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Manitoba's three universities will have to increase research grants, win more awards and spend more money on bursaries, student services and libraries if they want to move up in the annual Maclean's magazine ranking of post-secondary institutions.
The University of Manitoba, the province's biggest university, once again ranked 15th -- or dead last -- in the "medical doctoral" category. This is the ninth-straight year the U of M has been at the bottom of the rankings. McGill defended its top spot in the category from last year.
The University of Winnipeg placed 13th among primarily undergraduate universities, down from 10th a year ago, while Brandon University was ranked 16th, down one spot. Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., took the top ranking again in that category.
Mary Dwyer, Maclean's senior editor of university rankings, said while the Manitoba schools' overall scores didn't show any improvement from last year, it's important to look at the 14 different performance measurements the magazine considers. For example, the U of M placed third in spending on student services, second on spending on libraries and seventh in terms of student-faculty ratio.
The U of W, meanwhile, placed fourth out of 19 schools in reputation and on spending on student services and sixth on medical science grants.
Brandon University ranked third in spending on libraries, second on library holdings per student and fifth on student-faculty ratio.
"All of the universities in our rankings are solid. Just because a university hasn't performed well on an (particular) indicator, doesn't mean they performed badly," Dwyer said.
John Danakas, director of marketing and communications at the U of M, said he doesn't believe there's much value in attaching a number to various schools when the raw data isn't released at the same time.
"The difference between No. 1 and No. 2 or No. 1 and No. 15, is never disclosed by Maclean's, that's why we think it's unfair to rank them. You can't find a difference in the overall score," he said.
The important thing, he noted, is there are 15 universities in Canada that have medical schools, offer doctoral programs and are research-intensive and the U of M is one of them.
"We're fortunate in Canada to have universities of a very high standard. They'll all of a very high calibre, which is why Canada is able to attract so many international students," he said.
Deborah Poff, president of Brandon University, said her team held a quick debriefing after the rankings were released Thursday morning.
Every year, they work on improving various aspects of the university, but others they'll leave as they are, even if changing them might mean a higher ranking.
"We've known for a few years that we need to have some more graduate programs. That's strategically important for us in recruiting and we'd be more successful in research grants," she said.
Access to education is another priority, she said, so BU accepts some students with lower grade-point averages that other schools would reject.
"We wouldn't change that even if it changed our position at Maclean's. It's part of the mission and mandate here," she said.
The U of W overall ranking was hurt by its growing student body, which has reduced its per-student funding in its operating budget, said Jeremy Read, the school's senior executive officer.
But its constantly improving reputation had faculty and students alike walking a little taller Thursday, he said.
"We're generally seen as an institution that's innovative and is on the move. We're connecting with the private sector and employers," he said.
Danakas said he doesn't believe the Maclean's rankings are terribly meaningful to students when they decide where to pursue their education. What could have more impact is the regular recognition received by U of M faculties such as nursing, pharmacy, law, medicine, engineering and business.
"Our students and professors fare quite well when put up against their peers," he said.


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Post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS) is a condition that presents a fatigue state resulting from a viral infection. The term is not widely used, but the state of prolonged or severe fatigue after illness is not uncommon. Some people experience fatigue and related symptoms for months or years following a severe viral infection.[1]
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In the WHO's ICD-10, PVFS is a sub-category within 'other disorders of the brain', a neurological category G933. It is furthermore explicitly excluded from neurotic disorders. Listed under PVFS is benign myalgic encephalomyelitis,[2] several alternative diagnoses to ME such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and neuromyasthenia are included in the alphabetic index to the ICD-10.
Post-viral syndromes may also include: post-polio syndrome and possibly chronic mononucleosis or other severe chronic viral infections.
Some researchers claim that post-viral fatigue syndrome is a biological state of weakness or activation of, or damage to the immune system,[3] and that it is common to many post-viral syndromes. It is hoped that immune system research, especially that connected to HIV, may lead to better understanding of, and treatments for, other post-viral syndromes.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hickie I, Davenport T, Wakefield D, et al (2006). Post-infective and chronic fatigue syndromes precipitated by viral and non-viral pathogens: prospective cohort study. BMJ 333 (7568): 575.
- ↑ Ramsay, Melvin A. (1986). Postviral Fatigue Syndrome. The saga of Royal Free disease.
- ↑ Hyde, Byron M. (ed.); Levine P & Goldstein J. (co-eds.) (1992). The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Ottawa, Canada: Nightingale Research Foundation.
- ↑ Cope H, David A, Pelosi A, Mann A (September 24 1994), Predictors of chronic "postviral" fatigue, The Lancet, pp. 864-8, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7916407

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Prof Julie Claassens of the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University cordially invites you to the launch of the Stellenbosch Chapter of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians.
DATE: Monday 11 October 2010
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A panel discussion will take place on Prof Denise Ackermann's Festschrift: Ragbag Theologies: Essays in Honour of Denise Ackermann, A Feminist Theologian of Praxis . This discussion will pay tribute to Prof Ackermann's contribution to theology and will serve as a framework to establish an agenda for the Stellenbosch chapter.
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The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians is a community of African women theologians who come together to reflect on what it means to be women of faith within their experiences of religion, culture, politics and social-economic structures in Africa.
The Circle seeks to build the capacity of African women to actively work for social justice in their communities by sharing skills and insights with each other. A key discussion point is the complex relationship between gender, religion and culture and how to advance current knowledge by communicating with writing skills.
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London (CNSNews.com) - The Vatican has excommunicated seven women who claimed to have been ordained, renewing the Catholic Church's debate over female priests.
The seven women, including Germans, Austrians and one U.S. citizen, participated in a ceremony on June 29 and have since claimed to be priests.
The Vatican disagreed and warned them that they would be punished if they didn't repent. The women refused, and were excommunicated on Monday.\b
The women say church officials have refused to meet with them and they have vowed to appeal their excommunications, according to Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, one of the seven who acts as spokeswoman for the group.
"We are willing to meet with the Vatican," Mayr-Lumetzberger told CNSNews.com Wednesday via phone from Austria. "We had discussed excommunication and although we didn't expect it, we were ready for it."
Mayr-Lumetzberger said the seven would continue to campaign for female ordination whether or not they were allowed back into the church.
The ordination was announced by Vatican Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who said in a statement that the women didn't "give any indication of amendment or repentance for the most serious offense they had committed."
On Tuesday, Vatican Radio broadcast an interview with Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone of the Vatican office that oversees doctrine. Bertone said the ordination ceremony, held on a boat on the Danube River in Austria, was a "public act."
The ceremony, Bertone said, "attacks the fundamental structure of the Church as it was wanted by its founder."
Debate continues
The controversy surrounding the ordination ceremony and the excommunication of the women has added to debate within the Catholic Church. Officially, church officials and believers are forbidden to even discuss the idea of female ordination, but several liberal groups backed the seven women.
Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), compared the case to sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in recent months.
