Six months and forty pounds-lighter, Buck was found wandering in the Montana wilderness after being separated from his family on a road trip. This brave retriever survived on his own in one of the worst winters Montana has had in the past three decades. (Read story at KOMO)
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There are 3 things you need to know right now about attracting all that you desire:
1) There are 4 Stages of Awakening.
2) 90% of us remain stuck in the first stage of awakening.
3) It is impossible to achieve our desires in this first stage. But we only need to make a subtle but profound shift to move to the second level.
So says one of the most recognized stars of “The Secret,” Joe Vitale. He wants to help you recognize why you’re stuck.
The Masters Gathering is kicking off tomorrow (a virtual coaching platform), and in order to promote the event, they have been posting free videos (and I am passing them along) featuring people like Joe Vitale, financial guru, Laura Langemeier, and John Assaraf with his 30 minute talk which I entitled, Is Meditation a Superpower?.
Vitale reveals why our attempts to manipulate our lives, our experience, and the universe haven’t worked, and the simple shift that can open the floodgates to success. Click here to see Joe’s latest fascinating 20-minute discussion on The Four Stages of Awakening. It is more detailed and in-depth than The Secret.
Also, there is a free tele-seminar happening today in about an hour, and even if you can’t make it, you can get the recording immediately when you click below. The live discussion features The Secret stars, Joe Vitale, Hale Dwoskin and Harrison Klein as they answer, in uncensored style, the questions that have come into the Masters Gathering blog so far.
Wednesday February 4th at 12 Noon EST
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Steps to curb air pollution in the United States are paying off, helping to dramatically increase average life spans, a new study says.
Researchers at Brigham Young University and the Harvard School of Public Health report in the Jan. 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that the average life expectancy in 51 U.S. cities increased nearly three years over recent decades. (WebMD.com)
American rocker Bruce Springsteen turns 60 this year, yet he rocked the Super Bowl on Sunday with the physical dexterity and excitement of a man half his age, dropping to his knees and sliding across the stage.
“The Boss” beamed throughout his 4-song set, impelling the audience to “step back from the guacamole” and “put down the chicken finger and turn up the volume”. 
The song list began with Tenth Avenue Freeze Out and Born to Run, and ended with Working on a Dream and Glory Days.
The 43rd Super Bowl drew more viewers this year than in any football game ever, 150 million people.
If you missed the fireworks intensive halftime performance, check out the video below:
Ten new species of amphibians — including three kinds of poison dart frogs and three transparent-skinned glass frogs — have been discovered in the mountains of Colombia, scientists announced Monday.
Herpetologists from Conservation International (CI) and ornithologists from the Ecotrópico Foundation recorded their discoveries while on an expedition designed to explore the variety of species found in the region.
Over a period of three weeks, in Colombia’s mountainous Tacarcuna area of the Darien, near the border with Panama, the scientists identified approximately 60 different species of amphibians, 20 reptiles and almost 120 species of birds, many of them apparently found no where else. (Above right – New species of rain frog found in Colombia: Photo by Marco Rada, Conservation International
Wind power in the US surged 50 percent last year, breaking a global record with its total capacity of 25 gigwatts (GW) — enough to power approximately seven million homes.
The United States now claims the largest wind energy capacity in the world, taking the lead from Germany, which had 23.9 GW at the end of 2008.
The wind energy industry’s rapid expansion demonstrates the potential for wind power to play a major role in not only providing clean, inexhaustible, domestically produced energy, but also in bolstering our nation’s economy with good jobs.
A Georgia family put all their belongings on eBay to pay their children’s medical bills, without a single taker. Then a Fort Worth couple offered $20,000 for the lot — on one condition. “Take our money but keep your stuff.” Keith and Donnia Blair didn’t want the bedroom sets, the appliances, the 62-inch high-definition television, the swing sets or the 2000 Chevrolet Tahoe. (Story in the NY Daily News)
(Photo courtesy of Sun Star)
Two nights before the Super Bowl, while at a Tampa restaurant with his family, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner selected a group of 20 Pittsburgh Steelers fans and paid for their meal. The generosity toward his rivals added a unique twist for his family and their tradition of choosing a table for which they pick up the tab every time they go out to eat. They were all dining at The Cheesecake Factory. (AP story at MSNBC)
Researchers in America have reported encouraging results from a trial treating people with MS with stem cells derived from their bone marrow.
The study, reported in the Lancet Neurology, involved 21 people with relapsing/remitting MS who had had two relapses in the previous year despite treatment with beta interferon. The injections of stem cells followed courses of treatment with immune suppressing drugs.
The researchers reported that this treatment is ‘a feasible procedure that not only seems to prevent neurological progression, but also appears to reverse neurological disability’. They drew attention to the need for larger, randomized trials.
Following treatment, the participants were followed for an average of three years. All 21 showed no worsening of disability as measured by the EDSS scale, and 17 improved by at least one point. 16 people experienced no further relapses following the stem cell treatment.
Pam Macfarlane, Chief Executive of the MS Trust said, “These results are very encouraging and show the potential of stem cells as a treatment for MS. This is a small study and we look forward to larger trials with more people.”
