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Touched By His Story, Passenger Raises Thousands so Driver Can See His Son in Olympics

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What started as an hour long Uber ride home became the start of a lifelong friendship – and the chance for a father to see his son compete in the Rio Olympics.

While Ellis Hill was driving Liz Willock through Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 26th, they were pleasantly enjoying some casual conversation to kill the time. Their talk eventually turned towards the Olympics and Ellis excitedly explained that his son Darrell Hill was competing for Team USA.

However due to a lack of funds, the father simply couldn’t afford to watch him perform.

Liz was saddened by her new friend’s plight, so after returning to her home, she created a Go Fund Me page asking for $7,500 to fly Ellis to Brazil.

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Within two days, 150 backers had pushed them over their goal.

Ellis was walking out of his church when a television station called him to announce he was going to Rio.

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“I haven’t seen my son in a couple months because he’s been training,” Hill told People. “I cant wait to see him and encourage him in person and let him know I’m 100 percent in his corner.”

Liz and Ellis have been in constant touch since the campaign’s success, and the two anticipate a lasting friendship for years to come.

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Chick-Fil-A Employees Step in When Kids Won’t Play With Disabled Boy

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When the other kids at Chick-Fil-A’s Galaxy Night told Caleb Merriken that he couldn’t play with them, the employees of the chicken restaurant decided to take matters into their own hands.

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The 8-year-old Star Wars fan suffers from spinal muscular dystrophy and is confined to a wheelchair – but that didn’t stop the Georgian workers from whipping out their lightsabers and dueling with the young Jedi themselves.

(WATCH the video above)

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Watch Magician Born Without Hands Beat The Odds and Fool Penn and Teller

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Even though Mahdi Gilbert was born without hands or feet, that didn’t stop him from becoming an award-winning magician on national television.

On Penn and Teller’s Las Vegas based TV show Fool Us, Mahdi wowed the crowd armed only with a deck of cards.

Since every magic trick in the book is based on having hands, Mahdi had to create his own techniques in order to perform his magic.

One he came to the dramatic reveal – with a little help from the audience – Penn and Teller were shocked.

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“Wow!” exclaimed Penn on the show. “One of the things that we’re doing on this show is we read a lot of magic books and study a lot of magicians and watch a lot of videos and every single thing we watch and study is for people with hands.”

After a few more congratulatory words, the legendary magicians that Mahdi had looked up to his whole life declared themselves bamboozled.

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“I was very surprised,” Mahdi told the Good News Network. “I did not go on the show with the intention of fooling them. I went with the intention of performing really good magic to millions of people.”

The 26-year-old New York City based magician is keeping his future plans a secret but you can follow his activities on his Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube pages.

(WATCH the inspiring magic show below)

 

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Homeless Community Cleans Up 24 Tons of Trash in San Jose

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There are lots of stigmas surrounding the homeless community living on Coyote Creek, but these impoverished folks are taking it upon themselves to disprove those stereotypes with trashbags.

Since their debut in October, the Coyote Creek Homeless Stream Stewards of San Jose, California have picked up over 24 tons of litter filling the stream that they call their home.

The organizer of the project, 56-year-old Amanda Fukamoto, has been a driving force behind the cleaning process.

Using a “trash raffle” system that Amanda and Richard McMurtry, a retired programs director for the Santa Clara County Creeks Coalition contrived to encourage participation, different prizes are auctioned off each week; for every two full trash bags turned in, one raffle ticket is awarded to the contributor. The record amount of litter collected in one week was 182 bags from 17 enthusiastic volunteers.

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Yet for some of the homeless living on Coyote Creek, it’s not about the prize – it’s about respectfully cleaning up after themselves.

However, since the organization of the Stream Stewards, Amanda has been pushing the Santa Clara County Water District to allow construction of a tiny house village for the community in exchange for the creek’s upkeep.

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Though the bargain is rife with legislative and bureaucratic issues, Fukamoto’s proposal is a hopeful solution for tackling the root of the problem: giving the homeless community proper housing in order to reduce pollution of the stream.

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Speed Painter Wows Audience with Unexpected Masterpiece (WATCH)

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Expectations were high after D. Westry, the speed painter, claimed he could paint a masterpiece in under a minute-and-a-half on Anderson’s Viewers Got Talent in 2012.

