Sep 4, 2014

Overturned Gasoline Truck Floods Sewer Lines

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Texaco gasoline truck overturned on the outskirts of town at 48th St and Correctionville Road. Gas floods sewer lines for two blocks around, also on streets and ditches. Situation is serious for two or more hours until gas gets flushed away. In the meantime, cars are rerouted through side streets.

Fire Chief Charles Hochandel says: “The fireman followed catastrophe and hazmat procedures set up beforehand for such an occurrence.” Four families were evacuated because of sewer-line gas. No reported casualties. Situation is under control.

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Sep 4, 2014

Summertime Rowdiness Hits East High School Early

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Its been a troubling last few weeks at East High School before summer break, having to suspend a number of students. Five disgruntled students were suspended Monday, for a week, after they were caught smoking marijuana in the school parking lot. While last Wednesday, the school had sounded three false alarms. The culprits are thought to be the five disgruntled students, but are unable to be linked to the false alarms sounding last Wednesday.

Ten upperclassmen from East High were also suspended for a week. They were suspended for protesting the suspension of the five disgruntled students that Monday. The following day, Tuesday, a food fight broke out in the cafeteria. Having to settle things down in the chaos and after evacuating the students. The cafeteria and dining area was closed for the remainder of the day for clean-up. East High’s principal, Laura Vibelius, says: “Not so much unrest because of suspensions, but because of summer vacation being so near.”

She sees no continuation of these ‘incidents’ the next school year.

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Sep 4, 2014

Firefighter Breaks Leg Trying to Save Cat

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A calico cat was stuck in a 50 foot oak tree today at 102 11th Ave. The cat belong to the twins Suzanne and Samantha Decker. Daughters of Charlie and Kim Decker.

Approaching the scene, Firefighter Bob Harwood, immediately begins to climb the 50 foot oak tree for the calico. All was well getting to the cat and retrieving her was even easier. Mishaps only occurring on the way down for the firefighter. Coming down and standing on a dead limb, Bob drops the last 15 feet. On the ground Harwood was retrieved by paramedics and sent immediately to St. Luke’s hospital. There it was confirmed that he only broke his left leg and that he is doing just fine.

As for the calico, when Bob fell from the dead limb breaking under him. The cat had fallen as well, but had instead of breaking a leg she had landed on top of Bob. Miss Calico Kitty is doing fine.

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Sep 4, 2014

Hello Rachel

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Rachel is a very adventurous person. Whose biggest adventure, recently, was going to Ireland. She likes to meet new people and to go to new places. Coming from Grand Rapids, SD and going to college in Sioux City, IA. Anywhere but here, is the place to be. She is a senior at Morningside College who is a photography and graphic design double major. Besides loving to travel, she is also on the soccer team and in her free time likes to read.

Read More About Rachel Here!

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Sep 3, 2014

Epic Summary

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Epic IMDb: A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group of characters in order to save their world — and ours.

Part One: Is where some of the characters from the other universe is introduced. Then we get to meet the main character, MK, and learn about her life. Before things take a sour turn for the adventure to begin.

Part Two: After the queen leaves and MK has been transported into another universe, she has to team up with the soldiers from the other dimension to help save her own and to go back home. The second part ends when the pod is stolen by the bad guy.

Part Three: Beginning the third part, the crew needs to sneak into the bad guys’ lair and steal back the pod. During this time MK goes back home, still apart of the other dimension, and realizes that her dad was right all along. Once they retrieve the pod, it is now time for it to bloom, but the bad guys are going to do everything in its power to stop it.

Video Production Class: 9/8/14

Watched: Epic

examples of 3 act structure: transported, pod stolen, pod returns and then blooms

inciting events: The queen dies and the pod is transferred to main character

types of act 2 conflict: pod stolen by bad guy

conflict resolved? How? – yes. pod blooms.

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Sep 2, 2014

Persona 5

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The story with the release to Persona 5 is a good lead because it tells you everything you need to know about the game’s release. The first sentence says what game system it will be for. Right after that it is followed by the estimated time the game will be released, in this case late 2014. This article has a good lead because everything you need to know about a new and upcoming game is right at the beginning. It then goes into a little background history about the series and then it states that they are unsure if the game will be available on other systems besides the PlayStation. This article is good because everything you are wondering about the game is answered right away once you open the article.

