Monday, December 16, 2024 Welcome to a Season of Extended Greetings and Holiday Celebrations at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)! This holiday season, SEA is not just a transit point but a hub of festive joy. In a spirited move, SEA is offering 90 minutes of complimentary parking in the evenings from December 20 to 27, between 8 p.m. and midnight, to make holiday welcomes and goodbyes a little warmer. This special parking offer is available in the General Parking area, giving you ample time to embrace your loved ones without the rush. As you arrive, take note of the spacious new area at the north end of the ticketing section, unveiled as the construction walls come down. This improvement is part of the ongoing SEA Gateway project, which is enhancing the airport’s infrastructure and services. Don’t forget to check SEA’s newly relaunched website for more handy travel tips and updates. Celebrate the Holiday Season at SEA The airport is alive with holiday spirit! Wander through the terminals and you might encounter various holiday characters and live music performances scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily. Discover interactive snow globes and learn about festive traditions from different cultures. Keep an eye out for Jett the SEA Otter, the airport’s new mascot, who will be making appearances at select times and events. SEA Visitor Pass Returns! Reconnect with the joy of greeting friends and family right at the gate with the return of the SEA Visitor Pass program. This unique offering allows non-travelers to pass through security for meet-and-greets or simply to enjoy the airport’s amenities, including dining, shopping, and panoramic views of planes taking off to exciting destinations. Embrace the New Open Spaces Experience the newly expanded areas at SEA, where phase one of the SEA Gateway project has recently concluded. This expansion includes brighter, more open check-in spaces equipped with the latest technologies to streamline your travel experience. While Checkpoint 5 remains closed, helpful Pathfinders and volunteers in green are available throughout the airport to assist with directions and security procedures. Travel Insights and Tips Over the holiday stretch from December 19 to January 2, SEA expects to welcome over two million travelers, a slight increase from last year. Despite being busier than usual, the numbers remain below the peak records of 2019. Planning your visit during less busy times can enhance your experience. Arrival and Departure Strategies To make your airport visit as smooth as possible, consider arriving early, especially before peak times in the morning and late afternoon. Utilize SEA Spot Saver to reserve a spot at security checkpoints, which helps reduce waiting times. For those picking up passengers, consider the less congested south entrance of the parking garage on International Boulevard and 182nd Street. By planning ahead, utilizing the SEA Visitor Pass, and taking advantage of the extended parking hours and festive activities, your visit to SEA this holiday season can be as joyful and stress-free as the destinations awaiting you.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Two days before recording another milestone, resume-building sack on Sunday at Cincinnati, Myles Garrett delivered a jarring hit — on the Browns. In this case, any roughness could be deemed necessary. Garrett piled on to what has been a painful and puzzling season in Cleveland by saying he doesn't have any interest in going through another rebuild and wants to know exactly what the organization's offseason plans are to fix things. If that wasn't enough, Garrett indicated for the first time that he would consider leaving the Browns if his vision doesn't mesh with the team's ambitions. “It’s a possibility,” he said of playing elsewhere. "But I want to be a Cleveland Brown. I want to play my career here.” It's unclear how Garrett's comments were received by owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam, who have plenty to consider as the Browns (3-12) head into the final two weeks of a season that began with playoff expectations and could be followed by upheaval. The Browns haven't been this bad since going 0-16 in 2017. Garrett, who reached 100 career sacks by taking down Cincinnati's Joe Burrow late in the first half of Sunday's 24-6 loss , may have either added to the Haslams' long list of concerns — the Deshaun Watson contract situation is a priority — or brought them clarity. There's no denying that Garrett's remarks carry substantial weight, which is partly why he spoke up. He's the Browns' best player, a franchise cornerstone, a future Hall of Famer and arguably the most disruptive defensive force in the game today. He's also leading with actions. Garrett showed extraordinary effort in chasing down and tackling Burrow before tumbling out of bounds and crashing into Cleveland's bench and some portable heaters. He might be frustrated, but he's not giving up. “A testament of who he is as a player and who he is as a person,” linebacker Jordan Hicks said. What the reigning Defensive Player of the Year says matters. It will be interesting to see if the Haslams listen. At this point, there are indications the Browns intend to stick with coach Kevin Stefanski and general manager Andrew Berry, whose major misses in recent drafts have become more magnified with each loss. There will be changes; it's just a matter of how drastic and if they'll be enough