A retail sales jump in August — by the largest amount in five months — suggests the spring downturn was temporary and not the start of another recession.
The Commerce Department says retail sales rose 0.4 percent last month — 0.6 percent, if auto sales are excluded.
That’s double the amount economists had expected and follows a 0.3 percent rise in July.
The advance was the latest indication that the economy is regaining its footing.
(READ the full AP story)
Amalaki, a simple fruit from India, has been a superstar of eastern medicine for thousands of years.
Unknown in the west, the fruit has a historical place of honor in the ancient Indian healing system known as Ayurveda, which describes this fruit as very important for cell revitalization, immune system function and overall vitality.
Grown at the base of the Himalayan Mountains, Amalaki, (Emblica officinalis, also known as Amla in Hindi, or Indian gooseberry), is revered in India and considered sacred throughout Hinduism. Modern research reveals the ancient knowledge and traditions regarding Amalaki have a basis in fact.
Research studies available from the National Institute of Health indicate the green fruit, which is between the size of a grape and a golf ball, shows efficacy in all the following areas:
How can a single fruit effect so many different parts of our health? The answer may be in the unique phytochemical signature of this amazing fruit. Ancient herbalists might say “it’s good for everything.” Science now has a term for the plant compounds that yield multiple health benefits. These herbal remedies are now known as Adaptagens.
Adaptagens are plant compounds from a single plant that effect whole body systems. Herbalists in the past called them “Tonics”.
If you have a health concern, you can find an Adaptagen to address it. Scientific research has now been conducted on Amalaki and other Adaptagens, including Cordeceps, Holy Basil, Ginseng, Licorice, Maca, Reshi, and Rhodiola– research that gained momentum in Russia during the cold war era.
Preliminary research on Amalaki demonstrated antiviral and antimicrobial properties; showed potential efficacy against laboratory models of disease, such as cancer, age-related renal disease, and diabetes, along with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis.*
Amalaki, a simple fruit from India now has modern research that supports its ancient history of healing.
Scientific information regarding health claims can be found at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a website hosted by the the National Institutes of Health. (Search “amla’ or “Embicla officinalis”) *Also, see Wikipedia for research footnotes.
Jim Herren is an internet researcher providing information on raw foods, products, articles and ideas for a transformational life of Brilliance and Joy, at Rawfoodwisdom.blogspot.com
Amalaki, a simple fruit from India, has been a superstar of eastern medicine for thousands of years.
Unknown in the west, the fruit has a historical place of honor in the ancient Indian healing system known as Ayurveda, which describes this fruit as very important for cell revitalization, immune system function and overall vitality.
Grown at the base of the Himalayan Mountains, Amalaki, (Emblica officinalis, also known as Amla in Hindi, or Indian gooseberry), is revered in India and considered sacred throughout Hinduism. Modern research reveals the ancient knowledge and traditions regarding Amalaki have a basis in fact.
NOAA government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating “dead zones” where fish cannot survive.
Outside scientists said this so far vindicates the difficult and much-debated decision by BP and the government to use massive amounts of chemical dispersants deep underwater to break up the oil before it reached the surface.
Larry McKinney, director of a Gulf of Mexico research center at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, said the new federal data showed that it was a “nearly perfect” outcome.
(READ the AP story in WTOP News)
Britain’s wind farms hit record power output levels last week on Monday and at its peak period was generating the same amount of electricity as almost four nuclear power stations, according to energy network operator National Grid.
(READ the story in Reuters)
After years of trying to dodge the fame Olympic success brought her, an Aboriginal athlete who carried the torch that opened the Sydney Games in 2000 and won the 400-meter gold to fulfill her nation’s expectations, decided to use her celebrity to help educate the Aboriginal children from northeastern Australia, where her mother was born.
As the name and face of the Catherine Freeman Foundation, a charity devoted to helping to educate Aboriginal children from Palm Island in northeastern Australia, she has no problem conveying the challenge she now confronts. “It is a national disgrace,” she said.
(READ her story in the New York Times)
From the Mayo Clinic comes this new video demonstrating an easier way to do CPR on adults that promises a three-times-normal survival rate for victims of heart failure…
Sporting events can always be counted on to bring feuding nations together – think, US ping pong players visiting in China in the 1970’s.
In a show of unity Friday, India and Pakistan found themselves sitting on the same side while two tennis stars from the traditionally warring nations joined together on the court in the US Open Men’s Doubles final.
“Stop War, Win Tennis” was the mantra as the 16th-seeded pair rolled over opponents in the tournament winning every set until the duo, called the “Indo-Pak Express”, ran out of steam in the final, losing to top-seeded Americans, Bob and Mike Byron, in straight sets via tie breaks, 6-7, 6-7.
But the score didn’t mattered to the crowd which turned out in full force to see Indian Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi join forces.
Indians and Pakistanis from the New York area showing up in good numbers to cheer them on and the two nations’ UN Representatives sat together dressed in matching beige jackets.
It was a beautiful thing to see,” Mr. Qureshi said. “If me and Rohan can get along so well, on and off the court, there’s no reason the Indians and Pakistanis can’t get along with each other.”
It was a bright spot in an otherwise devastated Pakistan, following historic floods that displaced millions of people and disrupted all semblance of normal life there.
