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1.The matter regarding allotment of land alleged to have been left by Hukam Singh in villages Chak Abbas and Chak Bagwala Tehsil Rahimyarkhan (Bahawalpur State) which was buried dead on the rejection of the claim of Hukam Singh vide order dated 4.6.1959 of the Managing Officer was revived after 25 years by one Inder Singh claiming to be General Power of Attorney of Kartar Singh son of Hukam Singh. In his application filed on 13.9.1984 to the Deputy Secretary, Rehabilitation he alleged that Hukam Singh son of Sher Singh father of Kartar Singh had left agricultural land measuring 70 Acres 2 kanals in the said villages. In that application he further stated that Hukam Singh had applied for allotment of land situated in Bahawalpur State on 25.2.1952 wherein an ex-parte order was passed on 11.8.1952 by R.C.Rehabilitation Department, Jalandhar and he made another application on 25.1.1954 wherein an ex-parte order was passed on 4.6.1959 by the A.R.III, Rehabilitation Department, Jalandhar. The said application dated 13.9.84 was processed by the Managing Officer but the same was dismissed vide order dated 8.10.1984 on the ground that his request for allotment had since been rejected by the Managing Officer on 4.6.1959 on the ground that the petitioner or his father had never filed any claim for allotment of land. An appeal was carried to the Settlement Commissioner against the order dated 8.10.1984 of the Managing Officer, who remanded the case vide his order dated 31.10.1984 for fresh decision observing that the petitioner had made applications for allotment of land before 31.12.63 as required under rule 67-A of Displaced Persons (C & R) Rules, 1955. On remand the Managing Officer again rejected the claim of petitioner vide his order dated 25.3.1985 on the ground that the petitioner had failed to lodge his claim for allotment before the appointed date i.e. 31.12.1963, despite the fact that there was ample time and opportunity for doing so during the period from 1959 to 1963. The petitioner challenged this order dated 25.3.1985 in appeal u/s 22 of the Displaced Persons (C & R) Act, 1954 before the Settlement Commissioner, who passed order dated 9.12.1985 thereby quashing the order dated 25.3.1985 of Managing Officer and remanding the case for fresh decision.
2.The case of the petitioner was considered at length by the Managing Officer Rehabilitation Department, Punjab, Chandigarh but he dismissed his petition vide order dated 19.8.1986.He took note of the fact that the order dated 4.6.1959 rejecting the application of the petitioner had been passed on the ground that Hukam Singh or the petitioner had never filed 'mutalba' claim, in the absence of which no allotment could be made and the intimation of that order had been sent to the petitioner.He also observed that even if no intimation regarding the rejection of his application by Managing Officer on 4.6.1959 was sent, it was incumbent of the petitioner to file aforesaid application before 31.12.1963 under rule 67-A of the Displaced Persons (C & R) Rules, 1955 in response to the Press Note issued in Sept.,1963 which was not done by him.He further took cognizance of the fact that after the passing of the order dated 4.6.1959, the petitioner remained silent for about 25 years and applied for allotment only on 13.9.1984 without relying upon any verified claim
3.The order dated 19.8.1986 of the Managing Officer was challenged in appeal u/s 22 of the Displaced Persons (C & R) Act before the Settlement Commissioner, Rehabilitation Department, Punjab, Chandigarh by Kartar Singh, petitioner.The Settlement Commissioner accepted the appeal vide his order dated 30.3.1987 and while quashing the order dated 19.8.1986 he remanded the case to the Tehsildar-Sales-cum-Managing Officer, Rehabilitation Department with the direction that the matter should be examined afresh to determine the eligibility of the petitioner for the allotment of land to him.
4.In pursuance of this order of remand the matter was dealt with by Sh.S.M.Sharma, Tehsildar (Hqrs.)-cum-Managing Officer and he passed order dated 14.12.1988.Kartar Singh was declared eligible for the allotment of land measuring 23 Std. Acres 12½ units of land in lieu of land abandoned by him in Chak Abbas in Bahawalpur State.He directed that necessary Goshwara be prepared and sent as per option of the claimant after obtaining clearance from the Government.
Subsequently clearance was given at Govt. level vide No.P-IV(927)97/1270 dated 9.9.1997. This clearance was based on the office noting dated 3.9.1997. A perusal of office noting reveals that it was wrongly projected therein that the Managing Officer had passed the order dated 14.12.1988, thereby adjudging the entitlement of Kartar Singh to land measuring 23 Std. Acres 12½ units, after getting the inspection/examination of the relevant records. The office further submitted that the applications dated 25.2.1952, 25.1.1954 and 20.9.1955 had been made before the crucial date, i.e., 31.12.1963 as provided in rule 67-A of the Displaced Persons (C & R) Rules, 1955, and the order dated 14.12.1988 was passed by Tehsildar (Hqrs)-cum-Managing Officer in compliance with the order dated 30.3.1987 of the Settlement Commissioner and consequently the Managing Officer had correctly accepted the claim for allotment of land measuring 23-12½ Std. Acres to Hukam Singh through Kartar Singh.
5.In my opinion the clearance which was given on the misleading note of the office suffers from numerous glaring infirmities which cannot be ignored and the applications mentioned in the order dated 19.8.1999 of the Hon'ble High Court of Punjab & Haryana Annexure P-4 and P-5 to the Writ Petition No. 4012 of 1955 deserve to be rejected.
Initially in 1952, Hukam Singh is shown to have claimed allotment of land in lieu of land alleged to have been left in village Chak Abbas, tehsil & district Rahimyarkhan. He is shown to have become a resident of Bega, Tehsil Sonepat and claimed that as he originally belonged to Shehar Sultan, district Muzafargarh, Tehsil Alipur he had a right for allotment of land in tehsil Sonepat according to allocation of tehsil Alipur district Muzafarnagar. However, when Kartar Singhd applied through his General Power of Attorney Holder Inder Singh on 13.9.84, he claimed that Hukam Singh had left land in Mauza Chak Abbas and Chak Bagowala. The Managing Officer does not discuss in his order the reason for sudden change in the wishes of the claimant in relinquishing his preference for Haryana and opting for Punjab at this belated stage. Incidentally in Haryana Hukam Singh though contacted through the office of the Deputy Commissioner at the instance of Rehabilitation Department, Jalandhar was not traceable at the address given.
6.The claim allowed by Managing Officer vide his order dated 14.12.88 relates to only village Chak Abbas. There is not even an oblique mention regarding the land in village Chak Bagwala in the said order. The records do not show as to what happened to the request in respect of the land alleged to have been left in Chak Bagwala. Neither Kartar Singh pressed his claim regarding the land alleged to have been left in Chak Bagwala nor did the Managing Officer make any mention in his order dated 14.12.1988, whereby the claim regarding the land alleged to have been left in Chak Abbas alone was accepted.
The order of the Managing Officer is, lacking in application of mind and constitutes numerous material irregularities. The Managing Officer did not bother to verify the genuineness, validity and maintainability of the claim from any record whatsoever and he erroneously based his decision only on the "chhant jamabandi" and a few lines statement of Kartar Singh, whom nobody identified.
7. In accordance with Govt. policy prevailing immediately after Partition when lakhs of refugees migrated to India, the process for allotment started with the registration of 'mutalba' claims which were further verified by the Rehabilitation authorities from the documentary evidence before making the allotment. The applications of Hukam Singh for allotment of land were repeatedly rejected by different forums as detailed above on the ground that he had failed to file mutalba claim. At one stage it is clearly written that Hukam Singh failed to produce any documentary evidence in his favour whatsoever. But the persistent rejection of claim of Kartar Singh on the ground that he had not filed an appropriate claim did not fetch any response from him and he did not bother to file the desired claim and was contented with filing simple applications without any supporting material. According to the rules framed under East Punjab Refugee (Registration of Land Claim) Ordinance, 1948 followed by the East Punjab Refugee (Registration of Land Claim) Act, 1948 detailed procedure was prescribed for lodging and verification of the claims. A form known as Parcha Tasdiq was devised for recording the results of verification. It was inevitably for the reason that Hukam Singh and his son Kartar Singh who filed applications simpliciter and not proper claim, failed to satisfy the concerned Rehabilitation Authorities regarding the genuineness of their land claim; that their claim was rejected vide order dated 4.6.1959. However, while passing the order dated 14.12.1988, the Managing Officer did not at all try to satisfy himself regarding the genuineness and maintainability of the claim as also the credentials and identity of Kartar Singh.
