what do you think of this story?
my friend asked me to put this up for him (its his story) because he wouldn't take my opinion on the story. i told him there's just too many story's/movies out there that are just like his. but he wont listen and he asked me to put it on here for him. dont get me wrong, i told him it was interesting to read, but i told him its just to cliche. (oh yea, all the paragraphs/indents got messed up when i copied it into the question box) 5 Minutes Part I “What time is it?†“Nearly half past three†“What time did the plane land?†“Three O’clock†Jack arrived at LaGuardia Airport about five minutes after three. Worried he asked one of the flight attendants who have just gotten off the plane if there was any one else on bored, unfortunately the attendant said no. As being the only person in the boarding room he would assume that no one would come. He took out his cell phone to call her but all he got was her voicemail. Both his wife and daughter were missing. He asked one of the ladies at the counter to call them on the intercom to see if they could be found, like they were probably getting a drink or something, but as but all he heard was the ghostly echo’s of the women’s voice. Twenty-five minutes passed and still no one showed up. He asked if he could check the plane, to see if they have left anything, but nothing. The lady at the counter said “your wife and daughter are obviously not here. Are you sure they were on this flight?†“Yes I’m sure, she called me five minutes before the plane landed†“alright sir, well there’s nothing we can do right now but call airport security, and the police†“thank you†“well do our bestâ€. As I walked away from the counter I felt the chills run down my spine. I got in my car and headed back to my house in Manhattan. I drove through the Queens-Midtown tunnel to my apartment at Columbus Circle in the Times Warner Center. I packed my car below in the parking garage and took the elevator up to the five storey glass lobby, and then I took another elevator up to the 39th floor, and headed for my room. Room 493 N. I unlocked the door and walked inside. I turned on the lights and went over to the counter to put my things down. I went into the living room and looked outside to the brightly illuminated view of Columbus circle, Central Park and the Northeastern skyline of Manhattan. I walked over to the kitchen and reached for the phone wondering who I should call, the police? The airport? Or…who? I took the phone over to my chair. I was keeping my self quiet for a while. The only noise that could be heard was the obnoxious sound of car horns honking, the wind and the buzzing noise of the phones dialing tone. Before I could even think of who to call, the doorbell rang. I got up and walked slowly walked to the door. As I opened it I looked through the crack, I saw know one. I quickly looked in the hall and still…know one. But I looked down and there laid an envelope. I brought it over to my recliner and started opening it. I pulled it out and started to read it. It said: at noon, come to the south street seaport. Ill be there waiting on the pavilion of Pier 17. I put down the letter and thought, who put this here? So I took my shower and went to bed so I can get everything off my mind. I woke up at 10 that morning. I got dressed and headed downstairs so I can go to star bucks. I walked inside to get my usual, Chocolate Hazelnut Latte. I walked to the parking garage to get my car. I got in and drove out onto Broadway. I drove through times square and quickly turned on to E. 31st. I headed towards South Street, and headed towards the south street seaport. The time was a quarter to twelve. Finally I arrived. I parked my car and put some money into the parking meter. I walked over to Pier 17, and waited at the very edge of the pier. As twelve came around there was still no one. All I heard was the sound of boats passing by, people talking, music playing, cars going past, and the humming of helicopters going by and starting. As I was about to go back to my car, some guy I was walking past bumped shoved me. I quickly turned around and the guy was gone. I quickly scanned the area around me spinning around in a 360 but no sign of the guy. So I returned to my car, but all of a sudden my phone started to ring in the name of my wife. I quickly answered. “Hello?†“Don’t leave come back to the pier!†“Who is this where is my wife?!†“Just come back to the pier go inside and at the ocean view restaurant inside you will find a package under table four.†“Where is my family!?†“Good bye…jackâ€. I guess I had no choice if I wanted to see my family. I went inside the pier where there was a shopping mall. I walked up to the third floor and went to the northeast side of the pier. There I saw the Ocean View restaurant and bar. I walked inside and looked under all the tables…there. I grabbed it and walked in to the bathroom. There on the box was my name in red ink Jack. I opened it and in the bo oh yea, i didn't realize it but yahoo answers cut off like, the other 10 paragraphs so if anybody wants me to, i can post the rest, but idc
Books & Authors - 3 Answers
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ugh so boring stopped reading four sentences in.
