There is some most wonderful news that I want to post and didn't know where on this group so I created this good news thread for any type of good news you would like to crow about!   It can be personal, about animals, doctor's reports.....ANYTHING!

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Visit the beautiful grey seal nursery that was spared from the hunt. Watch the video

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Dear Vivian,

I have some wonderful news to report. I have just returned from the shores of Hay Island, Nova Scotia, where the annual hunt for grey seals was scheduled to start. There, instead of bearing witness to sealers beating defenseless seal pups to death with wooden bats, I stood amidst a spectacular nursery, alive with protective, nurturing mothers and their babies. Here is a video of those lucky seals.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the government of Nova Scotia announced last week that they were authorizing another grey seal kill. But yesterday, seal processing plants told seal hunters that they would not buy the skins of the baby grey seals, and the sealers stayed home.

We have been working diligently to ban the trade in seal products in Europe, and buyers are now unwilling to purchase grey seal pelts because global markets are evaporating. With the pending ban on seal product trade in the European Union, the writing is on the wall -- this is the beginning of the end of the commercial seal slaughter.

Many sealers are now openly wondering whether shrinking markets will also impact the imminent commercial harp seal kill. In light of these developments, HSI Canada is urging the Canadian government to buy out sealing licenses and develop alternative economies for coastal communities.

The grey seal pups are likely safe for now, but in just a few weeks, the true target of the world's largest slaughter of marine mammals -- the harp seals -- will be killed by the hundreds of thousands in horrible ways. Still, just as with the grey seals, there is hope for the harp seals. Not only is the demand for seal products drying up; the boycott of Canadian seafood products is costing the Canadian seafood industry far more than the seal hunt brings in.

Thank you for helping us keep up the fight for seals, and for all that you do for animals. Sadly, this is just the beginning of the commercial seal hunting season in Canada. We will be working to protect these magnificent creatures until the commercial hunt is over for good.

In celebration,

Rebecca Aldworth
Director, Wildlife Issues
Humane Society International/Canada

P.S. Please help us keep the pressure on the Canadian government to end the seal hunt forever by telling your friends and f

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Great news Vicky! One small step will hopefully lead into a big one for the seals!!!!. Vicky I have good news about some test results. As you knew I was having some health problems.  The mass on my ovary was not cancerous!!!!! Although I ended up at the hospital early Friday morning with this mass causing a severe problem. I made it through.  After a painful procedure, high fever and a lot of throwing up. I will be okay! Although I am quite tired and little under weight. I think things will be okay finally. I have a long road ahead to put some weight on. But dear Vicky I thank you for all your support and love you gave me during all this.

I truly love you for being there for me when I needed someone.....

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Marjorie and Jill that is such good news for both of you!   I know how much trepidation you both were feeling, waiting on the results!   I am very happy and thank you for sharing your results with us and I hope your health continues to improve on a daily basis!

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Dear Jill: So happy to hear that you are okay. Thank the Lord. Vicky even in the darkest situations you bring the light my girl. Love ya, love ya, love ya.....

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Thank you for your sweet comments, Marjorie.   You are such a kind person.   Hugs to you my dear friend!

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Greenpeace agrees with you that ancient forests like the Canadian Boreal Forest need protection. That's why we are happy with Kimberly-Clark's new policy because it immediately protects areas of ancient forest and will protect much more over time.

We launched the Kleercut campaign in November 2004 because of the serious impact Kimberly-Clark was having on ancient forests. After nearly five years, with the support of activists and volunteers worldwide, we believe that we have an agreement that will protect ancient forests.

We hope you understand that complete change does not happen overnight - neither for governments nor individuals, nor for multi-national corporations like Kimberly-Clark. But change has already taken place for the betterment of ancient forests under Kimberly-Clark's new policy. We are confident that change will continue to happen. Let me tell you how.

For more than seven decades, Kimberly-Clark purchased pulp from the 2 million hectare (5 million acre) Kenogami Forest in Northern Ontario. At times, they purchased more than 400,000 tonnes of pulp, or 13% of their total global supply of virgin fibre, from this forest. In recent years, they also received pulp from the adjoining Ogoki Forest (1 million hectares or 2.5 million acres). These forests hold big intact wilderness spaces that are vital to species such as woodland caribou. During the evolution of the policy and as a result of our campaign, today we are happy to say that Kimberly-Clark is no longer buying pulp from these forests. The reason? The current manager of the forest, Buchanan Forest Products, refused to meet the strict ecological criteria that Kimberly-Clark laid out in their new policy.

We believe this is real change on the ground that will lead to more conservation of these two forests.

A key element of Kimberly-Clark's new policy is the company's commitment to stop using any fibre from the world's most ecologically sensitive forests areas: Endangered Forests and High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) areas apped as no-harvest zones. They also agreed not to source fiber from a number of other forests, including primary tropical rainforests.  These are the forest areas that we have been fighting to protect during the 5years of this campaign.

Additionally, Kimberly-Clark is reducing its pressure on ancient forests by increasing the amount of recycled fibre used in their products, and giving a preference for post-consumer paper. This will spur increased recycling efforts and diversion of paper waste from landfill. And during the campaign, Kimberly-Clark launched a new line of tissue products for consumers that contain recycled fibre - called Scott and Kleenex Naturals. This is the first time these brands of consumer products have included recycled fibre.

The policy also increases the use of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified fiber, which currently is the only certification system in the world that supports and verifies environmentally responsible and socially just forest management. Kimberly-Clark's commitment is to ensure that 40 percent (up from 29% today) of the fibre used in North American tissue products - representing an estimated 600,000 tonnes - is either recycled or FSC certified by 2011. This is a very big jump for a corporation the size of Kimberly-Clark.

Also and very central to our campaign, the company is making big positive change in the Boreal Forest. In less than a year and a half, Kimberly-Clark will no longer buy any wood fiber from the Canadian Boreal Forest that is not FSC certified. They are decreasing this from over 400,000 tonnes in 2007 to zero by the end of 2011. This is real change on the ground. We believe this will shake up the forest products industry worldwide and to lead to a decrease in further threats to ancient forests.

Certainly, there is still more to be done. We are not going away. We can promise you that we will work with Kimberly-Clark to ensure the policy is fully implemented in the coming years.

The challenge is now out to Kimberly-Clark's competitors and the rest of the pulp and paper sector to stop destroying ancient forests. With your help, we will continue to pressure these companies to reach and exceed the new bar for forest protection set by this agreement.

Please visit http://www.greenpeace.ca/kleercutvictory to find out more about what is included in this policy, its highlights and the announcement.

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doctor´s report: a cold won´t approach if,

you eat half a raw onion - 50 to 80 gramm - a day:

take a little bowl, finely cut up the onion, put in olive oil or a good cholesterolfree sunflower oil --one or 2 spoonfuls--, a dash of salt, -(you can add some herb such as dry dill or dry basil, a pinch, but not necessarily, that´s just the way I eat it, coz so, you won´t have the usual "unpleasant" onion odour)- and eat with a slice of wholemeal bread, toasted or not...same.

Unbelievable the effect ! Yes, go for it and make it a habit, at least in winter...And remember, no result if not enough liquid during the day like water, green tea, coffee, juice to "clean" , and am intentionally using " clean "  therefore clean the stomach, the stomach we´ve made a trash can of during the last 50 years...

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I need to complement, sorry.

" ...trash can "...hence diseases incl. of headache, colds to name only these...

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