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Who is Lukashenko anyway?
Eighteen years in power and counting, Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko retains a mesmerising hold on a country whose public spaces still glorify the mythological beasts of Soviet-era rule.
Towering bronze statues of Lenin in front of city halls remind visitor and resident alike of Lukashenko's power and anachronistic vision. The Soviet star, hammer and sickle sit on top of the Cyclopean edifice of the state post office headquarters in Minsk.
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Lukashenko is the product of a defunct empire which refuses to fade into history books. As President, his decrees become the rule of the land and some of his early laws were a portent of things to come.
In one of his first fiats, he changed Belarus' national independence day. The country declared independence on 23 August 1991. But Lukashenko moved it to 3 July, the day Soviet forces entered Minsk to liberate Belarus from Nazi Germany in World War II.
In 1995, he changed the country's flag. In 2007, thousands of small businesses had to shut after he forbade them from hiring close relatives. "According to the law, a nephew is not a close relative," Alaycsandr Makaev, who used to own two stalls at an outdoor market, told this reporter in Minsk last November.
He adores, and often plays hockey. But his team always wins because the other side wants to keep their jobs.
Lukashenko's narcissism is also plain to see in his flamboyant security arrangements.
Ihor Makar, a 34-year-old former Belarus Spetsnaz officer who worked in a unit which later became Lukashenko's personal detail, says the state spends three times more money protecting him than on its national health service.
Whole swathes of roads in Minsk are sealed off when he and his caravan of police cars go from place to place.
"Lukashenko has three groups of personal body guards. Each group has six people of which one is a personal adjunct to the President ... Over five years experience in the special unit, I've seen people disappear as families are left without fathers. Indifference in such situations cannot continue," Makar, who now lives in a secret location outside the country, told EUobserver.
From prison guard to president
Born in the Mogilev region in east Belarus, Lukashenko graduated from the university of the same name with a degree in history. But people who knew him before his rise to the top used to call him dull-witted.
He was installed in office by a circle of manipulators who planned to use him as their servant: as an MP he would run errands for his superiors, buying them bottles of vodka when told to. But Lukashenko himself had learned how to manipulate people in his time as a prison guard, biding his opportunity to gain power.
Soviet jails were grossly understaffed and guards relied on a form of self-governance by inmates to maintain order.
In parliament, he applied the same principles to his political career. Even today, he calls his underlings "sixes" - a pejorative term used by Soviet prisoners to describe weak inmates. The number shows up in a popular prison card game and is normally part of the worst hand. But it can also be a trump.
In Lukashenko's world there is only one "trump six" and his name is Viktor Sheiman: currently in charge of business relations with Latin America, Sheiman is implicated in the vanishing of opposition leaders 10 years ago and is considered to be just as dangerous and power-hungry as his master.
Meanwhile, on the evening news, Lukashenko repeats, time and again, his tired legends of heroic Belarusian resistance in World War II.
In some government chamber, bedecked in pink and white stucco, the master can be seen standing behind a podium lecturing his starry-eyed and seated "sixes" who nod in approval to his every word. In other cases, when he is unhappy, he can be seen yelling at ministers for failing to implement changes to save the country from Western conspiracy.
The spectacles come from a man who understands the value of theater and whose performances bewilder the mind with paradox.
Amid his stories of Belarusian partisans, he admires Hitler's "strong, presidential" qualities, sports an uncanny little black moustache and invokes Hitler in his own perorations. Amid the patent abusiveness of his regime, he cultivates the sobriquet "backa," which means "daddy" in Belarusian.
Mentally unstable?
Some EU politicians who have met him believe he is mentally unstable.
He decks out his seven-year-old son, Kolya, in full military dress for parades and sits him on his knee at top-level meetings, as with the Pope in 2009. Last year, after a mysterious bomb went off in the Minsk metro, he held him by the hand on a televised tour of the carnage-filled crime scene.
His micro-management is the butt of jokes, one of which goes: Lukashenko is in his cabinet office talking on the phone surrounded by his ministers. He is saying: "Left, left, right, right, now left," and so on. Eventually, someone asks what is going on. "He is telling them where to plant potatoes," a colleague whispers.
EU politicians also like to make fun.
One foreign minister in an off-the-record briefing in 2009 noted that Lukashenko had gone to Switzerland for treatment for prostate cancer. "I haven't personally examined his prostate, but our services tell me it's in a bad way," the minister said.
But Lukashenko, equally at home in the geopolitical salons of Moscow and among simple farmers in the Belarusian outback, has his own brand of vulgar political comedy.
"On the subjects of bastards like [EU commission President] Barroso and others - who is Barroso anyway? There was a Barroso in Portugal. But they kicked him out and put him to work in the European Commission," he told state TV at a Chernobyl commemoration event last year.
In a response to the EU's decision to pull ambassadors from Minsk in early March, he lashed out against Germany's gay foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle: "When I heard him - whoever he is, gay or lesbian - talking about dictatorship, I thought, it's better to be a dictator than gay."
Then, as if on cue, the master said Belarus will defeat the West, the same way they did when the Germans rolled in their tanks. And Russia, he added, will be standing by its side.