"Hundreds of priests have been credibly proven to have sexually abused thousands of children," he said. "None has been excommunicated."
Kissling said the Vatican's values were "profoundly disordered."
"CFFC suggests that the Vatican turn its attention to cleaning its own house," he said.
"Since the church through Ratzinger has accepted that women have a specific role in the church that is distinct and irreplaceable and since that role has frequently been that of housekeeper, perhaps the Vatican should look on the ordination of women as a way of cleaning the church's house which has been soiled by abusive priests, bishops and cardinals," Kissling said.
Erin Hanley, spokeswoman for the Virginia-based Women's Ordination Conference, said advocates of female ordination would now try to "keep the issue on the table" in the face of staunch Vatican opposition.
"People are going to continue to voice their concerns and talk about this," she said. "As a result of the ordination of these women, we're going to continue to see more changes throughout the world."
Hanley admitted that it was unlikely that church officials would modify their position anytime soon.
"The question then becomes, are people going to be empowered to make decisions of their own on their spiritual life, or is the top-down hierarchical structure going to continue?" she said.
Traditionalists, on the other hand, defended the church's decision and said it was based on Catholic doctrine.
"The church has spoken quite clearly about the ordination of women," said Michael Ackerman of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, a British group that works to promote orthodoxy in the church. "The matter is closed."
As for excommunication, Ackerman said that was "an automatic consequence of their actions.
"They had full knowledge and foresight," he said. "If they hold to their actions, they cannot be regarded as being in communion with the Catholic Church."
Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute in New York, applauded the Vatican's decision.
"These women flatly contradicted the teachings of the Church," he said. "The church has spoken out on female ordination ... the matter is a closed question."
Ruse said that while the women claim they are priests and many may support them in the claim, they would not be considered to be ordained even if the Vatican did nothing. He said that two elements are required for Catholic sacraments - "proper matter" and "proper form."
"In this case, the proper matter - a man - was not receiving the sacrament," he said.
"The women were warned and then action was taken ... this is a wonderful lesson for the faithful," he said.
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When Allan Donald began his tenure as the Proteas bowling coach 18 months ago he was a very worried man. Donald, who took 330 Test wickets during a stellar international career, had concerns related to the depth of South Africa's fast bowling stocks.
According to Donald, it was wonderful that South Africa had Dale Steyn and Morné Morkel terrorising batsmen the world over, but who would replace them should either suffer a long-term injury or disability?
Donald needn't have wasted sleep over this though as his predecessor Vinnie Barnes was already doing the hard yards behind the scenes at the High Performance Centre in Pretoria to ensure the conveyor belt of fast bowlers kept producing the goods.
Out popped Vernon Philander, although to be fair he was already the finished product two years before his Test debut, followed by the "Tzaneen Express" Marchant de Lange. He had a spectacular Test debut, claiming 7/81 against Sri Lanka in Durban in 2011 to confirm his pedigree, but has since been struck down by a long-term injury that has curtailed his progress.
De Lange's unavailability has opened the door for yet another paceman, Rory Kleinveldt, to have a crack on the big stage.
After an inauspicious start, Kleinveldt has settled into international cricket through solid performances in his last two Tests, especially in the second Test at St George's Park and also in the preceding T20 series.
"I think the Test went okay for me. I would though have loved to take more wickets," said Kleinveldt, who finished with a match-haul of 4/97.
"Basically for me, I need to bring my skills. I had to make a few adjustments in terms of my length compared to domestic cricket. You also analyse the opposition batsmen more, but I am satisfied with my performance."
Two of Kleinveldt's three Test caps earned thus far have been due to Philander sustaining a late injury. Kleinveldt knows that when Philander has recovered he will have to step down again, but the former Plumstead High pupil has no qualms with that. "Vernon is the No 2 ranked bowler in the world, you now."
Instead Kleinveldt just wants to focus on his own performance, knowing that there are other young tearaways such as the Highveld Lions duo Hardus Viljoen and Chris Morris letting rip on the local first-class scene.
An even younger generation is emerging in the form of Cape Cobras left-armer Beuran Hendricks and Warriors upstart Ayabulela Gqamane, who seems to have good fast bowling genes as he hails from the same Eastern Cape village, Mdinigi, as Proteas legend Makhaya Ntini.
Kleinveldt, though, has the inside lane at the moment and will have another opportunity to further entrench himself in the national setup when the one-day series against the Black Caps gets under way in Paarl on Saturday.
The beefy seamer will be hoping for a one-day international debut at the venue.
More importantly, it's on a surface he knows very well after toiling away for many overs in the Boland sun there for the Cobras.
"Yeah, I am expecting a good wicket. The one-day wickets have been really good of late," he said.'
"In the past it was usually low and slow, but there have been some really high scoring games there recently. There should be good pace and bounce."
The Kiwis have already played a match at the picturesque winelands ground on this tour when they battled against a youthful SA Invitational XI shortly before New Year.
There was precious little assistance to the faster bowlers and run-scoring was difficult over those three days. However, this should be a lot different on Saturday, considering the Proteas posted 301/8 in their allotted 50 overs there last year. - Pretoria News


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SARASOTA, FLA. – The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests is an international organization devoted to providing justice to women in the Catholic Church.
"Our mission is to provide a renewed priestly ministry in which women take their rightful place as partners and equals" said Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan.
On Saturday, the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests held an ordination service and ordained two female priests and two female deacons. Bishop Meehan told ABC 7 that historically women held roles of leadership within the Catholic Church.
"It was not until around the 12th century that we had an all male celibate clergy and women were set aside because the church moved from the home into the public forum."
Meehan says the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests started in 2002 and has grown into an international church.
"It is the grass roots communities rising up for justice in South America, in Europe, in the United States, in Canada, Africa. We hope that we continue to grow everywhere."
The Diocese of Venice told ABC 7 in a statement "the Diocese has no association with this group. The Catholic Church has no authority to confer the sacred ordination on women, and this has been stated time and again."
But that has not stopped the Roman Catholic Women Priests. They say they welcome everyone into their churches.
"We do not discriminate against gay people. We do not discriminate against divorced Catholics," said Maureen McGill, who was ordained as a new priest on Saturday.
She has not given up hope that the traditional Catholic Church will recognize her role as a women priest.
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Last time I looked, everything treats "text" as being 8 bits per character. (Or, more commonly, 7, and if the MSB isn't 0, weird things happen...) That's why (for example) HTML has lots of weird constructs such as "…" in it, instead of just typing in the actual character you want. (And let's be clear here: SGML and all those decendents are all using "<" and ">" - the mathematical greater and less operations - when what they *really* mean are angle brackets, a quite distinct glyph.) Last time I checked, nobody was keen on using 64 bits per character...
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You'll only be able to accept this client job when you've completed Dirty Secrets, the third chapter of this year's Thief. It's very important that you can pack as many Broadhead Arrows as you can for this gig - that way you'll find it much easier to pick up all of the bonus rewards in one sitting.
