Kind Gesture Toward Girlfriend of Deployed Soldier Becomes Internet Sensation. The letter everyone's loving (and Ford, inset).
Photos: FacebookThe story of a good deed has spread like wildfire online since Sunday, when an anonymous do-gooder left a kind note and $40 on a woman’s windshield in a Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot. More on Shine: One Girl, 89 Random Acts of Kindness: Teenager's Amazing Homage to Late Great-Grandmother “I noticed the sticker on the back of your car,” the note read, referring to a “Half my Heart is in Afghanistan” bumper sticker. “Take your hero out to dinner when he comes home. Thank you both for serving. The woman, Samantha Ford, a mother of two who lives outside of Boston, quickly snapped a photo of the note and the cash, and shared it on the Facebook page “Our Deployment: 101,” a sort of online support community for people affiliated with the military.
More on Yahoo! “I just thought I would share with you all what happened to me today!” “It was crazy!!” “They are all heroes,” she said. Related video: How a third of bestselling ebooks cost MORE than the same title in hardback. Consumers say that electronic versions should be cheaper because they cost nothing to produceEbooks make up around 15 per cent of books sold in the UK By Paul Bentley Published: 00:35 GMT, 1 October 2012 | Updated: 08:18 GMT, 1 October 2012 They don’t cost anything to print and you can’t hold them in your hands.
So readers may well feel aggrieved that they are paying far more for ebooks than for many hardback versions of their favourite titles. A survey of bestselling fiction and non-fiction sold by online retailer Amazon has found that in more than a third of cases ebooks are priced higher than the same books in hardcover. The price isn't right: Readers are paying far more for some ebooks than for the hardback versions Experts and consumers are outraged, saying that, if anything, electronic versions should be far cheaper because they cost nothing to print, store or transport.
The ebook version, however, is being sold on the same website for £11.99. This Is What They're Teaching the Kids In Schools These Days? 9656-1340127251-3.jpg (JPEG Image, 625 × 417 pixels) Woman Could Be Fined $600 For Giving Children Free Lunches. Like us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow Trending Now on Twitter: @Knowlesitall and @YahooTrending.
A woman trying to feed the kids in her neighborhood during the summer may be fined for her good deed. Angela Prattis of Chester Township, outside Philadelphia, has spent the past few months handing out free lunches to the children in her community while they're home from school for the summer break. The food, supplied by the archdiocese of Philadelphia, helps low-income residents of the township, which has a per capita income of $19,000 a year. The city council was alerted to Prattis's free lunches and ruled that if she continues to give away food next summer, she will need a variance or be fined $600 a day.
The council says she needs a variance because she's giving away meals in a residential area, which is a zoning violation. People on the social news site Reddit are outraged by the ruling. Society & CulturePolitics & Government. City may sue developer who spent $20,000 to remove 40 tons of trash from vacant lot. Ori Feibush sits outside his coffee shop.
(Steven M. Falk/Daily News) A business developer in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Point Breeze is facing legal action after voluntarily cleaning up more than 40 tons of trash from a vacant lot neighboring his local business. As the old adage goes, no good deed goes unpunished. Ori Feibush says he visited the local offices of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority four times, sent in seven written requests and made 24 phone calls to the agency asking them to take care of a major eyesore: an empty lot next to his coffee shop was home to more than 40 tons of debris.
Not only did the agency fail to act but it also denied Feibush's offer to clean up the mess himself. But the Daily News reports that Feibush went ahead with his plans anyway, reportedly spending more than $20,000 of his own money not only to remove the trash but also to level the soil; add cherry trees, fencing and park benches; and repave the sidewalk. Politics & Government. God prefers kind atheists.