Candy=Obesity

A woman in North Dakota called in to a radio station and told the radio hosts that she will be handing out strongly worded letter along with some candy. She told the radio hosts that if she sees a kid that she thinks is overweight she will give them candy along with letter that that says she is worried about their weight. Cheryl the woman that called in said "I am just hoping the parents are going to read this and think about it while they watch their kids get into bigger and bigger sizes of clothes," she is criticizing all of these kids weights. In part of letter it reads  "Your child is, in my opinion, moderately obese and should not be consuming sugar and treats to the extent of some children this Halloween season." It is just one day of the year where they are allowed to have as much candy as they want and have no consequences because of it. They aren't her kids so she does not need to worry about them, because they aren't her responsibility. 

Ways to Reduce Heart Attacks, Strokes, and Even Death

Recent studies have shown that if you get a flu shot it reduces your chances of getting a stroke, heart attack, or even death. The shot protects the heart health and even respiratory health. In many trials involving 3,238 patients got the vaccine and 95 of them which is 2.9% went on to experience "a major adverse in cardiovascular event." Then later 151 of them or 4.7% later experienced cardiovascular events. It shows that there is a 36% chance of a reduced risk heart attack. Doctors also said that is 55% less likely to get a serious heart attack after taking this shot. All together the amount of deaths after getting this shot is 1.3% of people who did get it. There is a small risk, but the outcome means you can live longer and have a healthier life.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-flu-shot-heart-attack-stroke-death-20131022,0,5451794.story#axzz2iUg7xyDm

Laos Plane Crash

At 4 p.m. on Wednesday on October 16 a ATR propeller aircraft crashed in Mekong River towards the southern Laotian province Champasak. It was a Laos Airline plane that crashed in the river and 44 people died in the crash. Remnants of Typhoon Nari has been hitting the area. Champasak capital had received around 4 inches of rain since Tuesday. Witnesses said that the plane crashed due to bad weather, but it is not final yet if that is the cause. There has been a total of 10 commercial aircraft crashes this year alone. The Laos plane crash is the 10th crash this year. Most of these plane crashes are international commercial airplane companies ranging from 2 deaths all the way to 307 deaths.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/10/16/thailand-plane-crash-laos/2993111/

The Nation and the NFL

NFL owners meet in Washington D.C. on Tuesday with the Oneida Indian Nation members to debate about the Washington Redskins mascot. Per Maske, Aldopho Birch, the league's VP of labor relations, wrote a letter to the Oneida Nation Tribe to have the meeting about the name. Obama thinks the name "Redskins" truly offend a group of people so he came out and said "think about changing," to the Redskins owner. Obama later said “I don't want to detract from the wonderful Redskins fans that are here. They love their team and rightly so." By next year Washington may have a different mascot, we will have to wait and see. 

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24051030/report-nfl-will-meet-with-oneida-nation-over-redskins-name

Fiery Bus Crash

Six people were claimed dead after the commercial bus crashed and burned on Interstate 40 going west bound in Jefferson County. According to witnesses at the scene the commercial bus crossed over the median then struck a tractor trailer which caused the commercial bus to go up in flames with passengers aboard the bus. All of this chaos happened around 2 p.m. today. At least 10 others were being sent to various hospitals in its region. After all of this the trailer was still burning and this ended around 3:20 p.m. which is a hour and 20 minutes later. This crash also caused traffic to shutdown going in both directions because debris was scattered on both sides of the highway. 

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/oct/02/fiery-bus-crash-shuts-i-40-jefferson-county/