Steal the Automaton's Voice Box
Once again, you need to take a rather violent approach to this client job if you want to walk home with all of the bonus rewards, but those playing for the Moral Victory achievement need not worry. That challenge only applies to the content you play through in the main campaign. Anything goes in these side missions.
Right after starting the job, climb up until you're on the balcony, and listen to the conversation Perry's having with one of the guards. As soon as it's finished, Perry will make his way inside. Eventually, the guard will begin patrolling the area. When he does so, wait for him to stop and then drop him with one clean headshot from a Broadhead Arrow.
Don't move any further just yet, as there's a caged dog nearby that you need to silence with a Choke Arrow. If you're feeling a little meaner, destroy it using a Broadhead Arrow - you monster. If you look up, you should be able to see a crate that's hanging above the floor. Fire a Blunt Arrow at it to bring it crashing back down to earth - that'll contribute to your tally for the Environmental Exploit Thieving Challenge. It's important the dog's silenced first though, otherwise you'll fail Remain Undetected right at the first hurdle.
Get back down off the ledge, pick up any loot that's lying around, and then fall down into the basement. Switch your Focus on as soon as you land, and keep moving forward towards your objective, avoiding all of the traps down here.
"It's important the dog's silenced first, otherwise you'll fail Remain Undetected right at the first hurdle."
Head part of the way upstairs and you'll see a pair of guards having a conversation. As soon as one of them moves away, fire a Broadhead Arrow headshot at the guard leaning against the wall. Immediately turn out all the lights in the room by flicking the switch on the right-hand side of the wall, midway up the stairs. When the dead guard's friend returns, take him out with another Broadhead Arrow. Once he's done with, you'll complete the Headshot Three Threats Thieving Challenge, and bag a pretty easy 85 G for your minor efforts.
Getting inside Perry's residence
Go all the way up the stairs now and go into Perry's residence. He's fast asleep, so you won't have too much trouble taking him out. Either fire another Broadhead Arrow, or sneak up and take him down the good old-fashioned way. Make sure you hack the control box on the wall, then steal everything you can from this room - you'll find Whiteridge's Duty (3/6) - The Observant Lady inside a drawer. When you've finished pilfering everything you can, get back down to the basement.
Loot everything you can, here and in the rest of the house, making sure you take The Court of Montonessi (7/12) - The Grace Of Insecurity from the wall in particular. You'll also find the main job loot Client Loot (6/8) - The Voice Box in a wall safe. It goes without saying that you don't want to leave without this.
Escape the Pawnshop
As soon as you've picked up all of the loot, make your way back out of the building the way you came in, then head towards the starting area of the job to finish up Silence is Golden.
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Getting news in time, being updated is very important to run business properly. News monitoring is definitely a part of our everyday work. In some situations the price of a missing news article would be too high, thus we try to keep an eye on relevant subjects and not to miss anything important. Is it possible to track all news from thousands websites? Yes. Today we have some very simple and powerful tools that allow us to track news fast and effective.
Wikipedia said,
RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a "feed," "web feed," or "channel," contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually.
In other words, RSS gives you a possibility to collect websites you visit regularly to your customized "newspaper". You can read new entries from your favorite sites within one program or at one web application instead of visiting every single website separately. Alexandra Samuel wrote a perfect guide — 10 simple, painless steps to becoming an RSS user. I don't want to retell her article here, just would strongly recommend reading it.
This is how I use RSS for news tracking:
- First of all, I added about 30 feeds of the the most noteworthy news sites to my RSS reader (special program or web service for aggregating RSS feeds).
- I turned on "Check all feed once an hour" option in program settings, because some feeds may contain not all new entries, but last 10, so I asked RSS reader to check for updates every 60 minutes.
- I set my RSS reader to start automatically on system start up — it keeps running in the system tray displaying a number of new entries as they arrive.
- Three or two times a day I open the RSS reader and look through the news; some feed entries contain a title, short excerpt and a link to the full article on the web. If a news seems important, I opened it in my browser.
I spend about 30 minutes a day reading hundreds news from dozens of websites. Just imagine, every 60 minutes my RSS reader checks each of 30 websites for updates. I'd have no time for any other work if I did it manually, but it takes me only 30 minutes a day!
RSS feeds are just one of the tools I use for news tracking. Next time I'll write how to track news from websites that do not provide with RSS feeds.


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This pattern was designed for the June 2010 installment of Twisted's Single Skein Club. It is now available to the general public as of September 1, 2010.
The Breezy Market Tote is perfect for carrying your goodies home from the farmers' market…or your favorite yarn store. The bag is knit in the round from the bottom up. The open stitch structure makes it a quick knit, and very expandable.
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Hungarian Cabbage Bake Recipe
When we had a bumper crop of cabbage a few years back, I searched for new cabbage entrees. I was delighted to find this one...and happy when my family said they loved it.
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 broiler/fryer chicken (3 to 3-1/2 pounds), cut up
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 medium cabbage, cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 medium tart apples, sliced
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon caraway seeds
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Swiss cheese, optional
- 1. In a large skillet, heat butter over medium heat. Sprinkle chicken with paprika; brown on all sides. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, place cabbage in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- 2. Cover tightly. Bake at 375° for 20 minutes. Arrange apples and onion over cabbage. Sprinkle with caraway, lemon peel and sugar. Top with chicken pieces. Cover; bake for 30 minutes or until chicken juices run clear and cabbage is tender. Uncover; sprinkle with cheese if desired. Return to the oven for 5 minutes or until cheese melts. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
12 ounce-weight: 595 calories, 34g fat (13g saturated fat), 162mg cholesterol, 714mg sodium, 29g carbohydrate (18g sugars, 9g fiber), 46g protein.
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|Crime . Documentary
A stunned nation was gripped by the horrific road-rage murder of 21 year old, Stephen Cameron, as it made headline news in 1996. On the 19th May, an apparent road rage confrontation on a busy road just off the M25 motorway resulted in Stephen Cameron being stabbed to death by Kenneth Noye. This senseless killing of a young man in broad daylight was witnessed by many passersby, but only Stephen's fiance helped bring the killer to justice in one of the biggest investigations Kent Police have ever faced. This is the tragic story of the murder of Stephen Cameron told from the inside through the accounts of his mother and father, Toni and Ken Cameron, and the Detective Superintendent tasked with tracking down the murderer.
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Hello, what are you suggestions on pulling off a design like this? http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2139993/repunzel-let-down-your-hair. Has anyone made one of these towers and care to share any tips?
How in the world do you go about delivering it? Would you attach the top of the tower at the location?
thank you, any tips or advice are greatly appreciated!
