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KINDNESS • Google News Human Interest
Off-duty officers pulled the driver out before the flamesThe car was a rental. The strangers were off duty.
A 22-year-old driver escaped a burning Lamborghini on Saturday evening after off-duty law enforcement officers who happened to be nearby pulled them from the wreck. The car crashed into a fuel pump at a Shell station on Highway 41 A in Cedar Hill, Tennessee, shortly after leaving the Austin Peay State University homecoming parade. According to a preliminary report, the Lamborghini struck a GMC Sierra, accelerated into the station lot, hit a curb and slammed into the pump. "Some off-duty law enforcement agents happened to be in the area, saw the crash and pulled the driver from the vehicle before it was consumed by the fire," said Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department Lt. Drew Akin. The driver walked away with minor injuries. The car was completely destroyed, and the station's fuel canopy melted in the heat. The Lamborghini, it turned out, was a rental, borrowed for the parade. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
Her lemonade stand started at $768. It's now $5 million.A bear got her through one hard day. She never forgot.
A teddy bear given to an 18-month-old in a hospital has, nearly a decade later, grown into a $5 million charity engine. Payton Obert kept that bear close through a difficult time, and when she turned 8 she decided to do something similar for other children. She opened a lemonade stand in Cincinnati in 2018 and raised $768, every cent of it spent on toys for kids in hospital. The next summer the stand earned ten times as much. In 2020, at age 10, Obert launched Payton's Pals, and a year later the operation became a registered 501(c)3. The single-day totals climbed steadily, reaching $125,000 in 2024 and $170,000 this year, with stands now opening in West Virginia, Baltimore, and New Mexico. The charity still hands out toys. It also delivers food, clothing, and school supplies to families facing hardship. The teddy bear, as far as anyone knows, is still around. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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MOTIVATIONAL • Upworthy
6,000 watercolors, zero labels, one grandson retracing them allShe left 6,000 sketches. None said where she stood.
Lucretia Leonard Romey filled 103 sketchbooks over a lifetime of travel, roughly 6,000 watercolor sketches from Norway to Antarctica, almost none of them labeled with where she had been standing. Her grandson Max Romey, a watercolor artist and filmmaker in Anchorage, inherited the archive after she died more than a decade ago. He decided to find the exact spots and paint each view himself. He is up to about 20 locations, from a count of 11 last August. "It's almost kind of scary to think about that at my current pace it is going to take me about 350 years to complete this project," he told Trail Runner. Lu is the reason he paints. Diagnosed with dyslexia as a child, he found sketchbooks easier than words. She used to mail him drawings of penguins. He posts her pages online and asks viewers to help him figure out what he is looking at. He works in the same Strathmore books she did, the kind sold in craft stores. He has a son now. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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SCIENCE • ScienceDaily Health
Move a little each day, sleep deeper that nightNot the long weekend workout. The 10 minutes you did on Tuesday.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that as little as 10 minutes of moderate daily movement is linked to more deep, restorative sleep, and that how often you move matters more than whether you cram it all into the weekend. The study, published in the Journal of Physical Activity & Health, tracked University of Texas students who wore Fitbit devices over several months. Participants who were active more frequently spent more time in non-REM sleep, the stage that handles physical recovery and brain maintenance. They also reported better mood and more energy the next day. Moderate activity, the team notes, means breathing harder while still able to hold a conversation, roughly a 6 out of 10 in effort. No marathons required. "Just moving a little each day helps," said co-author Chris Corral. "Light activity counts too. Doing something is better than doing nothing." The team is now expanding the work to a larger, more diverse group.
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MOTIVATIONAL • Nice News
A running nun raised $3.2 million for her neighborhoodShe was one of the fastest runners in the country. Now she runs once a week.
Sister Stephanie Baliga will join a record 55,000-plus runners in today's Chicago Marathon, which marks her 15th year leading the charity team she founded at the Mission of Our Lady of the Angels. The team has raised more than $3.2 million since 2011, all going to the mission's food pantry and outreach programs in one of the city's more challenged neighborhoods. Baliga, 38, was a Division I runner at the University of Illinois before a foot injury ended her athletic future and sent her toward religious life. She took her vows in 2010 at age 22. The team is 192 strong this year, and members get what the mission calls spiritual perks: each runner is assigned someone to pray for them during training and the race. Baliga, for her part, no longer trains like an elite. "I run like once a week and take it for the team," she said, laughing. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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