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Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, seen from near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, October 5, 2014.

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• FSA Bulletin - 09/30/2014     
  USDA unveils key new programs to help farmers manage risk

• FSA News Bulletin 
  USDA Farm Service Agency Reminds Producers: Farm Bill Allows Early Termination for Certain CRP Contracts

• FSA News Bulletin 
  Enrollment for New Dairy Farm Risk Management Program to Begin Sept. 2

• FSA offers farm bill website

• U of I Policy Matters Website

Local

• The Office of the State Fire Marshal joins national efforts to promote fire prevention
  “Working smoke alarms save lives: test yours every month”

• Lincoln Elks, Illinois Elks and ALMH Bring Free Clinic to Children    

• Logan County Department of Public Health food inspection scores

• Births at ALMH

National, International

Dallas Ebola patient fighting for life, another headed to Nebraska

A worker in a hazardous material suit steps out of an apartment unit where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas, October 5, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young

• Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in a single day

• Alcobra's ADHD drug meets goals in late-stage study

• Thailand hits party scene to combat rising HIV among gay men

Nobel Prize for medicine goes to discoverers of brain’s inner GPS system

Professor Ole Kiehn (R) presents the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, U.S.-British scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian husband and wife Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser, for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm October 6, 2014. REUTERS/Bertil Ericson/TT News Agency

• New Jersey boy's death is first linked directly to enterovirus

• High risk Ebola could reach France and UK by end-October, scientists calculate

• Novartis works with Bristol-Myers Squibb to test lung cancer drugs

• Outbreak of Ebola-like Marburg fever kills man in Uganda

Aid workers ask where was WHO in Ebola outbreak?

United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the 65th session of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Executive Committee meeting at the U.N. European headquarters in Geneva October 1, 2014... Some aid workers and U.N. officials blame a lack of World Health Organization (WHO) leadership in the emergency response, particularly in the early stages when it would have been easier to contain. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy\