Tenth Doctor Month: Quote Of The Day #13

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigtgeRJwbh26w_dXovfeHMGapUoFiix1z7nVnmpBOi5myb9oVml8Jl31J98rhHWlBck8d3J-TP-pDzhYD028SSk2AXeczoRTEs0mE_VRV9lsd8FWOxHGzPJT4dAKEbh0SEeZx9WalNuuo/s1600/army10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigtgeRJwbh26w_dXovfeHMGapUoFiix1z7nVnmpBOi5myb9oVml8Jl31J98rhHWlBck8d3J-TP-pDzhYD028SSk2AXeczoRTEs0mE_VRV9lsd8FWOxHGzPJT4dAKEbh0SEeZx9WalNuuo/s640/army10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>:</b> This is a Void ship.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Yvonne</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: And what is that?</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>:</b> Well it's impossible, for starters. I always thought it was just a theory, but.... It's a vessel designed to exist outside time and space. Traveling through the Void.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Rajesh Singh</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: And what's the Void?</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>The space between dimensions. There's all sorts of realities around us—different dimensions. Billions of parallel universes all stacked up against each other. The Void is in between, containing absolutely nothing. Imagine that—no light, no dark, no up, no down. No life. No time. Without end. My people called it The Void, the Eternals called it The Howling. But some people call it Hell. </span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Army Of Ghosts (2006)</span></span>

David Tennant Doctor Who Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Tenth Doctor Quotes Tenth Doctor Month: Quote Of The Day #13

The Doctor : This is a Void ship. Yvonne : And what is that? The Doctor : Well it's impossible, for starters. I always thought it was ...

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Today's Teamster News 10.13.13

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interior-allows-almost-a-dozen-iconic-national-parks-to-reopen-with-state-funding/2013/10/11/b010aa82-3296-11e3-8627-c5d7de0a046b_story.html" rel="nofollow">Interior allows a dozen iconic national parks to reopen with state funding</a>  Washington Post   ...What began as a sort of modern Sagebrush Rebellion — with Utah county commissioners threatening to bring in a posse and dismantle federal barricades themselves — has become an intense negotiation between Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and governors across the country eager to reopen public lands that generate valuable tourism revenue...<br /><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/10/10/20600-barrels-fracked-oil-spill-north-dakota-publicity-halted-due-government-shutdown" rel="nofollow">Over 865,200 Gallons of Fracked Oil Spill in ND, Public In Dark For Days Due to Government Shutdown</a>  Desmogblog.com   ...<a href="http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/16325/">Over 20,600 barrels of oil fracked</a> from the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7174">Bakken Shale</a> has spilled from a<a href="http://www.tesorologistics.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=242247&p=irol-IRHome">Tesoro Logistics</a> pipeline in Tioga, North Dakota in one of the biggest onshore oil spills in recent U.S. history. Though the spill occurred on September 29, the <a href="http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/">U.S. National Response Center</a>- tasked with responding to chemical and oil spills - did not make the report available until October 8 due to the ongoing government shutdown...<br /><a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/19382-report-finds-police-worldwide-criminalize-dissent-assert-new-powers-in-crackdown-on-protests" rel="nofollow">Report Finds Police Worldwide Criminalize Dissent, Assert New Powers in Crackdown on Protests</a>  truthout   ... the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations details a global crackdown on peaceful protests through excessive police force and the criminalization of dissent…. The case studies detailed in this report show how governments have reacted to peaceful protests in the United States, Israel, Canada, Argentina, Egypt, Hungary, Kenya, South Africa and Britain...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-11/u-s-said-to-open-criminal-probe-of-fx-market-rigging.html" rel="nofollow">U.S. Said to Open Criminal Probe of FX Market Rigging</a>  Bloomberg   ...The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation of possible manipulation of the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market, a person familiar with the matter said...<br /><a href="http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2013/10/stop_the_presses_apple_has_not.php#.UlqNN2TF36l" rel="nofollow">Stop the Presses: Apple Has Not Been Cleared on Tax Avoidance Charges</a>  Citizens for Tax Justice   ...the SEC is now satisfied that Apple is not violating the rules in the disclosure of its tax circumstances to the agency, which has nothing to do with the legal validity of its tax avoidance methods more generally...<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/12/us-usa-politics-secession-idUSBRE99B04S20131012" rel="nofollow">Anti-government anger fuels long-shot Maryland breakaway bid</a>  Reuters   ...His Western Maryland Initiative is just one of several secession proposals that are emerging across the United States. Nearly a dozen rural Colorado counties have put nonbinding secession referendums on their November ballots. A split-off proposal for southern Florida has also been floated.<br />Some residents of northern California want to join with counties in southern Oregon to form their own state. Liberals in Tucson, Arizona, fed up with the conservative state governor and lawmakers, want out as well...<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/13/us-usa-foodstamps-outage-idUSBRE99B0CD20131013" rel="nofollow">Power outage shuts U.S. food stamp program for hours in 17 states</a>  Reuters   ...A brief power outage caused food stamp recipients in 17 states to lose access for much of Saturday to the electronic system used by stores to verify their benefits, leaving many unable to buy groceries, the company that manages the system said. The power outage that started the problem was fixed within 20 minutes, Xerox Corp spokesman Kevin Lightfoot said, but shoppers kept running into difficulties through the day...<br /><a href="http://www.tradereform.org/2013/10/europe-proposes-global-governance-eclipse-u-s-laws/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=europe-proposes-global-governance-eclipse-u-s-laws" rel="nofollow">Europe proposes more global governance to eclipse U.S. laws </a> Trade Reform   ...The European Union’s top trade official, in one of the first concrete proposals in the trade negotiations with the United States, called on Thursday for a new trans-Atlantic group that would coordinate the work of United States and European regulatory agencies...<br /><a href="http://taxjustice.blogspot.com/2013/10/links-oct-12.html" rel="nofollow">France is pushing for a Europe-wide Google tax</a>  Quartz   ...France is pushing for a the European Union as a whole to adopt a minimum tax on digital companies, which it will formally introduce at an EU summit meeting about the digital economy later this month...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-12/china-sept-exports-unexpectedly-drop-0-3-as-imports-gain.html" rel="nofollow">China Exports Unexpectedly Drop</a>  Bloomberg   ...<a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/china/">China</a>’s <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CNFREXPY:IND">exports</a> unexpectedly fell in September, signaling constraints from global demand and highlighting distortions from fake invoices that have yet to be eliminated from trade data...<br /><a href="http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11941" rel="nofollow">Fast Food Workers Win a Union…through Zoolidarity</a>   BeyondChron   ...Last month 142 mostly part-time food service workers, public employees at the Oregon Zoo, showed it could be done, winning a landslide election to join <a href="http://www.liuna483.org/">Laborers Local 483</a> in Portland. They join 137 already-union admissions and custodial employees at the zoo—about half of these are temps—doubling the size and power of the bargaining unit just in time for contract negotiations...

