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One of the
longest-lived hard rock bands in music, Deep Purple made its
influence known on metalheads and prog-rockers alike.
It all started in
1968 when Chris Curtis, an ex-Searcher, formed a group with Dave
Curtiss (no relation, note different spelling) on bass, Bobby
Woodman-Clarke on drums and brought in ex-Artwoods organist Jon
Lord (born 9 June 1941, Leicester, England) and ex-Johnny Kidd
and The Pirates bassist, Nick Simper (born 3 November 1946,
Southall, Middlesex). Nick had survived the car crash that had
killed Johnny Kidd in 1966. Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (born 14
April 1945, Weston-super-Mare, England) joined in rehearsals for
this new act initially dubbed Roundabout. Curtis dropped out
within days, and when Dave and Bobby also proved incompatible,
two members of Maze, Rod Evans (born 19 January 1945, Edinburgh,
Scotland; vocals) and Ian Paice (born 29 June 1948,
Nottinghamshire; drums), replaced them.
Having adopted
the Deep Purple name (apparently inspired by Ritchie's
grandmother's favorite song) following a brief Scandinavian tour
in April 1968 (where they played as Roundabout, "in case
they flopped"), the quintet began recording their debut
album, which they patterned on USA group Vanilla Fudge.
"Shades of Deep Purple" thus included dramatic
rearrangements of well-known songs, including a faithful cover
of Hendrix's version of "Hey Joe" and the Joe
South-penned, Billy Joe Royal hit "Hush", the latter
hitting US #4 in 1968 but not troubling the UK chart-compilers
one bit.
Lengthy tours
ensued as the group, all but ignored at home, steadfastly
courted the burgeoning American concert circuit. "The Book
Of Taliesyn" and "Deep Purple" albums also
featured several excellent reworkings, notably "Kentucky
Woman" (Neil Diamond) and "River Deep Mountain
High" (Ike And Tina Turner). The lengthy intro section to
"River Deep" was a dramatic work-out of the theme from
the then recently released Stanley Kubrick sci-fi classic film
"2001: A Space Odyssey". This piece was based on
Richard Strauss' "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and Jon
Lord's classical leanings would soon culminate in a
self-composed full-length work performed at the Royal Albert
Hall in September 1969.
The band also
drew acclaim for their original material and the dramatic
interplay between Lord and Blackmore. In concert these
guitar/organ duels could go on for over 20 minutes!
In July 1969 both
Evans and Simper were axed from the line-up, which was then
buoyed by the arrival of Ian Gillan (born 19 August 1945,
Hounslow, Middlesex, England; vocals) and Roger Glover (born 30
November 1945, Brecon, Wales; bass) from the pop group Episode
Six. Acknowledged by aficionados as the "classic" Deep
Purple line-up (forever onwards known as Mark II), the reshaped
quintet made its album debut on the grandiose "Concerto For
Group And Orchestra", scored by Lord and recorded with the
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold (later
sir Malcolm).
Its hard rock
successor, "In Rock", established the group as a
leading heavy metal attraction and introduced such enduring
favorites as "Speed King" and "Child In
Time." Gillan's powerful silver-throated vocals brought a
third dimension to their sound and this new-found popularity in
the UK was enhanced when the single, "Black Night"
reached number 2. "Strange Kind Of Woman" followed it
into the Top 10 (reaching #8 in Feb 1971), while
"Fireball" and "Machine Head" both topped
the album charts. The latter included the riff-laden "Smoke
On The Water", based on a real incident involving Frank
Zappa and The Mothers and an infamous Montreaux concert.
Although the
platinum-selling "Made In Japan" captured their live
prowess in full flight, relations within the band grew
increasingly strained, and "Who Do We Think We Are!"
would be the end of this highly successful line-up. The
departures of Gillan and Glover robbed Deep Purple of an
expressive frontman and imaginative arranger, although David
Coverdale (born 22 September 1949, Saltburn-by-the-Sea,
Lancashire, England; vocals) and Glenn Hughes (born 21 August
1952, Penkridge, Staffordshire; ex-Trapeze, bass & vocals)
brought a new impetus to the act. "Burn" and "Stormbringer"
both reached the Top 10, but Blackmore grew increasingly
dissatisfied with the group's direction and in May 1975 left to
form Rainbow. US guitarist Tommy Bolin (born 1 August 1951,
Sioux City, Idaho), formerly of the James Gang and who had
impressed Coverdale with his playing on Billy Cobham's
"Spectrum", joined Deep Purple for "Come Taste
The Band", but his jazz/soul style was incompatible with
the group's heavy metal sound, and a now-tiring act folded in
1976 following a farewell UK tour.
Bolin died of a
heroin overdose within months of Purple's demise. Judicious
archives and 'best of' releases kept the group in the public
eye, as did the high profile enjoyed by its several ex-members.
Successful off-shoot bands include Whitesnake, Rainbow and
Gillan. Pressure for a reunion bore fruit in 1984 when Gillan,
Lord, Blackmore, Glover and Paice (the original Mark II)
completed "Perfect Strangers". A whole new generation
of fans discovered Deep Purple through this release and
subsequent US, Japanese and European tour. A second album,
"The House Of Blue Light", followed, but recurring
animosity between Gillan and Blackmore resulted in the singer's
departure following the disappointing live album "Nobody's
Perfect" which included a 1988 rehearsal re-working of
their first hit "Hush".
Joe Lynn Turner,
one of Blackmore's many Rainbow vocalists, joined and gave the
band more of an AOR (Adult-Orientated Rock) direction. After a
disappointing Slaves & Masters album released in 1990
(though Fire In The Basement is classic 70s Purple), better
sense prevailed. Gillan was re-admitted for his third stint,
uncomfortably sharing stage and studio with Blackmore. The
line-up remained stable while the band recorded "The Battle
Rages On" album released in 1993, but Blackmore jumped ship
once more during the tour that followed. The tour was completed
courtesy of US guitar whizzkid Joe Satriani. Contractual
obligations however, meant his tenure could only be short-term
and Purple hurriedly enlisted Steve Morse (ex-Kansas, Dixie
Dregs, The Steve Morse Band, et al) (born 28 July 1954,
Hamilton, Ohio) as his replacement to record Purpendicular
released early in 1996.
Setting off on
tour again, they took a fresh look at their 70s repertoire; tour
highlights were captured on the "Live at the Olympia"
CD (1997) with forgotten favorites jostling for position against
new material from the "Purpendicular" set. Suddenly
they felt they could have fun again, and the concerts were
enlivened by dropping old faves like "Lazy" and
"Space Truckin'" in favour of new material and songs
from the back catalogue that had seldom if ever been played
(such as "Bloodsucker", "No One Came" and
"Rat Bat Blue").
"Abandon" album had all the classic rock attitude,
nasty guitars, pounding drums and driving bass to scratch that
R.O.C.K. itch. The album included a brilliant reworking of
"In Rock"'s "Bloodsucker" (retitled "Bludsucker")
and the Floydish-style "Watching The Sky" amongst
other driving rock tracks.
In 1999 Deep
Purple had a very successful tour of Australia and Europe. The
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He has always been a love him or loathe him figure... and never more so than in America today.
Piers Morgan finds himself adored by millions of fans of his CNN show and simultaneously loathed by millions of others for his outspoken views on gun control.
The presenter's attack on the US second amendment – the right to bear arms – after the Sandy Hook primary school massacre has even led to him getting death threats.
But it has also won him an army supporters in Tinseltown.
"Jamie Foxx, a star of the violent, Oscar-nominated movie Django Unchained, is incredibly passionate on the subject of gun control," says Piers, who bumped into the actor in Los Angeles.
"I saw him in Soho House and he took me out of the elevator for 11 minutes to tell me he'd grown-up a black guy in Texas where, he said, you learn compromise.
"On the red carpet at the Oscars, Dustin Hoffman said to me, 'God Bless you for what you're doing about gun control', and Adele told one of my colleagues, 'Tell Piers to keep going – he knows what I'm talking about.'
"Then, I was having dinner in an Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills, when Kiefer Sutherland came over, tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Thank you.
"What you're doing is one of the bravest things I've ever seen on television.'
"This coming from Jack Bauer in 24 – the single bravest character in the history of television.
"I also saw Warren Beatty, who campaigned quite a bit about guns in the 60s, at a lunch and he also told me to keep going."
Piers began rallying for changes to gun laws in his adopted home of the US after 20-year-old Adam Lanza went on the rampage, shooting 20 children and six school staff members dead with his mother Nancy's semi-automatic rifle before turning the gun on himself in December. Lanza had also shot his mother dead.
But sadly, not everyone as supportive of Piers' efforts as the stars of Hollywood.
When Piers, 47, interviewed the aptly-named Larry Pratt, head of the Gun Owners of America lobbying group, he labelled him "an unbelievably stupid man".
Within minutes a petition was created on an official White House website demanding the broadcaster's deportation.
It currently stands at over 130,000 signatures.
Soon after, Piers travelled to Houston, Texas, to film in a gun store.
When he emerged, he found himself surrounded by 60 combat-wearing, bullhorn-wielding, rifle-waving fanatics chanting abuse.
"There are millions of Americans who genuinely think I'm the new George III and want to invade their country, take away their guns and overthrow the American government," he sighs.
"It's been pretty threatening and fairly menacing at times – you just have to read my Twitter to see I've had death threats every day.
"There are so many Americans who feel the same as me, who want some level of gun control introduced, but have been reluctant to put their heads above the parapet because of the threats.
"My mother, for example, isn't very keen on me putting my head above the parapet."
Guns are an integral part of American culture, but as Piers points out, the levels of violence in the country have now spiralled out of control.
"I can pop down to Walmart – the American equivalent of Tesco – and buy 100 bullets," he said.
"I cannot, however, buy six packs of Sudafed because it's deemed harmful for my health or a Kinder egg because apparently the toy is a choking hazard. It's ridiculous."
Last year there were seven mass shootings and 31,000 gun-caused fatalities.
More than a million people have been killed with guns since Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968.
Dad-of-four Piers, married to British journalist Celia Walden, first took up the anti-gun cause in 1996, while editor of the Daily Mirror.
He recalls sobbing while watching TV footage of parents howling at the thought of what might have happened to their five-year-old kids in the Dunblane massacre.
His ITV1 series Life Stories last week featured Lorraine Kelly and two bereaved Dunblane parents the Scottish presenter grew close to after the tragedy.
"They thanked me for what I was doing," Piers says. "It meant a lot. If we can just save one life, then all this is worthwhile."
Do you back Piers Morgan's campaign on gun control?
Piers also interviewed Paralympian Oscar Pistorius – for his show Piers Morgan Tonight – just three months before he fatally shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius told the presenter off-camera he had anger issues.
The runner had given a TV interview accusing his competitor of cheating – a move which was slammed on Twitter by Piers.
Recalling their interview, he says: "He couldn't have been nicer or more humble. I feel shocked and saddened by what's happened.
"Off air, he said he knew he had got it all wrong. He was aware he had a temper issue and was trying to stop making that kind of mistake, as he put it.
"He knew he had a slightly combustible personality. That was when I was aware there was another side to him.
"Yet it all comes back to guns – if he hadn't had access to guns in the house, no one would have got shot dead."
Happily, it's not all doom, gloom and talk of guns in the Morgan household.
Piers' fame is at an all-time high and his nightly CNN show is watched by between 300 to 500 million people.
He has interviewed names ranging from Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama and Tony Blair to Demi Moore, Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone.
Not bad for a bloke from Guildford, Surrey.
Incredibly, for the biggest self-publicist since Katie Price and Peter Stringfellow combined, he now – occasionally – longs for anonymity.
Or, as Piers puts it, "to go somewhere without some bloke pointing at me and screaming, 'Oi! You w*****!'"
Since taking over from chat show veteran Larry King, in January 2011 his career has rocketed.
Reclining in his plush leather chair in his LA office overlooking the famous Hollywood sign, he tells how he is now carving out an "explosive" silver screen career.
He played himself in cameos in two huge movies last year: Flight, starring Denzel Washington, and satire, The Campaign, featuring Will Ferrell.
With typical modesty, Piers muses: "Flight, which was Oscar-nominated, was my dramatic debut, whilst I made my comedic debut in The Campaign – the highest grossing political comedy in history.
"Now, I'm doing the maths here: movies I'm in break records, win Oscars – it's my new pitch.
"I've also just found out that I'll be in the forthcoming Paul Potts movie starring James Corden – they're using the original footage from the auditions.
"That will be my third movie in the past 12 months. Call me type-cast, but I think that's what they call a body of work.
"Comedy, thriller, dramatic... I've made more movies in the past year than Hugh Grant. Fact.
"Let's just say the movie career is beginning to explode."
While he may have taken a bashing from extremist, gun-waving Americans, it is clear Piers does not bruise easily.


