Celebrity deaths

When someone is famous they almost seem unreal to most of us. Since there people we only see on magazine covers or in movies we don’t think twice about them going to the store, picking up their kids, or going to a movie like you and me. It seems even more unreal with a celebrity passes away. In the last decade more than a dozen celebrities have died due to some sort of illness, accident, or drug related problem. Among these recent deaths are…

Brittany Murphy (Dec 20, 09)- died from cardiac arrest
Anna Nicole Smith (Feb 8, 2007)- died from drug intoxication
David Carradine (Jun 4, 09)- died from autoerotic fatality
John Ritter (Sep 11, 03)- died from aortic dissection from with a congenital heart defect
Dale Earnhardt (2001)- died from in a driving accident
Tim Russert (Jun 13, 08)- died from a heart attack
George Carlin (Jun 22, 08)- died from a heart attack
Christopher Reeve (Oct 10, 04)- died from complications with paralysis
Dudley Moore (Mar 27, 02)- died from Pneumonia
Steve Irwin (Sep 4, 06)- died from a swimming accident with Sting Rays
Billy Mays (Jun 28, 09)- died from heart disease and cocaine use

Yet out of all these deaths two hit my generation that hardest. Those were the deaths the two incredibly talented entertainers Michael Jackson and Heath Ledger. Jackson passed away from heart failure, while Ledger passed away from a drug overdose. Both of these men died without warning before the release of their greatest works. Jackson died for the start of his final tour, while Ledger died before the release of his block buster release “The Dark Night.”
In an interview with Jackie O’Brian (20) on Michael Jackson’s death she had this to say. “I was truly unprepared to hear the news. No one wants to hear that someone they admired or grew up listening to with your parents has passed away. Even though you didn’t know them personally it still makes an impact of your life. His music was amazing and I’m going to miss his work and his crazy antics very much.” Even through all the court cases, entertaining music videos, and rumors of “Never Land Ranch” we loved watching is life. I believe we will all miss the entertainer the most though. He brought us so much joy through his music. When asked about Heath Ledger, Zach Shultz (18) had this to say. “I really didn’t know what to think when I heard Heath Ledger had passes away. I think my sister cried. I remember thinking about his upcoming movie, all the ones he’d done, and his family. We forget they actually have lives to you know? Some people say that his character in the Dark Night, the Joker, sort of took him over. They say he got lost in his characters darkness. If this is true I feel bad that no one was there to help him out of it. He was a great actor.”
Sometimes it seems that in death, we remember why we loved people so much. We forget all the bad things that happened, all the problems they had, and we focus on the person they were. It’s a shame we don’t do that while there alive.

Cheating...

There is a girl my house who is emotionally cheating on her boyfriend. Some people say that because she isn’t hooking up with physically that it isn’t cheating. I disagree. In an interview with some friends I asked them the following questions...

Why do people cheat?
They aren’t happy but they get benefits from being with that person

What classifies cheating?
Emotionally spending time with someone as well as being physical.

How long would you be willing to cheat if your partner never found out?
Most people cheat until they’re sick of that person and then move onto another

What would you do if you found out you were cheated on?
Most people lose their trust after a cheat. After this lie you don’t know what else they could/ have been lying about.

Why do girls cheat with boys when they know he has a girlfriend?
Most girls cheat because they want to feel loved. If he can love his girlfriend it means that maybe he can love her to. Maybe she’s better then the girlfriend.

Why are some couples ok with cheating as long as they don’t talk about it?
This means that you can have different experiences but still come home or call someone you love at the end of the night.

To me cheating never seem to be black and white. If you cheat you cheat. There is no middle ground. I've been cheated on plenty of times and have learned to move on. In my opinion if someone cheats on you it means there not secure enough with themselves to be in a relationship. Most people think that the others persons cheating because your not pretty enough, good looking enough, fun enough, tough, spontaneous, etc. but this usually isn’t the case. If you aren’t enough of something for someone they will break up with you. Not cheat. When girls cheat is usually because they are looking to see if men are still attracted to them. If there still beautiful. When men cheat it’s because they are always on a chase. There always looking. Younger men seem to never know what they have and therefore never settle down until it’s with someone they don’t truly love. Cheating just seem to make things complicated.
When it comes to the girl in my house who is emotionally cheating, i hope she finds what she really wants before she loses the amazing man that she has.
No matter what your definition of cheating is I hope you remember how much it sucks to be cheated on and decide against it if you have the option.

