All News - Page 1550 of 1575 - Good News Network
Home Blog Page 1550

Christianity Today Stands Behind Wiccan Widow

By
John W. Whitehead
-

This article appeared in June 5 issue of Christianity Today

Stand Up, Stand Up for Wicca
A war widow rightly wonders: Whose freedom are we fighting for?

Amidst a sea of memorial plaques at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery, one space remains blank.
sgtpatrickstewart
That space is waiting to be filled by a plaque honoring the life and sacrifice of 34-year-old Sgt. Patrick Stewart, who was killed in action on September 25, 2005, when his helicopter was struck with a rocket-propelled grenade as it flew over Afghanistan. But it may be some time before Sgt. Stewart is remembered with a memorial plaque. That’s because his war widow and the Department of Veterans Affairs are at odds over the Stewart family’s request to have the Wiccan pentacle, a five-pointed star surrounded by a circle, placed on the plaque. As of May 31, 2006, government officials have refused to allow the Wiccan symbol to be placed on Stewart’s plaque.

Continue

Nigeria Signs Accord with Cameroon Ending Border Dispute

By
Good News Network
-

ngra-cmronThe presidents of Nigeria and Cameroon today signed an agreement settling a decades-old, sometimes violent, border dispute over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula following intensive mediation over the weekend by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

“The signing ceremony which has brought us together crowns a remarkable experiment in conflict prevention by Cameroon and Nigeria,” Mr. Annan said of the agreement which provides for the withdrawal of Nigerian troops within 60 days.

Continue

One Thing You Can do About Global Warming: Sign Up for Wind Power

By
CO Dem
-

Has anyone seen Gore’s movie….An Inconvenient Truth? If not, then please do so. It’s powerful. And, after watching it, come back and tell us what you are going to do about global warming.
wind turbines
One thing I want to do is this. For the next 10 weeks I want to convince one person per day to sign up to receive all their electricity from windpower. In Colorado, you would have to get on a waiting list. The goal is to increase the waiting list by thousands in order to encourage the utilities to put up more wind turbines.

Continue

Tennessee: Brook Trout on the Rebound

By
Good News Network
-
fish - NOAA photo

salvelinus_fontinalisOnce endangered in the Eastern United States, the brook trout is making a comeback. The success of conservation efforts has led to stable populations that now will be open to fishermen of a few Appalachian Mountain streams for the first time in 30 years. The brook trout is the only trout native in the East. (AP)

Congress Proposes Farm Animals Receive Humane Treatment

By
Good News Network
-
cow

Reps. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) made history for farm animals June 8 by introducing landmark legislation thatcow would greatly improve the welfare of millions of animals on factory farms. The Farm Animal Stewardship Purchasing Act would establish basic animal welfare standards for the meat, egg and dairy industries, and it would require producers supplying animal products to the federal government to comply with these standards. (Factory Farming Campaign )

______________________________________________
______________________________________________

Congressman Shays said, "The way a society treats its animals speaks to the core values and priorities of its citizens." One of the seven core values determining the selection of news here at the Good News Network is compassion. You can express your compassion by supporting this legislation at the Factory Farming Campaign’s Web site.

Ecobrique: Building With Sewage

By
Good News Network
-
ecobrique2

ecobrique2A French company is winning awards for innovation with its building materials that are made from sewage! Introducing, Ecobrique:

vBc 3000 has patented a process of making ceramic products from sewage sludge. Partially dried sewage sludge is mixed with clay to create bricks or expanded clay aggregates, such as lightweight concrete. The bricks can be fired in traditional kilns and the clay aggregates made in the rotary furnaces that they use in cement factories. The resulting materials are lightweight and as durable as traditional building materials…The first commercial production of the Ecobrique is due to start in 2007 (Go to TreeHugger for more details)

Designer Unveils Off-Road Wheel Chair

By
Good News Network
-
k2

k2

The K2 has three wheels — two large ones at the front that can take mountain bike tyres — and a smaller one at the back… The company says it is ideally suited for off-road use but can be just as useful in towns and cities too. The K2 is extremely light — with the quick-release wheels — and can be folded up in about eight seconds. (BBC )

Pet Cat Chases Black Bear Up Tree

By
Good News Network
-

Never underestimate your own potential. No matter your size.

A territorial Tabby cat, who doesn’t like strangers in his yard, chased a bear up a tree — twice.
(AP has a photo!)

Report: Enough Wind Offshore to Electrify America

By
Cindy Bogard
-
wind-offshore-ws-flickr

wind-offshore-ws-flickrThere is as much wind power potential (900,000 megawatts) off our coasts as the current capacity of all power plants in the United States combined, according to a new report entitled, A Framework for Offshore Wind Energy Development in the United States, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and General Electric. See the full story here.

