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         <title>Avoid 'Social Justice Churches'</title>
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         <description>So, I suppose&amp;nbsp;Moses, David, Amos, Micah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jesus and James would not be welcome at Glenn Beck's church, wherever that is, if it exists.&amp;nbsp; Amazing commentary.&amp;nbsp; No wonder we have stalemate on so many policies in this natio</description>
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         <title>WiFi: Connecting to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)</title>
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         <title>Well Read</title>
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         <description>I have a friend who is reading 365 books in 2010! Isn't that an amazing goal? Follow her here!</description>
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         <title>Devotional: He feared nothing for Himself...</title>
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         <description>He feared nothing for Himself; and never once employed His divine power to save Himself from His human fate. Let God do that for Him if He saw fit. He did not come into the world to take care of Himself...His life was of no value to Him but as His Fa</description>
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         <title>Nigel Mumford+: Belief in healing through prayer is at the core of his mini</title>
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         <description>Albany Times-UnionSaturday, March 13, 2010The Rev. Nigel Mumford: Director of healing ministries for the Albany Episcopal Diocese, based at the Christ the King Spiritual Life Center in Greenwich, Washington County. Background: 55. Originally from Ply</description>
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         <description>DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK      Exodus  20:21 'The people  remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where  God was.'    God still and will have His secrets - hidden from, like Jesus said, 'from the wise and the  learned',</description>
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         <title>A Pregnant Pause . . .</title>
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         <description>Newborn BabyConceived by Misconception?(Image from Wikipedia)In my research writing class last Friday, students were busy honing their topics and sharpening their focuses as they prepared their individual research projects for this semester. I was w</description>
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         <title>Aleph</title>
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         <description>The West spelt it as Aleph and the Arab world called it aliff.More info here. It is also the name of the next Paulo Coelho book about his 3rd pilgrimage.However,we won't be able read it yet now because his publisher...</description>
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         <title>Batman with Lightsaber vs. Shark</title>
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         <description>Batman did pretty well the first time that he wielded a Green Lantern ring, so my money is on him for this fight.I have no idea who the artist is.  Anyone else?via Nerdcore</description>
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         <description>Genesis 1 as ancient cosmology by John WaltonHow Christians should vote in 2010 by John ChaplinRichard Baukham's new websiteOvercoming preaching dilemmas: lessons from Sidney Greidanus</description>
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         <title>This cannot happen</title>
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         <description>This is unacceptable. You should be able to shut a team down with 21 seconds left.</description>
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         <title>Google to China: no censorship, or no Google</title>
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         <description>In the land ruled by history's most evil regime (at least 75 million of its own people murdered by the government), Google is living up to its slogan and not being evil itself.HT: Drudge</description>
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         <description>I have just learned about the idea of the ahnentafel, a simple but ordered way of listing one's forbears. In such a list, each person's father has a number double his or her own, with the mother's number at double plus one. Here is my ahnentafel as</description>
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         <title>technorati test</title>
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         <description>A shorter schemaI should have done this a while ago, but... well, you get what you pay for.Anyway, what I'm trying to do is work my way through the section of St. Thomas's Summa Theologiae that deals with acts that are proper to man. (If I finish tha</description>
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         <description>Chester Arthur Burnett, STLIf you ain't got no money, you got the blues, 'cause you're thinking evil. That's right. Anytime you thinking evil, you thinking about the blues. -- Howlin' Wolf</description>
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         <description>There are some good parallels between today's Saturday Gospel and the Gospel for this 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time, which, if your parish is not using the 'A' cycle readings (for those preparing for Baptism), will be the Parable of the Prodigal Son.To</description>
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         <description>The York Aquinas Reading Group have asked me to pass on the following...  A group of us over in York (with the generous help of the English Dominican Province) have started up a reading group dedicated to studying the summa theologiae of Thomas Aquin</description>
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         <description>A few days ago I blogged about an online poll by the people at Marie Stopes. They were asking 'Should abortion be legal in Ireland?, Yes or no.' The result? 94% said no, abortion should not be legal in Ireland. A great result, so naturally they have</description>
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         <title>Love it While it Lasts</title>
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         <description>This is a nice sight.  I can not seem to get photos of my eldest ~ he's not keen on having his picture taken.  But one Saturday morning, I happened by and took this shot.  It reminds me to be very grateful that all my children are under my roof right</description>
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         <description>The Daughters of the King sponsored a Winnie the Pooh Luncheon today at King of Peace which was a smashing success. Grandparents/grandkids and Parents/children had great fun with their stuffed animals at church today. All of the proceeds go directly</description>
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         <title>Owen's first goal in his first soccer game</title>
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         <description>Owen Frazer is my grandson.  He turns 4-years-old on May 7.  This morning he played in his first soccer game.  It was a blast!  Naturally, I had my camera along.  What you'll see in the clip here is Owen and his friends being little children.  You'll</description>
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         <description>Just putting this up so I can get to it after work tonight. Right now I gotta split.</description>
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         <title>First impressions of my new life</title>
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         <description>Welcome back to U.S.A. Welcome home. 
