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THE BACKPACK AUCTION IS HERE!!! The Backpack Auction catalogs will soon come home in your child's backpack. The Auction begins March 1st and runs through March 8th. The catalog is also available online here! With almost 200Read more
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Elementary PTOs
Gift Your Child 2017 The suggested Gift Your Child donation is $100 per student. Pick the button for your school from the three below, select the amount you would like to donate/student below, and setRead more
The 2017 Backpack Auction
THE BACKPACK AUCTION IS HERE!!! The Backpack Auction catalogs will soon come home in your child's backpack. Look for them starting March 1st. The catalog is also available online here! With 200 items in this year'sRead more
The Wayland Schools' PTO Green Team Textile Recycling Project
Wayland's Green Team has partnered with Bay State Textiles to keep recyclable clothing, shoes, stuffed animals, backpacks and linens out of landfills. Your donations not only remove textiles from the waste stream, but 45% of the contentRead more
Backpack Auction Thank You
Thank you for participating in the Wayland Elementary Schools' PTO's Backpack Auction. If you did NOT include your item number(s) and description(s) in the checkout process, please email the Backpack Auction committee at firstname.lastname@example.com with your name,Read more
Sold Out
We are sorry. Tickets to the Disco Night are sold out. If you would like to be placed on a waiting list in case anyone who bought tickets is unable to attend, please email usRead more
Bus Driver Appreciation Donations
Bus Driver Appreciation Donations. Donations for the Annual Bus Driver Appreciation are being accepted online here via the Donate button below. This event, sponsored by the Wayland PTO, will be held on Wednesday, April 1Read more
2015 Lunar New Year
The Wayland PTO, along with the Wayland Chinese-American Association and Arts/Wayland invite all families and community members to the 2015 LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONon March 1, 2015 from 2 to 5 pm at WHS FeaturingRead more
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WMS Friends and Family Ad Submission
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Area Lodging
There are many places to stay in the local area and in the Napa Valley. Here is a list of local accommodations including phone numbers and prices. Additionally, Pacific Union College has on-campus Guest Housing. Phone Winning Hall at 707-965-6313, or by visiting the Guest Housing page.
NOTE: All Prices Subject To Change Depending On Season. Phone For Details, Discounts, And Updates.
Adagio Inn
Ambrose Bierce House
Bear Flag Inn
Best Western Elm House Inn
Best Western Stevenson Manor Inn
Brannan Cottage Inn
Calistoga Inn & Restaurant
Calistoga Retreat
Calistoga Spa Hot Springs
Christopher's Inn
Churchill Manor
Cottage Grove Inn
The Chanric Inn
El Bonita Motel
Golden Haven Hot Springs
Harvest Inn
Hawthorn Inn & Suites
Hillcrest Bed & Breakfast
Hilltop House Bed & Breakfast
Hilton Garden Inn Napa
Hotel St. Helena
Judy's Bed & Breakfast
Larkmead Country Inn Bed & Breakfast
Comfort Inn
Marriott Hotels & Resorts
The Meritage Resort at Napa
Meadowood Resort
Mount View Hotel
Napa Vinery Inn
Rancho Caymus Inn
Red Door Inn
Roman Spa Hot Springs Resort
Rustridge Bed & Breakfast
Shady Oaks Country Inn
Spanish Villa Inn
Spring Hill Suites
The Sunburst Calistoga
TripAdvisor – Nearby Accommodations
The Ink House Bed & Breakfast
The Inn at Southbridge
Wine Country Inn
Wine Country Vacation Rentals
Wydown Hotel
Zinfandel Inn
Updated: September 22, 2016
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One of our financing options allows you to book your treatment today! You won't have to wait for days or weeks to get approved. Come in for a private medical consultation with Dr. Guirguis, and once a suitable treatment plan has been determined, walk out with your surgery date booked the very same day.
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Dr. Emad M. Guirguis is recognized by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons as a general surgeon, with additional recognition as a cosmetic surgeon. He is certified by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to perform cosmetic surgery, after completing a comprehensive cosmetic surgery certification process. Dr. Guirguis is also a member of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons. Dr. Guirguis currently has hospital privileges at Stevenson Memorial Hospital. Read more about Dr. Guirguis.


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It is natural. It is powerful. It is simple and fun. It is up to you.
Face Yoga is a way to take years off your face and even improve vision naturally.
Learn exercises to increase the circulation, collage and elastin to the face as well as relax and firm the muscles which smooths and lifts the skin.
It's Yoga for all the small muscles of your face.
Gabriela offers classes, one on ones, workshops, do it yourself body products and Skype sessions
regularly in Kensington Market in Toronto.
Love the skin you're in.
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The first volume of Black Panther is hardly a superhero comic book. If you're looking for a comic filled with people in tights punching other people in tights, you should probably look elsewhere. Brian Stelfreeze and Ta-Nehisi Coates have instead constructed a story about a nation and a king—a tale of violence, revolution, and politics. But Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Vol. 1 is a must buy, whether you are a superhero fan or not.
As far as the nuts and bolts go, this trade contains the first four issues of the new Black Panther run by Brian Stelfreeze and Ta-Nehisi Coates. It also contains a reprint of the first appearance of Black Panther from the pages of Fantastic Four #52 by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. While it's a cool addition to the trade, it does not add much to the story and the pages would have probably been better suited by the fifth issue of the current run. Still, any chance you have to marvel at some Jack Kirby art is worthwhile, so just soak up the awesomeness that is King Kirby and be grateful for it.
