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  • Students overcome fear of water, learn to swim Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 11:15PMAquaphobics come from around the world to participate in Sarasota program.
  • After Development Plan Fails, the Accusations Fly Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 7:43PMHow widespread support for a developer transformed into bitter opposition is at the heart of the surprising implosion of one of the most ambitious development projects ever in the East Bay.
  • Week in Apple: new Macs, Magic Trackpad, and a possible Intel clash Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 3:23PMHow long have you been waiting for new iMacs or Mac Pros? What about the Cinema Display? How about free iPhone 4 cases? For Apple to acknowledge the sad, sad performance of iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G? We covered all of that and more this last week. Read on for the roundup.  Magic Trackpad or tragic Mac pad? A review : External trackpads have come a long way over the years, and Apple's Magic Trackpad ...
  • Interactive Story for the Smartboard Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 2:16PMScanned in the images and typed up the text to make this book for Literacy. Hope it is useful.
  • Seven candidates seek to replace Granholm as governor Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 9:04AMFive Republicans and two Democrats are in the running for the governor seat for the state of Michigan. Candidates are Republicans Mike Bouchard, Mike Cox, Tom George, Pete Hoekstra and Rick Snyder. Democrats in the running include Virg Bernero and Andy Dillon for the four-year term.
  • Cotter teachers learn how to use new technology Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 5:03AMStudents in Lisa Coots' sixth-grade science class at Amanda Gist Elementary School in Cotter might be dissecting frogs digitally this year.
  • Lincoln teachers named as top La. educators Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 1:20AMTwo northern Louisiana educators have received state honors as teachers of the year.
  • Wallabies to get a check on progress Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 6:46PMTRI-NATIONS/Australia v New Zealand:AUSTRALIA STAND to receive a World Cup progress report when they meet New Zealand in Melbourne today in a match that could also write the script for the remainder of the Tri-Nations tournament.
  • Chalked up to history: blackboards hit the dust Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 12:19PMTHE days of the classroom blackboard are disappearing into chalk dust.
  • Maori cuisine has language of its own Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 12:13PMThe teenage Stanley Tawa picked up two important souvenirs when he landed his first chef's job at the Hyatt Kingsgate hotel in Rotorua.
  • MINOR LEAGUE FOOTBALL Chambersburg Cardinals have coach under center Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 8:30AMFinafrock file Name: Josh Finafrock Position: Quarterback Size: 6-foot, 230 pounds High school: Waynesboro (1999) College: Juniata College (2003) Grad school: Millersville University (currently) Coaching: Will begin his eighth season on the Waynesboro football staff next month By BRIAN HALL Staff writer This time every year, life gets especially busy for Josh ...
  • Supriya Jindal rallies for school supplies Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 5:18AMLouisiana First Lady Supriya Jindal stopped in Shreveport on Thursday to rally support for a school supply drive for schools and families impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill in Louisiana.
  • Epson outs New High-end Projectors Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 8:54PMEpson Philippines introduced several high-end models of their projectors yesterday. Of the lot, there were two projectors that caught my interest. First one is this ultra-short throw projector (EB-450Wi) specifically made for classroom-type environments. The Epson EB-450Wi projector is mounted from the ceiling and projects the image to a wall, whiteboard, or almost any surface [...] Related ...
  • Power exists regardless of whether we acknowledge it Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 7:48PMTime for me to get some continuing education credits. I’m sitting in a hotel meeting room, one of 500 or so therapists and social workers, and the speaker/trainer is introduced. He has written a book about building healthy community — neighborhoods, schools and workplaces. He’s known nationally.
  • Wallabies desperate to end seven-match losing streak to All Blacks Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 6:59PMMELBOURNE: Australia stand to receive a World Cup progress report when they meet New Zealand in Melbourne tomorrow in a match that could also write the script for the remainder of the Tri-Nations tournament.
  • Map your IT consultancy's processes to learn how it makes money Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 1:38PMErik Eckel recommends creating a diagram of your IT consultancy's processes to see how the firm can increase revenue and improve efficiencies. Here's how to create a processes map.
  • Carter lauds Genia "He's a fantastic footballer" Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 11:12AMThe judicial process eradicated the threat posed by Quade Cooper for Saturday's opening Bledisloe Cup rugby test but the All Blacks still have to contend with his regular partner.
  • Pepco answer man responds to online gripes • Business (www.HometownAnnapolis.com - The ... Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 9:08AMWASHINGTON (AP) — The crisis control center of Pepco this week is a repurposed conference room, which smells like ambiguous takeout.
  • The Simple Way To Craft Your Business Model Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 9:04AMOne of the toughest problems for entrepreneurs is to keep score as they search for their business model. Keeping Score One of the key concepts of Customer Development is writing down your initial hypotheses (guesses) of all the parts of your business model, then updating them with the facts you find outside the building.
  • Beef Up Your BI Strategy Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 8:45AMLast year CIOs faced budget cuts, project delays and increased demand for services, and this year IT budgets have – for the most part – remained flat. For CIOs, it’s a challenging time, and one that requires them to move from cost-cutting measures to providing strategic value.
  • Tri-Nations - Australia ready for World Cup report Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:54AMAustralia stand to receive a World Cup progress report when they meet New Zealand in Melbourne on Saturday.
  • Science enters into Ruh trial Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 3:52AMJurors got a lesson in forensic toxicology during the second day of the trial of Robert Ruh II.
  • All Blacks to give Wallabies World Cup report card Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 2:38AMAustralia stand to receive a Rugby World Cup progress report when they meet New Zealand in Melbourne on Saturday.
  • Perry Isn't Driving Texas Economy: White Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:42PMDemocrat Bill White says Gov. Rick Perry shouldn't get all the credit for Texas' economy.
