Bay Area rent rates are jumping sky high, as the average monthly rents in cities like San
Francisco and San Jose, have jumped more than ten percent in the last year. Across the nine
Bay Area counties, the average rent is around One-thousand-five hundred, up nine percent
from about One-thousand-four hundred, 12 months ago.That is not likely to change in the near
future, many economists like Michael Carney, director of the Real Estate Research Council of
Northern California, say it could be years before home values stabilize. While Bay Area firms
continue hiring, that could add more pressure to the rental market. Carney says, “Assuming the
economy stays the way it is, the demand for rentals will remain quite high.”
Monday, October 22, 2007
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Broadcast Lead
A FORMER SOUTHBAY MAN, CHRISTOPHER MELVIN HOLLAND, IS BEING CHARGED THIS WEEK WITH THE RAPE AND MURDER OF A SEVENTEEN- YEAR- OLD, CAMPBELL GIRL CYTHNIA MUNOZ. HE IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BAIL FOR THE 1983 RAPE AND MURDER.
Broadcast Style Excercise
NORTHWEST AIRLINES ANNOUNCED TODAY, THAT IT IS CUTTING IT'S DOMESTIC
FARES BY UP TO 40 PERCENT FOR HOLIDAY TRAVELLERS.
FRANK DEWITT, CEO OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES SAYS "WE LIKE TO THINK OF IT AS A HOLIDAY GIFT TO OUR CUSTOMERS.
"TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED, BY FRIDAY FOR TRAVEL BETWEEN
NOVEMBER 12, AND JANUARY14, IN THE LOWER 48 STATES, ALASKA AND CANADA.
DISCOUNTS VARY DEPENDING ON TRAVEL DATES, AND ARE NOT AVIALABLE ON CERTAIN POPULAR DAYS, INCLUDING NOVEMBER 23, NOVEMBER 26, DECEMBER 23 AND DECEMBER 26.
WITH THE DISCOUNTED, NON-REFUNDABLE FAIRES, A PASSENGER COULD TRAVEL ROUND-TRIP, BETWEEN BOSTON AND SAN FRANCISCO FOR 4 HUNDRED DOLLARS ON CERTAIN DAYS.
FARES BY UP TO 40 PERCENT FOR HOLIDAY TRAVELLERS.
FRANK DEWITT, CEO OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES SAYS "WE LIKE TO THINK OF IT AS A HOLIDAY GIFT TO OUR CUSTOMERS.
"TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED, BY FRIDAY FOR TRAVEL BETWEEN
NOVEMBER 12, AND JANUARY14, IN THE LOWER 48 STATES, ALASKA AND CANADA.
DISCOUNTS VARY DEPENDING ON TRAVEL DATES, AND ARE NOT AVIALABLE ON CERTAIN POPULAR DAYS, INCLUDING NOVEMBER 23, NOVEMBER 26, DECEMBER 23 AND DECEMBER 26.
WITH THE DISCOUNTED, NON-REFUNDABLE FAIRES, A PASSENGER COULD TRAVEL ROUND-TRIP, BETWEEN BOSTON AND SAN FRANCISCO FOR 4 HUNDRED DOLLARS ON CERTAIN DAYS.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Reporting with Numbers
1) A local college releases figures showing that its total budget is $120 million. Of that total, $80 million comes from the state, $6 million from student tuition, and the remaining $34 million from fees, grants and gifts.
· Figure the percentage of the college’s budget that comes from each source. 66.6% comes from state, 5% comes from student tuition, and 28.3% comes from fees, grants and gifts.
· Using plain words, instead of numbers, explain the proportion of funding that comes from different sources. Say it in the way you think would make it most easily understood.
66.6% of the local college’s budget comes from the state, while 28.3% comes from fees, grants and gifts and the remaining 5% of the college’s budget comes from student tuition.
2) Your editor assigns you to do a story about prison sentences handed down in cases of aggravated assault. He gives you the following figures from an anti-crime group that is lobbying for tougher sentencing guidelines. The cases represent the people convicted for aggravated assault in San Jose in one month in 2006.
Name Sentence
Ron Nguyen 1 year prison, 2 years probation
Richard Smith 1 year prison, 1 year probation
Wesley Mitchell 14 months prison, 1 year probation
Mary Carr-Jones 1 year prison, 1 year probation
Carl Rodriguez 1 year prison, 2 years probation
Harold Rothstein 8 months prison, 1 year probation
Michael Reese 7 years prison, 5 years probation
Calculate the average prison term for people convicted of aggravated assault, taking care to convert some of the terms to figures that will compare properly (months vs. years). 12+12+14+12+12+12+8+84= 22months = 1 yr.10 months
Calculate the median prison term for people convicted of aggravated assault. 8,12,12,12,12,12,14,84=12
· Explain why you think the average or the median is the most accurate description of prison terms.