8.He never called upon him to substantiate his claim by document/oral evidence. Hukam Singh wanted allotment of land in tehsil Sonepat as he originally belonged to Shahar Sultan and according to allocation of tehsil Alipur, District Muzafarnagar he had a right for allotment of land in Tehsil Sonepat. Why that aspect of the matter was ignored and suddenly after 29 years the claim was entered in Punjab is a matter which had been left totally untouched and unanswered by the Managing Officer. An unverified claim could be acceptable if there was some corroborative evidence to connect the claimant to the claim. Here no such connection is established. In this case such an exercise has not been undertaken by the Managing Officer nor was there any effort on the part of the claimant to supply any documents. The various judgements have been quoted in Managing Officer's order totally out of context as they relate to a period when hordes of refugees had freshly migrated from Pakistan in object and utter misery. It was not the time to ask questions, it was time for giving them instant relief and for allowing their claims through summary procedures to alleviate their sufferings somehow. At that time the number of migrants was o large that the Rehabilitation authorities had to pass orders in open court in front of large number of people. There was mass migration in ''Kaflas' with survivors of an entire village settling in Camps and thereafter, seeking/getting temporary allotment villagewise and there was very little scope for manipulation. These judgements are not applicable to the present fact-situation wherein, in peace-time, after more than 35 years of Partition, a man suddenly comes up on the scene with a simple application and expects the same treatment in closed-door proceedings which was allowed immediately after partition when verifications were made in open gatherings.
9.It is a matter to note that Kartar Singh the present applicant was a major at the time of migration as the Power of Attorney dated 28.8.1984 executed by him in favour of Inder Singh describes his age as 55 years. Thus his date of birth works out somewhere in 1929 or 1930. Apparently he became a major either at the time of partition or somewhere after. Therefore, had he exercised due diligence he would have lodged and pursued his claim immediately after Partition. But neither Hukam Singh, the original claimant, nor Kartar Singh the present claimant filed any formal claim during these years and the entire case is based on sketchy and cryptic applications which are inconsistent in the original request there is no mention of any land having been left in village Bagwala; the application dated 1952 mentions only claim relating to Chak Abbas Khan, whereas the application made in 1984 mentions claim relating to Bhagwala also. The discrepancy and constant shift in the stand in driblets eludes and explanation. Interestingly, none of these applicants states that original claimant Hukam Singh had received any claim in village Kauli, Tehsil Patiala yet the Settlement Commissioner while remanding the case on 3.3.1987 suddenly mentioned in his order that "the Ld. Counsel has further contended that allotment in lieu of the land abandoned by applicant's father in village Alipur, tehsil Muzaffargarh (West Pakistan)has been made in village Kauli, Tehsil and district Patiala in the name of appellant's father but his request for allotment of land in lieu of Bhawalpur State remains unsatisfied." The entire file relating to these applications does not record any allotment in village Kauli and observations of Settlement Commissioner are based on surmises. This is strengthened from the report of Patwari of village Kauli which states that no ownership entry has been found in the name of Hukam Singh son of Sher Singh or Kartar Singh son of Hukam Singh. Rather, Hukam Singh son of Sher Singh is reported to have purchased 3 bighas and 3 biswas of land in village Mohabatpur on 18.3.1959 which he sold away on 22.6.1977. It is reported that the village Mohabatpur is contiguous to village Kauli, but no land has been allotted in village Mohabatpur either.
10.The Managing Officer in his order dated 14.12.1988 recorded that Kartar Singh son of Hukam Singh states that he was the only legal heir of his deceased father. There is no death certificate of the original claimant on record. The record shows that the Managing Officer made no enquiries on the subject of Hukam Singh's succession nor did he ask for any evidence in corroboration of Kartar Singh being the only legal heir. There is an application dated 1995 of one Gobind Ram of Rajpura, who also claimed to be attorney of Kartar Singh in 1995 and on whose initiative the file again started moving which states that the two brothers of Kartar Singh had already been allotted land. All this was on Govt. record when the case was put up to the officers for clearance in 1997 but the office did not make any effort to point out this discrepancy. Thus, the claim of Kartar Singh was decided without any cogent and convincing evidence.
11.There is no plausible explanation from the side of the original claimant as to why he failed to have recourse to the statutory remedies available under the Displaced Persons(C & R) Act, 1954 and continued to remain in deep slumber for 25 years. Rather the original claimant remained silent after 1959 by accepting the infirmities afflicting his claim. When he is reported to have died one Kartar Singh came up claiming to be son of Hukam Singh the original migrant and pursued his claim as if nothing had happened in-between. All that Kartar Singh stated was that orders were not conveyed to him. Why he did not himself make inquiries though he was an adult has not been explained. It is now expected that the present claimant Kartar Singh was working with the Consolidation Department of Haryana as Kanungo and has retired from the service in that State. All the addresses he has given were of Chandigarh and of Haryana and Punjab and not of distant places. He does not come out with any plausible explanation to condone the latches spreading over a period of 25 years. Financial Commissioner Revenue, Haryana was impleaded in the CWP No.4012 of 1999 but for some strange reason Kartar Singh did not press his claim against him.
12.It may be pertinently mentioned that even the identity of Hukam Singh and Kartar Singh whose applications stood rejected way back on 4.6.1959 without any further reaction from his side for a long period of 25 years does not stand unimpeachably established. If Hukam Singh and Kartar Singh were genuine claimants they must have filed mutalba claim in accordance with the policy of the Govt. at the very initial stage instead of banking on simple applications. Yet the alleged Hukam Singh kept quiet after 1959, and Kartar Singh became active at the age of 55 in 1984 and that too through an attorney Inder Singh who was an XEN posted at Chandigarh. For some strange reason an Inland letter dated 17.11.1988 was sent to the Govt./Managing Officer informing that the Power of Attorney given in favour of Inder Singh had been revoked.
13 In view of the infirmities detailed above in the order dated 14.12.1988 as detailed above, the said order does notwithstanding the test of close in-depth scrutiny. Therefore, while setting aside the said order, the clearance already given by the Govt. to the land claim of Kartar Singh is hereby withdrawn. Consequently the applications Annexure P-4 and P-5 of the Writ Petition No.4012 of 1999 are rejected.
However, in order to afford yet another opportunity to Kartar Singh to establish his claim in the face of these infirmities, the matter is remanded to Managing Officer, Rehabilitation, who will take a fresh decision after making a detailed enquiry in light of observations contained in this order. Sh. Kartar Singh should report to the Managing Officer on 26.9.2000. A copy of this order should be sent to him for compliance.
(SHYAMA MANN)
Chandigarh, dated Financial Commissioner Revenue,
The 13th Sept., 2000 Punjab.
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Verizon Fios TV customers can watch India's Zee News for free in wake of Cyclone Fani
NEW YORK, May 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fios customers with family and friends in India can stay up-to-date on the latest news in the aftermath of Cyclone Fani with free access to Zee News.
The India-based news network will be available on channel 1751 to all Fios TV subscribers for free from Tuesday, May 7 through Friday, July 5. The network has been covering the devastation and recovery efforts left by the deadly cyclone that swept across India and Bangladesh.
"We are very grateful to Verizon for being so sensitive to the needs of our community, particularly in these tumultuous and challenging times. Cyclone Fani has been a devastating natural calamity to hit the South East coast of India and we're grateful friends and family can stay closely tuned in to Verizon Fios for updates and information," said Sameer Targe, CEO Zee Network America's.
Zee News is traditionally available to customers via the Fios Hindi TV Package. Until July 5, the channel will be available for free to all Fios customers.
Information about Fios international packages is available online at https://www.verizon.com/home/fios/.
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This gets you admission for one person to the workshop.
In this workshop you'll walk in with a piece of your favorite clothing, and leave with a custom embroidered wearable work of art! Join instructor Amy L. Frazer and gain with the confidence, skills, and tools needed to finish it up and also tackle your next project with ease. We'll go over the basics of embroidery, including learning stitches, using the materials and supplies, designing your pattern, stitching your way through a design, and then finishing your piece like a pro. This workshop is great for novice and experienced makers alike, with time to stitch, chat and trade tips and tricks.
All stitching supplies are included and participants will go home with their own sewing kit they can use later to stitch up more projects. Bring a piece of clothing such as jeans, denim jacket, cotton button up shirt, baseball hat. Non-stretch fabrics will work best unless you are used to working with stretchy fabrics. No experience necessary. Amy will provide designs you can use or you can design your own pattern.
Amy L. Frazer is an illustration, surface pattern and product design professional focused on creating fresh artwork for a wide range of surfaces including textiles, home decor, stationary, giftware and publications. Through her work she captures the beauty of the world around us and embellishes it with her personal mark making. In her experiences, art and craft, the process of creating, or simply appreciating handmade objects is a panacea. It makes her feel good to create, to look and to appreciate what others have made with their hands. Amy's grandmother was a major influence on her love of making. When people view her art, she likes to think that maybe their granny taught them how to make things too.