To reiterate, Black Panther is more about king T'Challa than it is a man dressed as a panther battling super-powered villains. Ta-Nehisi Coates crafts a tale around Wakanda and its struggles as a nation. He builds the cast and, expertly, relies on past Marvel events to make a case for the current state of political unrest. This first volume doesn't spend as much time as it could with T'Challa, but since the supporting cast is so great, it's a forgivable offense. Also, it ends with one of the most awesome final pages in a superhero trade ever, so huge bonus point for that bit of dialogue. Terror has a home in Wakanda.
That said, the real star of this book is artist Brian Stelfreeze. His line work is insane and beautiful, giving us a superb look setting and cast. His use of shadow and silhouettes is masterful, at time dropping out all character features and letting their body language do all the talking. His action scenes have grace and style, but it's the smaller moments that sell this book, like the conversations between T'Challa and his mother, or the plotting of rebellious forces. Stelfreeze makes these moments shine when they could easily fall into visual boredom. Ta-Nehisi Coates' dialogue is fantastic, but when combined with Stelfreeze's hard lines, it becomes epic, next level stuff.
Laura Martin adds a lot to the book, too. Her colors lift Stelfreeze's artwork and do much to shape the tone of the book. Often times, especially during action scenes, Stelfreeze will drop out background detail for Martin to carry with her smooth palette. She plays with reader expectations, too, often using reds and oranges for quieter moments and blues and greens for action. It gives Black Panther a look and feel that is all its own. You can thank Joe Sabino's graceful lettering as well. Black Panther is a text-heavy comic and Sabino makes it feel effortless.
If Marvel's goal with this new series was to capture readers who might be new to the character thanks to his recent big screen appearance, they have certainly accomplished that. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze, and Laura Martin make a hell of a team. There's never been a better time to jump into the world of Black Panther.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 burritos.
Image: Marvel Comics
Benjamin Bailey writes for the Nerdist and can be found on Twitter talking about Godzilla, comic books, and hardcore music.


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About us
Houses in Linwood, Johnstone and Paisley
Linstone Housing Association was set up in 1998 following a stock transfer from Scottish Homes. With around 1570 properties, we are one of the largest housing associations in Renfrewshire and most of our houses are in Linwood and Johnstone – hence the name.
In addition to being a landlord, we also act as estate manager to around 2000 owner occupiers and provide a factoring service to approximately 480 owners.
The Association is a not-for-profit organisation which means that any surplus we make is reinvested back into our homes, communities and services. We are registered with the Scottish Housing Regulator and run by a voluntary Committee of Management. We are also a registered Charity and an Industrial & Provident Society.


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Dominique Ansel of Dominique Ansel Bakery, New York, Tokyo, London
(The World's Best Pastry Chef 2017)
"We've just opened a brand new shop in Tokyo in March at Ginza Mitsukoshi, and 50 per cent of the menu is all-new creations that aren't available anywhere else. They're each inspired by Japan and Japanese ingredients, and one of my favourites is our Square Watermelon Cake, with raspberry and pistachio mousse, pistachio feuilletine and watermelon lime gelée. We also created a Zero Gravity Chiffon Cake that's so light, it floats inside a balloon. You have to pop the balloon to get the cake – it's really fun.
And coming up in the Fall, we will be opening our first restaurant ever in Los Angeles at The Grove. It's something I've never done before – creating a restaurant with full savoury menus, brunch, a bar programme with cocktails – so it's really exciting for me and for the team to see if all start coming to life.
In terms of the next trend in desserts, I think that you'll start to see a lot of savoury chefs head towards desserts and sweets, and vice versa as well, pastry chefs exploring the savoury side of things. There's endless possibilities in what you can create if you put imagination and technique into it, whether you're a savoury or a pastry chef, and you'll start to see those lines blurring more and more."
Gaggan Anand, Gaggan, Bangkok, Thailand
(No. 7, The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2017, and The Best Restaurant in Asia)
"The fizz and energy in me is running out. I'm tired, that's why I'm closing Gaggan (in 2020) and moving to Japan. I finally convinced Goh (Chef Takeshi Fukyuma of La Maison de la Nature Goh in Fukuoka), a famous Japanese chef to quit his restaurant, and I'm quitting my restaurant. And together we form a restaurant that has just 12 seats in Fukuoka. We've been planning this for three years. We won't be doing any menus. We are going back to good food, and we are not going to cook superficial food. We are living and working full time there. Can you imagine how mad we are? This is a change of career. Nobody else will take this risk with me. And he's agreed to it. Our restaurant will be called GohGan."
Jordi Roca, El Celler De Can Roca, Girona, Spain
(No. 3, The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2017)
"I'm currently working on a prototype that relates colours with musical notes. (Jordi is working with cyborg-artist Neil Harbisson who is colour-blind and has an antenna implanted in his skull. He can hear colours that we can't see, such as ultra violet). I'm developing this 'dish player' with Neil, so you can hear the colours that you are eating. It's an instrument that translates colours to sounds – it composes sounds in desserts. When I go back home (to Spain) I'm going to finish this prototype – in a couple of months it will be ready."


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The logo for the Agility Series embodies both the approach to our books, as well as what we hope to accomplish.
The Olive Tree
The Olive Tree is synonymous with seeking harmony. Offering someone an Olive Branch is done as a way to make peace or to engage one another so that we can grow together.
The logo integrates the organic with the human, and suggests a person growing and ascending on the strength of healthy, thriving roots of wisdom.
People. Inspired. Wisdom.
The content for the books is drawn from the collective wisdom of those who participate in our councils.
The first round of questions for each book in the series relies on council members engaging and sharing their insights on a set of five to seven questions.
In round two, we draw from those insights to identify five themes per question that best encapsulates the wisdom within them. These themes then become the inspiration for the content of each book.
