The Couple From Woodstock LP Cover is Still Married 46 Years After Concert

Bobbi And Nick Ercoline were girlfriend and boyfriend 46 years ago this weekend, when they decided to attend the Woodstock music festival being held on a farm in Bethel, New York.

During a serene moment, a photographer captured their picture and it ended up as the cover art for the Soundtrack album to one of the most historic concerts of all time.

With the festival’s anniversary this week, we wanted to report the good news that this couple is still together. They were married two years after Woodstock, and have two grown children.

“I think the further we get from the original event the more meaningful it becomes, the more we realize how phenomenal it was: all those people coming together with no violence, just peace, love and sharing,” Bobbi told Seattle P-I in 2009. “Forty years later it’s just remarkable that it could have occurred.”

Follow This Couple as They Marry Each Other 38 Times in 12 Countries

Believe it or not, 38 weddings can be cheaper than one. Acrobat couple Rhiann Woodyard and Cheetah Platt are on a marital mission to tie the knot in 12 different countries over the course of 83 days. With 21 ceremonies under their belt already, the cost of this international nuptial tour has been less than $10,000.

All the wedding venues are available at no cost, although their family and friends have done back-flips in order to help fund the lodging and travel for each expedition.
We only had to pay for our flights, lodging, and transportation. We used our credit card airline miles, and our friends and family have helped us tremendously,” Woodyard told Metro U.S. “We asked that if they were planning on giving a gift, that they use our alternative gift registry on honeyfund.com.”

She continued, “They could contribute to our adventure by buying us a night at one of our accommodations in Morocco, or a safari in Kenya”

New Oyster Colony Takes Hold to Help Clean New Jersey Water

Environmentalists are re-establishing an oyster colony at Barnegat Bay in New Jersey.

“The goal of the colony is to help improve water quality in the struggling bay,” reports the AP. “The shellfish naturally filter out pollutants and impurities.”

“But there’s another benefit as well: hardening the shoreline against devastating storms like Superstorm Sandy.”

The American Littoral Society, a nonprofit group that protects coastline ecosystems, emptied bags of oyster shells on a newly created reef in the bay two weeks ago, beginning the last chapter of their oyster restoration project.

Rare White Whale Spotted as Sightings Hit Record High in NZ (WATCH

Whale watchers have spotted a rare, white humpback — one of only four in the world — swimming between New Zealand’s two main islands.

In fact, the annual whale survey shows that whale sightings are at a record high, 136, the largest number of humpbacks ever recorded during 12 years of the annual census.

The leader of the whale research team, Nadine Bott, says it’s a sign the New Zealand whale population is “bouncing back.”

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The rare white whale that’s been spotted recently is believed to be “Migaloo,” an aboriginal word meaning “White Fellow.” The whale was first discovered off the Australia’s Gold Coast in 1991 and has returned there almost every year since. It’s the first time he’s been sighted in New Zealand.

Migaloo is thought to have fathered two white calves, and a fourth white humpback was spotted earlier this year in Norway.

Whale watchers also spotted a newborn humpback Tuesday, only the second baby ever reported in New Zealand waters. Bott said the baby was probably less than a week old.

As for the folks doing the “watching,” they are actually whalers and descendents of families forced by New Zealand law to stop the practice. Last century they were harvesting the mammals–now they are helping to save them.

Ice Bucket Challenge Leads to ALS Breakthrough, Researchers Announce

The Ice Bucket Challenge that flooded the Internet with videos of people getting drenched has led to a medical breakthrough.

Researchers have long known that a particular motor-neuron protein—named TDP-43—doesn’t function properly in 90 percent of ALS patients.

Now a grad student at Johns Hopkins Medical, in Baltimore, Maryland, is pretty sure he has figured out why. In experiments with mice, his team made a protein to mimic TDP-43, and after adding to the neurons, the cells came back to life.

“With any luck this could lead to the possibility of a cure or at least a slowing down of this terrible disease,” says pathobiology student Jonathan Ling. “We may soon be able to fix this in patients who have

Five Soothing Guided Meditations to Aid Your Campaign Against Stress

When I first sat down to meditate, I couldn’t sit still. I had what we call in Australia, “ants in my pants.”

For me, the idea of doing nothing felt like hard and lonely work, and I didn’t really connect to the practice until I found teachers and friends with whom I could sit in community. Guided meditations are a great way into the practice, as they offer a certain type of stillness that’s made comfortable by the soothing support of an external voice.

I always tell people that meditation is easier to learn with the help of a good teacher. Under the guidance of an experienced instructor we feel safe to let go and open the door to growth and transformation. Even if all we hear isinhale and exhale, we’ll feel at ease knowing that we have an external metronome and compass to rely on. To get started, try the following guided meditations from Sonima.com featuring renowned teachers such as Deepak Chopra,