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On Saturday 19th November 2016, Twilight Shadows Paranormal conducted a paranormal investigation inside a beautiful medieval building in Wiltshire. We are the first paranormal group to have been able to investigate here so we felt very lucky. The owner has asked us not to reveal the exact location or the history of the building.
After exploring this beautiful building we sat down in a group to conduct a séance. We explained our purpose in trying to communicate with the spirits who have been associated with the building. I've been inside this building many times for various functions and I have felt a presence lurking in the background so I was excited about the prospect of making contact with it.
We were assembled around a large, heavy table. It started to rock at one end almost immediately and then emitted a knock. I said, "I hope that you are glad that we are here." Although I was hoping that the spirits of the building would welcome our group, we all felt that the spirit who had already presented to us, did not seem to like us.
I felt that the spirit who had joined us was male and Pete (team medium) confirmed this. We started to discuss the feelings that we were getting and the atmosphere seemed sinister as though the spirit felt that we were rude in chatting amongst ourselves. We asked for appropriate knocks to our questions. One knock for yes and two knocks for no. We asked, "Have you been here for a long time?" Yes.
"Are you here all of the time?" (No answer). We assembled some equipment onto the table and the spirit seemed annoyed that we had stopped communicating audibly for a moment. There were two loud knocks.
I asked how many spirits were connected to the building and there were 5 or 6 knocks. The knocking was so fast that we could not decide. The sound of fingernails scratching underneath the table made some of the team shudder. Pete asked, "Are you Squire John?" No."Do you know Squire John?" Yes. It felt colder in the building but the temperature gauge on the equipment showed us that the temperature was rising. All of the equipment on the table seemed to be going crazy.
Pete said, "Someone has just moved my chair." The feeling that we were getting with this spirit was anger. Pete asked, "Does our way of communicating with the dead go against your religious beliefs?" Yes. We knew that historically, a Dean had once owned the building and at that time the building held three floors. The current owner converted the building back to just one floor and as near as it could be to how it was during the 1300's.
We tried to find out how long the spirit had been at the hall but we did not receive an answer. Pete thought that it was because time does not exist in the spirit world. We started to discuss what the building would have been used for most over the years and we all thought that the answer was a banqueting hall. The spirit appeared to be cross again because we were chatting. Pete asked, "Were you in a position of authority?" Yes. "Do you think we are peasants?" Yes. "Are you aware of other spirits in this building?" (No answer). It was now so cold in the building (even though we had the heating switched on), that I asked, "Are you making it so cold because you want us to leave?" Yes. "Can you feel our energies?" No. Pete asked a few questions (that we cannot share) and received positive responses via the equipment on the table. We did ask if the communicating spirit had a beard and got an affirmative response.
The table started to shake and it felt as if the spirit was frustrated with us. The table tipped and we were surprised as the table was very heavy. It continued to shake and then lifted. Andrew said that he was looking towards the far wall and had seen someone walk across. We were all quite cold but some people were really cold. Pete thought that the spirit was picking on specific people. I felt a cold breeze on my hand.
We tried some reverse psychology and 'he' seemed to react as we got good responses. We asked, "Do you like the weddings that happen here?" No. But he didn't seem to mind funeral parties. Pete said that he was told that he held services at a local religious place when he was alive. I told the team a story about something personal that had happened to me in this particular religious place and the table jolted and then lifted right up. I asked, "Did you know that we were coming?" No. "Were you surprised?" No. "Do you like us being here?" No. "Are you making us cold?" Yes. We were talking to him really nicely and trying to make him like us but it definitely was not working. "Do you want us to go?" Yes. The table rose up at one corner. We lit some candles hoping that 'he' would blow them out. He didn't.
Dave left the table and went up to the minstrels gallery and the spirit seemed to go with him. He said that it was really cold up there and somewhat spooky. Taking advantage of the spirit going with Dave, we tried to make contact with another spirit. A female came through. We heard the sound of fingernails on the table again and some small little knocks. The atmosphere felt calmer. The female spirit said that she was married to the Dean and she said that he wasn't very nice to her. They had three children together.
We could hear the weather getting really stormy outside and it enhanced the spooky atmosphere within the building. We asked if a spirit could make a sound that we could hear and there was a sound of movement elsewhere in the room. We captured a strange breath type sound as an EVP. We did not hear it at the time. There was a scratch under the table and then the table moved. We asked the female spirit if she moved the table and there were two knocks indicating a no. We asked her if the Dean was back with us and she said no. Dave said that he felt that the lady spirit liked us being there but she was afraid to say that she was, as the Dean wouldn't approve. He asked, "Were you scared of your husband?" Yes. "Did he control you?" Yes. I told her what I thought about that and there was a sinister noise picked up on EVP that we did not hear at the time. The table moved and we could all feel that the Dean was back. It got very cold and the temperature display on the equipment started to fluctuate again.
