George Lucas is ensuring that the force may be with young Jedis everywhere.
The “Star Wars” director will donate the $4.05 billion he will receive from the sale of Lucasfilm Ltd. to Disney to a foundation focused on education.
On Tuesday, the Walt Disney Company announced it had paid the huge sum to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd., which produced “Star Wars” and is 100 percent owned by George Lucas himself.
When Sunday’s New York City Marathon was canceled on Friday, nearly 50,000 runners from 125 countries had no race to run.
Many of them instead got involved in superstorm Sandy relief efforts.
About 1,300 would-be marathon runners in orange jerseys ran through Staten Island on Sunday carrying relief supplies to devastated neighborhoods and helping clean-up.
When Sunday’s New York City Marathon was canceled on Friday, nearly 50,000 runners from 125 countries had no race to run.
Many of them instead got involved in superstorm Sandy relief efforts.
About 1,300 would-be marathon runners in orange jerseys ran through Staten Island on Sunday carrying relief supplies to devastated neighborhoods and helping clean-up.
Last week a photograph was posted to a social media website showing a typed note left anonymously on a truck.
The Good Samaritan wrote, “You do not know me but I saw that you needed some tires for your truck and I wanted to do something nice for a stranger because one day a stranger did something nice for me. The receipt is in the envelope and all you have to do is go by Warehouse Tire on 3rd Street and ask for Steven Hodges and they will be put on for free.”
The note ended: “All I ask is that one day you do something nice for a complete stranger.”
Last week a photograph was posted to a social media website showing a typed note left anonymously on a truck.
The Good Samaritan wrote, “You do not know me but I saw that you needed some tires for your truck and I wanted to do something nice for a stranger because one day a stranger did something nice for me. The receipt is in the envelope and all you have to do is go by Warehouse Tire on 3rd Street and ask for Steven Hodges and they will be put on for free.”
The note ended: “All I ask is that one day you do something nice for a complete stranger.”
A raging fire was creeping closer and closer to Joe Adinolfi’s Breezy Point home when he decided to evacuate, wading into waist-high water outside his door.
That’s when he heard But then he heard a cry for help from the darkened parking lot nearby.
He found three women clutching onto the back of a SUV, one trying to hold above the water a kennel with several small dogs.
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Jon Candelaria is being hailed as a hero for pulling a man out of rushing floodwaters during Superstorm Sandy. He did what most hope to have the courage to do in a life or death emergency.
The 25-year-old father was in his family’s Upper East Side apartment on Monday night when he looked out the window and saw an SUV taxi lifted by the powerful force of water beneath it.
Candelaria, who is a waiter in New York City, went to save the driver who was nearly drowning. The water was up to Candelaria’s chest, but he managed to pry open the door, with the driver’s help, just in time.
(WATCH the story below, from CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360)
Jon Candelaria is being hailed as a hero for pulling a man out of rushing floodwaters during Superstorm Sandy. He did what most hope to have the courage to do in a life or death emergency.
The 25-year-old father was in his family’s Upper East Side apartment on Monday night when he looked out the window and saw an SUV taxi lifted by the powerful force of water beneath it.
You don’t have to be pulled out of a well by a collie to know there is such a thing as hero animals. But when you think of them, you probably picture disaster rescue dogs or a pets smelling smoke.
What you don’t picture are lions, gorillas and even whales throwing themselves in harm’s way to save some helpless human.
New York Universtiy alum Alec Baldwin, whose home in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood also lost power on Tuesday, walked room-to-room visiting students who had been evacuated from their dorms earlier that day. Wandering among rows of cots, he chatted with thousands of displaced students, many of whose spirits were raised to see the famous New Yorker at their door.
In the wake of super-storm Sandy, the 30 Rock star, along with his wife, has been quietly helping his neighbors, like elderly people in his high-rise building who couldn’t walk down the 12 flights of stairs to get food and supplies.
New York University alum Alec Baldwin, whose home in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood also lost power on Tuesday, walked room-to-room visiting students who had been evacuated from their dorms earlier that day. Wandering among rows of cots, he chatted with thousands of displaced students, many of whose spirits were raised to see the famous New Yorker at their door.
In the wake of super-storm Sandy, the 30 Rock star, along with his wife, has been quietly helping his neighbors, like elderly people in his high-rise building who couldn’t walk down the 12 flights of stairs to get food and supplies.
A woman whose $23-million lottery ticket was gathering dust inside a glove compartment finally realized she might have been a winner and claimed it five months later — just before the deadline came.
Julie Cervera told reporters at a news conference Friday that she was in financial straits when she found the ticket. Now, she plans to use the winnings to help her family.
Friday night a star-studded NBC telethon raised an unknown amount of money for storm relief efforts with its broadcast featuring hometown heroes Springsteen, Jon Stewart, Billy Joel and Bon Jovi.
The funds will be added to a total of $35 million already donated by early Friday morning according to the American Red Cross. “The public has been generous,” a spokesperson said.
The Walt Disney Company announced Thursday it will donate $2 million to relief efforts, splitting it into two parts — $1 million for immediate relief and $1 million for rebuilding. Its foundation will also match, dollar for dollar, all donations made by employees.
What happens if you give a thousand small PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. All, without instruction.
The One Laptop Per Child project started as a way of delivering technology and resources to schools in countries with little or no education infrastructure, using inexpensive computers.
A mother in North Texas has been awarded a Guinness World Record for donating breast milk.
Alicia Richman, 28, from Granbury, pumped over 86 gallons between June 2011 and March 2012 for donation to The Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas, a nonprofit that supplies neonatal intensive care units.
When he was 15, Thomas Beck escaped from a Nazi prison camp in Budapest – but he left behind his teenage sweetheart, Edith Greiman, 14.
There seemed no chance of them ever seeing each other again, for Thomas eventually made his way to Australia and set up a new life. But fate has brought them back together nearly 70 years later.
One of the most inspiring examples of neighbors helping neighbors around the New York City area in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is the emergence of ad hoc “charging stations” for people without power who need to charge their cell phones.
From his blog, AmericanScience, a Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology reported in Hoboken, NJ, on the neighborly phenomenon of sharing electricity which he calls, a social innovation:
One of the most inspiring examples of neighbors helping neighbors around the New York City area in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is the emergence of ad hoc “charging stations” for people without power who need to charge their cell phones.
From his blog, AmericanScience, a Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology reported in Hoboken, NJ, on the neighborly phenomenon of sharing electricity which he calls, a social innovation:
As superstorm Sandy slammed into New York City Monday night, more than 10 feet of water flooded seven buildings of the NYU Medical Center. The facility lost power at the height of the storm and 300 patients needed to be transferred to other hospitals.
The most heroic story of the successful evacuation were the nurses and hospital staff who tenderly carried some of the tiniest patients — 20 newborn babies clinging to life from the neonatal intensive care unit — down nine flights of pitch black stairways.
As superstorm Sandy slammed into New York City Monday night, more than 10 feet of water flooded seven buildings of the NYU Medical Center. The facility lost power at the height of the storm and 300 patients needed to be transferred to other hospitals.
The most heroic story of the successful evacuation were the nurses and hospital staff who tenderly carried some of the tiniest patients — 20 newborn babies clinging to life from the neonatal intensive care unit — down nine flights of pitch black stairways.