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Israeli communities near Gaza try to recover spirit after summer war
Less than a mile from the Gaza Strip, men working on a recent afternoon were putting a coat of white paint on a newly built concrete blast wall surrounding a kindergarten in the Nahal Oz kibbutz.
The attempt to soften the impact of the 15-foot-high slabs, which towered over a sandbox, was part of the effort to get life back to normal in the border community a month after a cease-fire ended a 50-day war between Israel and the militant Islamist group Hamas. More than 2,100 Palestinians died in the conflict, along with 72 Israelis and a foreign worker.
Mortar and rocket strikes from Gaza have stopped for now, but with talks on a long-term truce deferred to next month, there's an air of uncertainty at Nahal Oz and other communities along the frontier.
"Nothing is settled. It's all up in the air," said Roxana Silverman at Ein Hashlosha, a neighboring kibbutz. She showed visitors the spot where a mortar shell had landed on a lawn near her house during the war, peppering homes behind it with shrapnel.
"We're all concerned that they might start firing again. I don't feel safe," said Silverman, who fled the kibbutz during the war along with most other residents.
The mass departure from border communities undermined a long-held Zionist ethos of standing fast along Israel's embattled frontiers.
Since the conflict ended Aug. 26 most residents have returned, but some families have decided to leave, and anxious parents living farther away have stopped sending their children to day-care centers in frontier communities.
At Nahal Oz, where a 4-year-old boy was killed during the fighting by shrapnel that pierced the door of his family home, Chantal Cohen, a teacher at the kindergarten, said parents who'd brought their children at the start of the new school year were taken aback by the hulking wall enveloping the building.
"It's difficult for the parents. They say a kindergarten shouldn't look this way, but we tell them it's OK and that we're protected," Cohen said. On the walls of a neighboring bomb shelter, someone had painted cheery images from the popular children's book "Winnie the Pooh."
A note at the kibbutz administration building invited residents to a postwar meeting for "a conversation about the experiences we've been through and about coping as individuals and a community."
"The community has kind of broken up, and it's trying to rehabilitate itself," said Aviad Bar-Lev, a 26-year-old student who lives on the kibbutz. He said that more than a dozen families had decided to leave but that he remained drawn to the rural setting, which despite the occasional flare-ups along the border was "a piece of paradise."
New fences have been built around some border kibbutzes, and soldiers have been posted at entrance gates to provide an increased sense of security. During the war, Hamas militants emerged from tunnels dug near Nahal Oz and Ein Hashlosha and attacked soldiers, raising fears of possible raids on civilian communities.
Sitting at a bus stop at Ein Hashlosha, 80-year-old Abraham Borenstein appeared unfazed. He said he'd stayed on the kibbutz during the fighting, taking walks in the early mornings during lulls in the mortar fire from Gaza.
"I'm not a refugee, and this is our country," he said. "We don't have to run away."
"The birds are chirping again, and in the meantime it's quiet," he added. "But you never know what can happen later. It's not up to us."
Borenstein came from Argentina to Ein Hashlosha a few years after it was founded in 1950 by South American immigrants, and he's weathered many bouts of violence since.
Orli Biyar, who works in the Ein Hashlosha kibbutz office, said that "we're trying to pull ourselves together" after a difficult summer, with lingering concerns that hostilities might erupt again, as they did after previous military campaigns.
The latest Gaza war, Biyar said, had achieved nothing, and "we're right back where we started." She added that although she was politically conservative, she supported a negotiated long-term truce with Hamas.
The Islamist group, which controls the Gaza Strip, has demanded the removal of a blockade imposed on the territory by Israel and Egypt, opening border crossings and building a seaport and airport. Biyar said she supported such steps.
"We won't get anywhere by military means," she said. "We have to help them live more normal lives. If we won't let them live, there won't be quiet."


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Loving volunteer nursery workers provide a clean and safe environment, giving you peace of mind while you attend worship services or classes. The nursery is available for each service.
For those involved in the Nursery, we wanted to also put a document on this page with the monthly calendar for those who are working each month! Feel free to follow the link below to see.
Click here ---> October 2016 Nursery Schedule


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Have you ever heard the saying "April showers bring May flowers?" Well, we are taking that saying literally here at WMBG.
Vote for the WMBG DJ you would like to see get their "April Shower," which will include getting pelted with water balloons, sprayed with water guns, and having a bucket of ice water dumped on them. If your selected DJ receives the most votes, you could be selected to win a Mother's Day bouquet from 1-800 Flowers Colonial.


