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Watch Man Pull Over to Rescue Rabbit Trapped by California Wildfires

An unidentified man was caught on camera pulling over on the side of the road amidst the wildfires in Ventura County, California all so he could rescue a frightened rabbit.

While the hero can initially be seen panicking over the critter’s erratic movements, he eventually catches on to its patterns and chases it down.

He then gently scoops the rabbit up into his arms and carries it away – all with flames blazing in the background.

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More Than 200 Nations Promise to Stop Ocean Plastic Waste

 

Over 200 countries signed a resolution this week that promised to collectively eliminate plastic waste in the oceans.

The agreement, which was posed by the United Nations, declared that each nation would start to monitor their country’s packaging methods in favor of more environmentally friendly alternatives.

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“There is very strong language in this resolution,” Norway’s environment minister, Vidar Helgesen, told Reuters. “We now have an agreement to explore a legally binding instrument and other measures and that will be done at the international level over the next 18 months.”

The resolution was initiated by Norway at an environmental summit in Nairobi, Kenya. Though the agreement is not legally binding, 39 governments were spurred to pass legislation that aligned with the goals the very same day.

South Africa and Cameroon in particular joined the ranks of nations banning single-use plastic bags.

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Sleepy 2-Year-old Asks Santa for the Simplest Gift Imaginable

When Santa asked what this 2-year-old girl wanted for Christmas, she had a very relatable request.

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Santa was taking holiday requests from kids at Bering’s hardware store in Houston, Texas.

Once Linden Bartell climbed onto Saint Nick’s lap, he asked her what she wanted for Christmas.

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Unfazed by the ordeal, Linden casually rubbed some sleep out of her eyes and said: “I want to take a nap.”

With a smile, Kris Kringle replied: “Santa does too.”

Linden then snuggled into his fluffy white beard while onlookers melted at the endearing exchange.

Because Santa had to keep taking orders from other children on his nice list, Linden did not necessarily get the long winter’s nap that she was hoping for – but her dad Allen says that she was able to get an early night once the family got home from their holiday shopping.

(WATCH the video below)

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How to Break an Addiction in 30 Days

Title: How to Break an Addiction in 30 Days

The Lesson: Addiction can be a slippery slope down to rock bottom – but if given the right tools, anyone can pull themselves out again. Luckily, this particular podcast (as seen in the video below) doesn’t just cover the tools to breaking bad habits – it also discusses the fear, mindsets, struggles, and rewards of kicking alcoholism and addition.

Notable Excerpt: “Most of the things that we do that are addictive are to numb out our anxiety, to numb out our pain, to numb out our feelings of trauma, to numb out our discomfort about meeting people in a social situation, the fear that we won’t have fun, the fear that we won’t be interesting … and that’s the big myth: ‘I won’t have a fun life’. But what we’re finding is that people are actually having more fun because they start doing different things instead.”

The Guest: Jack Canfield, who is the author of the best-selling “Chicken Soup For The Soul” book series, recently published “The 30-Day Sobriety Solution: How to Cut Back or Quit Drinking in the Privacy of Your Own Home”. The book is a carefully-organized manual that is designed to instruct, guide, and ease the reader back into a healthy state of mind without the tethers of alcoholism or drug habits.

The Host: After spending years of his young life and athletic career struggling with his own emotional wellbeing, a crippling injury left Lewis Howes without an identity and without any work. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, however, Howes recreated himself as a multi-million dollar media producer, motivational speaker, bestselling author, and podcast host. The ex-football player now spends his days chatting with the most inspirational icons of this generation on his School of Greatness podcast.

Podcast: The School of Greatness podcast is available for download on Soundcloud and iTunes. You can also watch footage of the interviews on Howes’s YouTube channel.

Books: Howes is the author of the New York Times bestselling book “The School of Greatness”: an in-depth collection of lessons and wisdom that he has gathered from interviewing hundreds of the world’s greatest role models and thinkers. Howes’s latest book, “The Mask of Masculinity”, is based on his experience with the dangerous stereotypes and expectations that are placed on men in modern society.

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How to Find Yourself When You’re Feeling Lost or Detached

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Title: How to Find Yourself When You’re Feeling Detached

The Lesson: When you get caught up in the stresses of everyday life, it’s easy to become disconnected with who you are and what you have going on in your life. Whether it’s work, relationships, or finances that are causing you anxiety, many people tend to lose sight of how blessed they are based on these distractions.

