Check out KWC students Marybeth Powell and Matt Mistretta in this 14 WFIE news story about Owensboro’s attempts to attract college students to town:

KWC’s new AED (Automated External Defibrillator) program was featured on the 14WFIE news this week. Thanks to a $10,000 grant from OMHS, we are making campus life safer for students.

Watch a video clip of the news segment below:

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Time for a few quick stories as students take a break from getting ready for finals …

– Probably not a career path most KWC students are thinking of, but this guy makes more than $45,000 a year cashing in trashed betting tickets from racetracks and betting parlors. Amazing. Only in the U.S.

– Good review of Amazon’s Kindle, the most popular electronic reader out there. Will never replace holding a book in your hands, but provides instant, easy, portable access.

– Now this is cool: a slideshow (with audio) by a New Yorker photographer of international heads of state at a United Nations meeting in September. Fascinating.

– Good advice from a college admissions dean (at Wesleyan University, not to be confused with Kentucky Wesleyan) on how to be accepted to the college you want.

– Did You Know 4.0. (Goes well with the Kindle article.)

– In the midst of the crazy Christmas shopping season, Target is helping checkout clerks enjoy their jobs — by making the checkout process like a game. Smart.

– You gotta see this: an autistic artist from England drawing the New York City skyline from memory. Absolutely incredible. Here’s one he did of Tokyo. Check out the detail:

All of sudden, finals don’t seem so hard …

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