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07 Nov 2009 18:26
Thank you for making this site. Daily, I was affected by Panic Attacks which were triggered from the news and all it's negative content. I considered starting a good news site and I was so happy to find one already here. - Lisa
: November 7th, 2009 
Saturday, 07 November 2009Little by little, individuals and organizations are creating glimmers of hope across a country steeped in war that promise Afghanistan will once again flourish someday. Here are five things happening in Afghanistan that are helping its citizens get back on their feet, and what y...
Saturday, 07 November 2009In response to a Nightly News broadcast Friday about Afghan orphans in need of help, viewers donated $50,000, and the money is still pouring in. Of the 150 child...
Saturday, 07 November 2009Douglas Hamilton, a senior correspondent in East Berlin, writes 20 later that as the Berlin Wall was opened to the West, "It was impossible to resist the euphoria an...
Saturday, 07 November 2009At the Vancouver Peace Summit in September, some of the world's most well-known peace-makers, including Nobel Prize winners, devised a new Charter of Compassion invi...We have 18 guests and 5 members online Good News on this day in History, November 7
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London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, was first published (1665) - US President Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1967)
- Congress overrode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution to limit presidential power to wage war without congressional approval (1973)
- Douglas Wilder became the first elected African-American governor in US history, in Virginia (1989)
- David Dinkins became the first African American mayor of New York City (1989)
- Mary Robinson became the first woman to be elected Pre...
Air travel is getting safer as the number of plane crashes worldwide fell to its lowest level in 53 years during 2006. Even while air travel increased by 4 percent over the previous year, 22 fewer commercial flights ended in disaster. 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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07 Nov 2009 02:11
: November 6th, 2009 
Friday, 06 November 2009The Keshet Dance Company uses dance to teach literacy, math and conflict-resolution skills to 250 incarcerated youths at the New Mexico state juvenile detention center. The Harmony Project in Los Angeles provides intensive, year-round music instruction, choir and orchestra programs...
Friday, 06 November 2009The top commander at Fort Hood is crediting a civilian police officer for stopping the shooting rampage that killed 13 people at the Texas post. Lt. Gen. Bob Cone ...
Friday, 06 November 2009Sometimes, just when you need it most, you come across a story you couldn't make up if you tried. My Mother Yvonne was a master positive thinker, a woman of faith...
Friday, 06 November 2009Declared extinct in 1957, wild oysters have been found in the Firth of Forth once again. University scientists who made the discovery said it was hugely significant ...Good News on this day in History, November 6
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The Dominican Republic adopted its first constitution (1844) - Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold the office (1860)
- The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and called for UN members to cease military and economic relations (1962)
- Constitution Day in Tajikistan (1994)
Erich Fromm, renowned German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher said our quest for certainty blocks our progress. "Uncertainty is the very condition that impels man to unfold his powers."
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06 Nov 2009 03:47
I suffer from depression and paranoia. I feel like I can never truly be happy as I always get this sense of encroaching doom and most of my fears are heightened by media sensationalism. Your website is just what I need to focus. - Mike FINALLY! - Equila Phelps
A novice metal-detecting enthusiast said he was "stunned" to unearth a £1 million Iron Age treasure hoard in Scotland during his first outing with the machine. Here's the video...Celebrating the 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono recording the anti-war anthem Give Peace a Chance with the Plastic Ono Band, the United Nations announce...We have 21 guests and 2 members online China's golden monkeys, a species more endangered than giant pandas (and almost as adorable), have made a surprising comeback with populations quadrupling in the past two decades from 200 in the early 1980s to around 800. "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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05 Nov 2009 12:05
I have a 7 year old son and we don't watch TV, listen to the news, or read newspapers because so much of it is negative and full of pain and hate -- things his little body does not need. I am SO thrilled to be able to show him stories on your Website and talk to him about the positive, Good work that is occurring here on Earth. You have given me a safe place where I can allow my son to browse and follow the stories that interest him. Thank you! - Esther Colwell
: November 5th, 2009 
Thursday, 05 November 2009Celebrating the 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono recording the anti-war anthem Give Peace a Chance with the Plastic Ono Band, the United Nations announced Tuesday that the proceeds from a new release of the song will raise funds for peacebuilding efforts in countries emerg...
Thursday, 05 November 2009In the last week, several economic indicators and corporate profit reports provided good news for the US and UK as further evidence that the recession is over -- at ...
Thursday, 05 November 2009Jordan Thomas was an active 16-year old athlete when he lost his legs in a boating accident while on vacation. He was rushed to the hospital where he met other amp...