But the viewers were in for a shock.

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At first, when the timer sounded, the audience was unimpressed by the strange shapes taking place on the canvas – at least, until Westry did the finishing touches.

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This Doctor Broke The Law To Engineer a Better Nursing Home, And the Death Rate Plummeted

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Even though we are living in an age where growing old is thought of as an inevitable misery, this doctor has been changing the game for seniors over the last 25 years.

It all started in 1991 when the Harvard-educated physician was transferred from working in a stressful emergency room to being the medical director of a nursing home in upstate New York. The depressing and regimented environment got him thinking on what exactly could improve the residents’ conditions.

Even though animals in nursing homes were illegal at the time, Dr. Bill Thomas took a chance: based on a hunch, he brought in two dogs, four cats, hens, rabbits, 100 parakeets, a multitude of plants, a flower garden, and vegetable patch.

The change was dramatic.

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There was a 50% drop in medical prescriptions along with a dramatic decrease in death rates – but most importantly, the residents were simply happier.

Dr. Thomas’s approach – dubbed the Eden Alternative – has driven nursing homes to allow a more autonomous and creative living space for their elderly. It erases the stereotype that growing old means growing useless, as well as encourages residents to think of their age as an enriching new phase of their life rather than the end of it.

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Thomas, now a speaker and author of several books, also created small, independently run residences with their own bedrooms and bathrooms called Green Houses—and he has been preaching a singular message that getting old is not a bad thing.

“Within six weeks, they had to send a truck around to pick up all the wheelchairs,” Thomas told the Washington Post. “You know why most people [in nursing homes] use wheelchairs? Because the buildings are so damn big.”

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The 56-year-old doctor’s methods have been adopted in Australia, Japan, Canada, and America with mammoth success. In 2015 he published Second Wind: Navigating the Passage to a Slower, Deeper, and More Connected Life, a guide on how to shift our perspectives on aging and growth.

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Watch Adorable Mini-Maestro Secretly Conduct Sunday Service from the Back

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While her father was singing for the Sunday Service choir in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Lara was watching from the back of the church.

However she wasn’t just watching – she was secretly pretending to conduct the whole song.

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Four Teens Ask For Summer Jobs On Farm To Avoid Joining Gang

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Instead of spending their summers hanging around hooligans, these four middle schoolers decided to get a head start on their careers and apply for jobs at a local urban farm.

When Zsa Zsa Heard, the director of the LaGrange Housing Authority in Georgia asked them why they wanted the jobs, one of them said “I want to stay out of trouble and I do not want to be in a gang.”

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Not only have the boys been learning about responsibility and making a difference in their community, but they are also going to be placed in a teen leadership program so they can continue on their paths to success.

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Instead of Telling Student Not to Cry, Instructor Gives The Best Life Advice Ever (WATCH)

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When a 9-year-old student named Bruce starts crying in the middle of his martial arts test because of the pain in his hand, his instructor was wise enough to know that ‘boys don’t cry’ is a lie – and that’s what he gently explained to Bruce in his video that is taking the internet by storm.

Jason Wilson is the founder of the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy, a faith-based Detroit, Michigan organization that teaches a form of martial art and meditation called Musar Ru to young boys.

During the Initiation Test in which Bruce had to punch through a piece of wood, he breaks down in tears because it was hurting his left hand.

Instead of scolding the boy, Jason walked him through it.

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“I don’t mind you crying, I cry too,” he says in the video. “I don’t know if you’re facing fear or you don’t think that you can make it – and we all face that from time to time – but when we hit that resistance and we feel pain, we want to stop, right? Because it’s hurting and feel like ‘I don’t want to go through this anymore’, right? But we have to fight through it as men.”

After a few more wise words, the instructor tells Bruce to try again and hit as hard as he can – not only does he manage to punch straight through the board, but he is met with rousing applause from his class mates.

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“During these perverse times, it’s truly vital that we, the men and fathers of this generation, do not allow our boys to grow up with a false sense of masculinity like many of us did,” Jason says in the description of the video. “As a result, we have a mass amount of emotionally unstable men walking in unresolved anger, confusion and depression, instead of power, love and discipline.”