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If it weren't for Radiohead, I would probably not have included Bologna in my travel itinerary. Although we eventually landed up booking the concert in Amsterdam, Bologna stayed stuck in my list of places to visit in Italy. Something about it was intriguing, and the fact that it's not as 'touristy' as some of the other Italian destinations, despite being the capital city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy, worked for me. On reading up about Bologna, it was interesting to learn that over the years it has acquired many monikers and it still continues to do so, in the recent years being declared as UNESCO City of Music and European Capital of Culture before that. On my first day itself in Bologna, I came across a band by the streetside playing amazing jazz. So from classical to electronic, jazz, folk and opera, there's much to tune into.
Three of its other nicknames stayed pinned in my memory, and during my time in Bologna, I couldn't help but relate my sightings to those nicknames, more so because they were so evident.
La Dotta, meaning 'the learned one', is with reference to Bologna being a popular hub for scholars and students as it houses the oldest university in the Western world. You can take a tour of the university, which is beautifully maintained with polished woodwork, exquisite wood carvings, colourful wall paintings, dramatic wall frames and plaques and high arches that evoke an old world charm.
The Anatomical Theatre is a prime attraction with a lean table at the centre, which was used for studies of the human body through the presentation of autopsy. Eery enough for goosebumps! Even before stepping into the classical building, and having seen pictures of the Anatomical Theatre before, I had wondered if I would be able to locate it at all. But soon enough, walking around an upstairs floor I had wandered right into it.
La Rossa implies 'the red one'. Much like other Italian cities, Bologna's red terracotta rooftops are unmissable. Despite many wars, and having undergone various changes, Piazza Maggiore, the square right in the heart of the historical centre, has been well-preserved. I walked around aimlessly, and couldn't help but marvel at the old architecture with myriad textures, endless porticoes, high towers and marvellous churches. Every tiny lane was charming too with tall windows leading out to a little balcony and antique street lamps lighting up the way.
For as much as it's dominant colour and architectural hues, La Rossa also alludes to the city's Leftist political leaning, particularly during and after World War 2. The city was a stronghold of the Resistance during the war, and endured occupation from September 1943 up until it's liberation in April 1945. Situated alongside Piazza Maggiore, next to the city's famous Fountain of Neptune is a memorial made up with tablets of portraits of all the martyrs who were executed by fascists during WW2. The numbers are shocking, revealing a very dark history.
La Grassa translates to 'the fat one'. Italians' love for food is no secret, and in Bologna you get to savour the best of Italian ingredients and produce from around the region such as Parma Ham, Parmesan, Balsamic Vinegar, Cured Meats, Antipasti and Bologna's very own Mortadella!
All the Meat You Can Eat, and Cheese Too!
Though the famous Spaghetti Bolognese is commonly associated with Bologna, in reality, the locals have never heard of any such dish. A pasta they love is Tagliatelle, which they toss up with ragu. And then there are endless Gelateria, which can make anyone give in to temptation and indulge.
If you love cooking, a walk through the local market is a delight where you can pick fresh and vibrant veggies and fruit, or go about eating an endless array of Italian delicacies.
Bologna. Afterall, it has so much to offer.


