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Tim Allen can be reunited along with his former TV spouse Patricia Richardson on his current sitcom Last Man Standing," ABC confirmed to TheWrap. The collection centers on the Taylor household, which consists of Tim ( Tim Allen ), his wife Jill ( Patricia Richardson ) and their three children: the oldest child, Brad ( Zachery Ty Bryan ), the middle child Randy ( Jonathan Taylor Thomas ) and youngest baby, Mark ( Taran Noah Smith ). The Taylors reside in suburban Detroit , and have a neighbor named Wilson Wilson ( Earl Hindman ) who is often the go-to man for solving the Taylors' issues.
Tool girl: Ashley Judd was cast as Lisa the Tool Girl but she pulled out simply before the show's pilot episode was filmed so that she might pursue a movie profession. Family feud: Tim Allen and Jonathon Taylor Thomas (who played Randy) had a falling out after the heart-throb walked out on Home Improvement during the eighth season. Tim typically puts on a macho front, grunting and using large instruments; but deep down, he is also sensitive to his spouse and kids and cares about his household. In an interview on , 26 Tim Allen said that it was a finished deal that the DVDs wouldn't include interviews or episode commentaries. When Al went via a tough patch together with his girlfriend and later fiancée Ilene, Tim was there for him. This was based mostly on how Tim Allen saw a subsequent-door neighbor when he was growing up.
His mom is alive for the complete sequence, nevertheless his father died when Tim was eleven years previous. On several occasions within the later seasons it's talked about that Tim has four brothers, but in earlier seasons he is said to have five, however, seven have been mentioned by title (Marty, Jeff, Rick, John, Steve, Brian, and Danny). Brad has appeared in 'Smallville' (like Jonahtan Taylor Thomas, see under), 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' and 'Veronica Mars' (also like JTT). And this time, Tim really has somebody who is aware of what's going on to assist him finally create a More Power ™ device which really works. Mrs Doubtfire: According to IMDB, Home Improvement was ranking so effectively in the Nineties that studio executives thought of making a film The potential storyline for the film was that Jill and Tim received divorced, so Tim dressed up as a woman and posed as a nanny in order that he could still see the boys.
Surrounding Tim have been his three mischievous boys, his sarcastic spouse, boring co-employee and his at all times partially hidden neighbour. It's hard to believe it has been 15 years for the reason that present that put Tim Allen and a sure teen heartthrob that all the girls referred to as JTT" on the map ended. Lastly, let's just take into account the amazing energy the writers of Home Improvement have over these on whatever infomercial Bob can score this week. Vila: Eats grass after getting beat in a riding-lawn-mower race with Tim (never thoughts that Tim ended up on the freeway). So, he sets up the double-Wilson alias (cunningly hiding his true identification behind a fence), implanting subliminal recommendations to Tim with a view to increase hardware turnover and therefore the worth of Binford (a subsidiary of Cunningham Hardware) shares. They thought that a cameo on the show might humanise" Hillary and make her extra likable.
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"Since I don't have a blog of my own, I asked my daughter, who is a photographer, to post these for me on her blog. This is just a few of the flowers that are blooming now in my North Florida, Zone 8, garden. Other flowers that are blooming are several types of salvias, Shasta daisies, verbascum, gaura, oakleaf hydrangeas. The regular hydrangeas and gardenias are just starting, and the roses (about 25 of them) are still going strong.
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The 55 volunteers who signed up to plant marsh grass in the Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday did so without knowing that U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would stop by the St. Tammany Parish site to plant a few clumps of grass himself.
"I chose to be here in Louisiana and in this place," Salazar said, noting that 2,200 other locations across the country also were part of Saturday's observance of National Public Lands Day.
The annual event is billed as the nation's largest hands-on volunteer effort aimed at improving and enhancing public land. While volunteers gathered at six other sites in Louisiana, the Big Branch undertaking was designated as the "signature site" for the day, which involved more than 170,000 volunteers nationwide.
"I chose this place because we know the threat the Gulf Coast has been under since the oil spill," Salazar said.
The national day of volunteerism happened to coincide with the start of a two-week marsh planting project, said Byron Fortier, a supervisory park ranger at Big Branch. "It worked out perfectly," he said.
The planting is part of a multiyear land-reclamation project that began with the distribution of sediment dredged from Lake Pontchartrain into "cells," or island-like platforms of silt surrounded by containment dykes. Once the cells were in place, covering 550 acres which once had been land but more recently was open water, the second step was to introduce the marsh grass.
"It's a means of testing coastal restoration on a small scale," Fortier said.
Seven hundred volunteers recruited by the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana will be planting 5,000 plugs of marsh grass each day, for a two-week total of 70,000, each of which costs about $2.
