Another shooting..

Another shooting? And during homecoming? What?

What is wrong with the world?

Shots were fired during homecoming weekend at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, North Carolina. This left one man wounded and prompting a brief lockdown on campus.

Police are currently investigating the incident and are looking for four suspects, three of which had dreadlocks. Each were reportedly armed with handguns, type unknown.

Devine Eatmon, a twenty one year old was found lying on the sidewalk wounded. The police were looking for four suspects. Fortunately, he had non-life threatening injuries.

Thank god.

An article on this horrible event can be found here:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/03/21296914-man-shot-on-north-carolina-college-campus-during-homecoming-weekend?lite

It hasn’t even been determined if the victim knew the suspects.

Crazy.

How can people be so cruel?

How could you do this?

This is outrageous and needs to be stopped. People need to be smarter and if they need help to make better decisions their friends or family members should get them some help.

No one should be scared in their own school, on their own campus, or anywhere. Why is this world turning out to be so violent?

People heard gun shots, and saw people running away.

And to make matters worse this was during North Carolina A&T University’s homecoming week. Threatening the lives of alumni as well. Even more people could’ve been harmed in a time when they are supposed to be able to celebrate their time as a student at North Carolina A&T University and not a time of hurt.

Homecoming is supposed to be a happy time for people to go back and visit their college and catch up with old friends. Why do people think it is okay to ruin events like this? I just don’t get it.

Tips on when to tip

10 people you aren’t tipping enough.. Hmm.. this actually sounds like an interesting article.

Makes me wonder what people are not getting tipped. Recently, I have started my working experience in the restaurant business and I feel that sometimes people don’t tip us, and usually it happens to be the people who were the most difficult and frankly, the people who were actually not very nice to begin with.

This article explains how much percent of your bill you are expected to tip for certain services. I find this very intriguing. Good job news outlets!

This article can be found here:

http://money.msn.com/personal-finance/10-people-youre-not-tipping-enough/

 According to the article, people are often wrong when guessing how much to tip people for their services.

The part of the article that got me however, was the part where it states that only thirty-eight percent of Americans feel obligated to tip someone who delivers something to them. I think this is wrong.

People need to think about things from the other person’s perspective more. Think of it this way…

You are a delivery man moving a couch into someone’s home. You get paid less than you should but you work hard without complaining. The house you deliver it to has some difficulties with getting it into the door, so you problem solve because this is your job and you and your co-worker get the couch through their garage door verses their front door. This works out for you but it also took up more time and more heavy lifting for you because you couldn’t use your machine to help you. Then the people you are delivering to, don’t tip you.

How would that make you feel? Not very good is my guess. I know I wouldn’t like it if someone didn’t tip me when I’m serving them. People need to have more courtesy in this world. You obviously have some money, just a few dollars, to spare if you are buying new furniture so pay the poor man who is slaving away to help you!

According to the article you owe that man five or ten dollars. So think about you just shorted him money to buy his lunch. Good job.

This is not unreasonable at all. People who provide a service should be tipped that’s just how it works. So think about this next time.

Health Care

There are problems with Obama’s health laws. Things are getting real.

An article found on msn.com can be found here:

http://news.msn.com/us/obamas-health-law-finally-gets-real-for-america

Some Americans will gain health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act, while others will lose their current plans and still more don't know yet.

This seems fishy to me.

“Now is when Americans start figuring out that President Barack Obama's health care law goes beyond political talk, and really does affect them and people they know.” This is the opening statement of the article.

This scares me and I’m just a kid.

Americans are confused.

Come on Obama. 

What are we doing?

People are unaware of what is going on. This needs to be changed.

Recently, however, according to the article people are becoming more and more educated everyday (within the last month) due to advertising. This is good.

According to the article,

“Fifty-five percent now say they have enough information to understand the law's impact on their family, up 8 percentage points in just one month.”

What is interesting to me is that this article is titled, “Obama's health law finally gets real for America,” This means this is finally hitting Americas hard.

The Obama administration claims that nobody will lose coverage as a result of cancellation notices that have been going out to people. At least 3.5 million Americans have been issued cancellations however there is no individual state data to back this up in about half the states.

According to the article,

“Officials say these consumers aren't getting "canceled" but "transitioned" or "migrated" to better plans because their current coverage doesn't meet minimum standards.”

This is also good. I’m not quite sure how I feel about this yet though.

However, many Americas are unclear that they are not being “cancelled” and just “transitioned” again, this is also known as our government needs to get it together and help these people.  

Obama is trying to sugarcoat this by saying this only affects five percent of Americans. However, this is a country of more than 300 million people, five percent is about 15 MILLION PEOPLE! This blows my mind.

Some Americans are trying to figure things out by using websites that are supposed to help them see where they stand for a plan, however no one knows for sure if these websites are reliable. This seems like another problem. There are so many problems! What are we doing?

Halloween

What do you do for Halloween?

