Canadian medical officials have confirmed one of four possible cases of SARS in Toronto. The patients range in age from 39 to 66. One returned from at trip to Hong Kong and Southern China April 22nd. While in the local hospital yesterday, SARS information was posted everywhere, charting the course and decline of the disease in Canada.
More people died from SARS in Canada than by West Nile last year, however more were infected with the West Nile virus.
The WHO on 23 May lifted its travel warning on the southern province of Guangdong in China and also for Hong Kong. Advisories are still in place.
Taiwan continues to have the fastest growing outbreak.
Aceh – Indonesia
Fierce fighting continues between military forces and Islamic groups in the province of Aceh. Reports say 10 thousand to 23 thousand are fleeing the province. The conflict has continued for 26 years.
Algeria
An 18 month old child has been rescued from rubble 36 hours after a devestating quake hit the country. 1450 people are believed dead, and 7000 are injured. Along with the devestation, rescue and aid workers are concerned disease will break out as fresh water supplies run low. Here is a timeline of earthquakes in Algeria.
22 December 1999: 28 dead and 175 injured in north-west
18 August 1994: 172 dead and 288 injured in western region of Mascara
29 October 1989: 30 dead and 400 injured in Tipaza region
10 October 1980: About 3,000 dead and 8,000 injured and in al-Asnam
9 and 16 September 1954: 1,400 dead and 14,000 injured
I’m missing a friend already
Mark Morris of The Gospel of Mark is hanging up his blogging keyboard for awhile. He’d gotta do what he’s gotta do, but oh man, I’m going to miss him. Having been a recipient of Mark’s inner strength, steadiness, integrity and kindness, I have a sneaking suspicion he’ll refuel in all the right ways and be back blogging someday. I’m leaving you on the blog roll buddy.
Blogger Bedevilment
Idea Joy has filled me in on the problems with blogger/blogspot and the subsequent difficulties with Who Links Who.
Blog Day
….”Happy blogday to me”….
….”Happy blogday to me”….
Well, sort of.
I started blogging a year ago today. Here is my first entry at Martin Roth Commentary, where I was warmly welcomed.
It is there I started Blog Watch, which I’ve continued at this domain as Leap-Blogging.
So, today I celebrate. Then I think I’ll have a blog day celebrating the first post on my own blog set up in July, and then I think I’ll celebrate my domain name and final blog home set up in January.
I must have the one of the strangest blogging histories out there.
Team blogging in Australia, moving to my own blog off a server in the US, then on-going team blogging in Wales while I set up a temporary blog off a Canadian server, then finally, this blog safely up and running.
I think I’m home now, with this domain name off a server in the US.
It has been quite the year, and I’m really looking forward to the next one.
Happy blog day BD
Happy blogging birthday, Bene! How does it feel to be a year old in the blogging world? Mine comes in June… I’m waiting for it with bated breath because I never dreamed I’d stick with blogging this long. I was always afraid it would be another one of my run-out-of-steam-halfway projects – I have so many of those!
How is your twin? I hope his/her shoulder is better… is this manipulation a one-off thing or will s/he need continued physical therapy for a time?
I had grand intentions of looking back on meta blogging and doing a post on it, but the day is so lovely I need to get outside and celebrate! A year feels great, it is an accomplishment for any of us.
My twin is doing very well, everything went smoothly. If the shoulder seizes again, they can go in with an arthoscope and scrape out the socket, but it looks like that may not be necessary.
Thanks for the good wishes Irene. Blog on!
Félicitations Bene Diction, bien nomee.
We all travel interesting roads, different roads, with different destinations…… some go off the road, some refuse to turn, some cannot live the trip, some just don’t have a destination, and some arrive, and having done the trip, light the path for others.
YOU Bene, have no doubt, helped others down the road. That has to be what blogging is all about. We are all dwellers in time and space! Cheers.
Boy, one year! Relative to the age of blogging in general, that’s a lifetime. Not only do I enjoy reading what you have posted here and in other places, but I appreciate your support and participation in this blogging community of faith.
Of course, in our laid back and polite fashion, Canucks rule! Blog on.
“Cities burning in your wake, like the candles on your cake, Happy Blogday…” (Sung to the tune of The Volga Boatmen).
