If I ran an airline, we'd come up with a modern, sophisticated, effective, system for making most of the bags arrive where and when they're supposed to. I'm sure it could be done. Lots of other warehouses, shippers, and businesses move lots of freight from place to place very quickly and don't have that much trouble with loss. Then I'd advertise it like crazy. Even offer better than a refund on the baggage fee, some sort of really great consolation prize policy, like "If we lose your bag, your flight is free.". Then potential customers would know how serious you are about the bags arriving. If you were worried about losing bags, you couldn't afford to make such a generous offer on lost ones. The small percentage of unavoidable lost bags that you'd have to pay out on to honor the deal would be offset by the increase in business from having more customers and the good publicity from the customers you did have to pay out on sharing their positive experience with you keeping your word and letting them fly that trip for free. I know if I were choosing from similar airlines and had to pick between one that was going to charge me for my bag whether it arrived as planned or not or one that was really extra confident that it would arrive and willing to let me fly free if it didn't, it would be a quick and easy decision.
They should refund the baggage charge if the bag is lost. You shouldn't have to pay for a product or service you don't receive.
If the airlines were smart, they'd be more than happy to refund the charge. Giving back a 25 buck fee is a much better financial decision than suffering the bad publicity and potential loss of customers from keeping it.
I type so that things WON'T be in my own handwriting. Years of being a waitress, writing quickly for no one but myself to read, ruined my writing.
However, I wonder if there was a way to make this work so that I could preserve someone else's handwriting. Think about your grandmother's or great grandmother's beautiful script. Wouldn't it be great to be able to correspond in that font?
I'd like to see those stats compared with the activities of the average inmate at Riker's and at some other prisons in other parts of the country. Is Little Wayne's treatment the average at his facility? Or is he having an extra easy time? Or is Riker's easier than other prisons? Without a base for comparison, those facts are pretty useless.
I like the article's "report as dead" idea. There's a lot of people that don't have family members on facebook to provide a really reliable proof of death or folks that have accounts their family members might not even know about that might still show up. Sometimes, if your friends could flag it, and it gets flagged often enough, facebook could investigate it.
I think the memorialized page idea is nice. With my friends that have passed away, I personally don't want to see them on there at all and hate the way it feels when I have to "unfriend" a dear deceased friend, and I might want to see their page occasionally, but on my own terms when I feel up to it. That would provide a way that they could stop showing up in my facebook stuff on regular days when the reminder that they're gone isn't fun, but I'd still be able to see it if I wanted to. I don't want to be asked to reconnect with them. I don't want to see their name when I'm sending out invitations to a party they won't be attending. Making their profile into a memorial page would be sort of a happy medium between blotting out someone's profile and still treating them like a living person.
Rose is a popular flavor of Indian ice cream. (It's in a lot of Indian desserts, rose syrup, rose water, etc). I like it. It seems a bit odd to think about as an American, when I think of roses, I think of bouquets and landscaped gardens, not food. But taste is good and the flavor really makes a good finish to an Indian meal.
The convenience factor is cool, but I don't like the idea of throwing away all that packaging. It seems a little wasteful. Maybe they could find a way to improve upon the idea that it's a little greener, like making the stem and base of the glass from recycled and biodegradable cardboard and only the bowl of the glass in plastic?
I'd live in a church. I think there's a chance it might still have some sort of residual positive energy from having once been a spiritual building even though it had been decommissioned (or I guess, de-consecrated might be a better word?). From a spooky or non-spooky vibe standpoint that would cancel out the cemetery spooky vibe for me. But really I'm more of a logical type than that and would just be fascinated by the architectural features. Plus, it would be really easy to describe which house was mine when I gave directions (It's the third house on the right, the one with the steeple, LOL.)
The only trouble I could see is that it might cause some confusion for some people some times that might still mistake it for an active church. I'd have a hard time turning away folks that showed up on my front steps wanting to see a minister or say a prayer or ask for charity help.
I've heard that the gene responsible for seeing red is only found on the X chromosome. So maybe females having two Xs makes them more alert to red so maybe it looks better to them than to men who only have one X?
I think there may be some truth to the article's idea that take your kid to work day should be moved to the summer when kids are already out of class. Not only would kids not miss out on any of their school lessons, but it would be more fair for all the children. Not everyone's parent has a work place where the children are welcome to shadow their parents. Moving the day to the summer would save the kids that can't go the disappointing experience of being left in class while their friends are spending the day with their parents.
I'm curious what future folks will think of some of today's very thin celebrities. Will the rail thin actresses and models still be perceived as pretty, or will they seem really odd looking? Especially as people in our country are on average growing in size, will being very slender seem extra strange?
As far as fatness in freak shows goes, you've got to bear historical context in mind. Back in the heyday of freak shows, people didn't come in contact with as many people. There was no internet or tv. The main people that most people saw were the people in their town, and for people that lived in smaller towns and rural areas, that wasn't a lot of people. We are a more connected, more mobile society now. You just didn't see as many people,so your sample size of what was normal was just smaller. If your town didn't have anyone living in it over 500 pounds, you might have never seen anyone that big until the traveling show passed through. Sure, now we all know some heavy people, we all see some heavy people. Back then, not necessarily everyone had.