While you may feel emotionally trapped and at the mercy of your own negative feelings, there is a formula for reconnecting with yourself – and it’s pretty easy to understand.

Notable Excerpt: “You have two choices in life: if life doesn’t match your blueprint, you either have to change your life … or – in order for you to be happy – if you can’t change your life, then you have to change your blueprint.”

The Speaker: Tony Robbins is a best-selling author, motivational speaker, life coach, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. The California-based strategist has become such an influential lecturer, over 4 million people have attended his live seminars. In addition to founding several different companies (and his own foundation), Robbins has also done with work with such charities as Feeding America, Spring Health, and Operation Underground Railroad.

Podcast: The Tony Robbins podcast is available for free on Spotify and iTunes. You can also find more of his motivational talks and interviews on his YouTube channel.

Books: Robbins is the author of “Awaken the Giant Within,” “Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook”, “Money: Master the Game”, and “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”.

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Watch Cat Take Drastic Action to Stop Her Human From Singing About Her in the Bathtub

Some people enjoy singing in the shower – but not Pepé the cat.

Pepé apparently hates when her owner Brad Johnsen sings in the bathtub – and that is exactly why he posted a hilarious video of himself doing just that.

While Pepé can be seen stalking her human from the tile, Johnsen sings a little ditty about his feline friend’s hatred of his bathtub past-time.

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Johnsen can be heard belting: “Cause I’m singin’ in the bathtub and my kitty doesn’t like it, she gets really annoyed… I don’t know why you don’t like my beautiful voice so I sing and sing and sing!”

As he continues singing, Pepé starts to slowly move around the tub and Johnsen becomes “a little nervous cause she’s kinda mean”.

Finally, Pepé reaches her limit and forcefully gets her human to stop.

The video cuts off before we can find out whether Johnsen survives the encounter, but one thing is for sure – he wasn’t kidding when he said that Pepé hated singing in the bathtub.

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Check Out This Record-Breaking Rainbow That Blessed Taiwan For 9 Hours

Students at a school in Taiwan were treated to a rare and delightful site last week: a rainbow that allegedly stretched over the valley for nine hours.

If confirmed, the rainbow in Taipei could set the world record for the longest-lasting rainbow in history.

The last world record was set by a 6-hour rainbow in Yorkshire, England back in 1994. The average rainbow, on the other hand, usually lasts about one hour.

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“It was amazing… It felt like a gift from the sky… It’s so rare!” said Chou Kun-hsuan, a professor in the university’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences, according to the BBC.

Kun-hsuan, alongside his fellow professors and students of the Chinese Culture University, did their best to document the rainbow.

Collectively, students and teachers took 10,000 photos that they plan on using to apply for the world record.

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A Guide to Spiritual Weight Training: Become a Peaceful Warrior

Title: Spiritual Weight Training and Becoming a Peaceful Warrior

The Lesson: The phrase “peaceful warrior” may seem somewhat contradictory, but there may be more to it than you think. This lesson on spiritual weight training in particular covers everything from the difference between feeling positive emotions and acting as a positive person; suggestions for people going through life transitions; and how to take care of your health when you’re young.

Notable Excerpt: “Many people have heard that saying ‘when the student is ready, the teacher appears’ – it becomes sort of a cliché. But I think what it means – ‘when the student is ready’ – is that any of us, whenever we’re really paying attention, the teacher appears everywhere.”

The Guest: Over the course of his complex career, Dan Millman has become an expert on the way of the peaceful warrior. In fact, he has published 17 books on it, one of which has been translated into 29 languages and turned into an intensely spiritual cinematic masterpiece. Additionally, Millman has become a spiritual mentor to thousands of students through his online eCourse programs.

The Host: After spending years of his young life and athletic career struggling with his own emotional wellbeing, a crippling injury left Lewis Howes without an identity and without any work. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, however, Howes recreated himself as a multi-million dollar media producer, motivational speaker, bestselling author, and podcast host. The ex-football player now spends his days chatting with the most inspirational icons of this generation on his School of Greatness podcast.

