Friday
Lots of people are on vacation throughout August.  Enjoy.
Parents will take their future college students to visit universities both local and out of state. Schools will begin in most places ... as global crises rock on and students wonder what their world will look like after they graduate? Most will believe everything will turn around for the best and reality will become a combination of our 3-D every day dramas and what is now called sci-fi as technology advances. No one looks at life the way you did as a student. Never use the expression, "When I was young..."
   Gaza ceasefire collapses: What fate for talks?    BBC - August 1, 2014
  
   Conservative Republican revolt kills border bill    BBC - August 1, 2014
  
Conservative backbenchers in the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives have quashed a border bill backed by the House leadership.
   Ebola crisis: Infected aid worker heads to US    BBC - August 1, 2014
  
A hospital in Atlanta is preparing to receive a US aid worker infected with the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa.
India landslide: Hopes fade for survivors as toll rises to 66    BBC - August 1, 2014
  
Hopes of finding any more survivors from a landslide that buried a village in western India on Wednesday are fading, as the number of bodies found reaches 66, officials said.