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iPad Apps that Create Content for a Digital Interactive Whiteboard
Digital interactive whiteboards are easy to create on an iPad with the right app. With an iPad whiteboard app, you can use images, text, audio, and your own handwriting to illustrate concepts in front of your class. Whether you want to incorporate flip learning, blended learning, differentiated learning, or personalized learning in your classroom, there is a digital whiteboard iPad app that can help you achieve it.
When some teachers try to write in small, delicate handwriting on an iPad screen, it looks like somebody spilled ink on it. Yet there are other teachers who can happily write notes on the iPad and project something legible enough for a class to read.
Regardless of which category you fit in, with the use of the right iPad stylus and some inexpensive apps, you will be able to write on your iPad while walking around the room and even save your notes for posterity.
Not all iPad styluses are created equal. Some are best for drawing, some are best for writing, and others may be multifunctional. When you buy an iPad stylus that you intend to use for writing, make sure the stylus has a small nib, is well balanced, and can produce sharp changes in directions and curves that typify writing.
Your iPad app choices for simple digital whiteboards fall into several categories:
Apps that enable you to create content on your iPad and then project it on the whiteboard
Apps that share whiteboard space so that students can contribute and collaborate on material being presented
Apps that connect to and control a computer, enabling you to project the screen and giving you the option to mark up and interact with the content
For creating content on an iPad whiteboard, your best options include:
ScreenChomp or ShowMe: These apps are simple without a lot of frills. In both cases, you start the app and you get a whiteboard, writing tools, an eraser, and an image insertion tool. If you choose to, you can use the screencast feature to record the whiteboard interactions as you create them.
These apps are not recommended for more than simple illustrations, maybe to demonstrate a principle in math. They are great, however, for anything that doesn't require too much space or complexity. If that's what you need, it will do the trick.
Educreations: If you want the simple interface of drawing on a whiteboard but need a couple of more robust, additional features, Educreations is one app to consider. It adds Undo and Redo features as well as a handy Text tool for typing text on the whiteboard instead of having to write with your finger or a stylus.
For collaborating with students on an iPad whiteboard, a good option is:
Jot!: Jot! is an iPad app that helps you to create a whiteboard on your iPad, and share it in real time. Jot! whiteboards support all the usual whiteboard content, including media and drawings.
For creating an interactive iPad whiteboard, one of the best options is:
Doceri: Instead of paying thousands of dollars for an interactive whiteboard, Doceri lets you create one on your iPad. Doceri enables you to play Flash or run Java, and to duplicate many of the features of expensive whiteboards for very little cost.


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Elizabeth Edwardsopened a furniture store this weekend and all anybody could talk about was her stupid husband's stupid affair.
This event highlights a great shortcoming in modern reporting. You get a perfectly respectable news story, such as a person opening up a store of some sort, and instead of just delivering the facts the reporter attempts to tie the new development to some old chewed-over bit of gossipy trash just to sex it up a little.
Thus, this weekend's story is not "North Carolinian woman opens furniture store in North Carolina." It is "John Edwards, former presidential candidate who cheated on his cancer-stricken wife with a trashy videographer and may have ended up fathering another grandchild of a millworker, stood around while his his long-suffering wife (who still has cancer) opened up a furniture store and the store has furniture in it for sale, presumably."
Look at this sad AP story, which devotes equal coverage to Mrs. Edwards' store and Mr. Edwards' exploits. Or this local news story, which segues abruptly from a brief quote about Elizabeth's retail ambitions to the full rehash of John's life as a cad:
[...] "I thought I'd like to eventually have a furniture store," she said.
John Edwards also attended the store opening.
It was the first time the couple has been seen together publicly since sources told WRAL News that they expect John Edwards to announce he is the father of his former mistress' child.
John Edwards confessed last August to having an affair with Rielle Hunter, who served as a videographer on Edwards' 2008 campaign. He has denied fathering her daughter, saying his relationship with Hunter ended before the child was conceived. ...
Ugh, icky!
So, because all of the "real" journalists are too busy typing out drooly recapitulations of John Edwards' philandering, here's a quick, servicey run-down on this new store. It's called Red Window, and it's located in Chapel Hill. It offers "North Carolina furnishings at wholesale prices," as well as "folk art, lighting and accessories."
That wasn't so hard, was it?
Nobody in the media would have bothered to write about this store opening at all if there were not a famous person associated with it. This says as much about our national anti-furniture store bias as it does our obsession with celebrity adulterers. How many compelling furniture store-opening stories get buried and forgotten every day because there's no sex angle to it? Countless ones, undoubtedly!
This is why, if John Edwards actually had an altruistic bone in his body, he would travel to every scheduled furniture store opening in America in the months ahead. It is the only way he can raise awareness on this vital topic. And to refrain from doing so would be to admit, however tacitly, that he is exactly the type of shallow womanizer who would rather engage in his own selfish pursuits than help a furniture store or two.
