| New York City health officials report that in the past four weeks there have been four cases of invasive meningococcal disease, commonly known as meningitis, among gay men. According to a release by the city one of the men has died, and another is ... |  Gay Star News |
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NYC health officials announce four cases of gay men with meningitis
NYC health officials announce four cases of gay men with meningitis:
Capriles leads big rally in Venezuelan capital
Capriles leads big rally in Venezuelan capital:
| CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A huge crowd filled the streets of Venezuela's capital on Sunday cheering for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, waving flags in a show of support one week before the country's hotly contested presidential election. |  San Francisco Chronicle |
Farmers can land a blow against poverty
Farmers can land a blow against poverty: They argue that poor countries should follow Brazil's model of large-scale commercial agriculture, replacing small farms with enterprises big enough to take advantage of economies of scale. On the other side are those who insist that promoting large ...
While publicly opposed, Schwarzenegger says he performed gay marriages
While publicly opposed, Schwarzenegger says he performed gay marriages: (CNN) -- Despite his public opposition to same-sex marriage, Arnold Schwarzenegger presided over two ceremonies of gay couples while he was California's governor, Schwarzenegger said in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes." Elected in 2003 following ...
Jerry Brown, California Governor, Signs SB 1172, Bill Banning Gay Conversion ...
Jerry Brown, California Governor, Signs SB 1172, Bill Banning Gay Conversion ...: Senate Bill 1172, which the National Center for Lesbian Rights notes was co-sponsored by the NCLR, Equality California, Gaylesta, Courage Campaign, Lambda Legal, and Mental Health America of Northern California, and supported by dozens of ...
Several thousand people take to streets of Haiti capital in anti-government ...
Several thousand people take to streets of Haiti capital in anti-government ...
A demonstrator wears a T-shirt with an image of President Barack Obama,
right, and Ghana's President John Atta Mills during a protest against Haiti's President Michel Martelly government in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Dieu ...
Financial inclusion to address poverty
Financial inclusion to address poverty
Most global poverty-reduction efforts rely on "top-down"
solutions -- development-aid flows from rich to poor countries -- that
largely focus on education, food security, and disease management and
prevention. But improving access to the formal ...
Argentina president's image slides further as CPI, crime weigh
Argentina president's image slides further as CPI, crime weigh: BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina President Cristina Fernandez's popularity continued its downward slide in September, sinking to 24.3 percent from 30 percent in August, according to a poll published on Sunday, as high inflation and worries over crime ...
Washington State Wants Schools to Ban Native American Mascots
Washington State Wants Schools to Ban Native American Mascots:
| If the Washington State Board of Education has its way, high schools across the state will no longer count Warriors, Braves, and Redskins among their mascots. The state board passed a resolution last Wednesday encouraging districts to stop using Native ... |  ABC News (blog) |
Catholics in San Francisco see a strict message on gays
Catholics in San Francisco see a strict message on gays: SAN FRANCISCO -- At Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the Castro, this city's largest gay district, about 20 of the faithful gathered for 8 a.m. Mass recently, clustering in the middle pews. Led by a visiting priest from nearby Oakland, the ...
Venezuela opposition wants deaths probe, Chavez vows to improve
Venezuela opposition wants deaths probe, Chavez vows to improve: CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez vowed on Sunday to run a more efficient government if he wins Venezuela's election next weekend while rival Henrique Capriles demanded justice for the shooting of two opposition activists. With the South ...
Youngest prisoner leaves Guantanamo
Youngest prisoner leaves Guantanamo:
| Khadr pleaded guilty in 2010 to charges that included conspiring with al-Qaeda to commit terrorist acts, making roadside bombs to target US troops in Afghanistan, spying on American military convoys and providing material support for terrorism. Khadr ... |  MWC News |
Italian journalists not deported from Cuba
Italian journalists not deported from Cuba
(AGI) Rome - The Italian journalists arrested in Cuba have not
received deportations orders, but may return home tomorrow, as reported
by one of them to Tgcom 24. "There have been no deportations orders
issued," he said, "But we have decided to come ...
Mexico catches alleged drug capo 'El Taliban'
Mexico catches alleged drug capo 'El Taliban': He becomes the 24th of Mexico's 37 most-wanted alleged cartel leaders to be killed or captured under President Felipe Calderon, who escalated Mexico's war on drug gangs days after taking office and who ends his term in two months. Calderon has been ...