to satisfy Garrett's wishes. He turns 29 on Dec. 29 and has two years left on a $125 million contract extension. The All-Pro is in his prime and doesn't want to waste another season in a pointless pursuit of a Super Bowl title. His goal is to win a championship with Cleveland — or someone. Garrett's serious. He's asking the Browns to show him they are, too. Cleveland's defense is doing its part. For the second week in a row, the Browns contained one of the NFL's most talented offenses, holding the Bengals and their top-ranked passing game below most of their season averages. Burrow did throw three TD passes — for the seventh game in a row — but Cincinnati scored fewer than 27 points for the first time in seven games. The Browns continue to beat themselves with costly turnovers, some more costly than others. They drove to the Cincinnati 1-yard line in the opening minutes only to have D'Onta Foreman fumble as he neared the goal line. The Bengals capitalized by driving 99 yards to take a 7-0 lead that could have been Cleveland's. Running back Jerome Ford is making the most of a heavier workload and finishing strong. He ripped off a 66-yard run on the game's first play and finished with 131 all-purpose yards, including 92 on 11 carries and scored Cleveland's only TD. Ford's emergence as a potential No. 1 back — Nick Chubb's injuries have clouded his future — gives the team one less thing to worry about as it retools the roster. Kicker Dustin Hopkins hasn't shaken a startling slump. After being benched for a week to work through his struggles, Hopkins missed his only kick, pushing an extra point to the right. Hopkins felt confident going in, but he's back to trying to identify issues that could be equally mechanical and mental. He's just 16 of 25 on field goals, 16 of 19 on PATs and the Browns' decision to sign him to a three-year, $15.9 million extension this summer looks worse every week. QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson injured his calf early in Sunday's game, leaving his status in doubt for a second straight start this week. If Thompson-Robinson can't go, the Browns could go back to Jameis Winston, but he's dealing with a sore right shoulder. ... Tight end David Njoku is dealing with yet another injury after hurting his knee. The team is awaiting results on an MRI, perhaps a sign of the severity. Njoku has missed time with injuries all season. He finished with eight catches for 66 yards. 20 — Interceptions for the Browns this season. Thompson-Robinson's two picks on Sunday gave the team 10 in the last four games. Probably a half-empty stadium for a final home game on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins, who are still in the hunt for a wild-card spot. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl
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Video Of Men Casually Carrying Tiger On Elephant’s Back Leaves Internet With Questions: Incident ExplainedThomas added seven rebounds for the Bears (6-8). Kameron Hobbs scored 21 points while going 8 of 12 from the floor, including 2 for 5 from 3-point range, and 3 for 4 from the line and added five assists. Marland Harris had nine points and shot 4 of 5 from the field. Nolan Dorsey led the way for the Fighting Camels (5-6) with 21 points and six rebounds. Jasin Sinani added 16 points, six rebounds and four assists for Campbell. Israel Yaw also had 10 points. Thomas scored nine points in the first half and Morgan State went into halftime trailing 33-31. Thomas' 18-point second half helped Morgan State finish off the 10-point victory. Up next for Morgan State is a matchup Sunday with Iowa State on the road. Campbell hosts Longwood on Wednesday. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Fulks scores 23 as Milwaukee beats Akron 100-81
Jimmy Carter: Many evolutions for a centenarian ‘citizen of the world’By BILL BARROW, Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr. Earl,” prompted the submariner and his wife, Rosalynn, to return to the rural life of Plains, Georgia, they thought they’d escaped. The lieutenant never would be an admiral. Instead, he became commander in chief. Years after his presidency ended in humbling defeat, he would add a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded not for his White House accomplishments but “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after his fall and sustained him during 40 years of service that redefined what it means to be a former president. With the stubborn confidence of an engineer and an optimism rooted in his Baptist faith, Carter described his motivations in politics and beyond in the same way: an almost missionary zeal to solve problems and improve lives. Carter was raised amid racism, abject poverty and hard rural living — realities that shaped both his deliberate politics and emphasis on human rights. “He always felt a responsibility to help people,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend of Carter’s in Plains. “And when he couldn’t make change wherever he was, he decided he had to go higher.” Carter’s path, a mix of happenstance and calculation , pitted moral imperatives against political pragmatism; and it defied typical labels of American politics, especially caricatures of one-term presidents as failures. “We shouldn’t judge presidents by how popular they are in their day. That’s a very narrow way of assessing them,” Carter biographer Jonathan Alter told the Associated Press. “We should judge them by how they