Today's Teamster News 10.13.13

Interior allows a dozen iconic national parks to reopen with state funding  Washington Post   ...What began as a sort of modern Sagebrush R...

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Girl's night out

<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Yesterday was a fun day.  I took the train from Pearce Station to my sisters house.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPsW7ZOfmWjQMKUIIPHx7YYt8MGa8M9punGOdKi6m6ESn8DrpzMwT-wIaRlHQhGKrG7WnDkfDrxwiHesXa1myLfFv1E3_bj3kluykjGw87WXdfzuZfjHmVKeWUtOVP_hfoVzmORIboC4CX/s640/blogger-image-890202058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPsW7ZOfmWjQMKUIIPHx7YYt8MGa8M9punGOdKi6m6ESn8DrpzMwT-wIaRlHQhGKrG7WnDkfDrxwiHesXa1myLfFv1E3_bj3kluykjGw87WXdfzuZfjHmVKeWUtOVP_hfoVzmORIboC4CX/s640/blogger-image-890202058.jpg"></a>i</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I passed the now called Navan Road Parkway.  It was previously called Phoenix Park but was changed due to complaints from tourists getting off at this stop and finding themselves a long distance from the Phoenix Park and Dublin Zoo!  It was a tad misleading.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV8CjvWBRx8EC039KkkomBQXFhAHvJyVwhJiYAKUSpS6Zw34GPMBc2q9xTgJI8edeDHTUIYOhGpfXLjl0mGGlzTibVoEjl_uuG8ArgaFUDziLjkZZVKfkHoA9x5ZE6VoyTHuy6Tz2hFQYr/s640/blogger-image--598100871.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV8CjvWBRx8EC039KkkomBQXFhAHvJyVwhJiYAKUSpS6Zw34GPMBc2q9xTgJI8edeDHTUIYOhGpfXLjl0mGGlzTibVoEjl_uuG8ArgaFUDziLjkZZVKfkHoA9x5ZE6VoyTHuy6Tz2hFQYr/s640/blogger-image--598100871.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Amy served up a fantastic spread of lasagne, salad & coleslaw with rosemary potatoes and crinkle cut chips. Amy and I drank a Chilean Red while Alice drank white wine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvvIVntplynhDuHQhNrErggYNv32iIjQO7gYhLtWWMk3Kunbj9A7Cjk6D_kPPi4vaLTzL30G_buRUW9yThhvlGgh6l-dhkW9w_e1GSBhUGo9hjOow7_bKwUU4xQTEASer6ryG2B0zn4Lry/s640/blogger-image-251472052.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvvIVntplynhDuHQhNrErggYNv32iIjQO7gYhLtWWMk3Kunbj9A7Cjk6D_kPPi4vaLTzL30G_buRUW9yThhvlGgh6l-dhkW9w_e1GSBhUGo9hjOow7_bKwUU4xQTEASer6ryG2B0zn4Lry/s640/blogger-image-251472052.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Drinks were served from Amy's upcycled bar which she did herself!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt47VZJDbHWOXF7ExS0KJ0jGZ_R98UB3uswnw6meH7Pw0wCWR5PqY16b7y7Fu_qplQCPUgFJB5qWavz8BW5aI0ocr6F0jJKs03jW93nT2aLoGZ_Y2z5VaaAH5_eisxkCQtYH5gujeSbW5F/s640/blogger-image-2071541143.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt47VZJDbHWOXF7ExS0KJ0jGZ_R98UB3uswnw6meH7Pw0wCWR5PqY16b7y7Fu_qplQCPUgFJB5qWavz8BW5aI0ocr6F0jJKs03jW93nT2aLoGZ_Y2z5VaaAH5_eisxkCQtYH5gujeSbW5F/s640/blogger-image-2071541143.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After dinner & drinks we went in to the city.  We had tickets for "Maeve's House" which was written and performed by Eamon Morrissey.  It was an excellent play about the writer Maeve Brennan of the New Yorker - she being the "Long Winded Woman".  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">All three of us thought the play was excellent, we really enjoyed it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8smE200OcO9ozIR9Lw3h2TdVjL957wzalEZSao8Eqv3ygWIE6t08BAFle1MvDuKNcyuOrQDUNP62zgYX4rWKW4MElRSZwuJOtkmePlRHZPWl_U05WrpUiZHkhv2p2I8tYsYaK6EHr7pE/s640/blogger-image-371768604.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8smE200OcO9ozIR9Lw3h2TdVjL957wzalEZSao8Eqv3ygWIE6t08BAFle1MvDuKNcyuOrQDUNP62zgYX4rWKW4MElRSZwuJOtkmePlRHZPWl_U05WrpUiZHkhv2p2I8tYsYaK6EHr7pE/s640/blogger-image-371768604.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Alice and I above.  Amy and Alice below.