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Category: Sauces
It is harvest season! That time of the year when you don't know what to do with your copious amounts of (insert vegetable here). For me, it is lettuce, kale and zucchini. I try to eat salads daily, but it seems like it has all grown back by the time I finish my stash in the fridge. After letting some of my kale sit in the fridge for a little too long, I knew I needed to use it up ASAP. I also had half of a bunch of green onions that were looking pretty sad. Voila! Sad looking vegetables turned into a match made in heaven.
…Because everybody needs a rich, fatty, comforting meal every now and then. This dish is truly decadent. The tarragon cuts through the creamy sauce with its intense anise-like herbal flavor. The fettuccini noodles are the perfect noodle for a dish like this, because they have a ton of surface area to soak up the sauce. Leave out the chicken to make this a (very rich) vegetarian option.
This recipe has been delayed for quite some time, sorry for the wait! This is another delicious take on the Buddha Bowl idea from Well and Full. The chickpeas add a spicy crunch to this bowl, while the red pepper sauce adds a bright punch. And yes, I confess that I added some rotisserie chicken to this dish, as you can see in the photos- BUT it usually is completely vegan. The Daily Burn describes Buddha Bowls as, "similar to macrobiotic aka macro bowls in that they incorporate the eating principles of Chinese and Japanese medicine and include raw or roasted veggies, beans, a whole grain, like brown rice, farro or quinoa, and sometimes fish, with every meal. This way of eating is thought to be "ideal" for reducing toxins in the body and lowering your risk of chronic diseases." If you are into this recipe, you will love the Mango Chicken Buddha Bowl as well!
It snowed almost two feet over the last two days. How is this possible?! I have all my vegetable starts ready to go into the garden. Ben and I were going to finish building the bed this weekend! Welcome to spring in Summit County, Colorado…
Now that you all have hopefully abandoned your New Year's resolution of healthy eating, I have a rich and delicious recipe for you to try! I have been hesitant to post this recipe, since the only photo I had of it was not very good, but I have decided that it is too delicious not to share!
Summertime is Fish Taco season. With all the fresh wild caught fish coming into stores, it is the best time for us Colorado mountain folk to get our fix of fish. I usually use swordfish, cod or some other white fish for fish tacos, but this time I decided to splurge. Halibut has a much better texture than other white fish and makes a MEAN fish taco.
So it has been over two months since my last vacation… Which naturally means I have travel fever! My friends and co-workers are currently traveling in or are going to: Japan, India, Thailand and the Philippines. Notice a trend? This has had me craving Asian food!
Isn't it funny how cooking styles vary from person to person? Ben likes to sauté meals, even the proteins. Me? I like to throw everything in the oven, sit back and relax with a glass of wine. I especially think winter is a great time to pull out your dutch oven or casserole dishes. Which do you prefer?
We survived the Holidays! Sorry I have been MIA for a while. The Holidays are the busiest time of the year for a Catering Liaison; but we survived and are now enjoying the normal chaos of ski season in the mountains. There hasn't been much snow, but it has been pretty cold! We have been eating a lot of comfort food, but are still trying to balance it with healthier options.
To pair with my Malaysian Curry Laska, I decided to make a light salad. The RawSpiceBar box also had a Kaffir Lime spice blend, which I though would be perfect for a cucumber salad. I ended up making a dressing out of the spice blend and tossing it with shaved mango and cucumber.
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Evangelist Rick Gage, once dubbed "the Small Town Billy Graham" by Associated Press because of his emphasis on outreaches in small communities, will conduct his South Central Kentucky Go Tell Crusade at Taylor County High School football stadium on Sept. 14-17, beginning at 7 each night.
A pre-crusade youth rally will take place Saturday, Sept. 13 in the Taylor County High School gym, beginning at 6 p.m.
Rick Stanley, step-brother of the late Elvis Presley, will speak at the Sept. 13 youth rally and share his testimony at the crusade on Sept. 15.
Campbellsville Elementary students who were recently named Student of the Week for their classroom are, from left, front: Emily Hayden, Kiedlan Boils, Ethan Perkins, Jasmine Mitchell, Deja Charles and Casey Hardin. Middle: Nicholas Smothers, Gabe Burruss, Lathan Cubit, Austin Lane, Zaquan Sheppard and Samuel Bell. Back: Blair Lamb, Tatem Wiseman, Brookelyn Franklin, Breanna Spaulding, Keniayah Barnett, Shauna Jones and Brenna Wethington.
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, located at 116 S. Columbia Ave., will host a discussion of the "Lost Books of the Bible" beginning Wednesday, Sept. 10, and continuing on alternate Wednesdays thereafter for five sessions.
The Rev. Karl Lusk, pastor, will lead the discussion of the books that were in use by the early Christian church but were not included in the Canon of Scripture we know as the Bible today.
Taylor County High School Marching Cardinals will begin the 2008 season with the Governor's Gold Cup Marching Band Festival on Saturday at Elizabethtown High School.
The Cardinals will compete at 4:15 p.m. in Class AAA with Hart County and Breckinridge County.
Other bands competing will be Carroll County in Class AA and Pleasure Ridge Park, Barren County and John Hardin in Class AAAAA.
The contest features preliminary and final competition with each band performing in the afternoon and the evening.
It will conclude with awards at 9:45 p.m.
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Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bault will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception on Sunday, Sept. 6.
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest J. Hogue celebrated their 60th anniversary Saturday, Aug. 21 with a family dinner at Lure Lodge.
Daris Arnold attended the annual Asgrow Seed Co. LLC dealer meeting July 27-29 recently.
Clarence and Jessie Page Benningfield will celebrate their 69th wedding anniversary on Saturday, Sept. 5.
Campbellsville University's new faculty members include, from left, front: Erin Holmes, English as a second language endorsement specialist; Sharon Hundley, associate professor of education and co-coordinator of ECE Program; Amanda Ewing, instructor in business; Shane Garrison, instructor in educational ministries; Dr. Jeff Justice, assistant professor of political science; and Beverly Edwards, assistant professor of math and computer information systems. Back: Don Cheatham, instructor in education and computer information systems; Dr.
Mr. and Mrs. Brent Robinson of Elizabethtown announce the engagement of their son, Chad Michael Robinson, to Lyndsey Kara Neal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Micheal Neal of Danville.
Neal is a 2001 graduate of Boyle County High School and a 2006 graduate of Campbellsville University, and earned a master's in education in 2007 from the University of Kentucky. She is a math teacher at Boyle County High School.
Robinson is a 2003 graduate of Elizabethtown High School and a 2007 graduate of Campbellsville University. He is an accountant at Potter and Co. in Lexington.
Jessie Insurance Agency Inc. of Campbellsville has been named to State Auto Insurance Companies' Inner Circle, the highest award presented by the regional insurer. The achievement honors successful agencies that demonstrate outstanding sales, service and business management.
The agency received an engraved gold plate to commemorate the achievement with State Auto. Only 129 agencies in the country earned this distinction in 2007.
Grandview Nursing & Rehab hosted its first beauty pageant in July at Grandview Nursing Home. Nurse aides, families and staff helped organize the event. Judges were Eva McCubbin, Pat Hardesty, Jeannie Seaborne, Taylor County Judge/Executive Eddie Rogers and Betty Chaney. Hallie Ratcliff was voted the Grandview Queen. Donna Kirk was first runner-up and Ethel Ford was second runner-up. Best dressed went to Isabelle Brockman, and best hairstyle to Maxine Phillips. More than 200 attended.
Rarely, if ever, has an election captured global attention like this one. The race for the White House is a topic of conversation at dinner tables, in marketplaces and halls of worship and on news broadcasts around the world. Democracy is on full display, and the message is hopeful, forward-looking and bright.
Here at home, the historic nature of this election is inspiring a kind of democratic renaissance. Registration and turnout are expected to reach historic highs.
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Commercial Offences
If you drive for a living, you need to protect your livelihood. Truck drivers, school bus drivers, and other commercial vehicle drivers need to be aware of the rules and regulations surrounding their jobs. If you have been charged with a commercial driving infraction, it can lead to serious consequences that put your ability to provide at risk. Ensuring you are operating a safe vehicle, having all the proper permits and tags, and following all safety regulations associated with your type of vehicle and load are extremely important to keep your Carrier Safety Rating and CVOR record as clean as possible. These are public records, which means your track record is available to everyone – most importantly your customers and competitors, but your insurance company and financial institutions, as well.
Commercial vehicle offences are serious, and we take them seriously. If you have been charged, let us be your first stop.
First, contact Got a Ticket Fight It – we have the experience and the knowledge to get the best results for you. Contact us, request a free quote, or call today for your free consultation at 780 428 1000.


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First go at resin printing
I recently took delivery of an iBox Nano 3d printer which was a kickstarter campaign I backed. It seems robust enough but has some very extreme limitations and is quite buggy. I tried to print a solid model of a locomotive I am working on in 2mm scale and it seems to have really miss interpreted some of the polygons! As you can see the rear of the model at the tops seems to have been conjoined at the top of the model – not really quite sure what happened there!
Its also very hard to model for this printer as it uses an LCD screen to block UV light on the resin, this obviously makes everything orientated around square pixels, this makes the low resolution claimed very difficult to achieve because your either on a line of pixels or your not.
I also managed to knock the desk and spilt some resin as so that it overflowed into the components so looks like this is the end of experimenting for now. There does seem however something quite satisfying about resin printing – so maybe its time for an upgrade to a better machine???


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I know if you're reading this, you are looking to see what I have been up to..art wise. And though I mostly post about my work...I wanted to share with you a little birthday experience that occured last week on my birthday. I am 25 now. When I was younger I thought that meant I was a real adult. Now I am not sure real adults exist.
Either way, I had a fabulous birthday which started out with vegan banana nut waffles topped with peanut butter and syrup...my fella and I made a confetti cake from scratch and then watched the original 101 Dalmations, which has the best drawings of any buildings I have ever seen. We then had an amazing dinner and some beers with some good friends. I wish you could have been there...it was great. I wanted to share some cake with the world but no one showed up so we ate it all. It was delicious.
OK ok, so now that I am putting all of my pictures on my computer, which is rarer than rare, I am finding some fun projects I should tell you about.
As some of you know, I did a paperdoll for CraftSanity Magazine back in January, and she has a new friend coming out in March. Here's a sneak peak...but I won't give away what craft she might be in love with..
Be sure to check out CraftSanity Magazine in March for this fun paperdoll and many many crafts ideas, patterns, ect.
And...one more project I am currently working on is for a personal friend. It's been a while since I have worked on a 3-D project, but I am having a blast..
That's all Ill bore you with as far as my life goes :)
Hope everyone is safe and happy and warm tonight.


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If you are a real estate agent that is interested in getting local results, you may want to tune into our Santa Clarita Radio Show's latest interview.
Today marks our show episode 239. It is chaulked full of intel - but one of the most important things it will tell you or express to you is how to interview a real estate agent.
We posted up an article some time ago on the proper questions to ask when interviewing a real estate agent.
It brought a lot of traffic to the blog, and since then we have been asked the very same questions when being interviewed - it was interesting to say the least.
Also, it was hard for me to hide the grin that started when I was asked about production and some of the other questions that I posted up on our Questions to ask a Realtor Resource.
Be safe - Search well and let the REMAX of Valencia CA Team know when you are ready to move.


