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Taken from a community activity brochure
Should read: Mixed Doubles Tournament results. (the 'R' is results does not need to be capitalized.) (4 pts.)

Taken from a community activity brochure
Should Read: 4400 Jade St., Capitola (4 pts)


Taken from a Restaurant Menu
It Should read: 2400 Porter St.,Soquel (4 pts)

AP I-L

1) The last time she played soccer, she received a serious injury to her knee. Sometimes it's hard to understand why she wants to continue playing. (2)

2) He was indicted for assault, but his lawyer said the case against him circumstantial and she is sure the inquiry will exonerate him. (2)

3) He knows it isn’t kosher, but green Jello is his favorite dessert. This admission has prompted his friends to question both his taste and his judgment. (3)

4) Now that he has DSL, he finds it much easier to go online to check his e-mail and download files. (3)

5) He stood at the lectern, addressing his long time colleagues at The Knights of Columbus. (3)

news story 4 - (revised)

A section of the South of Market area of San Francisco that spanned four blocks was cordoned off by the police today due to an accidental gas leak.
The section of the city was blocked off by police after a construction crew that was working to repair a broken sewer line accidentally ruptured a high-pressure gas lane with one of their back hoes. The sudden evacuation of the area, which covers both Folsom and 11th street, caused traffic to come to a stand-still on neighboring roads.
The evacuation also had an effect on the South of Market businesses, causing many shops to lose customers when they were instructed to leave the area. "Ask my customers. They were pretty irate." says Carlann Lauria, manager of Crocker’s Lockers, a local self storage business, who was forced to have her employees move around the perimeter of the barricade, collecting checks from annoyed customers. Other businesses were forced to cut their losses, such as the Wa-Ha-Ka restaurant, which suffered around $500 in lost revenue, as reported by the manager, Samantha Feldman.
The gas line was repaired at 5:09 p.m., leaving the area shut down for close to six hours.

News Story 3 - (revised)

Fire fighters rescued a man from his home on Annapolis Way,in San Jose, yesterday, as the building burned down around him, trapping him inside.
The victim, Robert Kent, a San Jose resident who is described as in his 50s and retired by San Jose Fire Captain Robert Piper, was found unconscious on his kitchen floor by the rescue team sent into the house. Captain Piper said that Kent had received both second and third-degree burns on almost half of his body. After his rescue, Kent was transported to Valley Medical Center in San Jose, where a nursing supervisor said that his condition was grave.
The fire was report at roughly 3 p.m., and appeared to have started in the kitchen, working its way up through the house and into the attic. According to Piper, the cause of the fire is currently under investigation.

Top News: Tiger Woods Apology (is not really news)

This week America was forced to watch a man fallen from grace apologize to 300,000,000 people, 99.9% of which he did not know in the slightest. I am of course talking about defamed golf star Tiger Woods, who has recently been in the American spotlight for not always staying faithful to his wife. He is arguably one of the biggest names in the sporting world right now, despite his infidelities, and that also happens to be his reason for apology.

This assignment is meant to point out the various news values of a certain news story or article, but this particular even struck for a different reason; it has absolutely no news value whatsoever. As with any celebrity Tiger Woods has ceased to be a person in the American eye. He is instead Tiger Woods the golfer, Tiger Woods the name, Tiger Woods the brand, and that is why he was forced to apologize for a victimless crime that if he were not a famous person, the social contract would all but force us to sweep under the rug.

I am not saying that it is okay to cheat on ones spouse, but simply that Tiger Woods has much more important people to apologize to than the American people. This is one of the many cases where America needs to sober up from it’s reality T.V. daze and realize that Tiger Woods is not an authority figure. He did not lie to the American people, he did not tell us how to live our lives, he did not instruct us on what is or is not immoral. This is not news, because news effects us all. News is an event that people should look at and think about how it affects them. News is not gossip.

AP exercises E-H

E. Susan Jones checked with his source to insure the accuracy of the news story. For Jones there is no acception, this is an everyday practice.

F.As the two boys argued over who should get the last piece of pizza, both seemed equally hungry. They had clearly forgotten their earlier decision to forego having seconds.

G. He suspected his neighbor of selling drugs, so he called the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, his neighbor cried fowl at the accusation.

H. She grew up on the Great Plains, near Alliance, Neb., where the winters are long and harsh and the living is hand to mouth.