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Ottawa-Vanier candidates debate key local and federal topics
Oct. 16, a rainy Wednesday night, brought with it one last chance for seven Ottawa-Vanier candidates to debate politics in front of prospective voters for the upcoming federal election.
Candidates spent much of the night attacking what seemed to them to be a lack of prosperity in a riding that has been a Liberal party seat since 1936.
"With that faithfulness to the Liberal party, Ottawa-Vanier should be the most prosperous riding, bar none, across Canada," said Conservative party candidate Joel Bernard.
Liberal party-incumbent Mona Fortier experienced multiple tense exchanges with Bernard, with NDP candidate Stéphanie Mercier launching consistent jabs at both of them.
The debate, took place at Colonel By Secondary in Gloucester, saw a diverse range of questions that were submitted by riding constituents online. Multiple legislative strategies were brought to the debate from the candidates as they discussed climate change action, electoral reform, the phoenix pay system, assisted dying, poverty and mental health care.
Besides the three candidates from the highest polling parties, other attendees there were: Green Party candidate Oriana Ngabirano, People's Party candidate Paul Durst, Indepedent Joel Altman, and the Marxist-Leninist candidate Christian Legeais.
Altman started the opening statements and drew applause right away. "You shouldn't necessarily trust any of us up here either," he said. "We know what trust fundamentally is, and you don't know us."
One of the topics that drew forth the greatest differences among candidates was regarding the possibility for electoral reform in a country where an elected-governing party can be in power with support from 30 per cent of the population.
Mercier, Altman, and Ngabirano all voiced their opposition to what they say is a lack of sincerity coming from 2015 Liberal party platform promises that came under Justin Trudeau.
"When he got in power, he didn't deliver," Mercier said "I was really, really frustrated with that because first-part-the-post actually pushes people to vote strategically and not for their values. They're voting against something and not for something."
When it came to sparring over climate change, candidates were either on the side of a need to reorient Canada's economy or on the side of needing innovation and punitive measures for carbon emitters.
"Putting a price on pollution is very important," Fortier said. "Pollution cannot be free anymore."
Fortier also referenced the Liberal strategy to increase retrofitting of homes across the country, an idea that has been adopted at some level by the Conservatives, NDP, and Greens.
"Did you know that the carbon tax, large emitters are mostly exempted from it," Bernard said. "So you and I get to pay the carbon tax, but the ones with the real pollution- they get an exemption."
While Bernard suggested that the solution lies in taxing the largest carbon emitters and exporting innovative technologies that benefit the environment, Ngabirano pointed out that the underlying issue of poverty applies to climate action as well.
"If someone doesn't have food on the table, they really don't care about plastic or paper or if their straw is plastic or metal. If we wanna protect the environment, which includes people, we need also to protect the people," she said. "The people in Ottawa-Vanier need a guaranteed livable income to make sure that they have food on the table and roof on their heads."
Meanwhile, Altman used his independent platform to push a policy idea that is rarely heard in the mainstream environmental dialogue.
"You're probably gonna clap less for this, I am a proponent of nuclear research and nuclear power generation."
The statement was followed by a round of applause, to which Altman acknowledged his surprise.
Among the various topics, it was a question from a constituent regarding the Phoenix pay system that brought forth a heated exchange between Fortier and Bernard.
"Unfortunately, we inherited a poorly-introduced system with 700 compensation advisers that were cut off at the beginning," she said, referring to the 2015 transition from Stephen Harper's Conservative government.
"In 2015, Liberals were told that Phoenix is not ready," Bernard responded. "They decided to go ahead with it, probably because it was a cost-saving measure."
Every candidate was in favour of a policy that would send interest to federal public servants who are owed back pay as a result of the pay system's failure, except for Fortier.
Fortier did not directly answer the constituent's question regarding interest payments.
The only candidates missing from the debate were Communist Party candidate Michelle Paquette and Rhinocéros Party candidate Derek Miller, and so the Oct. 21 federal election will have a total of nine candidates on the ballot.
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Peggy and I have been a member of Lakewinds Natural Foods Co-Op for about six years and have shopped there many more than that. Lakewinds is a full service cooperative grocery store that specializes in organic, natural and locally produced products all with a high level of customer service. They have three locations serving the suburban Twin Cities area: Minnetonka, Anoka, and Chanhassen. We highly suggest you take some time out and visit the location nearest you.
One of our favorite items featured at Lakewinds is their illustrious "Lakewinds Pasta". This alone makes any shopping trip worth it. If men are from Mars and women are from Venus then Lakewinds Pasta is from Jupiter because the flavor is that immense. Curly al dente Cellentani (corkscrew) pasta adorned with accolades of garlic, olive oil, sun dried tomatoes, kalamata olives sinfully intermingled with Romano and Parmesan cheeses, pumpkin seeds, and balsamic vinegar. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. For those daring enough to try this recipe at home I have included it right here on Invisible Diner. Viva La Pasta! Enjoy.
Cook pasta until al dente. Drain and cool. Soak sun-dried tomatoes in hot water for about 20 minutes to soften. Slice into thin strips. Slice olives in half, length-wise. Combine pasta, sun dried tomatoes, pumpkin seeds, olives, scallions, Romano and Parmesan cheeses and basil in a large bowl. Combine dressing ingredients in a blender; pure till combined. Add dresssing to salad and chill one hour before serving.
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Amethyst holds the second octave within the Language of Light. This mineral will assist one in restructuring one's life and field to become unity based, or in other terms, embrace the flower of life energy flow.
Aventurine holds the vibration of compassion. Aventurine will assist initiates in perceiving one's own life dance or the dance of others from the foundation of compassion, which understands from inside the human experience all dances, and in so understanding forgives and embraces all others in love regardless of circumstance.
Yellow Calcite is holding the breath of life tone in the Language of Light. Calcite will assist initiates in finding their creative self expression in ascension, and open unto one's own abilities to become the dreamer and the dream. Yellow calcite also assists in the repair of the creative body in ascension.
Hematite holds the vibration of non-conditional love in the Language of Light. Hematite will assist initiates in learning to release their attachment to other people, places, possessions, pets or plants so that one may learn non-conditional love in the dance of life. Hematite assists with the repair of the etheric body in ascension.
Citrine holds the tones of Freedom in the language of light. Citrine will assist ascending initiates in letting go of the circumstances that bind one into a dance that imprisons by freeing one from the karma that is associated.
Vesuvianite holds the pastel tones of lavender or Divine Union which are also known as "erasure" tones. Vesuvianite will assist initiates in erasing the past giving birth to a new future. Vesiuvianite will also assist initiates in learning to commune with one's soul, oversoul and source along with the earth mother.
Tigers Eye or Rutilated Quartz holds the vibration of Non-Conditional Governance in the Language of Light. Tigers Eye or Rutilated Quartz will assist initiates in anchoring a new form of leadership that is non-conditional, honors, supports, and augments the birth of unity consciousness within a group.
Pyrite holds the tone of hope of hope in the Language of Light. Pyrite will assist initiates in pulling through the difficult times in ascension, not losing hope of the unity and joy ahead.
Topaz is holding the vibration of abundance in the language of light. Topaz will assist initiates in balancing giving and receiving so that there is always enough.
Sodalite is holding the vibration of magnitude in the language of light. Sodalite will assist in allowing one to see the bigger picture of one's current life dance and the spiritual lessons one is currently working upon as an ascending initiate. Sodalite will also assist in bringing what is unconscious to consciousness so that one may better perceive the underlying truth in any life dance.
Dolomite is holding the vibration of intuition in the language of light. Dolomite will assist initiates in tuning into one's soul, oversoul and source along with earth mother for guidance. Dolomite will also assist in the repair of the intuitive body in ascension.
Iolite holds the function tone in the language of light. Iolite will assist initiates in the process of transmutation of thought-form from non-unity to unity based energy flow. Iolite will also assist one in de-mechanizing the field so that more soul may infuse the etheric body, subtle bodies and light body.
Aquamarine holds the tone of stealth in the language of light. Aquamarine assists initiates in opening to integrating the unconscious at a pace that sustains one's health and well being as an ascending human.