A slice of Sweden
A slice of Sweden: Yet the many Swedish sailors passing through Buenos Aires with the then lively Swedish merchant shipping traffic (which gave its colours to Boca Juniors, according to the famous legend) were generally not in town long enough to locate this network so ...
Native American cuisine similarities with Mexican food
Native American cuisine similarities with Mexican food: Recently traveling the southwest through Native American regions made me think about their cuisine and how it compares to the Latino cuisine, specifically the Sonora region of Mexico. At first glance, I thought corn was the strongest common factor ...
Presidential race may leave lasting imprint on Supreme Court
Presidential race may leave lasting imprint on Supreme Court: Also pending is California's Proposition 8 and the question of whether the U.S. Constitution gives gay couples a right to marry. After the California Supreme Court ruled for gay marriage in 2008, opponents put on the ballot and won approval for ...
When America acted up against AIDS
When America acted up against AIDS: First-time director David France's new documentary about the 1987-'93 glory years of ACT UP—aka AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, in case you've forgotten—is a wrenching remembrance of a gay holocaust that's already dimmer than it should be in our ...
Boy Scouts' ban on gay members is splintering organization's support
Boy Scouts' ban on gay members is splintering organization's support
| The Boy Scouts of America is standing behind its ban on openly gay
members despite troubling signs that an increasing number of companies
and individuals are withdrawing their support because they don't believe
in discrimination based on sexual ... |
A brilliant, new documentary captures ACT UP's radicalism and its effect on ...
A brilliant, new documentary captures ACT UP's radicalism and its effect on ...: When America acted up against AIDS Act Up protestors lie on the street in front of the New York Stock Exchange in a demonstration against the high cost of the AIDS treatment drug AZT in September of 1989. ... First-time director David France's new ...
Omar Khadr 'very happy' to be back in Canada
Omar Khadr 'very happy' to be back in Canada: Khadr was the last Westerner, and the youngest prisoner, to be held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba when he was repatriated Saturday. Khadr traded the infamous U.S. military detention camp for a cell in one of Canada's most foreboding maximum-security ...
US man jailed in Cuba meets with Jewish reps
US man jailed in Cuba meets with Jewish reps: Adela Dworin, head of Cuba's Jewish Community, and David Prinstein, president of the Patronato Synagogue, spent nearly two hours with Gross in an air-conditioned visitors' room at Havana's military hospital. Gross is serving a 15-year sentence for ...
In Mexico, inmates often rule prisons
In Mexico, inmates often rule prisons: THE mass escape of 131 prisoners last week has thrown a spotlight on lawlessness inside Mexico's prisons - violent places often controlled by gangs that use them as recruiting grounds. Criminal groups hold sway in 60 percent of prisons, where they are ...
Screen-addicted children may suffer newest mental disorder
Screen-addicted children may suffer newest mental disorder: Children addicted to using electronic devices may suffer fromInternetuse disorder a newly discovered and serious mental illness according to a new study ...
Washington state Board of Education pushes schools to replace their Native ...
Washington state Board of Education pushes schools to replace their Native ...
The resolution also mentions the widening achievement gap between Native American
and other students and the call by a number of national organizations
and tribes for this change. "We are in the business of educating
students," Board member Bernal ...
viernes, 28 de septiembre de 2012
Wildlife officials kill alligator in Florida that ripped off elderly woman's arm
Wildlife officials kill alligator in Florida that ripped off elderly woman's arm
LEESBURG, Fla. - Wildlife officials say they've killed the alligator that ripped off an elderly woman's arm in a Florida canal. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Joy Hill says that while no human body parts were found in the ...
Gay Porn Star Ryan Idol Sentenced To 12 Years For Attempted Murder
Gay Porn Star Ryan Idol Sentenced To 12 Years For Attempted Murder:
| Last September, Idol was convicted of attempting to murder a former girlfriend by smashing a toilet tank lid over her head during a heated September 5, 2009 altercation in her Sacramento, California home. Idol filed a motion for a retrial, claiming ... |  On Top Magazine |
Is Latin America and the Caribbean turning on to energy efficiency?