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We're excited to give the player the ability to explore millions of options in building the perfect glove," says Michael Markovich, Glove Global Business Director for Wilson.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 18, 2011
For years, Wilson Sporting Goods Co. has enjoyed outfitting major league baseball players with gloves made with custom colors and styling. It has led to some of the most iconic gloves in baseball – from KP92 designed in tandem with Kirby Puckett to the striking blue and red leather used by C.J. Wilson. Now, for the first time, Wilson is proud to offer that same level of personalization to all players through their Custom Glove Site, available at http://www.wilsoncustomgloves.com.
Wilson is dedicated to creating gloves that fulfill each player's individual requirements. And now that dedication is being taken even further. The Custom Glove Site not only allows athletes to choose a glove that represents the best in fit, form and function, but also their personality and style of play.
"We're excited to give the player the ability to explore millions of options in building the perfect glove," says Michael Markovich, Glove Global Business Director for Wilson. "Whether they want to add their name to an existing model, or customize a classic pattern to match their own taste, they can create a unique A2000 just like the pros."
Baseball and Fastpitch A2000 gloves are available and fully customizable - from the color of the leather to the style of break-in. Players can even choose Superskin, the Wilson patented leather alternative, which is two times stronger and half the weight. Additionally, personalization is offered on Pro Model gloves, which are built to the exact specifications of the pros, and MLB gloves, designed with each team's colors and logo. Wilson prides itself on creating the highest quality gloves with more customizable options than any other brand in the world.
Since the soft launch of the site on Tuesday, fans have been posting their Wilson creations all over the internet. The custom site includes a Share function that allows the user to post their design to Twitter and Facebook. Wilson encourages fans everywhere to interact with us on our Facebook (http://facebook.com/WilsonBaseball), Twitter (http://twitter.com/WilsonBallGlove) and YouTube pages (http://youtube.com/WilsonBallGlove).
Custom Wilson gloves retail for $329.99 and are available now. Visit http://wilsoncustomgloves.com or your local Wilson glove dealer to customize your own A2000.
More Custom. More Colors. More You.
Your Glove is YOUR Glove. Choose Wisely.
To learn more about Wilson gloves and other equipment, visit Wilson baseball at http://www.wilson.com/en-us/baseball/ and Wilson fastpitch softball at http://www.wilson.com/en-us/fastpitch/.


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Burning of the Socks for Thursday, March 23 from 6- 8:30 pm. Cost: $20 for members, $25 for non-members.
The South Carolina Maritime Museum invites you to usher in the coming of spring and the arrival of boating season at the sixth annual Burning of the Socks on Thursday, March 23, 2017 from 6 pm until 8:30 pm. In addition to the sock burning festivities, we will offer Hard Hat Tours of our museum renovations (MORE ABOUT THAT HERE), and serve up some delicious hors d'oeuvres, seafood gumbo, landlubber gumbo, beer, wine, liquor, and live music. Be sure to bring your winter socks to burn in the fire.
In the mid-1980s at a boatyard in Annapolis, MD., Captain Bob Turner wore socks all during the long, cold winter months while working on OPB's (Other People's Boats). By winter's end, his socks were stand-up stiff with sawdust, caulk and bottom paint. On the first day of spring, Capt. Bob placed his leavings laden socks in a paint tray, doused them with lighter fluid, set them on fire, and then drank a beer to celebrate. And so the spring tradition of sock burning began and it has grown to coastal communities across the country.


text: On Aug 11, 2006, at 8:17 AM, Bish, Tim wrote: >> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users- >> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brad DerManouelian >> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:41 AM >> To: Discussion about mythtv >> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware suggestions >> >> On Aug 11, 2006, at 7:31 AM, Bish, Tim wrote: >> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users- >>>> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Alan Anderson >>>> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:25 AM >>>> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org >>>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware suggestions >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I too have been looking at the Antec Fusion case for my next front >>> end. >>>> >>>> From the response and reviews it sounds like its as quiet as they >>>> say, >>> so >>>> should be good in the living room. I'll move the Antec Overture > into >>> the >>>> basement and make it a dedicated backend. >>>> >>>> Anybody know for sure if there is a linux driver for the VFD? I >>>> have >>>> read >>>> several reviews on the case and so far they have mentioned linux >>> drivers >>>> but >>>> so far nothing specific. >>>> >>> >>> Any Idea who manufactures that LCD? I have an IRTrans VFD / IR >>> Receiver >>> in my Origin X11, and its supported by the LCProc program, which >>> supports many different LCDs. I'd suggest doing some searching on >>> LCProc after you find out who really makes that LCD. >> >> Have you had any luck getting that LCD and IR receiver working? I >> just picked up a Zalman HD160 case with the IRTrans VFD/IR Receiver >> and plan on playing with it a bit today. Wondering what my chances >> are for getting it to work. :) > > I haven't spent a lot of time on it, I've been debugging what has > turned > out to be a hardware problem on my ASUS A8N5X motherboard. Once I get > the replacement in, I will tackle that along with getting the SPDIF > working. > > Google IRTrans lcdproc and you will find some info. Funny. I've been battling a bad PCI-E slot on my Asus A8N-SLI-Deluxe board. Replacement will be in today, but I probably wont have time to put it together until after next week.


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NIST lays out the basics of hypervisor security-- system admins take note
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American standards body the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has laid out the basics of hypervisor security in a draft publication released for comment on October 20.
The system admin guide presents no less than twenty-two security recommendations, under the key headings of isolating virtual machines from each other and the host hypervisor.
It also hints admins at controlling access and device emulation and preventing VMs from executing privileged operations.
The publication also talks about various VM management and managing settings for interactions with the hypervisor itself.
The report notes that some threat types are well known, well understood, and common to any server-based virtualisation software.
For example, system admins should already be aware that they need to secure against network-based attacks, and likewise that Web-based management interfaces are a real risk point.
On the other hand, security threats from rogue VMs being used as an attack vector through ìchannels such as shared hypervisor memory and the virtual network inside the hypervisor hostî are specific to the virtualised environment.
Rogue VMs can arise through misconfiguration of the hypervisor and/or its guest container; or malicious/vulnerable device drivers, the document says, which provide vectors for attacks such as rootkit installation or attacks against other VMs on the same host.
On the network itself the report says, a rogue VM could spoof IP or MAC addresses, hop across the VLANs that are meant to isolate traffic of different tenants, or try to intercept network traffic.
Rogues can also be used for denial-of-service attacks, by way of resource starvation. The draft, written by NIST director and George Mason University professor Ramaswamy Chandramouli, is open for comment until November 10.
Source: The National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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Plus Size Vinyl Lingerie
Get the ultimate hardcore look with Lingerie Diva's collection of plus size vinyl lingerie. Black vinyl makes any lingerie item a bit more risqué and dangerous. To create a bold seductive look that commands attention, give vinyl a try. We have vinyl in a matte finish or shiny for that wet look. We offer dozens of vinyl lingerie items that will have you wrapped in sexiness from head to toe.
From full-length vinyl catsuits to barely there G-strings, you can incorporate as much or as little black vinyl into your next kinky romp session as you'd like. In this collection, you'll find plus size vinyl crotchless panties, underwire bras, garter belts, and thongs. Our plus size vinyl collection also has several cupless options to show off your breasts including bras, teddies and corsets. Leave a little more to the imagination by adding pasties, also available from Lingerie Diva.
Find lace-up details in our plus size vinyl dresses, corsets, teddies and rompers. Other embellishments featured in our vinyl collection include buckles, zippers, studs and chains. If you've been naughty and are in need of punishment, Lingerie Diva's plus size vinyl spanking dresses are a daring choice. In fact, any piece from this vinyl collection would be perfect for your next BDSM adventure. Add a whip, paddle and other provocative accessories from Lingerie Diva to ensure you have all the tools you need in your bondage kit.
But you don't have to confine your vinyl vixen ways to the bedroom. In addition to our plus size vinyl intimate separates, you'll find black vinyl pants, jackets, thigh high stockings, mini dresses and skirts. Create the perfect outfit for a night at the dance club or an adult Halloween party. No matter where you find yourself, wearing vinyl will help you channel your inner badass.


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Love fashion and love dressing is no longer the patent of girls. Under the influence of Europe, America, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korean culture, male citizens have come to the top of fashion trend. Blue jeans, after experience of 150 years, has formed a cowboy culture and gradually become one of the exclusive dresses of people. Choosing fashion and delicate mens multi pockets pants is of great importance.
As a pant that can be worn in spring and summer, even fall and winter, blue jeans will make you look handsome and lively which can show your beauty of body lines and give you a sense of youthful and full of energies. These beautiful blue jeans are not expensive and it gains a great popularity among customers. It is not only an all-matched single product, but also an essential in men's wardrobes. However, since people have different figure shapes, you have to match your pants according to specific situations.
This pair of elastic waist mens jeans has a similar design and pattern with the mens multi pockets pants that I mentioned above. The wrinkles on the pants are very attractive and unique which remind me of waves in the sea. With the same color as seas, these jeans give me a comfortable and easeful feeling. It seems that this new-born pattern has aroused a new fashion trend in men's clothing. As a new pattern, it looks much more special among seas of traditional jeans.
Both of these fashion and casual jeans are suitable for men who are tall and have a good body proportion. Your leg should be thin and straight enough. Only in this way, these jeans will show your advantages and fashion appearance to the largest extent.
Both of them are the new arrival of this season, you will find more new fashion clothing in here. Trust me, both of them will be the fashion necessities in the coming season!


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For the Arizona Cardinals there has been one GLARING hole in the team these past two seasons at the quarterback position. So naturally us Cardinals fans are getting psyched up about the prospect of bringing one of the greatest QBs of all time to partner with Larry Fitzgerald. This illustration is my way of supporting the #PEYTON2AZ movement.
Prints are not yet available for this illustration but, if you are a supporter of the movement, feel free to post elsewhere. The only thing I ask is that you give credit and if possible link back here.


