically and putting them in different tabs in your inbox, like social, promotions and updates.

The popular third-party app Mailbox used folders and gestures to make sorting through emails easy. That company was snapped up by Dropbox. Inbox seems to be heavily influenced by Mailbox's time-saving, reminder-centric approach (not to mention its name). It also borrows some neat features from Google Now.

Inbox works by grouping similar messages together, like bills, in what Google calls "Bundles." You can schedule a bundle to only show up at specific intervals, say once a week. There's no need to read all the words in an email just to get to the juicy bits. Inbox will highlight what it thinks are the key parts of an email, like contact information, confirmation numbers or photos.

It's also tapping Google for related information to save you a trip to the search engine. For example, if you've set a reminder to call the dog groomer, the business's contact information will show up automatically.

Messages can be turned into reminders, reminders can be snoozed, and important emails "pinned" while the rest are whisked away.

Inbox is currently only invite only. It is available as and iOS and Android app, as well as a desktop view (for Chrome browser users only).

Somali Al-Shabab court stones teenager to death

2014-10-22T12:58:00.001-07:00

Somali teenager 'stoned to death'
BBC News

Al-Shabab has carried out stonings and amputations in territory under its control

An Islamic court has stoned a teenager to death in southern Somalia after convicting him of raping a woman, a pro-Islamist news site reports.

The judge ordered Hasan Ahmad Ali, 18, to compensate the woman with a calf before he was killed, according to an audio recording of the trial.

Ali denied raping 28-year-old Fadumo Hasan Mohmoud.

Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab implements a strict version of Islamic law in areas it controls.

Last month, a woman was stoned to death in the port town of Barawe after an Islamic court convicted her of having four husbands at the same time.

Ali was found guilty of raping Ms Mohmoud at gunpoint in Dharuro village in Somalia's Lower Shabelle region, reports the pro-al-Shabab al-Furqaan radio station on its website.

He said he had consensual sex with her.

Al-Shabab has recently lost control of several towns, including Barawe, but still controls large swathes of territory in rural areas.

The al-Qaeda linked group, which is estimated to have at least 5,000 fighters, wants to overthrow the UN-backed Somali government.

Boeing raises annual profit forecast

2014-10-22T09:52:00.004-07:00

Boeing raises its annual profit forecast

Boeing has raised its profit forecast for this year and says it has a record backlog of orders.

The company now expects to make between $8.10 and $8.30 per share, up from its previous guidance of between $7.90 and $8.10 per share.

Boeing valued its order backlog at a record $490bn at the end of the third quarter, up from $440bn at the start of the quarter.

In the third quarter it made $1.36bn, up 17.6% on the previous year.

"With three solid quarters behind us and confidence in our ongoing performance, we are increasing our earnings per share outlook for 2014," said Boeing chief executive Jim McNerney.

Boeing booked 501 orders in the third quarter, with 100 of those coming from Ryanair when it signed an order for fuel-efficient 737 MAX 200 aircraft.

Demand for the 737 jet is so strong that Boeing is raising production from 42 per month to 52 per month in 2018.

Margins down
However, the profit margin on commercial jets fell to 11.2% in the third quarter, from 11.6% in the same period in the previous year.

Boeing said the fall was because it delivered more 787 and 747 jets in the quarter, which are less profitable than other aircraft.

Revenue at its military aircraft business rose 3% to $3.5bn, helped by increased deliveries of the P-8 reconnaissance jet.

Microsoft to phase out Nokia name

2014-10-22T09:21:00.003-07:00

Microsoft ditching the Nokia name on smartphones
BBC News

The Nokia Lumia name will soon become Microsoft Lumia

Microsoft is ditching the Nokia brand name from new devices, less than a year after acquiring the Finnish mobile firm.

New Nokia Lumia smartphones will instead by known as Microsoft Lumia, the company said.

Nokia's non-mobile division, which is not owned by Microsoft, will continue to use the name.

The mobile operation was bought by Microsoft in April in a deal worth $7.2bn (£4.6bn).

Since then, Microsoft has quietly shifted away from the Nokia brand.

A post on Nokia France's Facebook page confirmed the branding shift. The renaming will roll out globally in due course, Microsoft has said.

The announcement comes despite Microsoft agreeing to a 10-year deal to use the Nokia name on mobile products.

Microsoft is currently having a big shake-up. In July, chief executive Satya Nadella announced the cutting of 18,000 jobs.

The bulk of the cuts, around 12,500, will be from staff taken on after the Nokia acquisition.

Total plane crash driver 'got lost'

2014-10-22T08:55:00.000-07:00

Moscow Total plane crash snowplough driver 'got lost'
BBC News

Mr de Margerie's plane crashed into the snowplough in poor visibility at around midnight on Monday

A snowplough driver at a Moscow airport has said he lost his bearings before a collision with a private plane in which Total boss Christophe de Margerie died.

