| Work experience at icScotland
This week icScotland was lucky enough to have Coatbridge youngster, Craig Roe, in on work experience. These past few days he's written reviews, edited on-line content for our local newspaper sites and also helped our staff out on some video editing. From what he's learned Craig has created his own online article using all the skills he has learned here at icScotland. .
Ready for the World
Hard to believe the Big Apple could come as a letdown, but for at least one of the six students enrolled in the American University in Cairo (AUC) course Writing on the Road: Discovering America, the Manhattan skyline apparently fell short of her expectations. The students were, in a sense, pioneers — not only was it their first visit to the United States, but the January 2007 Journalism 299 course was also AUC's first effort to send Egyptians to study in a country that sends so many students to the Cairo campus. .
Post details: Don't believe the hype
Opponents of the proposed city charter amendment wielded a weak argument at Monday's Lincoln City Council meeting. They said the proposal, which would prevent elected officials and council members from having contracts with the city, would prevent business owners from running for city office. That would be true only if a business depended on city contracts. Most businesses don't. There would continue to be plenty of business candidates if the amendment were enacted. Conversely, the proposal would boost the city's ability to demand good, or at least adequate, performance on contracts. Right now city employees find themselves in the uncomfortable position of enforcing contracts on people who control the city's budget. To this political independent, the proposed amendment seems in the taxpayer's best interests.
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I did some of the links outside but the road in front of the hotel was rather busy and there was a very noisy bar a few doors away. In the end, I had to do resort to sitting with my microphone under the duvet to get rid of the echo! Obviously it was rather dark under there, so I had to attach a torch to my head in order to read my script. And with the temperature and humidity already uncomfortably high, I can tell you that it was far from pleasant! In fact, I could only manage one link at a time before coming up for air and water! What a glamorous life us reporters lead! I mentioned the other day that you can't even get away from the World Cup when you're travelling between cities on German trains. Well, it's the same on Berlin's underground system. The windows in some carriages have come out in a nasty football type rash.
Kutztown U. faculty postpones no-confidence vote on president
KUTZTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The Kutztown University faculty says it is delaying a planned no-confidence vote on university President Javier Cevallos.
Faculty union President Michael Gambone says in a campus blog the delay will either give Cevallos time to deal with faculty concerns, or expose problems with his leadership. The vote was planned for Monday through Wednesday of this week.
Faculty members cite quality of education problems from crowded classrooms to cramped faculty office space.
Cevellos says many of the problems ironically are a result of success. The university is dealing with an enrollment growth of 2,000 students in four years - reaching 10,500 this year.
The KU trustees and the State System of Higher Education's board have voted in support of Cevallos.
Nikon D60 SLR Packs a Punch
There was a time, back in the days of film (you remember film, don't you?), when Nikon, competing with Canon as industry leader in SLR cameras, made one flagship model and stuck with it. The Nikon F3 was its top-of-the-line camera for 17 years. Today, 17 months is a long time. Nikon now manufactures eight different digital SLRs and, in the spirit of the digital age, keeps updating them. Less than a year after the 10-megapixel D40x, here's the 10-megapixel D60. .
Dell Will Sell Computers at Best Buy
A television spot shows old machines exploding in slow motion, leaving only a new XPS One, and ends with the tagline, "Dell. Now available in beautiful." From Best Buy's perspective, the deal with Dell adds another name to the chain's lineup of PCs. Dave Morrish, a Best Buy senior vice president, said adding Dell would give its customers unprecedented choice in buying a computer. Shares of Dell rose 64 cents, or 2.6 percent, to $24.95, and Best Buy shares gained 89 cents, or 1.7 percent, to $52.71. .
'Vantage Point' leads box office
Sony's action-thriller "Vantage Point" took advantage of limp competition to open atop the domestic box office with an estimated $24 million, easily felling its nearest rival. Fox's action fantasy "Jumper" finished second in its sophomore session with $12.7 million, as a 54 percent drop from opening grosses yielded a 10-day cume of $56.2 million. Paramount's family fantasy "The Spiderwick Chronicles" rung up $12.6 million on a modest 34 percent fall in its second outing to grab third place and produce a $43.6 million cume. The Disney dance sequel "Step Up 2 the Streets" slipped 48 percent in its second frame to gross $9.8 million for fourth place, yielding a cume of $41.4 million. Warner Bros.' adventure yarn "Fool's Gold" fetched enough coinage from its third weekend to finish fifth with $6.3 million and a $52.4 million cume.
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