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SELECT NEWS FOR THE DAY::
We still aren’t sure of the results of the Afghani elections. Both Abdullah Abdullah and Harmid Karzai are claiming victory with only 30 of the 34 Afghan provinces having finished their ballot count. A couple things we are sure of: At least 2 women had their fingers chopped off as punishment for voting, 26 people died on election day due to random attacks of violence and loads of others were injured.
Favorite customers …
To the freshman girl that calls for delivery- “Like Oh my god, yes, you can like, totally get 3 cheesy bread for 8 dollars and like yea, like we can totally deliver to the Virginia Tech campus.” Just know which dorm you’re in genius. There is no such thing as dorm 2336; there is such a thing as Pritchard dorm which is what you meant.
No, you can not get free food just because you’re cute-
you can not get free food just because your brother used to work at Domino’s
you can not get free food just because you “know the owner” … do you really or are you just saying that? Tell me about his family then.
To the fat person, using the drive-thru ordering 3 cheesy bread and a diet coke: First of all you are too lazy to get out of your car and walk 10 feet to come inside, yet you get a diet coke because you are so worried about your weight and health. You are eating Pizza!! There’s not a whole lot of ways to make that healthy in the first place so just get a regular damn drink like you really want anyway. It’s not like getting diet hides the fact that you are overweight and lazy.
To The Dublin guy—you know who you are … I haven’t heard from you since I switched companies so I guess that means you must really love Papa John’s but you know to this day you are still one of my least favorite people. If we did not deliver Pizza to you yesterday what makes you think I’ll do it today? Nope, not gonna happen tomorrow either. So please quit wasting my time asking me the same question day-in and day-out.
Ahh the school year returns
It only returns for everyone but me though!! This is my first semester in … 18 years I haven’t had to go to class. It’s really odd sort of feeling that I’m not sure I’m that comfortable with.
Although, I won’t be bored, I just recently started working at the Domino’s Pizza in Blacksburg, VA and it rolls. I mean it rolls through hundreds of pizzas a day, during the summer when there are no students in town. Now that it’s coming to late August business is about to double (at least) as the 30,000 or so students roll back in to town.
Radford starts in 2 weeks, just 1 week after Tech. So my hometown will have a nice jumpstart to it’s economy coming soon too.
I would just like to extend a huge thank you to the parents and supporting family members of the students at Virginia Tech and Radford. Without your children’s excessive spending, my bank account would remain empty all year, rather than just the 3 months during the summer.
The reporter’s life …
CBS-19 News affiliate, WCAV-TV allowed me the opportunity to follow one of their reporters around for a day.
On March 9, I arrived at the station at 9:20. When I walked in I met the news director, Jim Hanchett.
We went to the newsroom. On the way there Hanchett seemed excited and started to tell me about how it’s a great news day because there have been 2 structure fires.
Then, without even taking a breath he introduced to me to the reporters, producers and the assistant news director.
At first, it didn’t really seem like anyone was doing very much. Mark Tenia was the reporter I was shadowing that day. Tenia explained to me that everyone was Googling and checking other news sites to try to find something good to “pitch” at the meeting.
At 9:45 everyone joined in the studio for the morning meeting. Hanchett listened to their ideas and then told everyone who was going to do what story and what type of story it should be-SOT, Package, etc.
Tenia got a story about how the stimulus package that was being announced that day was going to affect local banks. I think it’s boring but Tenia said he loves that kind of stuff.
From 10 that morning until around 11:30 he called 18 different banks and went through a few of his other contacts that were somewhat related to the story.
He was hoping that one of them could help him out and put in a good word with the people he really needed. Nothing panned out so we went to the courthouse and shot a SOT of one of the workers there.
She was explaining how a new site that the City of Charlottesville has put up will help people find jobs.
Then around 1:30 or so, we each had lunch and went and talked to Hanchett for another story idea.
As I mentioned before, there were 2 structure fires that day. So Tenia was then reassigned to go out and find something substantive at the Boyd Tavern Market fire.
We talked to passersby and the owner. Most were really unwilling to be on camera.
