Educator's podcast guide.
9781564842312 Educator's podcast guide. Williams, Bard. ISTE 2007 279 pages $31.95 Paperback LB1044 Characterizing itself as "part user-manual, part curriculum planning tool, and part implementation survival guide," this book gives advice...

The virtuous consumer; your essential shopping guide for a better, kinder, healthier world.
9781930722682 The virtuous consumer; your essential shopping guide for a better, kinder, healthier world. Garrett, Leslie. New World Library 2007 213 pages $15.95 Paperback HF5415 The author draws "purchase power" tips...

The New Strong-Willed Child: Birth Through Adolescence.
THE NEW STRONG-WILLED CHILD: Birth Through Adolescence. James Dobson. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2007. 219 pp. Paperback, $14.99. Educators and parents today are struggling with disciplining children, especially children with a strong will. Oftentimes, strong-willed children are considered defiant or problematic. Educators tend to blame parents and parents...

Ckrush Entertainment Ramps Up with 'Minisode' Studio.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-25 July 2007-Ckrush Entertainment Ramps Up with 'Minisode' Studio(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Ckrush Entertainment, a subsidiary of Ckrush, announced that is has formed a "Minisode" Studio to produce and distribute short form original video content for the web and mobile markets, including Ckrush, Inc. sites...

Mechanics Hall marks a robust 150th birthday.
Byline: Richard Duckett WORCESTER - The Worcester County Mechanics Association had at least two reasons to celebrate at its 164th annual meeting in Mechanics Hall yesterday. Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St., a nonprofit organization owned and operated by the association, is 150 years old, and...

As they saw it: Writers took part in a lively local dialogue.
In addition to being a source of information and opinion, a newspaper also acts as a forum for public discussion of matters of general interest affecting the people and communities it serves. So besides printing 2,280 letters and hundreds of local and syndicated columns in 2007, the...

`Dan' is aggravating and not very funny.
Byline: Jim Keogh COLUMN: Movie Review "Dan in Real Life'' has scarcely a real moment in it. It struggles and strains to find humor and pathos in the story of a widower with three daughters who falls in love with his brother's girlfriend. But the...

The forgotten man; a new history of the Great Depression.
9780066211701 The forgotten man; a new history of the Great Depression. Shlaes, Amity. HarperCollins 2007 464 pages $26.95 Hardcover E806 Shlaes (a visiting senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations...

GMA Network posts P1.13-B net income in 1st half, up 23%.
Byline: JAMES A. LOYOLA Broadcast company GMA Network reported a 23 percent growth in its consolidated net income to P1.13 billion in the first half of the year from P915 million in the same period last year. In a briefing yesterday, GMA senior vice president...

A local voice silenced.
Byline: The Register-Guard Radio stations' formats change almost as often as the weather, so news that a local broadcaster has abandoned one type of programming in favor of another is normally shrugged off. KOPT-AM's abrupt move to drop all of its local programming, however, is notable. ...