The local public radio station (KSFR) did a reading of that tragic story. When I pull up the weather and there's a prediction for a winter storm, I still flash back to when I listened to it, and am grateful for our modern weather service.
The article doesn't point out that if wages+tips do not equal the federal minimum wage then the employer is supposed to increase cash wages to meet the minimum wage. Also, some states and areas do not have a difference between tipped and non-tipped minimum wages.
I disagree with the advice "Regardless of how you got the free food, you should tip on a total that includes the free items". If you don't want the free food (like, they bring out a free dessert because you had to wait two hours), you should not be expected to tip on it.
In 1984 or so, National Geographic's kids magazine World had a complicated puzzle competition involving places around the world. One of the clues was something like "where London is a stone's throw from Paris."
I went to the school library, pulled out the big world atlas, and looked up maps containing both "London" and "Paris." That is how I first learned of Christmas Island (not labeled Kiritimati on that old map). The scale told me they were over mile apart, but I figured it was a metaphorical stone throw, so that's what I submitted as my answer.
I did not win, and as i recall they did not publish the answers, so I'll never know if that answer was right. Still, it meant when I saw the map here on Neatorama I recognized it immediately, along with a memory of my jr. high library reference room. Neat!
I think what the man needed was a separated bike lane, and drivers who don't make illegal turns. The responsibility shouldn't lie solely on the person affected by bad infrastructure and the negligence of others.
The link is concerned with the false urban legend "that the changes were done at the entry point and that the immigrants were unwilling participants in the modifications". It makes clear that immigrants certainly changed their name after arrival.They couldn't change their name upon boarding the ship as the ticket was issued to the original name. This name went on the passenger manifest, which was cross-checked at Ellis Island. Any pre-transit name change would have to be done before purchasing a ticket, or at least before the name was put on the manifest.
Have you seen their name in the ship manifest or arrival records? Perhaps they changed their name with citizenship? Given how easy it is to change one's name - under common law they could simply use the name MacNaughton, see Lindon v. First National Bank, 1882 - why did they care to keep using MacNaught?The article points out that starting in 1906 federal law made it easy to legally change one's name during the citizenship process, so that was another opportunity to change it back if they didn't want the common law process.
In "The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace" entry, the second equation was meant to imply Homer had come up with a counter-example to Fermat's Last Theorem. 3987¹² + 4365¹² is very close to 4472¹², with a ratio between them of 1.0000000000189426. If you tried to verify it with a standard hand-held calculator there wouldn't be enough digits to show you the values were different. Today I learned the "Ich bin ein Berliner" definite article use, implying a jelly doughnut instead of someone from Berlin, is a false urban legend.
My wife and I enjoyed it a lot. She had not heard a lyrebird before, and ended up laughing often while watching the 2006 era (!) Neatorama page, and the learning why Aardman used the chainsaw sound.
I disagree with the advice "Regardless of how you got the free food, you should tip on a total that includes the free items". If you don't want the free food (like, they bring out a free dessert because you had to wait two hours), you should not be expected to tip on it.
I went to the school library, pulled out the big world atlas, and looked up maps containing both "London" and "Paris." That is how I first learned of Christmas Island (not labeled Kiritimati on that old map). The scale told me they were over mile apart, but I figured it was a metaphorical stone throw, so that's what I submitted as my answer.
I did not win, and as i recall they did not publish the answers, so I'll never know if that answer was right. Still, it meant when I saw the map here on Neatorama I recognized it immediately, along with a memory of my jr. high library reference room. Neat!
Today I learned the "Ich bin ein Berliner" definite article use, implying a jelly doughnut instead of someone from Berlin, is a false urban legend.