changed the country and the world for the better. On that score, Jimmy Carter is not in the first rank of American presidents, but he stands up quite well.” Later in life, Carter conceded that many Americans, even those too young to remember his tenure, judged him ineffective for failing to contain inflation or interest rates, end the energy crisis or quickly bring home American hostages in Iran. He gained admirers instead for his work at The Carter Center — advocating globally for public health, human rights and democracy since 1982 — and the decades he and Rosalynn wore hardhats and swung hammers with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the common view that he was better after the Oval Office than in it annoyed Carter, and his allies relished him living long enough to see historians reassess his presidency. “He doesn’t quite fit in today’s terms” of a left-right, red-blue scoreboard, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the former president multiple times during his own White House bid. At various points in his political career, Carter labeled himself “progressive” or “conservative” — sometimes both at once. His most ambitious health care bill failed — perhaps one of his biggest legislative disappointments — because it didn’t go far enough to suit liberals. Republicans, especially after his 1980 defeat, cast him as a left-wing cartoon. It would be easiest to classify Carter as a centrist, Buttigieg said, “but there’s also something radical about the depth of his commitment to looking after those who are left out of society and out of the economy.” Indeed, Carter’s legacy is stitched with complexities, contradictions and evolutions — personal and political. The self-styled peacemaker was a war-trained Naval Academy graduate who promised Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy that he’d “kick his ass.” But he campaigned with a call to treat everyone with “respect and compassion and with love.” Carter vowed to restore America’s virtue after the shame of Vietnam and Watergate, and his technocratic, good-government approach didn’t suit Republicans who tagged government itself as the problem. It also sometimes put Carter at odds with fellow Democrats. The result still was a notable legislative record, with wins on the environment, education, and mental health care. He dramatically expanded federally protected lands, began deregulating air travel, railroads and trucking, and he put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. As a fiscal hawk, Carter added a relative pittance to the national debt, unlike successors from both parties. Carter nonetheless struggled to make his achievements resonate with the electorate he charmed in 1976. Quoting Bob Dylan and grinning enthusiastically, he had promised voters he would “never tell a lie.” Once in Washington, though, he led like a joyless engineer, insisting his ideas would become reality and he’d be rewarded politically if only he could convince enough people with facts and logic. This served him well at Camp David, where he brokered peace between Israel’s Menachem Begin and Epypt’s Anwar Sadat, an experience that later sparked the idea of The Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter’s tenacity helped the center grow to a global force that monitored elections across five continents, enabled his freelance diplomacy and sent public health experts across the developing world. The center’s wins were personal for Carter, who hoped to outlive the last Guinea worm parasite, and nearly did. As president, though, the approach fell short when he urged consumers beleaguered by energy costs to turn down their thermostats. Or when he tried to be the nation’s cheerleader, beseeching Americans to overcome a collective “crisis of confidence.” Republican Ronald Reagan exploited Carter’s lecturing tone with a belittling quip in their lone 1980 debate. “There you go again,” the former Hollywood actor said in response to a wonky answer from the sitting president. “The Great Communicator” outpaced Carter in all but six states. Carter later suggested he “tried to do too much, too soon” and mused that he was incompatible with Washington culture: media figures, lobbyists and Georgetown social elites who looked down on the Georgians and their inner circle as “country come to town.” Carter carefully navigated divides on race and class on his way to the Oval Office. Born Oct. 1, 1924 , Carter was raised in the mostly Black community of Archery, just outside Plains, by a progressive mother and white supremacist father. Their home had no running water or electricity but the future president still grew up with the relative advantages of a locally prominent, land-owning family in a system of Jim Crow segregation. He wrote of President Franklin Roosevelt’s towering presence and his family’s Democratic Party roots, but his father soured on FDR, and Jimmy Carter never campaigned or governed as a New Deal liberal. He offered himself as a small-town peanut farmer with an understated style, carrying his own luggage, bunking with supporters during his first presidential campaign and always using his nickname. And he began his political career in a whites-only Democratic Party. As private citizens, he and Rosalynn supported integration as early as the 1950s and believed it inevitable. Carter refused to join the White Citizens Council in Plains and spoke out in his Baptist church against denying Black people access to worship services. “This is not