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I FIRST MET Dr Ciarán O'Keeffe in Liverpool about 12 years ago and, although our meeting was purely professional, we did become friends even though we came from opposite sides of the paranormal.
Ciarán is a sceptic and I am a believer, so to speak, but our mutual interests led us to write a book together: The Great Paranormal Clash. This was turned into a stage show and later a television production on the Paranormal Channel.
I also spent a short time alongside Ciarán on the long-running and popular TV programme Most Haunted. More recently, we have written a revised version of our book, retitled Science and Séance.
Although we disagreed about a lot of things connected to the paranormal, Ciarán and I, surprisingly, agreed about many significant points and particularly about mediums.
Recently we have been working together in London on promotional activities for Syfy Channel in connection with the new American TV series The Exorcist, currently being broadcast on Fox.
And so, to find out more about the way Dr O'Keeffe thinks and perceives the whole genre of the paranormal, I seized the opportunity, during a break in our filming, to question him about his beliefs and share them with Psychic News readers.
First of all, please tell us about your academic role and your background.
I am Head of Psychology at Bucks New University in Buckinghamshire. In addition to having departmental manager responsibilities, I am programme leader for the BSc. (Hons) Criminological Psychology and BSc. (Hons) Psychology and Criminology courses. This hints at the many "hats" I wear: parapsychologist; investigative (forensic) psychologist; music psychologist; writer; ghostbuster!
The "hats" also illustrate what is at the heart of my background: science and academia. In terms of my background, I've primarily taken an academic journey, starting with an undergraduate liberal arts degree in the USA, double majoring in Music and Psychology, to an MSc in Investigative Psychology, where my independent research encompassed the geo-spatial behaviour of serial killers, psychological profiling, mental maps of cyber criminals and the psychology of fraud.
My Master's thesis examined the use of psychic detectives and that led me to a PhD at the University of Hertfordshire, focused on the content of advice given by practitioners claiming a paranormal ability (everything from astrology, psychometry and psychic handwriting analysis to various forms of mediumship).
Peppered along the academic journey were "forays" into other areas: English teacher in Madrid; nursing care assistant (in various hospitals in the South East); research assistant at the National Centre for Tactile Diagrams; media parapsychologist and sceptic; and volunteer worker at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund (London).
For those Psychic News readers unfamiliar with the term, please explain exactly what parapsychology is.
Parapsychology is the scientific study of the paranormal which covers many topics including ESP (telepathy, precognition and clairvoyance), PK (psychokinesis) and Survival (otherwise known as after-death communication: haunting experiences, mediumship, etc.). My area of expertise is in the latter (Survival research) with which I've been involved for over 25 years.
What led to your interest in the paranormal?
I've been fascinated by ghost stories since a very young age. I was a voracious reader as a boy – books by Clive Barker, James Herbert, M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft – and it fuelled an interest in ghostly experiences. Around the same time, Arthur C. Clarke had his TV show, Mysterious World, and I was hooked.
In 1984, when the movie Ghostbusters came out, I knew that's what I wanted to do. A degree in psychology in the US and research at the Institute of Parapsychology [founded by Dr J.B. Rhine, a pioneer in the field] started a long path of study, qualifications and experience to finally gain a PhD in a parapsychology topic and live my dream of becoming Dr Venkman [the role played by Bill Murray in Ghostbusters].
As long as I have known you, you have always appeared to have a non-paranormal explanation for everything. What would it take to make Dr Ciarán O'Keeffe say: "Wow! Now I do believe"?
That's a tough question because the paranormal is such a vast area. It covers everything from cryptozoological creatures such as the Loch Ness monster and the yeti, through to claims of telepathy and mediumship and finally to extra-terrestrial phenomena, such as UFOs and alien abductions.
For each phenomenon it would take different types of evidence to convince me. As a scientist, however, it is not about belief; it is about remaining objective and unbiased and not letting belief get in the way of good scientific judgment.
If we're talking about direct personal experience of ghosts, which is my main area of study, there are several cases which, if we take the accounts on face value, are incredibly convincing. As for direct experience, in the past I used to say if a ghost came up to me and shouted "Boo!" I might believe.
Now, as a result of an astute colleague's point that I would be equally vulnerable to possible visual hallucination and issues around eyewitness testimony, I say I would need a ghost to come up to me and shout "Boo!" and for that encounter to be filmed and witnessed by a second person.
In your opinion, are there any genuine mediums?
Define "genuine". If you mean genuine as in actually communicate with spirit then I need to explain my view on proof. As a scientist, I'm naturally sceptical – which ultimately means I question but I let the evidence speak.
The majority of good evidence for mediumship comes from personal testimonies. This is not "proof". It is often highly evidential for those receiving the messages but it does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Achieving the level of evidence required to change my opinion would require laboratory-based studies under controlled conditions. There have been a number of these conducted over the past decade or so (and earlier) but some are seriously flawed (and I've said as much in various published critical reviews).
Any that do present a strong case for accurate mediumship are, in my opinion, offering evidence of paranormal communication. If a medium is accurate under controlled conditions then there has to be some way of assessing that accuracy. If that's the case, then it means someone, somewhere knows that information. So, who is to say the information has not been received through some other paranormal ability other than mediumship (e.g. telepathically from the client)?
Of course, proof of paranormal communication is amazing and I think some of the research at the Windbridge Institute in Tucson, Arizona, for example [PN November 2015], is heading in the right direction, but it is not proof of mediumship.
If by "genuine" mediums you mean ones who are in it for genuine reasons rather than being deliberately fraudulent, then I'm always reminded of a quotation from the movie Red Lights where Margaret Matheson (the sceptical paranormal investigator) says: "You know, there are two kinds of people out there with a special gift – the ones who really think they have some kind of power, and the other guys who think we can't figure them out. They're both wrong."
Now, I don't fully agree with its arrogance, as it would be impossible to test every single medium, but I do love that statement.
In fact, the majority of the mediums I meet and have worked with do really think they have some kind of power and are "genuinely" in it to learn, help and provide messages. It is the minority who are being deliberately fraudulent.
If by "genuine" mediums you mean ones who I think are genuinely communicating with spirit, the answer has to be "No, I have yet to meet one".
Of all the paranormal situations you have investigated, which has been the most interesting and why?
That's an incredibly difficult question to answer as all of my investigations have been interesting. I am genuinely fascinated by this area of study and no two investigations are the same. There are some key locations, however, that stick in my mind for their infamy or intriguing phenomena: Hampton Court Palace; Hex Nightclub (Birkenhead); a World War Two underground bunker (Channel Islands); Oxford Castle; Hever Castle (Kent); West Virginia State Penitentiary (Moundsville, WV); Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia); SS Great Britain (Bristol); Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Louisville, KY); Bokor Hill Station (Cambodia)…the list could go on. I guess you'll have to wait for my autobiography to read all about these cases and more!
Have you ever experienced paranormal phenomena you could not explain?
Over the thousands of investigations of haunting experiences, I estimate I have had over 50 that others may interpret as being paranormal, but with my knowledge and understanding of possible environmental and psychological causes, I know they have natural explanations.
There are only a handful of incidents that I class as "head-scratching moments". One of them was an investigation of a nightclub in the north west of England. Aside from a number of phenomena recorded, the most significant evidence came from footage captured by a thermal imaging camera.
These essentially allow you the luxury of actually seeing what a thermometer picks up, recording temperature fluctuations in the form of colours. With most of these units, you look through them in much the same way as you look through a video recorder to view the image. Using infrared technology, you can actually see the shape and size of cold spots.
During a séance conducted by the staff at the nightclub (a replication of the original trigger for the paranormal activity), a colleague and I noticed on our thermal imaging camera that every time one of the circle "called out" it affected the temperature readings.
Inexplicably, it seemed as if the temperature was reacting to their voice. At certain times during the séance the group was also surrounded by a mass of green shapes on the imager – green indicating a drop in temperature.
We checked and double-checked the room and weather recordings outside, and there were no obvious signs of draughts to account for the sudden drops in temperature.
It looked like a scene from the movie The Fog – as the séance participants were reporting a drop in temperature and apparently getting communication, a green fog on the thermal imager really did seem to close in around them.
