| 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. .
Stocks Fall on Bleak Corporate Forecasts
Shares of Airbus' parent company surged Monday after the French planemaker snatched a $40 billion U.S. Air Force contract from its American rival, the Boeing Co. European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. and its U.S. partner, Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman, won the contract to build military refueling planes Friday, one of the biggest Pentagon contracts in decades. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) .
Mother Earth Mother Board
The financial districts of New York, London, and Tokyo, linked by thousands of wires, are much closer to each other than, say, the Bronx is to Manhattan. Today this is all quite familiar, but in the 19th century, when the first feeble bits struggled down the first undersea cable joining the Old World to the New, it must have made people's hair stand up on end in more than just the purely electrical sense - it must have seemed supernatural. Perhaps this sort of feeling explains why when Samuel Morse stretched a wire between Washington and Baltimore in 1844, the first message he sent with his code was "What hath God wrought!" - almost as if he needed to reassure himself and others that God, and not the Devil, was behind it. During the decades after Morse's "What hath God wrought!" a plethora of different codes, signalling techniques, and sending and receiving machines were patented.
Deregulation and the Financial Crisis
There were good reasons for the Fed Policy, but that did not mean the Fed was helpless to prevent the housing bubble. As economists Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research insisted at the time, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan simply by identifying the bubble — and adjusting public perception of the future of the housing market — could have prevented or at least contained the bubble. He declined, and even denied the existence of a bubble. Regulatory Failure Number Three: Financial Deregulation and Unchecked Financial "Innovation." A key reason that mortgages were made available so widely and with such little review of recipients' qualifications was a shift in which institutions hold the mortgages. Traditionally, banks made mortgages and held them.
The Jonas Brothers take the 'Hannah Montana' roadmap to superstardom
LOS ANGELES Most young men can be forgiven for not knowing what they'll be doing two days from now, much less two years. Not the three siblings who comprise the hit trio the Jonas Bros. The superstars-in-the-making have every day mapped out for the next 24 months. If you're not a tween/teenage girl or don't live in proximity to one, you may not yet be in on the phenomenon created by 20-year-old Kevin, 18-year-old Joe and 15-year-old Nick. They opened for Miley Cyrus on her fall "Hannah Montana" tour to the delight of shrieking girls everywhere. Their song, "S.O.S.," catapulted to No. 1 on iTunes. Their second album has sold more than 900,000 copies. And that's just the beginning. Earlier this month, the band became the youngest act to sign a deal with concert presenter Live Nation.
Williams ahead of his time
The Times-Herald will feature an inductee each day leading up to the March 8 Vallejo Sports Hall of Fame banquet. D.L. Hurd could talk about Richie Williams for a week. Williams, the 5-foot-9, 133-pound blur, was ambidextrous, the guy nobody wanted to play a game of H-O-R-S-E with, stepped up his game against the best competition, was the consummate teammate and, best of all, a great person. These are just a few things Hurd lists about the very close friend he still speaks with on a once-a-week basis. Williams - a Vallejo High and Vallejo Junior College star in the 1950s, and later a basketball player at Gonzaga and San Francisco State - is slated for induction with the fifth class of the Vallejo Sports Hall of Fame on March 8. "I just can't say enough about him," said Hurd, a former football player with the Baltimore Colts and a VSHOF member.
Not-so-fine dining cited at many top restaurants
The data were used for stories published today, and were put online with a searchable interface so readers are able to examine restaurant records for themselves. The Union-Tribune database, which can be found at uniontrib.com/more/inspections, will be updated periodically. For the main print story, reporters focused on 103 restaurants that made the 2008 Zagat lists for San Diego's most popular and top food-rated eateries, and places where dinner for one is estimated to cost $55 or more. The Zagat San Diego ratings are based on surveys filled out by 2,500 customers and cover 472 eateries in the county. Zagat ratings are considered among the most democratic because they are composed of customers' experiences and not those of professional critics. Zagat restarted its San Diego edition in 2008, after a seven-year break.
Hopefuls try to find balance on NAFTA
A radio ad in Ohio takes an even more direct approach to NAFTA with men lamenting the loss of steel mills and casting plants as well as jobs going oversees. "Hillary has gone on record saying that NAFTA was a mistake," a woman says. A man adds: "Hillary does have a plan to fix NAFTA. She wants to change it from free trade to fair trade." For his part, John McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, bemoaned the flight of manufacturing jobs while campaigning in Ohio even as he asserts his support for free trade agreements. He told an audience that rather than lament NAFTA, it was time to come to grips with the changing economy. "Now, I've got to give you a little straight talk, my friends. Some of those manufacturing jobs are not coming back, and you know that and I know that," McCain said.
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