I received an email just now from a friend of mine and wanted to share it with my readers, hopefully more people will be willing to copy and paste it onto their blogs!

This is going out to virtually everyone in my address book and I am only
doing this because the people in my area of Northern California need help.

I am sure you have heard something on the news in the last month or so
about the wildfires in Northern California. I live in Chico, Ca which is
right in the middle of a lot of these fires. Our area is blanketed in
smoke an ash. There are thousands of people living in shelters not
knowing if they will have a home to go to after the fires have been put
out and other still that know they have lost everything. I am desperate
to find some way to help my fellow northstaters that have been hit by
this disaster and the only thing I could come up with was to contact all
of you and flat out beg for help for these people whose lives have been
turned up side down.

How can you help?

Make a donation to American Red Cross and North Valley Animal Disaster
Group below

http://american.redcross.org
http://www.nvadg.org/

Use whatever influence you have to bring attention to this disaster and
get help for these people. Encourage those you know to help out if they
can. Some of you have blogs and websites adn I would appreciate any
thing you can do with this medium to help as well.

I am not asking this for myself but for the victims and it is the only I
can sleep tonight knowing I tried to do something more than I already have.

I want to say thank you in advance for any help you are able to give and
I know it is appreciated by the families that will be receiving this
help. Many of these families will be rebuilding their lives after this
and could use every bit of help they can get.

Take care,

Jim

AKA
The Movie Whore

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You know what they say, if you haven´t been tagged, you don´t exist. Well OK, nothing that serious, but I did got tagged finally, by Stephan Miller. No worries Stephan, I don´t feel like being put on the spot

Quite frankly, this tagging game comes as a gift, since I have spent the last three hours researching blog safety issues after updating blogs to newer versions of wordpress, and the final post on blogging security will need a bit more attention before being sent out into the blogosphere.

So meanwhile, there is this tagging game to keep you entertained, atleast for the following 5 people I am tagging and inviting to play along to keep the flow going.

Net-Entrepreneur

The Dudes Dad

The Net Fool

Joan Joyce

EJ Cooksey 

When you decide to join the game, you’ll have to follow these 3 simple rules:

1. Copy all the links and replace a single link under the appropriate letter of the alphabet with yours - see an example above about the correct way to choose the letter. An explanation in your post about how to change the links will be nice as well!
2. Put at the bottom of the list the replaced link and the full link to the tagger (meaning the link to the actual post where you got the list) - this ensures that you complied with the rule #1!
3. You now have to “tag” at least five people and encourage them to take part of the game - tag blogs only and only those without bad rated material like pornographic, violence, racism etc.

The ABC List:

A acowboyswife.com
B bloggingcents.com
C chatbugkaren.com
D delusionsofgrandeur.org
E everythingandanythingblog.com
F -
G GeekMomMashup.com
H hoysater.no
I ipentimento.com
J juliesjournal.com
K kabalyero.com
L ladylike4.com
M MeMyselfAndI
N nicusor.com
O originalmx5.net
P peapodsquadstuff.com
Q qweddings.com
R rowdigrl.com
S stephanmiller.com
T TenaciousCreations.com
U utada-online.net
V valmg.com
W wickedbabylon.com
X xaviermedia.com
Y yimto.com
Z zbudapest.com

Replaced Link: Michael Park

Previous Tagger: Stephan Miller

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