The imagery in the logo is of each of continuing to grow, inspired by one another, as we uncover our collective wisdom.


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IliumBook - 2005
The first installment of a new saga is based on themes from The Iliad and The Tempest and places classical characters and gods in such settings as the Plains of Ilium, the terraformed oceans of Mars, and Jupiter space. Reprint.
The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars -- observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family -- and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth -- as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate, perhaps terminate, the potentially catastrophic emissions emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of the Red Planet.
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text: All characters and events on these products, even those based on real people, are entirely fictional. All celebrity voices are impersonated poorly. The following program contains coarse language and due to its content it should not be viewed by anyone. The South Park Wall Clock features the characters from the ever-popular show, with quartz movement that runs on a single AA battery (not included). This clock is bound to add that extra touch to any room, den or office (or teenager's bedroom).


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Hi folks!
CERT has participated in a number of outreach events in support of national preparedness month, these are the events yet to come.
Saturday, September 20th-Mount Vernon high school, Alexandria-7am-1pm
CERT members have been asked to play victims for a fire and rescue department drill to take place here. We are looking for 30 volunteers for the 20th of September from 0800-1300 hrs. Need the volunteers there by 0700 for moulage. We are looking for all ages, but please no younger than 14. Be sure to wear clothes appropriate for the weather; and wear clothing that can get torn/dirty/stage blood stained.
The drill will take place at Mount Vernon High School, 8515 Mount Vernon Rd. Alexandria, VA. Contact our actor victim coordinator Kevin at firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested.
Saturday, September 20th-Groveton Baptist church, Alexandria, 10am-4pm (Hey! Two events in one day!)
We'll be helping support the church with their fall festival/emergency preparedness event. If your'e living in the south county area and would like to help, just email me at firstname.lastname@example.com with your name and CERT class number.
Tuesday, September 23rd-USDA FNS preparedness day, Alexandria 10am-2pm
We will have the CERT booth and handouts up and running at this event for USDA employees. Special thanks to Andrew of CERT 15 and Judy of CERT 29 for your help with this event.
Thursday, September 25th-Emergency preparedness roundtable, Herndon police dept.
Members of Herndon/ Reston CERT will help with a roundtable discussion on emergency preparedness and coordination between volunteer and official organizations. Lani of Herndon Reston CERT will be handling this event.
Saturday, October 4th-Fall for Fairfax-at the county government center 9am-6pm
CERT will have the booth set up for this event, along with handouts and freebies. In addition, CERT has been asked to provide two CERT members to help the EMTs during the event.
We still need one CERT to help with the EMT's and help on the CERT booth as well.
October 11th-Fairfax County fire department open house-multiple locations from 9am to 4pm.
We have been asked to provide CERT displays in the following stations:
# 2-Vienna
# 14-Burke
# 17-Centreville (volunteers need to be on site at 8am at this station)
# 1-McLean
We have some volunteers already signed up to help at Burke and McLean; but we still need more. If you would like to help, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com with your name and CERT class number.
Community outreach is vitally important to get new CERT members, and to help teach the community of the need to prepare. If you have never helped with an outreach event, give it a try. These events are fun and the knowledge you pass along to your fellow neighbors is always well received. C'mon, give it a go!
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Tag: Cheshire Life
Latest Post
In the mag!
We were very excited when Cheshire Life asked to come along and see a preview of our Easter Collection.
It was a great day. Kirsty, their photographer, arrived first. As we had everything ready our own photographer Hollie of Rivington Photography was also there to photograph the eggs.
We prepared all the eggs and selections that we were offering for both Mothers Day and Easter. Both photographers were completely inobtrusive as we worked around the chocolate room.
Emma the journalist arrived, and I felt I had so much to say that poor Emma had barely five minutes to sit down before out came a tirade of what had been happening with the Chocolate Cellar in the past year.
Since we closed the shop in December 2011 we have kept a fairly low profile in order to get used to our new way of working. We have been working with farm shops, cafes, bars, hotels, schools and also on our online shop. Behind that change we carry the same values and principles. It was really good to stop and think and talk about the business and how we have adapted to current times.
Thank you Emma for listening and providing us with the opportunity to pause for a while and think!
Here are some photos that Hollie took. The full Easter collection will be online very shortly and will also be on sale at the International Market in Liverpool from 28th to 31st March.
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So … today I should really be in the Chocolate Room making shot glasses for La Finca Elvissa, La Finca Bodega and Tapas Tapas. Its a hot sunny day and as I am not yet in a temperature controlled industrial unit I am stuck! It is too warm to work with chocolate today. I do […]
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Once again I would like to thank everyone and anyone who has been kind enough to vote / nominate The Chocolate Cellar. I was so happy to have been listed in Good Taste Magazine's Power List: 100 women in Food and Drink. It was amazing to see my name listed with many good friends in […]
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So Easter was a little bit manic with making Unicorns and Dinosaurs. We were overwhelmed with the lovely comments we received as feedback to the eggs we made. Thank you so much – we are delighted that we were able to bring so much happiness with our little treats. We have been a bot behind […]
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As Valentines is coming up we have put together a little list of some of our favourite spices to add a little bit of heat to the proceedings. As well as Chocolate, Raw Oysters, Strawberries and more, spices are often cited as being aprodisiacs and are often use in many cultures when preparing recipes for […]


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Stocks Hitting 52-Week Lows
Aeropostale (NYSE: ARO) shares fell 2.92% to reach a new 52-week low of $5.66. Aeropostale late Thursday reported a wider-than-expected fourth-quarter loss and signed a deal with Sycamore Partners for a 5% stake.