Sugalite is holding the vibration of internal in the language of light. Sugalite will assist initiates in turning inward and uncovering the internal patterning at cause of any creation in one's life dance so that one may choose to transcend it, and create something different into the future.
Tourmaline holds the tone of oneness in the language of light. Tourmaline will assist initiates in healing the masculine and feminine within to allow for the emergence of a state of greater unity, in which all is supported in the dance of life.
Apophyllite holds the vibration of action in the language of light. Apophyllite will assist initiates in taking action to bring forth changes in the physical plane that support ascension. Ascension requires change, and often initiates may find oneself stagnating upon one's path. If this is the case, call upon apophyllite to bring forth the chi required to augment the change.
Lorimar holds the vibration of purpose in the Language of Light. Lorimar will assist initiates in holding solid in their course of ascension and evolution home. In projects, Lorimar will assist on in staying on course, each step or phase of the way.
Graphite holds the tone of balance in the language of light. Graphite will assist one in balancing one's field each day, week or month of one's ascension. Graphite will assist initiates in coming to understand the dance of dark and light so that one can forgive and move to the new dance of unity in it's place. Graphite will also assist in the repair of the mental body in ascension.
Gold holds the vibration of dream in the language of light. Gold will assist initiates in learning to consciously dream weave and become the dreamer and the dream. In other terms, gold will assist one in learning to direct one's life dance through conscious intention.
Kunzite is holding the tone of passion in the language of light. Kunzite will assist initiates in uncovering what their passion is and then assist each to dream weave a dream that includes such a preoccupation. Passion is a necessary ingredient in the act of manifestation in the unity paradigm.
Lepidolite will assist in moving the sexual energy through the many channels of the etheric body, subtle bodies and light body of an ascending field. If one has experienced sexual based trauma in present life or ancestral life, Lepidolite will assist one in healing such trauma. Lepidolite will also assist initiates in communing with the element of fire.
Sapphire holds the tone of communion in the language of light. Sapphire will assist initiates in learning to commune with the nature kingdoms, earth along with one's soul, oversoul and source. Sapphire will also assist initiates in retaining a clear connection to one's source and I AM presence.
Desert rose holds the tones of community in the language of light. Desert rose holds holographic information on the structure of unity based community. Desert rose will assist those who are choosing to create a unity based group in ascending into the necessary dance to allow community to be born.
Rhodizite holds the vibration of communication in the language of light. Rhodizite will assist initiates in better understanding one's own guidance, the earth mother and one's soul, oversoul and source. Rhodizite will also assist in better understanding between members of groups who are ascending, or communication in ascending community.
Gypsum holds the vibration of unspoken worlds in the language of light. Gypsum will assist initiates in communicating with unspoken species including the plant, animal and mineral, dolphin and whale kingdoms. Gypsum will also assist in communication with non-verbal species of a multidimensional nature.
Turquoise holds the vibration of worlds upon the land within the language of light. Turquoise will assist one in coming into harmony, unity and balance with all sentient species upon the land, including the plant, animal and mineral kingdoms. Turquoise will augment the clearing of karma for the misuse of the land in one's ancestry. Turquoise will also assist initiates in communing with the element of earth.
Diamond is holding the vibration of God Goddess within the language of light. Diamond will assist initiates in tuning into the magnificence of one's own god goddess within. Diamond will also assist initiates in embracing all others as god goddess in form.
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Stephen works with individuals and couples.
After studying Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy at The London Centre for Psychotherapy he then gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of East London (accredited by the BACP). With a master's degree from The University of Edinburgh, he has lived in London for over ten years and continues to work in education and management alongside private practice.
Having worked in Manchester, Edinburgh, Tokyo and New York as a coach, mentor, teacher and trainer with individuals from many walks of life, he will endeavour to work with you in an engaging, interactive, honest and professional way.
As an integrative practitioner, he combines aspects of Person-Centred, Cognitive-Behavioural, Psychodynamic and Solution-Focused therapies depending on the client.
Based in North London, N19 and Central London, W1. These locations provide a calm and non-judgemental environment in which to work together openly, honestly and confidentially.
Working under the BACP guidelines for ethical practice, all communication will be treated in the strictest confidence.
Please feel free to get in touch at any time by phone, text or email to set up an initial consultation in which we can discuss your situation without any further obligation.
The cost of this initial consultation is £50.
Further fees are negotiated during the initial session and are based on a sliding scale.
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Aspen Times StaffAspen, CO Colorado
Unfettered vehicular access to Maroon Lake and the Maroon Bells is about to end.Bus service to the scenic spot begins Saturday, June 16, and will continue daily through Labor Day weekend. After that, buses continue to run on weekends (Fridays through Sundays) through September.The bus to the Bells will depart Aspen Highlands on Maroon Creek Road every 20 minutes, beginning at 9:05 a.m. and continuing until 2:05 p.m. Then, they'll leave on the hour and half-hour until 4:30 p.m. Buses will return riders to Highlands.Daytime access to the Bells is limited to bus travel – no vehicles from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The prohibition keeps vehicles from overwhelming the limited parking at the lake. Vehicles carrying infants or toddlers in a car seat, however, may drive on up.The Bells bus fare is $6 per adult, and $3 for kids (younger than 16) and seniors. Bells-bound visitors may drive to Highlands and park there for free, or catch a free bus to Highlands from Aspen's downtown bus station, Rubey Park. Call the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority at 925-8484 for more information.When the buses aren't running, visitors are welcome to drive to the lake, but the fee is $10 from 7 a.m. through 7 p.m. daily, when the Forest Service entrance station on Maroon Creek Road is operating. The fee is good for five days of travel to the lake. Entry is free when the station is closed.A $25 locals pass, good for the season, is also available at the entrance station.There is no entry fee for those traveling to Maroon Lake under their own power – bicyclists, inline skaters, pedestrians, etc.
Aspen teacher pushes through to earn her National Board Certification
Katie Fox said the work required to earn the certification was equal to that of earning a second master's degree, all while holding down a full-time teaching position.
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Irish high tech SMEs raised €237m in the first quarter of 2016, or nearly double the amount over the same period last year, according to the Irish Venture Capital Association VenturePulse survey published today in association with William Fry.
"About half the funds came through international syndicates which shows an encouraging and continuing strong global appetite for the Irish tech sector," commented Brian Caulfield, chairman, IVCA.
He pointed out that one company (Oneview Healthcare) raised €40m through an IPO in Australia reflecting the increasing globalisation of Irish businesses.
"The increase in this quarter to €237m from €119.8m last year is a positive result considering that the industry in Ireland is in fundraising mode," added Regina Breheny, director general, IVCA.
She said that life sciences dominated the first quarter with 42% of funds raised by 15 companies in this sector. Two companies raised over 25% of total funds.
Growth/expansion funding represented 90% of total funds raised. "The importance of close international relationships is once again emphasised by continued strong support from global players, who invested €116m or 49% of total funds raised in the first quarter," said Breheny.
She said that since the onset of the credit crunch in 2008, in excess of 1,250 Irish SMEs raised venture capital of €2.8bn. These funds were raised almost exclusively by Irish VC fund managers who during this period supported the creation of up to 20,000 jobs; attracted over €1.25bn of capital into Ireland and geared up the State's investment through the Seed & Venture Capital programme by almost 16 times.
Summary: Funds Raised The IVCA VenturePulse survey shows that Irish companies raised €237.4m from investors in Q1 2016. This compares with funds raised of €119.8m in Q1 2015, €145.4m in Q1 2014 and with €52.1m in Q1 2013. Seed/Early Stage In Q1 2016 early stage companies raised seed capital of €24.7m (10% of funds raised). This compares with €11.9m (10% of funds raised) in Q1 2015, €4.6m (3% of funds raised) in Q1 2014 and with €7.3m (14% of funds raised) in Q1 2013.