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A beautiful home creates the right mood and ambience required for happy celebrations. However, most people are busy enough these days that they do not get time to explore new ideas for Christmas decorations. In fact, there are several ideas including Christmas tree decorations, Beaded decorations and more. You can choose to decorate in the way you like it to be and within your budget too. For setting your home beautiful this Christmas, budget is no limitations; you can get varied Christmas decorations within each kind of budget. You will find here some really simple and beautiful ideas to decorate your home this Christmas. Choosing the art which you use to decorate the walls of your home is often a fraught and difficult task. It shouldn't be, of course, it should be something which is a pleasurable indulgence, but the reality, particularly when faced with the art which tends to be on offer, is often very different. When you're looking for a canvas print or photo calendar, you're looking for a substantial piece of art which will dominate any room its' displayed in and will create an impression of the kind of person you are, whether you like it or not. Another intention when choosing and hanging art is to give your own home that little something different. The choice of the prints on your walls is something you make in an effort to have your home stand out from all the others, and its' for this reason that many people opt to invest in canvas photo prints.


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Though it's been around in some form since man's earliest days, whiteboarding has become an important component of corporate brainstorming or "ideation" as it's sometimes known. What started as a simple, ambulance low-tech presentation method has spawned a cottage industry of seminars and consulting businesses and books. Whiteboarding is all about communicating complex ideas or abstract concepts in a simplified manner. And with the growth of international business, communication has become more important than ever, and what better way to bridge a language and cultural divide than with simple pictures? I, and others looking to expand the role of graphics professionals, have noticed this trend, and would love to find a niche market for graphic artists in this new/old medium. With this in mind, I set out to investigate whiteboarding from an illustrator's point of view. Maybe it's making up for the years of alpha-male-dominated climate in the business world, but the whole idea behind "ideation" may seem a bit "new age-y", starting right with the word, "ideation"(?) and continuing with one of it's core principles: "There are no bad ideas." (Really?? I think I've come up with a few stinkers at one time or another that would qualify.) Then there are some brainstorming exercises involving haiku poery or something called "laddering". So in exploring whiteboarding techniques, I find the challenge is to cut through some of the ethereal stuff and actually DRAW something that makes sense. Something that everyone (or nearly everyone) in the room can understand.
There've been several books on the subject, most notably "The Back of the Napkin" by Dan Roam. For a book dealing with how best to convey ideas simply through the use of pictures, I found it to have a lot of...well... words. After wading through all the acronyms (SQVID?) and bullet-point lists, I found the information overload to be somewhere in the realm of Steven Hawking's "Brief History of Time". To be fair, the book's main market is business people who want to bridge the communication gap between other business people, so they be more accustomed to the business-speak in "The Back of the Napkin". The book clearly isn't meant as a "how-to" for illustrator's looking to tap into the whiteboarding market. In fact , one of Roam's main points is that "anyone can do it". While I'm sure that's true to an extent, I can't help but feel there must be SOME advantage to being able to draw when hitting the whiteboard. After all, ANYONE can play Pictionary, but when an illustrator's playing, the smart money is on them. In the end, one comforting point that I got from the book is that people respond and pay attention to hand drawn pictures better than they do to the average Powerpoint slide presentation, even if they present similar graphs and information. In fact, Roan freely ackowledges that many of the standard whiteboarding symbols (arrows, primitive shapes) come directly from Powerpoint and are proven to best convey certain concepts. And since most modern illustrators are used to working with metaphors and translating abstract ideas into clear visual terms, it seems to follow that illustrators would be naturals at whiteboard presentations, provided that they possess a certain degree of "people skills" (not always a given). More information about whiteboarding and examples of it in use can be found at the following links: Way of the Whiteboard (Dan Roam video)Ideation and Design Principles
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A comprehensive tour in the company of a local guide including St. Paul's Cathedral and the Changing of the Guard (if held). Note: Groups cannot visit St. Paul's on Sundays. Reduced traffic permits more sightseeing and a lower price (GBP £24) applies.
Approximate value: GBP £29 per person
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Let your guide bring the 900-year-old Tower Of London to life before you inspect the fabulous Crown Jewels. Afternoons daily.
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Enjoy your guided visit to the Queen's favorite residence, the largest inhabited castle in the world. The highlight is the newly refurbished state rooms.
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Buckingham Palace & the Royal Mews Afternoons daily July 23 to October 3
First a guided visit to the Royal Mews to see the magnificent gold coach, then admire over 20 grand rooms in the palace used by the Queen for state occasions.
Approximate value: GBP £46 per person
A Taste of London Daily April to October
Ideal for your arrival day, this guided evening excursion combines a traditional London pub experience with a relaxed, night-time river cruise, viewing some of the capital's most beautiful illuminated sights. Enjoy a three-course dinner at an historic London pub in the City of London.
Approximate value: GBP £56 per person
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Swiss Folklore Evening
Contrary to belief, not all Swiss can yodel or blow the alp horn, but those you will meet at your after-dinner folklore party are real experts. They entertain you with merry melodies on the accordion and traditional dances, while you sample cheese fondue and a drink of your choice.
Approximate value: EUR 50 per person
Scenic Lake Cruise
An hour's guided cruise on the most beautiful lake in Switzerland gives you an introduction to this lovely city from a completely different aspect. With its many bays, it offers superb panoramas of the surrounding landscape. The area is rich in historical associations, particularly the William Tell legend.
Approximate value: EUR 25 per person
Mount Stanserhorn
A trip up the Stanserhorn mountain for breathtaking views is an experience not to be missed. The Mt. Stanserhorn Railway is a combination of an old-time funicular, which has romantic 100-year-old carriages with fringed curtains, and a modern aerial cable car, which takes you to the 6,300 ft. peak in about 30 minutes.
