This guide provides practical advice on how to deal with the effects financial difficulties can have on your physical and mental health — it covers:

• Possible health risks
• Warning signs
• Managing stress
• Getting help
• Suicide warning signs
• Other steps you can take

Two assistant public defenders representing three defendants argued before Judge Laura Johnson North of County Court in nearby Palm Beach Gardens that the ordinance and its enforcement violated principles of freedom of expression and the right to due process. They added that enforcement of the ordinance has focused exclusively on young black men.

Mayor Thomas Masters, a Baptist minister, said in an interview that Riviera Beach voters “just got tired of having to look at people’s behinds or their undergarments,” but the public defenders argued that sagging pants were a constitutionally protected expression of identity.

President Obama will announce today that he is lifting travel restrictions that block Cuban Americans from traveling to Cuba and will relax the rules governing what items can be sent to the island, a senior White House official said.

The decision does not lift the trade embargo on communist Cuba but eases the prohibitions that have restricted Cuban Americans from visiting their relatives and has limited what they can send back home.

The ongoing Somali piracy problem in
the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean raises a number of legal and military issues
about how to deal with the problem. Dr. J. Peter Pham, director of the Nelson
Institute for International and Public Affairs at James Madison University, spoke to VOA about the causes and consequences of Somali piracy.

You don’t need exotic technology or expensive gadgets to remove pollutants from the air you breathe indoors. According to NASA studies, a selection of hardy, easy-care houseplants can help.

Speaking to the gay magazine Attitude, the former Prime Minister, himself now
a Roman Catholic, said that he wanted to urge religious figures everywhere
to reinterpret their religious texts to see them as metaphorical, not
literal, and suggested that in time this would make all religious groups
accept gay people as equals.

Asked about the Pope’s stance, Mr Blair blamed generational differences and
said: “We need an attitude of mind where rethinking and the concept of
evolving attitudes becomes part of the discipline with which you approach
your religious faith.”

Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She’s a brilliant trickster, poking holes in our fixed ideas and bringing hidden truths to light. Settle in and let her ping your brain.

About Emily Levine

Humorist, writer and trickster Emily Levine riffs on science and the human condition.

Several people who install the MSRT update each month ask me, “Does this program really do anything?” The fact that you never see MSRT in action is actually a good thing; if you don’t see any malware alerts, your PC probably isn’t infected. In this case, silence is indeed golden.

The members of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, which helps run the university, asked the Rev. John Jenkins, the Holy Cross priest who is Notre Dame’s president, and the university’s board of fellows to reconsider the invitation to Obama because he supports abortion rights.

“Failure to do so will damage the integrity of the institution,” said the letter published Wednesday in Notre Dame Observer.

When you try to explain the US “system” of health care to those in Britain,
you really understand just how appalling our country covers our own citizens.
People simply can’t comprehend the idea that people are allowed to die or get
needed medical treatment simply because they are poor.

In the meantime, we poor consumers are hung up on high fuel prices, high prices for newer, more efficient cars (with a few exceptions), and all sorts of confusing promises that are worth nothing, compared to what they’re costing us by stonewalling the real — and ultimately the only — thing that will save our butts in the long run: solar energy. (See “New Biofuel Resource Overlooks Second Law Of Thermodynamics — but what’s new?“)

Anyway, here it is folks — for free, gratis, bupkis — your chance to save money and stick it to the oil and energy cartels at the same time.