Then we shot a bunch of video of the area of the fire and the people stopping in just to look.
We went back to the station and Tenia edited all the video and got everything ready for air.
Even though Tenia’s first package idea didn’t work out, he went gung-ho into the second.
The #1 thing that I learned from this experience is to always shoot multiple stand-ups. You may never know what kind of usable video you have, what’s going to be the most important at broadcast time, and there are about a million other variables that could mess up only having one stand-up shot.
I also learned to keep pushing and continue to maintain your confidence.
It was a good day and pretty much exactly how I thought it would be.
I would like to thank everyone at CBS-19 in Charlottesville, Virginia for allowing me the opportunity! It was loads of fun.
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day!
According to various Internet sites;
On April 12, 1951, the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) proclaimed Yom Hashoah U’Mered HaGetaot (Holocaust and Ghetto Revolt Remembrance Day) to be the 27th of Nissan. The name later became known as Yom Hashoah Ve Hagevurah (Devastation and Heroism Day) and even later simplified to Yom Hashoah.
It’s been 60 years since the Holocaust; but for many it is still a memory that remains strong in their minds.
Hugs Not Drugs
What does that really mean? It’s 420, happy 420. Oh and it’s pronounced four-twenty.
For those of you who are completely lost. Today it April 20(4/20). It’s the day just below the amsterdam festivals on a pothead’s list of “best days ever, man.”
According to wikipedia, 420 is simply cannabis culture. 420 “refers to consumption of cannabis and, by extension, a way to identify oneself with cannabis drug subculture.”-wikipedia.
There are many theories to how this number became the codeword for all things marijuana related: It was the police code for marijuana, or that it was the Waldo’s meeting time to smoke after school everyday.
Myths?
-Concept420.com
Police dispatch code for smoking pot is 420- there is no code that is numbered 420.
There are approximately 420 active chemicals in marijuana- it’s somewhere near 315-give or take
April 20th is National Pot Smokers Day- pretty much, it’s just not a legally recognized holiday
April 20th is Hitler’s birthday.-True
The date of the Columbine school shootings was 4/20-True
Pulp fiction has every clock set to 4:20 throughout the movie.-True
Somali Pirates Aren’t Giving in …
After the release of US Captain of the Maersk Alabama, Richard Phillips, the Somali pirates vowed that they would retaliate for the killing of 3 of their men.
They weren’t lying. The Somali pirates have since taken new hostages. According to the AP: There are 4 more ships that have been captured: the MV Sea Horse(Lebanon), MV Irene E.M.(Greece) and 2 Egyptian fishing boats.
The American Captain has been freed
After being taken hostage by a group of pirates in a fishing boat on Wednesday. The United States Navy covertly parachuted to a nearby boat and waited for the right time to strike.
The surprise was all on the Somali pirates, starting in the Gulf of Aden. Pirates are used to be able to walk onto a ship and demand ransoms without difficulty. But the crew of the Maersk Alabama put up a fight for their boat and their captain.
Then the navy seals surprised the Somali pirates one last time by fighting and taking back the ship’s captain, unharmed.
Capt. Richard Phillips is now safe and at home with his family.
According to the International Maritime Bureau, the pirates still hold about a dozen ships with more than 200 crew members. There are hostages still out there from numerous countries, including Russia, Germany, China, Italy and Bulgaria.
**I’m glad that Captain Phillips is home safe but I feel the mass media in the US should also give mention to the rest of those that are still living a life of hell.**
April 13th … what’s important about today?
First off, it is my cousin Donald’s birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONALD!!
Without going in to the whole story; it’s amazing that Donald is even on this Earth and it is even more amazing that he he is 17 now and doing well in school. Good for you Donald!!
1970
This is the day that Appoll 13s oxygen tank burst, coining the mission a successful failure.
1992
–The Great Chicago Flood took place as the city’s century-old tunnel system and near-by basements filled with water from the Chicago River.
1999
Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Mich., to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder in the lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig’s disease patient. He only served 8 years of that sentence.