Fuel Systems Solutions (NASDAQ: FSYS) shares fell 4.21% to touch a new 52-week low of $10.24 after Lake Street Capital downgraded the stock from Buy to Hold.
Covisint (NASDAQ: COVS) shares fell 2.39% to touch a new 52-week low of $6.95. Covisint's trailing-twelve-month ROE is -38.92%.
MCG Capital (NASDAQ: MCGC) shares reached a new 52-week low of $3.622. MCG Capital shares have dropped 23.70% over the past 52 weeks, while the S&P 500 index has gained 18.62% in the same period.
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A wee quick photo from the Annual Fireworks concert, this was taken from Arthur's Seat. A wee album will follow.
Tag Archives: fireworks
Edinburgh Festival Fireworks concert 2016 – A wee Album
Here is a small album from last Mondays fireworks concert, 30 photos
taken from Castle street, Thankfully I arrived an hour before it all began, thus getting a pretty good vantage point. This was my first attempt at shooting fireworks.
Edinburgh Festival Fireworks
And that's it for 2016 – Haste ye back 2017
The culmination of the festival is a spectacular pyrotechnic fireworks concert…. the sky lights up in time to music from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from, this all takes place from the castle, it can be heard and seen from many places across the city
I have never attempted firework photos before, I did take many, oh so many!! 😉 I'll upload a wee album soon as I can


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The authentic Vietnamese flavours of Ngon Villa
Built in 1889 for a captain in the French army, this neoclassical colonial villa reflects a rich period in the history of Vietnam.
Discovering this Art Deco villa is a delight to be savoured at teatime, the best time to maintain the illusion of having been expected in what feels like someone's home. The exceptional selection of Vietnamese teas is accompanied by traditional sweets like floating rice balls and exotic fruit salad.
With its vestiges of the colonial era, this French-style building has lost none of its former glory. The shaded courtyard is the perfect space for contemplation, away from the bustle of the city. The quaint interior decor is an invitation to travel through time. Curiosity whets the appetite, and the menu offers a journey through regional flavours, which includes Vietnamese street food like spring rolls, noodle soup with chicken, papaya salad, and dried beef.
Ngon Villa Restaurant
10 Tong Duy Tan
Shang Bong District
10000 Hanoï
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Pressed tin sign inspired by vintage ceiling tiles has hand-rubbed antique finish and jute hanger. The "Give Thanks" sentiment makes it a great gift all year long.
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FINCA SOLANA: Large (75 feet wide x 110 feet deep) home parcel located in Finca Solana. This is a quickly developing area in Corozal. Land has been cleared and is ready to build on. Enjoy the sea breezes from your home. Just steps to the water front. Approximately 250 feet from the water front. Priced to sell.
Property ID: RFS-2
Listed in: North Corozal
Property Use: Residential
Price: $30,000.00US
Terms: CASH
Notes: 75 x 100 foot lot in Finca Solana
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One of the hottest questions in the aftermath of the 2016 election has been how to fight the plague of fake news. Facebook has alternately evaded and grappled with its role in the crisis. Fake-news writers have explained their motivations. And my Washington Post colleague David Ignatius has looked at the international implications of a wave of falsehoods.
As much as it's important to push back on what's not true, it's also important to focus on what is trustworthy and to explain why outlets and reporters who continually do a good job amidst this onslaught are worth trusting. After this disorienting election, I reached out to a wide range of friends from all points on the political spectrum to ask what outlets and which writers they had confidence in and to explain the reasons for that confidence.
Many of the people who responded suggested that they trusted individual writers — or the judgment of individual people passing along stories — more than the trusted specific institutions.
"This will be unsatisfying, but I (increasingly) don't trust organizations or outlets; I trust individual journalists and opinion leaders. This is partly because I think it's harder (nowadays) for outlets to impose quality control, editing, fact checking, etc., and partly because Twitter is a primary means of consuming information," wrote the Daily Caller's Matt Lewis. "This is not to say that some outlets aren't dramatically more trustworthy than others, but the brand name that I tend to trust is the one on the byline, not the masthead."
"I've found myself gravitating to specific, individual trusted voices, not just as sources but as curators of other sources — e.g., trusted filters: (The Washington Post)'s own Dave Fahrenthold, Greg Sargent and Dave Weigel come to mind, as do MSNBC's Joy Reid, CBS' (and now the New York Times') Sopan Deb, Slate's Jamelle Bouie and Time's James Poniewozik," agreed Jeff Yang, vice president of cultural strategy for the research and branding firm Sparks and Honey, and a prominent advocate for inclusion and diversity in the entertainment industry. "Note that each of the publications these individuals work for also have sources I considered to be unreliable and in fact, truly problematic, as far as promoting trivia or spreading falsehood."
"Does 'My own personal Twitter feed' count?" as a trusted source of news, Washington Free Beacon executive editor and Washington Post contributor Sonny Bunch wrote. "I mean, honestly, I trust people more than I trust institutions. And I've curated a feed that delivers quality news from discerning people."
Other correspondents passed along more specific outlets or rules of thumb.
Dara Lind, a staff writer for Vox who covers immigration and criminal-justice issues and co-writes the Vox Sentences newsletter, wrote that she has been finding the Wall Street Journal useful because the way its coverage is framed can help her see big stories from a new perspective.
"Because its coverage of the business world and its foreign desks, for example, aren't usually refracted through the lens of U.S. politics, I feel that the information I get from reading the (Wall Street Journal) is more useful in helping me understand a news story on its own terms - it might not help me win an argument, but it keeps me informed," she explained.
"I tend to trust the outlets that run headlines at odds with their editorial point of view," offered Ben Shapiro, who left Breitbart this year and now serves as editor in chief of the conservative site Daily Wire. "So, for example, National Review will run headlines that praise Trump even though the publication opposed Trump. (The Washington Post) will run anti-Hillary headlines. Breitbart will rarely run an anti-Trump headline."