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsPt09RzEzF2iuFwJ9ddVSOF5FndSJ6osrVSrl7ryzmsEauxL9N18o39KgiIgLQy890s3jOfohhv8romDfCL_14NMEgGQuaYzP8fWKr9Czh0F5zoWIFTY-MqzHxOxu8X2vQ7Fsu4oSyPxf/s640/blogger-image-343328702.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsPt09RzEzF2iuFwJ9ddVSOF5FndSJ6osrVSrl7ryzmsEauxL9N18o39KgiIgLQy890s3jOfohhv8romDfCL_14NMEgGQuaYzP8fWKr9Czh0F5zoWIFTY-MqzHxOxu8X2vQ7Fsu4oSyPxf/s640/blogger-image-343328702.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After the play we went on to the Vintage Cocktail Club on Crown Alley, Temple Bar.  This is another speakeasy-esque place, hidden away and hard to find.  We only found it because some girl heard us looking for it and called out to us and directed us to the dark small doorway.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAeW2OEetExiWUpjrWfcTIYlKI_DJWPOYkpTf3FMH3LBbytWlwtl9weyaQLba_SpYSl1LY8boSYTlv0aBMvRjrJJLyM4kxjYqaMrk2ai9xSr-SsyDRklMpx8_regharXEYjd7C9YOG8ujU/s640/blogger-image--1840443911.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAeW2OEetExiWUpjrWfcTIYlKI_DJWPOYkpTf3FMH3LBbytWlwtl9weyaQLba_SpYSl1LY8boSYTlv0aBMvRjrJJLyM4kxjYqaMrk2ai9xSr-SsyDRklMpx8_regharXEYjd7C9YOG8ujU/s640/blogger-image--1840443911.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We all ordered cocktails including our cousin Kasey and her friend Sam who we met in the VCC. Alice ordered a "Mary Pickford" and Amy had a rum based drink with molasses in it.  Alice and Any swapped cocktails!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBLezClyfoVQM9-D2vW5BYKpwqC1TGfaZL6YusxzD9YYd6Jnf6b6Gd1xZ7-MfRmrUCaVUFm7k93E8OLJwcuB4cC1NgFjiZ5osxBoTDGFHD0Zh2Jm1cbGQK5Ntr9UhW7dNZZirCA7XqQPcb/s640/blogger-image-1509349968.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBLezClyfoVQM9-D2vW5BYKpwqC1TGfaZL6YusxzD9YYd6Jnf6b6Gd1xZ7-MfRmrUCaVUFm7k93E8OLJwcuB4cC1NgFjiZ5osxBoTDGFHD0Zh2Jm1cbGQK5Ntr9UhW7dNZZirCA7XqQPcb/s640/blogger-image-1509349968.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">My glass was greatly admired.  I had "The Chaser" which was Marmalade Vodka based.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn7fm3ZMkiSewvmvWK1eXp2fPHmpKR8mNlxJVRco0sU2MkY7yvcmKsDQtN6JJS-uFU0ZjtRrj8CWoqlWPgsswy7chBMSWgFM7wmex3DwTlqf6HSy2UEfgh2Xut9tcyKe-a73mYG8w-13Eu/s640/blogger-image--2032339200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn7fm3ZMkiSewvmvWK1eXp2fPHmpKR8mNlxJVRco0sU2MkY7yvcmKsDQtN6JJS-uFU0ZjtRrj8CWoqlWPgsswy7chBMSWgFM7wmex3DwTlqf6HSy2UEfgh2Xut9tcyKe-a73mYG8w-13Eu/s640/blogger-image--2032339200.jpg"></a></div><br>Next bar was Amy's pick - a good choice of Dakota in South William Street.  We got a great big booth!<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJktjO2VkC6oc7eURRG56_C0pZ_jAiTLX9jRO71u6tk20gHs2PZ_ecdwWVcru8pd79fMu2zAtul7FlKZMCPRVZzY6gYA2hPsw_O2CjeIABRWqhlpgGN9xF6GT69T1JsXa9vXyip5RQ9l6s/s640/blogger-image--933729141.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJktjO2VkC6oc7eURRG56_C0pZ_jAiTLX9jRO71u6tk20gHs2PZ_ecdwWVcru8pd79fMu2zAtul7FlKZMCPRVZzY6gYA2hPsw_O2CjeIABRWqhlpgGN9xF6GT69T1JsXa9vXyip5RQ9l6s/s640/blogger-image--933729141.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Another bar and another change of scene - this time to the very classy "Davy Byrnes" which I think features in James Joyce's Ulysses!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzpCq-XzGBCWFQPMySAqzbSXLQZxkeReYH_aMcfyOf08nCs4s-jzE2NHOm8XPMtcPne0204WZDVgp1aP00zMtgx5xCyJuco4Tg1nYWMqRL1vQfIBeAEx_rD_xtNWSs1pnbydVI68rliTqm/s640/blogger-image-1640988405.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzpCq-XzGBCWFQPMySAqzbSXLQZxkeReYH_aMcfyOf08nCs4s-jzE2NHOm8XPMtcPne0204WZDVgp1aP00zMtgx5xCyJuco4Tg1nYWMqRL1vQfIBeAEx_rD_xtNWSs1pnbydVI68rliTqm/s640/blogger-image-1640988405.jpg"></a></div><br>And after this it was home time!  Amy and Alice to the train with Amy's husband.  Me into a taxi for the short ride home.  But not home time for Kasey and Sam they stayed in town to continue the adventure....

