An 83-year-old man is being hailed as a hero after he successfully managed to fight off three assailants from robbing a bookies earlier this week.
Irish great-grandfather Denis O’Connor was at Bar One Racing in Glanmire, County Cork when three people wearing balaclavas charged into the building, two of them wielding hammers and one of them holding a gun.
While the men with the hammers started to harass the man behind the counter, the man with the gun kept his weapon trained on the gamblers.
“You can either run and hide or take a stand and I took a stand. The two with the hammers had jumped in and were threatening Tim, the manager, and I decided to go and help him,” the great-grandfather told the Irish Sun.
“Tim the manager is a very nice young man and I just couldn’t not help him. I ignored the fellow with the gun and I went behind the counter. I just didn’t think about what I was doing.
“Sometimes you can just sit down and do nothing or you can stand up to people like these and that’s what I did,” he added.
O’Connor, who is a retired mechanic-fitter and father of five, proceeded to grab one of the assailants and pull them out from behind the counter. As he forced them out of the building, Tim managed to fight off the other hammer-wielding assailant.
As the final would-be burglar was running out of the building after his companions, O’Connor managed to deliver a swift kick to the man’s backside, which he says “felt really good.”
O’Connor works out at the gym several times a week, going for swims and walks that are several miles long. He is also turning 85 years old next month.
Though O’Connor says that his was wife of 60 years was not very pleased by his actions, Tim has called the pensioner a hero and thanked him for intervening when he did.
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On a sleepless night in 2011, a Southern California surfer was staring at his quiver of surfboards unhappy with the quality and integrity of the bags that protected them. They were unimaginative, all manufactured overseas, and none of them used recycled material. Then, his gaze fell to an old sail lying on the floor. It was part of a set design destined for the stage—and, later, the landfill. He suddenly had an idea.
After much research, fed by his passions for surfing, sailing, and designing, Jeffrey Wapner launched a company in his hometown of Santa Barbara to create stylish, durable, and sustainable surfboard bags and carry-all totes.
Paradise Divided Into Blue and Green upcycles old sails, anchor lines, vintage fabric, and post-consumer materials, all sourced locally—and sews them into handmade bags on site. The company just opened an e-commerce store online, after launching in retail stores in Japan.
“I wanted to give these sails, originally designed to be used at sea, a second chance at romance with the wind, salt, and sand,” says Wapner.
Wapner’s aesthetic priority is to allow the materials to dictate the design: “Every sail tells its own story, and I try to honor the original design—for example, the traditional zig-zag stitching—into every component.”
His priority for sustainability dictated that he find a source for recycled foam to protect the board, and eco-friendly zippers. He even found upcyled zipper pulls.
Now, every surfer who has a deep connection to the Earth can purchase bags true to their environmental character. Learn more at intoblueandgreen.com.
– Co-written with Morgan Balavage, @splendid.yoga in Santa Barbara
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To encourage youth leadership, the Creative Arts Emmys invited “Kids for Peace” representatives to join media networks in covering the Red Carpet in Los Angeles last week.
Participating in the event, in the lead-up to the 70th annual Primetime Emmys Monday night on NBC, was a dream come true for the two teens. They rehearsed their camera moves and honed their focus to one single question they would ask celebs and artists: “How do you think your work in the arts is helping to create a better world?”
18-year-old Shivanii Ray, the group’s spokesperson, and Eli Bensen, 15, who operated the camera, have both participated for years in programs run by the nonprofit, Kids for Peace, which has an active network of 10 million youth in 121 countries around the world.
The chance to practice courage and poise on the Red Carpet, however, seems to have been their favorite peace project to date.
When the Emmy-nominated comedian, actor, and producer Melvin Jackson Jr. (The Wire) met the eager youth, he exclaimed, “You had me at Kids for Peace.”
He and his wife, Kelly Jenrette, are the first African-American married couple to be nominated for an Emmy in the same year.
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“He was one of my favorite interviews because of his warm smile and genuine interest in what we’re doing,” said Bensen.
