Letter from US Airlines About Free Ticktes

For those who have longed to travel, but may not be able to afford such a trip and hope that two airline tickets just might drop from the sky, your wish may have come true.
Recently, US Airlines has announced that they will be sending award notification letters to a few households around the US later this year. The letters will resemble government forms, similar to the W-2 forms used by taxpayers, and will have unique code that will identify them. For those lucky enough to receive such letters, they may receive two tickets to anywhere in the United States.
This is one of several types of promotions used by airlines recently to counter the potential drop in ticket sales. With rising oil costs and a flagging economy, many individuals and families have decided to forego travelling by air for their vacations and instead use the family vehicle for more local trips. The airline industry has suffered as of late because of these conditions.

While many promotional offers received through the mail may be of highly dubious nature, the US airlines offer is legitimate. If you receive such a letter, be sure to contact US Airlines through means other than the information on the letter itself to verify that it is indeed legit and real.
So in these tough economic times, why are airlines turning to such promotional gimmicks?
The reason is simple, flights are scheduled months in advance and recently airlines have had difficulty filling up the flights. It is especially in these days with more competition and more folks willing to shop around for the best prices, rather than stick to a particular airline. By giving away free tickets the airlines are not giving up any seats that are already paid for and gain a lot a great, free promotion which can help lure even more people to purchase tickets.

About the only negative aspect, other than perhaps an occasionally ticked off customer who sat next to a person flying for free, is that many of these types of promotions are hard to believe. With all the warnings about scam artists offering promotions or giveaways that seem too good to be true, such tactics by US Airlines may be perceived the same way. After all, the more people who throw away the tickets thinking they are fake are the fewer folks US Airlines can use in their promotional efforts to bring in more clients.
If you should receive a letter like the one described above, you should not immediately throw it away. The first thing you should do is verify the promotion is real by first calling US Airlines outside the number given in the letter for confirmation. Then call the number found inside the letter and follow the instructions. Generally speaking, you will have to spend around 45 minutes or less going through paperwork and getting a pitch about how great getting free tickets are and wouldn’t it be great if you told all your friends. Which given how much tickets anywhere in the US are worth certainly seems like a very small price to pay.

So the next time you are about to throw away the junk mail, you may want to examine it a bit closer to see if one is labeled US Airlines. You just might have won a trip anywhere in the US, really.

Use Words to Express Appreciation

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated." noted 19th- century psychologist William James. Perhaps we value words of appreciation so highly because so much of what we do seems to go unnoticed. Often our hard work and sincere effort is taken for granted.

One woman, who has taught for 25 years, recalls the delightful experience delivered to her by a fifth-grade boy. She had spent the day as a substitute teacher. When the school day was over she was sitting at the front of the classroom making notes for the regular teacher. Once of the students approached  her and quietly waited. "I looked up, smiled and asked, 'Yes, Jeff?'" she recalls. To her amazement the boy said: "I'd like to thank you for being such a nice substitute teacher. I really appreciated your kindness."

The teacher says, "I was totally surprised-and pleased-to hear such words from a fifth-grade boy! I felt a warmth wash over me from my head to my toes as I scrambled for a response. His words left a glow in my heart that is with me even today, many months later."

Can Food Cause Disease?

Much of our money is spent eating out. Our good is processed, refined, concentrated,sugared,salted and chemically engineered to produce high calorie, low nutrient taste sensations. Our cattle are fattened in feedlots without exercise and with antibiotics and growth enhancers. The result: bigger cattle producing juicer steaks containing nearly twice the fat as range-fed cattle. And we are paying dearly for these advancements. While we eat to live, what we eat is killing us.

The statistics are pretty convincing. One hundred years ago, a small percentage of our people died from coronary hear disease and strokes. Today it's triple or maybe quadruple that figure. That's also true with those who died of cancer.

This isn't nature's way. We weren't meant to die in such numbers of hear attacks, strokes, diabetes, and colon and breast cancer. Significant cardiovascular disease began to emerge sometime ago. Soon it became really rampant as people could afford diets rich in animal products, and when the food industry began producing highly processed foods crammed with calories and emptied of nutrition.

Smoking's Effects on Weight Minimal

Up to one third of university women who begin smoking do so in a misguided effort to lose weight. The tobacco industry even names cigarettes "thins" and "slims," trying to sway weight-conscious young women. But now a new study shows that for people under 30, smoking does not prevent age-related weight gain. A seven-year project followed almost 4,000 people age 18-10 and revealed no significant difference in the amount of weight gained by nonsmokers compared to those who smoked for all or part of the study length. -Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.