Approximate value: EUR 50 per person
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The evening consists of a visit to Montmartre, the heart of Bohemian Paris, with time to see the Sacre-Coeur Church enjoying a panoramic view of the city. Included is a memorable four-course dinner with an aperitif and wine.
Approximate value: EUR 57 per person
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No wave was an underground music, super 8 film, performance art, video art, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the late 1970s through the mid-1980s in downtown New York City. The term "no wave" is in part a punk subculture satirical wordplay rejecting commercial elements in general, that was based in the specific rejection of the then-popular new wavegenre. The term became used in downtown New York City concurrent with the 1981 show, "New York/New Wave" that had been curated by the artist/curator Diego Cortez.
No wave is not a clearly definable musical genre with consistent features. Various groups drew on such disparate styles asfunk, jazz, blues, punk rock, avant garde, and experimental. There are, however, some elements common to most no wave music, such as abrasive atonal sounds, repetitive driving rhythms, and a tendency to emphasize musical texture overmelody—typical of La Monte Young's early downtown music.
No wave music presented a negative and nihilistic world view that reflected the desolation of late 1970s downtown New York and how they viewed the larger society.
In 1978 a punk subculture-influenced noise series was held at New York's Artists Space that led to the Brian Eno-produced recording "No New York", documenting James Chance and the Contortions, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, and DNA.
Sonic Youth made their first live appearance at Noise Fest, a noise music festival curated by Thurston Moore at the art space White Columns in June 1981. Each night three to five acts performed, including Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Rudolph Grey, Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day, Off Beach and others.
No wave had a notable influence on noise music and industrial bands which followed, such as Big Black, Helmet, and Live Skull. Theoretical Girls influenced Sonic Youth, who emerged from the scene and eventually reached mass audiences and critical acclaim.
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FIA announces driver numbers
The FIA has announced which numbers 2014's drivers will use for the rest of their careers after each submitted requests over the winter.
The new rule has been agreed upon to help the sport commercialise the drivers, allocating a number they will stick with until they retire. All the drivers were asked to submit three numbers in order of preference and any clashes were decided by last year's drivers' championship standings.
World champion Sebastian Vettel has opted to use No.1 next year, which is traditionally reserved for the champion, but should he fail to retain the title he will revert to No.5 and the new champion will be allowed to use No.1.
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Nine civilians were killed and 13 others were injured in two days of violence this week by suspected Islamic extremists, newspaper reports said Saturday.
Five people were killed Thursday overnight near Khemis Miliana, 120 kilometers (72 miles) west of Algiers, after armed militants dressed in police uniforms began shooting a group of people drinking alcohol in a clandestine bar, Le Matin and Liberte newspapers reported.
In another incident, a 13-year-old girl was killed Friday when a bomb exploded in Abou El-Hassene in the region of Chlef, 125 kilometers west of the capital, Liberte said.
In Ain Arwa, near Setif, some 300 kilometers east of Algiers, a 23-year-old man was murdered after being kidnapped by suspected militants, according to Le Matin.
The paper also said that a teenager, aged 14, disappeared and was found dead Friday, his head crushed, in Hacaiba, near Sidi Bel Abbes, 440 kilometers west of the capital.
In other violence, a civilian was killed after being taken hostage by an armed group in Sig, in Mascara, some 360 kilometers west of Algiers, the Quotidien Oran said.
Meanwhile, six soldiers were injured when a bomb went off Wednesday on a road between Telagh et Dhaia, near Sidi Bel Abbes, Le Matin reported.
Four communal guards, members of civil militia groups, and a civilian were injured Wednesday overnight in a clash with an armed group in Ain El-Hamra near Bordj Mnael, 70 kilometers east of Algiers, Liberte said.
An estimated 20 armed Islamic militants are believed to have been killed in a recent crackdown against suspects in Dellys, some 90 kilometers east of the capital, the newspapers said.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's efforts to end years of brutal religious violence appeared to be in shatters in the wake of the surge in civilian-targeted massacres.
Despite Bouteflika's ambitious "civil reconciliation" program, at least 200 people a month, have been reported killed in Algeria since a six-month amnesty for Islamic rebels expired on January 13th - ALGIERS (AFP)
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MANCHESTER — Girls On The Run founder Molly Barker will speak in Manchester on Saturday, Nov. 3 as part of a fundraiser for the organization.
Girls on the Run is an experiential program in which running is used to inspire and motivate girls, encourage lifelong health and fitness, and build confidence through accomplishment. Girls explore how they can positively connect with and shape the world through a structured curriculum.
In New Hampshire, more than 400 girls participate in the program, which culminates each season with a 5K run.
"To have Molly Barker visit our New Hampshire council for the first time in its 11 years of existence is so exciting, " said Jen Hubbell, executive director of the New Hampshire Girls On The Run chapter. "Our council has grown in leaps and bounds in the past five years.
"To share Molly is a unique opportunity for GOTR alum, current runners, coaches, parents, and the community to experience a remarkable woman who has changed the world."
