i just had to post this as a counter balance to the other stuff going around
12-21 is done and it is
a new day .. and guess what..the dark side has not won....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvUBUWM_UW4
http://www.dailydot.com/news/newtown-20acts-26acts-movement-ann-curry/
Ann Curry inspires pay-it-forward movement with #26Acts
Immediately, people started tweeting about what they've done to make the world a better place.
There's also a Facebook group for the pay it forward movement. Much like the hashtag, the page 26 Acts of Kindness aims to serve as a platform for people to share their good deeds.
"Today I gathered neighbors and friends for an old fashioned Christmas Caroling group," wrote Emily Hansen Williams of Boise Hills Village, Idaho. "We strolled the streets and shops of our community and sang together. It cost nothing, but I saw a lot of smiles and cheer shared. #26Acts"
Currently, 26 Acts of Kindness has more than 54,000 likes on the social network.
For her part, Curry—a sporadic Twitter user—has been retweeting and sharing what people have done so far as part of the challenge to her many followers, a sign that her challenge has been very successful.
Since Dec. 16, according to social analytics tool Topsy, #20Acts and #26Acts have been used 19,676 and 43,333 times on Twitter, respectively.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/21/16070768-26acts-of-kindness-san-antonio-third-graders-rack-up-115-good-deeds?lite
#26Acts of kindness: San Antonio third-graders rack up 115 good deeds
http://news.msn.com/us/conn-town-in-mourning-inundated-with-gifts-money
Money, toys, food and gifts — including 60,000 teddy bears — have poured into Newtown, Conn., as people touched by the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School seek to deal with their grief by helping the town.
NEWTOWN, Conn. — Peter Leone was busy making deli sandwiches and working the register at his Newtown General Store when he got a phone call from Alaska. It was a woman who wanted to give him her credit card number.
"She said, 'I'm paying for the next $500 of food that goes out your door,'" Leone said. "About a half hour later another gentleman called, I think from the West Coast, and he did the same thing for $2,000."
Money, toys, food and other gifts have poured in from around the world as Newtown mourns the loss of 20 children and six school employees at Sandy Hook Elementary School a little over a week ago. The 20-year-old shooter, Adam Lanza, killed his mother before attacking the school and then killing himself. Police don't know what set off the massacre.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/man-gives-out-lottery-tickets_n_2333291.html?utm_hp_ref=good-news&ir=Good%20News
Bartolomé Florido, Spanish Driving Instructor, Gives Out 333 Lottery Tickets To Unemployed People
Distressed by his country's staggering unemployment rate, Bartolomé Florido decided to try and bring some good luck to hundreds of struggling Spaniards.
The 60-year-old driving instructor recently doled out 333 lottery tickets to people without jobs, whom he met coming out of an unemployment office, according to thinkSPAIN.
"A lot of them asked me, 'how much is it?' and when I said, nothing, it was a present, many of them hugged me and cried," Florido told thinkSP
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