I have done two, one larger than the other, but both with the same "innards". I fastened a PVC flange to a piece of plywood and ran a PVC pipe out of it. I cut holes in the bottom cake and slid it down over the pipe. I covered the pipe in piping gel, and then fondant for the tower wall. The house on top of the tower was done before assembly, and I used non-edible things like peanut cans and styrofoam that I covered with fondant and decorated. I attached that to the top of the pipe with double sided tape. My larger one traveled about 20 miles and never moved. The smaller one went to my neighbor's house, and they had no trouble with it wobbling. Here's what the larger one looked like:
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With their fourth pick (No. 113 overall) in the 2014 NFL Draft, the New York Giants select Boston College running back Andre Williams.
"I really had a feeling all along [that I'd land with the Giants]," Williams said. "I really did."
The 230-pound Williams led the Nation in rushing in 2013 and gives the Giants a big, powerful back that dominates between the tackles and is capable of moving the sticks. He was a Heisman finalist who would have had a much higher draft stock, but he doesn't offer much of a pass-catching weapon out of the backfield, hauling in only 10 receptions for 60 yards in his college career. He had no receptions in his senior season.
Here is a quick look at Williams from an earlier Anthony Raia scouting report:
Andre Williams, SR, Boston College
- Excellent size; average speed for the position at the next level.
- Frame and lower body strength allows him to excel running inside the tackles.
- Runs with low pad level; runs with a forward lean which allows him to pick up extra yards falling forward.
- Doesn't have the wiggle in the open field to make a man miss but makes up for it with his strength.
- Arm tackles won't bring him down; runs violently with purpose.
- Lacks flexibility to stop on a dime and change direction.
- Not a factor in passing game; poor in pass protection and has a lot to learn.
- Given his size and strength he has the potential to be solid in pass protection with the right coaching.
- Deceptive long speed, but not the athlete to be a homerun hitter often at the next level.
Although Williams is an essential non-factor in the passing game, he does add a unique element to the Giants' backfield. In addition to an every-down back in Rashad Jennings and a game-changing burner in David Wilson, Williams adds a third-prong to the ground attack given his power and ability to make gains in short-yardage situations.
Like the Giants' first three picks, Williams is also an intelligent, high-character guy that can contribute right away.
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The Jabra GO 660 is the first Bluetooth headset with Noise Blackout Extreme. Unique amongst wireless headsets, it provides background noise elimination without any compromise on natural voice quality. Dual microphones, coupled with advanced DSP technology, identify the source of sound and then enhance your own voice, and obliterate peripheral noise.
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USAIN Bolt has successfully defended his Olympic 100m title as he held off the challenge of Yohan Blake.
Bolt shot to fame with victory and a world record in Beijing four years ago before adding World Championships gold in 2009 with an even quicker time of 9.59 seconds.
He was then disqualified from last year's World Championships final following a false start but he put that behind him as he took gold in a new Olympic record of 9.63.
Blake – the world champion in Daegu a year ago – was second in 9.75, equalling his personal best.
Justin Gatlin finished third in a new personal best of 9.79, just edging out Tyson Gay for the bronze medal.


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I thought I'd found the answer but it doesn't really sound like what I have. I have a few milia, but the other thing that I was looking for is the treatment to what looks like 'cottage cheese' skin on my face. And, what can I do about it?
Treatment for Cottage Cheese Skin on my Face?
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"Cottage Cheese" skin of the face
Although there are several alternatives for what you describe - ranging from dermabrasion, to deeper chemical peels, to laser peels, to laser fractional ablation (such as Fraxel re:Pair), in my experience the Fraxel re:Pair has the best track record for the greatest improvement with the greatest amount of safety. For more severe acne scarring it can even be repeated. Although there is some "downtime" - 2-3 days of being red and "raw" but without discomfort and then 2-6 weeks of redness looking like a sunburn), most patients are quite pleased to do this in one stage. The Fraxel re:Store can also be done but requires multiple stages but with minimal down time. Be sure to seek out an experienced board certified physician who has experience in all phases of skin resurfacing (i.e. peels, dermabrasion and lasers) and don't be afraid to ask questions about their experience - the number of procedures they have done of each, the results, see photos and talk with other patients. Dermatologists are not the only physicians and a board certified plastic surgeon or facial plastic surgeon (ENT) could also address your concerns, as long as they have the laser experience.
Cottage cheese skin changes will benefit from Fractional CO2 Laser Resurfacing
Cottage cheese skin changes often result from a combination of acne scarring, smoking and sun damage. One should start with daily sun protection, smoking cessation, acne treatment by a board-certified dermatologist. Topical retinoid should be part of maintenance therapy. Afterwards, one should seek out an experienced board-certified dermatologist for consideration of Fractional CO2 Laser resurfacing.
Learn more: http://www.drwilliamting.com/What_s_New.html
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text: Magnasco's Semi-hard Provolone Cheese is also known as Provoleta. This is one of the most typical Argentine cheeses. Use as you would any hard Italian provolone, or try it the way the Argentines like it: cooked over an open fire and served in slices with a mix of spices and herb oil or chili pepper dressing.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Duval County's third rabies alert of the year has been issued for the Charter Point area. The alert is in effect through Jan. 12.
The rabies alert area is bordered on the south by University Boulevard at Jack Road, and on the north, west and east by the St. Johns River.
The alert follows the discovery of a rabid cat in the Charter Point area, according to the Duval County Health Department.
Health officials said there was human exposure involved in this alert. As a precaution, pet owners should confine their animals and be certain that each has received current rabies immunization shots from a licensed veterinarian.
Stray animals should be reported to the city of Jacksonville's Animal Care and Protective Services at 904-630-2489.
For further information or to report animal bites, contact Rabies Control at 904-253-1280.
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Spoiler Alert: "All New X-men #22"
3 Feb 2014 // 12:34 AM
The Original X-men have had their futures spoiled. Now they have to confront it and all its associated emotions directly.
Turning Point: "All New X-men #17"
15 Oct 2013 // 3:01 AM
In every epic battle, there is a turning point. And in one powerful moment, the battle lines in Battle of the Atom are set as the future and the past are linked.


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Northwest Interfaith Hospitality Network turns 20 as it expands into new sections of the city
When Rachel Falkove first got involved with the Northwest Interfaith Hospitality Network, she didn't think much about how long it would last.
Concerned citizens and congregations simply recognized that homeless families in the community needed help and got to work.
"We were pretty much taking it one, two years at a time," said Falkove, who began working with the nonprofit as a volunteer. "I don't think we could have anticipated the number of people who would still need our services today."
Twenty years later, Falkove is the executive director of an organization which has served about 300 families to date.
Evolving mission
Over the past two decades, the long-time Mt. Airy resident said the organization has evolved as it has shifted its focus away from simply being an emergency shelter provider.
The group now offers a sophisticated network of resources for participating families that come into play long after their temporary stays — between two and six weeks — at one of about 20 host congregations, many of which are located in Mt. Airy and Germantown.
"We moved from just focusing on getting families into housing to keeping people from recycling back into the emergency shelter system," said Falkove. "The idea is that we're trying to end homelessness for the next generation."
The decision to expand the organization's scope came 10 years ago, about a year before Falkove took over the reins. She was a board member at the time.
