Timeless Messages, Timeless Music

Singer Vera Lynn, at age 92, is making a comeback on the charts.  A collection of her greatest hits from the WWII era has hit the number one spot on the music charts in the Great Britain.

http://gimundo.com/news/article/92-year-old-becomes-second-time-pop-star/

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NYC Launches Green Building Program

New York City is making an effort to green building practices.  There is plenty of room for improvement in a city of this size to reduce their carbon footprint.

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40536

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Unusual Landlord-Tenant Relationship

This is a surefire example of how not to make money in real estate investing, but it is also an example of a good Samaritan helping out a fellow human being.

http://gimundo.com/news/article/landlord-gets-job-to-pay-laid-off-tenants-bills/

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Celebrate Our National Parks This Weekend on PBS

Just a reminder this morning that entrance fees to ALL of the national parks in the United States is free today.  Also, if you're in the U.S., be sure to catch Ken Burns film on PBS about our national parks.

http://www.npca.org/bestidea/

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Harmony Hill a Haven of Hope for Cancer Patients.

I first heard about this organization several years ago while I was living on Hood Canal myself.  This is a wonderful organization providing an amazing service and a glimmer of hope for a new life for cancer patients.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009834794_harmonyhill10.html

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Buried Treasure Unearthed in UK

I knew I wanted to find something unique for AGNADL's 300th posting.  Yep, this is posting number 300 since I started this blog on President Obama's inaugural day.  When I opened my daily news email from the BBC, I knew that I had struck gold, literally.  It seems that some bloke in Staffordshire, using a metal detector on a friend's farmland, discovered an ancient Anglo Saxon treasure trove.  Its value has not yet been determined, but it will belong to the crown since it has been declared treasure.  Its worth is likely to be in the seven-figure range.  In addition to the monetary value, the treasure should yield a lot of historical information about the Anglo-Saxon period in England.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8272058.stm

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Celebrate Our National Parks This Weekend for Free

Love going to your local national park but are trying to cut back expenses? This weekend is the perfect time to head to the nearest park and get in free.  Yep, that's right, I said "free."  On Saturday, Sept. 26, you can get into any of the 391 national parks in the United States absolutely free.  It is the 16th annual National Public Lands Day, and entry fees are being waived.  What are you waiting for?  Start planning that picnic lunch for this Saturday.  


http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40511

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Sports Story with a Heart

You've got to love a sports story with this much heart.  Read how the other team helped one player score a touchdown against them.

http://gimundo.com/news/article/rivals-help-teen-with-down-syndrome-score-touchdown/

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Water, Water Everywhere

The US Navy is working on ways to turn sea water into jet fuel. Talk about using the resources at your fingertips. http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40462

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Last Sunday of Summer in Brownsville, Washington

What better way to say goodbye to summer than with a day like today?

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On Greening the White House

Kudos, President Obama, for continuing what President Carter started when he was in office, greening the White House.

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40470

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Hope in the Battle Against Mountaintop Mining

Pressure on the EPA to halt mountaintop mining in the United States is finally yielding some results under the Obama administration.

http://unearthed.earthjustice.org/blog/2009-september/epa-provides-hope-mountaintop-removal-mining

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Quadriplegic Woman Sails Around the World

Wow! Now this takes a great deal of intestinal fortitude.

http://gimundo.com/news/article/quadriplegic-takes-solo-sail-through-british-isles/

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Guardian Angels in Unexpected Places

I wanted to run this article the day it came out, but I'd already posted that day, so I figured it was timeless enough to wait until I needed one close at hand, so here ya go. A story about a Wal-mart worker who is helping people save money in different ways than you'd think. Thanks to Nicole Brodeur of the Seattle Times for this little item of good news.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009803285_nicole04m.html

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Ford Really Does Have a Better Idea

I don't know if you remember the old Ford commercials where their motto was "Ford has a better idea," but it seems that Ford really does often have a better idea. The Ford Escape hybrid was one of them, and some new green cars coming up are others. Now they are converting a closed down Ford factory to clean technology manufacturing. Sounds good to me.

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40479

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Apology for Recent Lapse of Good News Coverage

It wasn't because there was no good news to report. It was a recent health lapse that prevented me from reporting good news on a daily basis for about a week. I will begin to cover again as I can. Thanks for your patience and feel free to send good news items anytime to allgoodnewsalldaylong@gmail.com.

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News So Good the Other Team Cheered

In the cosmic scheme of things, getting 2000 base hits as a baseball player may not be as noteworthy as the discovery of the cure to a disease, but in the sports world it's a big deal. Only one baseball player has hit the 2000 hit mark faster than Seattle Mariners' famous right-fielder, Ichiro. Ichiro did it in his 1402nd major league game. Al Simmons managed to do it in 1390.

The best part of Ichiro's success, I thought, was the response of the Mariners' opponents. In the first inning of Sunday's game, when Ichiro made the double, the Oakland Athletics' fans stood and cheered. That was a very cool thing for them to do. The A's still managed to win the game, despite Ichiro's powerful bat, but they didn't know they would win in the first inning of the game when Ichiro hit this big milestone. They just knew that something big had happened in the game of baseball, and they honored it and the man who made it happen. All the fans that day cheered the excellence of one player. I like that.

By the way, Al Simmons made the 2000-hit benchmark back in 1934, so yeah, it was a big deal for baseball fans. Simmons never quite made it to 3000 hits. If you count Ichiro's career in Japan before he came to the states to play Major League Baseball, he's already well over the 3000 hit mark and still going strong.

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Transitioning to Fall

Some images of at Brownsville marina near Seattle. Skies are changing over from blue skies and sunshine to breezes bearing hints of fall.

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40442
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Moving Out of Recession

It appears that the state of Washington and the United States as a whole are beginning on the road to recovery from recession. For more information, read this Seattle Times article.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009809776_stateeconomy05.html

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Honest People Abound on the Hiking Trail

An experiment in human nature yielded some heartening results. I stumbled upon this article at Gimundo.com, but followed the link to the original article. It's a great story about the cooperation and honesty of a bunch of people on a hiking trail that led to a fun photo project and a camera that returned home to its owner after being left out on the open trail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209877/Camera-abandoned-student-mountain-returned-snaps-fellow-walkers.html

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Vermont is Now 4th State in the U.S. to Extend Completely Equal Rights to Gays

It's official today. Vermont, although the first state to offer same-sex couples civil unions, has just become the fourth state in the U.S. to offer completely equal marriage rights to those couples. I have to wonder about the people in the other 46 states, who still think that barring some U.S. citizens from equal rights is perfectly okay. When will we all figure out that excluding law-abiding, tax-paying citizens from having completely equal rights is not good for democracy and that a separate, but theoretically equal, substitute still isn't equal? It wasn't back in the fight for equal rights for our African American citizens, and it still isn't right in a day and age when we should know better.

The U.S. is way behind the rest of the so-called "advanced" countries in granting ALL of its citizens equal rights under the law. Truthfully, however, none of these countries offer true equality, no matter what the wording, since, as far as I know, no country extends the same tax benefits to same-sex couples as those received by heterosexual couples. However, every step in the direction of equality is a positive step that should be celebrated.

http://lesbianlife.about.com/b/2009/09/01/get-married-today-in-vermont.htm

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Happy Tails/Tales to You

Don't you just love animal stories with a happy ending? If so, you'll like this one for sure.

http://www.angelscribe.com/tnt_050609.html

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New Orleans Emerging from the Katrina Wreckage

Though much remains to be done, New Orleans is making a comeback in a green way.

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40423

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