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24 Nov 2009 07:54
After being in several very depressing conversations with seemingly EVERYONE about the high price of gas, the state of the economy and upcoming presidential election, I don't think I've even smiled in a few days - until I found your site... You've gently reminded me that there is a lot in the world to smile about. Perspective is everything, and despite what appears in mainstream news, good does happen - a lot more than I was lead to believe. - Stacey Long, Hayward, CA
: November 24th, 2009 
Tuesday, 24 November 2009Kim Yacobucci no longer has to turn the car ignition on a weekly basis and "pray" that she will be able to go pick up her son at the Tilton living facility that helps treat him for his neurological impairments. On Monday the single mother from Portsmouth remained in disbelief ...
Tuesday, 24 November 2009For the first time in its 40 year history of charitable giving, Tom's of Maine, the natural toothpaste company, opened up its funding process to the public, letting ...
Tuesday, 24 November 2009After saving money for a year to buy an engagement ring for his planned hot-air balloon marriage proposal, James Ng watched as his diamond plummetted 500 feet into...Stroking a pet can help patients cut their amount of painkillers in half, according to a new study.The research found that patients who had undergone hip or knee rep...We have 38 guests and 8 members online UPDATE: GNN Restored After Malicious Hacker Attack
(Update: November 24, 2009) Our website is secure once again, after Friday's hacking incident. We are updating the Forum, where the infiltration occurred, and it should be ready with new software in a day or two. The old forum posts will be imported into the new Forum! Thanks to the dozens of readers wh...
On this day in History, November 24
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British naturalist Charles Darwin published ''On the Origin of Species'' explaining his theory of evolution (1859) - Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discovered the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia (1974)
- The entire leadership of the hard-line Communist Party in Czechoslovakia resigned after more than a week of protests against its policies to make way for democratic changes (1989)
- The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap all short- and medium-range missile...
All of San Francisco's 400 garbage and recycling trucks now run on alternative fuel, cutting 21 percent of their greenhouse gas emissions with the use of liquefied natural gas, and biodiesel B-20 made from food scraps. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. - Abraham Lincoln
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23 Nov 2009 14:59
I am a professor at Case Western reserve University and absolutely love your work--it is very significant. I would like to share your link at our website on Appreciative Inquiry. Thank you for your work! -David Cooperrider
: November 23rd, 2009 
Monday, 23 November 2009Stroking a pet can help patients cut their amount of painkillers in half, according to a new study.The research found that patients who had undergone hip or knee replacement operations needed less painkillers if they used pet therapy.It is well known that animal owners are generally h...
Monday, 23 November 2009Shaharzad Akbar has become the first Afghan woman to study at Oxford University after defying the Taliban to get an education, and credits British soldiers for helpi...Korean car maker Kia began production this week in a non-union plant in a struggling Georgia textile town, bringing 2,000 much needed jobs to an area where the unemp...We have 43 guests and 3 members online As many of you have noticed, thanks to a Google firewall setup to warn people about malicious code on the Good News Network, the site was hacked for the first time in 13 years.
I finally got some help on this today (Sunday) and an old friend was able to disable the Forum wh...
On this day in History, November 23
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French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experienced an intense mystical vision that marked his life (1654) - The clipper Cutty Sark was launched from Scotland, the only one still surviving to this day (1869)
- The jukebox debuted at a Saloon in San Francisco (1889)
- The first edition of Life magazine was published by Henry Luce (1936)
- The first all-female expedition to the South Pole began their 70-day, 1287 kilometre ski trek -- 3 American women, 1 Japanese woman and 12 Russians (1990)
Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have dropped by 25 percent each of the past three years, according to Brazil’s environment ministry. From July 31, 2004, through 2007, an average of 4,000 more square kilometers of forest each year have been spared from clear-cutting over the previous period (1,544 sq. miles). — WWF Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. - Sarah Ban Breathnach, author of Simple Abundance
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22 Nov 2009 21:41
Your Top 10 good newsletter today was so good. It lifted my spirits more than any other issue. A couple items even choked me up. People need to know the good stuff that is happening, to inspire them to greater heights. We need to know that our efforts are paying off, that we can build a paradise -- and we’re doing it. Thank you for singing this from the hilltops... a most valuable, important service. -Tony Milch, Burbank, CA
: November 22nd, 2009 
Sunday, 22 November 2009Korean car maker Kia began production this week in a non-union plant in a struggling Georgia textile town, bringing 2,000 much needed jobs to an area where the unemployment rate had topped 12 percent.Watch the report below, or at MSNBC...
Sunday, 22 November 2009The director of the Rainier Valley Food Bank says he's overwhelmed by the donations that have poured in since locals learned that $2,000 worth of donated food was st...
Sunday, 22 November 2009Using cameras mounted inside five cages at the zoo, pictures of the penguins, tigers and meerkats are projected into the hospital rooms of sick children a few miles ...
