The concept of Restorative Justice reflects our values and tradition saidBishop Garcia

“The concept of Restorative Justice reflects our values and tradition,” saidBishop Garcia. “Our faith calls us to hold people accountable, but also toforgive and to heal. We encourage and stand with the victims of crime, theirfamilies and those who assist them.” For more information about events in your area contact your local diocesanOffice of Restorative Justice by going to the CCC website at California Catholic Conference () represents the Catholiccommunity in the State`s public policy arena. There are 10 million Catholics inCalifornia and the Catholic Church is the largest private provider of healthcare, social services and education in California. Those Catholic institutionsinclude 54 hospitals, which annually assist 5 million patients; 13 colleges anduniversities, which enroll 37,000 students; 113 Catholic high schools, whichserve 75,000 students; 599 Catholic elementary schools, which enroll 182,000children; and the 12 diocesan Catholic Charities agencies. For California Catholic ConferenceDebbie McDermott, 916-313-4000 Copyright Business Wire 2009.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Seven people have been diagnosed with a strange and unusual new kind of swine flu in California and Texas, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday. HealthAll seven people have recovered but the virus itself is a never-before-seen mixture of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans, the CDC said.”We are likely to find more cases,” the CDC’s Dr Anne Schuchat told a telephone briefing. “We don’t think this is time for major concern around the country.”The CDC reported the new strain of swine flu on Tuesday in two boys from California’s two southernmost counties.Now, five more cases have been seen — all found via normal surveillance for seasonal influenza.

None of the patients, whose symptoms closely resembled seasonal flu, had any direct contact with pigs.”We believe at this point that human-to-human spread is occurring,” Schuchat said “That’s unusual We don’t know yet how widely it is spreading … We are also working with international partners to understand what is occurring in other parts of the world.”Two of the new cases were among 16-year-olds at the same school in San Antonio “and there’s a father-daughter pair in California,” Schuchat said. One of the boys whose cases was reported on Tuesday had flown to Dallas but the CDC has found no links to the other Texas cases.STRANGE MIXTUREUnusually, said the CDC’s Nancy Cox, the viruses all appear to carry genes from swine flu, avian flu and human flu viruses from North America, Europe and Asia.”We haven’t seen this strain before, but we hadn’t been looking as intensively as we have,” Schuchat said. “It’s very possible that this is something new that hasn’t been happening before.”Surveillance for and scrutiny of influenza has been stepped up since 2003, when highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza reappeared in Asia. Experts fear this strain, or another strain, could spark a pandemic that could kill millions.H5N1 currently only rarely infects people but has killed 257 out of 421 infected in 15 countries since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.The influenza strain is an H1N1, the same family as one of the seasonal flu viruses now circulating. Now that the normal influenza season is waning, it may be easier to spot cases of the new swine flu, Schuchat said.Only one of the seven cases was sick enough to be hospitalized and all have recovered, Schuchat said.”This isn’t something that a person could detect at home,” she said. The new cases appear to have somewhat more vomiting and diarrhea than is usually seen in flu, which mostly causes coughing, fever, sore throat and muscle aches.The CDC is asking doctors to think about the possibility of swine flu when patients appear with these symptoms, to take a sample and send it to state health officials or the CDC for testing.Cox said the CDC is already preparing a vaccine against the new strain, just in case “This is standard operating procedure,” Cox said.

The agency will issue daily updates hereSeasonal flu kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people globally in an average year. And every few decades, a completely new strain pops up and it can cause a pandemic, a global epidemic that kills many more than usual.(Editing by Eric Walsh) Health. Mike Ilitch is widely regarded as one of the better owners in sports. His Detroit Red Wings are in control of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals and have been on top for over a decade.They’re the New York Yankees of hockey. They consistently sell out Joe Louis Arena with All-Star lineups and fat payrolls. All the while Ilitch sits quietly in the background and enjoys the success.His Detroit Tigers are another story. For years, Ilitch entrusted his team to an incompetent GM while he learned the baseball business.Finally, Ilitch figured it out: Follow his hockey model.So after years of floundering, he hired Dave Dombrowski, one of the most revered GM’s in the sport.He infused the Montreal Expos organization with tons of talent that, because of payroll issues, other teams enjoyed after dealing for them.He quickly built the World Series Champion Florida Marlins team that won in 1997 and brought in most of the key pieces to the 2003 championship squad.Then he was brought to Detroit.