Nick Baumann, senior enterprise editor at the Huffington Post, wrote back with a lengthy list of basic tests for readers, among them checking how long the outlet has been around and what its leanings are, trying to figure out what else the author has written and seeing whether any other outlet has confirmed the story's findings.
"Does the writer show her work by saying how and where she got her information? Or does she simply assert things?" he wrote. "Do the names in this story sound made up? Are experts cited? If you Google their names, are they real? ... Does this story being true require there having been a secret conspiracy to hide it? How many people would have to be involved in that conspiracy? The more people who would have had to be involved, the less likely the story is to be true. The main question is the classic one: Is this too good to be true?"
These ideas are only helpful, of course, if people want to verify that what they're reading is real. For the rest of us, the fake-news epidemic demands of us that we do more than share good stories. We have to explain why we're passing along the news, what we trust about it and why.
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The joy of learning along with friends is incomparable, break through to join a world of wider possibilities, listening, reading, writing and speaking to understand another point of view on the world through a language that opens a world of promise. We don't just teach a language we create an experience. Try English learning at SatKids.
Saturday KIDS allows you to spend a fun morning learning english for kids 6 to 17 years old from 09h00 to 12h30.
Spring Cycle: Classes begin March 3rd, 2018 and end June 23rd, 2018.


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About Us
We are a general trading and distribution company based in Dubai. We focus on addressing the needs of ethnic communities residing in GCC by bringing them products from their home countries that give them a taste of home, away from home.
While our core business is trading & distribution, we provide support to our principals in market entry, portfolio development, packaging development, channel strategy, pricing and margin strategy as well as help with executing local promotions.
Our Values
Growth through operational efficiency
Relationships based on reliability & trust
Innovation in in-store execution
Discipline in everything we do


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Meta derives from the Greek meaning "beyond", "upon" or "after".
Psychics is the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy.
This means Metaphysics goes beyond science and what we know of the nature, energy, and matter.
The energy we can not see but feel. Do not simply shrug it off as hocus pocus because you have not opened up your mind and let your ego step aside to understand it.
There is a cosmic energy flow that you feel deep in your heart, that is a divine energy, a spiritual energy, A LIFE Force energy. Call it God, Jesus, Spirit, Universe, whatever…it is an energy.
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In our modern society, we have been stuffed into a box starting from the earliest age of how we "should" do, see, and feel things. PLEASE take this word out of your vocabulary! Especially when talking to your children. The only should in your life needs to be taking the time to be in nature a little bit every day.
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Look at those usages of the Passé Composé:
J'ai déjà mangé
I ate already (simple past), or I've eaten already (present perfect)
L'Angleterre a gagné la bataille de Trafalgar en 1805.
England won the battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
J'ai acheté un pull ce matin.
I bought a jumper this morning.
Notice that although the Passé Composé is structurally similar to the English present perfect form, e.g. j'ai mangé looks like "I have eaten", it is used in most cases where we say I ate.
Therefore, to say ''I played football yesterday.', you will use the French Passé Composé "J'ai joué au foot hier."
This can be very confusing for English speakers at first.
The nuances we have in English between "I have eaten" and "I ate" don't really exist in French. They come instead from the context and the tone used.
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L'Angleterre a gagné la bataille de Trafalgar en 1805.
England won the battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Tu as fini ton travail avant 10 heures.
You finished your work before 10.
both are possible
J'ai déjà mangé
I ate already (simple past), or I've eaten already (present perfect)
J'ai acheté un pull ce matin.
I bought a jumper this morning.
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Passé Composé
Question: What is the best way to say ''He waited for twenty minutes.''?
Correct Answer: Il a attendu pendant vingt minutes.
Wrong Answer: Il attendait pendant vingt minutes.
If the question was "He was waiting for twenty minutes.", would the correct answer then be "Il attendait pendant vingt minutes."?
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Hi Peter,
actually, I don't think so. According to my understanding the translation of "He waited for 20 minutes" and "He was waiting for 20 minutes" would both be "Il a attendu pendant 20 minutes."
However, in the context there may be additional information available which would dictiate the use of the imperfect.
I used to wait 20 minutes. -- J'attendais pendant 20 minutes.
Here you use the imperfect because the sentence alludes to a general habit rather than a one-off kind of experience.
He was waiting for the bus when we met. -- Il attendait le bus quand nous nous sommes rencontrés.
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Sorry....I got kicked out and couldn't finishe the post. So here goes:
He was waiting for the bus when we met. -- Il attendait le bus quand nous nous sommes rencontrés.
In this case you have to actions going on: one as a kind of background action (the waiting) and the other as the main focus (the meeting). The former is in the imperfect, the latter in the perfect.
-- Chris (not a native teacher).
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If I look at lesson at https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/grammar/l-imparfait-usage-expressing-continuing-action-in-the-past-imperfect-tense, the following examples are listed as proper use of Imparfait:
J'allais au marché...
I was going to the market...
Tu parlais de Jean, ce matin.
You were talking this morning about John.
Nous pensions aller à la plage
We were thinking of going to the beach.
Vous étiez là ce matin.
You (pl) were there this morning.
In the above examples by kwiziq, the past continuous tense were translated using Imparfait. Your example "Il attendait le bus quand nous nous sommes rencontrés" makes sense because the 2 actions are linked.
However, it seems one can use both passé composé and imparfait when only 1 action (verb):
Nous attendions à la porte
Nous avons attendu à la porte
I guess one will learn over time which one to use within which context?
