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Worms, cockroaches...Foodies dish out horror tales online

Edit The Times of India 16 May 2016
Bengaluru. Last week, a city-based marketing professional ordered gobi manchurian from a popular eatery in Koramangala only to find it too bland ... However, at 3 in the morning, Naina started throwing up ... Her post drew 47 comments ... Prathik Jain, a student who went to a Chickpet restaurant last week, was served curd rice with cockroach. "I ordered a North Indian meal and was almost done when I noticed a dead cockroach in the curd rice." ... ....

Council appoints replacement pest control service (Lichfield District Council)

Edit Public Technologies 16 May 2016
(Source ... If anyone in the district has a problem with pests, such as rats, mice, wasps, cockroaches or bedbugs, from now on they should contact Opkill to tackle them. The council has appointed them to deliver its pest control service ... It also costs £66 to tackle fleas, bedbugs and cockroaches, and £42 for wasps, ants and other insect pests....

Infants die as medicines run out in Venezuela’s hospitals

Edit The Irish Times 16 May 2016
By morning, three newborns were already dead. The day had begun with the usual hazards. chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenous solutions, even food. Then a blackout swept over the city, shutting down the respirators in the maternity ward. Doctors kept ailing infants alive by pumping air into their lungs by hand for hours. By nightfall, four more newborns had died ... In a supply room, cockroaches fled as the door swung open ... He paused ... ....

Dying infants, no medicine is the norm in failing Venezuelan hospitals

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 16 May 2016
BARCELONA, Venezuela — By morning, three newborns were already dead. The day had begun with the usual hazards. chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenous solutions, even food. Then a blackout swept over the city, shutting down the respirators in the maternity ward. Doctors kept ailing infants alive by pumping air into their lungs by hand for hours ... In a supply room, cockroaches fled as the door swung open ... He paused ... Dr....

'Mind addiction' could help explain why smart people aren't as happy as they could be

Edit Business Insider 15 May 2016
We tend to devalue happiness when making everyday decisions. Nearly two decades ago, a professor at the University of Chicago conducted a somewhat . Experimenters asked about 150 university students to imagine that they had won a lottery drawing and could choose one of two chocolates as their prize. Chocolate A, they were told, was an 0.5 oz ... piece of Austrian milk chocolate worth $2, shaped … like a disgusting cockroach ... Loading video......

Securency scandal: Peter Chapman's freedom comes at a heavy cost

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 15 May 2016
In Rio de Janeiro, British businessman Peter Chapman was thrown into a living hell. After his arrest in late 2014, he awaited extradition on corruption charges, for almost six months, in the Ary Franco prison. This prison is notorious ... Chapman and his fellow inmates sat in dark, filthy, stuffy cells that were infested with cockroaches and other insects, and were so overcrowded that inmates took turns sleeping on the floor ... Nigeria ... ....

Old Polling Trick Compares Trump to Lice, Cockroaches

Edit Breitbart 14 May 2016
From May 6-9, Public Policy Polling compared Donald Trump to hemorrhoids, root canals, lice, traffic jams, and cockroaches. Not surprising it was the one poll showing Hillary Clinton still ahead ... ....

New Keys wasp found, but is it already too late?

Edit The Miami Herald 14 May 2016
In any other field, this might be big news. In the bug world, not so much. Ninety percent of such wasps fluttering about in the wild remain unidentified ... cockroaches and ants) of the world ... “They become icons for conservation....

Kirk: Vets Shouldn’t Have to Share a Plate with Roaches (Mark Kirk)

Edit Public Technologies 13 May 2016
Senator Kirk authored this legislation after it was reported that there was a cockroach infestation at the Edward Hines, Jr ... 'It's deplorable that this infestation at the Hines VA has gone on for years and that our nation's heroes are forced to share a plate with cockroaches,' said Senator Kirk....

The culinary adventures of Ghiyath Shah, the sultan of Malwa

Edit Indian Express 13 May 2016
The Nimatnama (Book of Pleasures) is currently at the India Office Library, in London, and it reportedly begins with a plea to the King of Cockroaches. (Source ... “King of cockroaches! Please do not eat this, my offering to the culinary world — recipes of cooking food, sweetmeats, fish and the manufacture of rose-water perfumes.” Ghiyath Shahi seated on a stool in a garden is being offered a dish, possibly of samosas. (Source....

The curious tale of the Keylimepie wasp: newly discovered but may be already extinct

Edit The Miami Herald 13 May 2016
In any other field, this might be big news. In the bug world, not so much. One out of 10 wasps fluttering about in the wild remain unidentified ... cockroaches and ants) of the world ... “They become icons for conservation....

Student nurse puts experience to good use during life-changing trip to The Jungle (University Campus Suffolk)

Edit Public Technologies 13 May 2016
(Source. University Campus Suffolk). May 11 2016 4.00PM ... Kezi Mellen, who in the third year of her BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing degree at, recently gave up her annual leave to provide first aid to asylum seekers living in the camp in France ... 'I first became interested in Calais last spring after reading a newspaper article which referred to migrants escaping conflict as a 'swarm' and called them 'cockroaches',' said Kezi ... She added....

Decision over holidays in term time poses a problem for our schools

Edit The Independent 13 May 2016
As one might expect, the issue of taking children out of school during term time for unauthorised absence has dominated our national news today, as one parent managed to persuade the courts to overturn the decision to impose fines levied by his daughter’s school ... Linda Piggott-Vijeh. Combe St ... Julie Robinson ... I do not watch cricket, football, snooker or tennis, to say nothing of innumerable other sports – cockroach racing for all I know....
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