Possibilities for article #3

PROFILE ON SOMEONE:
Chef Adam or Iain with his new restaurant.

Running a company- Coffee shop, the competition,CANT DO ON BOSS.

Pit bulls becoming illegal in our state. some who is trying to make them illegal or fighting for them not to be.

Interview people at the humane society. for the problems they face.?

Actually surviving as a student. What it takes, what issues we face, tips on things to help yourself, things you absolutely have to do.

Seth Godin On standing out

Living in a world that flies by at the speed of lightning, it's easy to get lost in the crowd. In order to make a difference, you have to stand out. Seth Godin gives a speech on how to stand out and to make a difference. In his speech, Seth Godin talked about how sliced bread was a failure till Wonder bread picked up the idea and spread it across the world by advertising. The success of any product or company depends on its advertising. Godin describes, "Buy adds,get more distribution, sell more products, buy more adds." In order to compete with your product competitors you have to be different then all the other companies. Companies spend "hundreds of millions of dollars a year on advertising." No one will know about their products if they don't hear about them in some way.As a society we are susceptible to seeing a wide variety of ads. Things are going to fast in our world to focus on all things that we see. So this is why we ignore things.The advertising field has to keep things "new and fresh." They have to be interesting and new to keep our attention. The whole idea is to "figure out what people really want and give it to them."

Heart and Soul of Corvallis Football

Who: Corvallis High school Football Team
What: Varsity Football team
Why: Support Local Football teams
When: Friday, October 16th at 7 pm
Where: Corvallis High school
How to get involved: Contact Corvallis High School football coach at Chris.McGowan@corvallis.k12.or.us
541-757-3826

On Friday, October 16th, Corvallis High School football team played the Silverton Foxes football team. The game got off to a quick start and CHS put up 21 straight points in the first half, before giving up a late score to Silverton right before halftime. The Foxes used that momentum to score 14 more points in the third quarter to tie up the game at 21. The Spartans scored again in the 4th to take the lead, however Silverton battled back to score one more time but could not convert the extra point giving the Spartans a much need league victory. Final score, 28-27.

In 2007, Corvallis High School Football team won the 5A State Championship against West Albany. They earned that title by going into triple overtime and winning with a successful field goal.

"After that season we lost a lot of key players and have we haven't been able to get to that same level of performance. We are working hard at being the team we all want to be." Head Coach, Chris McGowan.

This season started off slow with three straight loses for the team before winning their first game against Dallas. This seasons record is four wins and seven loses. Unfortunately they didn't make it past the first round of playoff.

The Spartans have a plan for changing all that for this for next season, right outside linebacker, Alberto Nunez, explains “We are spending a lot time doing individual drills in our positions. We are working with second string to make them the quality of first string players, so that we are stronger as a whole team. You are only as strong as your weakest player.”

Varsity player, Austin Waid, wants everyone to know that, “Everything that people say about the team doesn’t affect us because they aren’t the ones putting all the hard work into being better players. We are a young team with the right expectations for ourselves.” The entire Spartan varsity players are coming back to play next year, giving them a huge upper hand against rival teams in the upcoming season.

How to survive zombies

They are coming for your brain.
Identifying Zombies-
dark eyes
pale skin
legs limply
bloody
don't eat candy just brains
don't dance
shoulder slouch
bloody
stumble

To survive:
Need proper equipment
high altitudes
cant swim so stay on water
counter attack
go to larger location with supplies -Costco

how to kill:
kill brain
large bullets
chain saw
decapitation
granade


if someone is wounded then they need to be killed because it is too late.
dont underestimate their speed.

Lee Lefever
Common craft show

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To be fully honest I have no idea what I am going to do. I spent the weekend doing other homework. My plan is to ask friends/ family if they know of anything that is going on in town that would be interesting. I am also planning on looking in the newspaper and the commuter to see if they have anything in there that would be fun and interesting to go to. I am hoping to find something that I can write a really great story about.


ADD ON*
I found out that there is a high school game on Friday for CHS, which is where I went to high school. I am not sure if the Lebanon races are still going on, but I am going to check about that. I am sure LBCC has some kind of sport going on before the end of this upcoming weekend. I wanted to try and go to a special event that usually isn't here. So I am going to check the local and surrounding areas newspapers to see if they have anything. I am also going to look in surrounding places like Salem, Portland so that I could maybe take a day trip this weekend.
5 questions:
1. How was your experience at the event?
2. what would you of liked to see that was different/ or ways it could be improve?
3. Would you come to this same event again?
4. What was your favorite/most important part about the event?
5. How would you get the word out about this event so that more people heard about it?