Girl's night out

Yesterday was a fun day.  I took the train from Pearce Station to my sisters house. i I passed the now called Navan Road Parkway.  It was pr...

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Author Jenny Colgan On Why David Tennant Is Her Favourite Doctor

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJzz791mg7tKs3Y_E7H6WONWvOrP8i5WBENSKDeii_3P1Fobpj03uyfkphA-80VtWu7Ex-6E7vKxU8i9ydE39-qiBpNieuMqcbyTUKCrNxeE_luTbL9bhc7KmG8Qah5enerTi2jaxG3s/s1600/army7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJzz791mg7tKs3Y_E7H6WONWvOrP8i5WBENSKDeii_3P1Fobpj03uyfkphA-80VtWu7Ex-6E7vKxU8i9ydE39-qiBpNieuMqcbyTUKCrNxeE_luTbL9bhc7KmG8Qah5enerTi2jaxG3s/s640/army7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today's Sunday Express has asked four top writers for their thoughts on their favourite Doctor and Dark Horizon's author Jenny Colgan has chosen David Tennant.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's what she said:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jenny Colgan on David Tennant (2005-2010)</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rules of engagement between the Doctor and human girls were laid down a long time ago. Tom Baker, on meeting a stunning-looking adversary, says simply, “You’re a beautiful woman… probably.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Humans and Time Lords simply do not mix, and as a long-time fan of the show that suited me just fine. Does Aslan have a girlfriend? No. Neither should the Doctor then. In fact, the 1995 film with Paul McGann was roundly slagged off for the fact that he kisses his assistant in it. Ahem!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I wrote my Doctor Who novel, Dark Horizons, a query came back from the big bosses who make the show in Cardiff. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Doctor is saving someone from drowning and, in the original draft, “tore off his shoes and trousers and leapt into the water”.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This came back with a big red pen line through it, along with the note, “The Doctor does not remove his trousers.” Well, quite. I should have known better. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course, that was all fine until David Tennant came along. Peter Davison and Christopher Eccleston had both been attractive men but David was, not to put too fine a point on it, gorgeous. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They tried to play down his instant chemistry with Billie Piper, but it simply could not be denied. She fancied him because you fancied him, your mum fancied him, your granny fancied him, everybody fancied him, whether he took his trousers off or not. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So he combined everything you already loved about the Doctor – his wit, his brains, his joie de vivre and usefulness in a tight spot – and added the cherries on the top: dashing black eyes, a heart-melting grin and really, really good hair.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then the show took Billie away and broke his heart, and suddenly he became even more attractive, in a wounded puppy fashion (who was also brave, resourceful, clever etc). </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But there’s another reason Tennant is my favourite Doctor, which is that he starred in some of the greatest episodes there have ever been of Doctor Who, or in fact any television series. Blink, Family of Blood and Silence in the Library, to name but three, were all outstanding with some wonderful writing.  </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being Scottish helps, too, but what really gives DT the edge are those brown eyes, and the intense look they got when River Song told him his true name or he found himself on the wrong side of the wall from Rose.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s so nice to know that in some alternate universe, spliced with a little bit of human DNA (from the marvellous Donna Noble, if you remember – I expect all their children have bright-red hair), this Doctor, alone of all the transfigurations, was allowed to fall in love with Rose, settle down and live happily ever after. The Doctor so rarely gets a chance to be happy, but this one did.  </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BOP19F0?ie=UTF8&camp=3194&creative=21330&creativeASIN=B00BOP19F0&linkCode=shr&tag=dtennant-21&=books&qid=1381658979&sr=1-3&keywords=doctor+who+dark+horizons" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jenny’s Doctor Who novel, Dark Horizons (£7.49), is out now.</span></a></strong></em></div>

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Official Tenth Doctor David Tennant 50th Anniversary T Shirt

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEfmq-i5ArQhfHZAoqxlB3zJM9y7hkeLFGOigg1AzjFWbdPChOcjH4OyjsOIAPCNm5APyWlbWDwU6hAThTtf9Z9bz6HfSOyayG9LZs7XDpgRrp1LoEtH51jxWts-gjkNZnL9xlfk-pinA/s1600/officialtenthdoctorannt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEfmq-i5ArQhfHZAoqxlB3zJM9y7hkeLFGOigg1AzjFWbdPChOcjH4OyjsOIAPCNm5APyWlbWDwU6hAThTtf9Z9bz6HfSOyayG9LZs7XDpgRrp1LoEtH51jxWts-gjkNZnL9xlfk-pinA/s640/officialtenthdoctorannt.jpg" width="636" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A brand new Doctor Who T shirt has been released to celebrate David Tennant's era of the show.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The quality t-shirt is officially licensed and approved and is adorned with the fantastic tenthr Doctor Silhouette image and Doctor Who branding. It comes in adults Sizes: S 34"-36", M 36"-38", L 40"-42", XL 44"-46", XXL 46"-48".</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00F96C3RS?ie=UTF8&camp=3194&creative=21330&creativeASIN=B00F96C3RS&linkCode=shr&tag=dtennant-21&=clothing&qid=1381594501&sr=1-1&keywords=10th+Doctor+Silhouette" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click here to purchase online today for just £16.99</span></b></a></span>

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VIDEO: Trailer For The Doctors Revisited: The Tenth Doctor

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdX2lfKYA7sTMQ2AHLcOGin2oVbRbMxfsv-8ihSL_HMN3KCyNJIYLVBnk_jN_WD-ZKL7oV2pqSYVdGGW-u5yYloOk1Dhdsx7w5Wewk_sAE3YWXMCQQCuEhT4D6LpetqV9I7IP_lMgIg4/s1600/tentrailer.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdX2lfKYA7sTMQ2AHLcOGin2oVbRbMxfsv-8ihSL_HMN3KCyNJIYLVBnk_jN_WD-ZKL7oV2pqSYVdGGW-u5yYloOk1Dhdsx7w5Wewk_sAE3YWXMCQQCuEhT4D6LpetqV9I7IP_lMgIg4/s1600/tentrailer.JPG" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BBC America have released a trailer for The Doctor's Revisited: The Tenth Doctor.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QjKdHvbdVPU?rel=0" width="640"></iframe><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Tenth Doctor special will feature interviews with David Tennant, Freema Agyeman and Steven Moffat and will take a look back at David Tennant's time on the show.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It will premiere in the USA on BBC America on 27th October at 8:00pm ET/PT and will then premiere in the UK on Watch on 10th November at 2:00pm.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />

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UK PREMIERE: Watch The Doctors Revisited: The Second Doctor At 2pm This Afternoon