You can help the Cave of Adullam spread their teachings worldwide by donating to their crowdfunding page or following them on Facebook.

(WATCH the emotional speech below)

 

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Random Dog Refuses To Leave Boy’s Side Until Rescued Days Later

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This 14-year-old boy was only separated from his summer camp crew for a short period of time when – due to a few missteps – he found himself in real trouble.

While Juan Heriberto Trevino was searching for firewood at the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range in Galeana, Mexico, he lost his footing on some moving tree trunks and slipped into a ravine.

Luckily for Juan, a dog that he had met only a few hours before named Max, was close behind.

For the 44 hours that the boy was trapped in the canyon, Max refused to leave his side – the two cuddled together at night for warmth and the canine even lead Juan to water so they could rehydrate.

By the time Juan was rescued, he was suffering from exhaustion and dehydration but was otherwise unharmed.

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The Trevino family wanted to adopt the heroic hound for protecting their son from the winding and windy mountains, but he was already a part of a nearby family.

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This Guy Danced His Way Through China for 100 Days (WATCH)

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While Dartmouth college student Jake Gaba was in China for a 100 day foreign language study program, he wanted to uniquely share his love for the trip with the world – and he found the perfect method.

“I knew I wanted to capture my experiences in a very special way, and I also knew that just taking photos of my travels wasn’t enough. I had to dance,” he writes in the description for his video on YouTube.

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All set to the tune of Bruno Mars’s “Treasure”, Jake filmed himself boogying his way through Shanghai, grooving through Beijing, and jamming in Hong Kong.

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Watch Firefighters Rescue Exhausted Horse from Mud After Spending Hours to Help

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15 firefighters were dispatched to the middle of a swamp where a 13-year-old horse had fallen into muddy waters.

Cupcake and her owner took a ride in a rural area near Denver, Colorado just before the horse collapsed. By the time help arrived on the scene, Cupcake was lying knee-deep in water, exhausted from their trip.

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It took the team two hours to rescue the animal who was eventually given an energy shot to back on her feet.

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Elderly Man Pays For Guy’s Groceries, Telling Him ‘Black Lives Do Matter’

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A black California man named Sampson McCormick was left speechless at a market after an elderly white man offered to pay his $20 grocery bill as an apology for racial inequality and police brutality in the country.

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When Sampson tried to hand the cashier his money, the man known as Samuel pushed away his cash and insisted on paying.

Speechless, McCormick accepted his generosity.

Before departing, the gentleman gave Sampson a fist bump and stated, “Black lives do matter.”

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Police Surprise Drivers with Ice Cream Instead of Tickets (WATCH)

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Every driver knows the nerve-wracking feeling of seeing police lights in their rear view mirror, but what about the sweet relief of being given an ice cream cone instead of a ticket?

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Officer Brian Warner and Police Chief Kevin Lands of the Halifax Police Department in Virginia spent a swelteringly hot day pulling drivers over and claiming they were in violation of a vehicle code only to declare it’s “against the law” to drive on a hot day without an ice cream cone.

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Runner Raises Money to Adopt Pup After Completing 7-Day Race Together

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When Dion Leonard signed up for an intensive 7-day desert run, he didn’t think he would be taking home anything but a medal.

But after a tough little pup joined him for 125 kilometers of the 250 kilometer race – he knew it belonged with him in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dion met Gobi the dog on the second day of the 2016 Gobi March 4 Deserts in China. Gobi had been keeping up with the other 101 competitors the day before, but eventually decided to stick with Dion.

“She would run ahead of me and wait for me 20 or 30 meters down the road and then I’d have to catch up with her,” Dion told Good Morning Scotland. “She’s such a small dog but has a massive heart.”

Even though the competition was grueling, Gobi matched Dion step-for-step, leading to the two becoming fast friends.

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“There were times during the race when, you know I’m there to race and compete and I’m trying to do my best to win the race but we had to cross some really large rivers where I would have to carry her over them. I didn’t actually have the time to do it but I realized then that I had to take her with me and the bond was made.”

Once the race was finished, Dion created the Bring Gobi Home crowdfunding campaign to raise money for his running buddy’s quarantine and veterinary bills. The adoption process can take up to 4 months with a staggering €5,000 price tag.