Is Latin America and the Caribbean turning on to energy efficiency?: The events, which together form an Energy Efficiency Week, are being organized by the Ministry of Industry and Competitiveness of Ecuador, the Latin American Energy Association (OLADE) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO ...
The Richest and Poorest US Cities by Income
The Richest and Poorest US Cities by Income:
| However, the state is one of only five where inequality is higher than the U.S. level. Median household income in California is higher than for the U.S. as a whole, but the state's poverty rate is also above the national average. Well educated in San ... |  Yahoo! News Blogs (blog) |
Brazil: Inequality down as poor see income rise
Brazil: Inequality down as poor see income rise: Overall, 21.8 million Brazilians rose out of poverty during the period, leaving 10 percent of the country's 192 million people living in poverty. Institute president .... Gangs are a growing concern for police in Southern Oregon and Northern California ...
California's Largest and Poorest Districts in the Poorest Counties
California's Largest and Poorest Districts in the Poorest Counties
Of the 329 Unified School Districts in California, 52 enroll more than 25,000 students. 30 of them are in counties with poverty rates above 15%. 12 of them have ...
Catarina Migliorini, Brazilian Woman, Auctions Virginity To Help Poor (VIDEO ...
Catarina Migliorini, Brazilian Woman, Auctions Virginity To Help Poor (VIDEO ...: Catarina Migliorini up for bid: Winner won't be able to kiss her, but he'll be helping to ease poverty. Talk about virgin air. A 20-year-old Brazilian woman is auctioning off her virginity for a one-time tryst on an airplane, reports say. To make the ...
Marking the 50th anniversary of Cuban missile crisis
Marking the 50th anniversary of Cuban missile crisis: Pittman: If nuclear weapons are used (from Cuba) … the missile strike radius … takes in 92 million people in the United States … we would have to decide … what would serve as adequate protection against blast, heat and direct exposure to radiation …
Cuba reúne a ortopedistas y traumatólogos
Cuba reúne a ortopedistas y traumatólogos: En Cuba se desarrolla la edición número 23 del Congreso Internacional de Ortopedia y Traumatología Ortopédica 2012 con la participación de 500 expertos. En él se intercambiarán experiencias entre traumatólogos y ortopédicos de Cuba y Argentina.
Judge sentences 2 men to life in prison for dissolving bodies in acid for ...
Judge sentences 2 men to life in prison for dissolving bodies in acid for ...
SAN DIEGO — Two men were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for their roles in a Mexican
drug gang that dissolved victims' bodies in acid. Jose Olivera, 38, got
five consecutive life terms and David Valencia, 42, got ...
Gender Identity Disorder in Prison: Depending on a Diagnosis That Is Soon to ...
Gender Identity Disorder in Prison: Depending on a Diagnosis That Is Soon to ...: Speaking of the prisoner's anguish, Judge Wolf remarked, “[t]hat anguish alone constitutes a serious medical need. It also places him at high risk of killing himself if his major mental illness is not adequately treated.”1. The case has caused a flurry ...
Double Standard for Bipolar Disorder
Double Standard for Bipolar Disorder: Yet it is hard for me to view Patrick Kennedy as a paragon on the mental-health front because, among other misdeeds, he wrecked his car and damaged a yacht, according to reports, and then had the chutzpah to cite his mental illness as the excuse behind ...
Despite Obama Attacks Romney Will Win The Senior Vote
Despite Obama Attacks Romney Will Win The Senior Vote:
| Romney needs to make the primary concern in Ohio – as well as Florida – the concern that seniors are having throughout the majority of the country, which is the economy in general – the current national debt as well as the debt being accumulated for ... |  CBS Local |
Latino veterans at odds with Obama and Romney
Latino veterans at odds with Obama and Romney: “The White House needs to have a Hispanic veteran representative in order to truly address our issues,” he said. “At the Department of Veterans Affairs, there is a position that is called the Hispanic Employment Program Manager who is a non-Hispanic, ...
CFK at Harvard: 'Constitutional reform is not this President's wish'
CFK at Harvard: 'Constitutional reform is not this President's wish': Fernández de Kirchner will fly back to Buenos Aires from Boston, and she is expected to be in Buenos Aires by Friday morning. On Wednesday, during her visit to Washington DC, the President had a broad exchange with a group of students at Georgetown ...
