In a conversation as uplifting as his music, Randy Edelman graced the microphone of the Good News Podcast hosted by the brilliant Paul  Sladkus — delivering an episode that feels like a breath of fresh inspiration.

Recorded with warmth, wit, and heartfelt insight, Randy shared stories from his remarkable career as a composer — from writing unforgettable themes for beloved films to the deeper personal reflections that shape his art. With each answer, he radiated the same generosity and joy that have made his music resonate across generations.

Paul guided the dialogue with thoughtful curiosity, creating space for Randy to open up about the power of creativity, the bridges between emotion and melody, and the moments that define a life in music. The conversation was candid yet poetic, inviting listeners into a rare glimpse of the man behind the scores.

Listeners will find themselves smiling, nodding, and ultimately walking away with something rare: true Good News — a reminder of how beauty, perseverance, and heartfelt expression can uplift the world.

Whether you’re a longtime fan or discovering Randy’s genius for the first time, this episode is an inspiring journey — one that echoes long after the final note.

Tune in, turn up the volume, and let the good news play on.

Watch Randy Edelman on the Good News Podcast with Paul Sladkus here:

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“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.”
— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Inspired by the UN Water Action Decade (2018-2028) along with the UN 2023 Water Conference, young innovators, researchers, and artists from around the world submitted projects that highlight the importance of clean water and sustainable water management.The J.U.C. Awards, initiated in 2020, aims to foster the next generation of leaders. By providing a platform for young people to share their ideas and solutions, the program empowers them to make a positive impact on the world.

A Brief Introduction Of The 2025 J.U.C. Awards ~
Distinguished Evaluation Committee Of Experts:

Co-Chairs:
Ambassador Mr. Rodrigo A. Carazo of Costa Rica to the United Nations (2018-2022); Member, UN Human Rights Committee (Geneva)
Prof. Olcay Ünver, Arizona State University; Vice-Chair of UN-Water and Senior Water Advisor at UN FAO.
Members:
• Ambassador Mr. Yogendra Kumar of India (Retired) & Author of two books & Editor another
• Prof. Victor Lawrence, Director of the Center for Intelligent Networked Systems (iNetS), and former Associate Dean and Bachelor Chair Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology (New Jersey); Secretary General, LMGlobal.Org
• Prof. Günay Smith, Professor of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Southside Virginia Community College (Retired.); Adviser, LMGlobal.Org
• Dr. Dahlia Sabri, Chair, IWRA-Egypt Chapter
• Ms. Ilknur Boray, V.P. Ataturk Society of America & The Atatürk World Platform
• Ms. Bircan Ünver, M.A., Author and Project Director, LMGlobal.Org
Youth:
Mr. Ren Jie, Ph.D. Candidate (2029), School of Marxism, Environmental Politics and Ecological Civilization, Peking University

– Evaluation process will begin mid of January 2025.

Global Participation and Impact

The 2025 J.U.C. Awards received submissions from students at several schools and organizations around the world, including:
Darüşşafaka High School (Istanbul, Türkiye)
Whyteleafe Performing Arts Academy (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
The Institution of Green Engineers (IGEN) (Chennai, India)
Association of Young Leaders United for Sustainable Development (Burundi)

The program’s success is also due to the dedicated efforts of its student coordinators:
Ms. Duru Büyükbaşaran (Türkiye)
Ms. Rukhshana R.A. (India)
Mr. Lyonga Jewis (Cameroon)
Ms. Mimoza Irtem (Türkiye / U.S. – Outreach Coordinator)

The 2025 J.U.C. Awards will announce the winners around the World Water Day in March 2025. The winning projects will be recognized for their creativity, innovation, and potential to inspire positive change.

A Brief History of the J.U.C. Awards

The J.U.C. Media, Research, and Writing Awards were initiated in 2020 by the Light Millennium, a global humanitarian organization. The program was inspired by the legacy of John Unver Culkin and aims to empower young people to address global challenges through creative expression and critical thinking. By providing a platform for students to showcase their talents and ideas, the J.U.C. Awards fosters a new generation of global citizens committed to sustainable development.

“In Loving Memory of J.U.C.”; the 2025 J.U.C. Media, Research, Writing & Innovation Awards designed for international High School students by The Light Millennium, Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization (LMGlobal.Org, 2001, New York) With Tax-Exempt Status#501(c)3.