Podcast: The School of Greatness podcast is available for download on Soundcloud and iTunes. You can also watch footage of the interviews on Howes’s YouTube channel.

Books: Howes is the author of the New York Times bestselling book “The School of Greatness”: an in-depth collection of lessons and wisdom that he has gathered from interviewing hundreds of the world’s greatest role models and thinkers. Howes’s latest book, “The Mask of Masculinity”, is based on his experience with the dangerous stereotypes and expectations that are placed on men in modern society.

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How Incredibly Successful People Think

Title: How Successful People Think

The Lesson: Anyone can be successful, no matter their background. It’s all about making a conscious decision to pursue things that you are not good at. Unsuccessful people tend to stop pondering success when they hit a road block that seems too hard to overcome. Successful people, on the other hand, know that success isn’t about luck – it’s about learning how to do the things that you can’t do so you can become the person you want to be.

Notable Excerpt: “Success itself is not some big mystery that people haven’t figured out before even though … it can feel like this arduous unknowable process. Success has been figured out and we all know it’s a mindset game. Most of success is just about how we use our psychology.”

The Speaker: Brendon Burchard once went bankrupt from pursuing his dream of being a motivational speaker – now, he is a multi-millionaire. In addition to over 2 million students completing his online business courses and video series, Burchard has become a 3-time New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, motivational speaker, and online coach.

Podcast: The Brendon Show, which debuted at #1 across all categories in its first season, is available on iTunes and Stitcher. Additionally, you can watch Burchard’s talks and lectures on his YouTube channel.

Books: Out of the five he has written, Burchard’s most critically-acclaimed books include “High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way” and “The Motivation Manifesto

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When Guy Sees Napping Restaurant Cook, He Lets Them Sleep and Prepares, Pays For His Own Meal

When a Waffle House employee was having trouble keeping their eyes open during the graveyard shift, Alex Bowen was not about to stop them from getting some much-needed sleep.

Instead, he decided to take manners into his own hands.

Bowen had originally walked into the West Columbia, South Carolina restaurant at 3AM in search of something to eat after a night of drinking. After unsuccessfully waiting 10 minutes for someone to assist him in the deserted restaurant, he finally went back into the kitchen and saw the exhausted employee slumped over a table.

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Bowen told Inside Edition: “As soon as I walked around the bar to go to the back and I noticed one employee sleeping, I looked at her for a few seconds and I thought about waking her up but I thought ‘this employee is probably tired, I got you fam, I’ll take care of it’.”

Bowen then made himself his own steak and cheese sandwich, gobbled his meal down, cleaned up after himself, and quietly left the restaurant. He didn’t dine and dash, however – Bowen later returned to the restaurant so he could pay for his food when a cashier was present.

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Youngster Travels 1,000 Miles to Meet 81-Year-old Lady He Met on ‘Words With Friends’

A picture speaks more than a thousands words – and these two individuals are particularly good with words.

22-year-old Spencer Sleyon and 81-year-old Rosalind “Roz” Guttman have spent the last year developing a friendship built on their rivalry in the crossword puzzle game, Words With Friends. Then, last week, they came together in person for the first time.

Considering Sleyon is an aspiring young rapper from Harlem, he is not the mostly likely counterpart for Guttman: a senior resident at a West Palm Beach retirement community in Florida. But since the app first paired them as opponents, the two have battled in over 324 games of wit.

Over the course of their virtual competition, the two would send messages to each other with criticism, compliments, and chit-chat. As the months passed, the senior and the youngster became close friends.

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When Sleyon mentioned his unique online friendship to his pastor Amy Butler, she was thrilled by the sweet story. Butler asked if she could use the story of their friendship in her sermon about how “relationships change us”.

After giving the sermon, however, Butler wanted the story to take one step further—she wanted Sleyon and Guttman to meet each other in person.

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Sleyon and Butler confirmed a meet-up with Guttman, booked their tickets to Florida, and hopped on the plane.

Butler snapped a selfie with the musician and tweeted it with the caption reading: “She’s 86 and lives in a retirement community in Florida. He’s 22 and lives in Harlem. They met online playing #WordsWithFriends. Tomorrow they’ll meet in person. I get to be there. #RelationshipsChangeUs.”

The Words With Friends Twitter page responded, adding to the avalanche of emotional reactions across the internet. Their response to the social media tale read: “We can’t get enough of this! Amazing. Thank you for sharing your story with us.”

