Christian Bale, the hero in the latest Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises,” on Tuesday visited victims of last week’s mass shooting who were wounded in a Colorado theatre where the movie was premiering.
“The patients were really happy to meet Bale,” said a hospital official.
Bale, who also met with Gov. John Hickenlooper, told hospital officials he was visiting the injured but requested them not to tell the media.
Christian Bale, the hero in the latest Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises,” on Tuesday visited victims of last week’s mass shooting who were wounded in a Colorado theatre where the movie was premiering.
“The patients were really happy to meet Bale,” said a hospital official.
Bale, who also met with Gov. John Hickenlooper, told hospital officials he was visiting the injured but requested them not to tell the media.
A shivering local artist in North Carolina ran to the thrift store to get a sweater during an outdoor showing of her artwork.
While there, she spied 2 large paintings for $10, perfect items to paint over and thus save herself the expensive cost of wholesale canvas.
What she didn’t know at the time was the origin of the bright abstract art, and how much money she would lose if she did lay brush strokes of her cat paintings on top.
A site called Imgur was designed to share photos with social networks and online communities.
Take a look at this amazing collection of photos depicting the beauty of mother nature and the best of human ingenuity. You can see the 48 photos in a larger slideshow at the Imgur site, here.
File photo, right, by Natanh vua Morguefile
A site called Imgur was designed to share photos with social networks and online communities.
Take a look at this amazing collection of photos depicting the beauty of mother nature and the best of human ingenuity. You can see the 48 photos in a larger slideshow at the Imgur site, here.
Even though she was well known as a physicist, Sally Ride became famous for being the first American woman astronaut to enter space. A trailblazer when the 1983 Challenger mission launched, she also became, at age 32, the youngest American to enter space, a record still unbroken.
Ride died peacefully on July 23, after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, according to the obituary released by her company, Sally Ride Science, which creates programs to keep preteens and their teachers engaged in science:
“Sally’s historic flight into space captured the nation’s imagination and made her a household name. She became a symbol of the ability of women to break barriers and a hero to generations of adventurous young girls. After retiring from NASA, Sally used her high profile to champion a cause she believed in passionately—inspiring young people, especially girls, to stick with their interest in science, to become scientifically literate, and to consider pursuing careers in science and engineering.”
In 1987, she left NASA to work at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Arms Control. In 1989, Ride joined the faculty at the University of California San Diego as a professor of physics and director of the California Space Institute. In 2001 she founded her own company.
The 61-year-old also co-wrote seven science books for children
She is survived by her female partner of 27 years, Tam O’Shaughnessy, her mom and family, her staff of 40 at Sally Ride Science; and many friends and colleagues around the country.
Read another tribute from a colleague, “Thank you, Sally Ride,” at CNN.
Following his visit with survivors of the deadly Colorado shooting spree, President Barack Obama said he heard many remarkable stories of heroism.
The anecdote he most recalled, though, wasn’t about a parent saving a child, or a boyfriend tending to a girlfriend. It was the moving account of best friends – two young women whose bond was put to the ultimate test when one was shot in the neck.
With blood spurting from her wound, 19-year-old Allie Young urged her friend, Stephanie Davies, 21, to flee. “Stephanie refused.”
“I don’t know how many people at any age would have the presence of mind that Stephanie did, or the courage that Allie showed,” President Obama said. “And so, as tragic as the circumstances of what we’ve seen today are, as heartbreaking as it is for the families, it’s worth us spending most of our time reflecting on young Americans like Allie and Stephanie, because they represent what’s best in us, and they assure us that out of this darkness a brighter day is going to come.”
(WATCH the video below or read the story from Whitehouse.gov)
Following his visit with survivors of the deadly Colorado shooting spree, President Barack Obama said he heard many remarkable stories of heroism.
The anecdote he most recalled, though, wasn’t about a parent saving a child, or a boyfriend tending to a girlfriend. It was the moving account of best friends – two young women whose bond was put to the ultimate test when one was shot in the neck.
With blood spurting from her wound, 19-year-old Allie Young urged her friend, Stephanie Davies, 21, to flee. “Stephanie refused.”
Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, still recovering from wounds after being shot last year, traveled high up into the French Alps on Monday with her astronaut husband Mark Kelly.
In bright sunshine and sub-zero temperatures she traveled by cable car from Chamonix to the height of 12,605 feet (3,842 meters) taking in a breathtaking view of the Swiss, French and Italian mountain ranges which converge near the French town.
(SEE the Reuters photos at MSNBC)
Anthony DeVergillo is living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a disease that is causing his muscles to slowly deteriorate. But he has not allowed that to slow him down. This rosy-eyed optimist started a blog that celebrates his ‘abilities’ — moving beyond what others describe as his disabilities.
“I started a blog a little over a year ago called The Optimist’s Guide to Life,” Anthony wrote in an email to the Good News Network. “My mission was to show people that life is a beautiful thing and should not be wasted — to show that, with optimism, they can accomplish their goals, live life to the fullest, and inspire others along the way.”