The submissions received based on the GUIDELINES of the 2025 J.U.C. Awards, which is available via the following link:
https://www.lmglobal.org/2024/03/14/call-to-high-school-students-for-entries-to-the-2025-j-u-c-awards-the-water-cycle-and-the-life-cycle-are-one/
Guidelines – Booklet#4

INTERACTIVE SESSION > Interview with Bircan Ünver on the Guidelines of the 2025 J.U.C. Awards | Conducted by Duru Büyükbaşaran

For more information, please visit: www.lmglobal.org
Contact: JUCAwards(at)lightmillennium.org

Hashtags: #lightmillennium, #LMGlobalOrg, #TheLightMillenniumTV, #HopeNeverFades, #JUCAwards2025, #JUCAwards, #WaterActionDecade, #WorldWaterDay2025, #WaterAction, #SDG6, #JUCAwardsEvaluationCommittee, #UNWithCivilSociety

• Special Thanks To: Ambassador Mr. Ramu Damodaran, Permanent Observer of the University For Peace to the United Nations.

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Gotta Catch ‘Em All… Pokémon that is! Parents everywhere are familiar with Pikachu, Eevee and the various card games, video games and shows that coincide with these familiar characters. While some may think that playing Pokémon is merely a fun way to pass the time, Brainly, the world’s largest online learning platform and homework help community is here to show how kids’ love of all things Charizard can be educational.

“The best way to teach kids is to meet them where they are and incorporate things they naturally have an interest in outside of a classroom, like Pokémon, into your lesson plans. Whether you use these characters to teach your latest science lesson or include Meowth in your math problem, there is an educational aspect to Pokémon,” according to Brainly’s Parenting Expert Patrick Quinn.

But just how is Pokémon educational? In honor of National Pokémon Day on February 27th, Brainly shares some ideas.

>> Pokémon and School
Whether you’re learning about science (hello Fire, Water, Electric, Ice, Ground, and more Pokémon types!) or teaching a math lesson, teachers and educators can use Pokémon as part of their lesson plans to engage students. Check out an example on Brainly!

>> Pokémon and Math
Playing Pokémon requires you to use math skills. Your child will practice their addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills all while playing Pokémon.

>> Check Out Those “Punny” Pokémon Names
Did you know many of the Pokémon names are rooted in Greek, Latin, Japanese, and more? Here are some examples:
• Pikachu – “pikapika” is Japanese for “sparkle” and chu is Japanese for “squeak”
• Squirtle – “squirt” means to shoot water and “turtle” is a water-based reptile
• Clefable – “clef” is a musical symbol and “fable” is a fairytale
• Umbreon – “umbra” is the darkest part of a shadow and “eon” is a long period of time

>> Pokémon and Critical Thinking
If your children collect Pokémon cards, encourage them to learn the game. It will teach them critical thinking skills and how to deal with complex situations. Played yourself when you were younger? There is knowledge in nostalgia – test your memory and add Pokémon to your family game nights!

>> Pokémon and the Imagination
Pokémon encourages children to use their imaginations and think outside of the box. The ability to imagine is the key to success in countless professions, including business, science, technology, education, and writing.

Want to learn more ways Pokémon can be educational? We’d be happy to set up an interview with Brainly’s Parenting Expert Patrick Quinn to discuss.

#pokemon #day #pokémon #video #card #games #pikachu #squirtle #clefable #umbreon #critical #thinking #technology #business #science #education #writing

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In “In The Hole,” nine-year-old David Kimball finds his safe and secure world unexpectedly unraveling after discovering his father has lost the family restaurant business, and subsequently their home. Forced to live in a borrowed car until it too is lost, David, together with his parents and sister, Julia, desperately seek shelter. After finding temporary housing in a decrepit inn, together with other individuals facing homelessness, David struggles to maintain a sense of normalcy even as his family faces the challenges and trauma of being homeless. Over time, through hard work and the support of their family and community, David searches for the inner strength and outward skills needed to help his family triumph over their dire circumstances. Will David and his family make it out of the hole?

#ben #levin #autistic #passion #writing #in #the #hole #true #inspiration #curse #gift #david #kimball #safe #secure #family #restaurant #julia #homelessness

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His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screen craft and the Hollywood Screenplay contests. After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared in the anthology DIRTY BOULEVARD, The Millions, Cagibi, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New PlainsReview, Underwood Press, Monologing and others. He is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City. Follow him at leematthewgoldberg.com

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On a glorious autumn morning in Saint Andrews, Scotland, former US president George W. Bush approached the first tee of the world famous Old Course to play a round of golf he would not finish.

Unceremoniously abducted off the course by a team of paramilitary commandos, he was transported to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to stand trial for war crimes in connection with the Iraq War.