During a sunset run in 1993, after years of questioning her self-worth and being defined by others, Barker found the inspiration that grew into Girls on the Run. Seeking a way to help girls recognize their potential and thrive in a world that often sends them unhealthy and unrealistic messages, she began creating a solution.
In 1996, Molly piloted the earliest version of a lesson-based curriculum with 13 girls in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In addition to words of inspiration from Barker, the breakfast will feature several raffle items, including running gear and a gift certificate from Runners Alley, an assortment of accessories from LunaChics of Exeter, a Garmin GPS watch and a grand raffle prize of in-store event at Athleta, a national sponsor of Girls On The Run.
Local models, including program participants and coaches, will present of a fashion show of Athleta gear during the Nov. 3 breakfast.
The event begins at 9 a.m. at the Manchester Country Club. Tickets for the event are $30. For more information, visit wwwgirlsontherunnh.org or call 778-1389.
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MANCHESTER — Girls On The Run founder Molly Barker will speak in Manchester on Saturday, Nov. 3 as part of a fundraiser for the organization.


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Family and friends of four people shot and killed in a pharmacy robbery in Medford two years ago marked the tragedy Sunday with flowers, cards and prayers.
Four white roses lay on a concrete bench outside Haven Drugs. Each had an envelope attached to it with the first name of a victim: pharmacist Raymond Ferguson, 45, of Centereach; cashier Jennifer Mejia, 17, of East Patchogue; and customers Jaime Taccetta, 33, of Farmingville and Bryon Sheffield, 71, of Medford.
Their murders on Father's Day 2011 and the accompanying publicity drew attention to prescription-drug abuse and the crime it fosters. Politicians adopted laws tracking and limiting the distribution of prescription painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone. More money was earmarked for treatment of addicts, and pharmacies improved their security systems.
However, some elected officials and pharmacists said Sunday more needs to be done, citing Friday's robbery and shooting at a Bellmore drugstore.
Outside the Medford pharmacy, around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Brian Sheffield left a card and bouquet for his slain father, Bryon, before bending over and closing his eyes. The younger Sheffield was accompanied by his wife and 12-year-old son.
"It's still a difficult process," said Brian Sheffield, 50, of Manorville, after embracing his family. "Because every day there is something that reminds me of him . . . even though it's been two years."
His wife, Dyanna, interjected, "It seems like yesterday."
The shooter, David Laffer, 35, is serving life in prison for the murders, and his wife, Melinda Brady, 31, who helped plan the robbery to feed her addiction to painkillers, is serving 25 years. They lived in Medford.
Brian Sheffield said last week's Bellmore pharmacy robbery illustrates the severity of the problem. "It's not going to stop unless the politicians do something," he said. "Hopefully, it's going in the right direction."
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has spoken with the Sheffields, said, "We've made some real strides against this epidemic . . . [but] we must keep on working until the problem is solved."
The senator cited increased federal penalties for stealing and trafficking in prescription drugs, and convincing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to delay the introduction of a new generic form of the painkiller oxycodone until anti-abuse safeguards are in place. He's pushing bills for better trained doctors and to make it more difficult to refill some prescriptions.
In Albany, state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and state Sen. Kemp Hannon (R-Garden City), who both championed last year's I-Stop law creating a real-time prescription database, said prescription drug abuse was far from over.
"What we really need is a federal solution and tighter controls on prescription narcotics and their distribution," Schneiderman said.
Hannon, the influential chairman of the Senate's health committee, noted the I-Stop database will become operational Aug. 27, giving doctors and pharmacists quick access to a patients' prescription history.
Pharmacy lobbyist Craig M. Burridge said there needs to be "a balance" between restrictions on drug distribution and wider availability of rehabilitation programs.
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"I think we are moving in the right direction," he added. "But what will happen if people don't seek help to beat their addiction? What will happen when they can't get their prescription filled?"
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This is the time of year when we reflect, especially on the blessings of family and friends. So, as you polish off the last of the eggnog and get ready to give that new driver or those shiny new irons their first whirl, please allow me to share my Christmas with you.
I got a new ring (to those of you, like me, who take your wedding band off to play golf, trust me, you will eventually lose it) and I received some much-needed clothing. But I also got a letter, typed and folded, sealed and stamped, even though the little girl who mailed it lives in the same home with her mother and me.
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HHS has acknowledged one out of four transactions on its website could have had errors before the fixes, and it believes nine out of 10 are now accurate. It is still verifying information with insurers.
"We are working closely with issuers and have an intensive and meticulous process currently underway to compare enrollments between (the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) and insurers to make sure that everyone who has selected a plan knows the steps to take to ensure their coverage starts Jan. 1," HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters said in an e-mail. "If consumers are not sure if they are enrolled, they should call our call center or the insurer of their choice so they can get covered by Jan. 1."
While insurers all agree the information flow from HealthCare.gov has improved, at least one said it's not by enough.
"The data, while it has improved, is not where it needs to be to get us where we need to be on Jan. 1," said one official with a major insurer, who asked to remain anonymous so he could be more candid. "We are still seeing errors. The ones that trouble us the most are the orphan ones."
So-called orphans are described by industry officials as people who think they have signed up for insurance, but the insurer, HHS — or both — don't have a record of the application.
Consumers have been calling Sentara wanting to pay for the new Optima Health plans they think they signed up for, but in many cases the company has no record of the application. The company has accepted some of the payments and is hoping to find the consumers in the new HHS data it is combing through.