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUOeTMgriu60KNhR4CZtTtCQaU0g96LyI2lkHCtLN5LO3hl1w4Pyeo9wrxFZKEjIGWB5R2f0QeqnZfseNi3H-89gJ63gN96SCsL9rTGBe2EB8nTYdxIW83y6nCTqSrGTw5F5HkVxPXdY0/s1600/pt1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUOeTMgriu60KNhR4CZtTtCQaU0g96LyI2lkHCtLN5LO3hl1w4Pyeo9wrxFZKEjIGWB5R2f0QeqnZfseNi3H-89gJ63gN96SCsL9rTGBe2EB8nTYdxIW83y6nCTqSrGTw5F5HkVxPXdY0/s640/pt1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Doctor Who documentary series, The Doctors Revisted, continues on Watch this afternoon at 2pm with a look at the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It will be followed at 2.30pm with the classic Troughton era episode, Tomb Of The Cybermen.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant will be interviewed as part of this episode.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can see the schedule for the rest of the series below:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 19 October<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2pm The Doctors Revisited: <b>Jon Pertwee</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2:30pm Spearhead from Space</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday 20 October<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2pm The Doctors Revisited: <b>Tom Baker</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2:30pm Pyramids of Mars</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 26 October<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2pm The Doctors Revisited: <b>Peter Davison</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2:30pm Earthshock</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday 27 October<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2pm The Doctors Revisited: <b>Colin Baker</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2:30pm Vengeance on Varos</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 2 November<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2pm The Doctors Revisited: <b>Sylvester McCoy</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2:30pm Battlefield</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday 3 November<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2pm The Doctors Revisited: <b>Paul McGann</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2:30pm Doctor Who: The Movie</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 9 November<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2pm The Doctors Revisited: <b>Christopher Eccleston</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2:30pm Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday 10 November<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2pm The Doctors Revisited: <b>David Tennant</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2:30pm The Stolen Earth/Journey's End</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday 16 November<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2pm The Doctors Revisited: <b>Matt Smith</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2:30pm The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch is available on Sky channel 109 (Watch HD 124, Watch+1 155) and Virgin Channel 191 (Watch+1 125)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

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IWS Person of the Week...Jayman

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;">He's Steamy and infected...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVTMnTXjdpX9RFU4WPtre1VGaRbbErvD6zjsTuO8h1qD1txzIqBljCzsoqHgJMS9FvuKtSsuD481WOZuBzYkxKSky1R7jtdzG4QvYuIBhq-BH9hFWoqyloyD3jmoBIVcAeiRkhyNu6rAfw/s1600/Jay+and+Matt+NBC+Prime+Time.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVTMnTXjdpX9RFU4WPtre1VGaRbbErvD6zjsTuO8h1qD1txzIqBljCzsoqHgJMS9FvuKtSsuD481WOZuBzYkxKSky1R7jtdzG4QvYuIBhq-BH9hFWoqyloyD3jmoBIVcAeiRkhyNu6rAfw/s400/Jay+and+Matt+NBC+Prime+Time.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He's Adventurous and yet, he has bugs...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaVl8URfUeXV4o_xex_tte67JKFyCW4T6D0vgpFqIRcJD6joHZEOaa344MDaCKFb4w1T16ZBjNOFOR_X2pfi1v_o4lclEW31HWAIlnTq3EKjNPYqvqOD8f1vzyfumnJ2Tz1Ca-hGctfYKL/s1600/Jay+Great+American.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaVl8URfUeXV4o_xex_tte67JKFyCW4T6D0vgpFqIRcJD6joHZEOaa344MDaCKFb4w1T16ZBjNOFOR_X2pfi1v_o4lclEW31HWAIlnTq3EKjNPYqvqOD8f1vzyfumnJ2Tz1Ca-hGctfYKL/s1600/Jay+Great+American.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He's downright pissed when his computer pukes, although maybe HE should be throwing up...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpL2L_Dr-1-L7osno12l5Kp_KPzmsodMupkWvFb8082WiGhvBHXjDiXj7BNcpKElbObk62ByIesVssf3sXmp4GAZ2-CFk_f9tokama3ymMFFALaCfDJ6X2DTqtCCsodBvz1gnX5blp0_8P/s1600/Jay+Angry+Man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpL2L_Dr-1-L7osno12l5Kp_KPzmsodMupkWvFb8082WiGhvBHXjDiXj7BNcpKElbObk62ByIesVssf3sXmp4GAZ2-CFk_f9tokama3ymMFFALaCfDJ6X2DTqtCCsodBvz1gnX5blp0_8P/s400/Jay+Angry+Man.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And then....Sometimes he's just downright creepy...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie437nBNv1GMBQx-tQaziYdb4DoCIpJ9Vk8_KuKtoKT2wPHi-HdRRi22zbG-gVJ1aFLbV4lZr8UvFHejqoaG4R4SEzAqSMOiqPn00udZlyDacYfXMub5xvGADxvlEPVoNPt4lxWguIQvg7/s1600/JayStalker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie437nBNv1GMBQx-tQaziYdb4DoCIpJ9Vk8_KuKtoKT2wPHi-HdRRi22zbG-gVJ1aFLbV4lZr8UvFHejqoaG4R4SEzAqSMOiqPn00udZlyDacYfXMub5xvGADxvlEPVoNPt4lxWguIQvg7/s320/JayStalker.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But that's okay, because authorities have picked up upon that...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfil-JNJ7ZjE8Pgh-vIO3ySsB81cx6GquuYq1O7ftickX8tBFTkXDAcKorkfNPqyKlSY8c46MQPvqWJlo32doZWomN5rErVzwOSZ36xaM61FOjAeStyjDLcb2mLTF_MiLEe8T-bmt2M_6/s1600/Jay+Mug+Shot.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfil-JNJ7ZjE8Pgh-vIO3ySsB81cx6GquuYq1O7ftickX8tBFTkXDAcKorkfNPqyKlSY8c46MQPvqWJlo32doZWomN5rErVzwOSZ36xaM61FOjAeStyjDLcb2mLTF_MiLEe8T-bmt2M_6/s400/Jay+Mug+Shot.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>It's good to know that Jayman is on antibiotics, and on the watchful eye of the government.  If we didn't have that, we would have Arkansans running amok.<br /><br />And it 's even better knowing that Jayman is the IWS Person of the Week.  Because...<br /><br />In spite of his pee-pee vaginitis, that boy did double time on today's radio show as he clicked out and then came back in!!<br /><br />So, here's to Jayman, our<i> IWS Person of the Week!!</i></div>

IWS Person of the Week...Jayman

He's Steamy and infected... He's Adventurous and yet, he has bugs... He's downright pissed when his computer pukes, although may...

