Mckenzie and Paisley

On Saturday, May 2 2009 I met my boyfriend’s parents for the first time after one year of my relationship with him. They are very nice people and they accept me as well. His mother was Math teacher and his father was History teacher in Tarboro, the second largest city in North Carolina. They are retired since January last year. I noticed that Tyler seems to be the same as his mother , not only because they look the same but also because he has the same personality as she does. She is very nice woman that likes to laugh and play sport the same as her son as well. Her husband seems to be good match for her , because they like the same things. In addition, they are dog lovers and they introduced me to the McKenzie and Paisley, dogs of family Harris. McKenzie belongs to Tyler and Paisley belongs to his brother Brock. Both of the dogs are well trained. I like them a lot even though I said that I am not dog lover. Actually, I would like to have a dog like Mckenzie is because she is so smart and cute. Now I am thinking of getting one dog for me

Health insurance

April 24, 2009
Well Point Inc. the country’s largest health insurer with 35 million medical- plan members lost nearly 500.000net members because of layoffs. For every one percent rise of unemployment the number of uninsured has been likely grown up to the 1.1 million. Since 2007 the number of uninsured Americans is 50 million.. In addition, the second largest insurer, United Health Group Inc. has reported loss of 900.000 of their members. Many of their customers enrolled to the Medicaid because they don’t have money for regular insurance coverage. Many hospitals have seen patients that have no any insurance .Question is how this people will pay their hospital bills without insurance?

Starbucks affordable soon!

April 30, 2009
After 77% drop in quarterly profit company Starbucks will revise their prices to increase their profit. Very soon they will start with campaign of selling large coffee for $2 and also it will be able to buy a small coffee for less than $1. For the price $3.95 it will be possible get a sandwich a small cup of coffee at the every Starbucks stores. This news put smile on every person’s face .This campaign will include ads with facts about Starbucks coffee. Hopefully, this will work for them to make higher revenue. Their goal is to make $120 million in second quarter. Good luck Starbucks!

April 28, 2009
Circulation of the USA newspaper dropped approximately 10% in comparison with the last year . The steepest declines were reported by New York Post 20% , New York Daily News 14.3%. Only Wall Street Journal has an increase in circulation by 0.6% that makes 2.8 million weekday copies. This is the report from the last six months. Perhaps, bad economy and Internet affected many newspapers of losing their subscribers.

May 5, 2009
Sprint, the third – largest provider of U.S mobile phone services, has posted a large loss of $ 594 million in a first quarter of the year. It is $89 million more compare to the last year. They cut a 13% of the company’s work force and total revenue decreased 12% to $ 8.21 billion. On the prepaid side they added around 1.000,000 customers and wholesale subscribers representing devices- such as Amazon .com. Most of these lost Sprint’s customers were attracted by Boost Mobile that offers unlimited plan for only $50 monthly. It is only $6 dollars less than Sprint charges for average contract, but most of customers it is a big difference. Rivals At&T Inc. added 1.2 million customers and Verizon Wireless added 1.3 million in the same period.
Wall Street Journal

April 23, 2009
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA will make a campaign against Mcdonald’s company because of the way how they have treated chickens in the past a few years. This is going to be their second campaign against this company . Firs time PETA protested because hens were deprived of food to jolt them in laying more eggs.This time they want McDonalds to stop raising hens in a small wire cages hanging them upside down and stunning them with electrified water and killing them afterwards by cutting their throats of. This active animal- rights group has done campaign against other fast- food chains such as KFC and Burger King Holding. As a result cruelness toward animals has been reduced

USA wedding

I had a great weekend. I went to the North Carolina with my boyfriend Tyler. His friend Landin was marrying Julie. Ceremony was at the church and after that we continued at the restaurant in Raleigh, capital of North Carolina. It was wonderful experience for me, because it was for first time that I attended an American wedding. The braid Julie was gorgeous as well as her braid maids that has the same dresses. I was amused by the church rules and customs as well. The church ceremony was well organized, flowers arrangement was stunning and music was lovely. It is very different than a wedding in my country. An American wedding lasts only a few hours. In contrast, wedding in my country lasts almost three days. It is much harder to organized wedding in my country than wedding in USA. Actually, I like American’s more because is shorter and has nicer customs.