A 14-year-old from Rhode Island, Nicholas Lowinger, was chosen as a 2012 Huggable Hero, winning $10,000 for his outstanding work in public service. The boy’s foundation, Gotta Have Sole, donates new footwear to children living in homeless shelters.
New shoes not only provide the perfect fit for a child, but they also instantly increase a child’s self-esteem. To date, Nicolas has purchased 5,000 pairs of shoes for homeless kids by collecting donations worth $200,000.
Although the 501(c)(3) non-profit charity was initially established as a simple community service project for his Bar Mitzvah in November 2010, Nicholas has continued his selfless service. Shelters around the United States send him footwear orders with specific shoe sizes and Nicholas collects and hand delivers packages to the kids in RI and MA, and sends the rest to needy families as far away as Texas.
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Nicholas held a special event to collect and send new footwear to more than 90 children of the first responders.
Nicholas was named one of 15 “Huggable Heroes” by the Build-A-Bear Workshop this month, winning ten thousand dollars and earning a scholarship for himself, as well as $2,500 for his charity.
All these young philanthropists from the U.S. and Canada realize that kids can impact their community in a major way. The Good News Network will feature many of these Heroes over the next das on our Great Kids page.
Monetary donations and new shoes are always appreciated. You can make a tax-deductible donation securely on his Facebook page or on his website, www.gottahavesole.org.
Send checks to ‘Gotta Have Sole Foundation, Inc.,’ and mail your donations to Nicholas Lowinger at:
39 East Bel Air Road
Cranston, RI 02920
A 14-year-old from Rhode Island, Nicholas Lowinger, was chosen as a 2012 Huggable Hero, winning $10,000 for his outstanding work in public service. The boy’s foundation, Gotta Have Sole, donates new footwear to children living in homeless shelters.
New shoes not only provide the perfect fit for a child, but they also instantly increase a child’s self-esteem. To date, Nicolas has purchased 5,000 pairs of shoes for homeless kids by collecting donations worth $200,000.
Three young men are being hailed as heroes for their old-fashioned chivalry and courage under fire in saving the lives of their girlfriends.
While using their bodies as shields, Matt McQuinn, 27, Jonathan Blunk, 26, and Alex Teves, 24, were killed in the worst mass shooting in US history.
(READ the story in the New York Post)
Two men, who tried to kill each other 40 years ago, met at the Minneapolis airport this afternoon.
Dan Cherry and New Yen Hong Me were fighter pilots in Vietnam, on opposite sides of the war.
Cherry blew the wing off Hong Me’s jet with a missile during a dog fight over Hanoi in April 1972.
(WATCH the video below or READ the story in CBS-Local)
The CEO of Lenovo, Yang Yuanqing, recently received a fat bonus of $3 million. Rather than stuffing that big bonus away in his own bank account, the Chinese executive gave it away.
The 48-year-old CEO took the $3 million bonus and distributed it among 10,000 junior level employees. Among the employees to receive a piece of the pie were receptionists, production line workers, and assistants.
An 11-year-old spitfire from Michigan puts cystic fibrosis in its place every day.
Because she toils through chest therapy every day, removing mucus so she can breathe normally, Shayna Hersh’s classmates sent letters to her sports idol, wanting to share her story and her love of the Detroit Tigers.
Unbeknownst to Shayna, the team called her father inviting them to New York to meet her favorite baseball player, Justin Verlander, pitch for the Tigers.
In secret, her dad led the girl to the Yankees’ stadium.
(WATCH the video below, or read the story from MLB)
Jarell Brooks, 19, who risked his own life to save three total strangers, is lucky to be alive. He was in the theater during the premier of Dark Night Rises when James Holmes opened fire.
When the shooting started, everyone scrambled to the exits, including Brooks who saw a young mother struggling to get her two young children to the exit.
Brooks made it his mission to get this family out safely even after he was shot in the leg.
(READ the story from ABC News)
Bruce Bridgeman lived with a flat view of the world until a trip to the cinema unexpectedly rewired his brain to see the world in 3D.
The 67-year-old neuroscientist at the University of California in Santa Cruz, grew up nearly stereoblind, that is, without true perception of depth, until February 16 when he went to see the film Hugo.
A fearful refugee, Guor Marial ran for his life to escape a Sudanese child labour camp. Now he will get to run at the Olympics after winning an appeal to the International Olympic Committee.
Despite having no passport and officially no country, the 28-year-old marathoner was cleared by the IOC to compete at the London Games under the Olympic flag.
Felting is mostly a hobby here in the U.S., but it’s a home building necessity for families in Mongolia.
That’s where a Virginia artist is headed taking her passion for felt to help make a difference for women.
Lisa Jacenich, owner of Artful Gifts in Monterey, uses locally sheered wool, but also a number of simple mechanized machines that will help the Mongolian women to increase their efficiency and family incomes.