Why is there so much interest today in the paranormal? Also, from a psychologist's perspective, can involvement in the paranormal be psychologically detrimental to some people?
There has always been an interest in the paranormal. Certainly we have seen a recent peak of interest due in no small part to a prevalence of "paranormal reality shows" on television, an increase in the horror and ghost movie genre and the proliferation of social media, especially YouTube, in the last decade.
As for your point about involvement in the paranormal being psychologically detrimental to some people – there's no evidence that this is the case. In fact, involvement in ghost hunting has provided a much-needed pursuit for those in search of answers and, as such, has had a positive influence for many.
With your question I think you are implicitly asking about the testimonies associated with things like ouija boards and the "dark arts". Certainly there are anecdotal accounts of people being affected negatively after dabbling with such oracles but this, in my opinion, is down to psychology, belief and possibly a pre-existing addictive personality.
However, I am frequently asked whether I would recommend using a ouija board. I know their success is solely down to psychology and something perfectly natural called "ideomotor reflex" (a proven phenomenon first investigated by William Carpenter back in 1852 and again in 1853 by Faraday).
So, one would expect I don't have a problem with anyone using ouija boards. Wrong. If you have a strong belief in their power and the source of the messages, and especially if you believe they could attract negative entities, then there is the very real possibility that you could be affected detrimentally.
For that reason alone, even though it would be purely psychological, if you have that belief I would advise against their use.
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The White House is missing as many as 225 days of e-mails dating back to 2003 -- a period that includes heightening violence in Iraq, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the Valerie Plame criminal probe.
A nine-page outline of the e-mail woes was obtained by the Associated Press and asks companies to bid on a project to recover the messages. The work would likely occur after the Bush administration left office, according to the request for proposals.
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Title: Eliza and Her Monsters
Author: Francesca Zappia
Author: Francesca Zappia
Publication Date: May 30th, 2017
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Genre: YA
Pages: 385
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Her story is a phenomenon. Her life is a disaster.
In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she's LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can't imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try.
Then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea's biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile.
But when Eliza's secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she's built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.
In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she's LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can't imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try.
Then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea's biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile.
But when Eliza's secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she's built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.
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The only reason I'm giving this a 3-star rating is because there are as many cons as there are pros.
First thing you should know is… I was hyped coming into this book.
Like, full blown HYPED.
I mean c'mon. A massive online presence, fandoms webcomics and fanfiction, AND anxiety/depression finally being portrayed in a sort-of-true way (at least closer than how many other books get it)?!? All in one book?!?
I mean yes, they were all in here and were a major part of the storyline and main character, but no as in I did not agree with HOW they were implemented into the book and… most else. I have NOTHING against this author or the story-line and writing in general, just didn't love the book.
For starters, the family dynamic was completely wrecked. See now, this book follows Eliza Mirk as she navigates her supposed "horrible" reality while juggling online life as the creator of the world-famous webcomic 'Monstrous Sea'. Throughout the book I found myself getting FURIOUS (and I admit, a little uncomfortable) each time Eliza pushed her family away.
I get it, okay? You want to be happy and left alone to live life on your terms but wowowow do you HAVE to be so rude to your parents and brothers?? Her parents were seriously just trying to have a good relationship with their hard-to-reach teenage daughter!! Who spends more time on her phone and computer than with her own family!! Her brothers clearly just wanted to connect and help their sister!! Instead of being seen as annoying, uncaring little kids!!
I couldn't help thinking that the author wanted to get some pent-up feelings of her own out and decided to throw it in a YA, for good measure.
I understand how a lot of families are really this way. Parents disagreeing with the amount of time their children spend on electronic devices/internet and the children (most times) getting mad over said parents not being able to understand how they just connect better with people who get it and like the same things they like on the internet. It's a real situation and it gets out of hand. Just don't end the book with the characters staying this way if you want good feedback from readers.
At least Eliza found help, sorted out her anxiety issue a bit, and TRIED to connect better at the end but she still saw her parents as the bad guys when they really weren't. The one pushing away and causing problems was herself.
Back to Eliza's parents though…
They would have understood why 'Monstrous Sea' meant so much to her if they'd asked before buuuuut Eliza could have also stepped up and said something – anything – instead of sulking and hating them more. It's difficult to overcome but we need a character who looks difficult in the eyes and conquers his/her fears.
Gosh I really didn't like Eliza for this.
She was selfish in a way anxiety and depression makes you selfish (and that's okay for the beginning of a book as long as she eventually gets help and learns to deal better, right? Which does happen, by the way so that's good) yet her bitterness added unnecessary fuel to the flame.
Another thing, the characters were astronomically boring. I especially disliked how her younger brothers – Church and Sully – were portrayed. The author tried to add dimension to their traits by including what makes them unique (like being good at singing and math, for example) but it only added to the list of what they enjoy, not who they are as people. Singing and math don't shape you as a person!!
And don't even get me started on Wallace. Number one fanfiction writer of her comic, this meaty football-playing looking guy who can't talk in public - and resembles a puppy when he's alone - so he resorts to writing out notes to Eliza at school. He becomes a totally selfish boyfriend (real traits!!) at the end of the book. When we first meet him he is seen as a mute fanboy, then turns into a relatable writer with a confusing past, then somebody I just wouldn't get along with, ever. Not to mention the fact that she sometimes uses him as a crutch and he suspects during the end (when he gets mad, I got mad but then I agreed because I would probably be mad as well) but does nothing else about it.
All problems in this book are blamed on Eliza's so-called Monsters.
That's not true though, the real problem is Eliza.
Honestly I disliked Eliza more and more as each chapter went on. I know it makes me sound shallow and an unemotional person but at this point, I'm not even ashamed to admit it.
I sympathized with her struggle to stay hidden and her love for her creation but I did not sympathize after her parents (unknowingly and out of pure love for their daughter, though yes, they should have asked first) gave out her secret and she spiraled down into this abyss where she suddenly contemplates driving off the same cliff Wallace's father died from.
Nearly every single person (clearly not counting Wallace 'cause he was too busy being angry) she encountered in real life that was a fan of LadyConstellation and 'Monstrous Sea' would either allow her space or compliment her comic. There is nothing (!!!) wrong with people telling you they liked something you created. In fact, try saying thank you for a change. If it wasn't for them she wouldn't have enough money to pay herself through college in the first place.
Now enough of whatever I just ranted on… This book was relatable in ways many other books are not.
Eliza's therapy scenes were amazing. Her therapist gave great advice and never looked down on her client (something that doesn't occur most of the time in real life) while allowing her to look at life in another angle. I liked this, I really did. It made sense while her comments and help allowed Eliza to process something new and finally change for the better. These parts got me emotional and earned a FULL STAR.
The dynamic of the book and the drawings of the comic placed here and there was absolutely GENIUS. So yes, another FULL STAR.
Half of the last star was because I understood how she felt most of the time (besides the family dynamic I just ranted on a full novel – basically – about). Eliza was at ease with herself the most when she didn't have to think of herself physically and she was just LadyConstellation, full-blown creator and artist. She did what she loved and people loved it in return. What a better way to live, huh? Her depression was written spot-on. Everything from the sudden outbursts to the loneliness. If only she realized the world around her was not the one to blame. She was. I don't think she ever realized this though.
The other half of the last star was only 'cause I thought it was really cool of the author to include the fact that Eliza is a fangirl herself (SO COOL HOW THIS BOOK/COMIC SHE IS OBSESSED WITH ACTUALLY EXISTS – aka the author posts chapters on Wattpad) of the famous 'Children of Hypnos' series. Very emotional, very realistically portrayed.
What a lovely way to end a book.


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"How heavy the papal mantle weighs," wrote Dante in his Divine Comedy. The shepherding of some 1 billion Catholics is no simple business, so one cannot begrudge the frail Pope Benedict for stepping down. Given the rarity of such an event, the recent media frenzy is understandable. Much commentary has and will focused on Benedict's legacy and the next papal election. But given that traditionally only death separates a pope from office, the moment also calls for remembrance of those popes who finished their office under, well, grimmer circumstances.