With the organization facing an uncertain future, Falkove said the board grappled with whether it was best to grow the program to accommodate more families or offer more services to a smaller group.
Fearing that the former might compromise the individual attention given to each family, always the organization's hallmark, the board decided to adopt more of a full-service model.
Keeping in touch
NIHN staff would now stay in contact with families who wanted to do so as they transitioned to permanent housing and, especially, afterwards. Falkove noted that helping an individual family remain off the streets is a process that happens in stages. The timing is dictated by a given family's needs and situation.
"We realized that they needed after-care case management," said Falkove. "They needed help getting material goods for their house, they needed furniture. Many of them were able to face financial literacy training and financial planning for their family differently once they got out of the shelter setting and into their own homes."
Families can also receive help with career and education planning, including for college.
A decade later, the board's decision appears to have been the right one. Approximately 92 percent of the families that NIHN works with never return to a shelter situation.
Still, not surprisingly, homelessness remains a persistent problem in the city.
Falkove said NIHN, which operates with a four-person staff buttressed by a host of community volunteers, receives dozens of requests from families each week.
"While we used to get maybe five to 10 calls a week from families, now we're getting 35 or 40," said Falcove. "Our program only can accommodate four families at a time."
Moving into new neighborhoods
Many of those calls are coming from Northeast Philadelphia, where the organization recently expanded its services.
For years, Northeast Philadelphia families have called NIHN for help, not wanting to go through the city's public-shelter system and end up at a location far away from their support network.
Northeast Philadelphia currently does not have a public family shelter program. The city has tried to set up locations in the past, but pushback from the community was always strong.
Falkove said NIHN believed it could fill the need and potentially calm some of the clamor over the issue in the process.
"We are so up close and personal that we [thought we] would be a good program for Northeast Philadelphia because it would give people more understanding and we're not large so it doesn't really threaten a community," she said.
Shrinking support for nonprofits
The move comes as support for small nonprofits from large foundations is dwindling.
NIHN has actually had to cut staff as it has doubled the number of families it serves each year; that total is now between 22 and 25 families.
They are also following — some more than others — close to 90 alumnae families who have chosen to stay connected in some way.
The financial woes mean that the organization will just need to rely even more on volunteers to keep things moving. But, that's what it has always done.
"The real magic behind our progress," said Falkove, "is the generosity of our community, the generosity of the congregations and the amazing volunteers."
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Massive Earthquake Hits Alaska [Video]
What does it look like to be in the middle of an earthquake of such magnitude? That's a whole lotta shakin going on!
What does it look like to be in the middle of an earthquake of such magnitude? That's a whole lotta shakin going on!
Alan Jackson recently ran an online contest offering to play a free concert in the city with the most votes. Even though Mineral, VA is a tiny community (population 490) and suffered heavy losses from the magnitude 5.8 earthquake that hit the East Coast in August, it managed to garner 31,000 votes and win the prize.
What a crazy morning in Japan and Hawaii and now in other parts including the west coast of the U.S. Here's a live stream of CBS' coverage from Hawaii of the earthquakes and tsunamis.
We all love that song by Jamie Begeron and his Kickin Cajuns but the shaking that is going on just north of our fair state is not the butt kind of shaking. It is the ground doing the shaking and that isn't good. Arkansas has been quivering from beneath their feet because of a series of earthquakes. Now believe it or not Arkansas is in prime earthquake country and that could be cause for concern for us in Louisiana.


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There is this guy I do not even know, he does not know me, and we never talked. There was this guy who was a cashier at the store where my mom and I was shopping at. I did not know if I would have enough, so I payed for my things and she payed for hers. The guy told my mom,"I would make her pay for that." I ignored him, it did not seem like he was joking, he could have been trying to pick on me. Every time we come into the store or I come into the store, he does not speak and tries to avoid contact. One time he asked my mom when I was not with her, "did she have enough".
It just so happened I found out he goes to the same college I do but we do not know each other. Why would a guy act mean and rude towards a girl and do not know her? It get's annoying. Could he be trying to get me to say something back or what? is there a like? Why would he say things to my mom like that?
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That's his problem. You didn't do anything to him so he doesn't have a right to act like that to you. Next time he does something even slightly rude at his job I would say something to his manager. Or when he makes a comment either to you or your mom ask him what his problem is and tell him all he needs to do is ring you up. Maybe he has seen you from afar and has already prejudged you in his mind. Maybe he thinks you think you're better (usually guys with inferiority complexes are like this).22|00|1
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Artemide Group is a world leader in the high-end residential and professional lighting sector.
Founded in 1960 by Ernesto Gismondi, President and CEO, the Artemide Group is based in Pregnana Milanese and operates through 24 controlled and related companies and a distribution network that includes almost 60 single-brand showrooms in major cities …
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Manitobans are getting primed for the NDP government's announcement that it will not meet its deficit projections this year. Premier Greg Selinger noted Thursday, at a "state of the province" address to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, that the deficit will rise this year. Fighting the province's largest flood on record has cost $841 million -- the province's share is $343 million -- and the bills are not all in yet.
Mr. Selinger is playing a classic political game, the girding of the people for harsh news, so a government can then claim "fiscal prudence" when the numbers come in better than a worst-case scenario. In the spring, Rosann Wowchuk, then finance minister, said hard work trimmed about $80 million off the 2010/11 deficit, initially set at $545 million. Then, in September, the public accounts for that year showed the summary deficit at $298 million. Fiscal prudence, was the refrain.
At the time, Mr. Selinger said the government would meet, or beat, its promise to eliminate the deficit by 2014. This, even as the largest flood on record was swamping the province with extraordinary expenses.
With his party securely back in government, Mr. Selinger was singing a different refrain Thursday. The government, he said, will meet the 2014 deadline, but no one should be surprised that the deficit will rise this year.
Asked how the government can blow its projection this year and still balance the budget by 2014 -- in effect, leaving it two years to dig out -- he replied, "prudent" management.
Prudent management over the course of a decade of steadily rising revenues, dramatically rising transfer payments, would have produced surpluses even as a global recession took hold. It would have socked away money in the fiscal stabilization fund, to backfill a drop in tax revenues. Instead, the NDP spent the money on unrestrained program expansion. And even in deficit-financing days, the government's publicity mill on Broadway churns out regular announcements of the latest cheque getting cut to yet another worthy public works or community effort.
Mr. Selinger has time to bring Manitoba's 2010/11 budget under the deficit projected. It is time to cut back spending -- government-wide. The premier refused Thursday to say whether or where the "budget challenges" would translate into spending cuts. That would be a much more difficult song to sing in a province conditioned to constantly expect more.


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A French committee will investigate a TV report on the controversial shooting of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy.
The French public broadcasting authority will convene a panel to examine the accuracy of a French television report on the death of Mohammed al-Dura on the first day of the second intifada in September 2000, the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported. The investigation comes after repeated claims that the footage was falsified.