my house; this is not your house,” he said in a churchwide meeting, reminding fellow parishioners their sanctuary belonged to God. Yet as the appointed chairman of Sumter County schools he never pushed to desegregate, thinking it impractical after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board decision. And while presidential candidate Carter would hail the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signed by fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson when Carter was a state senator, there is no record of Carter publicly supporting it at the time. Carter overcame a ballot-stuffing opponent to win his legislative seat, then lost the 1966 governor’s race to an arch-segregationist. He won four years later by avoiding explicit mentions of race and campaigning to the right of his rival, who he mocked as “Cufflinks Carl” — the insult of an ascendant politician who never saw himself as part the establishment. Carter’s rural and small-town coalition in 1970 would match any victorious Republican electoral map in 2024. Once elected, though, Carter shocked his white conservative supporters — and landed on the cover of Time magazine — by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Before making the jump to Washington, Carter befriended the family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., whom he’d never sought out as he eyed the governor’s office. Carter lamented his foot-dragging on school integration as a “mistake.” But he also met, conspicuously, with Alabama’s segregationist Gov. George Wallace to accept his primary rival’s endorsement ahead of the 1976 Democratic convention. “He very shrewdly took advantage of his own Southerness,” said Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor and expert on Carter’s campaigns. A coalition of Black voters and white moderate Democrats ultimately made Carter the last Democratic presidential nominee to sweep the Deep South. Then, just as he did in Georgia, he used his power in office to appoint more non-whites than all his predecessors had, combined. He once acknowledged “the secret shame” of white Americans who didn’t fight segregation. But he also told Alter that doing more would have sacrificed his political viability – and thus everything he accomplished in office and after. King’s daughter, Bernice King, described Carter as wisely “strategic” in winning higher offices to enact change. “He was a leader of conscience,” she said in an interview. Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of 96, was identified by both husband and wife as the “more political” of the pair; she sat in on Cabinet meetings and urged him to postpone certain priorities, like pressing the Senate to relinquish control of the Panama Canal. “Let that go until the second term,” she would sometimes say. The president, recalled her former aide Kathy Cade, retorted that he was “going to do what’s right” even if “it might cut short the time I have.” Rosalynn held firm, Cade said: “She’d remind him you have to win to govern.” Carter also was the first president to appoint multiple women as Cabinet officers. Yet by his own telling, his career sprouted from chauvinism in the Carters’ early marriage: He did not consult Rosalynn when deciding to move back to Plains in 1953 or before launching his state Senate bid a decade later. Many years later, he called it “inconceivable” that he didn’t confer with the woman he described as his “full partner,” at home, in government and at The Carter Center. “We developed a partnership when we were working in the farm supply business, and it continued when Jimmy got involved in politics,” Rosalynn Carter told AP in 2021. So deep was their trust that when Carter remained tethered to the White House in 1980 as 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, it was Rosalynn who campaigned on her husband’s behalf. “I just loved it,” she said, despite the bitterness of defeat. Fair or not, the label of a disastrous presidency had leading Democrats keep their distance, at least publicly, for many years, but Carter managed to remain relevant, writing books and weighing in on societal challenges. He lamented widening wealth gaps and the influence of money in politics. He voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and later declared that America had devolved from fully functioning democracy to “oligarchy.” Yet looking ahead to 2020, with Sanders running again, Carter warned Democrats not to “move to a very liberal program,” lest they help re-elect President Donald Trump. Carter scolded the Republican for his serial lies and threats to democracy, and chided the U.S. establishment for misunderstanding Trump’s populist appeal. He delighted in yearly convocations with Emory University freshmen, often asking them to guess how much he’d raised in his two general election campaigns. “Zero,” he’d gesture with a smile, explaining the public financing system candidates now avoid so they can raise billions. Carter still remained quite practical in partnering with wealthy corporations and foundations to advance Carter Center programs. Carter recognized that economic woes and the Iran crisis doomed his presidency, but offered no apologies for appointing Paul Volcker as the Federal Reserve chairman whose interest rate hikes would not curb inflation until Reagan’s presidency. He was proud of getting all the hostages home without starting a shooting war, even though Tehran would not free them until Reagan’s Inauguration Day. “Carter didn’t look at it” as a failure, Alter emphasized. “He said, ‘They came home safely.’ And that’s what he wanted.” Well into their 90s, the Carters greeted visitors at Plains’ Maranatha Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School and where he will have his last funeral before being buried on family property alongside Rosalynn . Carter, who made the congregation’s collection plates in his woodworking shop, still garnered headlines there, calling for women’s rights within religious institutions, many of which, he said, “subjugate” women in church and society. Carter was not one to dwell on regrets. “I am at peace with the accomplishments, regret the unrealized goals and utilize my former political position to enhance everything we do,” he wrote around his 90th birthday. The politician who had supposedly hated Washington politics also enjoyed hosting Democratic presidential contenders as public pilgrimages to Plains became advantageous again. Carter sat with Buttigieg for the final time March 1, 2020, hours before the Indiana mayor ended his campaign and endorsed eventual winner Joe Biden. “He asked me how I thought the campaign was going,” Buttigieg said, recalling that Carter flashed his signature grin and nodded along as the young candidate, born a year after Carter left office, “put the best face” on the walloping he endured the day before in South Carolina. Never breaking his smile, the 95-year-old host fired back, “I think you ought to drop out.” “So matter of fact,” Buttigieg said with a laugh. “It was somehow encouraging.” Carter had lived enough, won plenty and lost enough to take the long view. “He talked a lot about coming from nowhere,” Buttigieg said, not just to attain the presidency but to leverage “all of the instruments you have in life” and “make the world more peaceful.” In his farewell address as president, Carter said as much to the country that had embraced and rejected him. “The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language,” he declared. “Those who hunger for freedom, who thirst for human dignity and who suffer for the sake of justice — they are the patriots of this cause.” Carter pledged to remain engaged with and for them as he returned “home to the South where I was born and raised,” home to Plains, where that young lieutenant had indeed become “a fellow citizen of the world.” —- Bill Barrow, based in Atlanta, has covered national politics including multiple presidential campaigns for the AP since 2012.
Votes In Maharashtra And Jharkhand To Be Counted Today: 10 PointsAt the not-that-old age of 39, I've already seen the world around me change a lot. So, I'm fascinated by how even older adults have seen trends come and go. Recently, older adults on Reddit shared wonderful things from the past that younger generations don't even know they're missing, and it made me really nostalgic (yes, even for the things I was too young to experience). Here's what they had to say: 2. "Handwritten letters." — r_colo "Particularly thank-you letters." — DifficultStruggle420 3. "Heading down to the video store on a Friday night and crossing your fingers that there are still copies of the new releases. Getting a massive bag of chips, popcorn, and a soft drink, getting home, and having the best night of the week." — YouGottaRollReddit 5. "The concept of feeling totally safe as a kid in school, except for the schoolyard bully and the duck and cover drills." — vmdinco 6. "Small towns filled with individually owned businesses that created a community, instead of chains of corporate-owned replicas of the store one town over." — Gilligan_G131131 "I moved to a tiny town and it is about a 45 drive to any chain, except Dairy Queen — the only fast-food joint in town. It is like living in the Gilmore Girls , and I love it. Plus, my husband bought a fixer-upper for $6k about six years ago and has fixed it up cash only. I work from home and now have about $1.5k in monthly expenses (car, insurance, groceries, etc.) and have a plan to save $700k in the next 10 years. The American Dream is still alive, at least in rural Minnesota, but most people can’t live without endless consumption." — Opandemonium 8. "Secret songs at the end of a CD." — MartyFreeze "Oh yeah! My friends and I would always call those 'Track 99.' That reminds me — how about the beep tones at the end of a cassette tape to let you know you had to eject it and flip it over?" — drummerboy-98012 9. "Bench front seats in cars. There was nothing better in high school than having your girlfriend with you in a car that had a bench front seat." — ResponsibleFreedom98 11. "Being able to just disappear for a couple of weeks on vacation. No phones. Nothing. Just loose on the continent on a motorcycle or in a car. No 'checking in.' No work intrusions. Just complete unaccountability until we decided to resurface." — kbasa 12. "Seeing the Milky Way at night." — newleaf9110 14. "Stupid and small, but I used to love calling time and weather. 