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Foggy Blue Ridge Parkway

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Blue Ridge Parkway fog on mountains Shenandoah Valley Foggy Blue Ridge Parkway

Photo by Lynn R. Mitchell October 12, 2013

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General Robert E. Lee ... 1807 - October 12, 1870

<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibauC12Gjq56KqaYp0KkQeryub8pXqTpcNdj7jxLAEUcYJdic_Ffk5hGt-JhO5-TErdXRGqLiSd7zrlN1iMT4RoPTAd3Z8CGxMUoDeaTEJUCIM4Jw7VqMZITDyS87_sYI6aKRHefNMjkj0/s1600/Robert+E.+Lee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibauC12Gjq56KqaYp0KkQeryub8pXqTpcNdj7jxLAEUcYJdic_Ffk5hGt-JhO5-TErdXRGqLiSd7zrlN1iMT4RoPTAd3Z8CGxMUoDeaTEJUCIM4Jw7VqMZITDyS87_sYI6aKRHefNMjkj0/s1600/Robert+E.+Lee.jpg" /></a></div><br /><i>"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">-- General Robert E. Lee</div><br />On this day in 1870, General Robert E. Lee died at the age of 67 after suffering a stroke while serving as president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia. He is buried at the chapel at Washington and Lee, with his trusty horse Traveller buried nearby.<br /><br />Lee is perhaps best remembered as a Virginian who would not fight against his native state and turned down President Abraham Lincoln's offer to command the Union Army. When Virginia voted to secede from the nation in 1861, Lee had serious misgivings about secession but could not fight against the south so agreed to lead the Confederate Army.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.historynet.com/robert-e-lee">HistoryNet.com</a> notes:<br /><blockquote>Today, [Lee] remains internationally respected as a daring, often brilliant tactician, a gentleman who never referred to Northern soldiers as "the enemy" but as "those people over there," a man who opposed secession but felt honor-bound to serve his native state. He applied for restoration of his American citizenship, but the papers were lost until the 1970s, when his wish was granted. </blockquote>General Lee, from a long line of Virginians, remembered on this day.

Civil War Lexington Robert E. Lee Virginia War Between the States Washington and Lee University General Robert E. Lee ... 1807 - October 12, 1870

"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." -- General Robert E. Lee On this day in 1870, General Robe...

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Waynesboro Fall Foliage Festival offers it all in shadow of Blue Ridge Mountains

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBcREIKT3y92Ky9iFjYotWdqtF2MfSnJm8nQqidj16qtXr-TTx9fx92pC6rPY1x0GNwRN6cLtdtdk2vz41MYO3gy1rjSqgFE2gs-OeLC7BLJbPmsLqV1C3XcXYrFOnqS1nXmq4x27Zxbsd/s1600/15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBcREIKT3y92Ky9iFjYotWdqtF2MfSnJm8nQqidj16qtXr-TTx9fx92pC6rPY1x0GNwRN6cLtdtdk2vz41MYO3gy1rjSqgFE2gs-OeLC7BLJbPmsLqV1C3XcXYrFOnqS1nXmq4x27Zxbsd/s640/15.jpg" width="476" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Saturday's Fall Foliage Festival in Waynesboro was a little damp but the show went on with artisans, entertainment, food vendors, and games for the kids. The downtown area was closed to vehicles and lined with vendor tents for this annual event that continues on Sunday until 5:00 p.m.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS2Wi7AhzyIyeyR5qSIMrxL3Fp_jvL4MH6cBgqI6c-rNdg9HZh6VTXBGP_KXMqJZifof4mbR1DUdWm1m1ZNuaHqHJCcNpFb2Trs94_qJ-e2tI-gR15k4kQ-WI8a0diZ1UIusrovbBQl7g/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS2Wi7AhzyIyeyR5qSIMrxL3Fp_jvL4MH6cBgqI6c-rNdg9HZh6VTXBGP_KXMqJZifof4mbR1DUdWm1m1ZNuaHqHJCcNpFb2Trs94_qJ-e2tI-gR15k4kQ-WI8a0diZ1UIusrovbBQl7g/s400/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">John and Jennifer's friendly faces manned the Waynesboro Kiwanis booth.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGjO7oiWTjdRMx8cXHe3Ce7jjV6V39_rY9gAmxWgujqPLrNqt75G6HGpFY1VeLFA4FJYtJf0XdODD3oR8pUriA4jIH3xtkPFmARXa6KXCmj53z8pP2Fs1EWoRdLo9PGtZ8q5tNbukGb8e/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGjO7oiWTjdRMx8cXHe3Ce7jjV6V39_rY9gAmxWgujqPLrNqt75G6HGpFY1VeLFA4FJYtJf0XdODD3oR8pUriA4jIH3xtkPFmARXa6KXCmj53z8pP2Fs1EWoRdLo9PGtZ8q5tNbukGb8e/s400/5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Waynesboro Boy Scout Troop 47 was selling 1,000 apple dumplings as a fund raiser for the troop's summer program. Located under the farmers market pavilion, they were doing a brisk business Saturday morning.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqndP-K46YujBFxRfdlQBSd_E5z_gg8oqkyHDmTa0QnI7w8ytmdteQpRQoqWy5_OWMRI3WvhHkXbcf1WBSdOQH1s80uV7bgVW_BN1wrInWLRmE3aPPOkFhHm1xf0V8kFBGHK81rqbrooZn/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqndP-K46YujBFxRfdlQBSd_E5z_gg8oqkyHDmTa0QnI7w8ytmdteQpRQoqWy5_OWMRI3WvhHkXbcf1WBSdOQH1s80uV7bgVW_BN1wrInWLRmE3aPPOkFhHm1xf0V8kFBGHK81rqbrooZn/s400/7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3-E-QTH8ZMlHJleoSOfET_kQdpl7C4MVY05mpujoSzRoNtl8aVrEhu9jnObqFbIDJHb944Xozy78vAIjDArRjT5s00-tsinB8Ca-_XN4f8ISy-T3m7pnu-OmpXJXLKqUBu5_wYkKoaYh-/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Mitchell<br />October 12, 2013

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Ten takeaways from the South African Google in Ed Summit held in Cape Town recently