Every year people dress up and their kids go door to door getting candy and having fun. But what other fun things are there to do for Halloween?

This year in Iowa City, Iowa there was a costume run, where people ran a race while wearing their Halloween costumes.

I think this sounds so fun. I would love to dress up and get your exercise seems like a fun way to spend your Sunday before Halloween.

This would be an enjoyable time for the whole family.

Halloween is about more than ghosts and goblins and pumpkins.

It’s a fun Holiday that brings joy to children.

This race is a way for it to bring joy to adults as well, and make their Halloween just as fun as it used to be when they were three years old in their Minnie Mouse costume trick-or-treating running behind their big brother who was Buzz Lightyear.

This is what Halloween is really about. Bringing joy to you and your family. 

Halloween is a special time for families to come together, and neighborhoods to join together to bring joy to young kids.

Candy, Candy, Candy.

That is what makes Halloween great.

 I love Candy but I love now that I am older handing it out to little kids and watching them smile and have the time of their lives.

 I hope this run brought this must joy to the adults involved too. Sometimes adults don’t enjoy little holidays like this as much as they should, it is a time for all ages to come together and just have a fun time while bringing joy to children.

 This sounds like a great event, I may have to join next year!

 What makes you happy on Halloween?

Happy Halloween!  

Relationships ended

 

So McDonald's ended its partnership with Heinz Ketchup.

 

This is a relationship between two major manufacturing companies in the United States that has ended.

 

 But.. Is it..

 

Newsworthy?

 

 In some ways, yes, in others no.

 

This point refers back to my last blog, which was a rant on why I think today’s news is turning to mush.

 

This blog can be found here:

 

http://lydiasblog0703.blogspot.com/2013/10/come-on-people.html

 

At least this is interesting.

 

McDonald's ended their 40 year long relationship with Heinz. This was due to the fact that Heinz Ketchup has a new CEO who is Burger King's former CEO.

 

Burger King is considered McDonald's biggest competition so McDonald's decided to back out of the partnership.

 

This brings a lot of questions to my mind. Like who is going to vend ketchup to McDonald's now?

 

I wonder.

 

Again though, like I said in my last blog there are still things more important than this that should be in the news.

 

This is important, however because many people in the United States use these products daily but this isn't our biggest issue.

 

This article on the relationships end can be found here:

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/10/25/mcdonalds-ends-relationship-with-heinz/3194309/

 

I think it will be interesting to see where things go from here with McDonald’s considering that relationship lasted forty years. I bet some customers are unhappy about this change.

 

This kind of change could start a lot of things for the company of McDonald’s, like what if people stop eating there because of this and go to Burger King instead?

 

Hmmm… I wonder.

 

However this issue doesn’t affect the United States as much as I originally analyzed it to.

 

Sad the relationship ended? It probably doesn’t even effect you…

 

The McDonald’s in the United States only use Heinz in McDonald’s located in Pittsburg and Minneapolis restaurants. The impact of the change may be greater overseas.

 

So this again brings the question is it that newsworthy? If only two cities in the United States are affected?

 

I personally, if I lived in those cities, would not notice the change.

 

I would classify this story as important with a side of newsworthiness, but not to major on the scale of important-ness but hey we’re making progress. Good job news outlets.

 

This is a great example of a newsworthy piece that has not been over exaggerated. It was not majorly covered but it was covered just enough that people were informed.

I just don't get it.

Why?

Why are things in the news that aren't news worthy? Everything in the news is unimportant. Seriously, some of the stuff they put in the newspapers and on the news really make me question the intelligence of people in that field of work. 

Okay, not everything is stupid but still. We need to learn about things that are real life issues. Not just Miley. 

I get on my computer to do homework, and I click on the internet. My home page is msn.com and there are always news articles on the homepage. I usually scroll through them just to see what's going on and there are usually some interesting titles that catch my eye.

I usually click on the titles that are unusual but still for the most part they are all celebrity scandals. Like leave those people alone. We don't care if Justin Bieber did this or if Kim Kardashian did that.

I'm a fan of Miley Cyrus but no one wants to read about these things every single day.

Let's get something news worthy people. Come on.

We need to be educating the people of this country, not telling them what Lady Gaga wore to the music awards.

News outlets all over are turning to mush.

People criticize my generation but really our parents’ generation isn't educating us on what really matters in life.

We need stories about how to stop hunger, which animals we need to save and protect, which things are better for our environment. Not what clothes celebrities are wearing now a days?

Come on people.

Get with it.

Being on my schools newspaper I really do care about real life issues.

That’s what I want to read about. That's what most people want to read about. It's not just me. Yes I do like my occasional celebrity story but that shouldn't be on the news. 

So please, news outlets start writing about something important.

You are just dumbing us down by not writing about important things. Why would you do that?

I just don’t get it.

So there's my rant, and I apologize to whoever is reading this. But seriously this makes me angry.