Well, not quite. A good year, despite some tsuris! Keep up the good work!
Happy Birthday! It has been a great year of reading!
Wendy
Celebrate! Enjoy your accomplishments, Bene.
Peace,
Congrats on your blogday. It has been great reading your blog through the ups and downs of the last year. Hope the next year is a year of great blogging too!
And many more. Blog day is a great expression, so i will ‘borrow’ it, with proper credit, when my 3 years comes up in July. Keep up the great work!
Great Kathy: “Borrow” it with gusto so we can all celebrate your three years. Wow. You are like a professor emeritis of bloggers!
Happy Blog Day, Bene!
Happy blogiversary, Bene! Blog on! – Andrew
Happy birthday to the blog and very best wishes to Bene Diction as well!
Shalom,
Jan
Hey Bene, well done. You gave IdeaJoy (then Ideola) our first inbound link. You’ll always have a special welcome at IdeaJoy because of that.
- Peace
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear BeneDictionBlogsOn Blog!
Happy Birthday to you.
….
And many more.
Way to go!
happy birthday to you….
Happy blogday!
Well Done! This is a site always worth reading and I look forward to more good times in the future.
They say its your blog day…
Happy blog day to ya….
Happy BlogDay, Bene! =)
Wow, I didn’t realize I would be ending my blog on your one year anniversary! Happy BlogDay, Bene. And thanks for the kind tribute. Rest assured, I’ll still be buzzing around this page!
Your pal,
Mark
Happy blog-birthday… Your blog holds a special place in the blogosphere: the way you weave together the news we all know about, and the stories which may otherwise pass us by, and your compassion for the people affected by it is appreciated all around the globe.
Thanks BD.
Hard to add what’s been said; you’re worthy of all of it. Happy blogday!
Yo Bene D.
I’m not sure what the appropriate gift is for first anniversaries, but I’m sure something electronic in silicone & plastic would suit. Treat yourself, and many more years of online wisdom!
Blog on,Webelves
CaNN Webhamster
Yeah. What they said…
I the undersigned hereby duly and officially wish you heartiest congratulations on your blog day.
SSD
Dan
How does it feel to be 1 year old and be able to remember the first year of your life this time round?
Happy blogiversary. And may you have may more. You have been a blessing and an encouragement to me and many others. May God give you grace to blog on!
Happy Blogging Anniversary, Bene Diction! I can still remember the earlier days. It’s been a wonderful year, and I am much the better for knowing you!
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY.
thrive
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A belated happy blog day to you. Sorry I missed it. Oh, yeah…and many mooooooorrrrre!!!!
Happy Belated, Bene!
Keep the faith.
Well, bloody bloggin congratulations! Who’da thunk it huh? A wonderful year it has been also. Think about it. You’ve survived near extermination by a very nasty sort of internet control freak who (seemingly) lives as some sort of parasitic slug feeding off of the wit and talent of others.
It makes my skin crawl to think there are those sort of idiots passing themselves off as intellectuals when really all they are is “puffed up smidgens of blowfish shit.” Thanks to the movie “A fish called Wanda” for that wonderfully accurate statement.
You’ve survived the internet version of ping pong hell with the bouncing from server to server and host to host. And I might add, my how you have grown from all this stimulating bouncing!
Here you are today. On your way to becoming an icon of blogging. Or was that a blogging icon? Crap, I don’t know….too many hours behind the keyboard to keep all my metaphors straight….did I even use a metaphor?
So, it comes to this. A year later. You are still here and going on strong. Damn I like your tenacity! Reminds me of a bulldog I once had that used to shit….ooops, sorry got carried away with myself there.
Ya know who your friends are when there is shit from stem to stern and you don’t have a mop!!!
Keep on keeping on…(another Monty Python term…or was that “on the buses”?) Whatever….you are one helluva character and all are blessed by your indomitable spirit and words or wisdom. Of course…there are those who may not agree with me…but ya know what? I don’t give a good golly geee!!!! This is my time, my space and I’ll say whatever moves me.
Love ya!
Congratulations, BD! Here’s to another year of exciting existence for you!
Keep it up for Christ!