The event is also supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Restore America's Estuaries, For the Bayou, the Lang Foundation, the Coastal Society and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Before he was whisked by airboat to the site where he worked alongside other volunteers, Salazar visited a nearby location where the success of previous plantings can be seen. The marsh grass, which helps to stabilize the land, re-create a healthy marsh ecosystem and reduce erosion, grows quickly, said Natalie Snider, science director for the coastal restoration coalition.
Although project leader Kenneth Litzenberger acknowledged that each planting was like putting "a Band-Aid on a shark bite," he said the Obama administration's readiness to tackle the perils facing coastal Louisiana gives him hope.
"The healthier this area is," Snider said, gesturing to houses that rose above the shoreline in the distance, "the more those communities on the north shore are protected."
"I'm a farmer," Salazar commented as he was given a lesson on the planting technique, which uses a sharp tool to make holes in the soil. "Pull, push, then seal with the heel," he was told. After a few attempts, he got the hang of it.
With dark clouds looming, the planting was cut short and Salazar, his entourage and the other volunteers were hurried back onto boats. Before leaving, Salazar introduced himself to as many volunteers as he could while trying to keep the focus on their contributions.
Saturday's volunteers, just a handful of the 40,000 registered on the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana database, came from as close as Mandeville and as far away as Seattle.
Ben Purscell of Pennsylvania was caught by surprise when Salazar came by to shake his hand and thank him for being one of "an army of 170,000." Purscell, who was in town visiting his daughters, said that despite ruining his favorite T-shirt, the day's activity was worth it. "It feels good," he said.
New Orleans resident Betsy Miller said she signed up out of her "love of Louisiana and frustration over the destruction of the coastline." When she found out the interior secretary would be visiting, Miller said, she wanted to bring up the administration's controversial moratorium on deepwater drilling, but decided to keep the focus on the work at hand.
Salazar did address the oil spill and ensuing moratorium, describing reforms already implemented and others in the process of being applied toward creating "a gold standard" for safely producing oil and gas. "Once we get to the point where we feel comfortable," he said, "we will adjust the moratorium."
Oil got into Big Branch when Hurricane Alex pushed small tar balls into Lake Pontchartrain, refuge manager Danny Breaux said. But he said the quantity was minimal and it would have done more harm to bring in clean-up crews than to let nature mitigate the damage itself, as often is the case in the fragile but resilient wetlands.
Snider said she was encouraged by the results at Big Branch thus far. "This shows that we can build land and we can restore the coast," she said. "It just requires a commitment to continue these types of efforts."
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Jealousy: How to Deal With It in Your Couple
Is jealousy always bad? Certainly not. Basically, this is encoded in our genes and helps us hold important relations together, achieve professional or personal heights, and protect our privacy. But here we are talking about its healthy version while there is also an unhealthy one that causes opposite effects. Let's see how to overcome harmful jealousy in 8 steps.
Is there any proper reason to be jealous? Indeed, the very first question to ask. Due to their low self-esteem and lack of confidence, some people just can't trust their significant others. You need to look at the situation objectively. Maybe, you will need to talk to your partner (discussions are a vital component of Russian dating, for example) and he or she will help you figure it all out.
Admit that you have something to fix. What if you just a weirdo obsessed with the fear of getting betrayed? Such a possibility does exist and I recommend you making up your mind to self-analysis. Approach it with the clear head. Relax after the last conflict caused by jealousy, calm down and try to see the things as they really are.
Look from the other perspective. This is a great technique for those who can't distinguish their fantasies from reality when it comes to building love. Ask your friend's opinion or just become an onlooker. It is essential for detecting actual flaws in your couple. As a rule, jealous partners realize there are many other different problems to solve instead of blaming their beloved ones for nothing.
Anything may happen to your relationship, just accept it. Yes, nobody is completely saved from sudden troubles. You and your partner may fall out of love; your chemistry may die because one of you will change; or your connection may turn out to be overly bothersome (in particular, because you can't build the trust). Literally anything can happen. But why live at all if we are afraid of every single thing?
Don't make your partner jealous. Quite often, those who suffer from exceeding jealousy initiate the game: they struggle to make their significant others feel guilty, unappreciated, or jealous too. Don't you think it's stupid? Yes, it is. Treat your woman/man like you would like to be treated in return. Following this simple principle can take your love life to a newer level!
Switch to real facts. When she comes home later than promised, you get mad because she might have been with some other guy. When he doesn't reply to your message within a minute, you start thinking of hot ladies he must be hanging out with right now. Of course, cheating is common nowadays but most people are still willing to create committed relationships. As a consequence, all your suspicions turn out to be false.
Avoid comparing your couple to others. This is a very bad habit in general. If you don't feel secure about your own value, you need to focus on merits and talents that make you stand out. We are only humans and none of us can be great at everything. I bet your current partner is excited about your uniqueness, not about your pursuit of perfectness.
