It seems that we keep hearing more and more often about people having problems with drugs, alcohol and even Pain Killer Addiction, don’t we? I don’t know if the problem is becoming worse, or if people are just being more open about the fact that they have a problem and the fact that they’ve gone to rehab to get help.

What do you think?

Certainly the stars seem to be more open about going to rehab these days!

If you, or someone that you know, has a problem with alcohol, drugs or appears to be addicted to pain killers you might want to visit the Sunset Malibu rehab facility.

The residential alcohol rehab and drug treatment center is located just outside of Los Angeles. The facility specializes in substance abuse treatments, alcohol detox, and pain killer treatment, as well as combination problems including eating disorders and depression.

Sunset Malibu is a well known treatment center where those in need of treatment for addiction problems can go and stay in a lovely private location.

Visit the website to get more information about their traditional and non-traditional treatment methods, and to view photos of the accommodations and facilities.

Hey, soon you’ll be able to go to a Los Angeles Dodgers game and get stuffed! The Dodgers are planing on introducing all you can eat seats next season. Anyone sitting in one of these “special” seats will be able to have all the Dodger Dogs that they can eat.

The all you can eat seats will be located in the right-field pavilion, and those purchasing tickets for these seats will be able to have as many franks, peanuts, popcorn, nachos and sodas that they want. The seats are going to cost $35 in advance, and $40 on game day. Beer, ice cream and candy will still be sold for regular prices to the special seat holders.

As soon as I came across HotelReservations.com a few weeks ago I was sure to bookmark it. We don’t do a lot of traveling, not lately anyway, but I’m keeping this site in mind for the next time that one or both of us ends up traveling and needs to make Hotel Reservations. I know we’ll find rooms that are in good hotels and for reasonable prices.

As I said we don’t travel much so that should put a little bit of weight on the fact that I have bookmarked this site. Why did I bookmark it? Well, because I know that when we do travel to just about anywhere in the world I can go to Hotelreservations.com and find not only hotel rooms to book right then and there, but car rentals, and flights too.

This site actually fulfills many vacation needs. As I’ve browsed through the site I’ve found that if I’d prefer to book a vacation rental - perhaps a ski chalet in the winter, or a summer house on the beach I can probably find accommodations at these types of lodgings too. It’s not just hotel rentals.

In fact, they even have complete vacation packages. You can click on their vacation package tab, then fill out a little bit of information such as the type of package you are looking for - flight, hotel and car or any combination. Then choose your departure city, and the city you’d like to visit.

Just for the heck of it I went through the process and decided what kind of packages they had for flight and hotel, for the weekend of Friday January 19th to Monday January 22nd from Toronto to Los Angeles for two adults.

I found that I could sort my results by price, hotel name, price or even city (if I’d chosen to have more than one travel destination). The first result at the top of the list, is I presume, the hotelreservations.com pick. They suggested hotel Angelino, with a total cost of $1464 for two adults and three nights hotel accommodations. I suppose that’s not bad. I then sorted by price and the lowest price I got was $1130. Now I know that prices for flights and hotel accommodations can be higher or lower depending on what day and what date you are traveling so I would suggest fooling around with departure dates in order to find the best prices. Perhaps if I’d chosen to book from Thursday to Sunday or different dates, I might have found a few lower prices.

I do think this is a site worth visiting. Please do visit hotelreservations.com for yourself and see if you think it’s as great a site as I do.

It’s amazing what you’ll find if you stare at your food long enough. Bodega Chocolates in Fountain Valley California says it found a 2 1/2 inch piece of chocolate that resembles the virgin Mary. A worker noticed the glob of chocolate in a mixing vat and thought that it had an amazing likeness to the Virgin Mary standing in prayer. “It’s absolutely a miracle,” said Jacinto Santacruz, 26, a Roman Catholic who in August discovered the 2 ½-inch-tall apparition at Bodega Chocolates.

This isn’t the first time that we’ve heard of religious images appearing in food or other items, for example they’ve been seen in bricks, logs, the gritty underpass of a Chicago expressway, a Tennessee coffee shop called Bongo Java and, last month, a tiny gold nugget found in the Arizona desert.

In 1977, a woman making burritos in Lake Arthur, N.M., saw the face of Jesus in the pattern of skillet burns on a tortilla. She was so enthralled by the tortilla that she built a shrine to house the Jesus tortilla, which was blessed by a priest, and thousands of people from across the country came to gaze and pray for its divine assistance in healing their ailments.

Muslims have also found Arabic script for Allah or Muhammad on fish scales, chicken eggs, lambs and beans.

Scientists call this phenomenon Pareidolia, the perception of patterns where none is intended. One professor who has studied this phenomenon says that it’s really just how humans are hard wired - “It’s really part of our basic perceptual and cognitive situation,” said Guthrie, a cultural anthropologist, retired Fordham University professor and author of “Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion.”

“It has to do with all kinds of misapprehensions that there is something humanlike in one’s environment, when really there’s not.”

At the root of the phenomenon, he said, is the survival instinct.

“It’s a built-in perceptual strategy,” Guthrie said. “In a situation of uncertainty, we guess that something is caused by the most important possibility.”

Hence, if you’re alone and hear a strange sound, even on a gusty night, you’re more likely to ask, “Who’s there?” than think it’s the wind. And if you happen to be religious, Guthrie said, your answer to “Who’s there?” may well be God. More specifically, Jesus in a fried tortilla.

The feelings generated by these perceptions can be powerful.

At Bodega Chocolates, Santacruz and her co-workers placed the chocolate Madonna in a small plastic case, and as news spread, crowds of the curious and devout began making pilgrimages to the shop, where they prayed, crossed themselves and knelt.

“It’s really emotional,” Santacruz said. “I can’t describe the feeling; the emotions make me cry.”

Other alleged miracles have proved profitable: A 10-year-old grilled-cheese sandwich with a pattern resembling the Virgin Mary sold on eBay in 2004 for $28,000; a pretzel in the shape of Mary cradling the infant Jesus fetched $10,600; and a water-stained piece of plaster cut from a shower wall bearing what looked like the face of Jesus brought in nearly $2,000.

Some manifestations get worldwide attention.

In 1996, the owner of Bongo Java in Nashville, Tenn., said he discovered a cinnamon bun bearing the likeness of Mother Teresa in profile.

Dubbed “the miracle nun bun,” the pastry got so much notice worldwide that he parlayed it into a commercial venture, selling nun-bun T-shirts and coffee mugs on the Internet.

The items were taken off the market when Mother Teresa complained, but he refused to stop exhibiting the renowned sweet, even after she died.

Eventually the bun was stolen during a 2005 Christmas Day break-in.

But it was the famous Jesus tortilla of New Mexico that some believe set the world standard for claims of miracle sightings.

After discovering it while making her husband’s breakfast, Maria Rubio mounted a display of the tortilla.

She quit her job as a maid to become full-time attendant to the shrine of the tortilla constructed in her home. And although a few competing miracle tortillas cropped up in subsequent years, none attracted anything approaching the fan base ascribed to the original.

Religious traditions are filled with tales of apparitions.

On Dec. 12, Roman Catholics celebrate the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, who they believe was first seen by a Mexican Indian named Juan Diego in 1531.

Similar apparitions of a gentle woman speaking soothing words have been noted worldwide.

Church officials say they don’t encourage such interpretations.

“The church encourages Christians to see the face of Christ in the homeless, the poor, the destitute and the immigrant, not in a plate of pasta,” said Tod Tamberg, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.