When France suffered a 0-1 loss to Portugal during the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in July, this French man became absolutely distraught.
That is, until a little Portuguese boy consoled the crying man with a handshake and a hug.
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He even waited until the man was out of sight before continuing his celebration.
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No matter how young you are, you can still make eggsellent achievements like 14-year-old Lucy Gavaghan.
Since the young teen took to Change with a petition demanding major UK supermarket chain Tesco to stop selling eggs from caged hens, 280,238 people signed in agreement.
At present, some 43% of the 1.4 billion eggs sold by Tesco each year come from caged eggs, also known as enriched colonies. Some 57% of eggs sold by Tesco in the UK come from free Range or organic methods.
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“Our decision on caged hens is one of a number of Tesco initiatives designed to ensure sustainable sourcing, and improve animal welfare.” said Matt Simister, Tesco’s Commercial Director for Fresh Food. “We carried out an extensive and collaborative review with our suppliers and key industry experts to help us work through how best we can move to 100% cage-free eggs. This will ensure we give our supplier partners the certainty they require, to make the significant and necessary investments needed for the new farming systems.”
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Sometimes the smallest act of kindness can make a huge difference. That was the case at a rental car agency in Tulsa, Oklahoma last month.
After a hit-and-run accident left Coty Vincent in need of a rental car, she was forced to bring her two twin babies along with her to fill out the paperwork.
That’s when John Goodlet, an Enterprise Rent-A-Car employee who had just started working at the new job, stepped in to help. He went above and beyond what was expected, scooping up one of her twins into his arms before starting to process Coty’s rental request.
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That small act of kindness prompted Coty to snap a photo to share with the world.
Her original caption on Facebook read, “One of the most compassionate and caring people I’ve ever met. We need more people like John who go that extra step. Be a John. #BeAJohn”
After she posted the photo, the story earned 250,000 likes, and moved people to share it more than 30,000 times.
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“As a mom of twins, simple gestures go a long way, so it was a great feeling that John recognized I needed help,” Coty says. “Without a blink of an eye, he just jumped in and said he could help hold one of the twins. The world needs more people like John.”
When asked why he took it upon himself to help Coty, John explained, “I’m a twin myself and it was instinctual. I understood she just needed somebody to help her out. I try to be a positive influence in the lives of anyone I meet, and I wanted her to have to do less work.”
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The former Oklahoma State University football player was amazed by the reaction. “I’ve never had this much attention, especially for just doing my job. I was a college athlete so I try to take the hard work it took on the football field and apply it in the branch. It’s really motivating to see people like who I am and what I do.”
Once Enterprise saw the post, their corporate team wanted to help, too. They gave Coty a much- needed double stroller as a thanks for sharing her experience and also gave John a gift card and a large donation to his favorite charity, The Boys and Girls Club.
We can all hope that someday when we are struggling, someone will #BeAJohn for us and go that extra mile.
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Even though Brenda Jones had been on the organ donor wait list for over a year, she didn’t mind waiting a little longer if it meant keeping a young woman from dying.
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So they asked the 69-year-old if she was willing to give up the transplant so Abigail could live, to which Brenda didn’t hesitate to say yes.
“In my heart, I wouldn’t have been able to live with the liver if I had let this little girl die,” Jones told WFAA. “And I still had more time … I would have been a very selfish person.”
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Abigail’s father got to meet Brenda after she saved his daughter’s life and gave her a hug while crying out a heartfelt thank you.
However Brenda’s kindness paid off when another liver for the elderly woman came in a few days after she gave up the original organ.
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Morrie Boogart isn’t letting anything stand in his way of helping those less fortunate – even the skin cancer that’s put him in hospice care.
Even though he spends his days fighting the cancer and a growth on his kidney, Morrie never stops stitching.
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“Why do I do it? It just makes me feel good.” Boogart told WXMI. “This has been the best thing that’s happened to me because I just stay in my room,”
The crates of caps are to be delivered to homeless shelters throughout Grand Rapids in October.
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A couple of New Zealand’s businessmen are making a big splash in the country’s rising homelessness population.