Set both of you free. I don't mean you have to part. I just want you to understand that any human being needs to have various interests. Romantic partners who are concentrated on each other 24/7 usually end up losing their connection. You definitely have other important or cool things to do apart from spending time with your lover – so do them. Likewise, he or she is entitled to live his/her own life too. The more eventful your separate lives are, the more meaningful your communication becomes.
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Playoff Hockey time. Flames Suck…? What?
So its playoff hockey time, or I mean time to get on the wagon time. I do a ton a driving and man I have seen some really funny/ stupid/awesome shit since the play-offs started. From cars with Canuck flags duct taped on both sides of their new van, to brooms strapped on the back of their car with a Canuck flag off the top, to a mounted Stanley cup on the roof. I haven't been too quick with my phone or I would add a ton of images to this post but here is a funny one by my house. I didn't get the Canuck part but I did manage to get the flames section of the message.
I think it would be good if we met them in the playoffs, it would be so intense. I have too many flames fan friends, or would it be, friends that are flamers…?


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My son has eczema and had been on allergy shots until I took him off because he stayed broken out all the time. I have also noticed that he is staying broken out (but not as bad as when he was on allergy shots) since starting in a new classroom for pre-K. I think the culprit is the cleaning spray they use to wipe down the tables and chairs, because he will go to school looking fine and come home broken out all over. He didn't have this problem last year when an antibacterial spray was used. How can I find out if this is really what's causing the problem?
— Jane, Texas
First, let me comment on the fact that your son's eczema (also called atopic dermatitis) worsened on allergy shots, because that may be of interest to other readers. Allergy shots (allergen immunotherapy) almost always help with nasal and eye allergies, and with allergic asthma, and these are the usual reasons for getting shots. However, this is not the case for eczema. Immunotherapy can either help or worsen eczema, and there is no way to predict which result this treatment will have in a person. Because of this uncertainty, allergists rarely offer immunotherapy alone to treat eczema, although they do suggest it for people with multiple allergic conditions.
Many different types of things can aggravate atopic dermatitis in a child. Well-known triggers include (in no particular order):
- harsh soaps and detergents
- cleaning chemicals
- rough fabrics like wool
- food allergens IF the child has food allergies
- histamine-rich, acidic, or spicy foods (vinegars, tomatoes, citrus, soy sauce, etc.), even if the child does not have food allergies
- stress
- perspiration
- having a cold
- chronic exposure to dust mites and animal dander IF the child is allergic to those things
To make matters even more confusing, a reaction can worsen one to two days after someone is exposed to a trigger, and that delay can make it quite hard to find the culprit.
To answer your specific question, there are many reasons your son's skin could be different this year. Maybe he is allergic to cats, and several of his classmates have cats and carry cat dander on their clothes. Maybe there's been a change in his stress or exercise level, his diet has changed slightly, or the classroom is dustier — or yes, maybe it's the cleaning agents being used.
There is no way to test someone's skin against a cleaning agent. If you placed the substance directly on the skin and left it for any period of time (but don't do this!), you would probably see a rash — but that might happen with anyone, and it doesn't mean that very casual contact would have the same effect.
Instead, I would first be sure to do everything that has been suggested to maintain your son's skin: moisturizing immediately after every shower or bath, using creams regularly, and so on. Then, when you have your routine optimized, you can talk to your son's teacher to see if he or she would be willing to switch to the spray you think is better for your son for a one-month trial. During this time, don't change anything else, so that you can see the effect of this one factor. This may not work, because things always come up (for example, your son gets a cold, or you go on vacation), but there is really no easy way to sort it out. I'm sorry it isn't simpler.


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Friday, March 16, 2007
(Hat-tip: Hot Air & Jawa Report)
Rosie has lost it! She was a nut before, but now she is just plain mad. I have said that this conspiratorial thinking is pop-cultures worst production. I have said people have underestimated the impact of the "Loose Changers". This thinking will be the catalyst for the revolutionary nuts we find now on our campuses. Here's what Rosie blogged:
- The fires in WTC 7 were not evenly distributed, so a perfect collapse was impossible.
- Silverstein said to the fire department commander "the smartest thing to do is pull it."
- Firefighters withdrawing from the area stated the building was going to "blow up".
- The roof of WTC 7 visibly crumbled and the building collapsed perfectly into its footprint.
- Molten steel and partially evaporated steel members were found in the debris.
I have dealt with these conspiracies quite in-depth (Pentagon and World trade Tower 7)…, also with WMDs. You 9/11 "truthers" have also been dealt with by
Thursday, March 15, 2007
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A great five-part series on radical Islam (the new revolutionist) that I came across at Little Green Footballs.
Thomas Sowell on Channel 4 (
Global Warming Swindle
Distinguished scientists specializing in climate and climate-related fields talk in plain English and present readily understood graphs showing what a crock the current global warming hysteria is.