Home. That&amp;#8217;s the strangest thought of it all, learning to call this place home.
Being here has been interesting. To begin with, I feel like I&amp;#8217;ve lost that enamored feeling I used to have about living/</description>
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         <title>Stupak: Democrat Efforts to Pass ObamaCare Without Restrictions on Funding</title>
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         <description>At The American Catholic, Don McClarey links to this revealing interview with Bart Stupak at National Review:... Stupak notes that his negotiations with House Democratic leaders in recent days have been revealing. 'I really believe that the Democrati</description>
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         <title>Anglican Bishop Taken to Task for Support for Homosexual Relationships</title>
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         <description>Friday March 12, 2010</description>
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         <title>Ariz. town: No church meetings at home. Period.</title>
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         <description>ADF attorneys appeal town of Gilbert's use of zoning code to shut down small house churchFriday, March 12, 2010GILBERT, Ariz. ' Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed an appeal Wednesday with the town of Gilbert's zoning Board of Adjustment to overtur</description>
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         <title>Catholic Charities in D.C. adds hiring clause on church tenets</title>
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         <description>By Michelle BoorsteinWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, March 13, 2010Shortly after imposing limits on spousal health benefits for employees, Catholic Charities of Washington has begun requiring new employees to promise they will not 'violate the</description>
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         <title>Third World War: The real showdown between Christians and Muslims isn't in</title>
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         <description>By Philip JenkinsApril 01, 2010 Issue American ConservativeNobody is sure how it started. Perhaps Christian activists sent text messages warning that Muslims were trying to poison them. Maybe Muslims tried to storm a church. Whatever the cause, the c</description>
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         <description>By Damian ThompsonMarch 13th, 2010There is international outrage in Catholic circles over a headline in The Times this morning that many people regard as utterly misleading and part of the newspaper's reliably biased coverage (reinforced by vicious c</description>
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         <description>Fri, Mar. 12 2010By Ethan ColeChristian Post ReporterThousands of Nigerian women dressed in black and carrying Bibles, wooden crosses, pictures of victims, and branches symbolizing peace marched in a central Nigerian state on Thursday to protest the</description>
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         <title>Obamacare: Unleashing a Constitutional Crisis</title>
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         <description>Saturday, March 13, 2010Wesley J. SmithI guess if our government's Democratic leaders don't get their way on Obamacare, they would just as soon tear the country apart. Having lost the political debate over Obamacare, and apparently unable to muster s</description>
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         <description>Will be permitted only under 'extraordinary circumstances.'Friday March 12, 2010By Hilary WhiteSTOCKHOLM, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The government of Sweden is taking a hard line against homeschoolers, proposing a bill that will only allow</description>
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         <title>What I Saw in Louisiana</title>
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         <description>St. Joseph Abbey, where Walker Percy's bones reside, is adorned with the striking murals of Gregory de Wit, including this image of the resurrection.  The two figures beneath Christ represent Adam and Eve.  I like to think of the bones as Percy's (at</description>
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         <description>SACRED, BEAUTIFUL, &amp; UNIVERSAL: Colloquium XIX from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.</description>
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         <title>GREAT JOB JAY!</title>
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         <description>I'm very proud of my pal J Aquila singing his heart out in India.</description>
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         <description>Got an email recently...'Dear Corey, I wanted you to know that your 'nugget' couldn't have come at a better time today.  I have a coworker who got some horrible news about her father and she was devestated.  I printed out your 'nugget', and read it</description>
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         <description>It&amp;#8217;s hard to believe, but Killing Cockroaches was released one year ago. The book continues to be available on Amazon and in your local bookstores, but I also have about 125 copies remaining. So, until supplies last, you can pu</description>