In a comment echoed by other insurers, DeGruttola says people are calling and trying to pay Sentara for plans the company has no record they purchased.
"We don't know who we don't know about," says DeGruttola. HHS is "trying to put a little more clarity to those unknowns."
Aetna, Cigna and Optima all say the files they are receiving from HealthCare.gov have dramatically improved since fixes to the website Nov. 30.
"Happy to say we've been successfully enrolling customers through healthcare.gov in all five states where we're participating on the exchanges," Cigna spokesman Joseph Mondy said in an e-mail. Cigna is selling policies in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Tennessee and Texas.
But Aetna notes there is a way to go.
"The website is still a work in progress, and we are working closely with the marketplace technical team and other carriers to help identify, prioritize and test additional issues," spokeswoman Susan Millerick said in an e-mail.
Problems seem most common on files involving couples or families with dependents, insurers say. Insurance brokers have told USA TODAY applications for dependents and couples have tended to be the ones most likely to be inaccurately qualified for Medicaid.
"It's a mess with the files, period," says health care consultant Kip Piper, a former insurance company official and state regulator. "With anyone applying for more than one person at a time, this reconciliation process is unable to give a clean and correct file for every individual."
At one point, so many children were being listed as spouses that "the joke early on was that there was an epidemic of polygamy," says Piper.
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I was sent a fun package & a coupon by My Blog Spark for Yoplait Fiber One 50 Calorie yogurt. I got to try their new product. I was really excited to try this product out!! Not only was it only 50 calories, but gluten-free, to boot!! I am so easily amused, I know. 😉
I chose the Key Lime flavor. Wow….this stuff was pretty good! Non-fat, 50 calories & 5 grams of fiber!! The real test was Jon….if he likes it, you know it rocks! 😉 LOL! It passed the "Jon" test! He ate the other 3 in the package before I could get to them!! These are great for a quick afternoon snack to hold you over until dinner or even after dinner as a nice little dessert treat.
From Fiber One
Best-selling author and food expert Lisa Lillien, AKA Hungry Girl, has given her "seal of approval" to the new Fiber One yogurt, the only leading nonfat yogurt with 50 calories and 5 grams of fiber (20 percent of the Recommended Daily Value). It is also a good source of calcium and vitamins A and D, making this an all-around great choice for dieters and those watching their weight. Each cup includes the creamy, delicious taste you expect from Yoplait, and you don't have to feel guilty about enjoying it. Fiber One is available in a variety of flavors including, Strawberry, Peach, Vanilla and Key Lime Pie (see what Hungry Girl thinks about the new yogurt:
Now, are you ready for the fun stuff? My Blog Spark is going to send out gift bags to 3 lucky readers!!! Each of the 3 readers will receive exactly what is pictured above. The cooler bag and other items to carry your snacks & yogurt. Also, you can go here for a $1.00 off coupon for Fiber One 50 Calorie Yogurt.
What do you have to do to enter this giveaway? I am going to tell you.
1. Answer this: What is your guilty snacking pleasure?
2. If you have a blog, post about this giveaway & link back.
3. Add me to your blog roll if I am not on it.
4. Good luck! You have until Sunday, August 19, 2009 at midnight to enter this giveaway!
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Last fall, Governor Terry McAuliffe said the threat of a government shutdown shouldn't be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations over the health care law. Now, he and the Democrats in the Virginia Senate are holding Virginia's budget hostage to Obamacare, threatening to hold up funding for our teachers, schools, firefighters, police officers and local governments. This is wrong! Virginia should pass a clean budget with no strings attached. The debate for expanding Medicaid under Obamacare should be a separate issue.
I urge you to contact Governor McAuliffe, your Senator and your Delegate to ask them to stop holding the budget hostage to Medicaid expansion. If you don't know who your Senator is you can find out here.
Medicaid Expansion PPP 2/24/14 from Bob Marshall on Vimeo.
The Medicaid expansion has been touted as a way to get "free" money to help underserved Virginians. We all know there is no such thing as a free lunch. Accepting whatever Federal taxpayer funds Virginia would receive would only be for a maximum of 3 years and then Virginia would be required to take up the slack to the tune of billions of dollars. The federal government is hemorrhaging money and even if I thought expansion of Medicaid were a good idea I do not believe adding to our national debt is in the best interest of any Virginian.
Medicaid is already the largest expenditure that Virginia has in its budget. If we were to take on the additional costs associated with this expansion taxes would have to be raised and reductions would have to be made to important programs like transportation, education and many others.
Some Democrats have insisted that if the Federal government were to stop paying their share of the funding for expansion that Virginia is always free to back out. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is no provision in the Obamacare law or in the regulations promulgated since then that would allow any state to back out of this contract.
In addition to all of this Medicaid is currently riddled with fraud. Last year Virginia Democrats agreed to defer any action with regard to Medicaid expansion until action was taken by the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission and now they are going back on that pledge. States that have undertaken reforms have found millions of dollars in fraud. If we fix the broken system there will be additional funds to help those who actually need it without expansion or taking on this additional burden for Virginia taxpayers.
Please contact Governor McAuliffe, your Senator and Delegate to urge them not to support Medicaid expansion in the budget!