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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
God Bless You, Joel Connelly
But, sometimes miracles happen.
In his own words Mr. Connelly admits, "A contrarian idea took hold of my mind. Show for once, that a Seattle newspaper scribe can write a column sympathetic to the pro-life view-point."
Connelly, in his column, "Liberals Need Own 'Plan B' On Pharmacies" says, "The state's liberal, peace and feminist activists have a lengthy record of standing with those who take stands on conscience."
He points out the inconsistencies in the case concerning the Storemans family and their refusal to stock or sell the abortion pill "plan B" in their pharmacies and the subsequent lawsuit over their conscientious objection. Although the legal costs in this matter has had a devastating financial impact on their business, they have merely refused to sell the pill, offering to refer customers to pharmacies that do.
Connelly says, "Liberals should recognize and defend individual acts of conscientious objection, even by those of different political faiths."
I recommend you read his column.
God bless you, Joel Connelly. At least this time.
Gary Randall
Faith & Freedom
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8 comments:
- Anonymous10:48 AM, February 03, 2009
"A contrarian idea took hold of my mind. Show for once, that a Seattle newspaper scribe can write a column sympathetic to the pro-life view-point."ReplyDelete
Of course this requires that one ignore the numerous columns Connelly himself wrote against the death with dignity initiative. Or are we subtly admitting that "pro-life" is really just an attempt to put positive spin on "anti-abortion".
- Anonymous8:34 PM, February 03, 2009
Its not really sympathetic to a pro life view , but the choice of the individual to obey his or her conscience . Actually if you think about it , its the pro choice view . But I agree he is consistent in his thinking on the matter, and that is at least principled . He is respecting the choice towards life as much as the choice towards abortion .ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:37 AM, February 04, 2009
What is the real reason behind the passion for abortion? I don't understand why pro-choice people are so frantically pushing for abortion that they want to control the thoughts and actions of others!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:37 AM, February 04, 2009
8:37 must be living in some alternate reality because here on earth no one is "pushing" abortion. The pro-choice movement is "pushing" the idea that the decision to end or continue a pregnancy belongs to woman, who is pregnant and to her alone. The only one's trying to control the thoughts and actions of others are the anti-abortion, anti-contraception zealots, who make up the so-called right to life movement.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:04 AM, February 04, 2009
"What is the real reason behind the passion for abortion? "ReplyDelete
I don't think their is as much passion as you may think . Perhaps its because we hear the folks like the fella who just called pro lifers zealots . But many people feel that it is immoral , but in our pick a value you velieve in , I'm Ok your Ok culture they feel as though its not their concern . As though ending a life has nothing to do with them . The don't see it from the ITs A WONDERFUl LIFE frame of mind , that abortion stops all the things that person , created by God with a purpose , would have done . Society has convinced people that life is not to be held up as a gift , but to be held uop as a burden .
The majority of people who see life as important vote pro life .
The majority of our culture just does't see life as a gift from God .
Sad . All we can do is do as much as we can for those who here , love the ones who have abortions and love the ones who do not . Take and try to care for those in need .
- Anonymous12:09 AM, February 05, 2009
'choice for abortion'=killing!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:42 AM, February 05, 2009
I have to disagree. Planned parent hood is certainly pushing for abortion - it is a multimillion dollar business. Politicians like it so much that they spend millions of our tax dollars to help it happen and they like it so much that they are willing to attack pharmacists who don't agree with them. Obama likes it so much that he wants to reinstate partial birth abortion, stop allowing states to require that parents be told when it is a minor and even use tax dollars to pay for more of them to happen over seas. This is way beyond a woman's choice!
- Anonymous12:30 PM, February 06, 2009
8:42 AMReplyDelete
You are sorely misinformed. PP loses money off of abortions, their primary work is in reproductive health care and contraception. Millions of poor women get their annual gynecological exams subsidized by PP.
As for your other examples. All politicians are doing is ensuring that women retain their CHOICE. No one is forcing abortions on anyone. No is saying anyone must have an abortion merely that they must have that CHOICE.
Faith and Freedom welcomes your comment posts. Remember, keep it short, keep it on message and relevant, and identify your town.


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There is a toothache in my soul and I've lassoed string around it, tied the rest to a doorknob. I'm afraid the door of my past will slam shut soon. I'm tugged, pulled to the flatlands of my childhood. To the cornfields we'd drive through and the outlet malls we'd stop at on the way to visit relatives. For a funeral, for a birthday. I can still smell the plastic of the Happy Meal toy. I can still see the flowers that were stepped on the last time we visited my grandmother's grave.
I come from the Heartland and if you feel it closely, my pulse still beats there. Somewhere on the Ohio-Indiana border, where they put spaghetti in their chili and can hold a grudge for 20 years. Houses that sit on cinder blocks and gas stations where you can buy jerky from tupperware. My pulse still beats somewhere between 1991 and 1995, the last remnants of my childhood. When the porch swing creaked, when the hot tub leaked, when my sister hit her head and my uncle swore he could see her brains falling out.
Small-town hyperbole. Myths that become repeated and we become disreputable. We fulfill our own prophecies and then don't speak for 20 years. i thought about all of the snowstorms, all of the feet that crunched the ice beneath them. All of the cups of coffee that sat going stale, acidic and boiling in the pot. How no one bothered to pick up the phone and how my pulse would still beat, however faint and arrhythmic, to pull at the umbilicus of the Heartland.
Food has a culture in the Midwest. the economy of it all. Where I come from, meat is sometimes bought at the Dollar Store and when everyone drink black coffee, there's always extra half 'n half. You get creative, you cut corners. You can eat from the land and farm stands that line the roads, signs written in cardboard, others on wood. Sometimes your mother feeds you a peach slice when you walk into the room, saying it's the best peach she's ever eaten. And sometimes you have cereal for dinner when the electricity goes out and you hide under a mattress. Other times you try to recreate the desserts from spiral-bound cookbooks with scratches in the margins, from your childhood, before you forgot where you came from.
And it is a world that's bookended in coasts and often forgotten. A frontier that's explored, tilled, left to its own devices. Between plateau and plain, there is the Midwest. Between the mountains and the ocean, there is the Midwest. Between promise and pilgrimage, there is the Midwest. The Great Lakes extend and the fingertips bleed into the backdrop of my bloodline. And I am Midwestern in all ways but location. I taste the salt of the earth when I bite my tongue.
Mini Hoosier Pie
A basic sugar and cream pie, eponymous of my home state's nickname. The pie makes either 6 mini-tartlets or one 10-inch pie, using Ina Garten's pie crust (recipe cut in half).
- One 10-inch pie crust (see link above, made in advance)
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
- 3 tablespoon flour
- 2 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- Preheat oven to 400*F
- Roll out pie dough on a heavily-floured surface and fit into one 10-inch pie plate or ~6 small tartlet pans. Poke holes with a fork and weigh with pie weights
- Bake for 15 minutes or until slightly crisp. Allow to cool while you prepare filling.
- In a medium bowl, measure all remaining ingredients and whisk vigorously until well combined
- Sift ingredients into a measuring cup (for easier pouring) to create a smooth batter
- Pour filling into prepared pie crusts and bake again for 30 minutes or until thickened and browned. (note: watch the small tartlets. If browning or burning at such a high temperature, fit loosely with aluminum foil
- Allow to cool, garnish with confectioner's sugar before serving


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Etsy? You Betsy!
Indigotwin hails from small town Maine. We are Kirsten and Cortney, identical twin sisters, who have always enjoyed creating art together. From crayon rubbings as small children to works of art as adults, we have always given each other inspiration. We both graduated from the University of Maine with Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in 1998. Both of us try to get some crafting done when our small children are sleeping.
We were inspired to do these folk art sculptures from one of our amazing customers. We started our shop by making about five women with a Valentine theme to them. One was holding a heart, one was holding a string of hearts, etc. A customer saw these and wondered if they could choose the outfit, the hair and the accessories. They wanted to totally customize the piece to make it look just like them, including their green glasses! We start all of our custom pieces with a questionnaire, go on to a sketch, have it approved and then move on to the sculpting process. Since we are folk artists, we like the pieces to "resemble" the person but not be identical. We make them with big heads, big eyes and big accessories. We like to create something fun and whimsical and these have definitely been popular pieces especially for that hard-to-buy for person.


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At Meadows Primary School we use a Dialogic Framework for the planning and implementation of all learning. We focus on dialogue as a means to promote higher order thinking skills such as argument and reasoning. This focus on developing thinking through dialogue equips students with linguistic resources that in turn develop reading, writing and numeracy skills.
Teachers use evidence of student learning to drive decisions about teaching. They collect and analyse individual and whole group student data, ensuring that teaching is targeted at every student's individual point of need.
At Meadows we believe positive behaviours can be taught. We use a School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) framework to support students in their decisions at school. We have developed a matrix of expected behaviours and have weekly classes where these behaviours are explicitly taught to students.
We have a continued focus on further developing the capacity and capabilities of all our staff. Our work will be greatly enhanced as we continue to work with people who have worldwide expertise to guide and challenge us in ensuring we offer the best in teaching and learning for all. Staff have regular access to these experts, including regular planning sessions where support and challenge is part of the culture. This "in-house" Professional Learning allows for greater effectiveness and more successful transference to classroom practice.


