1)The budget for a local college is $120 million. Of that total, the state provides about 66% of the funding. Grants, fees, and gifts provide less than half of that; about 29% of funding comes from those areas. The remaining 5% comes from student tuition.
2)*For every 12 months in prison, the person gets about a 1.5 years on probation
*The median: 12 months
*The median is an accurate account because it is the most common number, so the likelihood of a person spending a year in jail is strong.
3)*California state sales tax is 8.25%
*I wasn't sure how to answer the second two bullet points because I didn't know where to get the information to use? Or I wasn't sure what it was asking
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
AP Style Excersise S-Z
1) When he heard the building scheme for the new high school had been rejected, Bill pulled out his stationary to write a letter of protest.
2) Ben really knows his scriptures, but he knows little about the Talmud or the Shariah.
3) Her home in upstate New York is surprisingly ultra-modern and rather unique for its middle-class neighborhood.
4) To celebrate Veteran's Day, the anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, troupes of former soldiers will march down Main Street carrying U.S. flags.
5) Word of mouth has it that Ellen will wind up with the only “A” in the class.
6) When Sara spotted the Louis L'Amour paperback, she asked who's book it was. She couldn't believe it was Johns; after all, nobody reads Westerns anymore, she had no idea he was so weird.
2) Ben really knows his scriptures, but he knows little about the Talmud or the Shariah.
3) Her home in upstate New York is surprisingly ultra-modern and rather unique for its middle-class neighborhood.
4) To celebrate Veteran's Day, the anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, troupes of former soldiers will march down Main Street carrying U.S. flags.
5) Word of mouth has it that Ellen will wind up with the only “A” in the class.
6) When Sara spotted the Louis L'Amour paperback, she asked who's book it was. She couldn't believe it was Johns; after all, nobody reads Westerns anymore, she had no idea he was so weird.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Brite #1-Squirrel
Tuesday morning 47,000 rail commuters were tied up because of one little critter. A squirrel climbed onto the Metro-North Commuter Railroad power lines.
An electrical power surge occurred that weakened an overhead bracket. Because of the weakened bracket, a wire from the overhead bracket dangled down and got tangled up in a train passing underneath resultng in tearing down all the lines.
Trains were not running out of Manhattan. Commuters waited for hours and the trains never came.
This squirrel caused a huge tie-up for commuters and in the end he got what he deserved, he was electrocuted while sprinting around the power lines.
An electrical power surge occurred that weakened an overhead bracket. Because of the weakened bracket, a wire from the overhead bracket dangled down and got tangled up in a train passing underneath resultng in tearing down all the lines.
Trains were not running out of Manhattan. Commuters waited for hours and the trains never came.
This squirrel caused a huge tie-up for commuters and in the end he got what he deserved, he was electrocuted while sprinting around the power lines.
Applesauce
The northbound lane of highway 101 in South Sonoma County was blocked off today by road crews but this was not the usual traffic jam. The roads were blocked off due to the sea of apples that flowed out of the back of trucker Robert Urbin's Broadway Transportation truck.
The 24 full apple containers spilled out of the flatbed trailers when Urbin's said that heard a cable snap and the rear flatbed started "whipping" and scattering apples. The rolling apples then created a very sticky and goey mess. "We've got applesauce all over the highway," said CHP officer Wayne Ziese. Highway road crews cleaned up 10 tons of apples, the apples were along the side of the road for 200 to 300 feet.
When the accident happened, there was a mist in the air that made the roads rather slick and that added to the hazard after the apples spilled. It happened just south of Petaluma near Kastania Road, Ziese said.
Urbins said he was driving 55 mph, but he was given a traffic citation for the spilled load. That citation is likely to cost several hundred dollars.
No one was injured in the apple accident. That's according to Ziese. But he added that a motor home that was right behind the flatbed truck sustained minor damage.
The 24 full apple containers spilled out of the flatbed trailers when Urbin's said that heard a cable snap and the rear flatbed started "whipping" and scattering apples. The rolling apples then created a very sticky and goey mess. "We've got applesauce all over the highway," said CHP officer Wayne Ziese. Highway road crews cleaned up 10 tons of apples, the apples were along the side of the road for 200 to 300 feet.
When the accident happened, there was a mist in the air that made the roads rather slick and that added to the hazard after the apples spilled. It happened just south of Petaluma near Kastania Road, Ziese said.
Urbins said he was driving 55 mph, but he was given a traffic citation for the spilled load. That citation is likely to cost several hundred dollars.
No one was injured in the apple accident. That's according to Ziese. But he added that a motor home that was right behind the flatbed truck sustained minor damage.
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