Pete said that he could feel another female presence. Not the lady that was married to the Dean, another lady in another time. He said, "She was here hundreds of years ago when the building was a meeting house." We started chatting and we heard banging in the room. Mo went up to the minstrels gallery. She said that it was very cold up there. We stood around the table and it moved. Andrew said that he saw a light anomaly which seemed to come out of the equipment on the table and quickly travel left. The temperature was still fluctuating and we asked for specific temperatures and our requests were granted. It was amazing. Nettie said that she saw a strange light.
We decided to assemble around another, even larger table, which was situated at the far end of the hall on a raised platform. While we were setting up, we caught another EVP, which sounded like a female voice. Jacky started to 'call out' asking for us to hear footsteps. The table was already shuddering and then we heard a tap on it. I could also hear tapping from other parts of the building. Pete said that he heard a voice ask, "What do you want?" He told us that the grumpy spirit still didn't like us there and he was pacing around the room, getting angrier. Jacky told the spirit that we wanted to talk to him. The table started moving with force and it shot sideways by about six inches. We could not believe that the table moved like that because it was so big and heavy.
We asked if the knocking on the table could be louder and we received two knocks for no. Pete said that a spirit voice said to him, "You are sat around the table but you aren't eating. There is no banquet." Pete asked for the spirit to communicate more and the table was pushed quite violently. It felt like an angry action. There was another jolt of the table but after that there was a long period of time when all was quiet. Pete said that the forceful spirit had stepped back and a quieter spirit had come forward. Pete said, "They still want to know what we want." I explained that we wanted to to talk, to see and to hear them.
I saw something in the corner of the room and at the same time as I spoke, Lesley said that she heard a sound in the corner. Matt said that he'd heard a sigh and Lesley said that was exactly what she had heard. Some of us felt as if we were being drained of energy and we all felt icy cold. It was quiet for a considerable time after this.
Pete 'called out' and there was a rapping on the table in response. The table started moving. There was a massive bang but after this, nothing happened for a considerable time. Eventually, the table started moving and Pete said that he could hear disgruntled laughter.
The storm was getting wilder outside and the energy started to build up again. The table seemed to be shoved around forcibly and for a long time. Our hands seemed frozen to the table. Rachel jumped as a there was a massive bang beside her. The table started to move around the room as if it has an energy of it's own. Lesley 'called out' and the table started pushing towards her. It then started pushing into all of us.
Andrew saw a shadowy figure at the other end of the room, which walked between the two curtains. There was a light on down there. Andrew told us that he'd seen this happen several times. Dave heard a funny noise and the table moved. It was now very late and we decided that we would end the investigation. We really enjoyed our evening and on behalf of the Twilight Shadows team, I would like to thank Andrew for arranging this brilliant investigation.
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With only two weeks to go before the opening bell rings, CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and a team of other city officials announced the so-called Safe Passage routes and tried to assure parents and the public that everything is under control as 13,000-plus students transition to new schools.
"We are on track to have a fantastic first day and a banner school year," she said.
Byrd-Bennett said that 90 percent of students from closed schools are expected at the welcoming ones. Later, her staff revised that figure, saying that 90 percent were enrolled, with 80.5 percent in the designated welcoming school. Such a high percentage of students in the designated receiving school would be far more than in previous school closings.
In addition to providing Safe Passage patrols, CPS spent the summer renovating welcoming schools and provided extra money for them to enhance their academic programs.
But Bryd-Bennett allowed for the fact that some families may change their mind by the opening of school. She said she will have workers out at schools to enroll students and is willing to consider different Safe Passage routes if a welcoming school doesn't wind up with a lot of students from the shuttered schools that were supposed to send students.
"I do not think that will happen," she said at a briefing on Friday.
The Safe Passage routes are streets and areas where community members, paid by CPS, will patrol and keep an eye on children as they walk to and from their new schools. Some of the routes are from closed schools, while others take into account where students live.
Though there are 49 schools closing, there are 53 routes, including routes for welcoming schools and schools that will be co-locating with another school, according to CPS.
CPS has posted maps on their website that parents can access. West and East Garfield Park and Englewood, especially, are slated to have a heavy presence of Safe Passage workers, as several schools in their areas are closing.
600 workers hired
For the past couple years, many of the neighborhood high schools have had Safe Passage programs, which were born out of former CEO Ron Huberman's initiative called Culture of Calm. CPS officials credit Safe Passage with reducing the number of incidents that involve school children.
Originally, CPS officials said that in mid-July, routes would be finalized, but gave no explanation for the delay even as parents and others began to express anxiety. Safety and Security Chief Jadine Chou emphasized that district officials took pains to make sure they were providing patrols for the correct streets. She said officials hosted meetings at schools where they shared proposed routes and got feedback from community members and parents.
About 600 workers have been hired and, starting next week, they will be trained on things like how to de-escalate fights and how to spot trouble. Chou also said they will each be fingerprinted and have background checks before they take to the streets.
Chou's staff, with the police department, will train each group of Safe Passage workers. The district has hired 19 community organizations to administer the program.
Chou said starting Friday, the district will be doing robocalls, sending e-mails and sending a package to parents informing them of the routes and of other information they need as they transition to new schools.
In addition to Safe Passage workers, wearing yellow vests, children walking along these routes will be greeted by yellow signs, which have begun to spring up all over the city. Pat Harney, first deputy commissioner from the Chicago Department of Transportation, said the signs were to alert people they were in areas that would elicit harsher penalties for carrying a gun or other weapons.
