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A New Zealand Families Commission report has revealed that New Zealanders often prefer turning to family and friends for help in preference to seeking support from professional counsellors when it comes to their relationships. The study, titled Reaching Out: Who New Zealanders turn to for relationship support, spoke to 50 New Zealanders at in-depth level and asked them who they spoke to when it […]
Blogger News will be back on the airwaves on Sunday Jan/4. What happened this week? For many, the answer would be ‘not much’. Yet if you peek under the hood, all sorts of unsavory aspects are floating to the surface. Casey Anthony sits in jail awaiting trial on first degree murder, the discovery and identification […]
How To Recast Your Role in Life… One Scene At A Time There are a flood of self help books on the market, for the most part it is almost like some one has written a piece of software that churns them out, same ideas, different buzz words, oh and the chapter order is scrambled! […]
A report has been released by authorities that suggests that certain residents in Vermont could be at increased risk of developing the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma depending on where they live or have lived in the past. The report was released by the Vermont Department of Health. According to the report residents that live within […]
New Year’s Day, South Philly Style I just had a brief chance to watch yesterday’s New Year’s Day parade. It is not like when I used to live in Philadelphia and the whole neighborhood waited for the South Philadelphia String Band to perform in front of Saint Gabriel Parish’s Convent. Really, you knew you were […]
REXANO, www.REXANO.org Editorial by Zuzana Kukol As Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America said “In this world nothing is certain but death and taxesâ€. Even though we all have to die of ‘something’, people tend to fear death by causes they don’t understand much more. Statistically flying is […]
I don’t speak Chinese. I speak an abysmally small amount of German after studying it for five years. I know enough Spanish to ask for the bathroom and food, but not to understand the response. In other words, it’s easy to tell I’m middle class from the Midwest. But your children don’t have to end […]
There is no doubt that the timeless story of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol†has been rewritten and rehashed dozens of times over throughout the years. But what if Dickens was a subscriber to Rush Limbaugh’s newsletter and had a penchant for Leslie Nielson films. Surely you remember Airplane and The Naked Gun, and yes […]
The morning after their wedding Neil takes Karen in his arms and they kiss when there is a knock at the door. Neil yells out that they are not home. Tyra is there telling them that she heard from Rafe and he told her that they might be able to get to the judge today […]
I was firmly against an auto bailout of any part of the Big Three. I am a Democrat and certainly have no problem with government owning parts of any business, I simply think that the terrible management of those companies makes them unfit to survive. Detroit is a mess because of bad oversight and bad […]
Recently, I read an article in Wired about the prevalence of hard science in television shows. Obviously, that publication is very much nerd-centric and loves to focus on the geekier parts of life, yet this article was fascinating because of how it talked about all of these popular shows and the science in them. Some […]
By John Donovan of royaldutchshellplc.com On 5 December 2008, an article authored by me was published under the headline… Shell, Saudi Arabia, Arms-for-Oil, Corruption, & Radioactive Contamination The story centred on a former Shell Petrochemical terminal located in Earley, a suburb of the town of Reading in Berkshire, England. Following tests carried out on adjoining […]
Autism Sunday 2009 – The International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome falls on Sunday 8th February 2009. Cathedrals, Churches and religious organisations have been asked to remember 60 million people with autism around the world in prayer. Autism is now a very serious education and health issue facing many nations. Autism Sunday […]
According to recently released reports it could cost authorities over two hundred million dollars to clean up a Vermont asbestos mine. The Belvidere Mountain asbestos mine, which is in Lowell and Eden, is still causing concern over even small levels of asbestos exposure. Officials from the state of Vermont have stated that they are hoping […]
‘Republican’ts’ When I first began my personal shift from Republican to Democrat a half century ago, I had to get by the phenomenon of the Southern party racists — so called Dixiecrats. As a majority of Americans back then were white, it did not take the Republicans long to move in on this (‘moral’) majority […]
 The late Harold Pinter once asked “How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal?” Well Israel’s latest bit of genocide in Gaza has reached 400 and is still on the rise. Indiscriminate slaughter of men, women and children. Actions which can […]
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