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New operating system gives mixed messages to Apple users

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Avid iPhone users and tech-oriented fans were rapidly up-to-date with the newest Apple Software update, iOS 9.1, while other iPhone customers disregarded the update notification as a waste of time and disastrous to their current operating system.

On Oct. 12, Apple came out with their renovated iOS 9.1 beta 5 software with the hopes of introducing many creative features and solutions to problems within the previously released updates. Without success, Apple was quick to cover up the issues with the next update, but even this did not help very much.

According to forbes.com, “Apple released iOS 9.1 Beta 5. iOS 9.1 will be the first major iOS 9 update and is tasked with addressing the bevy of bugs missed by iOS 9.0.1 and iOS 9.0.2 – both of which were dedicated bug fixes but did nothing other than paper over the cracks.”

Although new updates can sometimes go the wrong way, as did iOS 9.0.2 with issues with battery life, iMessages, touchscreen and many more, the main purpose of appealing features and apps still remains apparent.

For many texters, the latest update with the addition of more emojis has many pumped and some confused. Those who have not done the update see a box with an alien face or a question mark in place of the emjoi that is not existing on their phones. Others, who did the update as soon as possible, were astonished to finally find all of the recent silly-faced, yellow characters available.

According to emojipedia.org, there are 184 more emojis to choose from including a unicorn, a robot, a burrito and a plethora of flags from various countries.

Apple advertises the newest update as, “iOS 9 is full of enhancements you’ll appreciate every day. Your apps become more essential. New multitasking features on iPad make you even more productive. Siri can do more than ever, and new proactive suggestions help you get things done before you ask. And improvements at the foundation of the operating system enhance performance, battery life, and security. The more you do with iOS 9, the more you’ll wonder how you ever did without it.”

Even though their advertisement may seem impressive, many are still experiencing trouble, even with iOS 9.1; many realize it is time to solve these problems personally and not wait for another possibly ineffective update.

As there are problems within every major update, iOS 9 does come with some imperfections yet still has pleased many customers. This update many still be a worthwhile update, especially with the ability to finally put a unicorn and even a tornado into a text message.

Visit gottabemobile.com for help with the newest iOS 9 update.

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Cost of college tuition restricts students

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The word “necessity” often brings up the three basic needs of food, shelter and water in one’s mind, and from the word “luxury,” items can bounce from new shoes to a week-long vacation. When these two words are put together, thoughts of college begin floating around.

A necessity is something needed to survive and prosper. Normally, these are reachable for the average person. Luxuries are harder to grasp, and if it is something humans can live without, many people do not make it to them.

College is beginning to come hand and hand with living as humans are now born and raised to learn how to talk and walk, and then they are immediately sent into schools where they learn to socialize, and above all, they are told every decision they make will affect their future.

According to College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees for the last school year was $31,231 at private colleges, such as New York University, $9,139 for state residents at public colleges, such as Kent State University, and $22,958 for out-of-state residents attending public universities, such as the University of Miami.

Kent State University has their undergraduate tuition for Ohio residents on ksu.edu listed as $10,012 without room and board for the 2015-16 school year. If this price did not change for the next few years, it would end up costing a current student $40,048 for a four year education.

Looking plainly at the huge numbers strikes the topic of what else on which money could be spent.

According to charitywater.org, it costs about $20 to provide water to one person for 20 years. With the price of college at KSU for four years, over 2,000 people could receive clean water for those 20 years.

While providing water seems to be a really spaced-out example, there are many products that put the price of college in a new perspective.

College prices often shy students away from the experience. A minimum-wage job does not provide enough money for a student to pay his or her way through college.

When the $40,000 price is displayed, it scares students, especially when the price does not include living arrangements, meal plans, books and extra-curricular activities, such as sports equipment.

The prices of college has huge margins, and if they were lowered, so much money could be saved for students and their parents. As well as saving money, people would, in the end, experience less stress without having to worry about abundant student loans.

The price commitment acts as a leash for students, and that is no way to excel in college.

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Anonymous author writes meaningful book of poetry

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By Mya Cannon

I Wrote This For You is a story written by an anonymous author who goes by pleasefindthis. The book is a collection of 186 different short poems divided into four different groups: sun, moon, stars and rain.

The book’s description gives you a preview of how emotional it will be.  The description starts out with, “I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you.” This line creates not only mystery and suspense, but it also creates a feeling of sympathy for the author from the reader.

The author relates all of the poems he or she has written in I Wrote This For You back to the one person they want to read this book and calls this person “you,”

The author says in the description, “Everyone else who reads it, doesn’t get it. They may think they get it, but they don’t.” I think this shows the personal meaning behind the book and how each poem can mean something different to each person that reads them.

Each poem seems to tell a short story of heartbreak and regret. A poem from the book is called “The Skeletons In The Sea” is an example of this. 

“Truth is the last thing I can take because it’s the last thing you took,” the author writes.

One of the main feelings I get from this poem is sorrow because what I think it means is someone lied to the author right before they left him or her.

All of the poems in I Wrote This For You have very deep meanings to them even though most of the poems are only one or two sentences with the occasional poem that is a couple of paragraphs long.

My favorite poem from I Wrote This For You is called “The Children Of Time” and a line from this is, “Sunday knows she’s the end. But she closes her eyes, and she pretends with all the strength in her tiny heart that really, she’s the dawn.”

I believe this line shows that even when you know something probably will not end up going right in a situation you should still have hope because you really do not know for sure how something will turn out in the end.

Over all I think that I Wrote This For You is a really great book and I would highly recommend it.

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