Earlier this summer, the City Council passed a measure that would increase penalties for guns, ammunition and other "dangerous weapons" on Safe Passage routes and near schools during daylight hours when children are present.
While the officials tried to underscore the point that they are taking precautions to make the hikes safe, they also said they were looking to the community to report trouble and keep a watch on children.
Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said that community police or CAPS workers have been knocking on doors, asking residents to come onto their porches during the times students go to and from school. He said 1800 residents agreed.
However, he acknowledged that should something go wrong the city officials will be blamed.
"When violence occurs, we are held accountable," he said. "But this is nothing new. Children crossing gang lines to get to school is nothing new."


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Last year, I left my full-time job. It was a radical life decision. I was on the top of my game, so to speak, and doing quite well. I walked away from a very lucrative salary to start building an income that pays us long term instead of right now.
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Interislander provides a road and rail ferry service across Cook Strait between Wellington and Picton. Owned and operated by KiwiRail, it has three 'roll-on roll-off' vessels that complete the crossing in three hours.
As the 20th century receded Interislander (then called The Interisland Line) faced a dramatic change to its business. Airlines, including Air New Zealand, had begun making it easier and cheaper for their customers to book flights online rather than through travel agents or call centres. Interislander's customers wanted to book their ferry travel the same way. Meeting this demand would require the company to radically alter and simplify its business process. The decision to custom build an internet reservations platform that could adapt to change has resulted in a system that supports and helps drive the business. Interislander's story has been one of evolution, as that system has adapted in tune with the company's commercial journey. No revolutionary replacement – with all the associated trauma and expense – has been necessary. Nobody has lost their head. This case study details the course Interislander took in order to adapt to seismic shifts in the market and keep its competitive edge.
Back in 2002 The Interisland Line had a website comprising simple static HTML pages. It was essentially an online brochure with a sales enquiry facility. Sandfield was selected to build an Internet Reservations Channel (IRC) that interacted with Interislander's back-office enterprise booking system (a package-based solution that came from a supplier in the UK).
The first phase of the IRC delivered the ability for both 'direct' customers and existing Interislander agencies to create new bookings, pay for bookings, and cancel bookings online. This went live in November 2002. The first customer had an email address at NASA. We're not sure if he was actually a rocket scientist, but we do know he rode a motorcycle and was the first person to book his passage across the Cook Strait online.
As soon as the IRC went live, work started on a series of incremental improvements to add functionality. During this period, some key business changes occurred, including a new pricing structure for Internet bookings and a corporate re-branding from The Interisland Line to Interislander.
During 2003 and 2004, the IRC was modified and expanded to include the new pricing structure, day packages, the ability to change existing bookings, the new branding and new website design, and the addition of functions that allowed the Call Centre to use the IRC as well as Internet customers and agencies.
The improvements were achieved in small projects focused on one particular area of functionality, resulting in six separate upgrades to the IRC system over a two-year period.
The IRC proved extremely popular with the direct customer market and the volume of bookings going through the system far exceeded what Interislander had anticipated. Its success provided the motivation to scale the system up so that it became the sole reservation system. In 2005 Sandfield began work on a new system, named Orca. This system was to fully replace the IRC and RES2000, the legacy system, with additional functionality for Interislander staff. It would contain all booking data in one single database that would replace the synchronisation process used between RES2000 and the IRC. The new system also needed to take over the functions previously supplied to the IRC by RES2000, such as maintaining sailings and the inventory available for sale, and the pricing for all possible types of booking in the system.
This project was a major undertaking, made easier by the knowledge of the business that Sandfield had acquired during the delivery and on-going enhancement of the IRC. Orca was built using more up-to-date and scaleable Microsoft technologies than those that were available at the time of the IRC development. Orca went live in November 2006, almost four years to the day after the IRC first went live. The RES2000/IRC combination went into retirement. The way had been paved and now it was the turn of a more capable system to carry the business forward. With the entire booking system contained on a single platform, the process of on-going evolution could now continue without the restrictions imposed by the legacy system.
With Orca bedded in, a constant stream of additional development took place to keep Interislander out in front in the ferry travel market. The company's digital strategy evolved over this time and a new website was designed and developed for the 'direct' consumer market in 2008. Orca was retained for all other users (agencies, the Call Centre, and Interislander users, including terminal staff). This meant that there was a booking website specifically targeted at the one segment of the user base that was growing and that the user experience could be tailored to these users.
Once the new website was commissioned, it too began its evolutionary journey as new products were introduced along with new payment options and improvements to the booking experience. Customer accounts were introduced to make things easier for repeat customers as well as giving Interislander a better view of their customer demographics.
In 2012, a mobile website was launched to cater for an increasing number of smartphone sessions on the website. This was a small website, built quickly to be first to market in New Zealand with a mobile offering for ferry travel, helping Interislander stay out in front of the competition. The mobile website, like the first version of the IRC, was a "quick win" with initially limited booking creation functionality.