Watch the video of their speeches below…
(READ the story from Business Standard)
Sporting events can always be counted on to bring feuding nations together – think, US ping pong players visiting in China in the 1970’s.
In a show of unity Friday, India and Pakistan found themselves sitting on the same side while two tennis stars from the traditionally warring nations joined together on the court in the US Open Men’s Doubles final.
“Stop War, Win Tennis” was the mantra as the 16th-seeded pair rolled over opponents in the tournament winning every set until the duo, called the “Indo-Pak Express”, ran out of steam in the final, losing to top-seeded Americans, Bob and Mike Byron, in straight sets via tie breaks, 6-7, 6-7.
But the score didn’t mattered to the crowd which turned out in full force to see Indian Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi join forces.
Researchers looking for new, cheap energy sources have found one answer in the junk food aisle at the grocery store. Sugary drinks as well as vegetable oils and plain old table sugar could one day be used to recharge cell phones and laptops.
Scientists recently reported a remarkable “first” at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). They’ve created the first fuel cell that can transform sugar and fats into electricity.
(READ the full story at NaturalNews.com)
If you crunch the numbers, some experts say, college is a bad investment while there are cheaper and better ways to get an education: pursue a dream — travel, do something creative or start a business.
(READ the story in the Washington Post)
Given the vitriolic opposition now to the proposed Muslim community center two blocks from ground zero, one might say something else has been destroyed: the realization that Muslim people and the Muslim religion were part of everyday life at the World Trade Center.
On any given day, financial analysts, carpenters, receptionists, secretaries and ironworkers gathered in the Muslim prayer room on the 17th floor of the World Trade Center’s south tower
Things may not be as bleak as they once seemed for one endangered sea turtle. A new survey finds that hawksbill turtles are more widespread in the eastern Pacific than earlier studies had suggested.
Surveys conducted between January 2007 and May 2009 found hawksbills nesting on beaches in 6 nations in the eastern Pacific, and swimming in coastal waters off 7 nations.
A rare Sierra Nevada red fox has been seen in the Stanislaus National Forest near Sonora Pass, confirming that the species continues to survive in a region where it was thought to be extinct for nearly a century.
The Sierra Nevada red fox is one of the rarest mammals in North America. Until now, only about 20 were known to exist in a small area of Lassen Volcanic National Park — a number considered too small to support the species long-term.
The murder rate has fallen by 8.6% over the past year in South Africa, latest statistics show. The total number of murders was now about a third lower than 14 years ago.
Street robberies and sexual offences also showed declines of 10.4% and a 4.4% respectively.
(READ the story in the BBC)
In the only interview he has given an American journalist since he left office, Fidel Castro told a reporter from The Atlantic magazine that Cuba’s communist economic model doesn’t work — even for Cuba.
Julia Sweig, a Cuba expert at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations who accompanied Goldberg on the trip, confirmed the Cuban leader’s comment. She told The Associated Press she took the remark to be in line with Raul Castro’s call for gradual but widespread reform.
(READ more of the AP story)
From traditional instruments to rock guitars – the Afghan National Institute of Music gives disadvantaged children the chance to play a part in the resurgence of music in Afghanistan, which was widely banned under the Taliban regime as un-Islamic.
“You see Kabul was a very thriving, Afghanistan had a very thriving music community thirty years back and, as you know, the history, when the Talibans came they destroyed all the music instruments and now we are trying to revive it. And it should be revived. Kabul, Afghanistan has a very rich musical background.”
From traditional instruments to rock guitars – the Afghan National Institute of Music gives disadvantaged children the chance to play a part in the resurgence of music in Afghanistan, which was widely banned under the Taliban regime as un-Islamic.
“You see Kabul was a very thriving, Afghanistan had a very thriving music community thirty years back and, as you know, the history, when the Talibans came they destroyed all the music instruments and now we are trying to revive it. And it should be revived. Kabul, Afghanistan has a very rich musical background.”
The American Library Association and librarians across the country have moved the Qur’an to the top of their list for titles celebrated during their upcoming Banned Books Week, September 25 – October 2, 2010, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.
Leading the way will be librarians assembled tomorrow on the steps of the American Library Association headquarters in Chicago at 1 p.m. for a public reading from the Qur’an.
“Free people read freely,” says Barbara Jones, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom. “That is a fundamental principle of the American Constitution and a basic mission of public libraries. We don’t burn books, we read them.”
“The librarians of America will not stand by and let ignorance rule,” says ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels. “For every would-be book burner, there are thousands of readers who will speak out for the freedom to peaceably assemble and read whatever they choose.”
The books featured during Banned Books Week, including To Kill A Mockingbird, Twilight, Catcher in the Rye, The Color Purple and Harry Potter, have been targets of attempted bannings. While some books were banned or restricted, fortunately, in a majority of cases the proposed bans did not succeed, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections.
The American Library Association and librarians across the country have moved the Qur’an to the top of their list for titles celebrated during their upcoming Banned Books Week, September 25 – October 2, 2010, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.
Leading the way will be librarians assembled on September 11 on the steps of the American Library Association headquarters in Chicago at 1 p.m. for a public reading from the Qur’an.