Rob Priewe Interview

Rob Priewe started out his Journalism education while he was still in college, where he served as his schools newspaper editor. After high school Rob attended University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and got his degree in Mass Communication-Journalism and English. After that, he spent some time in Arizona before making Oregon his permanent home. Rob has a long list of impressive accomplishments in the field of journalism. He spent over 20 years with the Gazette Times as Managing Editor, works for Oregon State University on their Professional Advisory Board for Media Communications, as well as being the head of the Journalism department for Linn-Benton Community College. Even though Journalism is one of Rob’s life passions’, teaching is where his heart lies. While serving on his high schools’ paper, he realized that the power of leadership was a “humbling experience and that [he] could make a difference.” In my brief interview with him, I could tell that he truly cares about his students and about making a difference in their lives. Rob is still continuing his education by getting his MBA in Business of Administration. Once he finishes his degree he plans to apply his knowledge to making himself a better teacher and spending more time with his wife and three kids.

Corvallis Local Economy

At a glance:
Who: Corvallis Business'
What: Corvallis local economy
Where: Corvallis, Oregon
When: As of October 6Th, 2009
Why: Interesting to the people that live here.
How to get involved: Shop locally, go to local events, and go out every once in a while to keep business flow going.

In the past several years, the nation’s economy has plummeted and everyone has taken a hit. The struggles that Corvallis has faced in this economic slump may not be seen by some people that live here. We have all seen many local businesses, like Fox and Firkin, Michael's Landing, The Gables, and Urban Minx Boutique have all been forced to close because business flow wasn’t enough to meet demands. There are many reasons that play into why businesses either succeed here or they don't. They have to have enough customer pull to get the local people when a majority of the students go away during school breaks and the summer. The audience that companies are trying to attract have to be focused on the locals and the realistic needs of the town.

Hewlett-Packard is one of the major players in the town's economy and has suffered job reductions numerous times in the past year. What's left of the once vibrant HP FAB has felt a crumbling blow. “Everyday HP gets closer to discovering a more efficient method to produce the special microchips that are produced in our FAB, bringing the life of our FAB to a complete halt,” Eddie Hanson an engineer from Hewlett Packard informed me. This means hundreds of people will be out of work due to their jobs being shipped overseas for cost reduction. When this happens, Corvallis will experience unemployment like never before.

Another huge contributor to the local economy is Oregon State University. Having a university in Corvallis adds value to our town because it gives people a reason to come here. According to OSU website, enrollment has jumped 8 percent since last school year. This means that since more students are in town their parents will come to visit them, take them out to dinner, buy them things they need, and just gets people out on the town. This means more business for the local businesses.

"There are two different reasons people come to Corvallis to live: The first reason is because they see it as a place to get an education, grow as a person, and to party. The second reason people come here is to settle down and start raising a family." OSU student Jaci Bullis said. The two far end of the spectrum cause ample opportunity to have businesses. In this economic time people cant be opening businesses that don't apply to the people who live in the town. According to economy.com, the cost of living in Corvallis is much higher than that of the United States. Luckily not all of Corvallis has taken a hit, head chefs of Aqua and Terzo Restaurants,Adam Kekahuna and chef Iain Duncan, are opening a new restaurants this fall in Corvallis. It is named Flat Tail and it is going to be an upscale pub. This is good news for Corvallis this means that we have been able to survive and not fall to bad into the recession.

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Local Economy in Corvallis

In the past several years, the Nation’s economy has plummeted and everyone has taken a hit. The struggles that Corvallis has faced in this economic slump may not be seen by some people that live here. We have all seen many local businesses forced to close because business flow wasn’t enough to meet requirements.There are many reasons that play into why places either succeed here or they don't. They have to have enough pull to get the local people in through out the summer when the students all go away for the summer. The audience companies are trying to attract has to be actually in Corvallis and be realistic about what we really need in town.

Hewitt Packard is a huge player in Corvallis’s economy and they have been cutting more jobs monthly it seems. Once Hewitt Packard figures out how to use another material besides gold in the microchips then the Corvallis FAB will be shut down and all the work will be shipped over seas. With such a huge place shutting down this will cause Corvallis’s unemployment rate will shoot even higher. Another huge contributor to the local economy is Oregon State University.

There are two different reasons people come to Corvallis to live: The first reason is because they see it as a place to get an education, grow as a person, and to party. The second reason people come here is to settle down and start raising a family. The two far end of the spectrum cause ample opportunity to have businesses. In this economic time people cant be opening businesses that don't apply to the people who live in the town. There are lots of areas to look at when it comes to opening any kind of new business. For instance it probably isn't the best idea to open a pizza parlor in a town that already has three other ones, there just is to much competition to survive. Overall Corvallis has been able to survive and not fall to bad into the recession.