Israel disappointed over Argentine bombing talks with Iran
Israel disappointed over Argentine bombing talks with Iran: BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Israel said on Friday it was greatly disappointed by Argentina's decision to meet Iranian officials to discuss the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center allegedly masterminded by the Islamic Republic. Argentine ...
Buenos Aires passes law allowing abortions
Buenos Aires passes law allowing abortions
| The
city's legislature passed the measure by a close 30-29 vote with allies
of President Cristina Kirchner edging out a bloc led by Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri, a potential rival for the presidency in 2015. The bill prohibits "medical ... |
Gay marriage NY arguments put US lawyer on defense
Gay marriage NY arguments put US lawyer on defense: Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill authorizing construction of a Ronald Reagan statue inside the California Capitol in Sacramento.More >>. Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill authorizing construction of a Ronald Reagan statue inside the California ...
6 Signs of Trouble for the Anti-Gay Boy Scouts
6 Signs of Trouble for the Anti-Gay Boy Scouts: 2) Former Scouts Return Their Badges – A growing group of Eagle Scouts, angered by the association's anti-gay platform, started a drive to have members return their Eagle Scout badges. Several of the letters the Eagle Scouts sent along with their ...
Gay Center to Make Its Village Home More Open and Less Noisy
Gay Center to Make Its Village Home More Open and Less Noisy:
| David W. Dunlap/The New York Times Center officials promised (or threatened) that the disco balls would remain in Kaplan Hall. Lerner Auditorium, the third-floor assembly hall in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in Greenwich ... |  New York Times (blog) |
3 Gay-Friendly Hotels For Paris Hilton To Avoid
3 Gay-Friendly Hotels For Paris Hilton To Avoid:
| Millennium Bostonian Hotel is one of 14 IGLTA-sponsor Millennium hotels around the US (other cities include LA, Chicago, Boston and the tea-loving Millennium UN Plaza in New York)—each of which offers a 15% discount for guests who use the promo ... |  HotelChatter (blog) |
Chile manufacturing, copper output leaps, jobless falls
Chile manufacturing, copper output leaps, jobless falls: SANTIAGO – Chile's manufacturing and copper output soared in August from July and the country's jobless rate sank to its lowest in six months, buoyed by domestic consumption and increased import demand, primarily from Brazil and the US, the government ...
Chilean folk group Inti-Illimani brings its militant Andean sound to the ...
Chilean folk group Inti-Illimani brings its militant Andean sound to the ...
| The members of the celebrated Chilean
folk ensemble, Inti-Illimani, have seen the world change since the
group formed 45 years ago. They marvel at technology and the wonders of
the Internet, but their music is still rooted in tradition. "We use the ... |
Tackling Disease in Latin America
Tackling Disease in Latin America: Unfortunately, their stories are all too common not only for women in Nicaragua - the 2nd poorest country in the Western Hemisphere after Haiti - but for women across Latin America and around the world. Regular, convenient access to health services can ...
Obama Miscalculated Politics of Terrorism
Obama Miscalculated Politics of Terrorism: A “senior American law enforcement official” talking to the New York Times about the fact that the scene of a successful terrorist attack against the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya is too dangerous for FBI agents to visit. Today in Iraq, there was a ...
jueves, 27 de septiembre de 2012
Guatemalan President Argues Drug Legalization and Calls Out US Anti-Drug Effort
Guatemalan President Argues Drug Legalization and Calls Out US Anti-Drug Effort
Perez Molina and other Latin American leaders harped on the war
on drugs and the need for a candid conversation about new ideas for the
war on drugs in their speeches to the United Nations General Assembly.
"Something about what we are ... "So not only ...
New View offers Mental Health First Aid
New View offers Mental Health First Aid: Mental health problems will affect one in three Canadians — it could be you, a family member, friend or co-worker. But would you know what to do in the event of a mental health crisis? "The lack of knowledge creates a sense of fear and stigma," said ...
Puerto Rico Jury Rejects Death Penalty
Puerto Rico Jury Rejects Death Penalty: A Puerto Rican jury rejected the death penalty Thursday for a convicted drug dealer accused of killing an ex-girlfriend who was an informant for the U.S. government. Edison Burgos Montes will face life in prison for the July 2005 killing of Madelyn ...