The median is the most accurate description of prison terms because the majority of prison terms for aggravated assault in San Jose are one year. The medium is 12 which are twelve months which equals one year. The average is a much longer term because it added a few more months because of the lone seven year term.
3) The state legislature is considering exempting restaurant food sales from the sales tax in the same way grocery sales are exempt.
·Explain how much fast-food patrons who pay $5 per meal would save in a year if they eat out once a week. Base your calculations on the state sales tax only, not local/city taxes.
48*5=240/7.25 state sales tax =$17.40
If you spend $5 dollars per week eating out only once a week you will save $17.40 a year.
·Explain how much people would save if they spend $20 per meal once a week for a year.
20*4=80*12=960 .0725*960=$69.60
Now if you eat more fast food and spend $20 per meal once a week for a year in a whole year you will be saving $69.60 that is enough to buy you two weeks or more of groceries!!
· Figure the percentage of the college’s budget that comes from each source. 66.6% comes from state, 5% comes from student tuition, and 28.3% comes from fees, grants and gifts.
· Using plain words, instead of numbers, explain the proportion of funding that comes from different sources. Say it in the way you think would make it most easily understood.
66.6% of the local college’s budget comes from the state, while 28.3% comes from fees, grants and gifts and the remaining 5% of the college’s budget comes from student tuition.
2) Your editor assigns you to do a story about prison sentences handed down in cases of aggravated assault. He gives you the following figures from an anti-crime group that is lobbying for tougher sentencing guidelines. The cases represent the people convicted for aggravated assault in San Jose in one month in 2006.
Name Sentence
Ron Nguyen 1 year prison, 2 years probation
Richard Smith 1 year prison, 1 year probation
Wesley Mitchell 14 months prison, 1 year probation
Mary Carr-Jones 1 year prison, 1 year probation
Carl Rodriguez 1 year prison, 2 years probation
Harold Rothstein 8 months prison, 1 year probation
Michael Reese 7 years prison, 5 years probation
Calculate the average prison term for people convicted of aggravated assault, taking care to convert some of the terms to figures that will compare properly (months vs. years). 12+12+14+12+12+12+8+84= 22months = 1 yr.10 months
Calculate the median prison term for people convicted of aggravated assault. 8,12,12,12,12,12,14,84=12
· Explain why you think the average or the median is the most accurate description of prison terms.
The median is the most accurate description of prison terms because the majority of prison terms for aggravated assault in San Jose are one year. The medium is 12 which are twelve months which equals one year. The average is a much longer term because it added a few more months because of the lone seven year term.
3) The state legislature is considering exempting restaurant food sales from the sales tax in the same way grocery sales are exempt.
·Explain how much fast-food patrons who pay $5 per meal would save in a year if they eat out once a week. Base your calculations on the state sales tax only, not local/city taxes.
48*5=240/7.25 state sales tax =$17.40
If you spend $5 dollars per week eating out only once a week you will save $17.40 a year.
·Explain how much people would save if they spend $20 per meal once a week for a year.
20*4=80*12=960 .0725*960=$69.60
Now if you eat more fast food and spend $20 per meal once a week for a year in a whole year you will be saving $69.60 that is enough to buy you two weeks or more of groceries!!
Friday, October 12, 2007
Soft Broadcast Lead
An Alarming Event
A birthday cake set off a fire alarm today and sent firefighters dashing to the scene. Mabel McCullough’s birthday cake with 95 candles set off the alarm which created a large cloud of smoke.
The smoke from the candles set off the fire alarm, resulting 5 fire engines and 2 ladder companies to arrive. Fire Chief Lonnie Lamb said that in his 23 years on the job he’s seen a lot of things set off a fire alarm, but never a birthday cake.
A birthday cake set off a fire alarm today and sent firefighters dashing to the scene. Mabel McCullough’s birthday cake with 95 candles set off the alarm which created a large cloud of smoke.
The smoke from the candles set off the fire alarm, resulting 5 fire engines and 2 ladder companies to arrive. Fire Chief Lonnie Lamb said that in his 23 years on the job he’s seen a lot of things set off a fire alarm, but never a birthday cake.
Student Media Press Conference
As Sam Donaldson entered the Dwight Bentel Hall in room 133 everyone began to clap loudly. “You don’t need to clap for me just because I entered a room” he said. Sam Donaldson is known for being outspoken. He was 1998 Broadcaster of the year and has won four Emmys and two George Peabody Awards.