French media watchdog Philippe Karsenty was sued for libel by France 2 TV for making such a claim, but a Paris appeals court overturned a judgment against him this spring.
The original report claimed that al-Dura had been shot by Israeli soldiers, but a subsequent investigation by Israel and additional footage that appears to show al-Dura lifting his head and opening his eyes after being pronounced dead have raised huge doubts about its validity.


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The Green Left AGM is being held tomorrow at the Lucas Arms in Gray's Inn Road, London. It will be four years since Green Left was formed and I was one of the founder members. I am currently the male Co-Convenor and have held that post for the last two years but will not be standing for re-election at the AGM. Instead I will be standing for the position of Secretary and taking the poisoned chalice of ensuring that the minutes of all meetings are completed in good time and are accurate, and also correspondence with other bodies.
Green Left has gone from strength to strength over the last few years and has had influence way beyond its size in the Green Party. Its essential aims remain a commitment to ensuring that the Green Party remains a radical and Left party and also that links are developed with the wider Left in England and Wales. The fate of some of the sister Green parties in Europe is one that we are very aware of and want to ensure that nothing similar happens here.
As an Irish person I have been in regular contact with Greens in Ireland and have watched with dismay what has been happening to the Irish Green Party since they entered the coalition in 2007. Many of the best and most radical Greens have left the party and I recently met with some of them in Dublin, including the former MEP, Patricia Mc Kenna, and others who are now independent councillors. One of them is Pat Kavanagh, a councillor in County Wicklow and Pat will be addressing the AGM tomorrow about what has been happening in Ireland over the last few years. Pat resigned from the Green Party a few months ago and has now established an organisation called 'The Emerald Forum' which consists of many ex-Greens but also some current members of the party. They are holding a conference in Dublin next week and Derek Wall, also a member of Green Left and who is about to publish several books on Green politics and economics, will be going to address the conference.
We will also be discussing motions and fringe meetings at the Green Party autumn conference, as well as the organisation of a series of speaking engagements for Hugo Blanco, the well known activist and fighter for the rights of indigenous people from Peru, who will be touring the UK in September speaking about the situation in Peru and Latin America. There is also the possibility of Green Left participation in the next convoy which sails to Gaza to bring relief supplies to the Palestinians. We will also be discussing our involvement in the general Left campaign against the cuts agenda of the Coalition government.
Finally, we will be looking at organising a Green Left Summer Camp, which is likely to be held in Cambridge this year. I am looking forward to a good day of political discussion and to meeting Green Left comrades from around the country.


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Gun homicides steady after decline in '90s; suicide rate edges up
Several mass shootings in recent months have brought renewed attention to the issue of gun violence in America, and President Obama has again called for Congress to change the nation's gun laws.
But the increased spotlight on guns does not reflect the overall gun violence trend in the country. Although most Americans think the number of gun crimes has risen, the U.S. gun homicide rate has actually stabilized somewhat in recent years, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of death certificate data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Between 1993 and 2000, the gun homicide rate dropped by nearly half, from 7.0 homicides to 3.8 homicides per 100,000 people. Since then, the gun homicide rate has remained relatively flat. From 2009 to 2014, the most recent year data are available, the number of gun homicides has hovered around 11,000 and 12,000 per year.
By contrast, a significantly higher – and growing – number of gun deaths were by suicide than by homicide, and this has been true throughout the past two decades. For example, while the gun suicide rate has declined overall since 1993, in recent years it has risen, from 6.3 per 100,000 people in 2010 to 6.7 in 2014.
The nation's overall gun death rate has declined 31% since 1993. This total includes homicides and suicides, in addition to a smaller number of fatal police shootings, accidental shooting deaths and those of undetermined intent. For example, in 2014 there were 464 fatal police shootings, up from 333 in 2009. (Government data on fatal police shootings are also collected and reported by the FBI, though the agency acknowledges there are discrepancies between federal and local law enforcement counts.)
The rate of nonfatal gun victimizations declined in a similar way to the gun death rate, with a large drop in the 1990s – 63% between 1993 and 2000. The decline since then has been more uneven. In 2014, there were 174.8 nonfatal violent gun victimizations per 100,000 people ages 12 and older.
Despite these trends, most U.S. adults think gun crimes have increased. In our 2013 survey, more than half (56%) of Americans said the number of gun crimes had gone up compared with 20 years ago. Another 26% said the number of gun crimes had remained the same, and just 12% said gun crimes had declined.
The public has been divided on the issue of gun ownership in recent years. In our July survey, 50% said it is more important to control gun ownership and 47% said it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns. Support for controlling gun ownership has declined; throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, a majority of Americans said it was more important to control gun ownership.
The July survey also found that Americans strongly support a variety of specific gun control measures, including expanded background checks (85%), laws to prevent people with mental illness from purchasing guns (79%) and creation of a federal database to track all gun sales (70%). A smaller majority (57%) support a ban on assault-style weapons.
Note: This post was updated on Jan. 5, 2016, to reflect the latest 2014 data.
Topics: Gun Policy
Jens Manuel Krogstad is a writer/editor focusing on Hispanics, immigration and demographics at Pew Research Center.
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I think that the reality in this issue, like in most issues, lays in the middle. NRA minded people and the liberal left continue to "push on the pendulum" in order to inflict their influence on the entire process instead of looking at the problem logically and finding a solution that best serves all of the real and practical needs.
Recent attacks have been in the areas of the highest regulation of guns. Obviously the laws of France or CA didn't prevent the problem. It is a valid point that the regulation makes their citizens more venerable to attack. Ben Carson's much maligned statement that the Nazis would have had a harder time exterminating the Jews if they had not been disarmed is exactly the kind of lesson that history has the ability to teach us. Unfortunately, the Politically Correct Police attack this observation of facts as some sort of abuse to the poor Jews that suffered in that atrocity. The Jewish people have placed a focus on not letting their plight be forgotten lest it happen again. We should really think about this one.
I believe in the Constitution!!! We all need to read the Constitution and refer directly to it as the law by which we live and solve our problems. It was written with such genius that it provided for its adjustment thru changing times in a balanced way. Read the second amendment. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Thats it!!! One sentence. Nothing more, nothing less. Few people have actually read it, much less tried to understand its meaning.
What we allow in public possession of armaments is currently regulated and few people believe that individuals should own tanks, high explosives, nuclear or biological weapons or any other high-grade military weapons. Few reasonable people believe that we should limit possession of all items in society as strict as we do in airport security. Clearly there is a constitutional right to "bear Arms." What is ileft is for the law to decide. I question the need for automatic rifles for anything besides shooting people. It is , in my opinion, reasonable to protect your castle from invasion by criminals or terroristic enemies. Is an AR the right and necessary tool for the job? If we ban AR's or any other weapon, will we be safer as individuals and as a society? I understand the position that registration of all guns could facilitate the removal of guns by a future tyrannical government. More regulation is not necessarily better. Less regulation is not necessarily better. We; shouldn't continue to choose extreme positions in order to protect the middle. We should focus on what's we really want reality to look like. The only way to get it right is to think logically!