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I loved the suspenseful ending. I thought the beginning was a bit dry, especially the part about Jack talking with the stewardess. Also when Jack was driving around town trying to find his wife was a little bit confusing too. I would advise your friend to make some spelling corrections, also he should really cut to the action of the story. If this was my story, Jack would be coming into an old bar near the dock. Then he would get drunk and drone on about he was missing his wife and kids. Then the mysterious box would appear..
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omg talk about suspenseful!!!! i like it
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
detailed question is below on airline elasticity-due 11/7/2010 by 3 P.M today pls
detailed question is below on airline elasticity-due 11/7/2010 by 3 P.M today pls?
AAirline Elasticity Do calculations. dnt research the airline industry PART 1 1.As the Midwest regional manager for American Airlines, you have recently undertaken a survey of economy-class load factors (the percentage of economy-class seats that are filled with paying customers) on the Chicago-Columbus route that you service. The survey was conducted over 5 successive months. The survey results appear in the table below. Assume that all other factors have remained constant over the 5-month period: Month American’s Price United’s Price Monthly/ Capita Income American’s Load Factor (Q) United’s Load Factor (Q) 1 $110 $112 $1,900 65 60 2 110 110 1,900 62 63 3 110 110 2,100 70 66 4 109 110 1,900 70 61 5 108 110 1,900 72 59 2.Based on the data you have collected, how responsive is your company’s load factor on the Chicago-Columbus route to your own price, income levels, and United’s price? Select appropriate months and compute elasticity values to complete the following table. Elasticity (arc) Value (1) own-price elasticity of demand for American’s economy-class seats (2) income elasticity of demand for American’s economy-class seat (3) cross-price elasticity of demand for American’s economy-class seats with respect to United’s price on the same route Hint: Elasticity here is based on ceteris paribus conditions – all other things unchanged. In fact, there should be only one pair of consecutive months that meet the “all other things unchanged†criterion for each elasticity coefficient to be calculated, and it is a different pair of months for each one. Arc or midpoint elasticity formula appears in your text. The formula is the same for all three calculations. The quantity is always the change in American’s load factor. The “price†is the price of American’s tickets (own-price elasticity), or the income (income elasticity), or the price of United’s tickets (cross-price elasticity). Questions: a.Are economy-class tickets a normal or inferior good in the Chicago-Columbus market? Explain. b.How close a competitor/substitute does United appear to be in the Chicago-Columbus market? Explain. c.Based on the survey you have undertaken, to increase your profits, should you raise your price, lower it, leave it unchanged, or is it impossible to tell without more information? (Hint: consider what will happen to total revenues (TR) and total costs (TC) if you change your price.) d.If you had conducted your survey over a period of 5 successive years, rather than over 5 successive months, would the own-price elasticity of demand for your product be larger or smaller than your estimate here? Explain. e.Now, assume that American’s own price elasticity of demand that you calculated holds true for even lower prices (in other words, assume elasticity is linear). The plane used on these flights has 310 seats. A load factor of 70 means 70% of the seats are filled. A load factor of 72 means 72% of the seats are filled. What price would it take to fill all seats? (As you do your calculations, differentiate between percent and percentage points.) PART 2 1. Additional data: •Use same assumptions and figures calculated above. The plane used on these flights has 310 seats. A load factor of 70 means 70% of the seats are filled. A load factor of 72 means 72% of the seats are filled. •Fixed costs per flight between the two cities are $20,000 per flight. •Average variable costs for a flight with 70% load factor are $10 per passenger. (Note: while fuel consumption with one passenger is infinitesimally more than for none, it does take more fuel to fly with half a load than with none, and more fuel for a full load than with half.) Marginal costs for adding passengers between 70% load factor and 100% load factor are $11 for each passenger. 2. Questions: To increase profits, what should American do? Use the same pair of observations you used to calculate own-price elasticity of demand for your price and load-factor data. a.What would be American’s profit if the price were reduced to fill the plane as you calculated in part f above? b.How much can prices fall before American should either not cut them any more or not fly? (I can think of four answers to this question, one of which was contributed by students.) c.What if putting price at the level you calculated in part f above causes sufficient demand that another flight could go, but about half full? What would you do with pricing then? d.OK, now you get to consider what United would do. What would they do? How would that affect your decisions? PART 3 Now, apply some of these lessons to your own firm or industry. You may be able to make good guesses from your current experience. If not, this is a great time to meet some of the accounting people and learn more about the organization, the products, and the challenges and opportunities. This portion does not require hard numbers.