Vladimir Martynenko told Russian TV he was unaware he had entered the runway.

Mr Margerie, 63, chief executive of the French oil firm, was killed in the crash along with three crew members.

Russian investigators have alleged that the driver of the snowplough was drunk at the time, but his family has denied this.

Vladimir Martynenko (L) signed his testimony beside his lawyer on Tuesday

The Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation. Mr Martynenko, 60, was detained after the crash, which took place in poor weather at Vnukovo airport, south-west of Moscow, at around midnight on Monday.

His family insisted he was not drunk. "My client has chronic heart disease, he doesn't drink at all," his lawyer Alexander Karabanov told Interfax news agency.

"When I lost my bearings I did not notice when I drove out on to the runway," Mr Martynenko told Russia's Channel One TV.

"The plane was preparing to take off, and I practically didn't see it or hear it because the machine was running. I didn't even see the lights, I did not see a thing, and then the crash happened."

Although there had been snow in Moscow, it was not thought to be lying thick on the ground when the Dassault Falcon plane clipped the snowplough and burst into flames.

Christophe de Margerie was one of France's leading industrialists and was returning to Paris, reportedly after a meeting on foreign investment with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at his country residence outside Moscow.

Total announced on Wednesday that his job would be taken over by Philippe Pouyanne, the current head of the company's refining and chemicals division.

Thierry Desmarest, who served as chairman and chief executive from 1995-2007, will become Total's chairman until the end of 2015, when Mr Pouyanne will take on both posts.

Christophe de Margerie was one of the oil world's most charismatic leaders

Mr de Margerie's trademark grey handlebar earned him the nickname "Big Moustache", and his was one of the most recognisable faces of the global oil industry.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said he was an extraordinary business leader while President Francois Hollande praised his "independent character and original personality".

More recently, he had become an outspoken critic of European sanctions against Russia, arguing that such actions would simply push Russia closer to China.

Total, France's second-largest listed company, is one of the biggest foreign investors in Russia and is planning to double its output from the country by 2020.

Despite the sanctions, it has continued work on a liquefied natural gas project with Russian firm Novatek to tap vast natural gas reserves in north-western Siberia and it signed a deal in May with Lukoil to develop shale oil in western Siberia.

Investigators began looking at the plane's flight voice and data recorders on Wednesday, Ria Novosti reports. French investigators arrived in Moscow late on Tuesday to take part in the inquiry.

The role of air traffic controllers is likely to be part of the investigation.

Pictures from the scene show the driver of the snowplough looking shocked but walking unaided and without any obvious serious injury.

Ebola Emergency Team talk by WHO

2014-10-22T05:10:00.000-07:00

Ebola: WHO emergency team set for talks on travel curbs
BBC News

The current outbreak of the virus has already killed more than 4,500 people

The World Health Organisation is set to hold emergency talks to discuss the Ebola epidemic.

The meeting in Geneva will examine screening measures at borders and consider whether stricter travel regulations should be put in place.

New rules in the US require travellers from the worst affected countries to arrive at one of five airports.

A curfew has been imposed in a town in Sierra Leone after two people were shot dead in riots on Tuesday.

The current outbreak of the virus has already killed more than 4,500 people - mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Enhanced screening

The WHO has faced criticism it reacted too slowly to the spread of the disease.

Its emergency committee will meet to discuss Ebola for the third time with the aim of assessing the efforts so far to contain and control the virus.

Some travellers in the US will have their temperatures checked for signs of a fever
The riots in Sierra Leone's town of Koidu began as protests against attempts to place an elderly woman, said to be 90 years old, under quarantine.

The woman has now died but it is not clear whether she actually had Ebola, the BBC's Umaru Fofana reports from the capital, Freetown.

New rules are coming into force in the US requiring air passengers from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to travel via O'Hare in Chicago, JFK, Newark, Washington's Dulles or Atlanta airports, where they will undergo enhanced screening.

They will have their temperatures checked as part of other protocols despite experts warning such moves are unlikely to have an impact.

The new security measures come as public concern grows in the US, where three people have been infected and one person has died from the virus.

How not to catch Ebola:

• Avoid direct contact with sick patients as the virus is spread through contaminated body fluids

• Wear protective cover for eyes

• Clothing and clinical waste should be incinerated and any medical equipment that needs to be kept should be decontaminated

• People who recover from Ebola should abstain from sex or use condoms for three months

Ebola basics

First batches of an experimental vaccine are also due to arrive in Switzerland on Wednesday, the BBC's Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva.

