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We go through hundreds of positive news articles and stories to bring you these select positive upbeat articles, daily positive quotes, positive thoughts, and positive affirmations. April 16, 2010 - Sorry for the hiatus but it's been a lovely spring, go outside and enjoy spring. The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all
involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and
scale up action now. --Kofi Annan Overview:
Investors reassured by positive earnings Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your
smile can be the source of your joy. --Thich Nhat Hanh
April 9, 2010 - Sorry for the hiatus but even we need to go outside and enjoy spring.
Barnstable Patriot ... recalled a favorite quote of Atsalis' about good things happening to good people, and said, “Clearly good things happen to good organizations. ...
Struggling
Schools Report Positive Results
Mr.
Positive and Little Miss
Tonic By Monique Jessen | Friday, April 9, 2010 11:00 AM ET The actress blogs about her favorite children's books and the happy, inspirational messages they ...
Job
Seekers Stay Positive Despite Rise In Unemployment
March 29, 2010 - The only difference between good news and bad news, is that I will actually listen to the good news.
NJ.com SALEM — Two Salem High School students recently combined their love of music with a positive message about staying away from drugs and alcohol and became ...
The
Joy of Empathy: Why It Matters & How to Teach It to Your Kids
March 19, 2010 - Have you stopped to smell the roses? No roses - stop and smell a fresh baked loaf of bread, or a lovely supper someone has prepared for you.
Former
Globetrotter deliver's positive message to students in Hemingway March 16, 2010 - Maybe you have looked in the mirror and said I love you today, but have you looked out your window and said the same. Fact of the Day: Scouting
serves millions, makes country stronger
March 15, 2010 - We need to stay strong, but remember to embrace our weaknesses for that is what makes us strong.
March 9, 2010 Love thy enemy, but don't forget to love your friends too.
March 5, 2010 Sometimes a simple smile makes my day, have you made some ones day lately?
Accentuating
the Positive in the February Employment Report
Positive
February Sales At Teen Retailers Power Retail Stocks Turning
a Negative into a Positive March 3, 2010 Some of life's greatest disappointments, lead to life's greatest adventures. Trying
to Keep Positive Beyond
the Touchline: Steve Zakuani Launches Kingdom Hope Another
great article from daily good. March 2, 2010 Even when all is lost, you always have much to gain. Good
People Popcorn
Submitted by: Bhoutik M.
Good News of the Day:
A
positive prospective on healthcare reform February 23, 2010 We all have within us the "app" for "that." Womens'
conference provides opportunity for inspiration, networking Revel
in the positive Good News of the Day:
February 19, 2010 We need to embrace the new, especially the "new" in what we already have. Before all that we have becomes old and unwanted.
DR
Sees Positive Momentum to Start 2010 February 18, 2010 There are things we have never done, but there are also things we haven't done yet.
Scope (blog) ... were 22% less likely to develop heart disease over the 10 years of follow-up than people who fell in the middle of the negative-positive emotion scale. ...
February 16, 2010 You may
only be one person to the world,
February 12, 2010 Love is not what you feel about others, love is what you feel about yourself and see in others.
Albany Times Union (blog) Jeri Dansky had some fun on her blog making virtual candy hearts for Freecycle lovers, declutterers and others. For animal lovers, the one above is a ...
Metro Weekly We want to be good people, want to do as much as we could do to be kind and gracious and thankful for what we were getting. We didn't grow up with any sort ...
February 11, 2010 Take time to do things right, take all the time you need for time is infinite.
Progress Index You know your parents taught you, you surround yourself with good people and good things will happen. Well, by all indications New Orleans coach Sean Payton ...
February 6, 2010 The beauty of life is that everything is truth, even the lies.
Give
My Waitress Mom the Respect She Deserves A
positive attitude can affect others around you
January 29, 2010 Trust in yourself and others will trust you too.
Hawaii Business Magazine But what I see mostly are good people trying to do their best in a system that is broken. The system often prevents them from doing their best, ...
Angels
over Haiti to send financial help, positive thoughts to earthquake ...
January 26, 2010 The beauty of life is that everything is truth.
AFP WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced support Tuesday for forgiving Haiti's debt, doubting the earthquake-battered nation would be able ... Esther
wants the good people of Renfrewshire to support her charity Afghans
Deserve Peace
Mmegi Online They indicate that this is how people learn acceptable social norms, that is, how they are expected to act in the world in order to be good people. ...
January 21, 2010 If someone tells a story about a bad/tragic event they heard about, from someone they don't know from a source they can't verify, is it really worth listening to.
71%
of Afghans say India playing most positive role in country: Poll Adam
Lambert on Oprah Winfrey: Positive thinking is way to success -
photos Promoting
a positive economic environment
January 15, 2010 "One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.”......Hafiz Still
good people in world
Determined to maintain the company's long held reputation as an innovative natural gas compressor supplier full of expert, customer-oriented employees, ...