The Apostle Peter, according to Catholics, was the first pope. Tradition claims he was crucified upside down in Rome because he felt unworthy to be crucified in the same manner as Christ. Peter was the first of fourteen popes who are known or believed to have been martyred between the first and seventh centuries, the last being Martin I in 655. In light of the expansion of Christianity during this time, the church father Tertullian's famous line that the "blood of martyrs is the seed of the church" is not beside the point.
Things get shady from the ninth to the eleventh century. At this time, the papal office became an object of contention among wealthy, feuding Roman families. No less than about a third of the popes from 872 and 1012 died under mysterious, often macabre circumstances. John VIII (872-82) was bludgeoned to death by members of his own entourage. Stephen VI (896-97) was strangled. Leo V (903) was deposed and likely murdered by order of his successor, Sergius (904-11). John X (914-28) died from suffocation. Because of popular distrust of Pope John XIV (983-84), the Antipope Boniface VII (974, 984-85) arrested him and placed him in the Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo, where he died either from poison or starvation, depending on one's sources. ("Antipope" is a term used by the Church to speak of papal claimants of questionable legitimacy.)Incidentally, the first German Pope Gregory V (996-99) died under suspicious circumstances, likely poisoning.
So not all popes have enjoyed longevity in office. Many pontificates have been much shorter than Benedict's eight years. In the history of the papacy, there have been numerous so-called "year of three popes," when one pope died within a year of holding office, occasioning another papal election. Sometimes, it has been a matter of days; John Paul I, for instance, died after only thirty-three days in office in 1978—a death that still stokes conspiracy theories. And one year, 1276, was actually a year of four popes: Gregory X, Innocent V, Adrian V, and John XXI, who died tragically in office in 1277 when his study collapsed on him.
Some of the longest reigning popes have met vexing ends. Pope Pius VI (1775-99) witnessed the desecrations of the French Revolution, including the burning of his effigy in Paris and the turning of Notre Dame briefly into the "Temple of Reason." When French forces captured Rome in 1798, he was kidnapped with the idea of hauling him back to Paris. In 1799, he died en route in Valence in a dilapidated hotel, purportedly praying for his enemies. When he had earlier pled to finish his days in Rome, the French general Berthier shot back: "One can die anywhere."
The longest reigning pope Pius IX (1846-78) died a distraught "prisoner of the Vatican" after nationalists unified Italy by confiscating the last remnant of the Papal States in 1870, ending about a millennium and half of papal temporal rule in Rome. During the funeral procession in 1878, Pius' corpse had to endure the ignominy of some hoodlums who almost succeeded in throwing the casket into the Tiber.
As has been pointed out many times now, the last pope to resign from office prior to Benedict was Gregory XII, who stepped down in 1415 to end a feud within the church over rival claimants to the papacy. Since then (and largely before then) the tie between a pope and his office has been one of "till death do us part."
Has Pope Benedict broken with tradition or allowed for a new one? Time will tell. But given the fate of some of his predecessors, the least one might do is hope that this aging pope might look forward to a retirement as restful as his death is peaceful.
*This post originally appeared as a Faith+Ideas Column at Gordon College. I am grateful to be able to re-post it here.


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The Koryan Chronicles // Book One
When Han invaders overtake his palace home, the last thing Prince Armstad of Aldiin wants to do is flee the battle to protect himself. Unfortunately, that is exactly what his father, King Amsor, has ordered him to do. In an escape that leaves him wounded and without protection, Armstad rushes into the desert that separates his country from the northern kingdom of Ambul. The Queen of Ambul promises to keep him safe, but her protection is unlike any Armstad expected. As the entire continent is pulled into war with the power-hungry Hans, all Armstad can think about is managing his new life with Queen Eri Sun…and staying alive.
The Queen's Twelfth Consort is appropriate for young adult and adult readers. It is approximately 79,000 words.
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You know it hurts. You know for sure that you need a girl friend, someone to love and to be loved. But, there you are...still single, still lonely. I know..
You still wonder, when, how long, what if
are you ever going to have a beautiful, single and romantic girlfriend to spend the rest of your life with?
Some days you may be feeling like, your dating luck has run out and you'll be forced to a life of bachelorhood for the rest of your life? How sad. Before you get desperate, well, you are not alone because a lot of men wonder if they will ever be able to get past their first date jitters and form a lasting relationship with the woman of their dreams. Im telling you, if you use the right strategy, you are going to be able to get yourself the most beautiful woman youve always dreamed of. Its been done, you can do it. No more need to be lonely. Enough of that!
Read on to "discover how to get a girfriend or your ex girlfriend back" despite all the trouble youve been going through of late! You will be so glad, full of fun and life once you start to see beautiful ladies noticing you by following the dating tips on this page. But first things first, grab something to drink, be comfortable and here we go
The best way to understand the DNA of romantic relationships so that you too would be able to date your ideal woman, really is to, understand the opposite sex. Although it may seem pointless, when you truly understand certain aspects of a woman's mind, your subconscious mind will think of dating in a more positive light, and as a result, your loving relationship will be more likely to happen.
Although there are so many factors to take into consideration because dating can be as simple as you want or as complex as you may choose to make it, for simplistic sake, let us look at three key concepts that you must understand in order to get hold of your dream girl.
1.) Overcoming first date anxiety
Its a common misconception that women are the only ones who experience anxiety on the first date. Many times women feel that men should be the ones who are calm and collected, but that just isn't the case. As a man, you get to experience more first date pressure than women because of the very simple reason that you are taking the lead in the date, the pressure falls on you because if the date doesn't go well, you will likely be second guessing yourself for weeks to come, asking yourself if you could have done something differently to make the date go better. If you are still searching for your dream girl friend, then the next time you are on a first date, keeps the following two aspects in mind.
Guess what? Your date and probably future girl friend is just as nervous as you are. The first date is the date that allows you to get to know one another and see if the date can develop into a relationship. If its obvious that both of you are a nervous wreck, consider mentioning the anxiety in an attempt to break the ice. Just make sure you dont point the finger at your date. Why? Because depending on her sense of humor she might take it the wrong way. Blame the nervousness on yourself or include both of you in the joke. This will likely show her that you are willing to open up and be honest, and women are attracted to that in a man.
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One of the most common side effects of anxiety on a first date is the dreaded lag in conversation. You know, you know...
You know that moment where you can't collect your thoughts, and you and your date awkwardly look up at the ceiling and compliment the architecture or down at your dinner plates and push your food around, or worse still it's one of those dreaded moments when you start to say something and then halfway change you mind about saying it, then you quickly say, never mind!
You date may interpret this as disinterest, but many times, that's not the case at all. Why lose your potential girlfriend because of unintended intentions? A great way to prevent this type of first date faux pas is to rehearse certain topics that you can use on your date. Brush up on your current events, find some other topics that you feel comfortable with and set yourself up for dating success.
2.) Avoid the following dating mistakes
We've all been hurt when it comes to love, if you have been in a relationship before then most likely you must have offended your girl friend or ex girlfriend for that matter, right? Its for that reason that it is up to you to decide to overcome the fear of being hurt again and move toward the future.
Let's say that, two years ago, you burned your hand on the stove. Would you stop cooking and possibly starve just because you might burn your hand again? No, you would take the proper precautions the next time, but you wouldn't let it prevent you from cooking. Well, like food, love is a necessity. This doesn't mean you have to put your heart on the line for every girlfriend you date, but if you never open yourself up to the possibility of love, then you can rest assured that love will stay far, far away from you.
Do you only date one type of woman? How's that working out for you? Chances are, since you're reading this article, you probably have not found "the one" yet. If you feel that your options of finding your ideal girl friend are running out, broaden your horizons and date women that you usually wouldn't date. It is important to remember that no one is perfect, so try to cut women some slack. Love comes in many different packages, so try to avoid limiting the idea of who you can love to just one type of woman.