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Butler was able to snap some sweet photos of the moment Sleyon and Guttman first laid eyes on each other.

After posting the pic, the young man tweeted, “Life is…crazy, I’ve never [even] been to Florida, y’all.”

Judging by the expressions on their faces, it looks like words finally failed them.

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Girl’s Christmas Wish Comes True When 400K Strangers Follow Dad’s Hotel Carpet Instagram

Have you ever been at a hotel and noticed that the carpets are a little funkier than the ones you might see in an average home?

Maybe you haven’t noticed, but Bill Young certainly does. In fact, he takes pictures of hotel carpets and posts them to an Instagram account specifically dedicated to the cause.

While Bill’s hobby is certainly unique, he didn’t have much of a social media following for it until recently.

Bill’s daughter, Jill, published a Tweet last month in which she asked people to help make her dad’s Instagram account go viral.

The Youngs hoped that it would garner a few extra followers for Bill and his carpet art.

Jill’s plan worked — although, that’s a huge understatement because Bill’s Instagram gained thousands of new followers overnight.

Needless to say, Christmas came early this year for the Youngs thanks to a bunch of strangers on the internet.

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How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals

Title: How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals

The Lesson: Whether you want to pursue your dream career or cross off all the items of your bucket list, anyone can achieve their most ambitious goals. How, you ask? All you need is 10 to 20 minutes out of your day and a little bit of discipline.

Notable Excerpt: “What stands between us and achieving even our most ambitious dreams has far less to do with possessing some magical skill or talent, and far more to do with how we approach problems and make decisions to solve them.”

The Speaker: Stephen Duneier is an award-winning lecturer, professor, artist, and investor who gave a critically-acclaimed TEDX Talk on the simple strategy you can use to pursue your wildest dreams. While his strategy is pretty basic, however, it is the same strategy that he has used to learn German, go skydiving, get straight A grades in school, and set a Guinness World Record.

Books: Duneier is set to release his first book, “AlphaBrain: How a Group of Iconoclasts Are Using Cognitive Science to Advance the Business of Alpha Generation” in 2019 through Wiley Publishing.

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How to Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed

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Title: How To Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed

The Lesson: We all know the effects of stress – an elevated heart rate, sweaty palms, and clouded thinking that won’t let us think efficiently. So is there any way to avoid losing our rationality when our brain starts stressing out?

Notable Excerpt: “We all are going to fail now and then – the idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be.”

The Speaker: Dr. Daniel Levitin is a neuroscientist, author, and musician who has done work with top Ivy League schools and Silicon Valley think tanks. In addition to writing three bestselling books, he has also worked as an audio consultant for several Grateful Dead and Steely Dan records.

Books: His critically-acclaimed books include “This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of Human Obsession”; “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload”; and “Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era”.

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Teen Spots Scared Owl Tangled in Soccer Net But Is Able to Cut the Bird Free

It was a regular afternoon for Blake Milliken — until he suddenly became a hero.

He thought he was going to the soccer fields to kick a ball around with some of his friends, but his day took a surprising turn when he discovered something struggling from inside a soccer net.

As he got closer, Blake realized it was a frightened owl in need of a helping hand.

So, the teen took out a small knife that he happened to have in his pocket and he got to work.

“He nicked my hand,” Blake explained. “I didn’t panic. I just stayed calm and waited until he let go, and went on cutting away at the net.”

Soon, Blake’s girlfriend, her parents, and the local police showed up to help finish the amazing rescue. The owl was then brought to a rehab facility, where he will be taken care of and nursed back to health.

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Homeless Man Tears Open Deadlocked Door and Rescues Kids From Smoke-Filled Home

 

When a house went up in flames on Friday, a homeless man risked his own life to rescue two children trapped inside.

Anival Angulo, who lives on the streets of Las Vegas, heard a 3-year-old girl and 10-month-old boy yelling for help from behind the door of their home. Something had caught fire on the kitchen stove, and smoke was starting to pour out of the house.

Even though the children’s grandfather had been babysitting the two youngsters, he had gone into a back room and forgotten about the food in the kitchen. When it caught fire, the senior was unable to make it through the fire to rescue the kids.