'At the tone, the time will be...' We had a rotary phone that would actually call after the first three numbers, so you didn't have to dial the final random four." — mereseydotes "Wow, I’d totally forgotten about that. Thanks for bringing a smile to my face!" — DC2LA_NYC 15. "Phone booths. If we had to call home and we didn’t have a dime on us, we could dial the operator (0) and tell them we needed to use our 10 cent credit and they would put the call through with no questions asked." — Jet-pilot 17. "Calling a business and having a nice, helpful person answer the phone within four rings and then help you." — ColoradoInNJ "I am feeling this hard. Yesterday, I spent 45 minutes on the phone. A total of three minutes, I was talking to an actual human; Two of the humans couldn't help and had to transfer me to a third, who initially kept repeating the script 'til they realized what I actually needed." — Mammoth_Ad_3463 18. "Being able to go out cruising with your friends and nobody knows where you are or what you’re doing, and the only rule is to be home by curfew. I feel bad for kids whose parents watch their every single move. I can’t imagine how suffocating that must feel." — Nofrillsasmr "On my co-worker's daughter's first day of high school, she was glued to her phone, watching the app she had tracking her daughter (yes, the daughter knew about the tracker). 'Now she's walking to History.' 'Now the day is over, and she's walking home.' I can't imagine that's healthy for the daughter OR her mother." — DoctorRabidBadger 20. "Real social interaction seems to be missing these days. People should have long, thoughtful conversations sometimes. Instead they have shallow conversations and seem to prefer typing out texts rather than an actual phone call. They'll spend so much money and effort to put something on social media so someone clicks like on their page but actually miss simply enjoying the moment. I see people worrying more about taking selfies or videos at events rather than enjoying the event or, shock, talking to their companions." — Garden_Lady2 "At Thanksgiving this year, I watched the parents of a little boy sit at the table looking at their phones while he was trying to get their attention. It made me so sad. He's being raised by people who are privileging a phone screen over eye contact, connection, attentiveness, etc." — hellocutiepye 21. "A bunch of different products have been ruined in the name of profitability. I feel bad knowing kids will grow up thinking shrinkflated products are the normal size of things, like cereal boxes an inch thick and tiny candy bars. And so many of the processed foods in the US were once much better than they are now. I miss the old Twinkies and fruit pies." — loztriforce 23. "Not having to know everyone's opinions. Thanks to social media, negativity and hate are spewed towards total strangers. I can't imagine people saying some of those things face-to-face with a stranger. I feel like I liked people better when I didn't know everything about them." — Cute-as-Duck21 24. "Nothing. They don't know how to do their own nothing, make up their own games or pastimes. It's all manufactured for them on the Internet, or programmed for them by parents." — Tall_Mickey 26. "Truly shared pop culture . Like going to school/work and everyone had watched the same thing on TV on the night before (especially if it was a big "event" like a miniseries or something). More or less familiar with the same music, saw the current movies because you could only see them when they were in the theater." — bookant 27. "Do you remember when you would wait in line to buy tickets to a concert? It was first come, first serve. And ticket prices were reasonable. I loved it because the best seats went to the best fans. Now all the tickets go to brokers online that are then resold at triple the price. The only one that wins is Ticketmaster." — Superdiscodave "Standing in line for hours to buy concert tickets was a social thing. It was fun, and we didn't mind doing it. Total strangers stuck together just hanging out and having fun. I don't think there is anything like it now, and if there was, most people would just stand there scrolling and not interacting with each other." — Granny_knows_best 29. "Local radio. Back in the '70s and '80s and even into the early '90s, local bands could get radio airplay on their local stations. As a result, they'd get a local following, and people would go out to clubs to see their favorite local bands play. In places like Boston, the club scene was robust enough that pretty much anyone who picked up a guitar could get a gig somewhere. I miss going out to see my friends play at some crappy little club. Kids don't go out to see music anymore unless it's a stadium show with a mega-star like Taylor Swift . I think it's because they don't listen to the radio anymore. And even if kids listened to the radio, these days almost all radio stations that are still around are corporate owned, and there's no way for a local band would get any airplay." — hermitzen 30. "The anticipation and excitement of getting a roll of film developed." — lrswager "And severe disappointment when mum’s finger was ALWAYS in the way or all the heads were cut off." — PurpleCollarAndCuffs 32. And finally, "I grew up in mid-Missouri in the '60s. My family didn’t have air conditioning anywhere. It was hot because it was summer. It was normal. I slept against the screen widow and hoped for a breeze. As a young girl, during the long, hot afternoons, I lay in a hammock hung from a metal frame on the screen porch. The ceiling fan was always on. I read chapter books that felt so real my reality faded." "My family moved into the air-conditioned world in 1970. I continued my love of books but never completely disappeared into the pages as completely as I did on the shady porch." — pyrofemme What's something from the past that you think younger generations are missing out on? Tell us what you think in the comments.