These include scientists from MIT and top-tier universities in a number of countries. Some of these are scientists whose names were paraded on some of the global warming publications that are being promoted in the media -- but who state plainly that they neither wrote those publications nor approved them.
One scientist threatened to sue unless his name was removed.
While the public has been led to believe that "all" the leading scientists buy the global warming hysteria and the political agenda that goes with it, in fact the official reports from the United Nations or the National Academy of Sciences are written by bureaucrats -- and then garnished with the names of leading scientists who were "consulted," but whose contrary conclusions have been ignored.
There is no question that the globe is warming but it has warmed and cooled before, and is not as warm today as it was some centuries ago, before there were any automobiles and before there was as much burning of fossil fuels as today.
None of the dire things predicted today happened then.
The British documentary goes into some of the many factors that have caused the earth to warm and cool for centuries, including changes in activities on the sun, 93 million miles away and wholly beyond the jurisdiction of the
According to these climate scientists, human activities have very little effect on the climate, compared to many other factors, from volcanoes to clouds.
These climate scientists likewise debunk the mathematical models that have been used to hype global warming hysteria, even though hard evidence stretching back over centuries contradicts these models.
What is even scarier than seeing how easily the public, the media, and the politicians have been manipulated and stampeded, is discovering how much effort has been put into silencing scientists who dare to say that the emperor has no clothes.
Academics who jump on the global warming bandwagon are far more likely to get big research grants than those who express doubts -- and research is the lifeblood of an academic career at leading universities.
Environmental movements around the world are committed to global warming hysteria and nowhere more so than on college and university campuses, where they can harass those who say otherwise. One of the scientists interviewed on the British documentary reported getting death threats.
In politics, even conservative Republicans seem to have taken the view that, if you can't lick 'em, join 'em. So have big corporations, which have joined the stampede.
This only enables the green crusaders to declare at every opportunity that "everybody" believes the global warming scenario, except for a scattered few "deniers" who are likened to Holocaust deniers.
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is causing such hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician and mathematical models whose results change drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily selected variables.
No one denies that temperatures are about a degree warmer than they were a century ago.
What the climate scientists in the British documentary deny is that you can mindlessly extrapolate that, or that we are headed for a climate catastrophe if we don't take drastic steps that could cause an economic catastrophe.
"Global warming" is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.
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Danish Scientist Says Global Warming Political, Not Fact– United Press International
Danish scientist: Global warming is a myth
It is generally assumed the Earth's atmosphere and oceans have grown warmer during the recent 50 years because of an upward trend in the so-called global temperature, which is the result of complex calculations and averaging of air temperature measurements taken around the world.
"It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth," said Andresen, an expert on thermodynamics. "A temperature can be defined only for a homogeneous system. Furthermore, the climate is not governed by a single temperature. Rather, differences of temperatures drive the processes and create the storms, sea currents, thunder, etc. which make up the climate".
He says the currently used method of determining the global temperature -- and any conclusion drawn from it -- is more political than scientific.
The argument is presented in the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
New York Times Get In Their Jabs
From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
New York Times
But part of his scientific audience is uneasy. In talks, articles and blog entries that have appeared since his film and accompanying book came out last year, these scientists argue that some of Mr. Gore's central points are exaggerated and erroneous. They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism.
"I don't want to pick on Al Gore," Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at
….While reviewers tended to praise the book and movie, vocal skeptics of global warming protested almost immediately. Richard S. Lindzen, a climatologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, who has long expressed skepticism about dire climate predictions, accused Mr. Gore in The Wall Street Journal of "shrill alarmism."
Some of Mr. Gore's centrist detractors point to a report last month by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that studies global warming. The panel went further than ever before in saying that humans were the main cause of the globe's warming since 1950, part of Mr. Gore's message that few scientists dispute. But it also portrayed climate change as a slow-motion process.
It estimated that the world's seas in this century would rise a maximum of 23 inches — down from earlier estimates. Mr. Gore, citing no particular time frame, envisions rises of up to 20 feet and depicts parts of
Bjorn Lomborg, a statistician and political scientist in
So too, a report last June by the National Academies seemed to contradict Mr. Gore's portrayal of recent temperatures as the highest in the past millennium. Instead, the report said, current highs appeared unrivaled since only 1600, the tail end of a temperature rise known as the medieval warm period.
Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the
Other critics have zeroed in on Mr. Gore's claim that the energy industry ran a "disinformation campaign" that produced false discord on global warming. The truth, he said, was that virtually all unbiased scientists agreed that humans were the main culprits. But Benny J. Peiser, a social anthropologist in
"Hardly a week goes by," Dr. Peiser said, "without a new research paper that questions part or even some basics of climate change theory," including some reports that offer alternatives to human activity for global warming.