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From LinuxTVWiki
Kaffeine is a very versatile KDE media player that, by default, utilizes Xine as its backend. It has a simple but intuitive interface (example screenshot) and is easy to setup. Amongst its list of supported formats are CDDA, VCD, DVD, .... and, since versions >0.5, it also provides full DVB support:
- TV and Radio
- Time Shifting
- Recording -- including unattended recording
- Network streaming (transmission and reception)
- EPG, EPG-driven recording timers, OSD EPG now and next.
- DVB subtitles
- HDTV (mpeg2). Kaffeine will correctly display HDTV delivered over DVB-S (e.g. BBC HD on Astra 2 at 28.8 degrees East). To use multithreaded ffmpeg decoding set the xine option video.processing.ffmpeg_thread_count equal to the number of CPUs, ie. 2 for a Dual-core or 4 for a Quad-core (in the GUI it is in Settings/Xine engine config/Video/Advanced).
- Remote control
- Handles multiple devices of any type (DVB-{C,S,T} and ATSC1 ).... and even if you have only one DVB device, Kaffeine can simultaneously play and record different channels within a same transponder).
- Handles mutiple frontends on a single device (for example a multi-standard card supporting say DVB-S and DVB-T).
- Channel scanning on multiple devices/frontends, and multiple satellites.
- Channel favourites lists.
- DiSEqC 1.x switches, DiSEqC 1.2 and USALS satellite dish rotors.
- Supports both Low and High level CI.
Note 1: Scanning with ATSC hardware is supported since version 0.8.7. For older versions, to configure tuning support for ATSC devices, refer to the directions contained in this thread.


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I have BIG news! I'm excited to be back and catch up with all of you.
Thank you FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART to everyone who wrote me during my absence.
Thank you FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART to everyone who wrote me during my absence.
I have a new poetry book out called IN SEARCH OF THE WILD DULCIMER and a BUSY BOOK TOUR planned, so maybe I can FINALLY meet more of you lovely human beings IN PERSON!
Yes, I went back to my roots with the MFA (from George Mason University 2008) and wrote a book of Southern poetry, though, really, it's for anyone, anywhere who loves music, family, words.
Please go to my Facebook page for all the photos and current news until I GET THE NEWLY RE-DESIGNED BLOG UP AND RUNNING!
More Catching Up:
After we moved to Italy and back, Tom deployed to Afghanistan. Shortly after he returned, we moved to Washington, DC for language immersion training.
I LOVED being back in the METRO DC area and we lived on 15th Street just up from THE WHITE HOUSE.
I'll post photos from that DELIGHTFUL excursion soon.
After having taken several years off from actively being a journalist/fiction writer/poet (though I still read voraciously and wrote, too!), I FINALLY started "officially" being a writer again exactly two years ago.
I'd never submitted my fiction and poems before, only journalism pieces, so that was a first!
These two years have been so kind to me as a writer. I'm tremendously grateful!
They were also super tough (vast understatement!) with a complete hysterectomy/oophorectomy with complications on top of all the moves overseas and back and to DC and back. VERY HUMBLING!
But…the joy far outweighs the arduous aspects of my life, so no complaints here!
Below you'll find my little writer's bio that encompasses lots of what's been going on and a link to my book on Amazon.
PLEASE do not feel pressure to buy the book. That's not why I'm writing this post. I just want to share with you what I've been doing.
I want to reconnect.
To start blogging regularly again, at least once a week!
I'll still include some vintage design posts, though.
I sold out of all the large items on my ETSY site, but if I can ever make it back to Italy/France/Belgium again, I'll add more stuff to it—I LOVE VINTAGE & ANTIQUE PIECES WITH A STORY!
Being a Southerner, I'll occasionally include some cooking posts.
Also some "Here's what I've been reading lately" posts.
Maybe some interviews with fellow writers!
Yep! Definitely that!
Maybe also some tips/hints to jumpstart YOUR poetry and fiction writing.
Most of all I want this blog to offer you ENCOURAGEMENT simply because I know we can't go through this life alone.
We all need some light and love.
Actually, as much light and love as we can possibly find!
I am UTTERLY EXCITED to catch back up with you all.
Love and light to every single one of you,
Lana Kim White Austin
A finalist for the 2015 James Wright Poetry Award, Lana Kim White Austin's poems, short stories and interviews have recently been featured or are forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Sou'wester, The Writer's Chronicle, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Zone 3, The Pinch, Appalachian Heritage, The New Guard, and Switchback, amongst many others. Also a journalist, she has written for numerous newspapers and magazines. Austin studied creative writing, and received multipleawards and scholarships, at both Hollins and Mary Washington.
Her short stories and poems have made it to the finals and semi-finals of multiple national competitions, including the aforementioned James Wright Poetry Award, The Machigonne Fiction Contest, and The Crab Orchard Review First Book Award, amongst others. She has an MFA from George Mason University (2008). Her first poetry chapbook, In Search of the Wild Dulcimer, is from Finishing Line Press.
A former foster child born and raised in rural Kentucky, she has lived in England, Italy and Washington, DC, but currently resides in Alabama with her husband and three children. She teaches creative writing (Poetry, Fiction and Playwrighting) and directs original works via her Performing Playwrights classes as well as traditional operettas and musicals through Ars Nova Productions & School of the Arts. She is about to begin directing the first Opera In the Schools program in Huntsville in 2017, culminating in original operas being written and performed by area students.