Bridging the Widening Poverty Gaps in Colorado
Bridging the Widening Poverty Gaps in Colorado: One is the need to shore up child-care programs, so that single parents are able to work full-time and pull themselves out of poverty. Dawn Marquantte of Denver is a single mother of five who says even something as simple as making child-care ...
Elderly Mamaroneck man seriously ill from West Nile virus
Elderly Mamaroneck man seriously ill from West Nile virus:
| That's the highest number of reported cases at this point in the year since 2003. Seventy percent of the cases have been centered in eight states -- Texas, Mississippi, South Dakota, Michigan, California, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Illinois, the CDC said. |  Newsday |
Older voters look beyond Medicare, Social Security
Older voters look beyond Medicare, Social Security: Not so, said Obama, warning seniors that Ryan and Romney want to replace Medicare with vouchers that wouldn't keep up with health care costs. It's an admonition echoed in a television ad Obama's campaign started airing Friday in Florida, Colorado and ...
Opinion: Repressive voter ID laws are the best recourse for Republicans
Opinion: Repressive voter ID laws are the best recourse for Republicans:
| They could do the sensible thing one might expect out of a political party and try to convince Latinos that the GOP understands their problems, admires their entrepreneurial spirit, and has a vision that can help them achieve the American Dream. Or ... |  NBC Latino |
One in five black youth are unemployed or not in school
One in five black youth are unemployed or not in school:
| The latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that black and Latino unemployment remain critically elevated and may present a political challenge for President Barack Obama as he seeks reelection. Huffington Post. While overall unemployment ... |  Press TV |
Latinos Remain More Optimistic Than the General Population, Poll Says
Latinos Remain More Optimistic Than the General Population, Poll Says
Latinos are more optimistic even though they have been deeply distressed by the flagging economy: About 10 percent are unemployed (the numbers go up for Latinos 18-29, whose unemployment rate is at 13.7 percent) they have had the largest increase in ...
More poor in Louisiana
More poor in Louisiana
That makes Louisiana, according to Census Bureau data, the third most poverty-stricken state in the nation. Statewide, there are about 910,000 people living below the poverty line. For a single person, that equates to an annual income of less than $11 ...
Census data says poverty rates in La. on the rise
Census data says poverty rates in La. on the rise: (AP) - Census data released Thursday indicates poverty levels in Louisiana have continued to climb while household incomes declined in the last year, making the state one of the poorest in the nation. But while more people are finding themselves mired ...
Statistics Show Less Poverty and Inequality in Nicaragua
Statistics Show Less Poverty and Inequality in Nicaragua: 26 de septiembre de 2012, 16:24Managua, Sep 26 (Prensa Latina) Nicaragua curbed abject poverty from 11.2 percent to 5.5 percent in the past five years, and inequality also fell, ranking as the second country in Latin America and the Caribbean with the ...
Native American burial site found, debate ensues
Native American burial site found, debate ensues: “Both the THC and TxDOT archaeologists consider (these findings) both major components to be critical for understanding Native American life in this portion of Texas,” Brown said. “The components are rare and have or will provide important, new ...
Fighting Global Poverty
Fighting Global Poverty: The organization, whose members went to Peru this summer, helps underdeveloped communities through both volunteer work and providing needed supplies. The mission is simple: make a lasting impact on global poverty. USF's Nourish chapter is a fresh ...
Lost In Prison - A Ship Captain's Long Fight For Freedom
Lost In Prison - A Ship Captain's Long Fight For Freedom: Toward the end of 2011, The Council of American Master Mariners, an organization with a long history of supporting ship masters of all nationalities, enlisted the help of admiralty lawyer Dr. John A.C. Cartner of the firm Cartner & Fiske to help free ...
How lawmakers and lobbyists keep a lock on the private prison business
How lawmakers and lobbyists keep a lock on the private prison business
| Early in August, the Associated Press reported that America's three largest private prison companies, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), GEO Group, Inc and Management and Training Corp spent in the region of $45m over the past 10 years in ... |
Private Prisons: Immigration Convictions In Record Numbers Fueling Corporate ...