The press conference which lasted almost an hour had an array of questions from many students. Donaldson said he grew up on a farm in New Mexico. His grandfather purchased land in New Mexico before New Mexico was a state. He attended the University of El Paso Texas in 1951.
A question was asked if he always knew that he wanted to be a reporter or did he know at a very young age. He did not know what he wanted to do but he knew he wanted to be a “somebody.” He was in the army but he knew he did not want to stay in the army forever, he did it because at the time did not know what to do and he was married with a family. Although when he was nine years old he does recall pretending to report the news that he was hearing on the radio about World War II, but at the time he did not know he wanted to be a reporter.
“This job can be tough on family life because it is a high pressure job.” He has been married three times but now has been married for twenty-five years. He said he would outwork his colleagues because many of them would not take an assignment because it was their son’s birthday or they were going on a ski trip or something. “Journalism was always first for me” he stated. He would always take the assignments and that is how he got to where he is today.
What is a story that really affected your life? “Since 1994 I have one story” he says. He went to Argentina to meet a man who was a captain in the SS. Volunteer committee. The man followed orders from the German army to kill many men. The whole time the man tried to make Donaldson understand why Hitler wanted him to kill these men and why it was ok. Donaldson said to him “Many people think you should be executed for what you did.” The man said “you are not a gentleman.”
What does it take to be a good journalist these days?” another student asks. “Things have to interest you” he says. “You have to be able to dig and collate all this information.” “What’s really going on it not going to be told,” he says.
At the end of the press conference after answering his last question Donaldson said “Nothing will ever be the same you should welcome change.” Those words are the words of a true reporter, Mr. Sam Donaldson.
The press conference which lasted almost an hour had an array of questions from many students. Donaldson said he grew up on a farm in New Mexico. His grandfather purchased land in New Mexico before New Mexico was a state. He attended the University of El Paso Texas in 1951.
A question was asked if he always knew that he wanted to be a reporter or did he know at a very young age. He did not know what he wanted to do but he knew he wanted to be a “somebody.” He was in the army but he knew he did not want to stay in the army forever, he did it because at the time did not know what to do and he was married with a family. Although when he was nine years old he does recall pretending to report the news that he was hearing on the radio about World War II, but at the time he did not know he wanted to be a reporter.
“This job can be tough on family life because it is a high pressure job.” He has been married three times but now has been married for twenty-five years. He said he would outwork his colleagues because many of them would not take an assignment because it was their son’s birthday or they were going on a ski trip or something. “Journalism was always first for me” he stated. He would always take the assignments and that is how he got to where he is today.
What is a story that really affected your life? “Since 1994 I have one story” he says. He went to Argentina to meet a man who was a captain in the SS. Volunteer committee. The man followed orders from the German army to kill many men. The whole time the man tried to make Donaldson understand why Hitler wanted him to kill these men and why it was ok. Donaldson said to him “Many people think you should be executed for what you did.” The man said “you are not a gentleman.”
What does it take to be a good journalist these days?” another student asks. “Things have to interest you” he says. “You have to be able to dig and collate all this information.” “What’s really going on it not going to be told,” he says.
At the end of the press conference after answering his last question Donaldson said “Nothing will ever be the same you should welcome change.” Those words are the words of a true reporter, Mr. Sam Donaldson.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
AP Style Quiz(s-z)
1) He thought of Smokey Bear every time he got near a smoldering fire or entered a smoky room.
2) The forecast is for lower temperatures, falling to the low 30s by 8pm. If the rain continues, as expected, there could be a travelers advisory.
3) To celebrate Veterans Day, the anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, troops of former soldiers will march down Main Street carrying U.S. flags.
4) His weeklong ordeal will be finished when finals week is over. Until then, his well- being is in doubt.
5) A 19 -year -old youth was arrested Monday for carrying a Saturday night special without a permit. After being released on bond, he disappeared. His whereabouts are unknown.
BONUS:6) The man was arrested for waving a twelve-gauge shotgun outside his home.
2) The forecast is for lower temperatures, falling to the low 30s by 8pm. If the rain continues, as expected, there could be a travelers advisory.
3) To celebrate Veterans Day, the anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, troops of former soldiers will march down Main Street carrying U.S. flags.
4) His weeklong ordeal will be finished when finals week is over. Until then, his well- being is in doubt.
5) A 19 -year -old youth was arrested Monday for carrying a Saturday night special without a permit. After being released on bond, he disappeared. His whereabouts are unknown.
BONUS:6) The man was arrested for waving a twelve-gauge shotgun outside his home.
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