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Las Lomas High School senior finds calling as TV anchor
I discovered my life calling when I was a junior in high school. I was taking a media studies class at Las Lomas High School, and I suddenly felt like everything was right in the world. I had something to work for. My life made sense. I wanted to become a news anchor. I want to be a news anchor because I want to have the power to inform people about what is going on in the world. It's the one career I feel comfortable about pursuing, and it complements my love of talking, being in front of the camera and journalism. Originally, I laughed at the idea because being a news anchor seems like an impossible dream or a job a lot of people want to do. But as I began visiting news stations, like KTVU 2, CBS 5, KRON 4 and NBC 11, my dream became more realistic. When I went to KRON 4 in San Francisco, I saw firsthand what it was like to put together a newscast.
KHOU jobs
KHOU-TV is now accepting applications for paid summer internships for the following departments: news, production/Great Day Houston. If you're a junior or senior in college and would like to be a paid intern with Houston's No. 1 watched News team, this is your chance! KHOU is committed to hiring interns from colleges and accredited universities and potentially integrate them into our workforce in the future. Internships offer everyone an opportunity to see if they are interested in pursuing a career in broadcast journalism, in multiple capacities. All of our interns receive the benefit of being assigned a mentor. The mentor will provide a platform to develop passion, skills and experience. Our mentors will provide a learning partnership with our interns, and teach them all there is to know about the fascinating world of television.
Crackdown on rowdy drinkers
You can't have it both ways, if you don;t want people smoking inside then you have to let them smoke outside. I still think the police should be concentrating on more serious matters, like solving crime perhaps, not telling people to be quiet. Watch out Edinburgh, we'll soon become a laughing stock!!! if we're not already! .
AMD devises telehealth kit for first-responders
N. CHELMSFORD, Mass. AMD Telemedicine (www.amdtelemedicine.com), a telemedicine equipment leader, announced that it has created a Deployable Telemedicine Kit and is working to identify disaster organizations, first-responder teams and medical facilities around the world that would be able to deploy and/or utilize this type of medical equipment in the event of a disaster.
With the kits, healthcare providers in the field would have the ability to send photo images of inner ear/nose/throat, trauma to extremities, soft tissue injuries, captured ultrasound images, digital 12-lead electrocardiograms, digital lung capacity reports, and heart or lung sounds.
The specialist in the field would then send the information to a medical specialist via satellite, Internet, or Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), providing an evaluation and/or consultation for these remote victims using live videoconferencing or store and forward applications.
Film review: Reality trumps fantasy in `Spiderwick Chronicles'
"The Spiderwick Chronicles" may not be in the same fantasy league as the tales of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling. Yet the family flick based on the books of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black is an all-around class act, even if its world of ogres and goblins is a bit stale in the wake of its more ambitious cousins in the over-the-rainbow genre. The human characters are the main source of wonder here. Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger and Mary-Louise Parker authentically capture the fractured spirit of a family newly cast into single-parent mode, while David Strathairn adds a wistful streak as a naturalist so absent-minded he fails to notice how his devotion to a magical realm has cut him off from the marvels of everyday life. Far more modest than films based on Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings," Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia" and Rowling's "Harry Potter" books, "Spiderwick Chronicles" actually becomes more pedestrian the further it wanders from reality.
Wal-Mart unleashes employees in blogs
Microsoft is one of Wal-Mart's biggest suppliers. But that did not stop the Wal-Mart employee in charge of buying computers from panning Microsoft's newest operating system, Vista. "My life has not changed dramatically" because of the new system, he wrote on his blog. "Well, for that matter, it hasn't changed at all." His public burst of candor was not isolated. On the same blog, a video game buyer for Wal-Mart slammed a "Star Wars" film as a "debacle," even though Wal-Mart still sells the movie. Known for its strict, by-the-books culture - accepting a cup of coffee from a supplier can be a firing offense - Wal-Mart is now encouraging employees who do the buying to speak frankly, even critically, about the products the chain carries. An unusual new Web site by Wal-Mart, which was quietly created during the holiday shopping season, has become a forum for unvarnished rants about gadgets, raves about new video games and advice on selecting environmentally sustainable food.
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