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Angulo, however, was able to jump the fence, tear open the deadlocked screen door, and pull the children to safety.

“I wrapped up the babies and pulled them out,” Angulo told KSNV. “I knew I had to get them out.”

Meanwhile, the neighbors ran to the rescue of the grandfather and managed to pull him out from a window in the back of the home.

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Watch Excited Dog’s Reaction to Seeing Snowfall For the First Time

There is nothing like the first snowfall of the season – and this pup is pretty excited about experiencing it for the first time.

In a video uploaded by his owners, Jo Ellery and Matt Hunter, Truffle the working cocker spaniel can be seen investigating the fluffy white flakes falling outside of his home in York, England last week.

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Needless to say, he is jubilant over the weird weather phenomenon.

It is also safe to assume that this may be the most wholesome video you need to start your week off with a good attitude.

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This Font is Designed Specifically For Dyslexia – and it Really Works

While this may look like a slightly more playful version of a regular font, those lines and letters have actually been designed specifically for dyslexia.

Dyslexia is a learning disorder that makes it harder for people to interpret words, letters, and sentences. While it does not affect a person’s general intelligence, the condition can make it much harder for those who live with the disorder to maneuver language and communications that are like second-nature for everybody else.

After spending years struggling with his own dyslexia, Dutch graphic designer Christian Boer created a special font called Dyslexie as his graduation project from the Utrecht School of the Arts in 2008.

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Dyslexie is a font that employs a dozen different different slants, curves, and styles that have been shown to help dyslexics to read.

The letters use several key characteristics that make them more discernible to dyslexics; for starters, the center of gravity is focused on the bottom of the letters to keep them being flipped upside down in the reader’s mind. Letters that look similarly to each other have slight inclines and subtle changes in their shape so they’re easier to differentiate. The words are also slightly spaced out in order to avoid “jumbling”.

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Studies on the font’s efficacy have shown that dyslexics can read up to 84% faster, they make 77% less reading errors, and 76% would recommend using the font for other dyslexics.

The best part is that the font can be available for download in various text editors and web browsers either for free, or as little as $5.

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Hero Cop Holds onto Van Dangling Over a Bridge Until Man Inside is Saved

 

Not all superheroes wear capes – but after Martin Willis’s heroic stunt on Friday morning, however, his colleagues have taken to calling him “Superman”.

When Willis was the first cop to arrive on the scene of a traffic collision in West Yorkshire, England, he found that a van had crashed into the safety railing and was left teetering over the side of a bridge with the driver still inside.

As the vehicle swayed dangerously in the wind, Willis grabbed onto the underside of the car and held it steady until West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue arrived.

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“First on the scene of a collision on the A1(M) this morning and faced with a vehicle balancing over the edge of a bridge with the driver trapped,” said Willis on Twitter. “After holding on to the vehicle to stop it swaying in the wind I can’t begin to describe my relief when West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue arrived on scene.”

The driver was later taken to the hospital where his description was described as “serious, but not life-threatening”, according to the Independent. If Willis had not been on the scene, the drop off of the bridge might have been fatal.

Despite being called a hero after the incident, Willis says that he was simply doing what any other motorway officer would do.

“I was only doing my job, but feel very honored to receive so much praise,” says Willis.

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Watch Lonely Rescued Cockatoo Find Happiness Swinging From Woman’s Ponytail

Snowball the cockatoo was distraught after a plethora of health issues forced his owner to surrender him to a bird sanctuary – but he has finally gotten his strut back after being introduced to a woman’s ponytail.

In a video released by the Rhode Island Parrot sanctuary, the 22-year-old Goffin’s cockatoo can be seen showing off his newfound hobby: swinging back and forth from Erica Collins’s luscious locks.

After seeing Snowball gleefully enjoying his new activity – which is not unlike an avian remake of Miley Cyrus’s “Wreaking Ball” music video – it’s difficult to imagine him as the bummed out bird from earlier days.

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“Out of the blue, Snowball flew to my ponytail and just started swinging. Once he had started he kept doing it,” Collins told the Daily Mail. “I remember thinking, ‘He better not bite my butt!’ He was having a great time and didn’t want to stop.”

Snowball is now roommates with over 80 different rescue birds at the sanctuary and he is just one of the many occupants who is ready to be adopted into a new forever home.

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