Advance Praise for
In Search of the Wild Dulcimer:
Blood moves like music in the body of this book and you can hear it as you read. In Search of the Wild Dulcimer celebrates physical and invisible grace--all that gives life to art and to us. Austin makes us hear the sound that thrums inside us--a song that is a story. Here are poems of country ways and Southern melodies "divined from a vast river." What a joy to hear her sing.
--Steve Scafidi
Author of Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer, For Love of Common Words and The Cabinetmaker's Window
Lana Austin's In Search of the Wild Dulcimer is a beautiful collection. In poem after poem, Austin recognizes the importance of the familial, the personal, and the ways in which sound, particularly Southern music—gospel, soul, bluegrass, and others—informs lives in ways deeply sensual and resonant. Indeed, Austin's poems resonate with a vividness and genuineness that makes it easy to trust the poet—to know that what is written in these pages is more than poetry about family, music, and love—it is music itself, a book of call and response, close harmony, and sometimes "a single aural finger" that strums words both "lonesome" and "tremblingly full." This book is a "host of voices," a powerful choir of a debut.
--William Wright
Series Editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology
Author of Night Field Anecdote and Tree Heresies
In earthy narratives calling on the lives and work of legendary traditional country music performers and blues players and in short lyrics of a rare, brave sweetness, Lana Austin woos us into the Kentucky of her origins and the region of the spirit. These poems are honest, straightforward, and resonant as a lost-love song.
--- Betty Adcock
Author of Widow Poems, Slantwise and Intervale
The poems in In Search of the Wild Dulcimer--like the hymns and secular songs which many of the poems reference, often paying homage—reconnect, reinforce, and define lineages and generations through love and suffering and conviction. "The almost Patsy Cline voice of Neko Case" at a concert can slick a couple of fifteen years into a frenzy of desire, which provokes the speaker to imagine her grandmother pulled into a "fierce coupling" with her grandfather, "when everything needed to come undone," when the grandmother could put aside in those ecstatic moments "the crops that failed, the babies / [she] buried" while the couple "clutch each other against the seasons turning." Lana Austin shows what too few poets writing about the South are able to capture: authentic Southern experience spoken by an empowered voice that refuses stereotypes, that knows the past and its connection to it but, ultimately, looks forward.
--Adam Vines
Author of The Coal Life and editor of Birmingham Poetry Review
The poems in Lana Austin's In Search of the Wild Dulcimer sing out with an Irresistible energy. Music is their theme, and their abiding metaphor, the tissue connecting our lives to the past and to the present. In poems like "Sex at the Ryman" and "Highland Elegy," Austin brings us to that place where the body and spirit meet. She hears the "simple incandescent strand" of her Kentucky roots in the ballads of Jean Ritchie, the plaintive tremolo of the dulcimer, and the "hybrid harmony" of blood relations singing together. Lana Austin invites her readers to follow this strand, and in doing so offers a reminder of the rich and varied ways music and poetry move us.
–Jesse Graves
Author of Basin Ghosts & Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine


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Program evaluation
From Wilderdom
- Program evaluation in outdoor education, adventure education, & other experiential intervention programs
Starting points
- Why program evaluation? - it has become increasingly important for outdoor education and experiential education organisations to demonstrate clear evidence of effectiveness, but motivations for organisations to engage in evaluation vary
- Common practices in program evaluation - what types of program evaluation are conducted? Summarises survey results about outdoor education program evaluation foci, source, and type
- Tools, instruments, & questionnaires - a list of instruments recommended for use in outdoor and experiential education program evaluations
- Needs assessment for program evaluations - to get underway with designing an evaluation, complete this needs assessment. It will help to focus and plan your program evaluation efforts.
- Handling results and benchmarking - Why use effect sizes instead of significance testing for program evaluation? - Effect sizes are underutilised in program evaluation; significance testing is overutilised
- Example evaluations - downloadable examples of outdoor education program evaluation reports by James Neill
Recommended resources
- Basic guide to program evaluation - a knowledge base of program evaluation resources (McNamara, 1999)
- The Evaluation Center - Western Michigan University
- Online Evaluation Resource Library - online library for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations
- #programevaluation - jtneill's bookmarks on delicious
Gass, M., & Neill, J. T. (2001). Introduction to program evaluation. Presentation to the 29th Annual International Conference of the Association for Experiential Education, 2 November.
Greenaway, R. Evaluation of training/learning books & reviews. Active Reviewing.
Hendricks, B. (no date). Improving evaluation in experiential education. ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools.
Neill, J. T. (2010). Program evaluation and outdoor education: An overview. Presentation to the 16th National Outdoor Education Conference, Notre Dame University, Fremantle, Western Australia, January 10-13.
Priest, S. (2001). A program evaluation primer. Journal of Experiential Education, 24(1), 34-40.
Watters, R. (1988). Benefit cost analysis of non-commercial outdoor programs. In Proceedings of the 1986 Conference on Outdoor Recreation.
Watters, R. (1991). Cost benefit analysis of recreation programs for the disabled. Idaho State University Outdoor Program, Pocatello, ID.