Reference
“Autologous non-myeloablative haemopoietic stem cell transplantation in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a phase I/II study.”
The Lancet Neurology, 30 January 2009 [epub]
(MS Trust) – Photo by NIH Image Gallery, CC license on Flickr
A Silicon Valley venture capital firm will invest more than $1 billion in green startups over the next 24 to 30 months, Managing Partner Alan Salzman told Reuters at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. VantagePoint Venture Partners will “probably back 10 to 15 companies over the course of 2009,” he said. (Read more at Reuters News)
Some 3 million Muslims joined in a mass prayer ceremony Sunday in Bangladesh, seeking blessings for all Muslims as well as global peace and prosperity. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led the prayer, capping off a three-day event, which is one of the world’s largest religious gatherings. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer w/ photo)
Using funds from the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund, the Obama administration on Friday made an emergency contribution of more than $20 million for urgent relief efforts in the Gaza Strip, a day after the United Nations launched an appeal for $613 million to help Palestinians recover from Israel’s three-week military operation there. (AP story via Minn. Star-Tribune)
Author of Why Dirt Is Good, Mary Ruebush says the lack of germs and dirt in a child’s environment and over-washing of hands may be linked to the formation of severe illnesses — even diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
The theory, backed by research, is called the hygiene hypothesis.
Scientists believe that our bodies use the germs to create a healthy immune system. Not only that, but the use of antibacterial soap to wash hands, which has been described as akin to using a jack-hammer to kill an ant, is likely resulting in the contamination of water, harmful to the development of frogs and potentially humans.
Read more about this research in these Canadian warnings against anti-bacterial soap.
Triclosan, the same ingredient in antibacterial soaps and cleaners, which are suspected in the malformation of frogs, is also being used as a germ killer in toothpaste and mouth wash! Molecular biologist John Gustafson insists that triclosan belongs only in hospitals and clinics, “not in the homes of healthy people.” (Scientific American)
See a list of products to avoid at Treehugger.com.
Polls have closed throughout Iraq in a recent election, as citizens voted for over 400 council seats. And, it was almost entirely a violence-free process. The local seats on 14 new councils were created to better reflect Iraq’s diverse ethnic and religious population. (Video below may take a moment to load.)
Businesses dispose of cardboard shipping boxes by the truckload and recycling isn’t always the best answer because the process of recycling cardboard requires a great deal of energy, the use of chemicals and leaves behind emissions that have their own negative effect on the environment. Cardboard containers make up nearly 14 percent of U.S. municipal solid waste, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, the largest single component of city landfills.
Now a company is helping save trees, energy, our environment and consumers’ money by reusing quality cardboard boxes and shipping them to households who need them for moving.
Ken Wollberg, a classically trained violinist, returned to the hospital where surgeons reattached his triceps and tissue to show his appreciation with a concert. Wollberg thought he might never be able to play music again after a trucking accident, but after months of therapy, one revision surgery and a lot of stretching, he was finally able to resume his love affair with the violin.
Wollberg, 59, of Goreville, IL, worked in the truck driving business. The accident occurred two days after Christmas in 2007. He and his wife had just entered Montana on the way to Portland, OR, when the roads suddenly became icy. The stack of three trailers slid on the ice and then caused the truck to turn on its side. The truck was totaled; the accident sheared bone off Wollberg’s left elbow and damaged his triceps. “Strangely, I wasn’t in a lot of pain,” he said. “But I couldn’t do anything with my elbow.”
NPR “buried the lead” in its story of a working family with 8 kids trying to make ends meet.
The real inspiring facts come in the middle of the radio report as we learn that this family, already financially strapped, agrees to take in 4 boys whose dad has just committed suicide. Hear the audio tale at NPR.
(Photo courtesy of Sun Star)
Newly minted Canadian millionaire Jorma Hogbacka made good this week on an old promise to share his $14.8 million lottery win with a group of former waitresses who used to help him pick Lotto numbers — and served coffee with a smile.
Photo courtesy of Sun Star
Before anyone mistakes the current market slump for a reason to drive us back into pensions, consider that historically the stock market recovers and even rallies well before the job market bottoms out. So out-of-work Americans who have a 401(k), including myself, should take heart. (Continue reading at Christian Science Monitor)
“Well, this is a wonderful day,” said President Obama, before signing his first major piece of legislation, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, which will make it easier for people to get equal pay regardless of their gender, race, or age.
“It is fitting that the very first bill that I sign is upholding one of this nation’s founding principles: that we are all created equal.”
Surrounded by leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and with the new law’s namesake, Lilly Ledbetter, receiving the cermonial pen, President Obama signed into law a powerful tool to fight discrimination.
“Ultimately, equal pay isn’t just an economic issue for millions of Americans and their families, it’s a question of who we are — and whether we’re truly living up to our fundamental ideals,” President Obama said. “Whether we’ll do our part, as generations before us, to ensure those words put on paper some 200 years ago really mean something — to breathe new life into them with a more enlightened understanding that is appropriate for our time.”
Mrs. Ledbetter spoke in the following White House video about what the new law means to her. Watch the video, which includes the president’s remarks, below, or read the full text of remarks by the president, and those of Michelle Obama from the reception that followed the ceremony, at the bottom.