Thursday, 05 November 2009A jail guard fell victim to an attack by one inmate, and would have died had he not been rescued by several prisoners who came to his aid at the Orient Road Jail...Good News on this day in History, November 5
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The Gunpowder Plot failed when Guy Fawkes was seized from the cellar before he could blow up the English Parliament (1605) - Suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted in defiance of the law - was fined $100 (1872)
- Parker Brothers released Monopoly board game (1935)
- Ella Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband (1974)
- NPR news show Morning Edition premiered (1979)
- Apartheid fighter Govan Mbeki released from South Afric...
Heart disease rates have been falling for decades due to healthier lifestyles, but now death rates after severe heart attacks have been cut in half over the last six years, thanks to new treatments and anti-clotting drugs. Death rates of patients in 14 countries fell from 8.4% to 4.5% between 1999 and 2006, a study showed. In prayer, what you need is to forget how worried and confused you are and remember how wonderful you are! The root word is sanskrit, Pal-al, which means, judging oneself to be wonderously made. - Eric Butterworth, The Universe is Calling: Opening to the Divine Through Prayer
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04 Nov 2009 20:04
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 4th, 2009 
Wednesday, 04 November 2009Water use per person in the U.S. is down nearly 30 percent from consumption levels thirty years ago -- the remarkable result of more efficient use. Numbers on total water use released last week by the U.S Geological Survey, which every five years examines water use of all kinds, r...
Wednesday, 04 November 2009A U.S. warship built with steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center sailed into New York harbor just after sunrise yesterday greeted by hundreds of onlookers. T...
Wednesday, 04 November 2009A documentary released this year questions the exclusive role of genetics and medicine in determining and treating disease. It examines alternative healthcare method...
Wednesday, 04 November 2009Hosting the next Academy Awards ceremony will be a double-bill co-starring Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, Oscar producers announced yesterday. “We think the...We have 25 guests and 1 member online Good News on this day in History, November 4
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Future president, Abraham Lincoln, married Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill. (1842) - The first issue of the scientific journal Nature was published (1869)
- British archaeologist Howard Carter's workers found the entrance to Egypt's KingTutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings (1922)
- The first woman governor elected in the US, Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming, served out her husband's term, who died in office (1924)
- The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopened with Beethoven's Fidelio...
New York subway crime has plummeted more than 37 percent in 2006. That's on top of the decrease in 2005 of about 5.5 percent.Robberies were down 21 percent in 2006. Grand larcenies declined 46 percent and assaults fell 55 percent, NYPD data showed. “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” - Harold Kushner
- Re:Call me KC4america Cause that's what...WausauFamily | Introduce Yourself | 04-11-09
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04 Nov 2009 03:10
Your Good News Network has changed my life! -Camille in Seattle I've felt suffocated by today's news that rains down a storm of death, war and terrorism. I decided to search the web for positive news. Thank you for lifting my spirits, after only 10 minutes of reading I felt better about the world in which we live. -Paul Lastovica
: November 3rd, 2009 Tuesday, 03 November 2009Afghan orphans whose lives were spoiled by war, live happy lives now in an orphanage set up by a woman whose own life was spoiled by decades of war in that country. Every child in the home goes to school. "When I see these small children, when I see their faces, I see a bright ...
Tuesday, 03 November 2009A dentist is organizing free dental care around the country for kids whose families don't have insurance. Team Smile holds giant clinics with a half million dollar...Last year, our father was diagnosed with Kidney Disease. Unfortunately, my sisters and I were all incompatible to donate, so we dreamed up the idea of using Cra...We have 16 guests and 2 members online On this day in History, November 3
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The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily newspaper, was founded as The Bombay Times (1838) - A new Dutch constitution drafted by Johan Thorbecke to limit the power of the monarchy, strengthening parliament and ministers, was proclaimed - it's still in use today (1848)
- Independence gained for Panama (1903, from Colombia); for Poland (1918, from Russia); Dominica (1978, from Britain); Federated States of Micronesia (1986, from USA)
- Illinois Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun became the first...