When you are interested in someone, do you inundate her with texts and phone calls? If so, you may be pushing her further and further away. This is not to say that you should ignore her and never call and text her, but give her time to miss you. When you aren't smothering her with your presence, you are allowing the bond between the two of you to grow stronger. If you usually spend all of your time making the woman you are dating wish she'd never given you her number in the first place, consider backing off and trying something new and different. Its the only sure way to win her over and make her wish that shed become your one and only sweetheart girl friend.
3.) How to make your girl friend stay and fall for you
No matter what women say, they love men who are genuine and real. Instead of trying to adopt some sort of James Bond alter ego, just stay true to who you are. It is difficult to keep up a false facade, the moment your girl friend discovers the real you, she will be upset that you were not honest and upfront with her. No one is perfect, so if a woman is going to truly reject and criticize you for who you are, then you honestly don't need to be with her anyway.
In a world that is full of people who are rushing around trying to survive the rat race, women crave a man who will make her feel like a woman and tell her she is beautiful. You dont have to overdo the flattery, but do not treat her like one of the guys. If you treat a woman like a woman, even if she doesnt initially have feelings for you, the way you treat her will make her want to spend time with you. And since it takes time for love to develop, time is on your side
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This is the 1st production model. I have already made a few for people I know as a good alternative to a Mercury Vapour light for use in residential areas. The tubes can be easily interchanged with simply twist fittings. Pictured is a version using 1x 15 watt Actinic and 1x 15 watt BLB (Blacklight Blue)- a total energy use of just 30 watts, this is the version I have had most success with. As well as the tubes pictured above, I have also used this with Synergetic (Green Actinic) tubes. These are also compatible with this system as they are available in a 15 watt, 450mm version. They give out a slightly more visible light and seem to increase the catch.
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The internal measurements are-
470mm long
420mm wide
282mm deep
The whole unit including the 3mm perspex weighs just under 4kg so is easy to manoeuvre.
The body is made of light weight ply and reinforced with battens. The electrics are housed within the trap itself in a narrow compartment. (see plan view above). There are no internal rails, so no awkward places for moths to hide. Also, there are no 'blinds spots' as the whole tube is exposed allowing light to be emitted without any shadow. This allows easier access to the trap and enables you to observe the interior even in pitch darkness.
There is a short length of flex with a plug top which can be used straight into a socket or extension lead.
It is recommended that an RCD power breaker is used with any electrical appliance and the trap should not be allowed to get too wet as the fittings are not waterproof. This is a trap simply designed for domestic use and should not be used in rainy conditions. These traps can then be varnished or better still painted for increased durability.
See the mains powered collapsible 'Travel Edition' version of this trap HERE
See the battery powered 'Travel Edition' version of this trap HERE


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#NCBD 6/13/18: FCBD's 10 Comics for New Comic Book Day!
Jun 13, 2018
Every Wednesday is New Comic Book Day (#NCBD) in comic book shops, where new comics release hit the shelves of comic book shops for fans to pick up.
We've highlighted ten comics that are perfect recommendations for anyone looking to get into comics!
In this week's list for books coming out 6/13/18, there's definitely something for everyone: begin reading a whole new direction for Thor, Plastic Man is back for DC, Dib returns in Invader Zim, and more!
What will you be picking up at the comic shop? Let us know on Facebook or Twitter!
Thor #1
(W) Jason Aaron (A) Christian Ward (A/CA) Michael Del Mundo
Thor Odinson has regained his mantle - and with it, a wild new world of trouble on his mighty hands! The artifacts of Asgard have been scattered across the earth, and to reclaim them, Thor will have to face some ugly truths. Like the production cost of hundreds of new hammers! And the Thunder God is going to need every last one of them if he's going to stop the unstoppable Juggernaut. Jason Aaron takes the Prince of Asgard in a whole new direction with YOUNG GUN artist Mike Del Mundo joining him at the helm! And don't miss the latest chapter of the King Thor saga with acclaimed BLACK BOLT artist Christian Ward, as the Thor of the far future encounters an old friend who's undergone some startling changes.
Rated T+
In Shops: June 13, 2018
Marvel Rising Alpha #1
(W) Devin Grayson (A) Georges Duarte (CA) Gurihiru
This summer, SQUIRREL GIRL meets MS. MARVEL - for the very first time! When Doreen Green (also known as the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) volunteers as head counselor for an extracurricular computer programming class, little does she know that junior counselor Kamala Khan moonlights as crimefighting super hero Ms. Marvel! But this coding configuration is more than just ones and zeros when a mysterious new super villain shows her face! Will our heroes be able to save the day without blowing their secret identities? Join Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl (with some special guest appearances) as they learn what it truly takes to become the next generation of Marvel heroes!
Rated T+
In Shops: June 13, 2018
Plastic Man #1
(W) Gail Simone (A) Adriana Melo (CA) Aaron Lopresti
Meet Eel O'Brian: a petty thug, thief and con artist who runs a strip club. Hey, he's also dead, at least according to the gang that tossed him out like last week's garbage. Literally. Don't worry, though-he bounced back from all that, and now he's trying to make a new life for himself, but the effort is stretching him pretty thin. How can he get revenge on his old boss, keep a street kid out of trouble, make a dancer fall in love with him and stop a mysterious society from taking over the world? Eel has no idea!
In Shops: June 13, 2018
The Magic Order #1
(W) Mark Millar (A/CA) Olivier Coipel
We live in a world where we've never seen a monster, and The Magic Order is the reason we sleep safely in our beds. Magic meets the mob in THE MAGIC ORDER, as five families of magicians-sworn to protect our world for generations-must battle an enemy who's picking them off one by one. By day, they live among us as our neighbors, friends, and co-workers, but by night, they are the sorcerers, magicians, and wizards that protect us from the forces of darkness...unless the darkness gets them first. MARK MILLAR's first NETFLIX comic book, drawn by the incredible OLIVIER COIPEL (Amazing Spider-Man, Thor).
In Shops: June 13, 2018
Invader Zim #31
(W) K.C. Green (A) Anthony Clark (A/CA) K.C. Green
Hey, have you missed Dib? He's back! In Dib form! And he's tearing up the world of cryptids by doing an extreme exposé of a local abandoned amusement park, which is TEEMING with supernatural creatures. Hopefully it'll raise his rank with the Truthshrieker posters... but Dib doesn't expect to bust open the biggest conspiracy since HAMGATE (when President Man lied about EATING HAM). Special one-shot issue from KC Green (Gunshow, Back, Graveyard Quest) and Anthony Clark (Nedroid, Back)!
In Shops: June 13, 2018
Spongebob Comics #81
(W) Chuck Dixon, Brian Smith, David Lewman (A) Stephanie Yue, Vincent DePorter (A/CA) Brian Smith
Squidward is all set to find inner peace with a famous spiritual yoga master-until he's joined by guru-curious SpongeBob and Patrick! An inner journey turns into an ordeal of psychic stupidity. See an infinity of SpongeBobs! Witness the nothingness within Patrick! Can Squidward possibly find oneness while surrounded by dumbness? You'll see in "You're Not My Swami!" Then in "Pennies for Patties," Mr. Krabs' quest for a super-rare penny turns the Krusty Krab into a giant bin of copper coinage! But what if one of his employees finds the rare penny first? All this plus "SpongeFunnies" by James Kochalka and ocean facts from Maris Wicks!
In Shops: June 13, 2018
Lady Mechanika Vol. 4: Clockwork Assassin
(W) Joe Benitez, M. M. Chen (A) Martin Montiel, Peter Steigerwald, Beth Sotelo, Mike Garcia (A/CA) Joe Benitez
When a series of brutal murders linked to Mr. Lewis' past leads Detective Inspector Singh to Lady Mechanika's doorstep, the Inspector is finally forced to consider: is Lady Mechanika a crime-fighting hero or a cold blooded killer? 2017 Diamond Gem Award Nominee for Comic Book of the Year $3.99 or Under (Lady Mechanika: Clockwork Assassin #1).
In Shops: June 13, 2018
Transformers Lost Light #18
(W) James Roberts (A/CA) Jack Lawrence
LIGHTS OUT! The Everlasting Voices trilogy concludes with an explosion of hope, a grave betrayal... and more answers than you can handle! Events of the last six years build to a frenzy of revelations, casting everything that's gone before in a new-and deadly-light. No exaggeration, no hyperbole: there has never been a more important issue of Lost Light. Leads directly into the biggest story in the history of the Lost Light!
