Inflammation caused by an automobile accident left Christina suffering for 16 years with a headache that wouldn’t go away. After hearing about a health clinic, True North, she decided to take a leap of faith and try a water fast.
After 41 days of fasting, the constant pain disappeared.
WATCH her tell her story below, via Renegade Health blog...
Inflammation caused by an automobile accident left Christina suffering for 16 years with a headache that wouldn’t go away. After hearing about a health clinic, True North, she decided to take a leap of faith and try a water fast.
After 41 days of fasting, the constant pain disappeared.
WATCH her tell her story below, via Renegade Health blog...
Afghanistan said on Sunday it had discovered an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of the war-ravaged country, after a survey conducted by Afghan and international geologists.
Vast tracts of mineral deposits also have been discovered recently. Afghanistan hopes that untapped mineral deposits valued at $3 trillion could help reduce the need to rely on Western cash for bankrolling its impoverished economy and for its soldiers to maintain security when foreign troops draw down numbers.
(READ the full story in Reuters)
Last month, First Lady Michelle Obama told residents of Florida that she was bringing her family on a summer vacation to Maine. They suggested, ‘Why not vacation here on the white sand beaches of the Gulf coast where businesses are suffering with the BP oil spill having scared away tourists?’
Well, on Saturday, the First Family did just that, traveling to Panama City Beach, where, besides swimming in the clean water with his daughter, President Obama met with small business owners to discuss the recovery.
Following the roundtable discussion, the President spoke about his sustained commitment to the Gulf.
“Already, more than 26,000 square miles were reopened for fishing at the end of July, and another 5,000 were reopened earlier this week. We’ll be reopening more areas as tests show that the waters are safe.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has successfully completed cleanup work at the Asbestos Dump Superfund site in Morris County, New Jersey, which is adjacent to a National Wildlife Refuge.
After assessing monitoring data, EPA has determined that the asbestos has been successfully contained, and no longer poses a significant threat to public health or the environment.
According to the superfund site info to date, nearly 350 Superfund sites nationally have been cleaned up and deleted from the hazardous sites list.
“Thanks to EPA’s efforts, the cleanup was successful, clearing the way for the deletion of this property from the Superfund list of the country’s most hazardous waste sites,” said EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck.
The Asbestos Dump site consisted of four separate properties, one of which was a a 7,700 acre tract of wooded and wetland area, part of the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) — a Registered National Natural Landmark that receives approximately 185,000 visitors per year.
Between 1927 and 1975, under the operation of several different manufacturing companies, waste products containing asbestos were disposed of throughout the site, resulting in soil contamination. The nearby Passaic River was also threatened by runoff of contaminated surface water from the site. Currently, site properties are owned by the State of New Jersey, USFWS, and private parties. National Gypsum Company is the responsible party for the site and paid in part for the cleanup.
The site was placed on the National Priorities List in 1983. Cleanup actions included consolidating and solidifying contaminated material in designated areas on-site, capping those areas, installing systems to divert surface runoff, slope protection and stabilization plans, drainage improvements, erosion controls, assessments of wetlands impacts, and restrictions on future uses for particular portions of the site. EPA’s partner agencies, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and USFWS, are responsible for the ongoing monitoring and maintenance activities at the site. EPA will review conditions at the site every five years to ensure that the work it did continues to protect the public and the environment. In February 2002, the completion of cleanup activities at the White Bridge Road portion of the site enabled EPA to delete that property from the National Priorities List. The current deletion applies to the remaining two areas of the Asbestos Dump site – the Millington unit and the Dietzman Tract.
The site has now been deleted from the National Priorities List of hazardous waste sites, commonly known as the Superfund list, after the public comment period earlier this year produced no objections.
Read about Superfund successes at the EPA: www.epa.gov/superfund
Every health and lifestyle magazine contains articles claiming stress is bad for us. They list dozens of ways to relieve stress, from exercise to healthier foods to relaxation techniques especially for people who take care of others and tend to neglect themselves.
But stress is not always as bad as these cautionary articles insist. In fact, some stress is actually necessary to keep us going and growing.
Our individual responses to different types and levels of stress can either drain or energize us. It is how we perceive and process both ongoing and unexpected stressors that intensifies or reduces their impact on our bodies, minds and emotions.
Every health and lifestyle magazine contains articles claiming stress is bad for us. They list dozens of ways to relieve stress, from exercise to healthier foods to relaxation techniques especially for people who take care of others and tend to neglect themselves.
But stress is not always as bad as these cautionary articles insist. In fact, some stress is actually necessary to keep us going and growing.
Our individual responses to different types and levels of stress can either drain or energize us. It is how we perceive and process both ongoing and unexpected stressors that intensifies or reduces their impact on our bodies, minds and emotions.
You don’t have to be rich, famous or even an adult to leave a memorable legacy that can change lives.
Just ask the mother of a 15-year-old girl whose organ donations left a lasting legacy for her family after she died in a car accident in 2001.
Seven people got Colbey’s organs. Her lungs went to Valerie Vandervort, a 29-year-old Oklahoma woman with cystic fibrosis. In the nine years since, Ms. Vandervort has run three 5K races, hiked a mountain, danced at her sister’s wedding, doted on her nieces and nephews, and won medals in swimming at the 2010 National Kidney Foundation United States Transplant Games.
A young woman was placed by the state of Alabama in a nursing home with only senior citizens because she had cerebral palsy and no family members who could adequately care for her.
When Donna Emens saw the story in the newspaper, she recognized her as the little girl that warmed her heart as a student in her Head Start class.