Geologists have documented age upon age of climate swings, and some charge Mr. Gore with ignoring such rhythms.
"Nowhere does Mr. Gore tell his audience that all of the phenomena that he describes fall within the natural range of environmental change on our planet," Robert M. Carter, a marine geologist at
In October, Dr. Easterbrook made similar points at the geological society meeting in
Nonsense, Dr. Easterbrook told the crowded session. He flashed a slide that showed temperature trends for the past 15,000 years. It highlighted 10 large swings, including the medieval warm period. These shifts, he said, were up to "20 times greater than the warming in the past century."
Getting personal, he mocked Mr. Gore's assertion that scientists agreed on global warming except those industry had corrupted. "I've never been paid a nickel by an oil company," Dr. Easterbrook told the group. "And I'm not a Republican."
Biologists, too, have gotten into the act. In January, Paul Reiter, an active skeptic of global warming's effects and director of the insects and infectious diseases unit of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, faulted Mr. Gore for his portrayal of global warming as spreading malaria.
"For 12 years, my colleagues and I have protested against the unsubstantiated claims," Dr. Reiter wrote in The International Herald Tribune. "We have done the studies and challenged the alarmists, but they continue to ignore the facts."….
Monday, March 12, 2007
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
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This is for the guys who send troops into Kosovo (who are still there… even though they were suppose to be out in six-months – 10-years ago) and other areas of the world for humanitarian purposes. When there is a Republican President does this negate any humanitarian bone in your body?


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Measured by the Depth of Love
July 2004 through October 2004
Every Sunday at Mass we recite the Nicene Creed and unite ourselves with the faith of the Church handed down to us from the apostles. Every word of the creed is carefully chosen and echoes back to us the tested fidelity of those who refused to change the deposit of faith. Constantine's defeat of the Emperor Licinius in 323 A.D ended the persecutions against the church. But almost immediately, trouble stirred from within. Alexander, the bishop of Alexandria in Egypt, and one of his priests named Arius engaged in a debate that spilled over into the whole church and wrought havoc among the faithful. Today their disagreement may seem remote. But the point in question was vital to the very foundation of the Church. And the unity between a bishop and his priests in matters of faith and practice is always necessary to build up the church in love.
On the one hand, Arius taught that the Son was less than the Father. He argued that there was a time when the Son was not and then was made from nothing. On the other hand, Alexander taught that the Son of God existed with the Father from all eternity and that Jesus is the Son made man. To get a sense of how seriously people took the disagreement, we need only listen to St. Gregory of Nyssa who said, "Every corner of Constantinople was full of their discussions: the streets, the marketplace, the shops of the money changers ….Ask the price of bread today and the baker tells you: 'The son is subordinate to the father.' Ask your servant if the bath is ready and he makes an answer: 'The Son arose out of nothing.' "Great is the only Begotten," declared the Catholics." To settle the dispute, nearly three hundred bishops met in the first Ecumenical Council of Nicea. Many of those bishops had suffered in the persecutions. They had faced the threat of death. They were strong, courageous and very careful to keep intact the doctrine of the Church.
Today when we recite the Nicene Creed and say the Son is one in being with the Father, our voices join with the bishops at Nicea in professing the true faith of the Church. Jesus is the Son of God. As the prologue of the fourth gospel proclaims, Jesus is the Word made flesh who dwells among us. He is the second person of the Blessed Trinity. Jesus has a divine and a human nature. But as the eternal Son of the Father, He is a divine person. The clarity of our faith is professed in language that was hammered out in the heat of the fourth century Arian controversy.
At the same time that the Church was dealing with the central dogma of who Jesus truly is, it was also dealing with core life issues of how we are to care for each other. What we believe always influences how we act. All life from conception to natural death is sacred. Every human person for whom the Son of God became man is worthy of our love and care. In fact, Jesus himself so identifies with us that what we do to others, we do to him; we lose or gain heaven by the way we care for the hungry, the homeless, the sick and the imprisoned (Mt. 25). Holding on to the true faith in Jesus, we see in the poor the face of God's beloved Son. And so it is no surprise that the Council of Nicea established a way to help the needy. It set up
, "houses for strangers," in every region.
The famous theologian bishop of Caesarea, St. Basil, set up one such house on the edge of town to welcome travelers in need. This simple shelter expanded and took in the sick, the aged, the crippled, the lepers, and the diseased. Anyone who wished to entrust a newborn to the care of the Church would simply put the baby in a crib located on the outside of the shelter. Under the active leadership of St. Basil, the church in Caesarea established what could easily be recognized as the first Catholic Charities. It was a shelter that was hospital, poorhouse, nursing home, orphanage, rehabilitation center, emergency crisis center and orphanage.