Private Prisons: Immigration Convictions In Record Numbers Fueling Corporate ...: Representatives for the private prison industry argue that they are providing an essential service to taxpayers as state and federal budgets are tightening. Steve Owen, a spokesman for Corrections Corporation of America, which operates the Mississippi ...
Ex-Puerto Rico senator pleads guilty to 93 corruption-related charges
Ex-Puerto Rico senator pleads guilty to 93 corruption-related charges
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A former high-profile Puerto Rico
senator has pleaded guilty to 93 charges, including extortion, money
laundering, bribery and perjury. The island's justice department said
Thursday that Jorge de Castro Font was sentenced to 10 ...
Chile: Students set for protest march on Sept. 27
Chile: Students set for protest march on Sept. 27: SANTIAGO, Chile – Students who have been strong advocates for a free and quality education have called for a march in the nation's capital on Sept. 27 to demand an increase in next year's education budget. “Those who want changes to the educational ...
Parental alienation: Mental disorder or relationship problem?
Parental alienation: Mental disorder or relationship problem?: In emotionally charged divorce cases, children are often caught in the middle. Sometimes, one parent will try to poison the child's relationship with the other parent to gain leverage in a custody fight. It's a phenomenon dubbed "parental alienation ...
Smart phone apps become 'surrogate therapists'
Smart phone apps become 'surrogate therapists': And even if you don't have a diagnosed mental illness, you may benefit from recognizing the triggers of bad moods or creating ways to enhance positive thinking. Don't mistake your phone for a therapist, but some mental health professionals are ...
Gay consumers are an $800 billion 'dream market' [Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.]
Gay consumers are an $800 billion 'dream market' [Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.]
The gay and lesbian community is attractive because of its buying
power, spending habits, brand loyalty and influence on mainstream
trends, he told the Public Relations Society of America's Richmond chapter Wednesday. Roth is the principal and founder ...
Fighting Global Poverty
Fighting Global Poverty: (Sept. 26, 2012) – University of South Florida's Nourish International chapter weaves travel and community service into a life-changing experience. The organization, whose members went to Peru this summer, helps underdeveloped communities through both ...
NJ gay couple suing over photo in campaign mailer
NJ gay couple suing over photo in campaign mailer: The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in Denver on behalf of Brian Edwards and Tom Privitere against Virginia-based Public Advocate of the United States. ... 23, 2012 town hall meeting on issues affecting South Florida.
Median household income drops even more in South Florida
Median household income drops even more in South Florida: The number of South Floridians living below the poverty level has also increased over the past five years, the Census Bureau found. In 2007, about 8.5 percent of families in Broward County and 6.7 percent of families in Palm Beach County were in poverty.
miércoles, 26 de septiembre de 2012
Robert G. Deposada: Latino Voters Demand Action, Not Just Rhetoric with Job
Robert G. Deposada: Latino Voters Demand Action, Not Just Rhetoric with Job
In fact, if it wasn't for the growth of employment opportunities at the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration and border patrols and clearly need Latino workers, the Obama administration would have actually lowered the percentage ...
State is tackling pills for foster kids
State is tackling pills for foster kids: Psychotropic medications are used to treat mental illnesses such as depression and bipolar disorder. Although foster children tend to have a higher prevalence of such ailments because of a greater likelihood of trauma and stress, usage still appears ...
How to treat post traumatic stress disorder?
How to treat post traumatic stress disorder?: With Australian troops returning from Afghanistan in two years time, the Federal Minister for Defence, Science and Personnel has admitted he doesn't know how many service people are suffering from mental illness as a result of war. Warren Snowdon's ...
Housing first helps mentally ill, addicted
Housing first helps mentally ill, addicted: More than half of homeless people in Canada are coping with mental illness or addictions, a researcher for a Canada-wide housing first research project says. Providing housing first to this vulnerable population improves lives and makes good use of ...
Drama on aging gay is Philippine hope for Oscars
Drama on aging gay is Philippine hope for Oscars:
| "Bwakaw," or "Voracious," has received positive reviews and local awards, and is doing the rounds of international film festivals in Toronto, New York, Hawaii and Tokyo. Writer and director Jun Robles Lana says the movie is named after a stray dog with ... |  San Francisco Chronicle |
President of Guatemala Breaks New Ground by Proposing Legal Regulation of ...
