in honor of recovery month, recovery advocates in michigan gathered on the lawn of the state capital in lansing for a rally for recovery. highlights of the event included guest speakers from the treatment field, policy makers, and the voices of those in recovery. additionally, there was live music and fun activities for kids. in honor of recovery month, the focus ministry at gethsemane baptist church hosted a faith-based open house in the bronx. the freedom only comes under surrendering ministry is a spiritual-based, christ-centered ministry for substance abuse prevention. the event featured food, guest speakers, music from the choir, and group praise. choices recovery services made their contribution to recovery month by holding a recovery in the park celebration in sioux falls, south dakota. attendees enjoyed a nice day outdoors and were able to celebrate recovery together with food, fun, games, and prizes. the maryland state alcohol and drug abuse administration held a kickoff festival for prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery resource providers in catonsville, maryland. the event was highli

do you feel that recovery month has been a component within the addiction treatment field that has contributed to the rallying of individuals in recovery? absolutely, and in-for many reasons. one is it's run, it may be sponsored by samhsa, but it's really run, administered, the ideas, the plans are a lot of volunteers. so a lot of people who are advocates, who are family members, who are people in recovery, who are parents, who are providers really get together and work on this. this is september every year, and this year it's going to be "join the voices of recovery: now more than ever." i think we have an opportunity frankly, because at the federal level we have people like tom and myself and others in clear places in the federal government that believe in recovery and want to support it and an opportunity to meet with those advocates and volunteers lately, and they're-they're jazzed and ready to go. the point of it is to try and help america understand recovery, try to help people who are in recovery feel proud of that, try to help people who know somebody in recovery know how to be supportive, and, frankly, try to get people to understand how they can adv

recovery walk and rally in lansing, michigan, commemorated the successes of those recovering from addictions to alcohol and other drugs. participants joined together and marched to the state capital forelebration featuring guest speaker and advocate, kitty dukakis. recovery friends and advocates in honolulu, hawaii, participated in a charity recovery walk and 5k run. following the run, attendees enjoyed music, food, popsicles, volleyball, and fellowship. members of the daytona beach, florida, community celebrated recovery with a motorcycle ride, entertainment, testimonies, and information on supportive services. the free celebration started with a bike ride to the beautiful halifax river for a dare extreme stunt rider show with a prevention message to young people. also included in the event was a talent contest, toys for kids, food, and fun! mohave county substance abuse treatment education and prevention partnership and the kingman area meth coalition hosted a parade walk to support recovery in kingman, arizona. shirts were given out to all walkers, and there was an opportunity to carry signs promoting treatment. waianae women in recovery held a special recovery campout for women a

for the big. sensitive sector on the economy recovery and we'll split the next year and maybe for the rest of you could be a look. better than the market the world that will rally which sort prices hit a two year high on monday is being weighed down by china's second interest rate hike sensex fears rose that the manufacturing powerhouse and the world's second biggest oil consumer could slow its economic growth as the country tries to rein in inflation even so prices at the pump are taking a course with their own floating me year round record levels. and most analysts agree that the oil price will remain between eighty and ninety dollars per barrel next year while this would have a remarkably positive effect on the russian budget in a pre-election year if chalk it up from merrill lynch structural reforms are the ones to suffer i think that there are a number of critics i think that actually from the reform agenda i think that the key least for russia is that returning to the pre-crisis time when all prices were increasing by double digits i think that we have seen a number of reforms structural industry quality recently and i'm afraid that if we turn to the pre-

rally on wall street. that is raising hopes, of course, for the recovery because the more money households have, the more they are likely to spend. but wealth would still have to rise another 20% to get back to its prerecession peak. >>> investors may not be feeling wealthier this morning. tokyo's nikkei average fell 0.7% today. hong kong's hang seng is slightly lower. and in london, the ftse opened slightly lower. and on wall street, the dow ticked down two points yesterday. meanwhile, the nasdaq added seven points. >>> another recall for johnson & johnson to tell you about this morning. this time, it is pulling 13 million packages of rolaids off store shelves. customers reported finding metal and wood particles inside them. j&j has announced a string of recalls over the last year, including several children's medicines. >>> the strengthening economy is delivering one thing no one wants for the holidays, higher gas prices. the nationwide average is at $2.98 a gallon. and that is up nearly 10 cents in the last week and 34 cents from last year. analysts predict it will keep rising. >>> in today's "usa today" t

rally for a four day. high oil prices and speculation europe's debt crisis will be contained boosted confidence in the global recovery down shares sixty percent up to pepsico said it will acquire its controlling stake in the russian dairy company added about three point seven percent and brosnan have gained two percent on the high oil prices. and european markets ended the day high in c.b.d. has extended the window on to wichita and then to european banks until april to stop simply euro drop turning to stocks to trouble is among the top gamers up more than seven percent. and you have stocks on the rise thursday after weekly jobless claims rose more than expected after its biggest single day jump in three months the dollar johnson is gaining point eight percent this hour. ministers of the gas exporting countries have bucks russia's push for more discussion before the e.u. approves a third energy charter their amendments would ban energy producers from distribution all correspondent to china pretty cool reports from the gas exporters forum in qatar. the main message of the meeting was that gas producers want to work on

brush and stocks extended their rally for a fourth day as high oil prices and speculation of europe's debt crisis will be contained. boost confidence in the global recovery bill down shares surged sixty percent after pepsi co's will with a quiet controlling stake in the question day were a company gas from added about three point seven percent on bras never again two percent on higher oil prices. european markets ended the day higher e.c.b. has extended the window on which it will lend to european banks until april dance in the euro drop turning to stocks to travel this month the top gamers are going seven percent. stocks are up on thursday after weekly jobless claims rose more than expected after its biggest single day jump in three months the dollar jancis gaining point eight percent. russia second largest learned bank will buy a majority stake in trans bank by the end of the year trance creditors a top twenty bank on the market but the to be plans to invest in the firm's operations to boost its positions the bank c.e.o. explains the details of the deal at this stage we were buying a controlling stake from this from this bank i think the entire capital

rally points to 2011 cheer. with hopes for the u.s. recovery encouraging investors to put billions of dollars out of bonds." that is "the financial times" this morning. it looked at data by "the wall street journal" -- there are openings in different markets. front page of "the wall street journal" this morning on the economy. "the new york times" as a different take. "little momentum in different gauges of economic recovery. as analysts try to gauge economic recovery in housing and the job market, and despite the upbeat trend in retail sales and increases in personal spending, sales of homes remained at historically low levels last month and the job market shows little signs of momentum." that is "the new york times" business section this morning. "the wall street journal" -- thet shoppers flcokeocked to web." "the washington times" -- " green is color of christmas." top political moment of 2010. caller: i don't see much importance in the top political moments of 2010. there are so many opinions out there, and i wish we could get somebody to help us decide what is right. should we take the best minds and t