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This exercise is designed for you to spend a relatively long period of time demonstrating your understanding of the concept of elasticity. It cannot be answered without spending a considerable amount of time performing calculations, etc. For these reasons, it would be unfair for you to expect someone to to all of the work for you with an answer here. That would not help you learn, and someone else will end up doing a lot of work just to keep you from doing your own. If you need some help with getting started, and with understanding what the questions are asking for, I can help you with that. First of all, I will invite you to visit the pages in my website that cover the elasticity topics. http://economicsonlinetutor.com/Elasticity.html This should help you to understand what you need to know to answer the questions. Some hints to get you started: Make sure you use the midpoint formula. My website explains how to do that. When figuring the 3 types of elasticity, make sure, for each one, that you only use the consecutive months where factors that change the other 2 types do not change. That would be: own price elasticity, use 4 and 5 income elasticity, use 2 and 3 cross-price elasticity, use 1 and 2 For part 1: (a) a normal good would have a negative own-price elasticity; an inferior good would have a positive one. (b) a close substitute would have a cross-price elasticity greater than 1 (c) my website has a detailed explanation of the relationship between elasticity and TR (d) elasticities of all types always increase over time; elasticity measures responsiveness, time increases the ability to respond. That's as far as I am willing to go to get you started. Good luck on this. It requires you to spend your own time working on it. Since you have a short deadline for finishing this, then either your instructor expects you to already understand all of this very well before starting, or it was given to you much sooner than the time you posted it on here asking for help.
AAirline Elasticity Do calculations. dnt research the airline industry PART 1 1.As the Midwest regional manager for American Airlines, you have recently undertaken a survey of economy-class load factors (the percentage of economy-class seats that are filled with paying customers) on the Chicago-Columbus route that you service. The survey was conducted over 5 successive months. The survey results appear in the table below. Assume that all other factors have remained constant over the 5-month period: Month American’s Price United’s Price Monthly/ Capita Income American’s Load Factor (Q) United’s Load Factor (Q) 1 $110 $112 $1,900 65 60 2 110 110 1,900 62 63 3 110 110 2,100 70 66 4 109 110 1,900 70 61 5 108 110 1,900 72 59 2.Based on the data you have collected, how responsive is your company’s load factor on the Chicago-Columbus route to your own price, income levels, and United’s price? Select appropriate months and compute elasticity values to complete the following table. Elasticity (arc) Value (1) own-price elasticity of demand for American’s economy-class seats (2) income elasticity of demand for American’s economy-class seat (3) cross-price elasticity of demand for American’s economy-class seats with respect to United’s price on the same route Hint: Elasticity here is based on ceteris paribus conditions – all other things unchanged. In fact, there should be only one pair of consecutive months that meet the “all other things unchanged†criterion for each elasticity coefficient to be calculated, and it is a different pair of months for each one. Arc or midpoint elasticity formula appears in your text. The formula is the same for all three calculations. The quantity is always the change in American’s load factor. The “price†is the price of American’s tickets (own-price elasticity), or the income (income elasticity), or the price of United’s tickets (cross-price elasticity). Questions: a.Are economy-class tickets a normal or inferior good in the Chicago-Columbus market? Explain. b.How close a competitor/substitute does United appear to be in the Chicago-Columbus market? Explain. c.Based on the survey you have undertaken, to increase your profits, should you raise your price, lower it, leave it unchanged, or is it impossible to tell without more information? (Hint: consider what will happen to total revenues (TR) and total costs (TC) if you change your price.) d.If you had conducted your survey over a period of 5 successive years, rather than over 5 successive months, would the own-price elasticity of demand for your product be larger or smaller than your estimate here? Explain. e.Now, assume that American’s own price elasticity of demand that you calculated holds true for even lower prices (in other words, assume elasticity is linear). The plane used on these flights has 310 seats. A load factor of 70 means 70% of the seats are filled. A load factor of 72 means 72% of the seats are filled. What price would it take to fill all seats? (As you do your calculations, differentiate between percent and percentage points.) PART 2 1. Additional data: •Use same assumptions and figures calculated above. The plane used on these flights has 310 seats. A load factor of 70 means 70% of the seats are filled. A load factor of 72 means 72% of the seats are filled. •Fixed costs per flight between the two cities are $20,000 per flight. •Average variable costs for a flight with 70% load factor are $10 per passenger. (Note: while fuel consumption with one passenger is infinitesimally more than for none, it does take more fuel to fly with half a load than with none, and more fuel for a full load than with half.) Marginal costs for adding passengers between 70% load factor and 100% load factor are $11 for each passenger. 