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Submitted by Fiona Beal</span></em><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anthony Egbers, a very innovative technology co-ordinator from Dainfern College recently wrote a great post on his blog, entitled ‘<a href="http://technoschooljourney.blogspot.com/2013/10/10-things-i-will-be-taking-from.html">10 things I will be taking from the za.gafesummit.com’</a> and he encouraged other South African teachers that attended the Summit to do likewise. Great idea, Anthony, I have taken the challenge!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The EdtechTeam’s <a href="http://www.gafesummit.com/">Google Summits</a> are enormously popular and are held all over the world sometimes twice in a week! This initiative of the <a href="http://www.edtechteam.com/">EdTechTeam</a> has had far-reaching effects on inspiring educational change - the collaborative and free Google way! It was such a privilege for SchoolNet to invite this team to Africa for the first time ever, and along with a fantastic Parklands College team, host the event at Parklands in Cape Town. Here are ten of my takeways. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1. Google Hangouts for conferencing</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLbWhVZLGYaZZlHrXuk_DXv_FQ6NffsrOajx-A3veERw9IODgKhm_7fcE58kCFbSH1G1CphChEQcCbtPK3qT6tZtnKUX7DC_U2YedUfKPYynKYXQzhHreJPyfUjK4k0bv3PT1zvYQbfOs/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a member of the organising team I was impressed with the way we used free <a href="http://goo.gl/nVZoUs">Google hangouts</a> for our preparation meetings…so simple and easy. We could see each other and converse as though we were in the same room. Google Hangouts can be used effectively in education in a multitude of ways. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>2. Sched.org for creating a conference website</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5ZTiCwf4Y5Ha-dUIOW02PIaRQeVmdMGOQaZS61XiJdM7wbfoJ8bC_AU7dy-EsNFlIDCazZaGuo8aBKmMAUXTaJ_W9njLb2AqoYgy6l1rPalFXKB_QPq1rBMqk82gGuLHkJpBM4uL3gE/s1600-h/image%25255B6%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ibGOgY5eHgsS6c6xSDsNdthd4ITOZoxCcdi_UQbjf6EvpaViKbeShJSTHKKdzkJy0i5OpfMhInIbTAdAT3CttM66nbRSxwk4WwlexDOvVRjUXrN_MeU1Ny2oKwj9rpCgqfpsG0Xjzl4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was the first paperless conference I have ever attended! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team uses <a href="http://sched.org/">Sched.org</a> for all their Summit <a href="http://za.gafesummit.com/">websites</a> and this really fascinated me. It is a marvelous way to plan for a Conference and is easy to navigate as it sets everything out clearly. They also used <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/">Eventbrite</a> to invite folk to the sessions and registration was a breeze – all done on a cell phone or tablet. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>3. Exceptional keynotes</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All three keynotes were exceptionally good – motivational and very thought- provoking...and oh so inspiring! </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="IMG_1216" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheWEOqCOxccB_HKS34sxH_RhzgX_rRJe1jLj25tT_-YCUYWyX5gWueHzJV-v0NgY6qgx-Vd7RBsEKZnS6_Gdu7GzFWYxin4aHgFM2TlmMJnN8yZe6Dm0Xz-fLKh72SHj4n9p7oJKpmVS4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1216" width="244" /></span></div></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Molly Shroeder blew us away with her ‘<i>Design Thinking</i>' about moonshot thinking and living in Beta</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="IMG_1251" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMiEb8QuytQrvTNCsxA-9ooPz6RtYKQtYu5_olMGH5RC4TgY9-Ihzb1WflnfswXlvKVwjTZjZZ83FBn8HVCHnodoOzIakzRgBOwtxOFRvU9UTB-njFUTP7D7IHes4stvyOJVayJyzw9wg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1251" width="244" /></span></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rushton Hurley from www.nextvista.org spoke on ‘<i>The Good, the Great and Rapid Change</i>’ </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="20130927_164250" border="0" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgiqY8D4RFMiceZ1a2eWQLj0dnjRl1yLJGmK18LZ4EALQyIPtw901KexAkZuP2jmqb8_PHDa3qXfQzAy7qNyOOQd9HvVZNG57_8DGLT24ghzCp3DzcgiLXjD9aoKObZekvsKT_8VaC8o/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="20130927_164250" width="244" /></span></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'<i>Technology is Trus</i>t' - the closing keynote presented by Kern Kelly</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>4. Chrome Ninja with Molly Shroeder</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was a great presentation from Molly on all the features of Google Chrome as a browser. Here is the link <a href="http://goo.gl/frdCb" title="http://goo.gl/frdCb">http://goo.gl/frdCb</a>. (Straight after Molly I presented on ‘<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Lvy-aejtizNL0hDvRQSKm7LEF0B81EYbqGzUV2iCEGw/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.p14">Make browsing a dream with the amazing Google Chrome</a>’ for beginners at another venue. It felt very basic after all I learned in Molly's talk!) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCSz4MxYVarheJ2WMoF8I6LbLTvtyV0KKdPHB0nr3dX9zdgfFWZSLqJI3mltdtUDo7H2jO3JBVr7OpHJPe5Gyoe8Kr0MO0AO3EuoF87qfh4VerxzJXDA8rNVkfLIA2bxK6hGVM1AhpYYY/s1600/IMG_1222.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCSz4MxYVarheJ2WMoF8I6LbLTvtyV0KKdPHB0nr3dX9zdgfFWZSLqJI3mltdtUDo7H2jO3JBVr7OpHJPe5Gyoe8Kr0MO0AO3EuoF87qfh4VerxzJXDA8rNVkfLIA2bxK6hGVM1AhpYYY/s400/IMG_1222.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Molly</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>5. Productivity with Mark Wagner</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="20130927_165511" border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHLfG905mpobi-wZdD3lSJDOW_Y5Fvs39_9DFE-Znt1IRgiHaN0UJTQHSPj_IDudn2K2t9G0Q63Ju_tyGg_sg9mUih63O9CsSI1nnThKY7yAtO6F05iFL7fOWUObaiXjAZX3QlxM6-nYk/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="20130927_165511" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I attended two of Mark Wagner’s presentations. The first was ‘</span><a href="http://www.edtechteam.com/workshops/2013-09-26pln" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Personal Learning Networks for Educators now with Google +</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">’ and the second was  ‘</span><a href="http://www.edtechteam.com/workshops/2013-09-26productivity" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make More of Your Time: Productivity Tools for Educators and Students</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">’ where I learned a lot of very useful email tips.