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Hi Peter, the imperfect version has a different connotation than its counterpart in passé composé. In English, this connotation isn't captured perfectly by a one single translation but rather by several. Which one of these captures the right flavor at any one specific instance is determined by context.
"Nous attendions à la porte." could mean:
We were waiting at the door.
We used to wait at the door.
"Nous avons attendu à la porte." however, is simply:
We waited at the door.
Using one or the other expresses different situations, so they aren't generally interchangeable.
-- Chris (not a native speaker).
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Returning to your original question of how to translate "We were waiting at the door."
I guess I would lean toward the imparfait since the continuous form expresses a kind of duration or a background action. But, to me, this is less obvious than the two other pretty clear-cut examples in my previous post.
-- Chris (not a native teacher).
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I ate earlier, this morning, when I got up, etc, but I have already eaten, surely?
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I don't believe you can say in English 'I ate already' ?
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For this blog, intern Stephanie Baldwin writes about an artifact that caught her eye in the field...
Piscataway Drill (rose quartz) – Late Archaic Period
|Drill modified from a Piscataway point.
I chose to write about the Piscataway Drill that was found July 12, 2011 at Pig Point (18AN50) in Feature 11 Stratum G of Unit 51. Although I was working in Unit 80, not the feature that this point was found, the beauty of this point found at the same site sparked my interest in Late Archaic projectile points. This drill is made of a beautiful rose quartz. At the bottom of the drill there is a darker hue of rose/pink, and it gradually lightens into a light rose/pink at the tip.
This drill/knife could have possibly been made as a projectile point and re-sharpened into a drill or had been originally made as a drill. Although the tip of the drill/knife is broken off, it is evident to see that it has a drill shape to it. The term
Piscataway [Stemmed] Points was coined by Stephenson, et al. in 1963. In the book Material Culture from Prehistoric Virginia, Wm Jack Hranicky explains the basic description of the Piscataway Points: "Stemmed; it is a small-to-medium, long and narrow point with contracting and pointed stems. Bases are usually pointed but rounded bases do occur" (614). This points date to the Late Archaic Period (3500 B.C. – 1000 B.C.).
A recent paper written by Al Luckenbach, Jessie Grow, and Shawn Sharpe explains some very interesting findings associated with
Piscataway [Stemmed] Points. This paper describes the stratigraphy and chronology of the Pig Point site and discusses the regional implications of the results obtained for Piscataway and triangular points (Luckenbach et al.: 3). While triangle points are commonly associated with the Late Woodland period (A.D. 900 – A.D. 1650), triangle points at Pig Point are being found in situ and associated with Piscataway points from the Archaic period. This indicates that triangle points were used in at least two different periods of prehistory.
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The campus has attracted university officials and international visitors, who want to see how academics can work alongside start-ups and established companies. Universities want to "push the envelope to have that unique advantage," said Diana Allegretti, assistant director for design and construction, who previously had worked on both the N.Y.U. and Columbia projects.
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It's November 1, and you know what that means: time for the Christmas music. That is, of course, if you happen to be Starbucks or some radio station in Kansas. For all I know, KOZY in Salt Lake City may have gone all Christmas today, too.
I first noted the Christmas tunes at Starbucks in the grocery store near St. Dominic's. Granted, they had it mixed in with a few non-holiday tunes, but the fact that they've whipped out the Christmas music already suggests something has gone really wrong in America.
Actually, my Starbucks music experience is not the first vestige of Christmas ivw had this year. Believe it or not, the Macy*s near my condo had their Christmas displays up already when I was there in early September! That was almost 4 full months before the actual Christmas holiday.
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- Public displays of affection and rowdiness are often considered offensive – be aware of the local views on such issues.
- Make yourself aware of religious places in the country you are visiting. Mosques, sacred burial sites etc. are generally out of bounds to tourists and no photographs may be taken. Even if a place is open for visitation be aware and show respect for the area you are entering.
- Also make note of religious holidays in the country you are visiting e.g. if you visit Zanzibar during Ramadan, the Holy month in the Islamic religion, you may find it difficult to find food and drink outside of tourist facilities during the daylight hours as the Muslims will be fasting from sunrise to sunset. It is also preferable not to be seen eating, drinking or smoking in public during the daylight hours.
- Respect local customs and cultures – be sensitive to dress codes and behaviour. Remember you are a guest. More often than not local people are too polite and will refrain from making any comment on inappropriate attire, but your respect for their customs will be noticed and greatly appreciated.
- Beach clothing should be kept to the beach, don't stray into villages and towns in skimpy, tight fitting or see-through clothing. In strictly religious countries such as Zanzibar clothing should reach down to the knees and arms and shoulders should be covered in public places. Men should not be seen in sleeveless shirts or bare-chested in town.
- Ensure that you are au fait with the bathing regulations e.g. nude and topless bathing is absolutely forbidden in Zanzibar.
- Agree to prices with boatmen, taxi drivers etc. before setting off and pay only on arriving at your destination.
- Tips are paid only at your discretion. Ask to see the identification and licence of anyone who offers tourist services. Caution and common sense are watchwords when dealing with unlicensed peddlers.
- Bartering with the locals is common except in hotels, restaurants and tour operations.
- Don't be tempted to bring back living material or products made from coral or animal remains. Some species are protected and there may be a heavy fine or jail sentence if you are caught buying products made from protected animals or the animal itself. There may also be laws prohibiting the importation of animal products to your home country.
- Please resist buying shells and other coral as it is harvested from the reefs while it is still living – this is having detrimental effects on the reefs and marine eco-systems.
- Support local skills – many are being lost because of lack of demand. There are many locally produced arts and crafts, which are attractive and good value for money – they are also unique, rather than the mass-produced imported souvenirs.