January 12, 2010 The more you give the more you will be able to obtain. Natures law not mine. Bull
market for career coaches Richland
Park may get garden project January 11, 2010 Every moment is special so let's cherish every moment with all of the special people in our lives. A
positive start to the New Year Ghana
To Play More Positive Role In International Affairs
January 8, 2010 Sometimes the people who do us wrong, introduce us to those who do us right.
eFitnessNow A new study suggests that a positive approach to the stop smoking process may be the best approach that smokers can utilize. The study was conducted from
Positive
Messages More Motivating for Tobacco Cessation Pursuing
happiness, one concrete goal at a time January 5, 2010 Happy Buy New Calendar Day to all Listening
to positive lyrics can make you empathetic Porter:
Sometimes good things can happen to good people Poll:
Despite difficult 2000s most Americans hold positive outlook toward
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No,
we're not talking about soccer. Brazil, a nation known for its
cutting-edge soccer skills, is also at the forefront of massive social
reform. While many nations are struggling to keep up with the ambitious
Millennium Development Goals put forth by the United Nations in 2000,
Brazil is unperturbed. The Latin American country has already reduced
poverty by a whopping 81 percent, drastically lowered child mortality
rates, and stabilized the spread of HIV/AIDS throughout the country! And
with so much accomplished, Brazil hopes to help other countries achieve
their goals. [ 
The
wider you grin, and the deeper your laughter lines, the more likely you
are to live a long life. At least that's what researchers at Wayne
University in Michigan say. In a study examining pictures of 1952 major
league baseball players, researchers found that those with the widest
grins lived an average of 79.9 years- a full seven more years than their
glum colleagues! The study also found that false smiles don't count- only
those who looked genuinely happy had longer expectancies. [ 
With
a rising awareness of religious-based conflict and violence around the
world, interfaith dialogue and education is more important than ever. As a
college student committed to issues of social justice, Eboo Patel noticed
that religion was often left out of diversity discussions. After
discovering the ways Dorothy Day used her Catholicism to inspire her
social justice work, Patel began exploring his own Muslim faith as a
foundation for social change. Now, he is the founder of the Interfaith
Youth Core (IFYC), a rapidly growing organization that serves to empower
young people through interfaith awareness and engagement. Since its
inception a decade ago, IFYC has worked with about 60 college campuses,
sponsored 50 interfaith fellows, and hosted its sixth interfaith youth
conference! 
The
figure of gladiators recalls the ideas of strength, hard training,
endurance, and deadly efficiency: a perfect fighting machine.
Historically, a gladiator was a sort of sport hero; statues and paintings
of the ancient Roman period tell us of this astonishing world of fighters.
Perhaps akin to the modern-day Mohammad Ali or Mike Tyson, these
gladiators endured long sessions of physical training. And what was their
diet? While we might expect a high protein diet, the ancient historian
Plinius refers to gladiators as "hordearii" -- barley eaters!
Analysis of their bones has put forward the hypothesis that gladiators
were vegetarian athletes! [ 
"I
was on my lunch break in the city, enjoying a salad at an
outdoor cafe, when a disheveled homeless lady came walking
towards me. She was yelling and begging everyone who
walked past her for spare change and she looked like a
mess. My instant reaction was fear... to close off and
hope she didn't come near me, but she did. I was on the
phone and when she came over yelling, I said, 'I'm on the
phone,' in the nicest way I could, assuring myself what
she needed was a lesson in manners. After all, that is
rude to interrupt someone and I have very little money as
it is, if she only knew and on and on... She walked away,
mumbling, 'I'm annoying you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'll
leave.' And she turned the corner." [ 
Garrett
Hardin's famous essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons,"
argued that individual self-interest would always destroy any land
or resource collectively held by a community. Elinor Ostrom, the
first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics last year,
thinks otherwise. Citing examples from Swiss peasants to African
farmers, Ostrom argues that community property often does flourish
and people do come together to solve communal problems. Read more
in an interview with Ostrom. [ 
The
crowd, straining every muscle to get a brief touch of his robe, was
violently thrown back by Indian police as the Dalai Lama passed. It was
unlike anything I had experienced before or have since: such extreme
fervor of religious devotion for a single man. How, I wondered, could this
gentle, mild-mannered monk support such a high level of expectation?
"I've never seen anything like this in my life. How do you deal with
it?" I ask. He thinks for a few moments, apparently oblivious to the
small riot developing from this brief delay (and much to the aggravation
of the Indian police and a wandering cow). "I'm carrying Buddha's
message," he finally replies. "People have affinity for Buddha,
and therefore they have affinity for me." The humility was
characteristically disarming. [ 
Why
do microfinance organizations usually focus their assistance on women? And
why does everyone benefit when women enter the work force and bring home
regular pay checks? While violence against women is one of the greatest
and most under-recognized global phenomena, there's a growing recognition
among everyone -- from the World Bank to the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs
of Staff to aid organizations -- that focusing on women and girls is the
most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism. Read on for
Saima, Abbas, and Tererai's tales of empowerment. [ 
The
human brain is a big believer in equality -- and a team of scientists from
Caltech and Ireland's Trinity College has become the first to gather the
images to prove it. Specifically, the team found that the reward centers
in the human brain respond more strongly when a poor person receives a
financial reward than when a rich person does. The surprising thing? This
activity pattern holds true even if the brain being looked at is in the
rich person's head, rather than the poor person's. O'Doherty notes:
"The fact that these basic brain structures appear to be so readily
modulated in response to rewards obtained by others highlights the idea
that even the basic reward structures in the human brain are not purely
self-oriented." [ 
What
makes marriages last? It's the small stuff, it turns out: telling him he
looks great in his jeans, bringing her coffee in bed in the morning,
sneaking off without the kids from time to time, taking turns doing the
laundry. Terri Orbuch, a Michigan-based research professor and a family
therapist, spent decades charting the love lives of 373 married couples in
the U.S. -- the longest-running study of marriage conducted in North
America. The results were surprisingly simple. "Really great
marriages are not the result of long hours of hard work, but of everyday
behaviours and attitudes, seemingly small gestures that show your spouse
that he or she is noticed, appreciated, respected, loved and
desired," Orbuch noted. [ 
Orin
spent a good chunk of 2009 sleeping on park benches. The 20-year-old
admits he made it difficult on his parents. He ran away close to a
half-dozen times. On the streets, though, he has become quite the poet.
"I just want everyone to know I have something to say," Orin
said. And every Tuesday night, Orin and other youth like him, get their
chance to share their voice through 'Art from Ashes' program. [ 
