To combat bullying and to simply cheer up students at his high school, Jeremiah Anthony set up a Twitter Account a year and a half ago that posts compliments about kids and teachers.
His Twitter feed is called WestHighBros.
“We just send compliments to people who we think are feeling bad a certain day.”
To combat bullying and to simply cheer up students at his high school, Jeremiah Anthony set up a Twitter Account a year and a half ago that posts compliments about kids and teachers.
His Twitter feed is called WestHighBros.
“We just send compliments to people who we think are feeling bad a certain day.”
A lot of kids are into dinosaurs, but few are as into dinosaurs as 9-year-old Eli Navant.
He knows so much that he could write a book about dinosaurs — in fact, he already has written a book.
One of Eli’s heroes was the head curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science who recently left his position. The boy, whose parents constantly encouraged his adventures with science, jumped on the chance to apply for the job.
From the moment the Indianapolis Colts football team announced that head coach Chuck Pagano had been diagnosed with leukemia back in October, the team and city rallied in support. Even the coach’s players shaved their heads in solidarity as he underwent chemotherapy, according to the Huffington Post.
With Pagano back with the team, his cancer in remission and his team on the eve of a playoff game, the 52-year-old coach shared his gratitude in an open letter to “The people of Indiana” published in The Indianpolis Star.
For three years, while she attended middle school in another part of Karachi, Humaira Bachal’s father had no idea what his daughter was doing.
Beyond grade five, her mother hid her daughter’s schooling and endured beatings when the truth was discovered.
Since finishing high school, Humaira, 25, has become a crusader for education going door-to-door asking other fathers to send their daughters to school.
For three years, while she attended middle school in another part of Karachi, Humaira Bachal’s father had no idea what his daughter was doing.
Beyond grade five, her mother hid her daughter’s schooling and endured beatings when the truth was discovered.
Since finishing high school, Humaira, 25, has become a crusader for education going door-to-door asking other fathers to send their daughters to school.
Canada produced a surprising 40,000 new jobs in December, built on the back of a larger-than-expected 30,000 uptick in Ontario.
Statistics Canada reported Friday in its Labour Force Survey that Canada’s unemployment rate dropped to 7.1 per cent last month, the lowest level in four years.
Journalist Bob Madigan came along on our “Good News Goes to Washington” cruise on the Potomac River. His report features sound from our chartered 85-ft yacht and, although it is just a minute long, really captures the spirit and message of the Good News Network.
“Good News is Good For You,” the headline screams, and he talked to one of our Good News Ambassadors on board, positive psychologist Caroline Miller, saying there is science to prove it.
The yacht party on September 9 celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Good News Network’s launch in 1997. The public as well as friends and reporters were invited on the free cruise aboard the second oldest yacht in the United States still being chartered.
We were told that the vessel, Finished Business, was once used by President Richard Nixon during the Watergate hearings to escape to the Bahamas for some relaxation.
On a sunny Sunday, a large banner, reading “Good News Goes to Washington”, was tied to the starboard side as she motored up the Potomac just offshore of the Jefferson Memorial and Washington monument.
(LISTEN to the story from WTOP News)
Once in a while, you hear an old war story that restores your faith in humanity.
A new book explores the incredible encounter of two WWII pilots in mid-air — a rookie American on his first bombing mission, piloting a crippled aircraft that was missing an engine and a German flying ace who not only saluted, then spared the rookie, but escorted him out of enemy airspace.
Once in a while, you hear an old war story that restores your faith in humanity.
A new book explores the incredible encounter of two WWII pilots in mid-air — a rookie American on his first bombing mission, piloting a crippled aircraft that was missing an engine and a German flying ace who not only saluted, then spared the rookie, but escorted him out of enemy airspace.
It was hope in the form of a 12-year-old boy that saved Vincent Shao from sinking beneath the waves and drowning at Waihi Beach on Saturday.
“I thought I was going to die,” the 32-year-old Auckland resident said after he lost his footing in waist-deep water while checking crab pots.