In Shops: June 13, 2018
Bloodshot Salvation #10
(W) Jeff Lemire (A) Doug Braithwaite (CA) Kenneth Rocafort
Two thousand years in the future - in the year 4001 A.D. - the man once known as Ray Garrison is no more...but the microscopic nanites inside him live on. Enter Bloodshot 4001 - a strange, gunslinging echo of Bloodshot's mind, body, and soul that is now more machine than man. But when our century's Bloodshot finds himself delivered to the dawn of the 41st century with one last mission to fulfill, two Valiant legends will finally come face to face...just as the secret revelation that binds them together across the ages will forever reshape Bloodshot's place at the center of the Valiant Universe!
From superstar writer Jeff Lemire (The Terrifics, Black Hammer) and artistic powerhouse Doug Braithwaite (X-O MANOWAR, Journey into Mystery), Valiant's Eisner Award-nominated superhero saga goes back to the far, far future for the ultimate meeting of man and machine at the crossroads of tomorrow and today!
In Shops: June 13, 2018
Nancy Drew #1
(W) Kelly Thompson (A) Jenn St. Onge (CA) Tula Lotay
Nancy Drew is seventeen and good at everything...ESPECIALLY solving crimes. But her totally-in-control-and-obviously-running-perfectly-smooth-(but-not-really) life hits a snag when a mysterious message drags her back to the hometown she left behind. There she'll have to find out which of her friends are still her friends, which are enemies, and who exactly is trying to kill her...and (hopefully) stop them before they succeed. KELLY THOMPSON (Hawkeye, Star Wars, Rogue & Gambit) and JENN ST-ONGE (Giant Days, The Misfits) team up to present an all-new modern spin on a classic mystery icon!
In Shops: June 13, 2018
See all the New Releases for this week here!
Get these comics at your local comic shop!


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HARTFORD -- Residents of the Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments in the Clay Arsenal neighborhood of Hartford gathered Tuesday at the Shiloh Baptist Church on Albany Avenue to about their deplorable living conditions, demanding change.
Complaints included mice and cockroach infestations, broken windows, mold and shoddy maintenance jobs performed by a revolving door of non-uniformed employees.
"I have caught over 25 mice," said resident Milagros Ortiz, ticking off the list of issues she has with her apartment on Main Street in Hartford. "If the wind blows, the window falls out."
"There are broken tiles in front of the tub, which my son has cut his feet on coming out of the tub," said Hartford resident Joshua Serrano.
Their apartments are just some of the 150 units in Hartford owned by Emmanuel Ku.
Ku has received numerous citations for the 25 buildings he owns in Hartford, as well as thousands of housing code violations in New York City.
Housing and Urban Development, better known as HUD, has apologized. "The first thing I need to do is apologize, and on behalf of HUD, say we're sorry," said Joe Crisafulli, a HUD director out of Boston. "The stories that I've heard about are as far away from acceptable HUD housing as I've heard in my 29 years at HUD," said Crisafulli.
"On behalf of HUD, we will be at your side until we resolve these issues," said Suzanne Piacentini, director of the Hartford HUD field office.
HUD says it is now working to collect complaints from residents, conduct inspections and check with the city for open code violations. HUD is currently awaiting the results of an extensive inspection into the properties.
FOX61 received the following statement from Mr. Ku's company, Ah Min Holding:
Ah Min Holding is aware that several tenants have issues with housing at Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments (CARA). In particular Ah Min is aware and concerned about the increased rodent activities in the last several months due to the recent demolition of the meat packing building close by. Ah Min has worked continuously with the exterminating company to combat the problem. Progress is being made but the issue is not yet resolved. Ah Min encourages all tenants to sign up and partake in the free exterminating services for their apartments which Ah Min offers twice a week when the exterminator comes to provide treatment in the common areas of the property. We have undertaken recommendations irrespective of the cost by the exterminator. It is our mission to provide a safe and clean living environment to all tenants at CARA. Similarly, in 2011-2012 Ah Min fought to combat crime in the neighborhood by installing surveillance cameras on the property. The problem was not solved overnight but working together with the tenants and the police department, CARA became a safe place to live, walk and play. In 2012, 2013 and again in 2016 CARA received written commendations from the City of Hartford Police for their cooperation and efforts to combat crime in the community. CARA cares about the community and on a daily basis assist with cleanup of the surrounding neighborhood.
Christian Activities Council (CAC), a community base advocacy group, has complained to Ah Min's owner and staff about the rodent problem. Ah Min welcomes the opportunity to work with CAC to resolve this and other issues. Ah Min has held tenant meetings in the past which have proven to be very productive in engaging tenants to learn about issues and working together to resolve them. Unfortunately, CAC unilaterally scheduled a meeting for Tuesday July 11th with less than one week notice. Due to a scheduling conflict, I am unable to attend. I have requested CAC on two separate occasions to work with me to reschedule to a new date but no one at CAC has responded to my requests. I look forward to meeting with the representatives of CAC. In the meanwhile, Ah Min will continue to hold tenant meetings to resolve issues at CARA.


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from Mikhail Prishvin, Nature's Diary, 1925
|Photo by messy cook at wikimedia commons
How wonderfully it was all arranged that each
Of us had not too long to live. This is one
Of the main snags—the shortness of the day.
The whole wood was whispering, "Dash it, dash it . . ."
What joy—to walk along that path! The snow
Was so fragrant in the sun! What a fish!
Whenever I think of death, the same stupid
Question arises: "What's to be done?"
As for myself, I can only speak of what
Made me marvel when I saw it for the first time.
I remember my own youth when I was in love.
I remember a puddle rippling, the insects aroused.
I remember our own springtime when my lady told me:
You have taken my best. And then I remember
How many evenings I have waited, how much
I have been through for this one evening on earth.
Mornings Like This: Found Poems. New York: Harper Perennial, 1996. 1.
Today's poem comes from a poetic genre that unapologetically makes borrowing its raison d'être [reason for being, a very handy French phrase when you want to sound cosmopolitan :-)]. As the byline says, this piece is "arranged" by the living poet Annie Dillard. The raw material from which she built the piece, however, is someone else's writing. This kind of poem is called "found poetry"
Found Poetry, as the Wikipedia article defines it, is "a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning. The resulting poem can be defined as either treated: changed in a profound and systematic manner; or untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the original."
Found poems, in other words, take other people's texts and jiggers them into poetry, either by simply altering the line breaks and such, or by mashing together snippets.
This is clearly one of the least intimidating types of poetry to try yourself. Gather and cobble, and voila, poetry.
Is this something you'd be willing to try? Where might you find inspiring source material?


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4 days left to get Swamped! 2-4 players, 20-30 minutes, semi-cooperative play with a unique programmed movement mechanic! All this in 35 cards and 2 bits! $12 plus shipping gets the game to your door this December.
That means for about the cost of a movie and a medium movie soda, you can enjoy a highly repayable game with 2-3 of your friends. Or use the solo variant!
The Swamp Tiger expansion is up and we need to get our total to $17,000! That's entirely doable and I for one would love to see this happen. It's a great expansion that adds lots of neat, new options to the game.
If you're already a backer you have our thanks! Please consider sharing this to get the word out! We'd love to hit a few more stretch goals and that means more backers needed!
Bellwether Games also has their two previous titles (I own both, they rock) Drop Site and Antidote available as add-ons for the Kickstarter campaign.


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Conducting long term care facilities surveys to ensure compliance with regulations and protect the health and safety of individuals served. We have four district offices and multiple survey teams to conduct compliance surveys.
Northwest Office (District 1)
Health Facility Licensing Northwest District Office
5301 Central Ave NE, Suite 400
Albuquerque, NM 87108
505-841-5820 (Phone)
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NOTE: Serves Bernalillo, Cibola, McKinley, San Juan, Sandoval, Socorro and Valencia Counties.
Northeast Office (District 2)
ATTN: District Operations Bureau
PO Box 26110
Santa Fe, NM 87505
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NOTE: This is a mailing address and not a physical location. It serves Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos, Torrance, Union and Quay Counties.