The standards for what was unusual were lower because the population had less exposure. It's the same for a lot of sideshow attractions. You can see more tattoos on a lot of average people walking down the street than you than would on a lot of "tattoed woman" or "illustrated man" type vintage sideshow freaks. Now to be a sideshow performer as a "tattooed woman" you'll need fairly well full body, full facial, ink coverage. To be exciting, sideshow acts have to be something that people haven't seen. It was just easier to be outside of the norm of what audiences had experienced back then.
It must be a bit of a publicity stunt. It's not about anyone actually getting a degree in Vampire Lit as much as it is that they could offer one and get their name out there. It's like those restaurants that offer exhorbitantly priced menu options (like 25,000 dollar cocktails or 10,000 dollar icecream sundaes). They're not really trying to sell them. Just by offering them, they get that press coverage. The college is doing the same thing. I'd never heard of the University of Hertfordshire before and now I have, so it's successful.
I think a class like that could be cool for an elective(and probably a bit more scholarly and useful than some of the electives I've seen count toward a degree).
I had these little colored chicks as a kid. Mine were a pink one and a blue one and they grew up to be two white chickens.
Zhoen- They're not disposable. They're a much longer lasting present than candy or eggs or such. The chickens grow up and you get to raise them and harvest their eggs or meat. It's a great experience for kids. Kids should have more contact with animals, especially food producing animals. Too many kids today are too disconnected from where their food comes from. You should see first hand as a youngster that a chicken nugget wasn't always a chicken nugget, but rather was once a little fluffy chick and a big warm feathery chicken. You build responsibility that way, not just in the learning to care for the chickens, but in learning the value of responsible farming and eating,too. The chickens are Easter fun and a real learning experience.
My husband has a huge tattoo on his chest with a banner with the fundamental theory of calculus running through a serpinski's triangle with a fractal as the background.
Then I'd advertise it like crazy. Even offer better than a refund on the baggage fee, some sort of really great consolation prize policy, like "If we lose your bag, your flight is free.". Then potential customers would know how serious you are about the bags arriving. If you were worried about losing bags, you couldn't afford to make such a generous offer on lost ones. The small percentage of unavoidable lost bags that you'd have to pay out on to honor the deal would be offset by the increase in business from having more customers and the good publicity from the customers you did have to pay out on sharing their positive experience with you keeping your word and letting them fly that trip for free.
I know if I were choosing from similar airlines and had to pick between one that was going to charge me for my bag whether it arrived as planned or not or one that was really extra confident that it would arrive and willing to let me fly free if it didn't, it would be a quick and easy decision.
If the airlines were smart, they'd be more than happy to refund the charge. Giving back a 25 buck fee is a much better financial decision than suffering the bad publicity and potential loss of customers from keeping it.
However, I wonder if there was a way to make this work so that I could preserve someone else's handwriting. Think about your grandmother's or great grandmother's beautiful script. Wouldn't it be great to be able to correspond in that font?
I think the memorialized page idea is nice. With my friends that have passed away, I personally don't want to see them on there at all and hate the way it feels when I have to "unfriend" a dear deceased friend, and I might want to see their page occasionally, but on my own terms when I feel up to it. That would provide a way that they could stop showing up in my facebook stuff on regular days when the reminder that they're gone isn't fun, but I'd still be able to see it if I wanted to. I don't want to be asked to reconnect with them. I don't want to see their name when I'm sending out invitations to a party they won't be attending. Making their profile into a memorial page would be sort of a happy medium between blotting out someone's profile and still treating them like a living person.
The only trouble I could see is that it might cause some confusion for some people some times that might still mistake it for an active church. I'd have a hard time turning away folks that showed up on my front steps wanting to see a minister or say a prayer or ask for charity help.
As far as fatness in freak shows goes, you've got to bear historical context in mind. Back in the heyday of freak shows, people didn't come in contact with as many people. There was no internet or tv. The main people that most people saw were the people in their town, and for people that lived in smaller towns and rural areas, that wasn't a lot of people. We are a more connected, more mobile society now. You just didn't see as many people,so your sample size of what was normal was just smaller. If your town didn't have anyone living in it over 500 pounds, you might have never seen anyone that big until the traveling show passed through. Sure, now we all know some heavy people, we all see some heavy people. Back then, not necessarily everyone had.
The standards for what was unusual were lower because the population had less exposure. It's the same for a lot of sideshow attractions. You can see more tattoos on a lot of average people walking down the street than you than would on a lot of "tattoed woman" or "illustrated man" type vintage sideshow freaks. Now to be a sideshow performer as a "tattooed woman" you'll need fairly well full body, full facial, ink coverage. To be exciting, sideshow acts have to be something that people haven't seen. It was just easier to be outside of the norm of what audiences had experienced back then.
I think a class like that could be cool for an elective(and probably a bit more scholarly and useful than some of the electives I've seen count toward a degree).
Zhoen- They're not disposable. They're a much longer lasting present than candy or eggs or such. The chickens grow up and you get to raise them and harvest their eggs or meat. It's a great experience for kids. Kids should have more contact with animals, especially food producing animals. Too many kids today are too disconnected from where their food comes from. You should see first hand as a youngster that a chicken nugget wasn't always a chicken nugget, but rather was once a little fluffy chick and a big warm feathery chicken. You build responsibility that way, not just in the learning to care for the chickens, but in learning the value of responsible farming and eating,too. The chickens are Easter fun and a real learning experience.