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The Reason He’s Holding A Lighter To His Key Is Actually Total Genius If you’re somebody who is constantly losing keys, then this is the solution for you. Padlocks, doors, sheds, lockers – you names it, and you probably need a key to access it. And with all those keys for just one person, there’s no doubt some are going to get lost or broken now and then. And what are you supposed to do then? Drag yourself into town, talk to the bloke in the local hardware shop, wait 5 minutes and pay £3 to have a key cut? In today’s world? I don’t think so… Fear not, because if you’re in desperate need for a spare key, this video shows you exactly how to fashion your own.

Ten issues after the Centrahoma Poltergeist article in the February-March 1995 issue 79 of Fortean Times,  the magazine presented a report about another 1995 poltergeist investigation in the town of Rochdale, England that began on August 31.   In the 1995 issue, the cover story is "The Great Sphinx Controversy" by Robert Schoch about the dating of the Great Sphinx; while Stephen Dewey of Wiltshire commented in a Forum column: "Science [scientists] does not in general reject theories about the paranormal; it is just that these theories do not fit into any [of their] current paradigms."   On the cover of September 1996 issue 89, the blurb "POLTERGEIST Spooky watersports" refers to the article about the Rochdale case: "Wet, Wet, Wet" by Peter Hough.  The article  recounts that a local newspaper reported a family called 'Gardener' [the newspaper actually specified 'Garner'] living in Rochdale was experiencing inexplicable water dr...

In the last post, we saw that carbohydrate and particularly sugar intake have been declining in the US since 1999, even as our obesity rate has continued to climb. In this post, let's look at another putative driver of obesity: our fat intake, and especially our intake of added fats like seed oils, butter, and olive oil.  Like the graphs in the last post, the data underlying the following graphs come from USDA food disappearance records (not self-reported), and NHANES survey data ( 1 , 2 ).  Also like the last post, the graph of total fat intake is not adjusted for waste (non-eaten food), while the graph of added fat intake is*.  As a consequence, the figures for total carbohydrate and total fat intake are higher than actual intakes, but still good for illustrating trends. Here we go.  First, total fat: Read more »

French navy Rafale fighter jets prepare to land on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle operating in the Gulf on Feb. 25, 2015. AFP/Getty Images Editor's note: This is Chatter, our morning rundown of what you need and want to know around the world. Fortunately for us all, you can have Chatter emailed to you every day.  Just sign up here ! NEED TO KNOW: France has struck back. Over the last two days it has bombed the Syrian city of Raqqa dozens of times. The Islamic State calls Raqqa its de facto capital. It’s been in full control of the city since January 2014. The group’s headquarters are there, among many other state-like institutions. The city is totally isolated. Information about what is happening there comes almost exclusively from an activist group called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently . Members risk it all to post stories and pictures of how life has transformed there under the Islamic State. Raqqa is the place countries bomb when th...

ISIS Headquarters In Iraq Destroyed Just Hours After Paris Terrorist Attack, 250 Militants Killed    ISIS suffered a major defeat just hours after the terrorist attack in Paris, with reports that coalition forces destroyed the militant group’s headquarters in Iraq in an attack that left 250 militants dead.  On Saturday, the leader of the Albu Nimir tribe in Anbar announced that a coalition of fighters attacked the terrorist group’s stronghold. “A force belonging to al-Jazeerah and al-Badiyah Operations, with support from the 7th division of the army, and backed by fighters from the clan of Albu Nimir and al-Jaghaiyfa as well as other clans, had managed to destroy the headquarters of ISIS in the area of Albu Hayat in the city of Haditha (160 km west of Ramadi),”  Naeem Kawood told Ahlul Bayt News Agency, adding that, “250 ISIS elements had been killed, in addition to destroying 15 vehicles for the group, including a booby-trapped vehicle and another that ...

A friend recently sent me an email in which he asked: I had mentioned to you that in my view there appear to be three different approaches to self-investigation, i) self-enquiry, which involves asking who am I and going to the root of the I thought, ii) meditating on I am, excluding the arising of any thought, and concentrating on I am, and iii) trying to notice the gap between two thoughts, expanding the gap, and being without any thought, summa iru. You had replied that these are not three different approaches but constitute only one approach. Could you please elaborate your comment? This article is adapted from the reply that I wrote to him. Nāṉ Yār? paragraph 16: ātma-vicāra is only the practice of keeping one’s attention on oneself Our aim should be to destroy the illusion that we are this ego Upadēśa Undiyār verses 24 and 25: experiencing ourself without adjuncts is experiencing what we actually are To destroy our ego we must try to be attentively self-aware Being attentively ...

In 1995 I was working as a movie publicity writer when I traveled to Oklahoma to investigate "America's Talking Poltergeist" , a case where a recurring unseen communicator was nicknamed 'Michael.'  An early article about my bizarre yet metaphysically revealing experiences may be read at the website presenting the Internet edition of the case study Testament (1997): "Feature Story About Testament Submitted to 1998 Publicists Guild Directory" . I'd previously written an article for the 1991 Publicists Guild Directory when the recipient of the Motion Picture Showmanship Award was Howard W. Koch, whom I interviewed for a Directory article.  The article is shown below and offers an example of my writing prior to my Oklahoma trip and the publication of Testament . In 1995 and 1996, movies I'd helped publicize won the annual Publicists Guild award for motion picture publicity: "Forrest Gump" and "Braveheart."  During the ...