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>6. A great website - NextVista.org</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCk92JFcynJJZxL2vSgXqib4WjzTlAX4118ZxhfgFkBWeLmmet2iZ__Ps2xeGYR28IAtrnQOhLEWvqPw-ASkA0gwNAPDK94vEZxz6bAy7PXPGjXQTkSGEJX6Y8plZqBn61y0SdD4AopB0/s1600-h/image%25255B13%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlZe-LNkH4vudlzqrlqiiZGKzLmt9vG7DajRBKgP5hs8GEPPcW4k4JTdD1R_-SgojDJmsCeXfuej1H7aNQVA2ooEK1aFBVUj9pBTbnp7mDun3bc-6m3dnpK_vb98OMuCczID4W4G3gnRE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="164" /></span></a></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0PECepJ6UoU2ZTr_IaVQQRKDU0X_dhxmvujm1TGNH8tnn_0Vv_GKN9LI-UfI58q2_Qq6Fb8tdE4usliPbZNoNMWVFqWLUh4GLPfKZVo2DaMRIlrMPh7BdubFoOeUELZI9lAZI3bkf4VI/s1600-h/20130927_084136%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="20130927_084136" border="0" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvQ6v8pOeEE5HM94plrR2Yv2PJs2eUim56IrWy6XAswBKl0EFpJbMRzMzXlmVVXMVFPGXe44qJ5II0sHIPpqrOxSEDnfjY-6tqLOd6Kffk79uMuNRCgS0g85d6WPm6a7BJ7T6HMg8ccgw/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="20130927_084136" width="244" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rushton Hurley from <a href="http://www.nextvista.org/">www.nextvista.org</a> is one of the most motivating speakers I have ever heard. (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am going to be an avid follower of next vista.org from now on.) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I loved his keynote and attended two of his sessions after that namely ‘</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ua6wi9cwOxtGW_Y_m6We8RuyjuGryjRb_t5TAyf28Ro/present#slide=id.g1e28bde9_0_84" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fostering creativity and excellence’</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and  ‘</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1A9ljZ9yg0a2RNEvrQJOKc81oKhexwHthLRY37GOS4Lo/present#slide=id.g1e28bde9_0_84" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inspiring your colleagues with free resources’</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  He has a captivating style of presentation. (At the end of the Summit he chose his favourite tweet which was "Rushton I’d like to hug your brain." Here he can be seen about to hug the sender of the tweet...) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYJAss6lHWWil997xQs7HGwgr1kt0YlKHQssCpC1njBobs7zIAa2Oo_f22zQmRc__qXxp_GafvRMzm1jE5uvRtZuV_m_whXXSoLpaylpSvO-N4We7t6pub0Hejs9Alysq8rtak7gmg8TM/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rushton hugging a tweeting fan (photo via Steve Sherman)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">7. Sharing with and learning from others</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also presented on <a href="http://goo.gl/vmygUB">Starting the paperless journey with Google</a>. I mention this as a takeaway as I had an awesome group of attendees who shared their own stories of their experiences of implementing Google in the classroom. We all learned so much from each other. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>8. The Demoslam</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The demo slam was such fun and was very well-received. The presentations  needed to be high energy, geeky plus useful which was a challenge! The winner was a great, fun presentation from Kevin Sherman using <a href="http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/">Google Docs Story Builder</a>. It was the first silent demo slam the team has witnessed! (Kevin seen below receiving his award). </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I participated with a presentation on </span><a href="http://goo.gl/9Bomlc" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take note of VideoNotes</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, (a favourite tool of mine) feeling very nervous! </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="IMG_1230" border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTVKZXNDpr9Zh7AgE8FrcLC81l3jKegcjoeXe-gE1Oq8dCA-b28Une4w78t-hXuwiPzZ25L-pahinCPTzAYybFcMjleP4CxHo8uRnb_4w0EEro8c1uJV9_yHwbM5Ast9-qN4SBa1IJVY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1230" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The winner - Kevin Sherman</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">9. Chris Betcha</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I sadly didn’t get to any of <a href="http://www.summitstuff.com/home">Chris Betcha’s</a> presentations but I came across his Google site where he stores everything. Thank you Chris for these awesome resources on your Google site! Yes, Google sites is going to become a firm favourite of mine as well. (I LOVED the way the team, in general, stored their presentations and info about themselves on a Google site.) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLmP_jy3RjBB0h1Yg3-21zqQzIZXvlfY3Mhl15rPCnDN7Odt5Ox2HNX5AtKPAmTVeo9fcgaN0QEjZ1Lw0m7IAl_vQIWDK5rOsiOLl3paAtiezF3jJXP_eygvB2fc0Xy0wbCB13Z5GvIXc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>10. Networking</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last but not least I LOVED the networking at the Conference. It was amazing to reconnect with my PLN from all over South Africa, and to make new friends as well. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQVRPyKeTxViOkJKGgKt8L-uzjTJKlpYcww-vRmc6aJNMuN82l-yIh8ezmjJYqgBCJhp2U7U4fxh8W2fan_IER5igPLwLr5s4AwIpR2rARFfTm5eycleWoYa4-PitNjpwhTIZmhEYk_Ao/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The organising team - EdTechTeam, Parklands and SchoolNet (photo via Steve Sherman)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another SA teacher who has written about the Google summit is Linda Foulkes from Elkana House '<a href="http://goo.gl/B3I9ff" target="_blank">I've gone Google and presented at the Google Summit</a>'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Google in Education Summit was an excellent event well worth attending. I learned SO much from the international team of presenters, and I am hoping this event will become an annual one. I think this summit really showed teachers how Google can be used very effectively in the 21st century classroom. Can’t wait for the next summit…</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div></div>

Google summit Ten takeaways from the South African Google in Ed Summit held in Cape Town recently

Submitted by Fiona Beal Anthony Egbers, a very innovative technology co-ordinator from Dainfern College recently wrote a great post on his b...

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