2. Questions: To increase profits, what should American do? Use the same pair of observations you used to calculate own-price elasticity of demand for your price and load-factor data. a.What would be American’s profit if the price were reduced to fill the plane as you calculated in part f above? b.How much can prices fall before American should either not cut them any more or not fly? (I can think of four answers to this question, one of which was contributed by students.) c.What if putting price at the level you calculated in part f above causes sufficient demand that another flight could go, but about half full? What would you do with pricing then? d.OK, now you get to consider what United would do. What would they do? How would that affect your decisions? PART 3 Now, apply some of these lessons to your own firm or industry. You may be able to make good guesses from your current experience. If not, this is a great time to meet some of the accounting people and learn more about the organization, the products, and the challenges and opportunities. This portion does not require hard numbers.
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This exercise is designed for you to spend a relatively long period of time demonstrating your understanding of the concept of elasticity. It cannot be answered without spending a considerable amount of time performing calculations, etc. For these reasons, it would be unfair for you to expect someone to to all of the work for you with an answer here. That would not help you learn, and someone else will end up doing a lot of work just to keep you from doing your own. If you need some help with getting started, and with understanding what the questions are asking for, I can help you with that. First of all, I will invite you to visit the pages in my website that cover the elasticity topics. http://economicsonlinetutor.com/Elasticity.html This should help you to understand what you need to know to answer the questions. Some hints to get you started: Make sure you use the midpoint formula. My website explains how to do that. When figuring the 3 types of elasticity, make sure, for each one, that you only use the consecutive months where factors that change the other 2 types do not change. That would be: own price elasticity, use 4 and 5 income elasticity, use 2 and 3 cross-price elasticity, use 1 and 2 For part 1: (a) a normal good would have a negative own-price elasticity; an inferior good would have a positive one. (b) a close substitute would have a cross-price elasticity greater than 1 (c) my website has a detailed explanation of the relationship between elasticity and TR (d) elasticities of all types always increase over time; elasticity measures responsiveness, time increases the ability to respond. That's as far as I am willing to go to get you started. Good luck on this. It requires you to spend your own time working on it. Since you have a short deadline for finishing this, then either your instructor expects you to already understand all of this very well before starting, or it was given to you much sooner than the time you posted it on here asking for help.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Commuting to the airport from NYC during rush hour
Commuting to the airport from NYC during rush hour ?
Hi, just looking for some opinions... I'm a student in the city and on Thursday's I have class until 5:15 in the afternoon. In two weeks I am soppossed to be getting on a plane at laguardia that is scheduled to leave at 7PM, I was wondering if I hopped in a cab right from school (around columbus circle area of NYC) if I could expect to make my flight...normally I fly from JFK and am able to take the airtrain which in total usually only takes me 20 minutes, but now I'm worried about getting to LGA because since I'd be getting into a cab at around 5:15 I'm nervous about traffic and such ... Thanks so much!
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You're right to be afraid you'll not make the flight during rush hour. 23 minutes if you make all the lights, and there's no traffic, and you don't have to stop and pay a toll. I only ever did it that quick once, and I broke a few rules to do it. If you were on a motorcycle you could do it. See if you can catch the same class earlier in the day or move the flight to later.