Sunday, 22 November 2009The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday announced its biggest education donation in a decade, $290 million, in support of three school districts and five cha...We have 19 guests and 4 members online GNN Was Maliciously Hacked; I've Disabled Forums to Quarantine the Problem
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Good News on this day in History, November 22
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Tomb of Tutankhamun was opened by archeologist Howard Carter (1922) - Lebanon gained independence from France - Independence Day (1943)
- The Beatles released the double (White) album entitled, The Beatles (1968)
- The UN General Assembly granted the PLOobserver status (1974)
- The Orange Revolution began in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections (2004)
- Angela M...
The number of AIDS deaths worldwide dropped 10 percent in 2007, as did the number of new infections in children, because of increasing access to treatment, the United Nations reported. Prevention efforts like condom use and education tripled in some countries. (2008/07/29) I wake up in the morning torn between the desire to save the world and to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. - E.B White, American author and noted prose stylist.
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22 Nov 2009 04:13
I think there needs to be a change of consciousness with the news ... to try to seek a higher ground. Why can't it be more representative of the way the world really is? I think we don't know what the bombardment of crime and violence does to our minds, I think we're in denial about it. - Oprah Winfrey
We have 17 guests and 1 member online A 2003 census showed Gorillas in Africa have increased their numbers by 17 percent since 1989, not due to a change in the number of births, but because "there's no more poaching." )“The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Teresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.” Sidney Madwed, poet, philosopher, business consultant
- Re:Special Yoga Teachervikas | Tell Us Your Good News | 16-11-09
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21 Nov 2009 09:14
I realize how this event (the "Miracle on the Hudson") had touched people's lives, how ready they were for good news, how much they wanted to feel hopeful again. We've had a worldwide economic downturn, and people are confused, fearful and just so ready for good news. They want to feel reassured that all the things we value, all our ideals, still exist. - Captain "Sully" Sullenberger
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey from Desert Solitaire (1927-1989) Author, essayist, environmentalist Writer Larry McMurtry referred to Abbey as the Thoreau of the American West
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20 Nov 2009 15:22
My daily habit a year ago was to read the news with my morning coffee. I felt the entire world was falling apart and getting worse day by day. Then I read some research on the effects of bad news, and made a conscious choice to read uplifting stories... Now I’m excited about all the wonderful things around the world, instead of feeling helpless. When I read the stories on GNN I feel empowered, included, and encouraged to get involved. - Kerrie S., OK
: November 20th, 2009 
Friday, 20 November 2009The Tech Awards is an international program honoring innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. This year's winners received their awards at a Gala yesterday in San Jose, CA. The 2009 Tech Awards Laureates represent regions as diverse as Niger...
Friday, 20 November 2009The "chocolate cure" for emotional stress is getting new support from a clinical trial published online in the Journal of Proteome Research. It found that eating abo...
Friday, 20 November 2009A plant that converts cow dung into energy for homes opened in the Netherlands last week. Manure from cows at a nearby dairy farm will be fermented along with gra...
Friday, 20 November 2009General Motors Co. is expected to fully repay its $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans by 2011, four years earlier than required. The auto manufacturer reported t...Good News on this day in History, November 20
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2 journalists (Henri Desgrange and Géo Lefèvre) dreamed up the idea of the Tour de France over lunch at the Café de Madrid in Paris (1902) - Ukraine is declared a republic (1917)
- The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, when President John F. Kennedy halted the U.S. quarantine of the island (1962)
- President Nixon halted residential use of DDT as part of a total phase-out in US (1969)
- Hopes for democracy ran ...
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Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go." - Theodore Roethke (American poet born May 25,1908-1963)
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19 Nov 2009 21:41
I was just at one of the big news websites and thought "these people make it seem like the end of the world is coming." Then I found you. - John
: November 19th, 2009 
Thursday, 19 November 2009Halle Barry draws on her family's painful experience with domestic abuse to help other women and their families. She is a frequent volunteer and fundraiser for the Los Angeles battered women's shelter, The Jenesse Center, which offers a range of services to 8000 women each year. ...
Thursday, 19 November 2009The highly visible success of the stimulus program known as cash-for-clunkers induced a boom in vehicle sales this summer that clearly would not have happened otherw...
Thursday, 19 November 2009Two Chicago nonprofits, together with the University of Chicago, unveiled a counseling and sports program Wednesday aimed at stemming chronic youth violence in Chi...
Thursday, 19 November 2009Bacteria which glow green in the presence of explosives could provide a cheap and safe way to find hidden landmines, Edinburgh scientists claim. Edinburgh Unive...We have 23 guests and 5 members online Good news on this day in History, November 19
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Alfred Lord Tennyson became Poet Laureate and remained so for 42 years (1850) - President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at a military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, PA - one of the greatest speeches in American history delivered in fewer than 300 words, over two to three minutes (1863)
- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he met with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and spoke before the Knesset in ...
