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.
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.
For the last week in the field, the readings have been pretty consistent in reflecting what a person’s soul energy is doing for and with the greater All. The “human” had already done all the inner work needed for the soul to amplify thru out created space, the energy needed for all the others seeking a batter and healthier way to Be in Life to connect to the energy of their experience. For almost everyone I talked to, they ring back the same feeling inside, they (we) do not feel like they are doing a thing in this new life field, yet, I know they (we) are doing more than they can conceive of.
The Mayan video discussion we had on Sunday was a wonderful opportunity to practice ‘feeling our truth’. I believe that is why I was urged to post it unbeknownst to me at the time. So much of the time we have been trained to believe the truth with our minds and our eyes, never have we been encouraged to understand the truth by feeling it. That would be most dangerous for the dark ones to have us feeling the real truth! Take the butterfly in the picture for example. Other than the fact we’ve never seen one like this and some may have Photoshop expertise, doesn’t your gut feeling tell you this is an altered picture? Hard to explain why really, it just does not FEEL real! This is a tool we need to hone our skills on. Sunday ended up being a great exercise of searching deeply for what we FELT was the truth with that video, we had to stretch our minds and dig deep. We need to be doing more of this everyday to keep our abilities of discernment active and polished, for being able to feel out the truth is critical in this time of so many illusions.
New Moon Phase - Moon in Scorpio - Total Solar Eclipse/Activation Point
Today we are called to the month where we will shift formation - shift form. The New Moon opens the segment of time in Sophia's grand vision where we activate the spiritual quest. This quest is two-fold: we will be activating a new level of ourselves (one that is more expressive of our full talents, capabilities, and uniqueness as well as moving into a higher level of spiritual awareness) and we will be activating counterbalances to forces that stand opposed to the fulfillment of Sophia's vision and intend harm to humanity. Regarding the latter, we will do this by progressively amping up our light through the available energies, not by enggaing these forces directly. We have no interest or business in that because Sophia is taking care of this. We do have the responsibility to help our brothers and sisters and we do this by radiating a field of high spiritual awareness and acting accordingly with love and kindness in our daily lives.
Will of California is one of three winners of the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation's Kindness Challenge! The retired carpenter crafts toy trains for kids in his neighborhood and beyond. Learn how his unique acts of kindness are bringing smiles to hundreds of children!
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.
November 12, 2012 – ALASKA – Earth-orbiting satellites detected a small ash cloud from Mount Cleveland – otherwise known as Cleveland Volcano – which makes up a large part of a remote and uninhabited island in the east-central Aleutian Island chain. The satellites took note of the small eruption at 11:47 a.m. local time in Alaska (20:47 UTC). The ash was drifting slowly toward the east-northeast from the volcano’s summit. Scientists keep an eye on this volcano, because it can be hazardous to aircraft. The aviation code color for Cleveland Volcano currently has been raised from yellow to orange. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said in a release: Sudden explosions of blocks and ash remain possible with little or no warning.
November 12, 2012 – VENICE - Tourists attached plastic bags to their legs or stripped off to take a dip in St Mark’s Square in Venice on Sunday as rising sea waters surged through the lagoon city. High water measuring 1.49 metres (5ft) above the normal level of the Adriatic sea came with bad weather that swept Italy at the weekend, causing floods in historic cities including Vicenza as well in the region of Tuscany 250 miles further south. Venice’s high water, or “acqua alta,” said to be the sixth highest since 1872, flooded 70% of the city and was high enough to make raised wooden platforms for pedestrians float away.
Flood waters inundated impoverished areas of Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city, killing as many as 16 people, including three children, city officials said Friday.
"The city has been struck by disaster. There are many dead and major damage. All the populous areas are flooded," Cap Haitien Mayor Wilborde Beon told AFP by telephone.
Beon said many people had to be rescued and given shelter from the high waters, which swept through the northern city Thursday night amid heavy rains in the region.
"The entrance to the city is completely flooded, all the rivers and ravines are swollen," he said, appealing for aid and support.
November 12, 2012 – ISRAEL – A new geophysical study, the first of its kind in Israel, has uncovered a system of active gas springs in the Haifa Bay seabed, at relatively shallow depths, only a few dozen meters below the surface. A study, published in the journal Continental Shelf Research, describes the entire system, from its sources under the sea floor through the natural springs emerging from the seabed. “This is a natural laboratory for researching gas emissions from the sea floor – natural springs and less natural ones.
ABC News - 11/12/12, AP/Charles Wilson and Tom LoBianco
As investigators try to determine what caused a deadly explosion that ravaged an Indianapolis subdivision, an expert says people shouldn't be alarmed by a homeowner's suggestion that his faulty furnace could be to blame.
Investigators have been looking at gas meters and pipelines as they try to figure out what happened Saturday night when a blast killed two people, obliterated two homes and left dozens more uninhabitable.
November 12, 2012 – GUATEMALA – A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck this afternoon in the Pacific off the western coast of Guatemala, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Striking about 17 miles (27 kilometers) below sea level, the tremor was centered about 19 miles west-southwest of Champerico, Guatemala, and 115 miles from the capital, Guatemala City. The quake was not far from southern Mexico, with the USGS reporting it was 27 miles south-southeast of the border community of Suchiate, Mexico.
Earlier Sunday, the U.S. agency had said it was a 6.2-magnitude tremor, but later revised the report with the higher magnitude. It was followed by a number of significant aftershocks with magnitudes as strong as 5.0. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that “based on all available data, a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected.” Sunday’s earthquake is the second major one in four days to strike the region. The quake triggered at least four strong aftershocks.
JUNEAU, Alaska - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck in the Gulf of Alaska on Monday — the largest quake in that region in nearly 25 years.
No tsunami warnings were issued, and there were no reports of damage despite tremors being felt across a large part of southern Alaska. A series of aftershocks also were recorded.