Homelessness is a huge problem in Auckland, New Zealand: property prices have increased almost 80% over the past five years, making the city’s housing market one of the most expensive in the world.
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That’s why Gary House and his colleagues are considering purchasing a 400-bed cruise liner to dock in Auckland.
“Living on a cruise ship is not a long-term solution,” House told The Guardian, “but things are so bad for so many families now, it could help ease the pressure for two or three years while longer-term strategies are put into place.’
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The philanthropists have received some negative responses about the quality of life in the cruise ship, but House’s enthusiasm is unmoving.
“People would not be on the ship 24/7. They’d be getting off, going to work, living normal lives. But at least, at night they could return to a bed and not a park in the middle of winter.”
Currently, dozens of families are sleeping in cars, garages, and parks due to homelessness. House estimates he could have the cruise liner ready in a month.
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Huriomoan Dennis, the chairman of Te Puea Marae – an area providing shelter to homeless families in Auckland – supports House’s plan.
“It is obviously a short-term solution but I support any proposal that will get people out of cars and into something warmer and bigger,” said Huriomoan. “At the moment there is nowhere short term for people in desperate housing situations to go, and a cruise ship would allow the social agencies to catch up with families and help them while they have a roof over their head.”
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Cruise ship or not, the huge waves House and his colleagues have made towards the awareness of homelessness in Auckland can only bring support and more ideas for solutions.
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Two teenage Brazilian students, 15 and 18 years old, won the Latin America Google Science fair that awards young scientists for innovative projects in science and technology with a magic seed that cleans polluted water.
According to the students, the idea came to them after an incident left a nearby city without clean water.
“We wanted to do something to help the ones in need after the disaster in Mariana, where a broken dam sent tons of mining residues to the rivers, and help them to filter [the] water” says Leticia, a recent high school grad from Fortaleza, Ceará in northeastern Brazil.
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The project, Magic Seed: Transforming Polluted Water Into Drinkable Water, has been developing since the beginning of the year and only just finished before the competition deadline.
With the award, Joao and Leticia are searching for sponsors in order to compete in the finals of the international competition taking place in California come September.
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Alex Rios knows the value of loyalty and hard work—and doesn’t hesitate to reward it.
One employee had been with the company almost from the beginning. Veronica Solis cooked homemade meals for the kids every day. Despite being treated for cancer, she remained a stellar employee, never missing a day—until Rios noticed she was suddenly always late.
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After he learned about her transportation problems, he decided to buy her a new car. He videotaped the surprise, saying on YouTube, “Maybe someone out there will be touched and also continue this chain of paying it forward.”
“It is not every day that we can do something like this for other people, but right now that I am able to, why not do it for someone that cares for you and takes good care of your business?” he added. “It‘s because we love her, and she has inspired my life to never give up and always work hard.”
(WATCH her being surprised on YouTube)
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Prisoners in the regional penitentiary of Pelotas, a country side city in the south of Brazil, are building houses for dogs and – since the project started roughly three months ago – over 50 houses have been already been built.
“I [leave] a blanket and a few sheets of newspaper and they love to stay inside” Says the local resident Maria Queiroga.
Some citizens have enjoyed the projects contributions so much that they have donated materials to the prison and requested shelters for their own yards.
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“Most of the residents who request these animal houses for their backyards are people that have street dogs around their houses and decide to keep them”, says Fluvio Bubolz, the director of the facility.
The project also helps to resocialize the criminals.
“It’s good for nothing to just lock the person in a cell. So we try to give them something they can do, give some meaning in life.”
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The prisoners like the idea. “I would work all day and all night if I could because winter here is very cold. [It is hard] for people, so is for an animal”, says a prisoner.
“This really helps to make time goes by faster and keep our ideas out of crime. Besides, one of the residents that asked for the shelter visited us and told me about Jesus. That changed my life, this is the best place of this jail”, says another prisoner. For privacy purposes, we didn’t disclose prisoner’s names.
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These abandoned pups were taken out for the time of their lives thanks to a nearby high school cross country team.