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Alison Pope at Myndsi turned up an interesting quote about the value of skilled humans from the JHU Gazette in her Bangor librarians face internet threat:
William Brody, President of the John Hopkins University writes this in the John Hopkins Gazette
Massive information overload is placing librarians in an ever more important role as human search engines. They are trained and gifted at ferreting out and vetting the key resource material when you need it. Today's technology is spectacular — but it can't always trump a skilled human.
There are plenty of tools out there that can help find and deliver and visualize information in new and fabulous ways. But I am the consumer of that information in the end, and I need to make sense of it according to my context and my needs. Librarians, researchers and good writers help me by applying their expertise and skill to the topic at hand.


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If you somehow had the chance, would you do your life over? Thirtysomething Mike O'Donnell would. Then one mysteriously magical moment, Mike gets his chance. He's suddenly back at Hayden High where he's the star of the basketball team, a total hottie and a classmate to his own teenage kids... which gives Mike a chance to go from not-so-good dad to a really cool friend.Zac Efron ("Hairspray", the "High School Musical" movies) and Matthew Perry ("Friends") are "17 Again" and fabulously funny as the younger and older Mike in a good-time time-warp comedy that proves the best year of your life is the one you're living right now.
Being a huge fan of High School Musical, I spent a notable amount of time watching Zac Efron sing, dance, shoot a ball and bat his baby blue eyes to tweens of all ages. And when I heard that he did a movie with Matthew Perry (I'm also a fan of F.R.I.E.N.D.S.) I was interested but not so much that I raided the internet for updates and behind the scenes footages like I always do evertime a new Harry Potter movie is coming soon. Then I forgot about it then months months later, for some reason I decided to search for a streaming full video of it. Fortunately, I found a good link on MOMOMESH.com that didn't look like it was secretly filmed right in the theater, with fast buffering and no time limit (ahem Megavideo).
Though the movie received mixed reviews from professional critics achieving only 56% of positive comments on Rotten Tomatoes, this movie critic thinks that the film is funny, witty and over all tremendously fun and light hearted and is perfect for people who don't want to sit for 2 hours deciphering complex plots and characters. It's also not the kind of slapstick "fun" movie made only for kids' enjoyment (e.g. Hannah Montana) where grown ups and even kids at heart groan everytime somebody gets whacked in the face with a birthday cake or thrown in a pool.
I've always been a fan of witty dialogues and intelligent banters and this movie did not disappoint. Plus Zac Efron's acting has never been better I think. He really channelled Matthew Perry's expressions and I could really imagine him as a thirtysomething year old guy transformed in his own 17 year old body and not "Troy", his HSM alter ego whose character background is not far from Mike's. Plus should I even mention that he's drop dead gorgeous? Those piercing eyes can make Robert Pattinson run for his money despite the rumors that he's the next big thing. (Oh please don't let me get started on Twilight).
So for those boredsters like me who have nothing to do and wants to have a great 90 minutes, this movie is for you. Just click on the momomesh link and search for 17 Again and select the first link. I think it's the only one there working.
Next stop: The Ugly Truth. I hope Katherine Heigl doesn't disappoint. :D


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Are You an Influencer?/
I already know that you have influence. That's a no brainer. You are out there changing the world in your own way, every single day.
But are you a Belong Influencer? Should you be? Could you be?
What is a Belong Influencer?
Belong Influencers are like the ultimate cheerleaders for the brand, its mission and its products. Influencers are individuals who believe in Belong, who want to support Belong and want to see it become a sustainable business.
We've broken it down like this:
Cheerleader of all things Belong!
Further promotion of Belong products through social media platforms, blog posts, and word of mouth.
Reach new businesses and customers.
- Be discovered by audiences who have yet to hear of Belong.
- A sustainable business!
*For each influencer opportunity you choose to be a part of, Belong would expect two instagram posts, two twitter posts, and two facebook posts (and anything else you are willing to do).
Have a voice in the Belong brand--what products we offer and businesses we partner with.
First to view and receive new products.*
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A great feeling that you've helped a small business make it!
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Under NSW legislation, you can be penalised if you commit a traffic offence. There are specific road rules for bicycle riders that also carry fines.
How penalties are issued
Penalties for bicycle offences are usually issued by a Police Officer and are issued on the spot. A Police Officer may ask you your name, address and other personal details to verify your identity.
Some penalties
Negligent riding
The law provides for penalties for riding a bicycle in a negligent or dangerous manner. Riding a bicycle negligently means riding to endanger the life of yourself or others.
Drink riding
Riding under the influence of alcohol is a serious offence. You can be fined or imprisoned by a court if you are found to be drink riding.
Not wearing a helmet
You are required by law to wear an approved helmet securely fitted and fastened on your head when riding a bicycle.
Fine defaults
If you do not settle a fine you have received within the time allowed, the State Debt Recovery Office will pursue the matter. For more information on the process see the Revenue NSW website.


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So maybe you are stuck in a cubicle, or maybe your workspace at home is feeling a little lackluster. With all of us resolving to work harder this New Year, I thought it would be fun to give a few pretty, yet practical, pointers for styling your desk, no matter how much room you've got. The bonus? None of these suggestions will break the bank!
1. Acrylic Accessories: Make even the most mundane of office necessities sparkle and shine.
2. Pretty Scissors: Cut out the boring and add in some glamour.
3. Motivational Print: Get a piece of art that speaks to your ambitious side and hang it by your workspace.
4. Idiom Pencils: Speaking of motivational quotes, why not make note taking more enjoyable with a quirky phrased pencil?
5. A Cute Note Pad: Let's face it, nobody likes a daunting to-do list, but it somehow seems more manageable when written on adorable stationary.
Now get to work! xo
1. Acrylic Accessories: Make even the most mundane of office necessities sparkle and shine.
|Katie Anderson via Glitter Guide
|Danielle Moss via Apartment Therapy
|via the Everygirl
|Stephanie Sterjovski via Glitter Guide
|via SS. Print Shop
|via the Everygirl
|via Pinterest
|via Kate Spade
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*I'm sharing a new sketch everyday in the month of December to challenge myself to draw something everyday*
This is my favorite basic damask, kind of my blueprint and starting point for every damask I draw nowadays. It's something I drew years ago, referenced from a few traditional damasks- as you must of course or it wouldn't be a traditional damask. Today I filled it with watercolor after I drew it out.
Thanks for following along, and happy Friday!


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Quick and easy fondue.
Ingredients Edit
- 1 garlic clove, halved
- 4 cups Gruyere Cheese, shredded (or 1/2 Gruye,re &, 1/2 Swiss or Emmenthaler)
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1/8 teaspoon white pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 cup dry white wine (such as Fendant)
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- 1 lb French bread or sourdough bread, cut into bite-sized cubes
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Rub the inside of a 2 quart microwave-safe casserole dish with cut clove of garlic; then, combine Cheese, flour and seasonings in dish, tossing to mix.
Mix the mustard with the wine and microwave on High for 1–2 minutes (until hot).
Stir wine mixture into Cheese mixture.
Microwave uncovered on Medium for 7–9 minutes (until smooth), stirring every 2 minutes.
Serve with bread.
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India should field full-strength side against West Indies: LorgatApril 27th, 2011 - 2:04 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat said they are looking forward to a full-stength Indian side on the West Indies tour as per the commitment to the Futute Tours Programme.
Lorgat was commenting on media reports that top Indian cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, skipper M.S. Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan and Gautam Gambhir have asked to be rested for the One-day series that will precede the Tests.
"I think it affects the brand of cricket. Everybody want to see a full-strength side. The same applies to the IPL and any of the FTP commitments. Because of the volume of cricket, every individual player has to be managed.
"One or two stars asking for a rest is okay. If five or six stars do not want to go to the West Indies, then I think, it's not appropriate fulfillment of what has been committed to the FTP," said Lorgat during a TV news show.
India will play a T20 International in Trinidad June 4, five One-dayers and three Tests.
The Indian team is playing non-stop for sometime now and only got six days rest after the World Cup before the Indian Premier league began.
- All seniors will be available for selection: BCCI - May 02, 2011
- Simmons keen to play in ODIs against England - May 09, 2012
- West Indies A hope to dominate Indians - May 30, 2012
- ICC rules out window for IPL in FTP - Jun 13, 2012
- Rest required for Dhoni before Australia tour: Sourav - Oct 07, 2011
- West Indies arrive for series against India - Nov 03, 2011
- Closed Kotla ticket counters drive away fans - Nov 06, 2011
- Windies tour golden opportunity for young Pak cricketers to prove their worth: Intikhab - Apr 19, 2011
- Sangakkara calls for equity on tours - Jul 12, 2010
- Pakistan unhappy with cricket's FTP - Dec 01, 2010
- International cricket umpire Clyde Duncan dies - Jul 28, 2011
- Gayle sacked, Sammy new captain of West Indies - Oct 18, 2010
- We can't over-respect India: Bell - Jul 18, 2011
- Williams back as Trinidad and Tobago coach - Jun 06, 2012
- Gibson expects tough series against depleted India - Jun 03, 2011
Tags: commitments, full strength, gautam gambhir, harbhajan singh, indian cricketers, international cricket council, ipl, m s dhoni, New Delhi, news show, premier league, six days, six stars, skipper, t20, two stars, virender sehwag, west indies, world cup, zaheer khan