Latin America’s largest country, Brazil, is the world’s biggest producer of bio-ethanol and 1 million Brazilian cars already run on the fuel made from sugarcane. The cars, introduced three years ago, can use either gasoline or bioethanol. 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
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03 Nov 2009 07:41
If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation. - Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review
Do you have a crate of old comic books stored in your mom's attic? One man, after rescuing his childhood collection, may be a half million dollars richer by the...Beck's petrel, a small seabird relative of albatrosses and shearwaters, was rediscovered in 2007 by Israeli ornithologist Hadoram Shirihai in a group of Pacific islands near Papua New Guinea. There hadn't been a confirmed sighting of the bird since 1929. Read more in Wikipedia. - June 11, 2009
"Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau
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02 Nov 2009 14:14
I am just getting into the swing of things after some health concerns. Reading your site daily in the past few months was important for me and a great resource. I am back in fine form, and your site really helps me stay positive and focused on my business. It's exactly the type of effective positive strategy I teach in my seminars. - Gisèle Guénard RN BScN MEd, CEO of VisionarEase Inc., visionarease.com
: November 2nd, 2009 
Monday, 02 November 2009Last year, our father was diagnosed with Kidney Disease. Unfortunately, my sisters and I were all incompatible to donate, so we dreamed up the idea of using Craigslist to find our father a living donor. We had used it for selling jewelry, finding jobs, and for childcare, so we ...
Monday, 02 November 2009A Harvard-educated man who moved to Braddock, Pa. in 2001 to work on an AmeriCorps project and ended up running for mayor four years later, strives to revive a tow...
Monday, 02 November 2009With winter just around the corner it's even more important to remember the people who are sprawled over heat vents and looking for food in places where no hum...
Monday, 02 November 2009Ex-German chancellor Helmut Kohl, former US president George Bush and the Soviet Union's last head of state Mikhail Gorbachev -- gathered in Berlin on Saturday for...
We have 38 guests and 13 members online Good News on this day in History, November 2
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Tthe BBC Television Service was initiated by the British Broadcasting Corporation, the world's first continuous, broadcast-quality TV service (1936) - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, was established (1936)
- The LevellandUFO Case in Texas occurred, with separate people reporting sightings of blue lit egg-shaped craft that would disengage nearby cars, one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history (19...
Heart disease rates have been falling for decades due to healthier lifestyles, but now death rates after severe heart attacks have been cut in half over the last six years, thanks to new treatments and anti-clotting drugs. Death rates of patients in 14 countries fell from 8.4% to 4.5% between 1999 and 2006, a study showed. The day will come when after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. - Pierre Teihard de Chardin (1881-1955, French paleontologist and Jesuit priest)
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01 Nov 2009 22:17
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
US Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) and the white man who attacked him during a civil rights protest in 1961 joined hands to accept an award for their efforts to reach common ground. At a ceremony Thursday night in Washington, Rep. Lewis and Elwin Wilson received the Common Gro...
Marking their first Halloween at the White House, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama honored military families at a Halloween party last night, doling ...Sunday, 01 November 2009Not only do the brave firefighters in Wausau, Wis. help to save lives, they are helping to deliver pizza! The fire department teamed up with Marco's Pizza an...Air travel is getting safer as the number of plane crashes worldwide fell to its lowest level in 53 years during 2006. Even while air travel increased by 4 percent over the previous year, 22 fewer commercial flights ended in disaster. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) bio
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01 Nov 2009 08:11
Thank you for making this site. Daily, I was affected by Panic Attacks which were triggered from the news and all it's negative content. I considered starting a good news site and I was so happy to find one already here. - Lisa
: November 1st, 2009 
Sunday, 01 November 2009Not only do the brave firefighters in Wausau, Wis. help to save lives, they are helping to deliver pizza! The fire department teamed up with Marco's Pizza and Papa Johns to deliver some of their pizzas and offer free smoke detectors for the homes of families who needed them. T...
One day I was in the library, working on my thesis and feeling tired. I made a stop in the bathroom, looked in the mirror, and remember thinking that I looked pret...Good News on this day in History, November 1
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Michelangelo's paintings on the Sistine Chapel ceiling were unveiled to the public (1512) - Shakespeare's tragedy Othello was first performed in London's Whitehall palace (1604); likewise, the romantic comedy, The Tempest (1611)
- Seabiscuit defeated War Admiral, a miracle upset victory in horse racing's Match of the Century (1938)
- While campaigning for presidency, John Kennedy announced his idea for the Peace Corps (1960)
- Bosnia peace talks opened in Dayton, Ohio (1995)
China will invest around 1.2 billion USD over the next five years to curb the pollution of the Songhua River, funding more than 200 projects, half of which will address industrial pollution, 70 will focus on sewage processing. Inspiration Point
You cannot achieve mastery by patterning yourself after another, or by following custom or tradition. Sheep and plodders do that. Masters and leaders never do. To enjoy enduring success, we should travel a little in advance of the world. -John McDonald, the Message of a Master: A Classic Tale of Wealth, Wisdom, & the Secret of Success
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