  • Linfield track coach's company takes to deep-water training Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:24PMGarry Killgore's company, AQx Sports, makes suits and shoes for deep-water running.
  • Beef up your BI strategy Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:56PMLast year CIOs faced budget cuts, project delays and increased demand for services, and this year IT budgets have – for the most part – remained flat. For CIOs, it’s a challenging time, and one that requires them to move from cost-cutting measures to providing strategic value.
  • Pepco responds to crisis, one tweet at a time Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:55PMWASHINGTON — The crisis control center of Pepco this week is a repurposed conference room, which smells like ambiguous takeout. Anybody who is in charge of anything has spent the past several days around a giant table at the corporation’s downtown D.C. headquarters, strategizing how to restore electricity to the thousands of homes that lost [...]
  • The news that changed everything Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:51PMMy wife and I bantered about a broken disposal and our daughter's braces. Then came the diagnosis
  • Pepco answer man responds to online gripes Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 3:29PMTucked away in a nearby cubicle at Pepco headquarters is Andre Francis. Blue Shirt Numero Uno. The first line of defense. He is in charge of monitoring the company's social networking sites.
  • DVD Review: Dog the Bounty Hunter: Crime is on the Run Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 2:20PMMy wife loves to watch Dog the Bounty Hunter . Me, I just like Duane "Dog" Chapman the man, because of his life story and how he basically powers a series based off his charisma alone.
  • Pepco answer man responds to online gripes Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:37AMWASHINGTON — The crisis control center of Pepco this week is a repurposed conference room, which smells like ambiguous takeout.
  • Back to school revision for year 8 Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:16AMLesson designed to brush up some of the vocab and expressions learnt in year 7. Most of the vocab used is from metro 1. Most of the answers to the activity must be "rubbed off", meaning that you have to pass the brush on them to make them appear.
  • AirSketch for iPad review: a realtime browser whiteboard Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 8:38AMAirSketch is a new application from Qrayon LLC which, at first glance, seems to be just another basic whiteboard app. Upon closer examination, however, it turns out that the application has one important feature up its sleeve that sets it head and shoulders above the rest: drawing progress can be viewed in real time using any Web browser with rudimentary HTML5 support, as long as it's on the ...
  • Christmas Tree Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 8:01AMSubjects Foundation: Communication, lang..., Foundation: Knowledge and ...., Foundation: Physical dev....
  • School to receive 20 notebook computers, wireless access, and more Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:55AMWayland, N.Y. — Students at Wayland-Cohocton Central School may notice a few new things in the classroom when school begins in the fall. That’s because the school was one of three across the country to win the eighth-annual “Win a Wireless Lab” sweepstakes.
  • Rainforest introduction powerpoint KS2 Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:31AMThis powertpoint gives basic information, including location of rainforests, flora and fauna, and introduces the problem of deforestation.
  • Ready, set, learn Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 11:10PMMore students and fewer teachers will fill Cherokee County schools when classes begin on Monday. The Cherokee County School District is expecting an additional 603 students to bring its total enro...
  • Horry County teachers return to class Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 10:00PMAs students continue to enjoy the last gasps of summer, some enterprising teachers took the initiative to go back to school and get a head start for their upcoming classes.
  • Strapped states find virtue in vice Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 8:17PMCities and states are investigating 'anything and everything' -- including looser restrictions on gambling, alcohol and strip clubs -- to drum up revenue.
  • New Logan superintendent: AYP priority Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 6:48PMMaintaining the students' achievements in Adequate Yearly Progress is one of the main goals of Logan Municipal School District's new superintendent. “This school has a great record of meeting the AYP year-after-year,” superintendent Richard Hazen...
  • Cats & Dogs (and Pigeons and Christina Applegate) Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 5:03PMAbout as unremarkable as a film about talking animals organized into competing intelligence agencies can be, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore overcompensates for its pre-school premise (I don't know if you've heard, but these house pets—they don't like each other) with a ster...
  • Smart Technologies: Chairing the Smart board market Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 1:57PMBut a big question looms: Are the company’s strongest growth rates now behind it?
  • "Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore" Review: The Talking Animal Sequel Nobody Was Hoping For Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 1:48PMAbout as unremarkable as a film about talking animals organized into competing intelligence agencies can be, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore overcompensates for its preschool premise (I don't know if you've heard, but these house pets — they don't like each other) with a ste...
  • Smart Technologies: Chairing the Smartboard Market Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 12:13PMSmartboard maker Smart Technologies joins -- and leads -- the ranks of tech stocks merging touchscreens and the Internet.
  • Your Weekly IPO Update Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 10:27AMIn today's IPO update we'll check in on the performance of recent IPOs, and take a quick look at new offerings coming soon to an exchange near you. The chart below shows the...
  • In Your Neighborhood: Teacher of the Year knows kindness is key Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 8:32AMLaurel Oberg knew she wanted to be a teacher when she was only 3 years old. “I had such a positive experience at preschool that I told my mother that I would like to be a teacher too,” Oberg said.
  • Recent IPOs Sizzle Out of Gate, But Where Do They Go From Here? Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:57AMAfter a slow IPO market the past couple of years, a number of companies have come to market recently
  • HitachiSoft Selects TerraGo Technologies® as Strategic Partner for Geospatial Collaboration Solutions Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:30AMTerraGo Software and GeoPDF® Solutions Are Central to HitachiSoft Global Geospatial Expansion Strategy
  • Simple machines Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:16AMLearn the different kinds of simple machines and how they work with interactive examples.
  • Causes of French Revolution Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 6:46AMThis lesson covers the causes of the French revolution and uses an interactive powerpoint to draw out the causes of the French revolution for pupils.