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         <description>THE ST. PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION opened on Friday:NOW OPEN - The Dead Sea Scrolls: Words That Changed the World Exhibition at the Science Museum of MinnesotaST. PAUL, Minn., March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Science Museum of Minnesota</description>
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         <description>This is the Lady Loch a 487 ton steam vessel built in Melbourne by Campbell, Sloss &amp;amp; McCann in 1886 for the Department of Trade &amp;amp; Customs of the colonial government of Victoria, and named for the wife of the colony's Governor. HMVS Lady Loch</description>
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         <description>This is Amira, my sister&amp;#8217;s cat but she is really ours now but she isn&amp;#8217;t but she is but she [...]</description>
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         <description>More word play, via Coffee Klatch.From the Washington Post Style Invitation,  in which it was postulated that English should have male and female  nouns, and readers were asked to assign a gender to nouns of their  choice and explain their reason. Th</description>
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         <title>A debate: Raegan vs. Obama</title>
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         <description>[HT to American Catholic, vs. C.B.]</description>
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         <description>It's Haul TimeYes, the annual string of hauls is back. I can't be going to Solo in my condition. Pain, lethargy and general loss of mood in everything in life. Seriously. The thought of travelling does not even appeal to me right now. Just want to be</description>
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         <description>Don't forgetto reset your clocks!Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday, March 14th.Set your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed Saturday night.A sure sign of spring...!See you in Church!At 9 a.m. DST.....</description>
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         <description>The last month has been a tough one.Dad went into the hospital a month ago with pneumonia, spent about a week there, was released, was out for a week or so, then had to go back. He was finally released to hospice care and died March 7.His death has m</description>
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         <description>Claire turned two-and-a-half on Monday. Tonight Claire wanted to tell a story. She dictated, and I wrote it down word-for-word. Are you ready?
Once upon a time there was a girl named Stacy the Firefighter. She had a dog named Sparky. He was a Dalmati</description>
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         <title>F1 Returns to Center Stage</title>
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         <description>After allowing the warm-up act to have the stage to themselves for a month, the grownups take the spotlight this weekend as the 60th Formula 1 World Championship gets underway with the Grand Prix of Bahrain on Sunday.This season is jam-packed with st</description>
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         <title>Texas Textbook Revolutionaries (Reactionaries?)</title>
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         <description>In 1960, Texas with a population of around 9.6 million, was the 6th largest state in the USA.  Today, at around 25 million residents, it is second largest.  Combining such a large population with the economics of publishing school textbooks, the Texa</description>
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         <description>Hot Catholics Scott Anderson on the  possibilities for renewal and growth  It took several centuries (in what  historians used to call the Dark Ages) to convert Britain to Christianity, but it has taken less  than forty years for the country to fors</description>
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         <description>In tomorrow's Gospel reading Jesus tells one of his best known parables, The Prodigal Son. Noted Episcopal preacher Barbara Brown Taylor once preached a sermon on this text called The Parable of the Disfunctional Family. I have seen some fellow preac</description>
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         <description>Stephanie keeps giving me things to blog about:You know, the books in the Romance section are, very quietly, the indicators of trends. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that once we actually DO see a Vampires in Kilts series that the whole un</description>
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         <title>(Politics Alert!) Nancy Pelosi Damns the Devil</title>
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         <description>Apologies to friends: My goal with this new incarnation of Way Off Bass has been to avoid politics (save through the occasional link). However, going through some old files I came upon this little item that I'd completely forgotten about. I figure it</description>
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         <description>New Yorkers love to argue about transit. They love to argue about what's the best way to get from point A to point B. Should you take the F or the 7, the 1 or the A. Folks who don't own cars will debate the pluses and minuses of the various highways</description>
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         <title>Update</title>