- In urban areas tap water is usually considered safe to drink. Outside urban areas, it is recommended that you only drink boiled or bottled water.
- If eating outside your hotel/camp/lodge, avoid possibly contaminated food, particularly seafood, unwashed vegetables and fruits that are already peeled when they are served.
- In warm tropical settings also exercise caution in eating foods that can spoil from lack of refrigeration (such as salads containing mayonnaise and dairy products).
- If you bring along electrical appliances, include an international converter kit complete with a set of adapter plugs.


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Two schoolboys had their plans to blow up Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and a shopping centre thwarted when one of their mothers found materials to make a bomb in his room and alerted the police.
The two 16-year-olds from the north east, who were 15 at the time of the offences and cannot be identified for legal reasons, were sentenced last Friday in Newcastle Crown Court to 12 months in prison after admitting to conspiracy to make an explosive substance for unlawful purpose. Both were also handed a detention order.
According to the Independent, the court heard how the boys had discussed via Skype their plans to kill others in a bid to be remembered. Their conversations referenced Lee Rigby, who was killed by Islamic terrorists in London in 2013, and Raoul Moat, a 37-year-old who killed three people during a shooting spree in 2010 before shooting himself to death during a standoff with police.
Prosecutor Nick Dry told the court: "The conversation reveals that they were looking to sell drugs in order to fund the purchase of materials to make pipe bombs and a firearm.
"Potential targets discussed included a local public school, the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and a random shopping centre.
"Escape plans were discussed along with potential suicide, both defendants stating that it was what they had wanted for a long time and agreeing to source the constituent parts of pipe bombs.
"[One defendant] was keen that he end his own life, suicide [was] his priority although [he was] happy to go along with [the other defendant's] desire to kill others with a view to being remembered.
"Orders were placed for various chemicals with a view to making explosives."
Using recipes found in The Anarchist Cookbook, the pair began collecting materials including fuses, chemicals and pipes required to make a number of potentially lethal devices. It was these that were found by the mother of one of the boys, prompting her to call the police who subsequently seized a number of chemicals.
He was later heard singing to himself on the way to the police station and muttering "no surrender".
His lawyer told the court that his client had been suffering from mental problems at the time, saying: "Thanks to the actions of their parents, this offending was stopped in its tracks. Since they were sending ridiculous Skype messages and talking nonsense, they have calmed down and are looking to the future."
But Dry told the court: "Their conversation was captured and revealed plans for a drug fuelled rampage, wherein they spoke of killing families in their own homes, referencing Lee Rigby and Raoul Moat and expressing their desire to spend their final days as wanted men.
"One was also keen to make a beheading video and not to be taken alive.
"Other material evinced a hatred of Jews and blacks."
John Dilworth, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS North East, said afterwards: "It is alarming to note that, at the point when their scheme was discovered, these two young men had already secured all of the materials required to construct a viable explosive device," the Evening Standard has reported.
He continued: "Thankfully, the potentially tragic consequences of their plans were never realised.
"We are grateful to the actions of the defendants' relatives, whose suspicions alerted police to the serious risk posed, not only to the public at large but also to the young defendants themselves."
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ALOHA Networks Applies Spread Spectrum To Increase Satellite Bandwidth Efficiency
-- Will Offer Inexpensive Satellite Local Loop Bypass Internet Connections to Small Business in Americas & Soon Globally, pp. 1- 7
We interview the CTO of ALOHA Networks, Norman Abramson. ALOHA intends to start by tripling the efficiency of its use of satellite bandwidth via the application of spread spectrum. Abramson describes his technology as SAMA (Spread Aloha Multiple Access) and explains that, with refinement, they expect to go far beyond their immediate tripling of efficiency. He says: Spread Aloha is CDMA without the CD. That is to say - it is Code Divsion Multiple Access. But that instead of code division with multiple codes, we have only a single code for all users. In other words there is no code division per se and this fact is the key to why this technology is so simple to implement. The basic Spread Aloha technology deals with the fundamental issue of how to share a common channel among an extremely large number of bursty users.
They will begin operations with a hub using nine Field Programmable Gate Arrays. The hub will be located at their operations center and eventually they will have multiple hubs at multiple teleports. The hub can service 3,000 customers. Each customer has a dish and receiving equipment costing $2500. Bandwidth from the customer to the satellite and back to the customer is two-way, burstable up to two megabits per second, never touches a telco local loop, and will cost a small business having 15 to 20 computers on a LAN about $200 a month.
Serving Latin American customers in general will be ALOHA Network's first test. It will use the SatMex 5 satellite (launched 12/4/98) but, since its system is geographically insensitive (providing it has satellite coverage), its first test users could be anywhere in the satellite footprint -- which is North and South America.
It is going for the Latin American market first because it is "crystal clear that there are no viable, economical alternatives and because the demand is growing so rapidly." It will come back to the US market at a later time -- or in response to distributors who want to use SkyDSL [the name of ALOHA networks commercial service]. It will begin testing in 2nd quarter 99 and be in operation at mid year. It will start by installing and operating its own hubs and will have a network operations center in the San Francisco Bay Area. It will connect to the commercial Internet via the California Exchanges.
As we went to press, we learned that ALOHA Networks has just laid off some engineers. When we reached Norman Abramson to inquire we learned that ALOHA had decided, rather than building the production hardware necessary to begin operations, to seek a joint venture partner to do the necessary commercial production. With this change in direction they are redirecting capital allocated to the engineering of in house production. They hope to announce a joint venture partner shortly.