Tom, the fact that you question AR (Armalite)-15 rifles by implying they are "automatic" indicates a serious misunderstanding your part. They are not automatic, they are semi auto like the vast majority of almost all handguns sold today.
And when you say they are for shooting people, I have to ask this. 80% of Americans who own guns list self defense, and mostly home defense as the primary reason. the core right is of self defense. hunting is not a right, nor is skeet, any a majority vote can end either of those anywhere.
So they are for shooting people in the sense that their purpose, is for deterring violent crime .
Let's be logical and not emotional. The FBI just issued its UCR (full crime report and analysis for 2014 in Oct 2015). 8,124 gun murders in the US. This is about a 60% drop. In anything else the press would call that a plunge. about 200 murders with rifles of ALL kinds including assault rifles.
And I am a member of the NRA and the ACLU. The more and more gun control lobby is a top down effort spending massive amounts. Do I agree with Ted Nugent? No. But I do say not one more gun law. There is a reason NRA favorable by Gallup just went to favorable vie of the NRA by 58% of Americans.
Oscar Pistorius, (whom I believe was guilty) was just convicted in S., Africa on double jeopardy. Canada, Australia and 90% of Europe has some form of double jeopardy. Australia has stop and frisk nationally. We talk about Snowdon and the 2011 expansion of Patriot, in Europe they spend an order of magnitude survailing their own citizens. They have may subtle lower privacy and defendant rights. I am sick of being compared to countries with less liberty and sick of a media that does not know guns or firearm law.
"This is about a 60% drop."
From when? The early 90's? I don't mean to let the perfect be the enemy of the good, but since when is a 60% drop to over 8,000 gun deaths anything to be proud of? I mean, you DID feel the need to bring it up.
"But I do say not one more gun law. There is a reason NRA favorable by Gallup just went to favorable vie of the NRA by 58% of Americans."
Your premise is not supported by your conclusion. A majority favorable rating for the NRA (however bizarre that seems to me, since the NRA has become in many respects the chief lobbyist for the domestic weapons industry) and stricter gun laws are mutually exclusive. This recent Gallup result shows a majority of those polled favor stricter gun laws:
"Americans' Desire for Stricter Gun Laws Up Sharply"
Jim – 8000 out of a population of 325 million is very small and half of those murders are 15-25 year old black juveniles killing each other over primarily the drug war. Its an all time low in the US and is just a small fraction (2-5% depending on various estimates) of the murder rate before guns were invented. The only reason people ask for gun laws is the media blows up every one of the mass murders for ratings and political will. You see above only 11% of the population thought gun violence was down despite a 60% drop.
In fact, you are
-11x more likely to die from alcohol (should we bring back prohibition?)
-75x more likely to die from heart disease (should we ban fast food and 95% of restaurants?)
-15x more likely to die from cigarettes (should we ban cigs?)
-4.5x more likely to die from a traffic accident (should we ban cars?
-4x more likely to die from falls
-6x more likely to die from drugs
Thank you! Finally some reason is spoken. Unfortunately, I feel most people are just as myopic as Jim Spriggs. Jim even went through the hassle of posting a link to a Gallup poll that does nothing to prove gun violence is an actual problem in America. The poll he posted is completely based on emotions. In this PC culture we are creating anybody and everybody is a victim, yet all Americans are far wealthier and better off than they have ever been. Would anybody like to rewind the clock and live the life of the average American in the 1940s, 50s, or even 60s? I guarantee there would be a lot more problems than living in today's world.
It would be interesting to see more data, like the motivations of gun violence or rate among race/gender/age/class.
I think the CDC website has that.
What this research doesn't show is, if race is taken into consideration, the 3.8 homicides per 100,000 would be about half that for white people.
For example E. St. Louis, IL is 94% Black had in 2012 a murder rate of 62.9 per 100,000, the highest in the nation. Similar rates are true of other cities with large minority population. E St Louis has an estimated median household income in 2013: $18,236
The reverse is also true. Irvine which has a Black population of 1.5 percent has a murder rate of .5 per 100,000. Irvine has an estimated median household income in 2013: $87,830
In case anyone thinks that poverty and not race is a factor, I would like to point Owsley County, Kentucky. It has a 98% white population, an estimated median household income in 2013: $20,154 and a murder rate of near 0 per hundred thousand.
I would like to add that Blacks make up just 12% of the population.
Ethnic groups: white 79.96%, black 12.85%, Asian 4.43%
You just seem like you are trying to use numbers to make a claim that Blacks are naturally more violent. Which is ridiculous.
It's not ridiculous if it's true.
Andrij, according to the FBI, black males from the ages of 15-25 are 50x (FIFTY) more likely to commit murder than the population at large (mostly against other black males of the same age)
People also believe that Hillary Clinton is experienced enough to be President, or that Donald Trump is not insane. Who cares what people think, when they are dead wrong?
I mean, TBH – if Clinton isn't "experienced" enough to be president… not sure who is. Not making a judgement of her quality here. Merely her resume.
Why does it matter what people "think" about a situation, when there is reasonable evidence that they are thinking wrongly? If news reporters tell ONLY the truth in their articles, and people can trust the reports to be truthful, there should be no conflicting opinions. The unanswerable question, I guess, is how do reporters get away with reporting lies and half-truths? Failure of the schools to teach "Logic?" If only Humans were actually Vulcans.
Remove Chicgo and the other Democratically controlled gun control paradises and ghettos and the US homicide rate declined massively.
Gary Indiana is 30 miles from Chicago. Indiana has very weak gun laws. Gary has one of the highest crime rates in the country. Indiana has a significantly higher gun fatality rate than Illinois. The criminals are either going into Indiana to buy their guns or coming into Chicago from Indiana. This is why we need a federal law.
And the US has porous borders with little control of what crosses them. A Federal law will have the same problem as a State law until our borders are secure.
It's illegal to own firearms in Mexico or purchase them. You can own if you run a gun range or something like that. Most of the cartels in Mexico also have American weapons that we gave the government. So assuming people will go to Mexico or there will be a Mexico to America gun smuggling claim is misguided.
Yes, by all rights Mexico needs to secure its northern border. The United States' domestic weapons manufacturers have their product exported south where their guns are used to kill people by the thousands. People constantly harping on "America strengthening its border" is the height of selfishness.
And yet, among 34 OECD countries, the US homicide is the fourth highest. Homicide rates in France, the UK and Germany are 1.20 (14th highest), 0.96 (18th) and 0.70 (29th), respectively, according to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime. The slight but still obvious slant in this article is unbecoming of Pew. What gives?
There have been many studies that show that homicide rates decrease as gun ownership increases. Though some of these studies have been questioned, no one has been able to make the case that more guns per capita results in higher homicide rates. Stats just don't support your not-so-slight but very obvious slant.
