News Release
Contact: Barbara Haumann 413-774-7511, Ext. 20
For Immediate Release

GREENFIELD, Mass. (Aug. 13, 2008) -In an historic meeting arranged by the Organic Trade Association (OTA), representatives of the organic community met with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Bill Implementation Team Monday to discuss the implementation of organic provisions within the 2008 Farm Bill.

I have to start by apologizing for not writing more articles, but I have been helping a friend. My friend had a drug addiction and I was the one to put a stop to it. Having a drug addiction is a serious problem. It needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Not only is drug addictions a serious and rising problem so is alcoholism. Don't worry though there are places you can get help such as a rehab center. A Drug Rehabilitation center and an alcohol rehab center may have similar techniques to deal with these addictions.

In an Alcohol Rehab Program you can choose to stay at home and be monitored after being de-intoxicated or yo check into a center to help you and people with the same problem quit the addiction.

At a Drug Treatment Center like an alcohol center you check into a rehab center. Here you are de-intoxicated and then sent in for treatment. Treatment can be mental or physical or a combination of both.

A drug or alcohol addiction is a serious problem and if you know any one that has this problem helping them check into a center is doing them a huge favor, that's why I did.

Aphids are emerging as sentinels of climate change, researchers at BBSRC-supported Rothamsted Research have shown. One of the UK's most damaging aphids — the peach-potato aphid (Myzus persicae) — has been found to be flying two weeks earlier for every 1°C rise in mean temperature for January and February combined.

When Adam D. Haddad says painting at his Worcester auto body shop has gone green, it does not mean cars are done in the 40 shades of Ireland.

It means Accurate Collision at 1051 Millbury St. has switched to water-based paints from petroleum-based paints, making it one of the first shops in Massachusetts to be in compliance with new federal laws to cut down on air pollutants from auto painting and stripping.

Elephant seals swimming under Antarctic ice and fitted with special sensors are providing scientists with crucial data on ice formation, ocean currents and climate change, a study released on Tuesday said.

The seals swimming under winter sea ice have overcome a "blind-spot" for scientists by allowing them to calculate how fast sea ice forms during winter.