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However thanks to almost 300 backers, €8,900 has been collected for Gobi’s migration and Dion hopes to have his friend home by Christmas.

You can follow the adorable duo on the Bring Gobi Home Facebook and Twitter pages.

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Watch This 4-Person Human Chain Save Woman From Raging Floodwaters

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A state of emergency was declared on Saturday when torrential rainfall caused raging floodwaters throughout Elliot City, Maryland.

While Dave Dester and his wife were taking refuge in their Main Street shop and watching the fast moving currents sweeping cars down the road, they saw that one of them still contained a female driver.

Four nearby shop owners and pedestrians quickly formed a human chain to pull the woman from her vehicle, while Dave filmed the rescue.

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Though the woman refused to climb completely out of the car for fear of being swept away, one of the men in the chain eventually scooped her into his arms and carried her to safety amidst encouraging cheers.

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“WITHIN GOOD” –New Facebook Live Show Launches on Good News Network‘s Page Today

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Within Good Graphic-800px-tallerTune in at 1:00 PM Eastern today for the new Facebook Live show, “Within Good” where two friends, Anthony Samadani and May May Ali, Muhammad Ali’s daughter, will discuss some of the good things going on in the world and some good ideas that may appeal to viewers.

They also want to hear from you on these topics and find out about the good things you are up to. May May and Anthony will also cover some of the trending topics on GOOD NEWS NETWORK in a fun, relaxed setting.

The show is being streamed LIVE on the Good News Network Facebook page, at 1PM EST / 10AM Pacific

This show is all about being empowered to focus on the good things going on in the world and finding good in ourselves because… WITHIN GOOD – we like to say, THERE IS GOD.

Anthony is an Attorney and TV producer. May May is a Social Worker in the juvenile delinquency prevention & family development field. @SamadaniAnthony @MayMayAliOfficial @Within Good

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School Sends Boy With Autism Touching Letter After He Fails Exams

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Every child enrolled in school must face the difficulty of passing tests, but for Ben Twist, that difficulty was multiplied by his autism.

So, when the 11-year-old didn’t get the grade that he was hoping for, his assistant headteacher Ruth Clarkson went out of her way to remind him that test scores aren’t everything.

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Ben’s mother, Gail Twist, received a letter from Clarkson at their English home in Merseyside, the contents of which moved her to tears.

 

After Gail shared a photo of the letter on Twitter, positive reinforcement and praise for the teacher’s wisdom poured in.

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She says that since Ben struggles with social, sensory, and communicative issues, just taking the exams was a huge achievement – and having the world acknowledge that meant even more.

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Hawaiian Volcano Erupts Into Smiley Face Just as its Flow Reaches the Sea (LOOK)

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Kilauea volcano's "smiley face."

A volcano in Hawaii broke into a “smiley face” last week as its slow moving lava flow finally reached the ocean.

The Kilauea volcano, active since 1983, has been dribbling toward the sea since May, according to CNN, and offered a helicopter film crew the perfect photo to mark the occasion.

The 6.5 mile-long lava flow is now cooling in the waters of the Pacific, and turning to rock, making the biggest island in Hawaii even bigger.

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This ring of fire isn’t the only place in the universe to deliver a grin. A much colder spot, on Mars, is also beaming a happy face.

The much bigger grin was discovered by NASA in 1999, when the Mars Orbiter Camera captured a smiling crater on there Red Planet. The Galle Crater, nicknamed the “Happy Face Crater” crater, has a diameter of about 134 miles (215 kilometers).

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Guy Turns His Life Around, Studying Every Inch of London Streets (WATCH)

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After living a life of crime, abuse, and violence, and spending 15 years in prison, Patric McGuinness is now a changed man.

He’s not about to waste his new perspective either – when he’s not volunteering with at-risk youth, he’s studying to take The Knowledge test: a series of intensive exams and quizzes for cab drivers which requires him to memorize more than 3,000 streets in London.

The tests can sometimes take up to 3 years to complete, but McGuinness doesn’t seem to be in a hurry. There’s something oddly therapeutic for the ex-con when he is researching the English roads.

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