Scheduled as a presenter onstage during the evening’s gala was the Kids for Peace Celebrity Ambassador, Giancarlo Esposito, who is an award-winning film and television actor (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Do the Right Thing) who understands the importance of what the kids are trying to do. Beyond chatting with them on the Red Carpet, he is joining them in a global campaign beginning next week—called #DoItForPeace—which aims to galvanize a billion people to do acts of peace within ten days, for which Good News Network and Peace One Day are major partners.
Topping off their experience, was a serendipitous drop-the-mic-moment with the wildly fun talk show host James Corden backstage. After receiving two Creative Arts Emmys, which honors outstanding artistic and technical achievement in a variety of television genres, he happily posed with the Kids For Peace sign, with the message of “Peace begins with you!”
The hashtag on the sign, as well social media posts this week, are inspiring people to sign up to become ignitors in the #DoItForPeace campaign which launches September 21, 2018, on the International Day of Peace. DoItForPeace.org has a goal to activate a critical mass of 1 billion people to shift global consciousness and make peace a reality.
Get involved by making a peace sign, helping a stranger, or any other act of peace, and post about it online with the hashtag #DoItForPeace, and ask your friends to do the same. Watch a spinning globe light up during the ten days on our GNN #DIFP page, in the locations people are hashtagging— and see videos and photos as they are posted.
Together, we can make an impact greater than a television show honored on the red carpet.
The campaign’s biggest sponsor is TaTaTu, a new entertainment platform launched by Italian filmmaker Andrea lervolino that rewards users for watching free movies and gaming online with advertisers paying users in blockchain-based cryptocurrency tokens—and additional tokens being earned whenever they get friends to join and watch, too. This #DoItFoPeace sponsorship is the company’s first foray into social causes as part of TaTaTu’s larger push into community activism & global stewardship.
The female physicist responsible for one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century is finally getting the recognition she deserves, after a man earned the Nobel Prize, instead of her. Hear The Good News Guru tell the inspiring story (from the September 14, 2018 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5 radio in Los Angeles).
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Working as a lone woman in the physics department at Cambridge University, she was responsible for one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, but she hasn’t been recognized until now.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell spent years being ridiculed in the 60s for being a woman in a man’s world, laying miles of cables to set up the radio astronomy equipment that allowed her to gaze at the skies behind a telescope.
Under the direction of a man, Antony Hewish, a scientist who was searching for quasars (bright objects with unknown origins), the grad student pored over the data for months.
Then, one day in 1967, she discovered four gently pulsing sources of radio waves that were emanating from different points in the galaxy—and knew she’d discovered something important.
The 24-year-old from Northern Ireland had discovered pulsars: rapidly spinning and highly-magnetized stars that are the size of San Francisco, but with the mass of the sun.
Her discovery was published in a reputable scientific journal, but her advisor’s name was listed as the first author.
Despite all her work, Hewish and another man were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for “their decisive role in the discovery of pulsars”—because students weren’t eligible even to be acknowledged.
“I think he expected me to be angry,” Bell Burnell told The Washington Post. Yet she was proud that her stars motivated the Nobel committee for the first time to recognize the field of astronomy with the notable physics prize.
Now, nearly a half century after her discovery, Burnell has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics along with a $3 million prize. Only four of these prizes have ever been awarded, with previous winners including Stephen Hawking, the scientists responsible for the Higgs boson, and the research collaboration that first detected gravitational waves.
She was “literally speechless” when she heard the news—but her fellow scientists have been quick to applaud the decision.
“Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s discovery of pulsars will always stand as one of the great surprises in the history of astronomy,” said Edward Witten, the chair of the Selection Committee. “Until that moment, no one had any real idea how neutron stars could be observed, if indeed they existed…something that has led to many later advances.”
“Professor Bell Burnell thoroughly deserves this recognition,” wrote Yuri Milner, one of the founders of the Breakthrough Prize. “Her curiosity, diligent observations and rigorous analysis revealed some of the most interesting and mysterious objects in the Universe.”