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Vimeo has been working on an iPhone app for a long time, determined to make it as good as possible. And from the sound of it, they've succeeded, which means the wait has been worth it. Today Vimeo has released a free iPhone app that allows users to watch Vimeo clips on their phone. More importantly, however, it also allows you to shoot and edit videos from the device.
The Vimeo iPhone App Details
It's an unexpected-but-welcome feature for the app, which many assumed would simply be a video viewer for Vimeo clips. But instead of a passive app, they've released one that is quite active, allowing you to create, perfect, and share your creations on the go.
The main competition for the new Vimeo app is YouTube, just as it is online, where YouTube is the clear market leader. There's even a YouTube app pre-installed on every iPhone device. So in the race to pry consumer eyeballs away from YouTube, the Vimeo app needed to pack a special punch. That punch comes in the form of video creation editing capabilities, and I think the Vimeo crowd is going to love it.
GigaOm sure seems impressed:
…a simple video editor built into the Vimeo app… lets you add simple titles and text to the clip, create transitions and add a soundtrack. It's a pretty bare bones editor, but it's also one that works remarkably well considering it's not even the primary purpose of the app. It feels like you could do a pretty great job of shooting, editing and publishing simple, impressive short videos all without ever even leaving Vimeo.
It's worth pointing out that Apple's own iMovie app–released not too long ago–does many of the same things Vimeo's app does. So getting consumers to adopt the new app could take some time.
Will It Be A Success?
Vimeo has carved out a nice niche in the online video space, particularly by differentiating their content. Vimeo caters more to visual artists, and has carefully built a very warm and vibrant community. YouTube, on the other hand, takes on all new customers without regard for the quality of content or discussion. Most Vimeo users wouldn't be caught dead uploading to YouTube.
So in that regard, there's a built-in audience out there for this thing, made up of Vimeo's already-loyal fans. But will the app be enough to pull any YouTube loyalists away from that camp? It's doubtful. If you aren't already using Vimeo to upload and share your clips, you're probably not going to change your mind on the strength of a single iPhone app.
But I'm not convinced new customer acquisition is even one of Vimeo's motives for creating the app. I really think they value their customers… and that their customers have been clamoring for an iPhone app. It could be as simple as that.
Back when the app was in development, General Manager Dae Mellencamp basically said as much:
"Vimeo user has been asking for an iPhone app for a long time. Not everybody uses the browser as much, on the iPhone particularly. People have become prone to using the apps. We want to be where the users are."
I find more and more great video content on Vimeo every day. The world needs video communities that set the bar high and go after clips and creators that rise above the casual home-videos of YouTube. In some ways, this Vimeo app is long overdue, and gives fans a way to watch great artistic video while on the go.
In other ways, the wait was truly worth it, as users can now do a whole lot more than just watch a Vimeo clip–they can create a new one from scratch.


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Super Bowl ads: Broderick's Ferris Bueller takes day off for Honda
Ferris Bueller has been gone from the big screen for more than a quarter-century, but he receives the perfect homage in an extended cut of a new Super Bowl ad for the Honda CR-V released Monday (check it out below).
Without ever mentioning the names Bueller, Cameron or Principal Rooney, director Todd Phillips and the creative team at the Santa Monica ad agency RPA pay homage to the cinematic truant in a 2½-minute short that is a veritable festival of references for '80s movies geeks. (The material, which continues a Super Bowl advertising trend of referencing modern classics such as "Star Wars" and "Vacation" -- that is, movies thirtysomething and fortysomething consumers grew up with -- will air as a 60-second commercial in the fourth quarter of Sunday's Patriots-Giants game.)
Matthew Broderick begins the spot by calling his agent and feigning illness so he doesn't have to shoot that day. (He's in an L.A. hotel, presumably in town from New York making a film.) Said agent excuses him, annoyedly, from his call time, and the Ferris wheel begins to turn.
PHOTOS: Super Bowl halftime performances
A valet attendant calls out "Broderick, Broderick," in a nod to Ben Stein's monotone as he gives the actor his Honda, which he uses to speed around Los Angeles on his day off. The agent standing in for Rooney misses catching his hooky-playing subject whooping it up on television (this time he's on his cellphone at a high-end restaurant).
There are vanity license-plates ("SOCHOIC" instead of "NRVOUS") museums (Natural History of L.A. instead of Chicago Art) and parades -- only instead of "Twist & Shout" and "Danke Schoen" with marching bands on the streets of Chicago, it's a Mandarin tune with a traditional choir in a Chinese pride gathering.
Broderick even comes out after the spot seems to be over to wonder what we're still doing there. And, for true Bueller geeks, the name of the agent, Walter Linder, is a nod to the name listed under sausage king of Chicago Abe Froman on the restaurant-reservation list in the original film.
Of course, in the original, Broderick tools around in a 1961 Ferrari, not a burgundy Honda CR-V. But as even he might admit, we all need to grow up a little bit.
Madonna will welcome LMFAO to Super Bowl halftime stage
Super Bowl ad mania kicks off with a commercial for a commercial
Videos: Matthew Broderick and more Super Bowl commercial teasers
-- Steven Zeitchik
Photo: Matthew Broderick in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Credit: Paramount Pictures