Article: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/persona-5-confirmed-for-ps4/1100-6422036/

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Sep 2, 2014

Future Plans

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Here are my plans for the future:

  • Graduate from Morningside with a major in English with a minor in Journalism.
  • Work as a manager at Hollister for about two years.
  • Transfer to a Hollister in Seattle.
  • Move to Seattle with my best friend.
  • Write an awesome book.
  • Become rich and famous.
  • Pay off Student Debt, pay off Tiffany’s debt, have a saving account for my child, and then pay off Casey Evans and Daniel Garcia’s student loans.

Sounds pretty legit.

But then, sometimes your best friend decides to surprise everyone with a Facebook announcement that he is going to be a dad. At first I was upset because I have this plan that I will now have to incorporate a child into. Not even my own child, but his. Then I was thinking about him and knowing him he’d never leave the child behind, but would his baby momma want to come with us to Seattle? How would she feel about a guy friend and a girl friend who had history move out together?

Took me a day to accept it, but I did. Congratulations, I thought. With a click of my mouse, I liked the status.

Not even an hour later, just kidding!

Zack you prick. Seattle is still on.

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Sep 1, 2014

A Blog About My 2nd Cousins

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Happy Labor Day Weekend!

For the weekend, my cousin and his kids came by to say hi and hangout. It was fun and a bit mind-boggling. Simply because kids are interesting creatures. I love kids, but I’ve been told that it looks like I hate kids. Rude. Well either way I miss them and here’s how they return my love:

“Should I eat the pancakes?”

“Yes! They are poisonous!”

“I feel loved.”

But then, this happened:

“And don’t forget that I have 15 girlfriends!”

And the number just keeps going up and up, but then down. How strange. And his older brother only has one, but he gives her dead birds as a gift. That boy is a catch. I would love to sit and talk with a little kid or one of them. They work in such strange ways. I wish I could remember what it was like being a kid. Keeping my all of my thoughts in a journal.

Then I thought, why is it okay for boys to have girlfriends at a young age, but not girls?

No one knew the answer and I don’t want to ask my dad. I suppose some things are better with no answers.

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Sep 1, 2014

The Rockwell and Jack Barakat

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News Article #3

Jack Barakat, guitarist of All Time Low(ATL), is now in the bar business? He hasn’t left the band and All Time Low is still going strong, but Jack just picked up a part-time job. It doesn’t make much sense for a guitarist of a pop-punk band to join the bar business. Their fans know that ATL are no strangers to a good party. So for Jack to join the bar-scene is no surprise.

According to Brittany Moseley, “Barakat recently became the co-owner of the Rockwell, located in Baltimore’s historic Fell’s Point neighborhood. Along with co-owner Bryan Burkert, the two are offering something new to the area: a purely rock ’n’ roll bar.”

Most clubs play a lot of hip-hop, pop, and mainstream music that you’ll normally hear on the radio. Some people don’t leave their genre of music, so to have a purely rock bar would be the ideal place to go for other rock bands coming to play at Baltimore. Having pure rock clubs all around the states would be a great place for those who want to find people in their own music group. As Barakat states: “It could be one of those things that sounds like a good idea on paper and ends up being a shit show, but I think it’s gonna be pretty fun.”

It’s just one of those things that’s worth a shot and if it works, it works. If it doesn’t, well no one can say that he didn’t try.

Article: http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/jack_barakat_the_rockwell_baltimore_2014

Filed Under: August Classthings ·
Aug 31, 2014

Cappon Ch. 3

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This chapter actually threw me off for a little bit. It was actually a little different from what I am used to. Chapter three was strictly about journalism writing. The chapter’s main point was to make a clear statement of the news point and when possible add a detail that makes the story stand out.

There’s a part in the reading where it told me to ask myself what is different about each story. Although this isn’t about creative writing it made me think to my own writing. What makes my writing different? What makes the stories different? How are the stories different from each other? I feel like I’m writing a lot of the same things, but a lot of it isn’t the same.

The one thing I have learned from these readings is to be clear and concise. Simple and straight to the point and hold the pretty things for later.

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