Today the Catholic Charities network—1,640 local agencies and institutions nationwide—provides vital services ranging from day care and counseling to food and housing. Last year, Catholic Charities across the country provided help and offered hope to over twelve million people in need. We remain one in faith and practice with the Church at the time of the Council of Nicea. As Catholics, we recognize that every man, woman and child, no matter what race, religion, or lifestyle, belong to our mission as Church. The magazine
not long ago reported that Catholic Charities have made the biggest impact with donations people give them. In Passaic, Morris and Sussex Counties, there are 81 locations where Catholic Charities carries out that mission in our diocese. There are almost 1,000 employees and 1,000 volunteers who last year alone provided 129, 655 acts of Christian compassion services to 56, 583 persons in 20 different areas of need ranging from counseling to housing, from health care to food. We need only take two examples to realize something of the extent of this work of the church. The Father English Center in Paterson has provided over 250,000 meals. In addition, our Catholic Charities agencies served 303,758 meals in our many programs and delivered 315,405 home delivered meals throughout the diocese. Last year, Straight and Narrow opened a $6.2 million residential facility for homeless men and women with HIV/Aids. It is the largest such facility in the State of New Jersey.
I am slowly learning how truly committed this local church is to honoring Christ's presence in the poor and the needy. After a meeting with Mr. Joseph Duffy, who heads our Secretariat for Catholic Charities, I was filled with a greater enthusiasm for God's work among us. In a recent visit to one of our city parishes, a woman in her 70's spoke to me after Mass. Her smile was disarming. She had such a joy in presenting her middle-age son who is a disabled adult. The love she has for her son moved her to seek some help. She was looking for the assurance that her son would have the loving care he deserves when the Lord calls her home. Her face revealed the same love that prompted the widow of Nain to turn to Jesus for help when her son was without all hope. The next morning, I called our Catholic Charities and I found we had a way to help her.
Our compassion as a church is not counted simply in numbers. Rather it is measured by the depth of love we show one on one to others. Every individual deserves our love. For in the mystery of the Incarnation, God revealed his love by loving us, redeeming us as though each of us alone existed.
Through the intercession of the Mother of the Lord, may we have the faith to see Jesus in everyone and the grace to care for those in need.


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|5 - Getting To Know Brazil
16/10/98 São João del Rei - After fishing for work in Soa Joao del Rei I went to investigate Belle Horizonte (pronounced Bel riz-onch). I didn't like it much, it was a big smokey skyscrapered city crowded into a bowl like valley.
Ouro Preto- I took the bus to investigate the historic old gold mining town of Ouro Preto. It was quite pretty a sprawling town of old colonial buildings on top of a 100 small hills. I was learning that it would be difficult to find work ,because all the schools close for 3 months at Christmas.I investigated the nearby town of Mariana ,which was similar, but smaller and less pretty.
23/10 Vitoria
another sprawling city by the sea, but it was immediately apparent it would
be uncomfortably humid. I checked out the nearby German mountain village
of Domingoes Martin's , but there wasn't anything to see. On the way back
there was a fantastic view from the Vista Linda cafe.
27/10 Rio De Janeiro - I decided to move south so I took the night bus to Rio. What do you do in Rio when it's cloudy ? Copocobana was a boring skyscrapered beach, there was no point in climbing up Sugar Loaf Mountain or visiting the Big Jesus Statue (Corcovado). However the Youth Hostel I found in Botafogo was one of hte best city hostels I have stayed in and I picked up some tips from the interesting people staying there.
28/10 Petropolis - I went up into the hills an hour away hoping to find a quaint historic mountain town. I was disappointed it was a sprawling city of 300,000 people and it rained all the time.
29/10/98 Teresopolis
- The next day I moved here , which was a better
prospect being only 100,000 people , but it continued to rain.
4/11/98 - I took the nightbus through Rio to Campinas, but had a minor trauma at 6 am I asked someone where we were I couldn't understand what he said , but it wasn't anything like Campinas. Anyway I found myself in a city 70Km further down the road. As I sat waiting for another bus I realised I had left my notebook on the bus. The man at the office said the bus had gone back to Campinas and I would have to wait until it got there then he would phone and check. After sitting tense for an hour he said no they hadn't found it. I decided to go back to Campinas to check myself. I was pleasantly surprised when after 30 minutes waiting I got it back.
5/11/98 Ribereio Preto - It's known as the California of Brazil and I have to say to me it is really similar. I arrived and walked around trying to figure out what to do. There was no tourist office and it wasn't in my guidebook. I was lucky to bump into Carlos whose family own the Grande Hotel. It was good to hear from my friend Thane who is doing a long distance walk in Spain ..el camino de santiago
I went around the towns Engish Schools
fishing for work. I was lucky enought to find some immediate guest
lessons at the CCAA which I very much enjoyed. All the students
said that I must must visit The Pinguim Bar, Brazils most famous chopp
(draught beer) bar directly below the hotel. I wasn't too impressed though
Brasilian beer is like it's North American counterparts ..watery and chemicalful.