She didn’t know how they would do it, but Donna and her family vowed to get the 21-year-old out of the nursing home and into a real home.
WATCH the story below, or at MSNBC…
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A young woman was placed by the state of Alabama in a nursing home with only senior citizens because she had cerebral palsy and no family members who could adequately care for her.
When Donna Emens saw the story in the newspaper, she recognized her as the little girl that warmed her heart as a student in her Head Start class.
She didn’t know how they would do it, but Donna and her family vowed to get the 21-year-old out of the nursing home and into a real home.
WATCH the story below, or at MSNBC…
Landfills, with the tendency to belch noxious greenhouse gases, have long gotten a bad rap from environmentalists.
But now several clean-power technology companies are demonstrating that waste can be a source of environmentally friendly energy.
FlexEnergy, a California company, showed off a pilot generator Thursday that converts previously unusable methane gas seeping from a Riverside County landfill into 100 kilowatts of electricity, which could be used to help run the sprawling landfill operations or light up more than 100 homes.
(READ the story in the LA Times)
At 92 years old (yes, 92), Sidney Harman, audio industry pioneer, philanthropist, author, university professor, and lover of Shakespeare decided to embark on a business venture that lost nearly $30 million last year.
The man of “boundless energy and cheeky one-liners” bought Newsweek magazine, his daughter says, because he is a man who needs a worthwhile project.
(READ the article in the New York Times)
Aid organizations say there has been an “overwhelming” response from people in Wales to the floods in Pakistan, which have affected 20 million citizens there.
There is an estimated 16,000 people of Pakistani descent living in Wales.
People in Wales have donated well over £250,000 (almost a half million dollars) via its website while individuals and groups were organizing ongoing fundraising activities.
(READ the full story from the BBC)
U.S. Army choppers carrying emergency food and water buzzed over the swollen river and washed-out bridges, landing in the valley once controlled by the Taliban.
They returned laden with grateful Pakistani flood survivors – newly won friends in a country where many regard America as the enemy.
“We have been waiting for this day for so long,” said Habib-ur-Rehman. “Thank you, America.”
(READ the AP story, w/ photos, in the Washington Post)
In spite of a series of unsettling economic reports, a New Jersey non-profit group delivered an encouraging message to prospective low- and moderate-income home buyers Saturday.
People willing to make the commitment can still get low-interest mortgages and down-payment assistance to buy their first homes, New Jersey Citizen Action told women, who are statistically less likely to own their own homes.
At the seminar on the organization’s free-loan counseling service, Melanie Casillas, almost broke into tears as she explained how she successfully completed the program three weeks ago: “Save your money, get your credit and you’ll get your house.”
The room exploded with applause as she announced that she bought her first home in Plainfield with a 3.75 percent interest rate.
(READ the story at NorthJersey.com)
Revelers in Times Square will reenact a moment captured on film 65 years ago today, when news of a Japanese surrender, which marked the end of World War II, reached the streets of New York City and a joyful sailor grabbed a nurse, spontaneously planting a victory kiss.
The famous photograph, taken by Alfred Eisentaedt and made iconic by Life magazine, was erected in 3-D this week with the unveiling of a giant 26-foot-high statue around which hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists will pucker up tonight at exactly 7:03 PM, memorializing the moment when the words came across the Times ticker: “Official: Truman announces Japanese surrender.”
The sculpture, called Unconditional Surrender, has been installed only for the weekend at the corner of 44th Street and Broadway, the spot the picture was a taken.
The Times Square Alliance is sponsoring the massive kiss-in, which will welcome veterans from World War II and Iraq and volunteers dressed in period costume to help celebrate the anniversary of V-J Day, says an AFP news report.
(SEE full story, history, and statue, in the Daily Mail)
Revelers in Times Square will reenact a moment captured on film 65 years ago today, when news of a Japanese surrender, which marked the end of World War II, reached the streets of New York City and a joyful sailor grabbed a nurse, spontaneously planting a victory kiss.
The famous photograph, taken by Alfred Eisentaedt and made iconic by Life magazine, was erected in 3-D this week with the unveiling of a giant 26-foot-high statue around which hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists will pucker up tonight at exactly 7:03 PM, memorializing the moment when the words came across the Times ticker: “Official: Truman announces Japanese surrender.”
The sculpture, called Unconditional Surrender, has been installed only for the weekend at the corner of 44th Street and Broadway, the spot the picture was a taken.
The Times Square Alliance is sponsoring the massive kiss-in, which will welcome veterans from World War II and Iraq and volunteers dressed in period costume to help celebrate the anniversary of V-J Day, says an AFP news report.
(SEE full story, history, and statue, in the Daily Mail)
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was enjoying a pint at his local pub in the Scottish Highlands when he got an idea that would change his life — and the lives of thousands of others.
After a trip to deliver food, clothing and blankets, and much thought and prayer, he quit his job, sold his home and dedicated himself to a simple premise: “People really are good,’ and it inspired me to be good too.”
Today, his Mary’s Meals program provides free meals to more than 400,000 children in 15 countries.
WATCH the video below, or read the story at CNN Heroes…
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2009 fell 1.3 percent, marking the first such decline in a decade, German renewable energy institute IWR said on Friday.
The institute cited the global economic crisis and rising investments in renewable energies for the fall in emissions.
(READ more from Reuters)
A woman whose cat caught a squirrel Wednesday was so worried for the animal that she called a cab to deliver it to the nearest wildlife rehabilitation center.
The squirrel arrived in a pet carrier with a humorous note attached.
(READ the story and click on the photo to read the note at WRAL.com)