Then he thought of the pups cooped up at the Santa Barbara County Animal Services and got an idea: his runners could do their daily jog while tracking volunteer hours and giving the shelter dogs some exercise.
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The teens were paired with twelve dogs for a few miles of romping and – judging by the adorable video below – it was a great success.
“I am not sure who was more excited and having the most fun…the dogs or the kids,” he wrote in his Facebook post. “Either way, it was a great time and I am sure we will do it again sometime soon.”
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The same group of 1,000 musicians that demanded a Foo Fighters concert in their town by simultaneously playing “Learn To Fly” is back to pay homage to the late and great rock visionary David Bowie.
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After the Rockin’ 1,000 in Cesena, Italy – also known as the biggest rock and roll group in the world – performed their plea in 2015, the Foos actually ended up visiting their town to play a show.
This week, they organized the “That’s Live” concert with a performance of Ziggy Stardust’s “Rebel Rebel”.
(WATCH the rock and roll video above)
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When Olivia Sievers paid attention to this poor homeless pooch outside her hotel, it was love at first sight—afterwards, he only had puppy eyes for her.
In February 2016, the German flight attendant flew to Argentina for business. On her way to the Hilton in Buenos Aires, she met the amiable stray for the first time and offered him some love and attention. The dog refused to leave her side and followed her all the way to the hotel, hanging out with her for two days whenever she left the building.
When it was time for Olivia to fly back to Germany, she sadly bid a fond farewell to her new friend expecting to never see him again.
But in April she returned and they reunited for two more days. They spent many hours walking many miles together—and he always followed her back to the hotel.
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Afterward, she didn’t fly to Buenos Aires for three months. When she returned in July, she wanted to sleep for a few hours and planned to search for the dog and continue trying to find him a home.
When she came down to the lobby, he was already sitting in front of the Hilton’s glass doors.
‘How did he know I was back,’ she wondered.
“The Hotel staff told me later that day, that he was sitting in front of the hotel for three months—sometimes returning a few times a day—looking for me.”
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This time, she tried to arrange an adoption with a manager in a nearby hotel in San Telmo. She delivered the dog, whom he named Rubio, but after one week he escaped, faithfully backtracking the 1.7 kilometers to join the flight attendant once more at the hotel in Puerto Madero.
Olivia realized their long-distance relationship had to end.
To save Rubio from his dangerous life as a street dog, she decided to adopt the hound herself, bringing him all the way home to Germany. He has settled in happily with her other pooches and now spends long afternoons romping in the back yard never having a care in the world about where in the world Olivia might be.
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An audio book about their extraordinary friendship, “Love without Borders – Rubio, the most loyal dog of the world” is available on Amazon.
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A famed US swimmer won back the gold medal that is closest to his heart on a day of pure dominance for the most medaled Olympic athlete of all time.
By his own admission, Michael Phelps “couldn’t have scripted it any better,” but Tuesday would also be the toughest day of his career.
“Mission accomplished,” he said on Tuesday after claiming the 20th Olympic gold of his career. “That was the last time I’ll ever swim it and I didn’t say anything to anyone else, but there wasn’t a shot in hell I was losing it.”
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Remarkably, his historic tally of gold medals rose to 21 after he helped Team USA win the 4x200m freestyle relay, just 70 minutes later.
Phelps said he had been prepared to leave “every ounce” in the pool, and it paid off when he won by just 0.04 seconds. “Just being able to see the number one next to my name again, one more time in the 200 fly, I couldn’t have scripted it any better.”
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The London 2012 gold medallist swimmer Le Clos just missed out on the bronze, which was won by Tamas Kenderesi of Hungary, and the silver went to Japan’s Masato Sakai.
(WATCH the Highlight Reel From SB Nation)
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Toni Powell’s delightful and funny ‘once upon a time’ time style tale ‘How A Yellow Car Saved Me’ tells the story of how one little car changed her life. Just a few moments of epiphany, in a quiet suburban street, gave her the simplest of tools to reduce her anxiety, stress and whining.