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         <description>A replacement power cord has been secured! My power cord broke, you see.  I have been without power for my computer for several days.  But now... Suzie Petunia is back online. You are so happy. I can just feel it.Scorpions are of the devil.Alice appe</description>
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         <title>Devotional:  He does not need to transplant us into a different field...</title>
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         <description>He does not need to transplant us into a different field, but right where we are, with just the circumstances that surround us, he makes his sun to shine and his dew to fall upon us, and transforms the very things that were before our greatest hindra</description>
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         <title>Dana 'Super Hot' Perino</title>
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         <description>You just stand there and look beautiful.</description>
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         <title>Percy Pilgrims</title>
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         <description>Matthew Lickona and Quin Finnegan with Br. Jude at Walker Percy's grave.</description>
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         <description>Kenneth W. Starr(Image from Pepperdine University)This is month-old news, but Christianity Today recently reported on Kenneth Starr as the new president of my undergrad alma mater, Baylor University, quoting him on the prospects for the academic goa</description>
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         <description>On Tuesday night this week, my office,located at Pandan Jaya was broken into.The metallic-grill front door was ripped open and the thief took away a few hundred ringgit of petty cash and my projector which we use to give lectures.No...</description>
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         <description>Does anyone remember Choose Your Own Adventure books?  When I was ten, I loved them.  I wouldn't have enjoyed this one then (if it's real), but I would now.via Anastasia Beaverhausen</description>
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         <description>Awww!  So cute!  When my daughter is old enough for trick-or-treating, she'll need a costume like this one.Previously: Voltron Child Cosplayvia Digg</description>
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         <description>Does anyone know the cheat for unlimited wine?via Digg</description>
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         <description>The rug, together tied the room, it did.This is one image from a much larger poster that suggests how the Coen Brothers might have cast Star Wars.via Sci Fi Wire</description>
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         <description>We have been arguing for a nonviolent God and a nonviolent apostle. However, the description of God's response to human sin in the form of the cross strikes some as violent rather than nonviolent, and that in at least two ways. First, it seems violen</description>
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         <description>OK, the other day I mentioned the monthly sale, but not the weekly one. It is set to expire in about 3 days, so you had better hurry!BookNews from EisenbraunsI recently asked our Twitter followers for sale ideas. I received several interesting ones t</description>
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         <description>... I hide holy cards at people's houses irregardless if they are Catholic or not.</description>
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         <description>... ladies, when using a facial moisturizer containing a bronzer, for the love of God, put it on your neck too.</description>
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         <description>... Terry just reminded me; St. Joseph is the go to guy for impossible causes. Perfect for me. Time to start that novena... albeit a day late but I am sure he understands. Guido ReniEvery boy needs a father, so in the absence of a earthly one I gave</description>
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         <description>The First Amendment guarantees members of the Santería religion the right to drink snail mucus if their faith so dictates.Of course, it can't help much with whatever their equivalent of evangelism might be...</description>
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         <title>On not having the hang of current slang</title>
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         <description>Meanwhile, someone was foolish enough to write on a package of vegetables especially favored for a particular recipe and sent to a senior center that it was 'da bomb.'The center was evacuated.</description>
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         <description>Simon Benson in The Daily Telegraph (12 Mar 10):Prime Minister Kevin Rudd took his health war against NSW a step too far yesterday in what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to publicly embarrass Premier Kristina Keneally.

The PM left Ms Keneall</description>
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         <title>Australia must not join the Internet censors club</title>
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         <description>Letter from Jean-Fran&amp;ccedil;ois Julliard, Secretary-General of Reporters Without Borders to the Hon Kevin Michael Rudd MP, Prime Minister of Australia.