The ICC had spent one year accumulating evidence sufficient to indict George W. Bush as the single person most responsible for the war. Would he be found innocent or guilty, or would something happen that would disrupt the administration of justice?

for more about Terry, go to www.TerryJastrow.com

Anne recently made a guest appearance on the FOX comedy THE GRINDER … playing Dean and Stewart’s mom. Viewers will finally meet someone who couldn’t care less: the woman who gave birth to him.

According to the official character breakdown, Lenore Sanderson-Grant is Dean Sr.’s “adventurous and outspoken” ex-wife who in incredibly unimpressed by her son’s TV-star status. She remarried right after she and Dean Sr. divorced; meanwhile, he’s been single ever since.

for more about Anne, go to www.AnneArcher.com

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MAKE ME By #1 New York Times bestseller LEE CHILD
“Child is a suburb craftsman of suspense.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Reacher gets better and better.”—The New York Times
“Do yourself a favor and get hooked on this series.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Hailed as “the best thrill writer of the moment” (New York Times) and “the poster boy for American crime fiction” (Los Angeles Times), with more than 100 million copies of his novels in print worldwide featuring his now iconic creation—ex Army cop and all-around tough guy Jack Reacher—Lee Child is hotter than ever!

About Reacher:  For some, his brute strength and sheer physicality are his dominant traits. For others, it’s the razor-sharp instincts and mental processes that make him a force to be reckoned with. But no matter the image you have, one thing is for certain—#1 internationally bestselling Lee Child’s anti-hero Jack Reacher is one of the most iconic protagonists of contemporary suspense fiction with Stephen King crowning the Reacher novels as “the coolest continuing character series currently on offer.” Child returns this fall with MAKE ME , where Reacher encounters a case that proves to be one of the most challenging—and haunting—of his career. Most recently, Reacher was portrayed by Tom Cruise in the first film JACK REACHER, released in December 2012.  A second film follows in 2016.
About MAKE ME:  The novel starts with a simple statement: “Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn’t easy.” But there is nothing straightforward about the situation that Reacher enters as he steps off the train in the small town of Mother’s Rest. On the welcome platform he meets Special Agent Michelle Chang—her mission is to find her partner, the aforementioned Keever. Together—with little more than the brains and brawn between them both—they set off to uncover a missing man’s whereabouts, and the events that brought Keever to this off-the-map locale. What they will uncover will strike Reacher to the core and plunge both him and Chang headfirst into the darkest depths of human heart and mind.
Join Lee Child on Tuesday, September 8th when he can discuss:
•          The immense popularity of Jack Reacher (and why name him Reacher)
•          With 20 books in the series, how he continues to grow this well-known character
•          Why losing his job was the best thing that ever happened to him
•          Hollywood and Jack Reacher
•          Will Reacher ever settle down and could the romance  in MAKE ME help him change his mind?
THIS MEDIA TOUR IS SPONSORED BY DELACORTE PRESS (RANDOM HOUSE)

About the author:  Lee Child is the author of twenty Jack Reacher thrillers, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Personal, Never Go Back, A Wanted Man, The Affair, Worth Dying For, 61 Hours, Gone Tomorrow, Bad Luck and Trouble, and Nothing to Lose, as well as the short stories “Small Wars,” “Not a Drill,” “High Heat,” “Second Son” and “Deep Down.” His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in more than forty territories and there are nearly 100 million copies of the Reacher novels in all formats worldwide. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures, the first of which—Jack Reacher—was released in December 2012. A native of England and a former television director, Child lives in New York City, where he is at work on his next thriller. Visit his website at www.leechild.com

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Ada is a violin virtuoso who has created her own unique genre, combining her vocal talents, violin mastery and songwriting prowess for an outstanding pop melding. Her shows are always a spectacular display of musicianship by Ada and her band of Berklee College of Music graduates.

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What Does Peace Mean to You?

An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II. A profound and compelling portrait of two ordinary French women living in a city under siege and in a country at war, where surviving sometimes means doing the unthinkable.

Visit Kristin Hanna’s website: http://kristinhannah.com/content/index.php

Keep up with Kristin on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorKristinHannah

‘The Nightingale’

In love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.

FRANCE, 1939

In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.

Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.

With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

Biography

Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including Winter Garden, True Colors, and the blockbuster Firefly Lane.

Her novel Home Front has been optioned for film by 1492 Films (produced the Oscar-nominated The Help) with Chris Columbus attached direct.

Kristin’s next release is the highly anticipated The Nightingale, which is available in book stores now.

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Another snippet from ‘The Stella’ by Gregg Greenberg – (Rehearsal) – Players: Marcus Brandon and Jonathan Melvin Smith

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