BRRRrrRR it's cold here in Maine.
People tend to think they need to invest in a gym membership, a huge time commitment, and a complicated workout plan in order for it to be worth their time to exercise.
For most people, you could be working out at home in a relatively simple manner for 2-3 years while still gaining strength (if that's what you want) using progressive calisthenics.
For many, losing weight is all they want, and that can be done almost entirely by your diet.
There is a time and place to add training though, particularly if you want to prevent some of the muscle loss that happens while dieting. Also, if you want to get F$CKIN' JACKED, you'll probably want to hit the gym and get an a more serious barbell training program.
For me, I just wanted to fit into tighter-fitting fashionable clothes!


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Definitions of ORGAN
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
(music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
a periodical that is published by a special interest group; "the organ of the communist party"
A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs of plants.
A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.
A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc.
A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.
To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.
By Noah Webster.
A part of an animal or vegetable, fitted to do some special duty; as, the organ of sight; a means of making known opinions or news, as a newspaper; a means by which an action is performed; as, courts are the organs of justice; a large musical wind-instrument with pipes, sounded by compressed air from bellows, and played upon by keys; a smaller instrument of the same class, operated by pedals or a crank.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
Any part of the body exercising a specific function, as of respiration, secretion, digestion, etc.; see organon.
An animal part having an independent function, as the heart, stomach, etc.
By William R. Warner
An instrument or means by which anything is done: that by which a natural operation is carried on: a musical instrument with pipes, bellows, and keys: the medium of communication.
By Daniel Lyons
An instrument; system of parts to perform any natural function; medium of communication; an instrument of music.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
An instrument; a musical wind instrument operated by keys; part of a living structure performing some special work; newspaper published in the interest of a party.
By James Champlin Fernald
A part of the living body by which some action, operation, or function is carried on; an instrument or means of communication, as of a political party-generally said of a newspaper; in bot., any defined subordinate part of the vegetable structure, external or internal, as a cell, a fibre, a leaf, a root, &c.; a well-known wind musical instr.
Any part or structure of an organism adapted for a special purpose.
Part of an organized being, destined to exercise some particular function. Thus-the eyes are organs of sight; the muscles are organs of motion, &c. The collection of organs, which concur in any function, is called apparatus.
By Robley Dunglison
Any part of the body with a special function.
Any individual part, or system of parts, of an organism, having a specific physiological function, considered with reference to its action, processes, or results, [Gr.]
n. [Latin, Greek] An instrument by which an important action is performed, or an important object accomplished ; especially a part of a living being capable of a special function, essential to the life or well-being of the whole, as the lungs, the heart, &c. ;— a medium of communication between one person or body and another ;— an instrument containing pipes filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys.
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A particularly sciencefictional issue. I would not have been surprised to find some of these stories in a certain zine devoted to hard SF.
Sean is from Earth and Dulat is from Mika, but when they combine their DNA they pledge to raise the child in the Mikarr Way. Except that Mikarr children grow to maturity in year, and First's genes make her different. Will there be a place for her on either world?
Dulat's hand moves across my chest and strokes First's arm. She sings a few bars of the bonding song, soothing First and lulling her to sleep. I sigh in relief at the momentary reprieve. We are living the Mikarr way. They may not love for long, but the love is complete while it lasts.
This is both a love story and a cautionary tale. The love is strongly portrayed, but the caution left to be inferred by the reader. Sean's optimism is misguided; love can not be counted on to overcome biology, especially when love pulls in two different directions.
As a boy, the narrator saw flying saucers, a product of his wishful thinking.
I used to sit and watch, and wish to be abducted. I waved at them with my towel, and waved a bright flag, I tried smoke signals, and a giant "Take Me" carved in the sand . . ..
When the aliens fail to abduct him, he sets off on a quest to discover the magic missing in his life and discovers many strange marvels. But there is a catch.
The author attempts to convince us that this is all about the observer effect, about the way we can alter reality by perceiving it. But I know a fairy tale when I read it.
Joan Ellen always wanted a gifted child, so she employed a little off-the-shelf technology when she was pregnant. Patrick does turn out to be a gifted child, performing inventive experiments at age ten.
Masses of wire and plastic drinking straws repurposed as tubing snaked their way from each module to the chicken, connecting to it by sewing needles and hair-fine copper filaments.
Then come the seizures, which are only the beginning.
There is often a blurred line between the wondrous and the horrific. If alien flying saucers abduct you, if you grow another brain, is this a good thing or a bad? The author leaves the answer as an exercise for the reader, but it occurred to me several times that things could have been a lot worse.
The heavy ice miners stage a strike, and the narrator is their hostage. His only hope is to manipulate the miners, who resent the narrator for being an avant, an engineered human model.
This psychological drama raises interesting questions about what makes us human and what is human superiority, although it's a bit talky at times. The last line makes up for it. There is also quite a bit of physics neep about the properties of deuterium, making it hard SF.
Time travel short-short with twist.
Kayla is pregnant and doesn't want her child brought up in the US police state, so she escapes with the help of her former lover Jillian.
Everything was fine in Miami, officially. But the denials didn't change the fact that General Barion's rebellious Fourth Ocean Cavalry Division had been holding the city for the last eighteen months.
This political SF is a bit confused, starting out as if Kayla were escaping to get an abortion. It's not clear why she cuts the ID chip out of her head before reaching Miami, when the absence of it could get her arrested.
In the spring of 1932, Zora decides to leave Paris for Prague, where she meets the fascinating Frida Hroznysova at a screening of Nosferatu. Frida studies local folklore, specializing in such phenomena as rusalkas and vampyres When she invites Zora to her apartment to see her etchings, Zora has a shock.
And then, all of a sudden, I realised why the portrait was so profoundly disturbing: for belatedly, I noticed that the girl's head was no longer attached to its shoulders. At some point, before she had been laid out on the grass, she had been crudely decapitated.
The author strongly suggests that we will encounter vampyres, and indeed we do, although not in the form we might have expected. The story's milieu and the characters are quite well-realized, a period piece evoking one of the fleetingly magical times and places in history.
From a space station to a Chinese lantern festival.
Space opera. Alex is an engineered Friend, bred for deep understanding of human body language; this skill also makes him a lie detector. He takes a contract with a secretive group of freelance biologists who have located a planet inhabited by antlike creatures who may or may not be intelligent, which means Alex and his employers may or may not get rich by exploiting them. A member [a "drone"]of a telepathic human hive culture has been engaged to help determine the Vesians' intelligence; Alex's job is to keep tabs on the drone, but he suspects his actual employers are up to no good.
Ao is a candyman, a sort of magician-artist who creates figures out of liquid sugar like a glass-blower. He can also animate them. He has just set up business in the town of Chengdu during the lantern festival when a jealous sorcerer creates a fire monkey to burn down the shop of a girl who has spurned his attentions.
Motes of burning paper rained down on us as the fire monkey leapt from one lantern to another, then another and another, until it landed on the thatched roof of the yuanzi girl's family teahouse. With mad glee, it set the thatch ablaze, and the flames regenerated its tail.
Ao's heroic effort to quench the flames makes a rousing story, and the candy-magic is a neat trick. Unfortunately, once the danger is over, the story becomes talky as Ao mentally sorts through the possible suspects to find the jealous culprit.
An issue guest-edited by Jonathan Strahan, with fiction appearing more or less weekly in the usual way of this website.
A scenario reminiscent of Escape From New York and similar works. The authorities have solved the zombie problem by shutting the revenants into reserves in the old decayed cities such as Cleveland. To kill another bird, they have been shipping criminals there as well. Cahill has to learn about zombies in order to survive in the reserve, but he soon begins to take a stronger interest in them, wanting to know how they recognize living humans and how they react to fire. And of course to learn, he has to conduct experiments.
Cahill was watching the other zombies. They didn't react to the noise at all. Even when there was blood all over, they didn't seem to sense anything. Cahill reflected, not for the first time, that it actually took people a lot longer to die than it did on television or in the movies. He noted that the one that had mauled and eventually killed LaJon did not seem to prefer brains.
A common technique in horror fiction is to show the narrator slowly succumbing to madness, all the while convinced that his acts are perfectly normal. Here, however, the narrative fails to chill, as we don't know whether Cahill was demented to begin with or driven mad by his surroundings, which, as described, don't seem sufficiently horrific, except for Cahill.
Physics and paradoxes. Martin Beech is on his way to meet Jenny Musgrove and propose marriage when he bumps into Jenny Musgrove, who has hated him ever since he stood her up nine years ago, going off with an older woman. Younger Jenny is a particle physicist who goes on to develop the equations that lead to the Even Larger Hadron Collider. Older Jenny is a businesswoman who gave up physics after Martin dumped her.
At which point the ELHC blows up and Martin is arrested for sabotage. Because there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
Clever temporal paradox, clever title.
More physics, this time with Buddhism. The criminal ancestors poisoned the Earth, then left to find some other world to pollute with their presence. The survivors are all noncelibate monks, modified to survive in the environment and capable of transmitting themselves across space to new bodies. One group has taken to generating micro black holes in an act of creation, but it seems that there is a problem, which Yana has been asked to solve.
Yana's eyes searched all the other displays, and found them all showing the same strangeness. Cameras were flooded with a blinding haze, and the ship's readings were flickering between a multitude of conflicting signals, all coming through on the same channel. A siren blared, and suddenly, the ship's readings flickered back into unity.
Although there is a lot of physics neep here, the story's themes are spiritual: compassion and forgiveness. Some basic knowledge of Buddhism is probably more useful to readers than a physics text.
There is war in a fantasy version of Sri Lanka, where the large royal family controls magic and the peasant rebels have guns. Ezi is a useless prince, whose only power is speaking to animals who won't agree to fight for them. He also writes poetry and suffers from naive delusions about making peace with the enemy. But drastic events change everything.
This is a political work, if only because it evokes comparison to current events. As such, it can not be seen as simply a children's fairytale about a young prince earning his crown. Thus it is unsatisfying to see the events from only a single point of view, in which the king is good and kind and wise and the rebels are the most clichéd of terrorists. And the elephants, whom everyone knows to be wise, are gravely deluded.
Lori is leading a life she increasingly cares nothing about when a small dragon appears in her yard and declares it will eat her in a month, when it is larger. The prospect of imminent consumption concentrates Lori's mind and leads her to recall the sort of life she had once wanted – making fudge. Not really a fantasy, as the dragon is no more than a catalyst for a standard life-transformation story.
The narrator is a psychic detective in a world where humans coexist uneasily with dwarfs, although they occasionally do business. The dwarfs have discovered a murdered dwarf whose corpse is boneless, and they suspect the man who runs an exhibit of plasticized corpses, including a boneless one. But how do you murder a person by dissolving his bones?
Here's an interesting world, with several different and disagreeable species of near-humans involved in political and criminal conspiracies. I like the narrator's attitude, manipulating the misogynistic dwarfs with their own prejudices, as well as the dwarfs themselves.
A professional shovel-carrying dwarf is called a skovlmand, a word we might translate as "goon." They hone the blades until they are able to slice your leg in half with the flick of a gnarled arm. I once saw a skovlmand split an oak trunk the size of a barrel with a thrown shovel.
SF. Eli is a scientist working on Bio-Cybernetics, transferring human minds into artificial bodies. The government uses the cyborgs primarily for military and security functions. But human minds need to dream in order to properly function, and this ability was omitted from the programming. This is the problem that Eli is attempting to solve.
The author warns readers in the first line that none of this is real, and when things aren't real, we pretty well know what they are. What isn't clear is the reason why the dream problem is so intractable, and why, decades or centuries later, the cyborgs are still called prototypes, although they have been in common use for a long time. Unless that problem isn't real, either. Or perhaps it has long since been solved, but Eli simply doesn't know it. And we will never know.
SF. The narrator is a customs inspector, and his professional interest is stimulated by the arrival in his sector of a notorious smuggler, Gilbert Nwachakwu. Nwachakwu claims to have cleared himself of legal entanglements, and the records confirm this. But the narrator is certain he is smuggling something on his numerous trips to Vairlosi.
We scanned the hull for compartments; we checked the density of the fuel reserves; we rifled Nwachakwu's clothing and toiletries; we unpacked the crates and cross-checked each AI module's serial number; we weighed each individual unit, looking for deviations; we even X-rayed the cockpit seat cushions. All for naught.
Readers will suspect that this is a case of hiding in plain sight, and so it proves, rather cleverly.
One day, a strange monk comes to Udom Xhai in Laos.
He was not a Buddhist, for his robes were black, not saffron, and looked expensive besides. If one looked hard one could almost imagine there were shapes fleeting across the shimmering expanse of robe, images darting hither and yon upon the light-swallowing surface of the cloth. He could have been falang, it was agreed, and everyone knew the ways of the Europeans were strange – but none could tell for sure. That night, a procession of black-robed monks move through the town and into the mountains, from which strangeness begins to propagate on the radio waves.
This is a sort of mystical fantasy, in which the powers of God may or may not be involved. Something has changed, but we don't know what. It is a mystery, not one that we will solve.
Short-short. Marcus is undergoing a test. He passes.
Some ingenious stuff here, a bit of fun. A reason does reveal itself, but it is less interesting than the Cadillac that falls out of the sheik's cargo plane and lands on Marcus's camel.
An interesting month for this small press ezine. Apex Book Company frequently uses an issue of their magazine as promotion for one of their anthologies. In this case, the anthology is titled Dark Faith, set at the intersection of religion and horror. The two stories in this magazine issue are not included in the anthology.
Benjamin makes the ants down in his basement, carefully painting them with tiny brushes, creating an entire model world of ants, with Benjamin as their god. On his rare emergences into the world, he makes sort of a friend of the young woman next door. But while Benjamin is down in the basement, things are happening, and eventually he realizes that his castle is under siege. By the plants. He had tried to ignore the plants. Now he is creating an ant army to defeat the invading plants.
A surreal fantasy that may or may not be a hallucination on the part of Benjamin. I suspect not. A scenario in which everyone either dies or is transformed into plant organisms might seem at first glance to be horror, but Jessup makes this world weirdly beautiful. It only remains to be seen if Benjamin, with his armies of model ants, can prevail against the plant-people. Was it Meant To Be? The author isn't telling.
Post apocalypse. The world seems to have fallen to hordes of zombie-like revenants, and a religious cult has taken over the human survivors. The cult's archbishops hear of a strange young girl, perhaps a prophet, and they want to learn her secrets. David, their messenger, comes to believe that Jenna may hold the key to human survival.
She talked about a world where humanity could live alongside the Fallen. She talked about her father's certainty there were others with gifts like hers.
But he knows that the archbishops will misuse her gifts for their own benefit.
This one is a sort of mash-up – the stereotypical Evil Church with zombies – neither original. The plot is strewn with red herrings, as Jenna retracts one lie only for another, until it begins to seem that everything she says is worthless, including the Biblical references that everyone seems to find so significant and her reputed powers of prophesy. Even David's hope seems misplaced, as there is no evidence that there are others with her gift.