(Editor’s note: Thanks for the link, Cindy… That’s a lot of power, alright. But, I keep thinking, the reason I go on holiday to the shore is to gaze upon the vast unbroken horizon. . . How do people feel about the possibility of changing that landscape? Should there be a limited number of areas with the turbines?)

Less Sex, Smoking and Alcohol for Today’s Teens

By
Good News Network
-

Teenagers today are drinking less, smoking less and having less sex than their peers did 15 years ago, according to a national study released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

High school students who had smoked one cigarette in their lifetime dropped to 54 percent, compared with 70 percent in 1991. The number of teens who had at least one alcoholic drink dropped from 81 percent in 1991 to 74 percent last year.

And during the same period, students reporting at least one sexual experience declined from 54 percent to 47 percent. (LA Times)

Holland Cruise Ship Rescues Migrants

By
Good News Network
-

The United Nations is praising the rescue of 22 migrants, including at least one asylum seeker, whose vessel had sunk in the Aegean Sea, by the crew of a cruise ship from the Holland America Line.

The MS Noordam was on its way from the Greek city of Piraeus to the Turkish port of Kusadasi on Tuesday, when the crew spotted several people in the water off the Greek island of Samos. The ship rescued 22 migrants from various countries, including Somalia and Iraq. The effort took two hours and fifteen minutes. They were then taken to Kusadasi the next day. . .

Continue

FDA Approves New Cervical Cancer Vaccine

By
Good News Network
-

The Food and Drug Administration today approved the first vaccine that protects against the viruses known to cause 70 percent of cervical cancers. In a two-year study of more than 12,000 women, Gardasil was shown to be highly effective as an immunization for girls and women ages nine to 26.

The vaccine was found to be 100 percent effective against four types of human papillomavirus that are responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancer cases, and others that cause 90 percent of genital wart cases. (HealthDay)

Alternative Fuel Ethanol Entices White House, Wall Street

By
Good News Network
-

When Henry Ford envisioned the automotive industry a century ago, he planned for his Model T to run on corn-based ethanol. But the price of gasoline was so low it became a matter of economics. Today we are turning back to ethanol. Its option as a more economical fuel is enticing the White House, Wall Street, and auto interests to jump on board the next wave.

Ethanol has its skeptics who say the cost/reward ratio is not great enough to favor the use of the corn-based fuel over petrochemicals. But it is ‘off to the races’ for the alternative fuel until industy and political leaders rally around something better.

Thomas Dorr, undersecretary of rural development at the US Agriculture Department announced that the Indy 500 will require all its cars next year to run on 100 percent ethanol after using a 10 percent blend this year. "This is a terrific day for biofuels and the corn industry." (PlanetArk)

Continue

Water-Powered Car Featured on Local TV News

By
Stephen c. Liberatore
-

This guy seems to be onto something positive for the hybrid automobile folks.

Fox TV News channel 26 (need Windows Media Player to watch report)

The Green Auto Blog adds adds some comments and links regarding the man’s seemingly amazing technology.  – Stephen C. LIberatore

Woman Returns Lockbox Containing $40,000

By
Good News Network
-

The more we hear of others doing the right thing, the more we are apt to do it ourselves when faced with the same opportunity… Teresa Stiles saw a lockbox, which she didn’t know contained about $40,000, fall off a Brinks truck. Nobody seemed to see what happened and no one was responding. So, Stiles grabbed the box and nervously drove straight to the police.

Teresa can’t believe all the hubbub over her act of honesty. She was just trying to protect someone’s money. If that was me and my deposit got lost, I’d be upset. That’s all I was thinking about, people’s money being in that box and it not being where it’s supposed to be.” (photo and details at KOTV.com)

Blind Man Wins in Court, Bank Must Issue Checks

By
Good News Network
-

A blind man is celebrating after winning a legal battle with his bank to be allowed to use a cheque book.

Mr Pincha, from India, knows discrimination when he "sees" it.

He now plans to take on the insurance companies, which demand higher premiums from blind policy holders, on the presumption that there is greater risk to their lives. (BBC) 

Bahrain Appoints its First Woman Judge

By
Good News Network
-

Women are making inroads in the government of Bahrain, a tiny Persian Gulf country that first gave women the right to vote and stand as candidates in national elections after the constitution was amended in 2002. Yesterday Bahrain’s government appointed its first woman judge.

