Chief Master Sgt. Jeff Maberry speaks to friends and family during his retirement ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Fla., Nov. 21, 2014. Chief Maberry retired after 26 years of service, the last of which were as the 1st Special Operations Wing command chief.
Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola is offering a new treatment to re-open arteries in the legs that have become narrowed or blocked due to peripheral artery disease (PAD).
It starts out looking like a pancake, but it’s actually a complex colony of yeast and bacteria. And when it’s fed with organic black tea and sugar, “it transforms the resulting liquid into a refreshingly sweet and sour, lightly sparkling beverage with a fruity fragrance,” wrote Dr. Thomas L. Stone, in the American Nutrition Association’s Nutrition Digest. This beverage is known as kombucha, and because the process of creating it involves fermentation (similar to making vinegar), it can offer a delicious boost to the good bacteria in your gut.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has deleted the proposed U.S. 98 overpass from the department’s five-year work plan, citing utility costs and the impact to Gulf Power’s transmission lines near Navarre Park.