I. Her car was sideswiped by a hit-and-run driver on route 1A this morning. She wasn't really injured, but the impact sent the contents of her purse helter-skelter.

News Story 2 - revised

San Mateo, CA - One person was killed and three others were injured in a car accident in the parking lot of Mollie Stone's Grocery store. At 1:15 p.m. a construction truck came barreling down 43rd street, a residential street that dead ends in the grocery store’s parking lot, but the truck did not stop. The truck proceeded to crash into the side of a black sport utility vehicle. After the initial impact the truck continued to slide for another 75 feet, hitting several other cars along the way.

Although the driver of the construction truck remained uninjured, the same can not be said for several other people that were in the parking lot at the time of the crash. Three people, including one pedestrian, were reported injured. One of the victims was required to airlifted by helicopter to the nearest hospital while the other two were taken by ambulance. A fourth victim was declared, was in one of the nine cars the truck had collided with, was declared dead at the scene.

According to San Mateo Police Captain Kevin Nguyen the truck, “apparently suffered some kind of mechanical failure.”, preventing the container truck from stopping in time.

A young motorist found himself valuing his life just a little more yesterday morning after he drove off a cliff at Devil's Slide and survived.
The 24-year-old driver had been driving early in the morning on highway 1 when he was distracted by thick fog. The drivers impaired vision caused him to drive off a cliff as he was driving along Devil’s Slide. The vehicle flew off the road and plummeted down the 150 foot drop. Through sheer luck, the car was able to land on its wheels, preventing the roof from crushing the driver. The young man used his cell phone to dial 911 and call for help.

The man was rescued 45 minutes later after California Highway Patrol and Cal Fire closed the road to look for him. The rescue crews rappelled down the 150 foot cliff to get to the man, where they put him inside a protective cage and pulled him back up to safety.

The man was taken to San Francisco General Hospital to be checked for injuries, but his only visible wound was a small bump he had received on his head during the crash. When asked about the man's injuries, Sgt. Trent Ross of the California Highway Patrol said “He did what he was supposed to do; he wore his seat belt,”.

News Story 1

Los Angeles, CA - A convenience store owner received a big surprise yesterday evening when a Cadillac crashed through the front window of his shop. The vehicle, driven by a 74-year-old woman, crashed through the front window of Joe’s Food Mart and did not stop until it reached the middle of the store. The driver then exited the car and proceeded to walk over to the cooler where she then picked up a case of beer. “I don’t know how she managed to walk.” said Joe Awada, the owner of the convenience store. The cashier refused to sell the woman the beer, and then promptly called the police. Luckily there were no injuries in the accident.

According to Lt. Jenny Han of the Los Angeles Sheriff Department, the driver was taken to a hospital after the accident to receive a check up concerning a pre-existing medical condition. She was then arrested pending the investigation of a misdemeanor DUI, but was later released on successful payment of her bail.

FOG calculation

Hello to all. I am Nathaniel Morotti, but you may call me Nate. This blog is the media by which i will be leaning to report the news this semester. I am a second year student at the great San Jose State University, and I am working towards my BS in Journalism with an emphasis in Radio and Television broadcasting.

I grew up in Santa Cruz, California, just a few minutes drive outside of San Jose. I attended Harbor High School, which is where I first started to develop an interest in journalism after I wrote a small segment for my school newspaper.

When I graduate from SJSU I hope to use my degree to start a career in radio broadcasting, hoping to eventually host my own morning talk show on the radio.

I look forward to writing for this class and I hope that everyone that reads my entries will find them to be very interesting.

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Top News: Kentucky bill 'Okay' to Nuclear Waste

Kentucky approved a bill this week that would give this okay for nuclear power plants to store their toxic waste in the state. The bill would seem to be good news for the power plants, especially since President sent out the message to once again make nuclear power a viable energy source for the United States, but is it really a good idea for our nation as a whole? President Obama's plan seems to be centered on the idea that each state can provide itself with nuclear power as long as they find a clean and effective way to deal with the waste. With the abandonment of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility the availability of such options are becoming increasingly thin.

If a person reading this article cannot discern for themselves why this topic is important then this Country is in dire need. Nuclear power is possibly the greatest discovery that man has ever had the good luck to stumble upon. If you break the concept of nuclear power down, which that since the 50's we have have had the ability to break matter down to its smallest unit and then break that unit down even small, thus releasing an incredible amount of energy, then the thought of it becomes both awesome and horrifying to think about. This science is the ultimate double-edged sword, and people need to realize that. It may provide us with a near infinite amount of cheap energy, but at what cost? Our ecosystem, our health, and even out safety.

