A true hero! Captain Machchhar was severely wounded in an attack by his co-pilot who attempted to crash the aircraft. As the plane dropped thousands of feet, Machchhar fought back despite his injuries. He managed to open the cockpit door which let the passengers subdue the attacker.

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- It was not just him alone. Massive credit for those who subdued the attacker and to those who took control and landed the aircraft.

Austin Appelbee was 13. His mother Joanne and two younger siblings were swept out to sea. He tried a kayak first, but it started filling with water, so he abandoned it and swam. Alone. Through choppy water. As daylight faded. Four kilometers. Nearly four hours.

He reached shore, ran another two kilometers barefoot to their accommodation, and used his mother's phone to call for help. A major marine rescue operation launched. Rescuers later found Joanne and the two younger children clinging to paddleboards about 14 kilometers offshore. They had been drifting for nearly 10 hours.

Authorities credited Austin's actions with bringing rescuers to them. A 13-year-old with nothing but willpower and bare feet.

One client hired him 270 times. All he had to do was show up and do absolutely nothing.

Shoji Morimoto is a 38-year-old Tokyo resident who describes his job in the simplest possible terms. He told Reuters that he basically rents himself out, and that his job is to be wherever his clients want him to be and to do nothing in particular.

He charges about 10,000 yen per booking, roughly $70 to $100 depending on the exchange rate, plus transportation and any food or drinks consumed. He does not give advice, does not act as a therapist, and does not pretend to be a friend. He just shows up and exists alongside the person who hired him.

The service began in 2018, after Morimoto left a publishing job where he had been repeatedly criticized for lacking initiative and not doing anything of value. He turned the criticism into a business model. In the years since, he has handled roughly 4,000 bookings, with about a quarter of his clients being repeat customers. One person has hired him approximately 270 times.

The requests vary wildly. He has sat on a seesaw with a client at a park. He has accompanied a woman to a restaurant because she wanted to wear a sari but was afraid her friends would be embarrassed. He has waved goodbye to a traveler from a train platform. He has sat with someone while they finished a thesis they had been procrastinating on. He has accompanied a person filing divorce papers.

His boundaries are clear. He refuses anything sexual. He turned down a request to move a refrigerator because it involved physical labor. He declined a trip to Cambodia. He does not go to concerts because he does not know much about music.

The business supports his wife and son. Before the pandemic, he was seeing three or four clients a day. Now it is closer to one or two. He has inspired a television series, written multiple books, and drawn international attention for a service that seems to say something quiet about modern life.

What Morimoto offers is not entertainment or assistance. It is presence without expectation. His clients do not have to entertain him, impress him, or explain themselves. They just have to let him be there.

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The therapy, created by the AIM Institute of Medicine under Dr. Toru Miyazaki, targets chronic kidney disease, a leading cause of death in older cats.It uses a specialized protein to help macrophages clear waste from the kidneys, partially restoring their function and slowing kidney failure.

The total number of stars in the entire Andromeda Galaxy is over 1 trillion

This video was so well done! The editing and everything. I wish I could be a creator as good.