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Health Facility Licensing Southwest District Office
1170 N. Solano, Suite D
Las Cruces, NM 87108
575-528-5079 (Phone)
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NOTE: Serves Catron, Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero and Sierra Counties.
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Roswell, NM 88201
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NOTE: Serves Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Lincoln and Roosevelt Counties.


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Hours: 11am-5pm (Mon-Sat) and Closed (Sun).
Iron Oxide Art Supplies is located at #5 Victoria Road in Nanaimo, BC (Canada). We have a full selection of art supplies available in store.
We carry a large selection of supplies such as; paint brushes, canvas, birch cradle boards, canvas boards, raw canvas, oil paint, acrylic paint, goauche, watercolours, varnishes, painting mediums, coloured pencils, chalk pastels, oil pastels, charcoal, screen printing supplies, sketchbooks, calligraphy supplies, inks, chalk paints, watercolor paper, printmaking paper, drawing paper, tracing paper, easels, modeling clay, textile paints and dyes. Please see our supplies section for full details.
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Dictionary of Kammu Yùan Language and Culture
Jan-Olof Svantesson, Kàm Ràw (Damrong Tayanin), Kristina Lindell and Håkan Lundström
448 pp., 10 maps and c. 300 illustrations,
NIAS Reference Library # 6
- A unique reference work detailing Kammu life, language and culture.
- First comprehensive dictionary for any SE Asian minority language.
- Encyclopaedic entries contain a wealth of linguistic and cultural information, and much on plant medicine.
By retaining their orally based culture through to the present day, the Kammu of northern Laos and adjacent parts of Vietnam, Thailand and China have long been recognised as a repository for much that has been lost or ignored in the literate cultures of their lowland neighbours. Many studies of Kammu folklore, music and society have been published as a result. Arguably, its crowning achievement is finally to appear.
Ostensibly, this is a dictionary of the Yùan dialect of Kammu but the reality is far more: a vast, encyclopaedic reference work that details not only some 13,000 words but also describes all aspects of Kammu life, including rites and ceremonies, implements, plants and animals. The richness of this detail is largely based on author Kàm Ràw's personal knowledge and experience as a Kammu hunter, swidden farmer and shaman. The result is an essential reference work that not only details the life, language and culture of the Kammu but also offers a rich insight into the worlds of minority peoples elsewhere in upland Southeast Asia and southern China.
Damrong Tayanin/Kàm Ràw
Kàm Ràw (1938–2011) grew up in a Kammu village in northern Laos. He came to Sweden in 1974 to work in Kristina Lindell's Kammu project. Under his Lao name Damrong Tayanin, he was the author or co-author of several books on Kammu folktales and the traditional Kammu lifestyle.
Kristina Lindell
Kristina Lindell (1928–2005) was Senior Lecturer in Chinese at Lund University, where she started the Kammu project (including work on this dictionary) in 1972. Her main research interest was in oral literature. Together with Kàm Ràw and folklorist Jan-Öjvind Swahn she wrote six books on Kammu oral literature, and several other works on the Kammu.
Håkan Lundström
Håkan Lundström is Dean of the Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University. His research specialization is in ethnomusicology and he has written about song, music and music terminology among the Kammu.
Jan-Olof Svantesson
Jan-Olof Svantesson is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics at Lund University in Sweden. His main research interests are in Asian languages, especially Kammu and Mongolian.
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No matter where you are in the world, all NIAS Press books can be ordered through your local bookseller as well as from online booksellers such as Amazon. Libraries can order from their usual library supplier. You are also welcome to order direct from the NIAS Press distributor in your region (see list below).
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With our old distributor gone out of business and scholars prefering to buy online, this territory is currently an open market.
NIAS Press is in the process of converting its titles to ebook format. At this point, the press has entered into distribution agreements with a number of library suppliers and we soon aim to make our books available for download onto ebook readers like the Kindle and iPad.
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NIAS Press aims to keep all our books in print indefinitely, but our distributors do not carry a full complement of the oldest titles. If you cannot source a NIAS title from your preferred bookshop or from the local NIAS Press distributor, please contact books(at)nias.ku.dk and we will do our best to help you.
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Press news
- Aug. 9 2019Carol Ann Boshier's book 'Mapping Cultural Nationalism: The Scholars of the Burma Research Society,1910-1935' has been shortlisted for the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2019. Congratulations!


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Integrated Tunnels Mod 1.12.2/1.11.2 for MinecraftBy Moon ❘ August 27, 2017 ❘ 5,130 views
Integrated Tunnels Mod 1.12.2/1.11.2 for Minecraft written by kroeser gives extra function to Integrated Dynamics Mod. That is the smart integrated tunnels.
The Integrated Tunnels Mod provides some items like its name; they are tunnels for transporting item, liquid, energy,… In short, they are all equipment or specific items in Integrated Dynamics Mod network.
The mod runs the following pull and pushes principle. To understand its method, we have to get acquainted with some tunnels with different colors. For example, a blue head is Importer which pulls item to a white head. An orange head is Exporter which pushes the item to the white head. According to that, in the image 3, the item always move from left to right (from blue to white, and then, to orange).
This mod also allows you to set up the high-quality automatic order. For example, each second, a Pickaxe with an endurance less than 10 is conveyed through the tunnel. And if there are less than 6 Iron Ingots in the box, the system immediately stops,…
You can download the latest Integrated Tunnels Mod version in the link below and follow the instruction. Have fun!
How to Install Integrated Tunnels Mod 1.12.2/1.11.2 with Forge Modloader
- Download Forge Installer, Cyclops Core library, Integrated Dynamics, Integrated-Tunnels.jar file.
- Right click Forge Installer, Run as Administrator and press OK to install Forge. (You can skip this step if you've installed Forge Modloader)
- Open Start on desktop > Open Run (Or you can use the Windows + R keyboard shortcut)
- Type %appdata% into Run and press Enter.
- Go to folder /.minecraft/mods
- Put jar file of the mod you have downloaded into mods folder and then run Minecraft. Done!


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Wearable tech has been in the news lately, a change of pace from the previous years were it was largely obscure and made up of fitness bands such as the Fitbit flex, Nike Fuel band and a number of obscure products from differemt OEMs. The introduction of the Galaxy Gear a year ago with the Galaxy Note has more or less breathed new life into this device segment and has made it somewhat desirable. Android Wear, Google's take on what the smartwatch platform should look like was appluaded by a lot of tech enthusiasts who were smithen by the simplistic voice driven approach taken by Google. However it is largely limited in functionality and voice interaction is a bit hit and miss my attempts at using at using Google Now on my Galaxy Note 3 i would really not like to replicate such an experience on my wrist at a cost of $250. And adding that the Android Wear devices are just conduits for notifications, which i am not entirely super excited about, that i would consider paying more money to just save the 5 seconds that it could save me to have them on my wrist.
Samsung just recently introduced their Tizen based Gear S watch which in my opinion marks the first true step in making a true smartwatch. A device that is not just another smartphone accessory, a device that you could really consider taking out with you and have all your connectivity needs met thanks to the 2G/3G radio and SIM card slot. This would allow you make and receive calls on the go, receive emails and check news sources without having to connect it to your smartphone. The Gear S is reported to last 2 days on a single charge which is more than sufficient considering that most smartphone users charge their devices everyday. While the Gear S might not totally replace the need for an actual phone considering the screen is far too small for typing and that using voice control in public would turn off quite a few people. However It would make for a great second phone and a perfect fitness tracker.
|900/2100 or 850/1900 (3G), 900/1800 or 850/1900 (2G)
|2.0" Super AMOLED (360 x 480)
|Dual core 1.0 GHz
|Tizen based wearable platform
|Codec: MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+nFormat: MP3, M4A, WMA, AAC, OGG
|2G, 3G Call, Bluetooth Call, Contacts, Notifications, Messages, Emails, QWERTY keyboard
|Health and Fitness
|S Health, Nike+ Running
|Schedule, News, Navigation, Weather
|Music Player, Gallery
|Other Features
|S Voice, Find My Device, Power Saver Mode
|IP Certification
|IP 67 rating
|Samsung Services
|Samsung Gear Apps
|WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n, A-GPS/Glonass, Bluetooth®: 4.1, nUSB: USB 2.0
|Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, Heart Rate, Ambient Light, UV, Barometer
|9.8 x 58.3 x 12.5T
|300 mAh
In related news, LG also unveiled a new smart watch which sports a round display much like the Moto 360. The press photos of the LG Watch R makes it probably the best looking smart watch i have seen so far. I just wish it had the same specs as the Samsung Gear S.