The next logical step for the Orca system was to open it up to some of the bigger agencies so that they could make Interislander bookings from their own booking systems. To achieve this, Sandfield built web services so the ferry booking could be integrated directly into the agency's booking system (either back-office or via their own booking website). This provides benefits to both Interislander and their agencies as it reduces separate ferry booking work for the agencies, integrates ferry bookings into their own direct customer booking websites, and reduces agency support for bookings at the Interislander end.
In recent years, smartphone uptake has increased considerably as the technology has evolved and the cost of ownership has reduced. The number of users visiting websites on mobile devices and tablets has increased to the extent that over 50% of traffic to a website may be via a tablet or smartphone. Interislander's mobile website offered limited functionality so the time had come to improve the features available to the mobile user.
Rather than extend the mobile website, Sandfield converted the current direct website from the fixed-width design to a responsive design that would work on all devices. This approach meant that all functionality, both now and in the future, would be available to users regardless of the device they used to access the site. The responsive website went live in October 2014.
Further enhancements were rolled out at the same time, including an improved service for Interislander's loyalty scheme. With the introduction of a new payment option, Interislander's most valued customers could redeem their loyalty points online.
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Remember those scenes in the Matrix where Morpheus would take skills like Jujitsu and piloting helicopters, which would usually take decades to master, and install them in Neo's mind in a matter of seconds?
Well if someone were to tell you that you could do the same with the skills necessary to become a successful ladies man, I wouldn't blame you for being skeptical.
But what if I told you that this Matrix like technology has actually existed for thousands of years?
I am, of course, talking about the supposedly mystical art of hypnotism. There is evidence that shows that humans have been using hypnotism to cure themselves of various physical and mental ailments for thousands of years.
In fact, the Greek physician Asklepios is said to have used it to cure everything from headaches to sleeping disorders. And now the seduction guru Tony Laroche claims to have a cure based on hypnosis for all the men suffering from a dating life that is well below par.
His program is called Radical Inner Game and is a five part audio series that uses hypnosis to "install" the qualities needed to become successful with women. But before we review the actual product, I think it's important that we address a couple of important issues that you should be aware of before even thinking about trying out a program like this.
How hypnosis works
Science has come a long way in unlocking the mysteries of hypnosis, yet, to the general populous it still remains a somewhat mystical practice. Hypnosis is simple a combination of deep relaxation and suggestion. When a person is in a normal state, he or she is controlled by his conscious mind. Everything he sees or hears is first filtered and analyzed through the conscious mind before being accepted or rejected.
What a hypnotist does is he puts you in a state of deep relaxation so that he can directly access your subconscious mind. And ideas introduced to the subconscious mind in a state of hypnosis are readily accepted. And the subconscious mind then proceeds to ensure that your thoughts and actions reflect this newly internalized idea.
The creators of the program
If hypnosis is such a powerful tool and it deals directly with the subconscious mind, you would be a fool to let just anyone dabble around with it. There are literally thousands of pickup gurus out there today teaching all kinds of systems and methods, but the sad fact is that some of them aren't really good human beings. That seems like a shitty thing to say, but it's true.
You just need to take a look at the seminars of some of these pickup gurus to understand that they don't really love women and that they're just out there to make a quick buck from spreading their misogynistic view points. We really don't think anyone should be a part of that, no matter the surface results.
Tony Laroche, the brains behind program, is someone who's been through the mill himself. He talks on his website about how he read everything he could about building his self-esteem and inner game and how he tried learning with loads of pickup gurus to no avail. Tony claims that he managed to bring about a radical change in his game after meeting Dr. Jay Polmar, who he eventually enlisted to help create his program Radical Inner Game with.
Tony is a guy that understands first-hand how much more important the thought processes and beliefs that go on inside your head are than the actual words and routines you use when picking up women. And he's smart enough to have taken all the outward skills and tactics and boiled them down to their core beliefs to create this program.
And this isn't just him dabbling with hypnosis. Tony's created this program with the help of Dr. Jay who's a qualified clinical hypnotist and who has also taught the subject at a university level.
Now that that's out of the way, we can proceed with the actually review!
The program is broken down into five audio tracks, each designed to help instill in you certain beliefs and thought processes necessary to bring about a drastic change in your dating and love life.
CD 1 – Fierce Masculinity Immersion
This seventeen minute session deals with something that a lot of pickup gurus don't talk about – reconnecting with your core essence as a man. It's designed to help you realize that you have the confidence, charisma and charm necessary to attract any woman that you desire. And that seduction is merely a process of uncovering these qualities in you. It instills a belief that women too want to be seduced by a man who's in touch with his masculine essence and helps alleviate anxiety issues related to pursing the game of seduction.
CD 2 – Approach Anxiety Destroyer
Approach anxiety is something that deters most newcomers into the world of seduction before they even approach a single woman. This twenty five minute session deals with completely destroying the fear and anxiety associated with approaching women. It also helps deal with any past experiences that stand in between you and your success with women and helps you associate positive emotions and feelings with the act of approaching women.
