| Dan Bumpus
Dan co-anchors News 11 Your Day, News 11 at Noon, and is the Breaking News / Update Anchor for News 11 Your Morning. Dan also alerts viewers to the latest scams and rip-offs that are targeting innocent consumers, as well as product recalls that could be putting you and your family in danger. Dan has worked at several television stations across the nation, and is proud to be back home doing the news in northwest Ohio. During his career, Dan has interviewed everyone from former Presidents, to rock and roll legends, to average people with extraordinary stories to tell. A native of the city of Oregon and a Clay High School graduate, Dan grew up watching WTOL News 11. During his college years at Bowling Green State University, Dan worked as a technician and associate news producer for WTVG in Toledo.
Report looks at schools' success with Moodle
A new report from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) aims to introduce educators to Moodle, an open-source software program for managing courses online. "While the Consortium for School Networking is vendor-neutral and tries to help inform technology decision-making in K-12 environments by focusing on the choices available, there are times when examining a specific product can be very helpful," says the report, called "Moodle: An Open Learning Content Management System for Schools." "Such, we believe, is the case with Moodle. While this report is technically not vendor-specific (since Moodle is 'open-source' software, it does not require going through a commercial vendor), we believe that the widespread and often enthusiastic response to Moodle by K-12 institutions creates a need to briefly define what Moodle is, to [suggest] what it can do, and to give some specific examples of how it is being implemented." Moodle enables teachers to develop online curricula and lesson plans, administer assignments and quizzes, and participate in professional development activities from home.
Thinking Right
This alone should be enough to derail the Mormontologist flip-flopper and catapult the Godly Salt-of-the-Earth Rev. Huckabee to Primacy. (Though by 'primacy', THE Captain does not imply any Episco-Catholic status upon the Godly Mike. Let's leave that devil's stain to Don Vito Giuliani!) The open ballot forum is another innovation that should be adopted nationwide. This would certainly go a long way to wives pledging to vote Right, only to be seduced by the siren song of Bill "Mighty Fallus" Clinton or Barack Obamandingo. Women need to be protected from their base animal natures, and this is a salutary method for applying proper guidance. Yes, what could be more fitting than that we turn to a state of White Christianist scat-shovellers to designate the front-runners in the Presidential campaign? The New Hampshirites can no longer be trusted to be first in the Nation on this question, as the flood of migrating Islamassachulesbians has polluted their once Godly political bloodline.
Endangered Democratic species
On Jan. 18, America lost a gifted corporate leader, generous philanthropist and great patriot, Terrence Elkes. I was one of many who also lost a beloved friend.
Terry's passing marks something else — a further diminution of one of those most endangered of species: Democrats who are national security-minded and find themselves increasingly unrepresented by their party's national leadership and would-be presidential candidates.
While Mr. Elkes climbed the highest peaks of the nation's capitalist system, including a transformative stint as president and chief executive officer of Viacom, he never forgot where he came from: the Bronx.
Like virtually all Americans of modest backgrounds — whether native- or foreign-born — who have translated their intelligence, enterprising spirit and hard work into considerable success, Terry treasured his country as a land of truly unrivaled opportunity.
Washington County Public Schools Increase Use of NetOp School Software ...
NetOp Tech, Inc. Tonya Hottmann, 312-376-0512 th@netop.com or Daum Weigle, Inc. Cindy Weigle, 858-538-9756 cweigle@daumweigle.com When students at one of the 42 schools in the Washington County Public School system decide to wander off task in a computer lab, to check out that popular new YouTube video or the latest sports scores, they are brought .
Burley hits out at Pompey
Here we go again the the Pompey fans that can spell (almost] have come out of the woodwork. I couldn't care less what Pompey do, all I'm interested in is how Saints are getting on. We had nearly 30 years in the top division while they went up and down the lower divisions. Now it's their day in the sun, until the money runs out. As for Dyer after his performance against Cardiff they can have him. He gave the ball away so often I wondered who he was playing for! .
Recap of Saturday, January 26
That's going to be more investing and consumption. Quentin Hardy: Well, some more history, George Bush would have to be the first ever, as far as I can tell, two-term president to end up with the DOW below where it was when he started eight years ago. Nonetheless, he's defied all my expectations so far. I think he's capable of doing it. The stimulus package is inflationary. My poor dollar is going to be so beat up. It's going to affect business; it's going to affect the market. We'll be ok in the end, but it's a long, slow workout. Elizabeth MacDonald: Listen, let's also blame solar flares and El Nino on Bush. By the way, it was Greenspan who guided the market from one acid bubble to the next. I'm a bull long term. I'm a bull because it's going to be two years of weakness, but we are just now on the cusp of true globalization.
Video games seen benefiting from toy scares
Games stand to benefit from the troubles in toyland: the hangover from the infamous recalls of dozens of Chinese-made items containing lead and other toxins.
Game-makers' revenues are forecast to climb 19% or more, according to Wedbush Morgan Securities, fueled by lower prices for consoles, a plethora of must-have games such as "Super Mario Galaxy" and the popularity of Nintendo Co.'s Wii and hand-held DS consoles, which appeal to a broad age range.
At the same time, retail toy sales are expected to decline by 2%, to $23 billion, said Gerrick Johnson, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets.
"There's definitely money leaving that sector," he said. "It's logical to assume that video games might be viewed by some parents as an alternative."
The recalls are contributing, but only modestly, to the growth in games, said Anita Baker, analyst at market research firm NPD Group.
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