The jab, developed by Canada's public health agency, combines fragments of the Ebola virus with a non-fatal virus and could trigger the immune system to produce the necessary antibodies.

However, a fully tested and approved vaccine is not expected to become available for months or possibly years, our correspondent adds.

In other developments

• NBC freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo - who contracted Ebola in West Africa - has been declared free of the virus and will leave hospital in the US state of Nebraska on Wednesday

• UK International Development Secretary Justine Greening is in Sierra Leone to assess the impact of the government's $200m (£125m) aid package

* Doctors in Spain said a second round of tests showed Teresa Romero, who became the first person to contract Ebola outside West Africa, was completely clear of the virus. The nurse fell ill after treating two infected patients in a Madrid hospital

Ebola virus disease (EVD)

• Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage

• Spread by body fluids, such as blood and saliva

• Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 70%

• Incubation period is two to 21 days

• There is no proven vaccine or cure

• Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery

• Fruit bats, a delicacy for some West Africans, are considered to be virus's natural host

The Most Expensive Divorce in History. What Cost; Who and Where?

2014-10-22T03:20:00.001-07:00

What Did the Most Expensive Divorce in History Cost?

The most expensive divorce in history cost an estimated $4.5 billion US Dollars (USD), as of 2014. Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian oligarch, was ordered by a Geneva judge to pay his ex-wife a settlement of half of his approximate total worth of $8.8 billion USD. Business magnate Rybolovlev accumulated the majority of his wealth through his ownership of the largest potassium fertilizer company in Russia, which he sold his stakes in 2010 for a large profit. He also is owner of French soccer team, Monaco Football Club. Since Rybolovlev’s wealth was mainly tied up in trusts and real estate, his wife had not actually collected the full settlement.

More about divorces:

*The most expensive celebrity divorce is thought to be for actor Mel Gibson, who was ordered to pay his wife $425 million USD after their 31 year marriage ended in 2001.

*Couples with no assets are 70% more likely to divorce than couples with at least $10,000 USD in assets, according to a 2009 University of Virginia study.

*Russia is the country with the highest divorce rate, with five divorces for every 1,000 people, according to the 2012 United Nations Demographic Yearbook.

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Ebola: US restricts airport arrivals

2014-10-22T03:09:00.001-07:00

Ebola: US restricts airport arrivals from West Africa

Affected travellers will have their temperatures checked for signs of a fever
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New US rules requiring air passengers from the three West African countries worst hit by Ebola to travel via one of five airports are coming into effect.

Travellers from Sierra Leone, Liberia or Guinea must now arrive at O'Hare in Chicago, JFK, Newark, Washington's Dulles or Atlanta, where they will undergo enhanced screening.

The World Health Organisation is due to convene an emergency meeting later.

The current outbreak of the virus has already killed more than 4,500 people.

Most of the deaths have been in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Travellers from these countries will have their temperatures checked as part of screening programmes, despite experts warning such moves are unlikely to have an impact.

The new security measures come as public concern grows in the US, where three people have been infected and one person has died from the virus.

How not to catch Ebola:

Avoid direct contact with sick patients as the virus is spread through contaminated body fluids
Wear protective cover for eyes
Clothing and clinical waste should be incinerated and any medical equipment that needs to be kept should be decontaminated
People who recover from Ebola should abstain from sex or use condoms for three months.

The precautions stop short of the travel ban sought by some US Congress members.

Meanwhile, the family of Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who died from Ebola in the US earlier this month, say hospital officials have refused to release information about his treatment, the Associated Press reports.

It comes amid claims that staff at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital mishandled the case.

"None of the procedures were discussed with the family,'' his nephew, Josephus Weeks, told AP.

In other developments:

*The WHO says a treatment using serum made from the blood of Ebola patients who have recovered could be available within weeks in West Africa

*NBC freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo - who contracted Ebola in West Africa - has been declared free of the virus and will leave hospital in the US state of Nebraska on Wednesday

*Police imposed a daytime curfew in Sierra Leone's diamond-rich Kono district after angry youths resisted efforts to "quarantine" a house where a 90-year-old woman suspected to have Ebola lived

*UK International Development Secretary Justine Greening will visit Sierra Leone on Wednesday to assess the impact of the government's $200m (£125m) aid package

*The Dominican Republic joins a group of Caribbean countries that have banned visitors from the three West African nations

The WHO has said it will convene an emergency meeting on Ebola in Geneva on Wednesday to discuss whether additional measures were needed to fight the outbreak in West Africa.

US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said authorities were working closely with airlines to introduce the latest US restrictions with "minimal travel disruption".

There are no direct scheduled flights to the United States from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea.

But Mr Johnson said officials were working to indentify anyone who might have been to one of these countries in the past 21 days.