CD 3 – Approach and Seduction Simulator
One of the main reasons for the anxiety that men suffer from when thinking about approaching women is the fear of the unknown. They are afraid of how a woman might react. They are afraid of not knowing if she'll kindly turn them down or downright chew them out. This forty minute session is designed to help you mentally rehearse the process of approaching women minus the usual fear and anxiety. So that when you finally do go out and approach women in real life, you'll feel like you've been doing it for ages.
CD 4 – Be Cocky and Arrogant with Women
One of the most powerful qualities in any ladies man is his ability to pull the women around him into his own reality. This forty minute session is designed to install in your mind the essence of 'coolness' that men who are successful with women possess. It will guide you towards becoming the type of man who isn't afraid to speak his mind with women and who is able to have a naturally seductive aura around him.
CD 5 – Skills of a Sex God
This thirty minute session is designed to instill you with the skills and of a man who is a great lover. The session helps you first understand on a much deeper level about how much women desire sex and how a woman's mind and body works. It delves into how to be the man that is able to navigate his way around a woman's essence as a sexual being. It isn't about just having the sex skills of a porn star, but about being a more sensual and caring lover that will make women go wild.
What we love about Radical Inner Game is the fact that it takes the very essence and beliefs of what it takes to become a successful seducer, minus the fluff and routines, and presents them in a package that's designed to help you fully internalize them.
And what's great about the program is that each audio session starts off with a calming ritual intended to put you into a serene and focused hypnotic state, so that you can either listen to all the sessions at a stretch or you can listen to them one by one.
We personally recommend that you listen to each session separately, and do so the first time while fully awake. We say so because it's easy to drift away during a hypnosis session; which isn't necessarily a bad thing because your subconscious mind will be listening in anyway; but by staying awake the first time you listen to them you'll be able to have at least a rough idea of the content that's been installed in your subconscious mind.
Thereafter you can listen to the sessions leisurely either every morning before you wake up, every night before going to sleep or during the afternoon.
It's important to remember that although this type of program is in many ways is a short cut, it doesn't mean that you'll become an irresistible ladies man overnight. But you should start feeling a difference in your thought patterns and behaviors and a change in how people react and respond to you after 4 or 5 sessions. You should ideally aim to listen to the program at least three times a week for three months to experience solid, long lasting change.
The complete program is priced at 197$ and you can check it out, along with bonus material and articles by Tony at:


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Today we pause our relentless schedule of ruthless self-promotion to tell you of an opportunity you'll not want to pass up.
Timothy Hallinan is a 2011 Edgar and Macavity Award nominee for his fourth Poke Rafferty book, The Queen of Patpong. (A Nail Through the Heart, The Fourth Watcher, and Breathing Water are the others.) He's also the author of the Junior Bender series of e-books (Crashed and Little Elvises), which are about as much fun as you're likely to have while reading. (Unless you can get Scarlett Johannsen to read to you. Then the phone book might be a lot of fun.)
Turns out Tim did not spring fully formed from the head of Zeus with A Nail Through the Heart. That's just when I learned of him. He had previously written a six-book series featuring LA PI Simeon Grist, all of which were well-received.
This weekend only, the sixth Grist novel—The Bone Polisher—is available free for Kindle. Here's the Amazon blurb to pique your interest:
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The man can write. Aside from memorable characters and entertaining dialog, he has a knack for coming up with endings that are not only satisfying, but not quite what you expected while seeming inevitable. I've not read The Bone Polisher, but I have read Everything But the Squeal, which was a kick-ass book calculated to make me want to read more. I'd jump all over this freebie, except I already have The Bone Polisher on my Kindle.
Warning: Hallinan is like a drug dealer. He's giving you this one for free. You're going to want more.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
The Bone Polisher
1 comment:
- Timothy Hallinan said...
Thank you so much, Dana. This is generous in the extreme.
Cross your fingers for me. It would be really nice to sell some ebooks.
- March 10, 2012 at 8:37 AM
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The Lean Times proudly presents a guest post by Milo.
Hello, my name is Milo and I live with Miss Viviana, her beloved and my mate, Vegas. Vegas is another cat but is a bit old so not up with this blogging technology which is why I am writing the guest post.
Our flat turned into the lean flat a long time ago when I was just a kitten. Miss Viviana has tried lots of things on us cats to get us to be more frugal. Some of her ideas were horrible, like making us eat Go Cat. Vegas hated it so much that he used to pick the green ones out and leave them next to the food bowl.
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Cat food – we eat dried food mostly so Miss V mixes the cat food from Lidl ( yes we like it ) with more expensive food she buys in the pet store. She says it makes the fancier food last longer. Sometimes we do get a bit of chicken or what ever the humans are eating or some homemade stock.
Cat litter – the very cheap stuff is very dusty so we come out white when we use the litter box which is especially bad for Vegas because he is black. Have a look a the photo below where he is trying to play beloved's guitar. He is not good at guitar but he tries.
Oh back to the litter, we get the second cheapest, the Natural Clumping Clay litter, it is less dusty, then we put some scredded newspaper in to make it last a bit longer. The litter still needs to be cleaned every other day but with the newpaper we used less litter. Miss V says any savings is good savings.