Hi, just looking for some opinions... I'm a student in the city and on Thursday's I have class until 5:15 in the afternoon. In two weeks I am soppossed to be getting on a plane at laguardia that is scheduled to leave at 7PM, I was wondering if I hopped in a cab right from school (around columbus circle area of NYC) if I could expect to make my flight...normally I fly from JFK and am able to take the airtrain which in total usually only takes me 20 minutes, but now I'm worried about getting to LGA because since I'd be getting into a cab at around 5:15 I'm nervous about traffic and such ... Thanks so much!
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You're right to be afraid you'll not make the flight during rush hour. 23 minutes if you make all the lights, and there's no traffic, and you don't have to stop and pay a toll. I only ever did it that quick once, and I broke a few rules to do it. If you were on a motorcycle you could do it. See if you can catch the same class earlier in the day or move the flight to later.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Commuting to the airport from NYC during rush hour
Commuting to the airport from NYC during rush hour ?
Hi, just looking for some opinions... I'm a student in the city and on Thursday's I have class until 5:15 in the afternoon. In two weeks I am soppossed to be getting on a plane at laguardia that is scheduled to leave at 7PM, I was wondering if I hopped in a cab right from school (around columbus circle area of NYC) if I could expect to make my flight...normally I fly from JFK and am able to take the airtrain which in total usually only takes me 20 minutes, but now I'm worried about getting to LGA because since I'd be getting into a cab at around 5:15 I'm nervous about traffic and such ... Thanks so much!
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well, it the flight has to leave at 7pm, you should be at the airport no later than 530 to get through security. You might want to think about skipping class that nigt or see if you can get a later flight.
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it depends on where you're flying. if it's an international flight you need to be there at least 2 hours ahead of time. if it's domestic they recommend 1 hour. I would suggest skipping class that night or if you just bought the ticket (within 24 hours) they'll usually change your ticket for free.
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You should be fine. 57th street to 59th street bridge and then the streets: right on 21st street, right at broadway, left at 33rd street, right at Astoria Blvd, ramp on the left to Grand Central Parkway, merge onto I-278W (turns slightly right and becomes GCP east, exit 7 toward Terminal B.. This is according to Google Maps and takes approx. 20 min. which it is obviously going to take longer at that time but not too much longer. speak to the taxi driver about this route and take his;/her advice if he has an alternate route that has less traffic, explain your time situation.. Edit: LGA is a domestic airport not international so no problem. I'd print out your boarding pass so you can drop off your luggage and go directly to the gate..
Hi, just looking for some opinions... I'm a student in the city and on Thursday's I have class until 5:15 in the afternoon. In two weeks I am soppossed to be getting on a plane at laguardia that is scheduled to leave at 7PM, I was wondering if I hopped in a cab right from school (around columbus circle area of NYC) if I could expect to make my flight...normally I fly from JFK and am able to take the airtrain which in total usually only takes me 20 minutes, but now I'm worried about getting to LGA because since I'd be getting into a cab at around 5:15 I'm nervous about traffic and such ... Thanks so much!
New York City - 3 Answers
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well, it the flight has to leave at 7pm, you should be at the airport no later than 530 to get through security. You might want to think about skipping class that nigt or see if you can get a later flight.
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it depends on where you're flying. if it's an international flight you need to be there at least 2 hours ahead of time. if it's domestic they recommend 1 hour. I would suggest skipping class that night or if you just bought the ticket (within 24 hours) they'll usually change your ticket for free.
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You should be fine. 57th street to 59th street bridge and then the streets: right on 21st street, right at broadway, left at 33rd street, right at Astoria Blvd, ramp on the left to Grand Central Parkway, merge onto I-278W (turns slightly right and becomes GCP east, exit 7 toward Terminal B.. This is according to Google Maps and takes approx. 20 min. which it is obviously going to take longer at that time but not too much longer. speak to the taxi driver about this route and take his;/her advice if he has an alternate route that has less traffic, explain your time situation.. Edit: LGA is a domestic airport not international so no problem. I'd print out your boarding pass so you can drop off your luggage and go directly to the gate..
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