Source: Samsungmobilepress


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Goblin Slayer is among the most anticipated anime Fall 2018 and while many viewers are fine with its… dark nature, many others express a great displeasure after watching the first episode. Currently, there are already many viewers deeming this anime to be trash. But why is that? What did happen exactly? Let's try to find out!
Table of Content:
1. What is Goblin Slayer?
2. Goblin Slayer controversy
3. "Should I watch Goblin Slayer anime?"
1. What is Goblin Slayer?
Goblin Slayer is originally a dark-fantasy light novel written by Kumo Kagyu and illustrated by Noboru Kannatuki. The series started on February 2016 and so far, there have been 7 volumes published. Then on May 2016, the series got a manga adaptation drew by Kōsuke Kurose and serialized in the Monthly Big Gangan magazine. Aside from the main Goblin Slayer storyline, there are 2 other spin-offs called Goblin Slayer Side Story Year One (by Kumo Kagyu and illustrated by Shingo Adachi) which told the origin of the man who becomes Goblin Slayer, and Goblin Slayer Brand New Day (by Masahiro Ikeno). And finally on October 7, 2018, White Fox began a Goblin Slayer anime adaptation which is expected to have 12 episodes in total.
In summary, Goblin Slayer takes place in a fantasy world where demons and monsters exist. Adventurers often get missions from the Guild and they deal with all kinds of monster problems in the world, including dragons, demons, and goblins. The story begins with a young Priestess who has just begun her adventurer career. She joins in an amateur group of 3 young adventurers who took a mission of eliminating a goblin cave. Since goblins are deemed as "puny weaklings", the team was rather… careless in their preparation. And when they got into the cave, they soon found out that they were ambushed by the goblins. Unexpectedly, the goblins totally wrecked the entire team, while young Priestess had no choice but to retreat. The goblins, despite being "dumb", were extremely quick and savage. They quickly caught up with the Priestess and at her seemingly final moment, a mysterious warrior – the Goblin Slayer – walked in and saved her. And so, the duo destroyed the goblin cave and at the same time, the Priestess got to witness the true terror of the goblins, how dangerous they are to the people. And so, she decided to join with the man known as Goblin Slayer and together, they go on a journey of killing goblins… or at least that is what they think.
2. Goblin Slayer controversy
For those who haven't followed Goblin Slayer controversy, the anime has just on air recently on October 7 and so far, there have only been 2 episodes released (this article written on October 17). As mentioned, right after the first episode this show has already received tons of backlashes due to its… sensitive rape scene. Yes this anime has rape in it, which is shocking in our opinion.
"Okay?… So what happened exactly?"
In the first episode, the noob party (the same amateur team in the summary above) was totally wrecked, mercilessly. Since this is a dark fantasy, at the very least we can expect tons of gore throughout this anime. And true, the first death of the male warrior was quite brutal, no surprise there. But right after his death, there was a scene when the Monk girl was beaten by a humongous Hobgoblin, then surprisingly got raped by the goblins. Due to the danger of the situation, the Priestess had no other choice but to carry her fellow Sorceress who got stabbed with poisoned dagger. Luckily she was rescued by the Goblin Slayer and when they ventured deeper into the cave, they found out that the monk girl, along with other female captives, were dragged further inside cave and got raped.
Personally we have read the Goblin Slayer manga and we kinda… expected some sort of subtle hint to this raping stuff. But definitely we did not expect White Fox to show it, briefly of course, but still, they showed the scene. And as you can guess, this triggered a huge disturbance among anime community.
"That's… disturbing… So what about public reception?"
As we said, there have been a huge disturbance and conflicting debates among anime community. Many people express a disgusting feeling towards Goblin Slayer due to what it showed in the first episode. Some people got so triggered that they deemed the anime as a trash anime, and certain people even dubbed other viewers who defended the anime as "bad people" (no kidding, you can pretty much find these sort of debates all over the place from Crunchyroll to Reddit). Certain viewers of this side also believe that the rape scene was unnecessary, it felt like a cheap shock factor, rather than providing meaningful plot. And then there is a… quite valid argument saying that Goblin Slayer was originally rated PG which is basically "viewable for children". Nonetheless, the fact remains that these backlashes were so burning hot that anime sites like Crunchyroll had to put a warning message on the anime.
On the other hand, there are many other viewers defending the anime, saying it is just an element in dark-fantasy anime/film. From their perspective, the rape scene may not be necessary, but it does have purpose of describing a realistic fantasy world where dangers and stakes are real. There are also a number of viewers defending the shock factor, saying that the shock value actually does have an important role, not a cheap one. Furthermore, they argue that it is somewhat hypocritical to judge the rape scene as bad, while feel fine watching some anime characters being tortured or brutally beaten by force. Then there are number of people believing that the rape scene is not a problem since it is just an anime depiction of a real life issue.
In fact, there are other anime, manga (or film) which describes violence and rape even more disturbing than Goblin Slayer, typically Berserk. This argument is quite legit since Berserk manga (by Kentaro Miura) indeed has lots of disturbing stuffs, including an infamous rape/NTR scene which makes rape scene from Goblin Slayer look rather pale. Ironically (especially if you hate these kind of depictions in manga/anime), Berserk is among the best manga to date according to lots of manga readers.
That said, there is also a counter-argument saying: Goblin Slayer is nothing like Berserk. Specfically, Berserk's rape depiction makes sense in its own context because it has realistic artstyle and more importantly, it has established its dark-fantasy nature far more effective from the beginning of the series. Whereas Goblin Slayer's dark-fantasy element is not convincing. It features moe-cute characters like in other fantasy anime, which does not make sense in dark-fantasy story. And thus, it just feels cheap.
Of course, there are more arguments and opinions among anime community; however, here we would like to share some of the main arguments from both sides only. Whether this Goblin Slayer controversy is good or bad, guess we have to form our own opinion on the matter.
3. "Should I watch Goblin Slayer anime?"
After the first episode of Goblin Slayer, it is understandable for many people to feel bad, or want to reconsider whether they should keep following the anime or not. So instead of answering the question "Should I watch Goblin Slayer anime?", we believe the better question should be: How well can you handle these kind of "controversial depictions" in dark-fantasy story?
Based on our personal experience with the manga, we can say that rape is not the main focus of this series. The rape scenes only appear in the first few chapters, and later on, we haven't seen them since. But again, we have to warn that there will possibly be rape/nudity scene in certain anime episodes, including one rather disturbing scene (which we can't spoil here). So in general, if you cannot stand these sorts of disturbing scene, we recommend bailing-out as soon as possible.
What about those who are fine with those scenes then? Will this anime be good? Hard to say. From our perspective, the story will gradually focus more on characters development, specifically Goblin Slayer as he meets new friends (episode 2 did hint this near the end). However, we cannot say any further since we haven't touched the light novel yet. For now, we think that Goblin Slayer will be a good anime to watch if you are fine with rape/nudity in anime.
And what about you? What do you think of Goblin Slayer anime? Feel free to share with us and for now, thank you and stay tune for more news in the future!
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At first you thought Joe accidentally booked himself in twice today, but it turns out the second appointment is for Joe's wife.
Handling bookings for families can be a bit tricky! The main reason each individual needs a unique profile is for medical charting; Jane needs to make sure that all users are unique so that patient charts and insurance billing information can be obviously connected to the right patient.