To pay homage to the struggles she went through as a woman, Burnell says she will use the prize money to create a scholarship for women, minority, and refugee grad students.
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The Hoover Dam is one of the great engineering marvels of America – and soon, it may be a 20th century solution for storing renewable energy.
Even as one of the sunniest states, California has struggled to utilize the vast amount of solar energy penetrating its blue skies. One of the problems is that there is no efficient way to store all the solar and wind power during times of high production, so California sends their excess energy to other states to avoid overloading their grid.
This means that—later on—when the Sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, California turns to fossil fuels to meet demand.
This is where the Hoover Dam comes in. The Hoover Dam Proposal aims to build a wind and solar-powered pump station 20 miles south of the dam so that it can pump water from downstream back up to Lake Mead (which feeds the dam). All the water stored at the lake can then be released for power on demand, effectively turning the dam into a battery for solar and wind power.
“[The] Hoover Dam is ideal for this,” said Kelly Sanders, assistant professor at the University of Southern California, according to The New York Times. “It’s a gigantic plant. We don’t have anything on the horizon as far as batteries of that magnitude.”
The Hoover Dam water load currently only functions at about 20% of its full capacity. With the added water from downstream, pumped reliably by wind and solar, the dam stands to be the fulcrum that Southern California turns to for green power.
Sri Narayan, who is a chemistry professor at the university, said that lithium-ion batteries simply aren’t ready to store all the wind and solar power being produced and the Hoover Dam project should be given consideration as pumped storage projects have been proven to work in the past.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti added that he would like his city to be the first to run entirely on renewable energy.
“Our challenge is: How do we get to 100 percent green?” he said. “Storage helps. There’s no bigger battery in our system than Hoover Dam.”
In order to move ahead with the dam proposal, research committees are evaluating the environmental and infrastructural impacts of the project to ensure that the pump house will not disrupt the local ecosystem or communities on the Arizona-Nevada border. If approved, the Los Angeles Department of Wind and Power hopes to complete the project by 2028.
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People are always telling children not to talk to strangers – but everyone is glad that little Isaiah Miller didn’t follow that advice in a sports stadium.
In September, 2018, Isaiah’s aunt, Star Balloon-Bradley, brought her nephew to a football game when he wandered up into the stands and started chatting with a woman whom he’d never met before. Not only did he end up crawling into her lap, they were also “talking like they knew each other.”
Unfortunately, the woman left before Aunt Star could catch her name—but then, weeks later, she spotted the same football fan sitting in the stands once more.
“Not long after we sat down at the game, Isaiah spotted her,” wrote Balloon-Bradley. “She waved at him and he made his way up to her. I thought their interaction would be the same as last time, but I was wrong. Isaiah walked right up to her, crawled into her lap and laid his head down on her shoulder. She welcomed him with open arms.”
“This lady patted and rocked Isaiah to sleep like she had given birth to him. It was the sweetest! We asked her if she wanted us to get him but she kept telling us she was fine! Isaiah and this lady has NEVER met before, other than those 20 mins at a game 2 weeks ago.”
Posted with permission from Aunt Star, Isaiah’s mom, and Angela
Balloon-Bradley snapped a photo of the exchange and later posted it to Facebook where it was shared thousands of times.
She said that she tried to approach the woman and apologize for her nephew bothering her, but the woman – Mrs. Angela During – insisted that Isaiah was her new friend, and she was more than happy to spend time with him.
“She then went on to say she only has one child who is 15 and moments like this are priceless!” said Balloon-Bradley. “With all of the racial tension that’s going on, I’m glad to see the pictures like these because it goes to show color don’t matter to a lot of people… Arguing over stuff…makes us miss the simple pleasures in life.”
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A lot of people have heard the legends regarding Bill Murray’s off-camera shenanigans – but soon, there will be a documentary that explores the truth about these celebrity photo bombs.
Production company Gravitas Ventures has released a trailer for a new documentary called The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man directed by Tommy Avallone.