I went to check out the prospects in the nearby towns of Sentanzhino and Batatais, but they both fairly quiet.
Wednesday Rubens one of the students who is editor of a famous local magazine invited me over for lunch and then in the evening we went to a local fish restaurant and ate an enormous Amazon fish.
I went by the magazine office and met the charming Lenita the owner of CCAA who insisted I help with her photoshoot. The lady photographer tried to flatter me saying I have a photogenic face..Yeah and pigs fly !
5/11/98 Arraquara - Friday
I had to find some kind of work before I go bancrupt. I went to the
nearby towns of Arraquara and Sao Carlos and fished aound the schools
Then I had a lucky break I met met Mike who has a school where they are used to dealing with foreigners, have a summer course and a room for me to stay and he doesn't mind if I pick up hours from other schools.
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Portugal votes renews austerity debate
Left-wing parties look set to oust Portugal's minority centre-right government as part of a drive to set up their own Socialist-led administration and end to years of harsh austerity. As Sonia Legg reports, the prospect has rattled investors and threatens to derail the country's fragile economic recovery.
It's a picture postcard country and it has been a poster-child for the euro zone. But Portugal's recent election has created an uncertainty that's rattling investors, and sending bond yields higher. The government lost its majority last month as voters rejected the austerity imposed in return for an international bailout. Left-wing parties have been circling ever since - and could be about to vote down the government. But Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho says the country can't afford to abandon reforms. (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) PORTUGUESE PRIME MINISTER, PEDRO PASSOS COELHO, SAYING, "I will not collaborate and will oppose any negative policy leading to Portugal's ruin, where the Portuguese (people) are seen as mere instruments of political power games." Coelho's opponents want to return disposable income to households, overturning some wage cuts imposed by the centre-right government. They argue economic growth would do more than austerity to help reduce the budget deficit. It's a familiar argument - Greece has been having that debate for months. Adrian Schmidt is from IdeaGlobal. (SOUNDBITE) (English) Adrian Schmidt, Senior Policy Economist/FX Strategist, IDEAGlobal, saying: "I think we are at the stage when most of the austerity that needs to be done has been done and further austerity is probably counter productive." That's not the message euro zone finance ministers are giving to Greece at the moment. They've been reminded there's no more bailout money without reform. Greeks aren't impressed - a general strike will take place on Thursday. Many say new economic forecasts back up their argument. Three key organisations, including the European Commission, say Greece will head back into recession this year and next after clawing its way out of a six-year depression last year .


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Residents are being reminded to use the right medical facilities this Christmas and New Year.
Health bosses at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are urging people to use the most appropriate service for the severity of their symptoms and to keep emergency services at the new Northumbria hospital free for those who are most seriously ill.
Residents are being reminded to use 24/7 urgent care centres at North Tyneside General Hospital for problems which are urgent but not life threatening.
Walk-in patients will be seen promptly and without having to wait behind serious, emergency cases.
Northumbria Healthcare is also reiterating that GPs should remain people's first port of call for most medical problems over the holidays with practices only closed on public holidays and reminding people that help and advice is also readily available from local pharmacies.
The reminder is part of the trust's public awareness campaign, which launched at the start of December and continues over the festive season, aimed to ensure people understand where they should go for help and support from their local NHS.
Dr Jane Weatherstone, associate medical director primary and community care at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Your GP can treat the majority of you and your family's healthcare needs and over the holidays, your GP practice should remain the first point of contact for most medical problems.
"GP practices are only closed on public holidays and many GPs can offer advice over the phone. If you are unsure of which service you need, then NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, every day and will advise you where to go.
"Our urgent care centres at Wansbeck, Hexham and North Tyneside will be open 24/7 throughout the festive period and I would remind people to use these services for urgent problems which are not life threatening.
"You will be seen much more quickly as you will not have to wait behind patients who are seriously ill."
As part of its public awareness campaign, Northumbria Healthcare is also supporting the national NHS initiative 'Stay Well This Winter' which encourages the public to look after themselves well:
• Make sure you get your flu jab if eligible
• Keep yourself warm – heat your home to least 18 degrees C (or 65F) if you can
• If you start to feel unwell, even if it's just a cough or a cold, then get help from your pharmacist quickly before it gets more serious
• Make sure you get your prescription medicines before pharmacies close on Christmas Eve
• Always take your prescribed medicines as directed
• Look out for other people who may need a bit of extra help over winter.
Dr Weatherstone added: "At this time of the year there are always more people needing help from the NHS and it is really important that people are aware of which services are available and where to go in which situation.
"By looking after yourself well and using NHS services appropriately, you can help us keep emergency services free for those who really need them this Christmas.