AP exercises A-D

A: Mayor Richard Wrigley expressed confidence that the gubernatorial debate, beginning at 7:30 p.m., will have a positive affect on his candidacy, adding, “Governor Red Davidson is a master of dirty politics, but I won’t take any of his boloney.”

B:For her birthday (1) the 9-year-old girl invited five good friends over for ice cream and cake. The chocolate cake was so tasty that any one of the children could have eaten it all, but they carefully divided it among themselves. (1: removed the comma.)

C: The new head of the journalism department, Dr. Deborah Dunwoody, recently bought a house at 6 Riverside Drive in San Mateo, a city in the San Francisco Bay area.

D: Rome, Italy - All around the world Roman Catholics listened today as the Pope delivered his homily.

Leads 5

Lead 5a: A pipe fitter from Springfield was hospitalized Wednesday after receiving third- degree burns from being shocked by a power line that was carrying 15,000 volts of electricity.

Lead 5b: Comedian and Actor Chevy Chase was appointed the board of trustees at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson in New York. Chase was an Alumnus to the school.

Leads 4

Lead 4a: Smoke seen coming from the wheels of a Northwest Airlines Jet led to the evacuation of its 40 passengers at the LaCrosse Municipal Airport in Wisconsin.

Lead4b: A seven year old boy that had been missing for three years was found today after a neighbor recognized his face from a picture shown at the end of a movie. The police were notified and the boy's mother was arrested.

Leads 3

Lead 3a: One person was killed and three others were injured today in a supermarket parking lot when a construction truck suffered mechanical failure and crashed into a group of vehicles.

Leads 3b: A young motorist survived a 150 foot fall today after losing control of his vehicle and drove off a cliff on highway 1. He was Taken to San Francisco General Hospital despite only suffering minor head injuries.

Top News: Murderer in Tiller Trial found Guilty

Some of you may remember a man by the name of George Tiller. Tiller was famous for two things in his life. The first was that he was one of the only physicians on America to perform late term abortions, a business decision that won him no good will with a majority of the nation. His second spotlight in the national media was on May 31, 2009, when he was gunned down in his local church by Anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder. Roeder claimed that this act was to defend the unborn children that Dr. Tiller was going to kill. Although the trial has taken eight whole months to come to a conclusion, as of January 29^th, Scott Roeder will be facing a mandatory life sentence after being convicted of first degree murder.

Although the media has long left this case out of limelight, it is still one of the most important cases to ever cross the American Legal system. When I look at this case I have to think about what would have happened to the way the legal system is run if Roeder’s “Preemptive Attack” defense had won. If it had suddenly become okay to commit crimes in the hopes that they would stop other crimes, what kind of chaos would the legal system look like? It is also worthy to think about what kind of message this case has sent to anyone who has ever protested anything, let alone abortion. “I don’t believe in the same things you do, so I’m going to kill you.” That is the real message Scott Roeder said to the world when he killed George Tiller, but thanks to the recent actions of the court, that message has been countered.

Leads 2

A plane leaving from Chicago was destroyed yesterday as it crashed into the ground upon starting its decent into Pittsburgh. Of the 131 passengers on the plane, none survived.

Leads 1

Lead #1: The U.S. Geological Survey reported a small earthquake this morning in Santa Clara Country, off of Alum Rock Falls Road, with a preliminary magnitude of 2.2. No injuries have yet been reported.

Lead #2: The section of Highway 9 next to Peirce Road, just west of Saratoga on Santa Clara County, was closed yesterday due to fallen trees. The road was closed from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. said a C.H.P spokeswoman.

Introduction to Nate

Hello to all. I am Nathaniel Morotti, but you may call me Nate. This blog is the media by which i will be leaning to report the news this semester. I am a second year student at the great San Jose State University, and I am working towards my BS in Journalism with an emphasis in Radio and Television broadcasting.

I grew up in Santa Cruz, California, just a few minutes drive outside of San Jose. I attended Harbor High School, which is where I first started to develop an interest in journalism after I wrote a small segment for my school newspaper.

When I graduate from SJSU I hope to use my degree to start a career in radio broadcasting, hoping to eventually host my own morning talk show on the radio.

I look forward to writing for this class and I hope that everyone that reads my entries will find them to be very interesting.