According to the Organic Farm and Fiber Report 2007, organic cotton sales rose 53 per cent in a two-year period, driven by demand from the clothing and home product industries. All that is visible clings to the invisible, The audible to the inaudible, The tangible to the intangible, Perhaps the thinkable to the unthinkable. - Lama Anagarika Govinda
- Truly Inspiring IndividualKissMiss | Favorite Inspirationals | 19-11-09
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19 Nov 2009 00:44
Thanks for the good "medicine"! I love the Good News Network: It is helping me become "me". -Jackie B. I just needed some good news for a change. Thank you. You've taken a bit of the edge off a blue day. -Trevor in Canada
Wednesday, 18 November 2009Remember last year when the heroic girl's softball teammates volunteered to carry an injured player from the opposing team around the bases helping her to score aft...
Wednesday, 18 November 2009Small grants given directly to villagers have brought important changes to this corner of Afghanistan, offering a model for the country. In Jurm, people have take...We have 17 guests and 2 members online Even in the face of a worsening economy, the nation's 717 community foundations raised their giving by an estimated 6.7 percent in 2008 to a record $4.6 billion, and outpaced corporate foundation funding for the first time, according to Key Facts on Community Foundations, a May 2009 report from the Foundation Center.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isnt. - Richard Bach, Author, philosopher (I recommend his books)
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18 Nov 2009 07:23
I want to tell you that your Good News Network has helped me through bad times in my life when I struggled through anxiety and depression and sometimes doubts of faith. I check your website everyday and it gives me hope, comfort, and reassurance more than words can say. - Cambry
: November 18th, 2009 
Wednesday, 18 November 2009Prisoners are paired with puppies in a ground-breaking program to train service dogs for injured war veterans. The program, Puppies Behind Bars, develops confidence and healing in both the soldiers and convicts. Inmates in seven different facilities teach 78 different commands ...
Wednesday, 18 November 2009According to a Gallup poll that measures happiness through the years, when the markets tanked last fall, happiness did too, but here's the funny thing: by this pas...TOMS Shoes was founded on a simple premise: With every pair you purchase, TOMS gives a pair of new shoes to a child in need. Using the purchasing power of individual...Good news on this day in History, November 18
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Five standard continental time zones, instituted by American and Canadian railroads end the confusion of thousands of local times (1883) - Latvia declared its independence from Russia- Independence Day (1918)
- Spain established a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship (1979)
- 50,000 Bulgarians take to the streets demanding political reform (1989)
- Church envoy Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland freed by Islamic extremists after 4 years of captivity (1991)
- South Africa's 21 political parties approved new constitution (1993)
- The ...
When you're weary, it means you've been making a difference. Keep going and see it through. When each obstacle is more difficult than the one before, it means you're making real progress. -- Ralph Marston, the Daily Motivator, Thought for the Day
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17 Nov 2009 15:15
The platform for my work is Albert Einstein's 'Knowing' that the only way to change anything is to change the thinking that created it. He lived by this knowledge. The Good News Network is helping people everywhere do exactly that. - Gisèle Guénard RN BScN MEd, VisionarEase Inc. CEO
: November 17th, 2009 
Tuesday, 17 November 2009TOMS Shoes was founded on a simple premise: With every pair you purchase, TOMS gives a pair of new shoes to a child in need. Using the purchasing power of individuals to benefit Ethiopian children in need. Since its founding in May 2006, American internet entrepreneur Blake Mycosk...
Tuesday, 17 November 2009A low-cost health care clinic in Goshen, Ind., has come up with a business plan that allows patients to pay for treatment with something other than money. At the M...
Tuesday, 17 November 2009Peugeot last week unveiled in London its radical rethink on electric urban cars, the BB1, during a 5-stop world tour, saying the car's inspiration is a zippy Vespa...
Tuesday, 17 November 2009For a cyclist, getting "doored" by a parked car is a usually painful and sometimes expensive collision, occuring when someone in a parked car opens the door in t...Good News on this day in History, November 17
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U.S. Capitol building held its first session of the U.S. Congress (1800) - Suez Canal opened linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas (1869)
- The 14th Dalai Lama became Tibet's head of state at the age of 15 (1950)
- SALT I negotiations in Helsinki began aimed at limiting numbers of strategic nuclear weapons (1969)
- The first computer mouse was patented by Douglas Engelbart (1970)
- Israel's parliament overwhelmingly approved a land-for-peace accord with the Palestinians (1998)
- U.S. Rep. John Murtha, one of Con...
A new method of counting Giant Pandas in the wild using DNA revealed there was more than double the estimated number living in one reserve and, based on the finding, as many as 3,000 of the elusive and endangered animals in the mountains of China, rather than the 1,590 previously thought. "Children love to share because they can feel the warmth that comes from reaching beyond ego boundaries to include another person in their world. No act is more intimate, no act feels so blissful." -Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment
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