Japanese Village Votes to Dissolve

A village in Japan, dwindled to eight residents, has voted to dissolve itself, sell the property to a developer and use the proceeds to move en masse elswhere: Village Writes Its Epitaph: Victim of a Graying Japan - New York Times: Ogama's decision, though extreme, points to a larger problem besetting Japan, which has one of the world's fastest-graying societies and whose population began declining last year for the first time in its history. As rural Japan becomes increasingly depopulated, many villages and hamlets like Ogama, along with their traditions and histories, risk vanishing.

aa.com flight notifications...

So, Lisa's return flight from the UK has been delyaed from 6:00 until 10:00 p.m. BDT. I logged into aa.com to set up a flight status notification for her departure but can't because the service only allows you to set up notifications for flights that have not departed yet. And even though the system is smart enough to tell me the flight is massively delayed, the notification system is too dumb to understand that the flight hasn't departed yet.

Argh.

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