Health Care-ruff editorail information

How much do we know about Obamas health care plan? I’m guessing not much.
Small business owners and their works are starting to question the new proposals from President Obama Wednesday. It seemed that during his State of the Union Address most of his new ideas were met with skepticism instead of support. He said his plan would help small business owners with credit, taxes, hiring. The only real positive thing that came from this promise was the elimination of capital gains taxes for small businesses. The president also wants to take money repaid by Wall Street banks and use it for community banks as capital. Some small business owners know better than to jump the gun on good news. They know that even though it sounds promising its only short term. The people will come back to work for a time but many employers will take advantage of such situations. When the credit goes, the employees go to.
From this promise with small businesses Obamas stated that his health care plan would help also help these people and not leave them to fail under the weight of the economy.
This was not true.
Health care reform is a scary thing for small businesses. You'd be better off with tax credits and investments. Let me remind you a small business includes a company with 200 people of less. If health care takes place they will be forced to hire fewer people. This doesn’t seem like it’s going in the direction Obama just promised.
Has anyone even read his health care plan? Does anyone even know what it talks about? I’ll give you a few hints...
6 months ago when the hype of the health care plan first reached the American public my grandfather called my house. He’s an incredibly intelligent man who like many Americans runs a small business with my father. He has never been a fan of Obama and sees how much his new plan could crush entrepreneurs such as himself. After a brief phone call my father printed off an email and sat down with me and my sister. "This is Obamas knew health care plan. Your grandpa just got done reading it. He thought there were some things in here you two should know. Two things stuck with me from that email. One- every American citizen from the ages of 18-45 has to enlist in two years military service. This does not include the training years. All the enlistees have to serve in different country for those two years- this means men and women both have to enlist-it is now mandatory. Second-It states that Congress will willingly give all of its governmental powers to the President.
Because of this many people have posted things onto YouTube about the deadly back story of who actually is in charge of our government.
Here are two links that I believe you should watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZA0qNsf4m0

The quality of our food...

As many people on UNK know Chartwells caters to all the students on campus. This includes the cafeterias at URN, URS, and the Union. The claim is that the food at Chartwells is good for us. They have a variety of foods for the students to select from and it’s always made “fresh.” From my experience at UNK this is not the case. So far this year at URN our cafeteria has been closed twice. In the middle of the semester are food was coming out cold, moldy, uncooked and unappealing. After several calls into change the food, it was finally closed down for two weeks. A month later the same thing took place and the cafeteria was once again closed. Every day the same food seems to be served- salad, mash potatoes, french-fries, cookies, grilled cheese, chicken sandwiches, cereal, soup, and ice cream. The food never changes and is never fresh. It’s like eating fast food every day, and it’s grows.
To me the food should be cooked with fresh foods, and made fresh daily. Most of the food is delivered frozen or ready to cook. None of it is made fresh or from scratch. This bothers me. In a world where people are becoming more and more over weight you would believe that society would want to change are terrible ways. Instead we only enforce it because after all it’s cheap. Today more and more teens from my generation are trying to eat healthier. For those of us watching what we eat, we have a very limited selection-salad. Now you have to understand salad gets very old to weight watchers and vegetarians. The fresh food part is nice but we miss the variety.
The change I would like to see at Chartwells would be for it to start making the food itself. To have cooks that know how to prepare good quality food that is healthy of people to eat. Not leftovers from lunch. I wish we had themes for each day-Italian, Mexican, Chinese, etc. This would add variety to our meals as well as introduce people to foods they may otherwise never eat. When I asked another person who eats at Chartwells she says that she doesn’t like the taste of the food. “It’s over cooked, undercooked, and just crappy half the time.”
Other people on campus may think it’s the best part of their day, getting to eat Chartwells food. Yet to me it’s the least favorite part. We’ve put moves forward to try and change the food that we are served but the process is slow and will most likely be ignored. So what does one have to do to get good food? What would happen if we started cooking are own food? In our society people are getting worse; does no one see the changes? Or are we to ignorant in are ways, to stuck and lazy to want to change them. I hope that one day are society will be able to change its ways before it ends up like all the people in Wall-E. That would be a very sad day.

Haiti Aid

On Monday the US military informed the press that the bottleneck aid distribution in Haiti was easing, despite police cries for help against looting in the city. They also stated that with the increase of flights into Haiti’s airport the seaports are expected to reopen as well. Since the storm, roughly 100 flights are landing their daily. This number as increased from 60 from the week before. The U.N. and U.S. officials agreed on a grant for humanitarian flights as well because of criticism saying the military were usually first in line. Doctors Without Borders complained recently as well stating that planes full of doctors and supplies had to land in Dominican Republic and travel by road. This put a stall on any care that was needed in Haiti by two days.
I believe that it is difficult in relief situations on “who comes first.” Even though people were upset with the military having first flying rights, it’s important that they are able to land in the heart of the chaos. I do not believe however that the doctors should have to land in a different country and travel to their patients. This delays medicine and supplies that could save someone’s life. I believe that even though it is important for the Military to land in the country it is even more important for the doctors to do so. I find it interesting that the government didn’t do something about this if they are now having 100 flights a day coming into the country.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34915151/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake

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