5 Most Useful But Simple Inventions
September 1, 2010
There are many inventions which contributes a great share in our works, never realize there importance and keep utilizing them. We bring you some of the inventions which became an integral part of our lives and didn’t even claimed the title of an invention.
1. Rubber Bands
Rubber bands were invented by Stephen Perry in 1845 under the banner of Messers Perry & Co, England. He invented rubber band through vulcanized rubber. Ever since that day it has become an integral part of our offices. Whenever we want to bind something the first solution we think of is rubber band.
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7 clauses to beware of in your cruise contract
August 23, 2010
If you ever want to feel confused, outraged and powerless all at the same time, just read your cruise line’s ticket contract.
Carrie Streahle didn’t know what was in hers until her cruise arrived late in Houston, and she had to pay an extra $1,900 in airfares and accommodations to get home. She contacted Carnival, asking for reimbursement.
“Carnival’s first response was that we didn’t have travel insurance,” she says. She protested. The cruise line responded again, this time blaming Mother Nature. “They said they can’t control the weather,” she says.
No kidding. Carnival’s ticket contract specifically says it can change arrival or departure times without notice, for any reason whatsoever, including weather. “Carnival shall have no liability for any compensation or other damages in such circumstances,” it adds.
“Carnival is not at fault because they were delayed by an act of nature,” says Anita Dunham-Potter, who writes the blog ExpertCruiser. “When this happens, they have no control over the port, or the time it takes customs to clear the ship, which is ultimately what decides the time you can get off the ship.”
Cruise contracts are filled with clauses and supported by laws that the average passenger doesn’t know about. If they did, they might think twice before setting sail. The paperwork addresses everything from what the cruise line owes you when something goes wrong (not much) when it’s responsible for your well-being (hardly ever) to where and when you can sue them (in a faraway court, and almost never).
“No one reads the fine print,” says Al Anolik, a travel attorney in San Francisco. But if you do — and a warning to all you non-attorneys out there, this isn’t light reading — you’ll find the law limits the rights of passengers in many key areas, such as a cap on damages you can collect from a cruise line and time limits on any lawsuit.
“There are no consumer protections in the ticket,” adds maritime attorney James M. Walker, who writes a blog about cruise law. “It was drafted by the cruise lines lawyers to protect the cruise lines at the consumer’s expense. It is a one-sided document.”
So what do you need to know before you set sail?
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Why Your Hostess Hates You
August 19, 2010
Sometimes a lack of civility on the part of the patron — yes, you — will ruin an entire dining experience. For you, your dining party and sometimes even the entire restaurant.
Most of us — especially the females in the audience — have been a hostess at a restaurant at some point in our lives. It’s hardscrabble work being one of the lowest rungs on the restaurant totem pole, at about the same level with bussers and dishwashers.
However, unlike dishwashers, hostesses are also in the unenviable position of being hit on constantly, whether by skeezy customers or even skeezier waitstaff. At the best, you’re virtually ignored and lucky if you get a cut from the tip pool. At the worst, you’re degraded by rude customers, say, getting a piece of broccoli thrown at you by a customer in an attempt to get your attention, as happened to our own Cathy Matusow when she was hostessing many years ago.
So here’s how to make someone whose life may already be miserable feel even more miserable. Avoid doing these things and you could not only have a better dining experience, but you could also learn to be a decent human being and treat others with respect.
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Ten Things Clients Hate About Escorts
August 12, 2010
Calling up an escort is supposed to usher in an hour or two (or, hell, 20 minutes) of pleasure and release. It’s not supposed to cause headaches. Sometimes instead of getting a happy ending, you feel chafed — and not in a good way.
Or at least those are some of the problems revealed by the good gentlemen frequenting South Florida’s independentgirls.com. They’ve been bantering for weeks about pet peeves “hobbyists” harbor regarding “providers.”
So we perused their problems and boiled down the ten best escort complaints.
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Photos Of The Shanxi Province in China
August 4, 2010
These remarkable photos have been taken in one of the most beautiful provinces in the world. Shanxi is a province in the northern part of the People’s Republic of China. Its one-character abbreviation is Jin, after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period. The name Shanxi literally means “mountain’s west”, which refers to the province’s location west of the Taihang Mountains. Shanxi borders Hebei to the east, Henan to the south, Shanxi to the west, and Inner Mongolia to the north. The capital of the province is Taiyuan.
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