President of Guatemala Breaks New Ground by Proposing Legal Regulation of ...
In Latin America, where the war on drugs has caused high levels
of violence, death and corruption, many see this debate is an important
step toward improving the region's economy, security and quality of
life. ... Meanwhile, to battle Mexican drug ...
Honduras human rights lawyer murdered | Latin American ...
Honduras human rights lawyer murdered | Latin American ...: TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A land rights group says famed Honduran human rights lawyer Antonio Trejo Cabrera has been shot to death while attending a ...
Elderly lady loses arm to gator
Elderly lady loses arm to gator: ORLANDO, FL (WFLX) - Sheriff's deputies in Central Florida are searching for a gator that attacked an elderly woman and bit off her arm. Florida Fish and Wildlife officials say 84-year-old Carol Hough has been hospitalized in Orlando in stable condition.
Paul Ryan Says Gay Marriage Is Not An 'American' Or 'Universal Human Value'
Paul Ryan Says Gay Marriage Is Not An 'American' Or 'Universal Human Value': Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan reiterated his well-known opposition to same-sex marriage in Cincinnati today. As ThinkProgress noted of this CNN clip, Ryan responded to an audience member's question by declaring, "The things you talk ...
In Massachusetts, Brown and Warren in ugly sprint to finish
In Massachusetts, Brown and Warren in ugly sprint to finish: On Tuesday, videotape surfaced of Brown staffers making offensive gestures at a Warren rally that seemed to mock Native Americans. The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation called the "war whoops" and "tomahawk chops" "offensive and downright racist," ...
Torn apart, gay couple fights deportation
Torn apart, gay couple fights deportation:
| Mexico City has granted gay marriage. However, it is still the second most violent place in Latin America for gay people. There are stories of men who are brutally castrated and decapitated. So despite some efforts of the Mexican government it still ... |  pride source.com |
Cuban sugar looks to rebound after bitter decline
Cuban sugar looks to rebound after bitter decline: JARONU, Cuba (AP) — Cuba's signature industry is showing signs of life two years after the worst harvest in more than a century. Hulking processing plants are coming back online and production is rising, a boon to rural towns like Jaronu where ...
Venezuela's international gold reserves dwindle
Venezuela's international gold reserves dwindle: A report produced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) presenting major statistics of each country in August reveals that the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) has shrunk its gold international reserves. The report, cited by Reuters, asserts that ...
Chilean Peso Declines as Copper Drops on Global Stimulus Concern
Chilean Peso Declines as Copper Drops on Global Stimulus Concern: “Yesterday's rise wasn't really well-founded, and today copper is falling,” said Eugenio Cortes, the head of currency forwards at EuroAmerica Corredores de Bolsa SA in Santiago. “The news due in coming days is more likely to be bad than good, the ...
Cyber-bullying takes toll on teens' mental health
Cyber-bullying takes toll on teens' mental health: Four of every five teenagers seen by the country's biggest independent mental health service have been recent victims of cyber-bullying. Although their underlying issues mostly relate to issues like eating disorders, anxiety disorder, substance abuse ...
Is Mental Illness a Bigger Threat to Kids than Physical Illness?
Is Mental Illness a Bigger Threat to Kids than Physical Illness?: As parents, our children's health ranks among our top priorities. When fall arrives and flu season begins, we notice every cough and feel for signs of fever. But how attuned are we to mental health symptoms in our kids? When do we first notice that our ...
Peru central banker sees steady growth through 2014
Peru central banker sees steady growth through 2014: Thanks to this extended period of growth, poverty in Peru has been halved in the last decade, Velarde noted, a record of poverty reduction that only China can compete with. (Reporting by Gary Crosse, additional reporting by Terry Wade; editing by ...
Opportunities for Concord to connect with Colombia
Opportunities for Concord to connect with Colombia: ... in its vision of a food-secure future, Ligna brings wisdom from a community that under indigenous authority was rated in Colombia as having most successfully reduced poverty while conserving the incredible biodiversity found in her resource-rich ...