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Benefits of Massage for Recovery
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Whether dealing with angels or demons, past or future, aliens, post-humans or artificial intelligences, stories of alternate realities, imagined futures and fantastical impossibilities have been a never-ending source of fascination for writers and readers for as long as humanity has told stories. But once you leave the everyday world behind, once you embrace worlds where the impossible happens, how do you make your writing believable? How do you make the impossible possible?
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Ticonderoga Publications is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of a short story collection by the multi award-winning writer Cat Sparks.
The collection, tentatively titled The Bride Price, is scheduled for publication and launch at Conflux – the Australian National Science Fiction Convention in April 2013.
"Cat Sparks has produced a large number of critically acclaimed stories in the last ten years. This collection will focus on bringing together the best of her short science fiction." Ticonderoga Editor Russell B Farr said.
"As of one of the major Australian SF voices of the past decade, a collection is long overdue," Russell B Farr added.
Cat Sparks first rose to prominence as the founder of the acclaimed Agog! Press, publishing ten titles from 2002 to 2008. As a writer, Sparks is a graduate of the inaugural Clarion South workshop, a Writers of the Future winner, a multiple Ditmar and Aurealis Award winner, and the author of close to 60 published stories.
The contents will include the award-winning titles "All the Love in the World", "Seventeen", "Hollywood Roadkill", "Last Dance at the Sargeant Major's Ball" and the acclaimed "Arctica", and "Home by the Sea".
The Bride Price is scheduled for publication in April 2013. The collection will be available in limited edition hardcover, trade hardcover and paperback, and ebook editions.
To keep up-to-date with this project check www.ticonderogapublications.com
Media Contact: Russell B Farr, mob: 0427198841
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Anyone who doesn't know a Moomin when they see one shouldn't be reading this blog.
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Thanks Ann and Jeff — it was a blast!
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I travelled solo to Embankment, crossed the Jubilee Bridge, then met up with one of my favourite people — the utterly awesome Rob Shearman — outside the British Film Institute. He took me to a pub called The Mulberry Bush where we proceeded to drink diet coke and tea respectively and talk shop (read bitch about writers, writing and the writing community) for five hours solid.
Back at R & G's house now, knocking off the dregs of yesterday's pomelo, eying off that luggage of mine, attempting to guestimate its mathematical incongruities. It's all gonna fit. It has to fit. What was I thinking when I packed 3 pairs of shoes and all those cardigans anyway?
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Wednesday I met old school friend Alison at Stratford Westfields, the biggest megalopolis of a shopping centre I've ever seen in my life. The Olympics is being built beside it. You could probably fit every Westfields in Australia inside. We had sushi, then went to see Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, which I enjoyed, despite it not being faithful in any way to anything Sir Arthur ever writ. Most definitely the gayest Holmes & Watson ever. I do hope they're making a third.
Yesterday, after pizza and coffee with Guthrie, I managed to catch the awesome Joanna Lumley live in The Lion in Winter at the Theatre Royale, Haymarket. Walked in off the street 2 minutes before the show started. The theatre – a work of art in itself, all painted gold, bas-relief fat-arse cherubs hanging off everything — was packed in 3 tiers, yet I scored a seat 7 rows from the front, dead centre!
Bought a pomelo on the way home. Yum!
Today, a trip to Old Spittlefield Market where I bought a groovy jacket and a couple of t-shirts after having lunch with Al & Yasin (pictured). Then onwards to St Pauls, past the miserably-huddled Occupy movement encampment. I took some snaps and then a perky young guy wanted me to be in a photo he was taking of masked protestors. Carrying my shopping, Pan Am shoulder bag and my sister's camera, I'm guessing I was included to represent capitalist excess, or something.
I crossed the Millennium Bridge, then went to visit the Tate Modern with Gus. Best things glimpsed: A couple of scary Max Ernst forests, one of which had to have at least vaguely inspired H R Geiger's Alien. The Handsome Pork Butcher by Francis Picabia and some truly miserable black and white photos of what were purported to be Italian children's holiday camps. Shudder. Gus and I walked to Waterloo along the Thames. I will never get over the bigness of this city.
Bought another pomelo on the way home. You can never have too many. Snaps here.
It's a quarter way through the 8-hour crossing from Dallas Forth Worth to Heathrow. I've eaten my dinner, snubbed my nose at the meagre cinematic offerings and settled into a light doze when something suddenly wakes me. My own body heat. I'm burning up and I feel terrible so I get up and fumble my way to the bathroom just beyond the plane's midriff exit door. Lights are dim, passengers all sleeping. Next thing I know, I'm on the floor, disoriented, head hurting, blood all over my hair and hands.
Apparently I must have fainted, hitting my head on some sharp corner on the way down. I sit there like a stunned mullet, then get my act together, staggering up the back of the plane where flight attendants swarm. I show them my bloody hands. They hop to it, clean me up, give me a bag of ice for my head and make me a bed out of the (thankfully) empty last row of the plane. They offer to try and find me a doctor but I tell them I'm OK. Kudos to them for not treating my blood like rancid biohazard. My busted head throbs as I doze on and off, vaguely fretting about my potentially leaking brain. As the plane approaches Heathrow I return to my seat. Flight attendants keep checking on me until we land.
The customs line is the longest in living memory. My sister Rachael meets me at arrivals and we catch the tube out to the end of the Piccadilly line where she lives. She finds my bleeding head story more worrisome than amusing and eventually she and her husband Graham convince me that we need to get my head checked out. So off we drive to North Middlesex University Hospital's AEU where we plant ourselves down for the long haul. I'm called up almost immediately by the triage nurse, then sent down a corridor of grey smudged ivory linoleum to a lilac-walled section where some patients are receiving treatment and others are waiting. R & G get to wait alongside me. The scuffed walls are lined with mismatched chairs. Directly opposite, a tubercular-looking black guy hoiks up blood into a wad of hand towels. Nearby, another in a bright red shirt twitches, hooked up to an oxygen machine.
Meanwhile, a grazed bruise is blooming down my spine. Looks like I managed to slam that bit of me against a jagged bulkhead too. I've been interviewed twice at this point but no one has examined the actual damage.
Patients are wheeled past on squeaking gurneys. The place fills up as we edge into nightfall. Cops escort a young white guy getting patched up after a street fight.
I start fretting about my own story. A night flight with everyone asleep. Nobody saw anything. The triage nurse had made a big deal of the unconscious part. Nobody knows how long you were out. You can't even be sure. Those flight attendants should have called an ambulance.
The lilac room gets fuller and fuller. More chairs are brought, more gurneys sail past on rattling wheels. When the doctor finally sees me, it's in a store room as all the treatment cubicles are full. An imposing, grey-haired man with serious Balkan eyebrows. Nurse takes samples of my blood and piss. Delivers an EEG and tetanus shot. But as I'm not vomiting, headachy or babbling any more than usual, doc reckons I'm free to go. After we glue your head, he adds. No stitches, thankfully, because the nurse with the craft kit and hands like an orangutan makes the glue feel like acid gel. So sorry, she keeps saying, but the gash is like an L and I'm trying to push the edges to stay together.
I'm OK. The Head Injury Advice Card they gave me says I mustn't booze, play rugby or take tranquilisers. The Wound Closure Advice Cardsays I can't wash my hair for some time. Which means I'll be wearing this unfortunate knitted beret for the rest of the week. Good thing my camera broke way back in Tallahassee!
They say you should never meet your heroes. This time they were wrong.
I was frightened of this workshop. Scared that Margaret Atwood would be a monster and I'd be the worst incarnation of my oftentimes overbearing self. Worried that the group would not cement. That we might not have much to offer each other.
The workshop was different to others I have done. She grew into us as a group. Distant at first, softening each day as it became apparent that there be no monsters here.
She excavated our opening pages, line by line, unravelling intention, unpicking sentence seams. She gardened our stories. Pruned and weeded. Cleared their roots. Slashed and burned our choking undergrowth.
Novels germinated around that Key West wicker table. Characters evolved, thick and fleshy, fresh apocalypses were reined in or unleashed. When she finally sent us packing, it was with the blessings of pollination and flourish.
Without ever playing the celebrity card, she posed for our photos, signed our books, shared historical phantasmagoria, each snippet as priceless as plunder from the deepest galleon's hold.
I remain in awe of her wit, intelligence and grace.
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The Germans in the B&B have gone, replaced by Japanese. Across the road a hen and her brood of chickens wanders down the sidewalk. Apparently free roaming chickens are protected here. The rooster who's been crowing since day one is still hard at it.
The Key West Literary Seminar is held annually at the San Carlos Institute, a large solid establishment on Duval street that looks like a relic from the motherland transplanted. The stage is fringed with red velvet curtains, the curve of a white balcony above my head. Walls proudly displaying glossy photo banners featuring sentimental sepia-tinged images of the motherland: Oriente, Camaguey, Las Villas, La Habana. Enough spotlights to stage a rock show. Set design I'd describe as steampunk packing crate. I overheard three women discussing their last trip to Cuba. "I'm not going back until he dies," said one. I presume she meant Castro, not her husband.
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Greetings from the porch of the Duval Gardens B&B, a twee establishment crawling with German tourists. My room contains a quilted 4-poster bed, white wicker furniture and not much else. Wifi but no kettle. I guess you can't have everything. Believe it or not, I was woken by a rooster crowing this morning! Chickens wander about the streets, despite this being a modern American town.