One key to maximizing the potential of a small living room is carefully selecting furnishings that fit the space and can serve multiple purposes. Another important part of the process is getting creative with your layout and finding ways to arrange your furniture to make use of every square foot, even those awkward corners. From there, you'll want to choose decor, such as art and mirrors, that adds personality without taking up space. Whether you're starting from scratch in a new space or are feeling cramped in your current living room, there's a solution to your woes. We've gathered the best small-living-room ideas to help you make the most of your space. Read on to get style tips from the pros and find inspiration for your small space.


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Spring has arrived in Cary and with warmer weather and longer daylight we will be exposed to more sun. while sun brings happiness and helps our bodies produce Vitamin D, it also cna bring sunburn and eventually wrinkles and skin cancer. Protection from the sun is important and comes in several forms.
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Kyle Chrisley: Who is he? His family? His career? His relationship? His net worth?
Kyle Chrisley is an American reality TV star, a former singer, and the son of 'Todd Chrisley,' a well-known TV personality and real estate entrepreneur.
Kyle Chrisley: His Age, family and Early life?
Kyle Chrisley is an American reality television star who is most known for his role in the famous reality show "Chrisley Knows Best." He was born on August 29, 1991, and will turn 30 in 2021. He was born in the United States of America, has an American personality, and is of white ethnicity. Virgo is his zodiac sign. He recently relocated to Oklahoma, United States of America.
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Todd Chrisley, a real estate magnate, and Teresa Terry, an American wealthy, grew up with his siblings and sisters. Chase Chrisley, Grayson Chrisley, Savannah Chrisley, and Lindsie Chrisley are his siblings, with Lindsie being his sister and Chase, Savannah, and Grayson being his step-children. mother's Todd married Julie Chrisley in 1996, when he was just five years old, after he divorced Teresa. Kyle had attended Saint Francis High School for his education. He is claimed to have completed his high school education.
Kyle Chrisley: What does he do for living? His career?
He'd appeared on the reality television show 'Chrisley Knows Best.' From March 11, 2012, through March 11, 2017, the show aired. In 2020, the sitcom has completed eight seasons and over 140 episodes. It depicts the Chrisley family's life cycle. Kyle, on the other hand, has been seen on the show owing to his substance or drug abuse, which has harmed his relationship with his family and led to a slew of legal difficulties. Kyle announced in 2019 that he will be sober for the rest of his life. Alexus, his wife, was a huge support to him during his difficult times. 'Shame on you,' 'Country Baby,' and 'Outta Here' were among the couple's singles.
Kyle Chrisley: His relationship status? His spouse?
In the year 2014, Kyle Chrisley and Alexus Whilby married. Alexus, his wife, is a business owner, musician, and manager of Home Design and Business Development. Lexi and Kyle was the name of the couple's new music band. They had a YouTube channel called KyleLexi Chrisley that they used to run, but it is no longer online.
Kyle's drug addiction and abuse problem caused the pair to separate and divorce. However, with his previous relationship with Angela Victoria Johnson, the TV personality has a daughter named Chloe, who was born in 2012. The biological parents, on the other hand, do not have custody of the child. The possession had transferred to Chloe's grandparents, Julie and Todd Chrisley. In 2019, he dated Ashleigh Nelson after his divorce from Alexus. There isn't much information available about his present relationship.
Kyle Chrisley: Net Worth. How much money does he make?
Kyle has amassed a lot of fortune before embarking on his job as a member of one of the wealthiest families and a cast member of one of the most popular shows. His net worth is estimated to be at $500,000.
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Kyle Chrisley: His general information.
Full Name Kyle Chrisley
Date of Birth 29th August 1991
Birth Place South Carolina, USA
Occupation Musician, TV personality
Net worth $500,000 approx
Tags: BiographyCareerReality Tv StarRelationshipSinger
Matheus Correia: Net Worth, Age, Biography, Girlfriend, Birthday And Death.
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Q: Display single latest instagram photo on your website I am looking all over the web and can't believe I can't find an answer to my question.
I would like to display the latest single instagram photo on my website. simple as that.
No gallery, no fancybox, no slideshow etc etc
I found this useful link:
http://www.blueprintinteractive.com/blog/how-instagram-api-fancybox-simplified
it's actually working but it doesn't give an option of how many images you would like to display
and I would like only one latest instagram image.
anyone have an idea?
Thanks

A: You can break foreach after showing first image like below:
foreach ($result->data as $post) {
  // Do something with this data.
  break; // for one result only
}

Or add &count=1 at end of url as below
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/ID-GOES-HERE/media/recent/?access_token=TOKEN-GOES-HERE&count=1

A: The answer is right here: http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/#get_users_media_recent_with_client_id
Count option for number of media !

A: Try this:
$page_id = 'YOUR ID';
$access_token = 'YOUR ACCESS TOKEN';
$json_object = @file_get_contents('https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/' . $page_id .
'/media/recent/?access_token=' . $access_token . '&count=1');
$indata = json_decode($json_object);
echo $indata->data[0]->images->low_resolution->url // for low res
echo $indata->data[0]->images->thumbnail->url;      //for thumbnail
echo $indata->data[0]->images->standard_resolution->url; //for standard res
echo $indata->data[0]->caption->text; //for caption

Embedding the whole post may be a solution:
$json_post = @file_get_contents('https://api.instagram.com/oembed/?url=' . $indata->data[0]->link);
$oembed = json_decode($json_post, true);
echo $oembed['html'];

Good luck!


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Fallen Wilmington firefighters to be remembered in international service
Esteban Parra
Wilmington firefighters and family members of three first responders killed in last year's deadly Canby Park arson are in Colorado this weekend to take part in a service remembering fallen firefighters.
The names of Wilmington firefighters Capt. Christopher Leach, Lt. Jerry Fickes and Lt. Ardythe Hope have been etched on a granite wall of the Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Their names are among 196 fallen firefighters from the United States and Canada added the Wall of Honor this year.
Members of the Local 1590 International Association of Fire Fighters, the labor union representing Wilmington's firefighters, headed to Colorado on Thursday for the services. Going along with them were family members of Leach, Fickes, and Hope.
The memorial service takes place a week before the year anniversary of the deadly Sept. 24 blaze.
Leach, Fickes, died responding to the fire after the first floor of the row home collapsed. Hope, who also was injured during the fire, died in December.
Fellow firefighter Brad Speakman, who was also critically injured in the blaze, was released Nov. 3 from Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pennsylvania, after a six-week stay for his burns. He has since returned to work.
The 31st annual IAFF Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial service will be broadcast live at noon Saturday on the IAFF's website.
The centerpiece of the memorial is a bronze firefighter descending a ladder while cradling an infant in one arm. There are also two two granite walls bearing the names of IAFF members, who have fallen in the line of duty, according to the international labor union's website.
Names etched on the wall date back through 1976, when the United States' government began tracking line-of-duty deaths in the fire service.
More:Bikers descend on Delaware Park to honor the fallen
More:Canby Park arson case moves to trial
Beatriz Fana-Ruiz, 28, was indicted earlier this year on 19 counts, including first-degree arson and six counts of murder.
Fana-Ruiz initially told investigators she didn't know how the fire started, but on Sept. 28, 2016, she admitted to investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives that in a fit of anger she had set the fire, which began at about 3 a.m., according to the account. She threw a bottle of what she described as body wash onto the ground, grabbed a piece of paper, lit it with a lighter and the fire started, a detective said in a previous court hearing.
Her trial is pending.
Contact Esteban Parra at (302) 324-2299, eparra@delawareonline.com or Twitter @eparra3.


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Dr. Hemant Madan – Book Online Appointment, Reviews, Contact Number, Address
Dr. Hemant Madan
Dr. Hemant Madan has an experience of over 21+ years in the field of Cardiology including Complex Interventions, Pediatric Cardiology, Device Implantation of All Types, Percutaneous Treatment of Valve Stenosis and Peripheral Interventions.
In 1995, he won a Gold Medal for completing MD Medicine from Pune University.
For his valuable service, he was awarded by the Vishisht Seva Medal by the President of India in 2014. He has been commended for his excellent work by Chief of the Air Staff and Commander in Chief.
Dr. Hemant Madan is a Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.
He is a part of various national medical associations, including Association of Physicians of India, Cardiological Society of India (CSI), Indian College of Cardiology (ICC), Paediatric Cardiac Society of India, Marine Medical Society, Bombay Medical Congress and Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine
The doctor has completed fellowships under Association of Physicians of India Cardiological Society of India (CSI), Indian College of Cardiology (ICC), Paediatric Cardiac Society of India, FSCAI Marine Medical Society, Bombay Medical Congress Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine and Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine.
He has done his MBBS and MD – General Medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC). Later completed his DM – Cardiology from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Trivandrum.
MBBS – Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, 1988.
MD – General Medicine – Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, 1995.
DM – Cardiology – Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Trivandrum, 2003.
HOD Cardiology at Navy Hospital.
2008 – 2014 Senior Cardiologist at Army Hospital R&R
2004 – 2008 Cardiologist at Air Force Hospital
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보르네오피그미다람쥐 또는 조각가다람쥐(Glyphotes simus)는 다람쥐과에 속하는 설치류의 일종이다. 보르네오피그미다람쥐속(Glyphotes)의 유일종이다. 말레이시아의 토착종으로 해발 600m와 1700m 사이에서 서식한다. 몸길이는 95~145mm이고, 꼬리 길이는 약 100mm 정도이다. 가슴과 하체, 코 옆, 귀 가장자리 그리고 손가락 등은 노랑색이고, 꼬리 끝은 검다.
↑ "Glyphotes simus". 《멸종 위기 종의 IUCN 적색 목록. 2008판》 (영어). 국제 자연 보전 연맹. 2008. 2009년 1월 6일에 확인함.
↑ 가 나 Ronald M. Nowak (1999년 4월 7일). 《Walker's Mammals of the World》. JHU Press. 1290–쪽. ISBN 978-0-8018-5789-8. 2013년 1월 4일에 확인함.
↑ Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 (782) in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.


In early December, when a mother bear and her three cubs turned up dead in a church parking lot in northeast Pennsylvania, it sparked CSI-like intrigue. As Game Commission officials could find no obvious cause of death, they turned to scientists at the Pennsylvania Animal Diagnostic Laboratory System (PADLS), to lend their diagnostic skills to solve the case.
Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine New Bolton Center campus is home to one of the three labs that comprise PADLS. By the close of 2016, Penn Vet scientists—with an assist from botanist Timothy Block of the Morris Arboretum—were able to help determine the cause of the bears' demise: the toxic leaves and seeds of an English yew plant.
Watch the video, produced by Rebecca Henhoeffer, University of Pennsylvania Communications.


