Halloween

My first memory of Halloween was when I was about 3 years old and I was superman. I actually spent that year trick-or-treating with my life-long friend Matt Onorato. Obviously, over the years my Halloween spirit has drastically decreased as I don't really dress up as anything anymore (although I tried to buy a Breaking Bad costume this year but it was sold out everywhere).

McDonalds will no longer use Heinz ketchup

I believe this to be a problem, obviously, for Heinz. They will lose tons of money from this contract being dropped. This was all due to the fact that the new CEO of Heinz is the former CEO of Burger King, which I believe is pretty immature on the part of McDonald's. If Bill Gates became CEO of Apple, I'm pretty sure Apple fans wouldn't stop buying Apple products.

Safe Halloween

Yes, I am participating in Safe Halloween this year with DECA. We will be running a bookmark creating station in the library as well as a mummy wrap event in the library.

Starbucks Acquires Teavana

     After reading about Starbucks' recent acquisition of Teavana, I have to commend them for the great business move. I'm not a fan of either of them but the rising popularity of Teavana in combination with the already large consumer base of Starbucks will surely lead to a surge in revenues for Starbucks. Not only is Starbucks opening up its beverage options with the acquisition of Teavana, but it also opens the door to selling more merchandise (tea accessories including pots, cups, special tea grinds), which Starbucks hasn't been known to do.

JQ 10/18/13
Now that the government is back in session, what do you think will be the impact for the next deadline in January? What are your concerns?

The government reopening is probably the least impactful event that has happened in our government in recent months. Sure it may have stopped the government from defaulting, but this has become an annual problem that never actually gets solved, it only gets put off. My concern is that this will forever be a reoccuring event and our debts will only increase more and more each year. To solve this problem there are only two options: default or majorily cut government spending