River Oaks banker sentenced to 63 months in prison
River Oaks banker sentenced to 63 months in prison: FORT WORTH -- A former Bank of America branch manager who plead guilty back in March to bank fraud for stealing more than $2 million from customer's accounts was sentenced to 63 months in prison Wednesday in federal court. Pamela Cobb must also ...
Haiti PM says cholera outbreak under control
Haiti PM says cholera outbreak under control: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed thousands and been blamed on U.N. peacekeepers was “regrettable” but has been brought under control, the prime minister of the poor Caribbean nation said at the United Nations on ...
US election laws discriminate against latinos
US election laws discriminate against latinos:
| In this report, the Advancement Project that characterizes itself as a multi-race organization for the defence of human rights, says that 23 US States have adopted the new standards that deprive all those who were born in Latin America of the ... |  The Voice of Russia |
Subway system won't survive without subsidies, Metrovías says
Subway system won't survive without subsidies, Metrovías says
Stuck in the middle of the the cross fire between the national and the Buenos Aires
City governments, Metrovías Subway and Tram company informed today that
the system will not survive without subsidy funds. The company's
Spokesman Mariano Gibaut ...
Mexican Drug War victims: US is responsible
Mexican Drug War victims: US is responsible: In Mexico, where the authorities and the drug cartels are hard to separate, finding answers is often left to the survivors of drug war violence. Some survivors have dug through mass graves, turning over mutilated bodies, half-hoping to see the face of ...
Poverty down in Big Bend, Census survey says
Poverty down in Big Bend, Census survey says: While 35 states saw a decline in their median income in 2010, 18 states declined last year, including Florida, which also saw a poverty increase. Sean Snaith, an economist at the University of Central Florida's Institute for Economic Competitiveness ...
Time to rethink Native American imagery
Time to rethink Native American imagery:
| As you may have heard, North Dakota residents recently voted to retire the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname, ending a bitter controversy between the school, the NCAA, and local fans over the use of Native American names and ... |  ESPN (blog) |
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America's Poorest States Struggle With Income Inequality
America's Poorest States Struggle With Income Inequality:
| The percentage of Americans living below the poverty line increased in 17 states. Of the states with the lowest income, ... The states that struggled with income inequality the most included Alabama, South Carolina, and New Mexico. Inequality was only ... |  Vibe |
The Military Has Shamed Us with Gitmo
The Military Has Shamed Us with Gitmo:
| That's, of course, ironic, because, as every American knows, every soldier takes an oath to support to support and defend the Constitution. But when they had the opportunity to establish a model prison and judicial system for the world to witness and ... |  MWC News |
Gay Ex-Pittsburgh Pirates Owner Seeks Dialog in Sports World
Gay Ex-Pittsburgh Pirates Owner Seeks Dialog in Sports World: Former Pittsburgh Pirates owner Kevin McClatchy says he "just wants to take a deep breath" now that he no longer has to hide from the business and sports worlds that he's gay. "I've been nervous ... That's not acceptable anywhere in America." The ...
Uruguay poised to legalize abortion
Uruguay poised to legalize abortion: Uruguay's congress appeared ready on Tuesday to legalize abortion, a groundbreaking move in Latin America, where no country save Cuba has made abortions accessible to all women during the first trimester of pregnancy. By PABLO FERNANDEZ ...
Paul Ryan: Preventing Gay Marriage Part Of America's 'Universal Human Values'
Paul Ryan: Preventing Gay Marriage Part Of America's 'Universal Human Values'
| Paul Ryan today said that preventing same-sex marriage is part of America's
“universal human values.” Ryan made these comments to supporters, amid a
a three-day bus tour, at a town hall in a steel factory in Cincinnati,
Ohio: “The things you talk about ... |
Mr. President, You Are Abetting Murder in Honduras
Mr. President, You Are Abetting Murder in Honduras: The murder rate in Honduras now leads the world. Depending on how you count it, it is the second or third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Over and over again, the stories we heard were very similar. The government doesn't respect its own ...
Francine Klein, 75, former senior housing head
Francine Klein, 75, former senior housing head:
| 12 at the Ridgefield Crossings senior living facility in Ridgefield, Conn. She was 75. As the head of JCHC, she supervised over 600 housing units for senior citizens living in Essex and Morris counties. Her tenure coincided with a period of wide ... |  New Jersey Jewish News |
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