The country, with a population of 700,000 is lead by two women ministers in the current government. And, in the upcoming parliamentary elections, twenty-one women candidates will be on the ballot. (AP)

Extinct Frogs Rediscovered in Colombia

By
Good News Network
-
whitestreefrog

whitestreefrog“These finds show there is still hope.”

The rediscovery of the frogs showed that preservation of small habitats — such as the El Dorado reserve in Colombia where two frogs were found — could be a key to saving many threatened species. (ENN )

Twelve Amazing Teens Changing the World

By
Good News Network
-
huggable_heros

After receiving nearly 1,500 nominations for its 2006 Build-A-Bear Workshop Huggable Heroes program, 12 inspiring kids have been recognized for their outstanding efforts to change the world.

huggable_herosThe heroic stories of this year’s Huggable Heroes range from Welland Burnside, 18, starting Suitcases for Kids, so that children moving from one foster home to another wouldn’t have to carry their belongings in black garbage bags, to Maggie Fazenbaker, 14, of New Mexico, whose project called Operation Soldier Smiles sends care packages to deployed soldiers in the war zone. Jeniece Klammer, 18, of Michigan, started a back-to-school effort collecting school supplies for less fortunate children in her own school.

Build-A-Bear Workshop invited the public to visit their Web site to vote for the person who most touched their heart. Anthony Leanna, 14, of Suamico, Wisconsin, was selected as the People’s Pick Huggable Hero for Heavenly Hats, a program that donates brand new hats to cancer patients. More than 80,000 new pieces of headwear have been donated, thanks to Anthony, to hospitals and clinics nationwide over the past four years. Heavenly Hats has inspired hundreds of youth groups and schools to help out by hosting hat drives.

Anthony was honored along with the other 2006 Huggable Heroes at the First Star charity gala in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday. Malcolm David Kelley, “Walt” from television’s Lost, hosted the event. Each hero received a donation to their cause of $,2500.

“We are so proud and impressed by everything our Huggable Heroes have accomplished,” said Maxine Clark, Founder and Chief Executive of Build-A-Bear Workshop. “These young people are great examples of success, proving that no matter how old you are, or where you live, you can make a difference. They will touch many people’s lives and become even greater future leaders for our country.”

Bailey Reese, 9, Niceville, Fla.
Sent more than 12,000 care packages to soldiers in Iraq.

Charlotte McKane, 10, Oneonta, N.Y.
Donates hygiene products to families in violence intervention programs and games and videos to a local psychiatric unit. Raised $13,000 to benefit these groups.

Kaylene Wright, 12, Westland, Mich.
She has donated almost 1,000 children’s books to hospitals.

Heather Wilder, 12, Las Vegas, Nev.
As a former foster child, she writes books to raise awareness about the challenges foster kids face.

Maggie Fazenbaker, 14, Alamogordo, N.M.
Care packages for U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

Jenessa Largent, 14, White Bear Lake, Minn.
Her group has made over 200,000 bracelets to support service men and women.

Anthony Leanna, 14, Suamico, Wisc.
Donates hats to cancer patients.

Ted Cox, 15, Marysville, Ohio
Dedicated volunteers at a local hospital.

Welland Burnside, 17, Garden City, S.C., Suitcases for Kids
Donates suitcases to foster kids: to date 400,000 suitcases have been collected.

Brittany Palmer, 18, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Active community volunteer for Easter Seals and other organizations.

Jeniece Klammer, 18, Ypsilanti, Mich.
Sent 200 children from poorer families back to school with special backpacks filled with school supplies.

Matthew Krauze, 18, Warwick, N.Y.
Volunteers for Puppies Behind Bars: One of his raffles raised over $1,000 for the cause.

_______________________________

More Huggable Hero stories and photos online at Build-aBear Workshop

 

India’s Defense Diplomacy: Guidelines for Wise Foreign Policy

By
Good News Network
-

OPINION

India’s defense minister is engaged in an ongoing "Defence Diplomacy" that has been evoking quite the encouraging response from the world community. Such a policy provides guidelines the United States government itself should be using in foreign affairs. Let’s follow the example of the world’s largest democracy, so we can hope to reclaim our heritage as one of the "most-respected" democracies.

"Defence cooperation with other powers should be an integral part of our diplomatic exercise. This should be possible because India’s defence and foreign policies are rooted in the same ideological basis – no territorial ambition, no ideological export." The objective of such diplomacy is to maintain peace and tranquillity along India’s borders, to defuse tension and to engage in defense-related dialogue with other powers. (The Hindu)

1...1,5491,5501,551...1,575Page 1,550 of 1,575
© Copyright 1997–2024 GNN, LLC