Yes, the slant of the reply is indeed not-so-slight – I admit, it's rather overt. Also, it's agreed that with regards to almost any position on a any given issue, stats can be developed and presented in such a way that the presentation supports any position, including contradictory positions.
However, the complaint the reply is meant to convey is that, rightly or wrongly, my expectation of Pew has been that it is balanced in it's "reporting" and in general Pew is balanced. This article seems to slightly suggest "Washington! We have no problem!" It would not surprise me to find some gun rights advocate citing this article in support of its cause.
In any case, the more important issue is gun control. It's probably fair to write that persons on both sides of the gun control issue agree that responsible gun owners are not the problem. Rather, it's irresponsible gun owners (criminal, mentally ill and vigilante types) that are the problem.
A reasonable person might then expect that persons on both sides of the issue agree that controlling gun ownership by irresponsible persons would be a responsible approach to the extraordinary problem of homicide in this country, including, of course, mass killings, accidental deaths, and suicides (and let's also go ahead and add vigilanteism).
Unfortunately, that's not the case. It's simply incomprehensible that anyone would not support controls as nonrestrictive to them as: background checks; laws that make it criminal to leave guns accessible to young children except under adult supervision; in general, midway points between the various positions.
As I understand (give me a few minutes and I'm certain I can find stats to support my understanding), indeed, such midway points do exist. But, the NRA and other similar organizations call in their chits from legislators and the legislators then become the main obstacle to enacting reasonable gun control laws and regulations. So while we're at it, why not further address the issue of influence on legislation by special interests over the interests of the people?
In the absence of any movement to address the issue of homicide in the US, the people do become numb to reports of even the most horrendous cases of homicide that occur all too often. While doing not a thing to prevent them, our nation remain the seemingly proud holder of third highest in homicide rates amongst OECD nations. And so on.
Can't we all just be reasonable and do something that might save lives?
And this is where the agenda of gun control tries to "deny the science".
It always bothers me when those who really are not aware of what the NRA does, try to paint them as evil sinister lobbyists. Demonizing them by innuendo "calling in their chits" is terribly inappropriate. It may surprise many that the NRA is the worlds largest firearm safety training organization in the world with highly competent trainers, and exacting standards to be certified. They support hunters, shooting sports enthusiasts and recreational marksmen alike. The also provide a substantial amount of training for Law Enforcement, and train their trainers.
It may also be instructive to know that the NRA does and did support the effort to require background checks on firearm purchases to stop felons, domestic abusers and the like from being able to purchase firearms. The NRA has always supported reasonable measures(gun locks, safe storage) as they and we all know that law abiding, responsible citizens are not the problem. The issue is that many for the manta of "gun control" are willing to circumvent the rights of the law abiding in wide sweeping measures that may sound good, but actually don't work as intended.
I am a firearm owner of both handguns and long guns. I don't hunt, but I do love to target shoot. I am constantly training in both safety and marksmanship and an looking into taking the expensive and time consuming courses to train others by becoming a certified instructor. Reasonable, responsible people who are safety minded can co-exist with firearms quite well. We rely on these same types of people to protect us, be they in our Armed Forces, or Law Enforcement. It may be your or my ill fortune to protect ourselves someday from a threat to ourselves or to those we love, or even our neighbor. If that moment comes we will wish we properly prepared in advance.
Good job, you are correct.
Not this study
That report is from an anti gun advocacy group. The Pew research center is nonpartisan, try posting a link that is not sided with your agenda already.
Gun Deaths doesn't = gun murder when it includes suicides and gun self-defense homicides.
The vast majority of gun deaths are suicides and paints a very different picture. For example, that "report" (the actual study link was broken…strange) cited Alaska having the highest gun death but 80% of the gun deaths were due to suicide(with the Native Alaskans having the highest suicide rate). "More than 90% of people who die by suicide have depression or another diagnosable, treatable mental or substance abuse disorder, according to American Association of Suicidology." dhss.alaska.gov/SuicidePreventio…
87% of people support background checks and controls on the mentally ill having access to guns. You want to put a real bi-partisan dent in gun deaths, that's probably the best place to start.
Being a vet I know many people with mental health issues who own guns and claim they would never kill or harm themselves. There's plenty of people who've never been diagnosed that accidentally shoot themselves and others also.
I agree with you 100% but I'm fairly sure the majority of people think they have no problem and need protection from an invisible enemy, which is normally themselves.
It's simple, really. Just map that second Pew Research graph against gun and ammunition purchases over the same time period. See how that comes out.
I think it's saying it's declined compared to what it was in the US, it's not a comparison of countries.
Going by some sources the US rate was always high compare to other modern nations. In 1957 our rate was 4 per 100,000, which is low for us or maybe the lowest recorded. (Although it's possible killings of African-Americans were under-reported then) The UN would place 4.0 as higher than the average for "Very high human development" nations today. You have to get to 33rd Estonia for a nation higher than that and they are maybe higher than that today.
However the Guardian indicates that in the Western Hemisphere there are many nations with less gun ownership and, curiously, more gun homicide. The most extreme examples might be Ecuador and Honduras where gun homicide rates look amazingly high considering gun ownership rates are noticeably less than Denmark or Italy and greatly less than say France. (Honduras was equal to England and Wales)
Not that that means gun ownership is good. We are still higher than Canada and have less guns per-capita in that. And there's the suicide issue. And some of the safest nations do indeed have very low rates of guns per-capita. (I think I read some of these nations, like Switzerland or Canada, are about the same in owners-per-capita but maybe their gun owners have less guns than ours.)
According to the CDC databas, the non-firearm homicide rate in the USA in 2013 is 1.0 per 100K population. So the USA has a higher homicide rate than UK or Germany even without the guns. So now what do we do with the comparison?


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Life of Moja.
This male lion cub is part of the Rhino Ridge pride, west of Mara Intrepids Camp, with Mohican & Romeo2 as the two male dominant lions of the pride.
When Moja was three months old, he was cornered by a herd of six hundred buffaloes.
Moja sought refuge in a cave while Nyota, his mother played decoy and lead the herd away from Moja. When they reached Rhino Ridge, the buffalo lost interest and started grazing in a different direction. Nyota came back for Moja and led her cub up to the ridge to join Mohican and Romeo2.
Now Moja is making his own kills. Since it is the migration season, there is plenty of prey and he might not be solitary for long. He will probably team up with other nomadic males and form a coalition – which gives him a better chance of survival.
Les and Linda Nicol from the Isle of Man in the U.K and regular guests at Mara Explorer Camp are presenting a great coverage of the migration and the life of Moja.
|Moja at topi plains looking miserable after being separated from the mother
Mohican the father of Moja listening to terrifying sounds made by rival lions in the distance.
|Nyota mating at Topi plain
Other Ridge pride lion, Blacky mating with the
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Other Ridge pride lion Lip-stick takes a nap


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