“The documentary follows one man’s journey to find meaning in Bill Murray’s many unexpected adventures with everyday people,” says the trailer description. “Featuring rare and never-before seen footage of the comedic icon participating in stories previously presumed to be urban legend.
See a few of our favorite Murray moments here—like the time he got in a taxi for an extended ride, and ended up driving the vehicle so the cabbie could practice playing his saxophone in the backseat.
“Whether it be singing karaoke late at night with strangers or crashing a kickball game in the middle of the afternoon, Bill Murray lives in the moment and by doing so, creates magic with real people.”
Gravitas Ventures says their film is “coming soon”, so you may want to follow them on YouTube.
(WATCH the trailer below) — See Bill Murray’s movies and merch on Amazon
Artificial intelligence has just proven itself to be a life saver for vegetative hospital patients.
A team of China’s best neurologists recently tested their assessments of coma patients in contrast to an AI system. After reviewing the varying conditions of seven patients in Beijing, the doctors rated the patients on a coma recovery scale. The patients were given very low scores, meaning that it was unlikely they would ever wake up and their families were legally allowed to take them off of life support.
The system, which was developed over the course of five years by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and PLA General Hospital, disagreed with the scientists and gave the patients close to full scores with a prediction that they would wake up within 12 months of the scan.
As it turns out, the AI was right – all seven patients woke up from their vegetative states within the year.
The system, which reportedly has an 88% success rate of diagnosis, achieves its efficiency based on its ability to see “invisible” details in hundreds of human brain images. In contrast, the current method of assessing a patient’s chances of recovery are based on subjective reactionary tests and judging certain factors, such as age and the condition of the brain.
Scientists believe that – with its carefully calculated machine-algorithms – the AI could be an invaluable tool for physicians to diagnose patients more accurately in the future.
“We have successfully predicted a number of patients who regained consciousness after being initially determined to have no hope of recovery,” said the researchers in a statement.
“At present, there are more than 500,000 patients with chronic disturbance of consciousness caused by brain trauma, stroke, and hypoxic encephalopathy with an annual increase of 70,000 to 100,000 patients in China, which brings great mental pain and a heavy economic burden to families and society.
“The possible prediction of the recovery of patient consciousness will directly affect the choice of clinical treatment strategies, and even the choice of life or death by the patient’s relatives,” the team added.
The results of the tests have been published in the international science journal eLife.
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Three English sailors are being praised for their dedication and kindness tword an Uber driver in Florida earlier this week.
As 51-year-old Bonnie Ginter was preparing to pick up the seamen in Jacksonville, she was worried about her headlight after a previous passenger had mentioned that one of the bulbs in the 2007 Honda Fit had burnt out. As with many modern vehicles, replacing a simple bulb was not a simple operation—and normally required the bumper to be removed.
“I was informed right before I picked them up that I had a headlight out and I was concerned because I needed to replace it or else quit working for the night until I got it fixed,” Ginter wrote on Facebook.
Ginter then picked up the three English passengers and – as they chatted in the car – she mentioned her car problems.
The young sailors, who said that they worked in the engineering department of the ship, insisted on stopping the car so they could replace the bulb for Ginter.
“I was amazed that they would consider taking the time to fix something for someone they didn’t know at all,” says Ginter. “So we went over to the Auto Zone store and they went in and asked for some tools to begin to change the headlight bulb … which really isn’t an easy task because the front bumper is supposed to be removed to change it, but they were pretty skillful and managed to change it without having to remove the bumper.
“In the dense humidity and heat, being pretty uncomfortable and sweating, yet without one complaint, they gave their time to help out a stranger and I will never forget their kindness,” she added.
Hundreds of social media users rejoiced in the sweet story, as news outlets were simultaneously reporting on several sailors from the HMS Queen Elizabeth who were arrested for drunkenly getting into trouble the very same week.
“It was all over the news about six sailors that got in trouble. That’s six, out of what, a couple thousand? That irritated me because all of the ones that I met were funny, kind, and just plain good guys,” said Ginter, according to The Daily Mail.