Paris, 18 December 2009

Dear Prime Minister,

Reporters Without Borders, an organisati</description>
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         <title>The Zen of Pain.</title>
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         <description>I have from time to time heard of monks who can meditate in the freezing cold and maintain a warm body temperature, and those who have a high threshold for pain. Well, it seems that science has proven that meditation helps reduce pain.AFP, March 3, 2</description>
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         <description>He who lives by the RSS feed, sees nothing amusing in the sidebars.Not only mine, in which amusing content changes every weekday, but that of others. I must admit that, having fallen into the RSS feed habit myself, I have missed for some time seeing</description>
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         <description>This does not really do justice to the full white I see when I look up but it was the only photo I could find online that came close. Our pear trees are in full bloom. (Rose will be happy she isn't here as the scent I barely notice is abhorrent to he</description>
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         <description>At Jefferson Lab, where I and a lot of other nuclear physicists from around the world conduct experiments, we have a high quality, 6 GeV continuous beam electron accelerator. Such a machine is ideal for nuclear physics, and it is only going to get be</description>
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         <description>Yesterday, Anne-with-an-e and I were listening to the soundtrack from August Rush. She mentioned that she and Betsy have a minor thing for Jonathan Rhys Meyers and that, somehow, everything sounds more romantic when spoken with an accent from anywher</description>
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         <description>Sr&amp;nbsp; Helena will be the presenter for the 'Love and Responsibility' online study tonight. Her theme is Vocation. Please join us online at 8:00 Central Time: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/theology-of-the-bodyThen tomorrow, we have our regular Theo</description>
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         <description>Received word today that my CD project, 'Come on Down! It's Children's Time!' is on the home stretch. The CD has been mastered, and we are going to have 300 copies made for the initial run.The CD will be available for a donation of either $10 or $15</description>
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         <description>Free Exchange: How is Africa actually doing? HERE'S a toy version of what most people would recognise as the received wisdom on sub-Saharan Africa's economic performance in recent years: Some countries have had a pretty sustained period of high growt</description>
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         <description>From Justo Gonzalez's Faith and Wealth: A History of Early Christian Ideas on the Origin, Significance, and use of Money. Chrysostom's theology is built on the presupposition of a greater continuity between creation and redemption than much later the</description>
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         <description>Duke Divinity Call &amp; Response Blog: Mark Chaves: American politics has become increasingly polarized. Has theology? This post is three months old but I just came across it at Presbyweb. Fascinating. ... In particular, in denominations with the highes</description>
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         <description>Along with several other LDS-oriented publishers and authors, my Zarahemla Books enterprise has donated books to a national online auction that is raising money for diabetes research. The public bidding starts on May 1, and I invite you to consider p</description>
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         <description>&amp;#8220;We think of the victory of the cross in terms of toughness and endurance.  But Jesus is not doing so.  Herosim is only another kind of human achievement.  And the point of the cross is not that it is any kind of achievement.  It is not heroic,</description>
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         <description>What happens when you have a Holy Hour every month to celebrate your  800th anniversary and invite people from all walks of life to  participate?  Celebration With Surprises is the story of just what happened at the  Monastery of the Mother of God, W</description>
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         <description>A guest post by TikunOlamDovBear pointed me in the direction of an interesting article printed in today's NYT.A Jostled Princess, a Heavy CrownBy MARTIN FACKLERPublished: March 11, 2010It discusses the royal family of Japan.  DB posed a few question</description>
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         <description>Search for more information about [topic] at 4torah.com.</description>
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         <description>Luke 15:1-3; 11-32 The MessageBy this time a lot of men and women of doubtful reputation were hanging around Jesus, listening intently. The Pharisees and religion scholars were not pleased, not at all pleased. They growled, 'He takes in sinners and e</description>
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         <description>Peter told them, 'You know it is against the Jewish laws for me to come into a Gentile home like this.  But God has shown me that I should never think of anyone as impure.'</description>
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         <description>Good morning.

Let&amp;#8217;s start out with a beautiful interior shot of a Romanian church.
Rocking for Africa &amp;#8230; or not.
Orthodoxy moving into South America.
Lecture notes in statistics.
If you win the rat race &amp;#8230;
Mr Massa.
Of bubble and bus</description>
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         <description>To get a glimpse of our newly restored, Downtown office tower, know at CityWalk@ Akard, click here.The project is mixed-use: office and retail. . .Mixed-income: 200 units of affordable housing with 50 units reserved for formerly homeless persons and</description>
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         <description>The chart above pretty well sums up economic reality in the United States these days. Poverty, personal and family options and equity are all shaped by this report. The chart comes with the following report from the Economic Policy Institute. Here's</description>
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