ABC, By: Sharnie Kim and Kier Shorey, 11/19/2013

Severe weather overnight has damaged buildings at Mount Garnet in far north Queensland. Daryl Camp from Emergency Management Queensland says a service station and at least three houses have lost part of their roofs. The storm also brought down trees and powerlines. Mr Camp says locals were taken by surprise. "The SES [State Emergency Service] guys could see the storm coming so they went in and started preparing, making sure they were ready," he said. "When the hail started coming down they all moved inside and closed the roller doors and what they had to do was park the cars against the doors because the winds were that strong they almost blew the roller doors in. A large tree fell down and blocked their building, the roller doors, so they cleaned that up and then they went straight out and they went around the town. They certainly weren't expecting it to be quite that severe and there was no severe thunderstorm warning for that area." Michael Chong from the Mount Garnet roadhouse says the storm was reminiscent of a cyclone.

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By: Karen Foster, 11/18/2013

Oregano is widely considered as nature’s antibiotic. It is an indispensable spice in Turkish, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American and Italian cuisine, oregano is the must-have ingredient in tomato sauces and pairs well with capers and olives. It may be one reason why people who eat a Mediterranean diet tend to live longer and healthier lives. The oil of the wild oregano plant has been shown to kill unwanted bacteria, fungus, yeast, parasites and viruses and is a powerful antihistamine. Oregano is an important culinary and medicinal herb that has been used in medicine and cooking for thousands of years – with a number of health benefits. It is a species of Origanum, belonging to the mint family (Lamiaceae).

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Natural Society, By: Christina Sarich, 11/19/2013

Since the 1920’s, a renegade nurse treated thousands of cancer patients in Canada with a little known tea made up of just four simple ingredients. By combining Burdock Root, Turkey Rhubarb (used in Chinese medicine to cleanse the colon), Sheep Sorrel (the whole plant including the root) and Slippery Elm (not yellow dock or curly dock as some companies now substitute the herbs in the formulas) Rene Caisse passed on a medicinal wonder which was said to have been passed to her from the Canadian Ojibwa Indians.

Caisse worked with cancer patients for decades, even enduring jail time due to her actions threatening Canadian drug companies. She was proving to be very successful in ‘treating’ cancer with her special tea. The drug companies charged people through the nose for their cancer treatments, but Nurse Caisse charged absolutely nothing.

Meditation for Health, By: Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D., 11/15/2013

You’re talking to a friend and there’s a pause in the conversation. You break the silence by saying what just popped in your mind. Your friend responds with, “No way! I was thinking the exact same thing.” You stumble upon a friend’s number in your address book; you decide to give her a ring to see how she is. She picks up the phone and shares that her grandmother just died, and she really needed your support. You reached out to her at the precise moment that she was seeking comfort. Events like these have a small probability of occurring, yet they still happen. Some would call them coincidences. But I encourage you to think differently. The focus of this post is on the phenomenon called synchronicity.

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