“I just wanted them to be the ones that got noticed—not the ones who got in trouble.”
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With cuts in recent years to government preschool program Head Start, and more of the program’s funds on the chopping block in Washington, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has decided to devote $2 billion to benefit homeless families and education.
Alongside mounting pressures on the Seattle billionaire to pay his workers more money, he has this week, along with his wife, MacKenzie, committed a fraction of his wealth to serving low income families with the creation of the “Day 1 Fund”.
The philanthropic effort will divide its money between the Day 1 Families Fund, which will help homeless families, and the Day 1 Academics Fund, which will create a “network of new, non-profit, tier-one preschools in low-income communities.” They will be Montessori-inspired, and free to underserved families.
“By so many important measures the world keeps getting better, (but)… if our own great grandchildren don’t have lives better than ours, something has gone very wrong,” wrote Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post.
Last year he solicited ideas on Twitter for ways he could make a difference with his estimated $164 billion fortune.
“I want to thank everyone who sent me [charity] suggestions, and for the inspiring examples of innovation I see every day, large and small. It fills me with gratitude and optimism to be part of a species so bent on self-improvement.”
There were no other details announced regarding how the funding will be used, but some are speculating that he will use it to mitigate homelessness in Seattle, where Amazon fought to defeat a proposed tax that would have helped the city raise money to pay for homeless services.
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Remember when news outlets were reporting on these funny-looking blobs back in 2017? Well, they will now be replacing plastic water bottles at a half-marathon in England.
Marathons are notorious for generating massive amounts of plastic waste through their excessive utilization of single-use water bottles – so as a means of helping out the environment, the Ooho! water pouches will be handed out to runners during the Harrow half-marathon in London on Sunday.
Designed by London-based startup Skipping Rocks Labs, the biodegradable container is made out of a thin, flexible membrane composed of sodium alginate – a natural derivative of brown algae – and calcium chloride. It can either be ripped open, allowing the individual to drink the liquid out of the membrane, or simply consumed whole.
Each glob contains 250 ml each, costing only about 2 cents to make.
Other English marathons will be testing Ooho! packets filled with sports drinks later this month.
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This concert pianist was unsatisfied with performing on a stage for humans – so instead, he brought his piano to Thailand and played for elephants.
It all started when he traveled to Thailand in 1996 in search of adventure. He and his wife eventually found fulfillment caring for old rescued pachyderms at Elephants World near Kanchanaburi, in Northern Thailand.
After working with the rehabilitated elephants for ten years, Barton finally decided to achieve his lifelong dream of playing piano for the mammals.
He hauled his piano up the mountain to where the elephants were roaming and started playing Beethoven – and the animals loved it, particularly a blind elephant named Pla-Ra.
“Each time I played music for Pla-Ra, whether flute or piano, there was an identical reaction,” says Barton. “Pla-Ra would stand for a while, and then he would curl his trunk and hold his trunk in his mouth until the piece was over. No matter how long that piece was, he would stay like that.”
And, the elephants love to play the keys, too. (screenshot from video)
Barton originally filmed the exchange and posted it to YouTube as a means of raising funds for the donation-run sanctuary – but after seeing how much the elephants enjoyed the tunes, he started hosting regular concerts.
The clip was shared so widely on social media, Barton’s story was eventually made into a documentary called Music For Elephants.
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Are you struggling with a kidney stone? This study says that you can dislodge them by riding a rollercoaster – and the research just won the Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine.
The Ig Nobel Prize is a spoof award for amusing – but still real – scientific research. All the studies that are given awards are published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, but they all live within the realm of strange and improbable research.
This year, a Michigan State University professor received the prize for discovering that riding a roller coaster helps patients pass kidney stones with nearly a 70% success rate.
David Wartinger, a professor emeritus in the Department of Osteopathic Surgical Specialties, led both a pilot study and an expanded study to assess whether the stories he was hearing from patients were true.
His pilot study is published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.