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Fans have been Optimus Primed for a big-screen version of the robots in disguise ever since the first trailer for next summer's live-action flick hit the Web. "When they put the teaser trailer up, it was a huge, huge issue. There were, like, 6 million hits at the Paramount site, which they had never seen before. It was the most Internet traffic they'd ever gotten, and their site shut down — it was insane!" grinned Shia LaBeouf, who stars in the almost-finished Michael Bay flick alongside Josh Duhamel, Dane Cook and a dozen 20-something-foot tall transforming vehicles. Addressing the '80s renaissance, he added, " 'Transformers' is huge; it's a classic. I know that my generation loves it, and I know the generation ahead of me loves it. People grew up with it, and people are still growing up with it." With additional celebrity robot voices to be announced and a contest under way to put lines in the mouth of Autobot leader Optimus, it's suddenly cool again to play with a 6-inch-high transforming truck.
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Like a steel-reinforced van breaking through a warehouse door, "The A-Team" is getting ready to invade movie screens — and if you listen carefully, you might just hear the ghost of George Peppard whispering, "I love it when a plan comes together." Agents at the Creative Artists Agency confirmed that original series creator Stephen J. Cannell is still attached and excited about bringing the story of four rogue Vietnam veterans to a theater near you, despite problems with a script that has sent the writers back to the drawing board numerous times. The long-running '80s phenomenon followed Hannibal (Peppard), the Faceman (Dirk Benedict), "Howling Mad" Murdock (Dwight Shultz) and B.A. Baracus (Mr. T) as they took on secret assignments helping the less fortunate in need of some muscle. In a recent interview with movie Web site Empire Online, Cannell said he was interested in updating the characters for the new millennium. "I want to create it as taking place today. So the Gulf War could be a great angle," he said. "In the original, the A-Team were on the run after robbing a bank under orders just as the war ended; in this, maybe the four would raid Saddam Hussein's bank or whatever." The project is in development with 20th Century Fox, and we can only assume that Ving Rhames has his barber practicing the Mohawk in anticipation of the B.A. role he seems born to play.
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"By the power of Grayskull," Hollywood is still promising that a live-action He-Man movie will one day hit theaters. But right now the long-rumored John Woo project has more in common with wimpy Prince Adam than it does with the titular Master of the Universe — both are going nowhere fast. According to a source at Woo's production company, Lion Rock, "John is attached, but the project isn't a priority or high on his radar. Essentially, [he] lost enthusiasm." While the source confirmed that an early script written by "Detroit Rock City" director Adam Rifkin was submitted to Woo, it is unclear whether or not it would be optioned should the film ultimately get a green light — leaving open the possibility that another writer might eventually get to take a turn at the Shakespearean-like stories of Moss Man, Trap Jaw and Fisto. Since He-Man originally debuted as a line of action figures, the rights to the film belong to toy manufacturer Mattel, which is currently in "active" talks with Lion Rock, according to the source. Woo begins shooting his next film, a war flick entitled "The Battle of Red Cliff," in early 2007 in his native China. Orko, meanwhile, was unavailable for comment.
You loved the cartoon as a kid, you can't get the "la la" theme song out of your head, so maybe you're wondering just what's going on with this Smurfing movie? "There's no director attached; it's still in development," said a rep for Herb Ratner, the first-time writer who has passed in his script for the flick, which intends to render the tiny blue characters in CGI. With "no talent attached" and a "still early on" status, even Jokey doesn't seem likely to be smiling anytime soon.
"Knight Rider"
The coolest car in TV history is revving up its engine and racing to the big screen with the return of "Knight Rider," the Weinstein Company recently announced. The movie will be scripted by original series creator Glen A. Larson, and will once again center on Michael Knight and his attempt to fight crime when he acquires a new face — and boss — after being left to die from gunshot wounds sustained during his old job as a policeman. "I am a huge fan of the original series and could not be happier that we've joined forces with Glen Larson to bring these iconic characters to the big screen," Harvey Weinstein enthused. Michael's journey will once again be aided by KITT, a nearly indestructible car armed with artificial intelligence, and fans assume that the auto will be as state-of-the-art now as the '80s version was then. While publicists at the Weinstein Company confirm KITT will be revamped to more accurately reflect modern vehicles, they scoffed at recent online photos that claim to depict the new car as "completely bogus." But more importantly, will Michael still wear a leather jacket while hanging out in the desert?
"Fraggle Rock"
"We have a television show that we made in the '80s called 'Fraggle Rock,' and if it were not for the way that we can now communicate with our fans, we wouldn't know the intense interest that the fans have in 'Fraggle Rock' right now in 2006, many years after it aired," said Lisa Henson, overseer of the company and characters lovingly crafted by her legendary father Jim. Currently engineering the relaunch of the "Dark Crystal" franchise with an upcoming movie, her Jim Henson Company will next begin work on a big-screen flick starring the underground-dwelling quasi-Muppets. Although the adventures of Gobo, Mokey, Wembley and the Doozers seem a bit obscure compared to some other '80s icons, the Fraggles are immensely popular at pop-culture gatherings. It seemed only appropriate, then, that Henson recently discussed details of a "Fraggle" movie with a Comic-Con audience that roared its approval. " 'Fraggle Rock' has remained a favorite project at our company," Henson added. "We're actively developing a 'Fraggle Rock' feature." If Uncle Matt is out there in the real world, he might want to report that the "Fraggle" flick is full-steam ahead, with a major announcement expected in the weeks to come.
The film version of this late-'70s/early-'80s staple is moving along — albeit at a pace so slow it makes us want to freak out, hop behind the wheel of a car and zig-zag wildly on a California highway. According to his publicist, Wilmer Valderrama is indeed making plans to step into the skin-tight khaki uniform of Officer Francis Llewellyn "Ponch" Poncherello, a role originally made famous by Erik Estrada. With the artist formerly known as Fez confirmed as half of the eponymous California Highway Patrol team, recent Internet speculation has centered on who will play his blonde-haired partner, Jon Baker. Various Web sites have pegged "Fantastic Four" star Chris Evans as the studio's choice, citing a supposed conversation in which Valderrama called Evans "Ponch's new partner!" This comes as news to Evans' agent, however, who denied Evans' participation in the project by saying, "He is not attached." Publicists at Warner Bros. were unable to comment on the current state of the movie, noting that it was in such early pre-production that no "news of the film has crossed [their] desks." With the flick's intention to adopt a "Starsky & Hutch"-like spoofing attitude, we can only hope that a roller disco is somehow involved in the plot — and that Jack Black is cast as shlubby Officer Grossman.
"G.I. Joe"
Before he was a cartoon star or action figure, G.I. Joe was a comic strip created on the orders of the United States military, which hoped to inspire soldiers during World War II. Oh boy, how the times have changed. Ever since the '80s cartoon classic went off the air, fans have wondered when they'll see Destro, Bazooka, and evil twins Tomax and Xamot on the big screen. Well, they'll have to wait until U.S. entanglements change so substantially that both foreign and domestic audiences will want to look at the image of a heroic American soldier and scream, "Yo, Joe!" "I had been in conversations with Hasbro to do 'G.I. Joe,' and Sony was interested in doing it," producer Don Murphy ("Natural Born Killers") remembered of a less complex time just a few years ago. "Then we invaded Iraq, and it became kind of clear that doing a movie called 'G.I. Joe' was probably not the best idea at that point." While it may be true that we're closer than ever before to the reality of a group like Cobra — the international terrorist organization made up of shadowy figures who deal in random attacks — the over-the-top behavior of Cobra Commander is a long way from seeming appropriate post-9/11. For once, Hollywood seems to know when it's time to show restraint — and knowing is half the battle.
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
Like "Transformers," the kung-fu fighting reptiles have been cranking out toys and cartoons that still win over young fans more than two decades after they were hatched in the '80s. And that continuing popularity is paying off for them as well, with a big-screen flick hitting theaters in March — and even more after that. "We'll be back in three years with a sequel," predicted producer Thomas K. Gray, who is overseeing the darker, CGI-Turtle renaissance just as he did their early-'90s flicks. "People thought the Turtles were over, but they didn't realize they're very much alive if you come with a new medium. It's like everything in this business: nobody knows anything. We showed them back in the '90s, and we're going to show them again. This is a property that's going to live on for a long time, so that'll be a really good satisfaction when we open."
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