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July 2018
May 2018 / Semicon Asia
November 2017 / Semicon Europe
Marco Bublick, Nicole Golandsky, Georg Sauer, Daniel Sommer, Kevin Fredriksen, Jens Paucke
A major highlight of 2017 is our presence at the Semicon Europe show with a SPA booth, together with our long-term partner PVAtepla Analytical Systems. On the Semicon we showcased our new product solutions EBIS and PIA
EBIS Enhanced Backside Inspection System
PIA Prober Inspection Addon
December 2016
This year, we decided that we won't send greeting cards and gifts for the business partners and instead send the amount to a non-profit organization in the region. The choice of Campuszwerge has several reasons. On the one hand, we have already carried out one or other project with the institute "ISAT", which is connected to the university of applied science. On the other hand, the concept of children's flu directly at the university of applied science has convinced us. The donation therefore supports early childhood education as well as higher education, as young parents are less concerned about their children's care. Furthermore, the bilingual offer of Campuszwerge was very appealing to us. We are delighted to be able to support our donation directly in Coburg, and wish us a purposeful use of the funds.
November 2016
Nov. 25, 2016 SPA Christmas Party (Starting at 4PM)
December 2015
Dec. 4 SPA Christmas Party (Starting at 3 PM)
Dec. 23, 2015 - Jan. 1, 2016 Company Christmas Vacation
(During our vacation time please use our service number in emergency cases: +49 9561 7947 66 )
September 2015
Launch of weekly massage treatment for our staff.
Company hiking-tour in Franconia, Germany.
Summer 2014
SPA has increased its 300mm wafer inspection machine installations in Asia.
On May 15th and 16th 2014 SPA celebrates 25 year anniversary of our company. Within these days SPA can provide only limited customer support, because nearly our entire staff is cruising on the Donau river and having a good time.


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One in ten Brits will do their online Christmas shopping using their mobile phone rather than a computer this year, according to new research findings from Tesco Direct. The trend of using mobile phones for online shopping emerged in a study of 4,000 consumers. This comes as Tesco Direct gets ready to face its busiest online shopping day of the year, dubbed 'Cyber Monday' or 'Manic Monday' by retailers.
Busy work schedules and hectic lives will see millions of savvy bargain-hunters use their smartphone to find the latest deals for Christmas presents, the research shows. Nearly half will shop online using their phones while watching TV, one in six expect to buy something on their phone while sat on the bus and a quarter will log on to shopping sites through their mobiles during their daily commute.
The study was commissioned to examine the changing Christmas shopping habits of the nation following the launch of Tesco Direct's new mobile web service, designed to facilitate easy shopping for customers directly through their phones.
Ian Crook, CMO for tesco.com comments: "Tesco Direct is expecting to ship more than 80,000 items today as we face our busiest day of the year for online orders. For the first time this year we anticipate a significant amount of these orders to be placed by customers using their mobile phones, because customers like the convenience of shopping on the go."
The nationwide poll found 78 per cent are planning to do some of their Christmas shopping online this year and seven in ten think it's the best way to buy presents. More than a third (36 per cent) said using their mobile would reduce stress levels and mean they could fit shopping in and around their busy lives.
Ian Crook continues: "In October alone, we had over half a million people visit the Tesco Direct website using their mobile phones and in the run up to Christmas we're expecting this number to surge as people order their gifts from Tesco Direct. Our new mobile web service makes it easier for our customers to search for and buy presents at competitive prices and as our research shows it has potential to take away some of the stress of shopping."
Simply avoiding the Christmas crowds was the biggest reason for turning to the internet, with 71 per cent saying they can't stand battling queues in the shops. Another 44 per cent like to use the web to search for the best price.
Tesco Direct top selling Christmas toys for 2010
- Toy Story Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear
- Lego Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer
- Kung Zhu Hamsters
The research also found that:
- In the lead up to Christmas, 73 per cent are worried about the escalating cost of it all as they face tight budgets
- Six in ten don't know what to buy people
- Half are stressed around Christmas
- Nearly half (45 per cent) said they struggle fitting present shopping in around their job and family commitments
- Seven per cent admitted to online shopping it when they should be working, and one in ten will hit the online shops during their lunch hours
- Two thirds polled said they typically leave their shopping to the last minute
- Online shopping saves the average Brit six hours of traipsing around the high street
The Tesco Direct mobile website was launched earlier this month to make it easier for people to shop online using smartphones. It features simple-to-explore product categories, which are easily navigated through a series of expandable tabs. It allows customers to:
- Sign into /register for a Tesco Direct account
- Search through the complete Tesco Direct product range
- Read all the product features
- Add products to the shopping basket
- Explore delivery options and book a delivery slot
- Locate the closest store
- Read buying guides and product warranties
- Look at product warranties
- Add or remove products from an existing order
- Check out and complete the order
To use the Tesco Direct mobile website, visit www.direct.tesco.com from any mobile phone that can access the internet.
The last Christmas delivery date for Tesco Direct is 22 December. The last day for large Tesco Direct orders guaranteed to be delivered before Christmas is 16 December by 12 noon (for items like white goods or furniture).


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The winner of the 2013 Turner prize will be announced tonight at 7.50pm, live from Derry.
The 2013 show may well be the most hands-on since the prize launched in 1984, with visitors able to partake in a silly life-drawing class thanks to David Shrigley – and get cashback courtesy of Tino Sehgal (providing they're willing to chat to one of his performers about the market economy first).
Visitors have also been drawn into a playful Mad Hatter-style tea party with Laure Prouvost's grandparents and the ghost of Kurt Schwitters – and asked to get up close and personal with Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's portraits of fictional black characters.
Guardian art critic Adrian Searle believes Tino Sehgal, who filled Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with storytellers in 2012, should scoop the £25,000 award – though he also believes David Shrigley should have made the shortlist years ago (he put him forward when he was on the 2004 jury, but was laughed down).
So there's plenty of fun to be had at the 2013 show. But has the prize still got it, or has it lost its shock value? Might there be a turn up for the books tonight? And who gets your vote?


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Today Crossroads Mission was commissioned at Sheffield Cathedral.
Led by the Archbishop of York, Crossroads sees a team of 19 Bishops and their teams from across the north of England joining us to spend four days in the Diocese of Sheffield. During the commissioning, the Bishops received crosses and released a colourful display of balloons into the sky outside the Cathedral.
Over 200 special events are taking place across the Diocese during Crossroads Mission (not including all the Sunday services at which the Bishops will speaking and leading). More than 100 parishes are directly involved and the mission is being held in prayer across the whole Diocese and by our friends all over the world.
Get Involved
You can find a full list of publicly accessible events taking place across the Diocese via the link below. Bishop Peter and Bishop Steven will be out and about at various mission events and will look forward to seeing you.
> view Crossroads Mission event listings
Support Us In Prayer
The aim of the mission is to share the Christian faith with love and imagination in many different places. Jesus compared sharing the good news of God's love with sowing seed. That's exactly what we will be doing. Please support the mission through praying that God will bless this time in special ways.
A Prayer For The Mission
Loving God, This world you love stands at the crossroads.
Help us help others to discover your Way
to know your Truth
and to share your Life in your dear Son, Jesus Christ.
Inspire us by your Spirit to sow the good seed of the gospel
throughout this Diocese with imagination and compassion,
that many will come to know you and many will be strengthened in their faith,
Through Jesus Christ our Lord


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The pituitary gland is about the size of a pea and it sits at the base of the brain behind the nose. Even though it is small, this does not take away from its importance to the body. It produces human growth hormone (HGH), which is quintessential for growth when you are an adolescent. Once you are fully grown, HGH is responsible for the proper functioning of organs and tissues. If you are looking to boost your levels, you can get this done by performing exercise; but not just any exercises. They should be compound. Compound exercises involve more than one joint and they recruit more than one muscle group.
Pushups are a popular body weight exercise that can be performed just about anywhere. They recruit your chest muscles, triceps, shoulders and abs all at the same time, which qualifies them as compound exercises. To perform these, lie on your stomach with your hands directly under your shoulders. Push yourself up in the air until your arms are straight, then lower yourself back down until you are about the width of your fist off the ground. Repeat for a series of reps. When you do these, keep your back completely straight and your abs contracted. To make these more intense, place your feet on a chair or bench.
Pullups are another body weight compound exercise that works your back, shoulders, chest and biceps all at once. To do these, grab the bar with an overhand grip with your hands just past shoulder-width apart. Keep your body straight and pull yourself up until your chest is the height of the bar. Lower yourself back down and repeat. You can also do these with a wide grip, close grip and reverse grip.
Bench Presses
Bench presses are often done as a mass builder. To do these, lie on the bench and grab the bar in a wide grip. Push it off the safety pins and hold it straight above you with your arms straight. Slowly lower it down until it is right above your chest, then push it back up. Take a big inhale when you lower it and exhale when you lift it.
Deadlifts are a compound exercise that works your back, legs and glutes. To do these, load a barbell with heavy weights. Come into a wide stance behind the bar. Bend your knees, squat down and grab the bar with a shoulder-width grip. Keeping your back straight and gaze fixed forward, lift the bar off the ground and come to a standing position. Lower it back to the ground and repeat. When you do these, you can use an overhand grip or an alternating grip. They can also be done with dumbells.
Clean and Press
Clean and presses work every major muscle in the body. To do them, load a barbell and stand behind it. Squat down and grab it in a slightly wider than shoulder-width grip. Lift the bar, swing it around to the level of your chest, then forcefully push it straight above your head. Slowly lower it back to your chest then back to the ground and repeat. These can also be done with dumbells.
Lunges are a compound exercise that work the butt, quads, hamstrings and calves. To do these, take a long step forward and bend your front knee so it is 90 degrees. Your back knee should be just above the ground. Stand back up and step forward with your other foot. Plant your foot and do the same thing. Continue lunging across the room for a series of steps. If you want to make it more intense, hold onto dumbells while you lunge.
Varying Levels
When exercising on a regular basis, your body increases growth hormone after each session, and it continues over a 24-hour period. The amount of growth hormone your body produces during exercise is dependent on your age, the work-rest interval, the load and the frequency of the resistance exercise you're doing. Younger adults, especially women, tend to produce more growth hormone with exercise even after aerobic activities, according to a research study published in Sports Medicine.


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