“Basically, I had patients telling me that after riding a particular roller coaster at Walt Disney World, they were able to pass their kidney stone,” Wartinger said. “I even had one patient say he passed three different stones after riding multiple times.”
This resulted in Wartinger going out and testing the theory. Using a validated, synthetic 3D model of a hollow kidney complete with three kidney stones no larger than 4 millimeters inserted into the replica, he took the model in a backpack on Big Thunder Mountain at the theme park 20 times. His initial results verified patient reports.
“In the pilot study, sitting in the last car of the roller coaster showed about a 64 percent passage rate, while sitting in the first few cars only had a 16 percent success rate,” Wartinger said.
The expanded study, conducted with Mark Mitchell, an MSU resident at the time, included riding the same roller coaster with multiple kidney models attached to the researchers. They discovered even better results while sitting in the back of the coaster, with a passage rate of nearly 70%. They also found that both studies showed a 100 percent passage rate if the stones were located in the upper chamber of the kidney.
“In all, we used 174 kidney stones of varying shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked on the same ride and on two other roller coasters,” Wartinger said. “Big Thunder Mountain was the only one that worked. We tried Space Mountain and Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and both failed.”
Wartinger went on to explain that these other rides are too fast and too violent with a G-force that pins the stone into the kidney and doesn’t allow it to pass.
“The ideal coaster is rough and quick with some twists and turns, but no upside down or inverted movements,” he said.
It’s estimated that around 300,000 people per year go to an emergency room suffering from kidney stones and the cost for treatment could range anywhere between $5,000 to $10,000.
Lithotripsy, which breaks apart kidney stones that are too large to pass, is a common treatment for the problem. Wartinger said the procedure is usually used in cases where the kidney stone is larger than 5 millimeters.
“The problem though is lithotripsy can leave remnants in the kidney which can result in another stone,” Wartinger said. “The best way to potentially eliminate this from happening is to try going on a roller coaster after a treatment when the remnants are still small.”
He added that patients could even try going on a coaster once a year as maintenance, lessening the chances of future issues and minimizing health care costs.
“You need to heed the warnings before going on a roller coaster,” he advised. “If you have a kidney stone, but are otherwise healthy and meet the requirements of the ride, patients should try it. It’s definitely a lower-cost alternative to health care.”
While this exotic building may seem like a castle that is fit for a king, it was actually built as “an oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses.”
The Green Citadel was built in Magdeburg, Germany as a means of bringing people together with its eccentric design and co-existence with nature. In addition to being adorned with gardens and green spaces, the citadel also contains apartments, cafés, hotels, shops, and a kindergarten.
The pink structure is considered to be one of the first pre-fabricated buildings in Germany. It is also the final architectural work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
He designed the citadel so that no two pillars, doorways, or features of the building were built the same – everything in the citadel is unique, just like the people who inhabit it.
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Quote of the Day: “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
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This 93-year-old man might be the new successor of Willy Wonka.
Every Saturday for the last 11 years, Bob Williams has gone to his local Dollar General store in Long Grove, Iowa so he can take advantage of their special weekly sale.
Since the store offers a $5 discount on any purchase of $25 or more, Williams always buys three Hershey’s chocolate bars – but he never buys them for himself. Instead, he gives two to the store employees and one to the person in line behind him.
Over the course of the last decade, Williams has solidified his role as a local legend by giving away roughly 6,000 chocolate bars to strangers. He has even been nicknamed “The Candy Man”.
When Hershey’s heard about Williams’s chocolate-driven campaign to make his neighbors happy, they promised to keep his fridge stocked with as many chocolate bars as he could give away. They also shot a promotional video for Williams’s generosity in which they interviewed city residents.
“I don’t think he realizes the effect he has on people,” said one adoring town local of Williams. Another one remarked that he’s “teaching all of us how to pay it forward.”
The Candy Man, on the other hand, says that he is simply happy to make other people smile.
“You’d think that I’d given them keys to a new car,” Williams told Inside Edition. “They’re thrilled
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