Cisco's David Oran Discusses Forces Propelling Development of Voice over IP
-- Surveys Device Control Protocol Issues from SGCP to IPDC, pp. 8 - 12
We interview David Oran who, at Cisco, functions in the capacity of systems architect for voice over IP protocol design. Oran explains what he calls "the four enablers" of Voice over IP. First is progress in the development of Digital Signal Processors (DSPs). Second: recognition of TCP/IP as the ubiquitous protocol over which packetized voice would run. Third: the standards committees understood the possibilities early on enough to be able to get enough cooperation among the possible players to create a real market. Fourth: tremendous changes in the regulatory environment with the 1996 telecom act in the US and telecom deregulation in Europe created major opportunities for voice bypass solutions in enterprise networks.
The motivation for infrastructure investment now appears to come from what looks like an essentially boundless demand for data capacity. Within this context, a major recent activity of Oran's has been the development of SGCP (Simple Gateway Control Protocol). Oran says: "Its view of life is that for much of what people want to do now - at least with Internet telephony - is to replace the infrastructure of a circuit switched network with a more cost effective and forward looking IP network. However, they may not be prepared to turn upside down the complete call control, billing, service and feature infrastructure that has been in place through the intelligent network all at the same time. So what SGCP attempts to do is to emulate the call control system of the existing network only enabling you to do the emulation on top of IP."
Asked to compare SIP to SGCP he replied: "SIP places all the call control intelligence in the network at the endpoints on the network. SGCP centralizes the call control intelligence in servers and the end points are simply slave devices. I expect that both SGCP and SIP will co-exist in the network. If you have a smart end point like a PC, SIP is the appropriate thing to do because it has state and understands things. It can go and talk to directory servers for example. If you have a dumb end point like a simple gateway or a cable modem, or some appliance type thing like an IP telephone, SGCP would be the more appropriate protocol."
He is optimistic about MGCP which is the result of progress in converging Level 3's IPDC with SGCP. Asked whether he believed that we have a series of on-going events that will make it possible for the next generation telco's to in effect surround and begin to swallow the PSTN, he replied that he does believe this but he also pointed out that, before it will happen, issues of telco reliability must be faced. "Skeptics say what happens when the TCP/IP network breaks and that is what the telephones are also running on? . . . To ensure the internet's continued growth, it must be engineered for higher reliability which means more backup trunking paths, more backup equipment, better and more seamless ways of switching to backup equipment than we have presently deployed today."
Evaluating SONET in High Speed, Mission Critical, Private Data Network
-- NANOG & Conscientious List-User Yield Unusually Good Technical Summary: Criteria, Strategy, and Choice of Vendors and Equipment, pp. 13 -16
We present a long discussion of the use of SONET in a mission-critical TCP/IP VPN in the New York metropolitan area. The discussion reprinted from NANOG with the permission of its compiler Peter Polasek. The information presented ranges from how to negotiate with the LECs to designing network topology for maximum reliability to the issues involved in selecting network equipment.
ICANN Constitutes Itself in Order to Apply "Adult Supervision" to Internet -- Esther Dyson Acts as Mouthpiece for Shadow Cabinet Mike Roberts Transmission Belt for ISOC & IBM Wishes
-- Backing Interests Threatened by Ubiquitous TCP/IP, ICANN Prepares to Overturn the Values that Made Possible Currant American Dominance of Telecommunications Technology, pp. 17 - 22
Since late October ICANN has constituted itself in order to apply "adult supervision" to the Internet. Esther Dyson acts as mouthpiece for a Shadow Cabinet composed of the Mighty Five, IBM's Roger Cochetti, and Jones Day's Joe Sim's. As interim President, Mike Roberts serves as a transmission belt for ISOC and IBM wishes. Backing interests threatened by the emergence of ubiquitous TCP/IP, ICANN prepares to overturn the values that made possible current American dominance of telecommunications technology. Before readers consider the foregoing to be an excessively dire evaluation, they should ponder carefully the following statements by three of the Might Five.
Vint Cerf said in an interview . . . it's time for the IETF to let the Internet grow up. "The fact that a constellation is being built to do what one or two people did is astonishing," said Cerf, senior vice president of MCI WorldCom. "But then again, when the Internet started, it wasn't of commercial value. Now it is and it has attracted all parties, including the lawyers. That means it's valuable and that's good." "Oversight of the Internet has become a legalistic business," Roberts said. "We have to deal with lawyers and bankers and unfortunately we have to do it in a way that makes some of you uncomfortable." Source: Sandra Gittlen Network World, 12/11/98 (Article regarding rough reception of ICANN at IETF.) Finally Dave Farber: to the Presidents Information Technology Advisory Commission: "The DNS Problem . . .. will decide whether "adult" supervision of the internet is needed. "
Editor's Translation: Cerf's "grow up" means let the big corporations make the rules so the little guys get screwed. Roberts "deal with the lawyer's and bankers" means that unless you have the bucks for the lawyers, don't even bother to play. Farber's "adult supervision" is exactly what the "five" have crafted ICANN to deliver. We thank Dave, Vint and Mike for making our points about the lead paragraph above although we are especially saddened to see the father of the Internet make such a statement.
Part One of our article is a narrative version of the presentation we made to the Third Annual Canarie Advanced Networking Workshop in Ottawa on December 15. Our major point was that the way ICANN has been put together is a fundamental betrayal of Internet values and culture. The Internet would best be served by ICANN's failure. Absent Jon Postel ICANN simply cannot be trusted. Part Two contains the high lights of mail list debate since late October.
TWO MUST READ PAPERS FROM THE WEB ON PEERING AND QoS, p. 24
Rob Frieden, "Without Public Peer: The Potential Regulatory and Universal Service Consequences of Internet Balkanization" and Xipeng Xiao "Internet QoS: the Big Picture".


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