"For the majority of normally fit and healthy people, unpleasant ailments such as diarrhoea and vomiting, colds and flu can be effectively treated by practising good self-care and treated at home with rest, plenty of fluids and some over-the-counter medication.
"Please do not attend hospital if you are experiencing symptoms of these common winter viruses as you will only spread germs amongst other more vulnerable and seriously ill patients."
For further information about how you and your family can stay well this winter visit www.nhs.uk/staywell


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Nintendo DSi vs Nintendo 3DS
Although it has yet to be released in the United States (it's official release is March – 27th for the U.S.), the Nintendo 3DS seems quite promising, simply from its marketing campaign. Yet will it truly measure up to expectations?
The Nintendo DSi
The Nintendo DSi, and it's XL Version as well, brought about a large change to the Nintendo DS line. It started with the simple DS system, and the slightly improved Lite, which enhanced visual capabilities with it's brightness level feature. Then comes the DSi – the first in its line to introduce duo built-in cameras with corresponding software, a voice-record system with alteration features (such as pitch or echo), and even going so far as to make available the option of a built-in, Opera-based internet browser, along with the animation program Flipnote and its Hatena sharing capabilities – further allowing a SD Card Slot for additional memory. The DSi was certainly developed for personal use, complimented with fun, socially interactive features.
Fun Fact: I've recently noticed an increase in web searches relating to DSi Flash player inquiries which have been redirected to this blog. The Nintendo DSi does not support Flash Player on its web browser, nor any other add-on's. Therefore many online sites such as YouTube, or MMORPG game sites like Club Penguin or Adventure Quest are rendered useless and incapable of operation. This is unavoidable and cannot be fixed.
The Nintendo 3DS
According to Wikipedia (and now first-hand experiences), which has based its information on reliable resources, the Nintendo 3DS features push-buttons, D-pad (which operates with similar purpose to the control pad. Allows users to pan through environments, scroll through menu's, etc.), analog stick, touchscreen, volume slider, 3D depth slider, wireless communications switch, 3DS/DSi/DS and SD Card Slots, and a variety of programs, including Wii-based features, such as 3DS Sound , Mii Studio, PictoChat, Street Pass Mii Plaza, Face Shooting, Download Service, 3DS Camera, Augmented reality games, 3DS Shop, Internet Browser, an Activity Log, and 3D movie playback capability (with movies by Warner Bros, Disney, and DreamWorks). As it's main attraction, the Nintendo 3DS enables 3-D game play for select games, including a slider to adjust the 3-D graphics at any time. The dramatic effects of 3-D gameplay requires no special glasses or additional equipment as it operates on the concept of autostereoscopy. It certainly ups the ante!
Hopeful Developments
As terrific as all these new and returned features are, there are some updates that could be made – and hopefully will be, such as:
-Increased Web Browser Capabilities (We don't yet, since Nintendo has yet to release the update containing their web browser): Now we do, the Nintendo 3DS Browser is superior, includes an automatic "word-guesser" which saves time!
-Upgraded FlipNote software with additional, advanced options: Nintendo has now released SwapNote, superior to FlipNote. Send notes to your friends, and even animate the process of drawing, instead of page by page animations (although this is still possible).
-More release-date choices in bundles – such as with Mario Kart 3DS, and others I've commonly discussed (a few bundles are currently available from GameStop, though they're not really big deals): Nintendo carried through in this aspect as well, with Zelda, Mario, etc. bundles!
Check the Adventure Writer Blog in March 2011 for a full review on the Nintendo 3DS and perhaps one of our first video blog posts! For updates, check: The Nintendo Series [3DS/DSi] category, which is where all Nintendo 3DS [and related DSi] posts will be added.
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Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney {Level-5 & Capcom}
Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle
Nintendogs + Cats
Mario Kart 3DS
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Kid Icarus: Uprising
DSi Art
Ever wonder just what you can do with a Nintendo DSi? What's the difference
between it and it's predecessors? The answer would simply be: Two built-in cameras, and SD Card Slot, higher memory capacity, internet access capability, a DSi Shop where you can purchase games on your system, and various artistic programs to mess around with!
Today I want to take a look at what the Nintendo DSi is capable of – art wise.
Art may come difficult to some, but with all the advanced features, you can make graphics like these in minutes or even seconds!


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Message from our PTA President:
Good Afternoon, Davis PTA!
I hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving. Peppermint Village will be here before we know it! I have been working on getting our flyers together to send home with the kids. If anyone is interested in volunteering to help us with it, here is the sign-up link. We will be in the library at the school. Any amount of time is helpful to us, even if it is just 30 minutes. If anyone has any questions, please let me know! "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."~ Aesop~
Thanks for all you do, I appreciate each one of you.
Curtina Wilson
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Offbeat ANY marriage will weather a few storms and one American couple faced their first on their wedding day... literally.
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