Pet Insurance – we don't have insurance, it was decided long ago that if we get sick we will pay the vet's bill. Since we are inside kitties there is no chance of us getting hit by a car or attacked by a big dog. We do like to sit on the balcony and sometimes we take late night walks in the hallway.
That is pretty much our Lean kitty life. Oh no, I forgot about the toys – we do have some toys they come from eBay which is cheaper than the pet shop. I like little furry mouses but Vegas is boring and just likes bits of string.
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Unlock every achievement through an MCM menu or by reading a book. Customize what achievements you unlock, or update the achievements you obtained while playing in offline mode. Legendary Edition includes all DLC.
- Permissions and credits
This mod allows you to unlock Steam achievements. Use the MCM menu to tick on the achievements you want to earn, then click achieve! Achievements are sorted by DLC and provide a description when you hover over them.
Ps. Be sure to check out my other mods by clicking here and clicking on the files tab. :D
If you're using MCM, everything you need you can find in the MCM menu. You no longer need the book. However, if you're not using SkyUI, follow the instructions below the picture to make the mod work.
1) Merge the Data folder with your Skyrim Data folder.
2) Make "Ak-Achievements Unlocked" an active mod.
3) Read " The Book of the Dragonborn's Achievements" in the Arcanaeum of Winterhold College.
4) Profit.
1) Merge the Data folder with your Skyrim Data folder.
2) Make "Ak-Achievements Unlocked" an active mod.
3) Edit the DatascriptsSource AKAChievementScript.psc file. (This is the source script).
4) Compile the script.
5) Read " The Book of the Dragonborn's Achievements" in the Arcanaeum of Winterhold College.
6) Profit.
You can edit the source with pretty much any word editor, though I generally use Notepad ++ or the Creation Kit (See compiling info). You'll see a list of achievement names followed by game code. Let's look at the first one as our example:
";Unbound" is the achievement title. "Game.addachievement(X)" tells the game to unlock that Steam achievement, with X being replaced by the number of the achievement. (Each achievement has its own number, from 1 to 50).
The game ignores anything behind a ";".
So to turn off the unbound achievement, just put a ";" in front of the game code. So the script, revised to not unlock the unbound achievement, would look like this:
To create a custom script tailored to unlock only the achievements you want it to, go through the script adding semicolons in front of the achievements you don't want to unlock.
If you're not sure whether you've earned an achievement, check the USEP Achievements page against your in game stats. If you aren't sure about an achievement, I'd error on the side of caution, as once you've unlocked an achievement, you can't re-lock it.
To my knowledge you can do this two ways:
1) You can do this with Notepad ++
2) Load the esp in the Creation Kit and find "AKAchievementCheatBook" under Items>Book. Double click the book to bring up the base form. Right click "AKAchievementScript" and click "Edit Source." With the source code open in the Creation Kit, Press "Ctrl + S" or click File>Save to compile and save your modified script.
Uninstall DataAk-Achievements Unlocked
And DatascriptsAKAChievementScript.pex
And DatascriptsSource AKAChievementScript.psc
I used this mod to update my achievements. I play the majority of the time with Steam in offline mode, and so my level 93 character (who has every skill at level 100 or above and has finished every major quest etc) had, according to steam, barely completed Unbound. I compared my in-game stats to the USEP Achievements page and customized the mod to update my achievements. Now my Steam account accurately reflects the achievements I've accomplished! To do the same for your character check out the install instructions!
Version 1: Unlock all Vanilla Achievements
Version 2.0BETA: Unlock all Vanilla Achievements and unlock all Dawnguard Achievements. BETA – Not all achievements confirmed to properly unlock – I believe I'm right, but I may have numbers confused. Please confirm if it works for you.
-Version2.0BETA also includes the achievements for Hearthfire, but are commented out. I don't know what will happen if you try to unlock them, considering they don't even exist on Steam yet, to my knowledge. So I wouldn't if I were you.
Version 3: Legendary! I needed to update this mod to include the new DLC, and thought it'd make the perfect chance to learn MCM menus. Enjoy!
Make sure you turn the esp on, and if you're doing a custom script, make sure you compile! If you have a question, post in the comments and I'll see if I can help you figure it out. :D
I am currently not posting any mods on Steam Workshop. If you see one of my mods on Steam Workshop, please report the file to me.
Thanks! :D


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I work with LED lighting everyday and am still continually amazed at the sheer amount of lumens LEDs can emit. Take for example our new LED Motion Sensor Strip Light, with just a 20″ section and a 8AA battery-pack, this motion activated light boasts as much light as a 40-Watt incandescent bulb; plus it can run over 30+ hours before needing to be recharged. Since it's wireless, super-bright, battery-powered, custom, inexpensive and activated by motion there are literally tons of lighting applications to consider. But first, lets look at the main components that make-up this module and then look closer at all its benefits, features and applications.
Part 1: LED Motion Sensor Light
Using a Passive Infrared Sensor (PIR) this LED strip module only runs when it senses movement. This makes it convenient when lighting areas like a closet, where you only need light for a short period of time, but don't really want to flip-a-switch or keep track of a remote control. How it works is the sensor detects a difference in IR light radiating within its field of view (5-8 meters) and sends a signal to turn on the light. The light will stay lit as long as there is motion, however after 10-seconds of no motion the light will turn off. The module itself is compact, light, has terminal connections for wire leads and has mounting holes in each corner for easily installation; it also can be mounted using double-stick tape.