Although he was a good swimmer, Shao succumbed to a rip current as he tried swimming against the tide toward shore.
Do you remember the story two years ago about the homeless man with the golden voice who was discovered pan-handling for change on a cold Ohio street?
It turns out, he didn’t fall back into old habits and end up on the street again as some had worried. Williams now works and helps the homeless and drug-addicted whenever he can.
He maintains an apartment and continues recording voice-overs for Kraft Mac and Cheese commercials.
Last May, Williams claimed to be one-year-sober and walked his daughter down the aisle at her wedding. At 54, he cowrote a book released last year with Brett Witter entitled, A Golden Voice
The book details how he went from being a popular Ohio DJ to a homeless crack addict to a YouTube sensation after 17 hard years on the streets.
“All through that journey, I never stopped praying,’’ said Williams, who says a relationship with God is one of his top priorities.
(WATCH the new video below – READ the earlier story from TODAY)
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Do you remember the story two years ago about the homeless man with the golden voice who was discovered pan-handling for change on a cold Ohio street?
It turns out, he didn’t fall back into old habits and end up on the street again as some had worried. Williams now works and helps the homeless and drug-addicted whenever he can.
He maintains an apartment and continues recording voice-overs for Kraft Mac and Cheese commercials.
This makes me giddy…. The Atlantic shared this Twitter exchange between Star Trek legend, William Shatner, and a Canadian astronaut who is currently serving aboard the International Space Station.
On January 3, Shatner sent a tweet to Chris Hadfield, whose Twitter handle is @Cmdr_Hadfield:
@Cmdr_Hadfield Are you Tweeting from Space?
Tony Tolbert, a Harvard-educated lawyer in Los Angeles, decided to move into his mother’s home so he could offer his own fully-furnished house to a homeless family of five, and give it to them rent-free for a year.
Felicia Duke had been sharing a single room at a shelter with three of her children. But it was for kids only and her older son couldn’t join them. So not only was the family homeless and broke, but separated.
“Kindness creates kindness. Generosity creates generosity. Love creates love,” Tolbert said. “And I think if we can share some of that and have more stories about people doing nice things for other people, and fewer stories about people doing horrible things to other people, that’s a better world.”
(WATCH the video below or READ the story from CBS)
Tony Tolbert, a Harvard-educated lawyer in Los Angeles, decided to move into his mother’s home so he could offer his own fully-furnished house to a homeless family of five, and give it to them rent-free for a year.
Felicia Duke had been sharing a single room at a shelter with three of her children. But it was for kids only and her older son couldn’t join them. So not only was the family homeless and broke, but separated.
On January 3, 2013, a record number of women were sworn in as members of the 113th U.S. Congress. 80 new congresswomen joined a total of 20 female senators to produce a record number serving in both chambers.
A 12 year-old became the center of international attention early in the Iraq war when television pictures showed him crying in a hospital after suffering severe burns during a botched US bombing raid in 2003 that destroyed his home and entire family.
Ali Abbas, now 21, lost both his arms and suffered serious burns. But today, since being fitted with artificial arms in a British Hospital, he lives in prosperous south-west London, is attempting to set up a charity for limbless children, and has married a childhood friend.
(READ the story, w/ photos, from the Telegraph)
The US wind industry is powering up once again after Congress extended a critical tax credit that wind companies say will save tens of thousands of domestic jobs and allow more clean energy projects to ramp up in 2013.
The extension and several other clean energy tax breaks came out of a Senate Finance Committee and was included in the deal to avert the ‘fiscal cliff’.
(READ the story from Reuters)
Three times a week, Robbie Norris, a lean, 50-year-old yoga teacher, hops into his 1992 Volvo and heads to his class in Richmond, Va. past barbed wire and armed guards to a windowless room where a dozen women, scarred and tattooed, are waiting on donated yoga mats.
When many states have cut their wellness and education programs for inmates, citing cost and political pressure, some wardens are looking for a low-cost, low-risk way for inmates to reflect on their crimes, improve their fitness and cope with the stress of overcrowded prison life are turning toward yoga.