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If you’d like to be happier, smile more, and stress less – watch this video. To find out more and get the book ‘The Yellow Car – How I Stopped Driving Myself Crazy’ (which tells the rest of the story and includes a second epiphany) visit Toni Powell’s website.
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The fire department didn’t even have time to arrive before Jesse Gavic had extinguished the blaze ravaging a pontoon boat on Saturday.
After politely seeking permission to put out the fire from the sailors who had jumped overboard, Jesse used the flyboard’s water to spray the boat until it stopped smoking two minutes later.
“It’s different than anything anyone has probably ever tried,” Jesse Gavic told WCCO. “You really do feel like Iron Man.”
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A flyboard is a jet-propelled pair of boots that is connected by hose to a jet ski or watercraft. The water shooting out of the boots is enough to carry someone up to 50 feet into the air.
The brothers are international flyboarding competitors and help run the Sky High Flyboards company in Minneapolis.
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A ball girl at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California prevented certain disaster when she caught a 103 mile per hour fly baseball that was headed straight towards a fan who was not paying attention.
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After using her cat-like reflexes to snatch it out of the air, the crowd roared with approval as she handed the ball to the man she had just saved.
(WATCH the jaw-dropping video above)
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When Murad Osman wanted to propose to his girlfriend Nataly in India, he couldn’t bring himself to spend money on the diamond industry that exploited child labor and the environment.
The process for manufacturing the man made diamonds dates back to the 1950s when the High Pressure, High Temperature technique was originally developed by General Electric.
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“In this process, we melt graphite under tremendous pressure and temperature to mimic nature’s process,” Follow Your Love’s COO, Isaac Gottesman told the Good News Network.
The molten metal alloy produces 2-3 carat cuboctahedral-shaped crystals with a variety of color ranges — or a 1 carat faceted gem that is colorless.
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The company also donates a minimum 10% of their proceeds to The Adventure Project, a nonprofit that provides support and resources to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
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In the midst of her tour promoting her latest album “This Is What The Truth Feels Like” Gwen Stefani paused her show mid-performance to show a bullied fan some love.
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Without missing a beat, the singer demanded the little boy join her on stage.
Not only did he receive rousing applause from the audience and bear hugs from Gwen, but he was also invited backstage after the show for selfies.
(WATCH the tear-jerking video below)
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Dave had spent years putting money away so he could restore his favorite automobile to working condition: a white 1973 Porsche 914.
Years passed and eventually Kristin becomes a grown woman who wants to give back to the stepdad that was always there for her by tracking down a replacement of his dream Porsche.
After countless searches, the determined daughter finally finds a model in Arizona and she starts on a cross-country mission from her home in California to pick up the car and bring it to a mechanic near her parent’s in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Father’s Day.
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Kristin starts by giving Dave a card explaining how grateful she is to have him in her life – then she has someone rev the vehicle’s engine outside.
When the lucky stepdad walks outside, he doesn’t realize the car is his right away – but when he does, he can’t believe it.
(WATCH the beautiful surprise below)
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Now instead of checking up on the varying states of their bank accounts, New Zealand pedestrians can take a look at how the residents of their city are feeling.
The Moodbank is an ATM-like machine where users can select a combination of over 1,000 moods and emotions to explain how they’re feeling.
The graphs show incredibly colorful and elaborate trends of people feeling moods such as ‘snappy’, ‘peachy’, ‘groggy’, ‘loved’, and ‘buzzing’.
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“City spaces have often been thought about in terms of the functional flows of people and things: the money that is exchanged, the congestion of rush hour, the accumulation of rubbish and the cold face of professionalism,” reads the Moodbank Tumblr. “More recently businesses, governments, and social media have come to see the value in finding out how happy we are. But what about the more diverse and complex emotional life of the city?”
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The first Moodbank branch opened in Wellington in March 2014, with over 2000 mood deposits made in the first ten days, many of which took shape in the form of colored pencil drawings. The Moodbank ATM itself has moved from Wellington, to Auckland, to Whangarei.
You can check in on the Moodbank deposits on the project’s website, Tumblr, or Facebook page.
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