Part 2: Power from 8AA Battery-Pack
When the motion sensor is activated it draws power from 8AA batteries inside a plastic case battery-pack that has 2-wire leads and an on/off switch; the on/off switch needs to be set on for the module to work. The 8AA battery-pack produces 12V and is able to run for years without changing or recharging the batteries as the motion switch shuts off the light after 10-seconds, helping to preserve battery life. However, if you expect the light to be on often, as mentioned earlier the standard 20" strip can still run continuously for 30+ hours. Being powered from batteries also makes the unit wireless and mobile, allowing it to be used in areas where access to power is difficult. If you need to mount the battery-pack we include double-sided tape on it for that purpose.
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The LED strip used in these kits run directly from 12V, are flexible, waterproof and include double-sided adhesive tape for easy mounting. The LEDs are a 5050 SMD type and sealed in a clear silicone to protect them. The strips are low-profile, easy-to-install, rugged, bright, versatile and can even be cut-to-length. They are offered in two different light outputs as well; we call them standard and high-density. Standard-density LED strips have 30 LEDs per meter and high-density have 60 LEDs/M. As mentioned earlier the LED light strips also cuttable; the standard-density strip can be cut every 4-inches and the high-density strip can be cut every 2-inches.
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Super-Bright: The most popular selling variation of this kit uses a 20" long standard density LED strip, which produces an amazing amount of light, listed at 225 lumens. This amount of light makes it perfect for smaller areas and or accent lighting. If you want more light, the high-density 20" section produces around 450 lumens. To figure lumens for longer lengths: the standard-density strip is about 540 lumens/meter and the high-density is approximately 1080 lumens/meter.
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Stuffed Cabbage is old world comfort food. My grandmother used to make this when I was a kid. It's hearty on a cold evening and feeds the soul along with the body.
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In a previous blog post, I began to extol the virtues of the Craftsy platform. I first found it while searching for a bread workshop with Peter Reinhardt. Well, after having such a positive experience with Peter's class, I decided to take another one. This time I tried Nancie McDermott's Everyday Thai Cooking.
One of her lessons included instructions on how to make Beef Sliders with a Thai sweet and spicy sauce. Her burgers looked lovely, but her buns were store bought. So I decided to make my own.
For the buns, I used Peter Reinhardt's Sandwich Bread recipe and shaped the dough into slider-sized rolls. I then brushed them with an egg wash and topped them with sesame seeds.
For the sliders, I decided to change things up a bit and use lamb instead of beef. I don't want to post Nancie's recipe without permission, so please take her class to gain access to it. The burgers, the cilantro pesto (mixed into the burgers) and the absolutely amazing Thai sweet and spicy sauce are all included in the class materials.
It's definitely worth it. These sliders were off the charts!
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It's time to give thanks — for hats, heavy coats and central heating.
Millions of Americans in the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states will wake up to the coldest Thanksgiving in more than a century, with high winds even threatening the iconic Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, meteorologists said Wednesday.
The mercury in Philadelphia is expected to dip to a bone-chilling 29-degree high on Thursday, with similar shivering temperatures set for New York and Boston at 26 and 21 degrees, respectively, according to NBC meteorologist Kathryn Prociv.
The lowest high temperature for a Thanksgiving in New York City came on Nov. 30, 1871, when the mercury fell to 22 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The coldest Turkey Day in Boston was 19 degrees, in 1873. Philadelphia's coldest Thanksgiving was 28 degrees, in 1901.
New York City is also bracing for winds of 15 mph to 25 mph on Thursday, which had Macy's parade organizers on high alert Wednesday. The parade will go on, but whether the 16 giant balloons will fly is another question.
Any sustained winds of 23 mph or gusts of 34 mph would ground the massive inflatable stars, organizers said. They'll decide Thursday morning whether the balloons will be in action.
"We saw it was going to be very cold and went and got long johns and everything before we came," Sarah Polson, who's visiting from South Carolina with her family for the parade, told NBC New York. "I hope we're ready."
Polson's husband, Jonathan, referring to their infant son, added: "And we're hoping for his sake that Spider-Man can fly, because that's his favorite balloon."
There are real safety issues. In 1997, 43-mph winds blew a 6-foot-tall Cat in the Hat balloon straight into a lamppost, severing a metal arm that struck two people in the head — one of whom was left in a coma for 23 days.
The last time high winds grounded the balloons was in 1971. The parade, which is televised by NBC, starts at 9 a.m. ET.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said he's worried that his residents will look at the calendar and not understand just how cold it'll be on Thursday.
"I'm a little concerned about it, because I don't think people realize. ... It's Thanksgiving, so everyone knows it's going to be cold, but no one realizes it's going to be that cold," Walsh told reporters on Wednesday.
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Walsh was particularly worried about people going to high school football games — a Thanksgiving tradition throughout much of New England — without being properly dressed.
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