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Profile for Jumpin Salmon
Displayed name Jumpin Salmon
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Registered Monday, April 25 2005 07:00
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written Tuesday, May 13 2008 10:01 Profile #104
Originally written by Evnissyen:
Oh, for the love of humanity.
Salmon:
If I'm not mistaken, Jaws was supposed to feed on people's fear of sharks. The "Danger! Danger!" score undercut this basic fear. But... if Spielberg's intention, in making Jaws, was to manipulate people into feeling more fearful of sharks than they already are... then that proves my point. In that sense: Perhaps the score was essential . . . to complete the brainwashing process, right?
Do you even remember the point at this point? If you have the capacity, watch Jaws without the music. See if you feel the upsurge in tension as the movie, and especially the hunt-scene, plays. Because remember, this movie is essentially a ghost story, told around a campfire. It really helps to have off-camera sound effects like twigs snapping and owls hooting in order to create the ambiance that is sought by the director. It's a package, and that tha-thump is part of it. It doesn't pander, it complements and accentuates what exists in the film.
Synergy, et al - "I don't get it."
Argon - "I'm at a loss for words..."
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written Monday, May 12 2008 08:37 Profile #95
Originally written by Clavicle:
Sullust:
Are you kidding? In what way is a soundtrack necessary to encourage a person's emotional response to sharks? Ask anybody you know: Do sharks scare you?
Go ahead, ask me!
No. Sharks don't scare me. They are dependable and reliable, predictably acting on instinct and in tune with their surroundings. Having fished among them, and for them, I can say I don't fear them.
If you have some irrational fear of sharks, then that is your psychological issue, not one of sharks.
I can say that meth-heads scare me. They are irrational, unreliable, and completely unpredictable. Plus, they are much more pervasive in the human world than are sharks.
So, the music did help create that ominous feeling in Jaws, and indeed set up a number of generations to fear sharks. Suckah!
While We Wait for the Next Chapter in General
written Monday, May 12 2008 08:08 Profile #168
Originally written by upon mars:
Let's put more pressure on Diki so that he may not finish his story.
Dikiyoba is a GIRL!!!
written Saturday, May 10 2008 21:46 Profile #162
I think she's home. She recently muttered something about "decent computer" and "about bloody time I can play A5."
So, keep holding your collective breath.
written Thursday, May 8 2008 09:12 Profile #60
Clavicle - Attacks of a personal nature are frowned upon on this site. Despite my distaste for Clinton and McCain, I would appreciate it if you refrained from using cute, but insulting, nicknames in your attempts to belittle them. It can easily be done with actual argument, and I find the names distracting and they detract from the power of your argument.
McCain is the champion of the GOP because he looks like he is harmle...oh. Just like Bush looked and sounded 8 years ago. Except with McCain there is a record of ineptitude... oh.
So, he's more of the same, possibly with better connections in the military and even less acumen in the diplomatic arena. I imagine he would have a former military man as SoS. As far as his spending cuts, yeah they would be the type that actually screw over the most citizens possible. But, he would have tax cuts, so that's great! More of the same borrow and spend fiscal conservatives which got us into this debt ridden mess.
written Wednesday, May 7 2008 23:12 Profile #11
For what it's worth, this country is a republic, not a democracy. You won't find it referenced in the Declaration or Constitution as a democracy, it is just a system of governing that has congealed over the life of the country.
At this point, there are two powerful camps, each representing 10% of the populace. The other 80% has to pick one or the other. That is the failing of the two party system that favors party over participation. As to how to fix it, there are a good dozen suggestions in front of at least the DNC for their August meeting. I hope they pick the one which moves to 6 regional primary dates. That will provide a more sane experience for both the candidates and the voters. As to the question of participation, I believe it should be an open primary, with an opportunity for all to vote, regardless of party affiliation. Only thing is you only get to vote one ballot.
I'm astonished.
And I would like to point out that my preferred forestry tool is the chainsaw, but in a pinch I would use the feller-buncher for a quicker cut. This isn't to say that an articulated grapple skidder is the wrong tool, as it certainly worked.
Student, you were a stalwart foe, and I will do my best to prove worthy of your support.
Originally written by madrigan:
All large democratic systems have political parties, because people naturally organize themselves to work towards a common goal -- even if that goal is fairly ambiguous as in the case of our very large parties in the U.S. Each party needs to choose a candidate, therefore, there will be a primary system. If we didn't have the parties, we could have dozens or hundreds of candidates for president, each with a tiny constituency. No candidate could receive enough votes to confer legitimacy. But that would never happen anyway unless we banned parties, which of course would be a bad idea.
I would change the system, though. The current primary system is incredibly unfair and inefficient. People in every state should vote on the same day, or days, in April or May. You count the votes and there's your nominee.
Who is talking about banning parties? All I want to see is the primary system changed so that we have the option in the general election to vote for the best candidate for the job. The current system elects a polarized candidate. You say a lot of stuff about things, but the effect is lost on me, sorry.
written Monday, May 5 2008 17:45 Profile #114
It may surprise people to understand that it is nigh impossible to wax eloquent about SPAM. That futility, exercised, is part of the charm of the General subforum, and the forums in general.
Alorael Facts in General
written Monday, May 5 2008 12:42 Profile #1
He only shoots pederasts. Or pedestrians. I forget which. Or if that is even true.
written Sunday, May 4 2008 21:10 Profile #57
For the record, most of Arrested Development does require prompting to let the audience know it is actually okay to laugh at certain things which would otherwise be off limits. Like the **** and the **** * ******* and when *** censored ***** *****.
Originally written by Ephesos:
That is, it's hard to make something like that last on network tv (see Arrested Development) and to maintain that same level of excellence (one could argue that SNL fits here).
Ann and George Oscar Bluth
Heck, George Oscar Bluth
the seal
the surrogate
That was a decent show.
I dunno though. Can't a soundtrack, properly executed, augment, rather than supplement, the film? As far as the idea that there was a golden age of film, I cry fowl. Yes, DUCK! Because there were a whole slew of crappy, maudlin films that had overbearing soundtracks. Sure, one or two a year were decent, but that is the same as today. Only a percent or two are good stuff, and those are rarely big-budget stuffs. It just hurts to see a person take a position on soundtracks that is essentially indefensible. Sure, most of them are bad, and cover up flaws in the direction, writing, or acting, but sometimes that isn't the case. So it isn't the soundtracks that are bad, it is the decisions made that are bad. Like, after spending 5 million dollars, why do they keep spending more to bring a crappy movie to the cinema, when it would demonstrate integrity to just wave a magnet over it?
written Sunday, May 4 2008 14:37 Profile #110
There is nothing fresher, or tastier, than sashimi on the boat.
Imagine Feynman on DVD. That would have been awesome. I think they have some of his stuff in Portland at the Wanderers club. I should check it out sometime.
written Saturday, May 3 2008 22:18 Profile #45
I like oral storytelling, as it uses the imagination of both the teller and the listener, and creates something unique and bigger than either one on their own. Unfortunately, the best oral stories wouldn't translate well to the big screen. Perhaps on the radio, but that lacks the interpersonal interaction.
written Saturday, May 3 2008 16:29 Profile #100
Heh. Actually, I was just saying that real Aryans would spend more time blathering about things other than their insanity. You know, more like stuff about how superior they are and things of that nature. So yeah, you nailed me on that one.
Originally written by Slarty:
I thought I remembered you saying something that might have qualified you otherwise. But I could be wrong.
It may have been him blathering on about being insane.
Mmm chicken tastes especially good when has been raised in a 14"x9"x14" cage for its entire life.
That's why I eat crappy chicken, raised on local farms without any of those glorious amenities.
It may cost a few cents more, but buy free-range products. It's good for you, good for the dead (and delicious) animal, and good for the environment.
written Friday, May 2 2008 22:58 Profile #32
Maybe Aran just knows you are special.
Gender and RPGs in General
Agreed on the "audience in a can." I also miss a lot of episodes of this show because at 8pm I'm still off doing stuff. I'm part of that segment of society that doesn't automatically turn on the tv at a certain time. And I never remember until about 25 minutes into a show that I want to see it.
Thanks goodness for Netflix and DVD releases. Plus, no commercials!
Originally written by Randomizer:
physicists aren't allow microwave ovens
I find it difficult to argue that. I mean, I probably shouldn't be allowed one either. Or maybe I just shouldn't use the one with the cracked door. :eek:
written Friday, May 2 2008 09:39 Profile #2
Maybe someday we can move away from a system of primary elections that favor party over participation.


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