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When we think about cute animals, we generally fantasize puppies or kittens not sloths.
But this little guy is here to represent the unsung cuties of the animal kingdom.
While trying to cross the highway in Ecuador, this poor lil sloth got scared by the large-hearted, fast-moving autoes and decided to cling to a guardrail for security. Regrettably, this left him totally stranded, and there was no escape in sight.
Luckily for the tree-hugger, Ecuadorian transit police came to the critters rescue. Luckily for us , they posted photographs of it.
Check it out below and try not to croak from cuteness overload.
The transit police discerned this poor little sloth stranded in the middle of the highway.
At firstly, the sloth was a little distrustful of the humans.
But soon, he warmed up to em and was ready to go back into the forest.
And he was the HAPPIEST SLOTH EVER. The end.
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I have had Evohome for over a year and it has been working flawlessy...until I tried to add the hot water kit tonight?
No matter what I seemed to select the Bolier relay BDR91 and the seperate hot water BDR91 seemed to merge when testing the RF?
I had originally an S+ system with a zone valve for upstairs and a zone valve for downstairs and a valve for the heating.
I converted it to a valve for the hot water with a Honeywell timer type controller - disconnected the wiring to the heating valves and wired them open.
I then have a BDR91 operating as a boiler relay.
I searched for an hour trying to locate a wiring diagram for what I need but at a loss - any pointers?
I need to keep the motorised valve for the water of course - so I cant see the option I need. Boiler Relay and single 2port valve?
[I did at one time have a BDR91 connected to the heating zone valves but that seemed to break the BDR91 so I converted to a boiler relay setup]
I am happy to adjust the pipework if I need to but please do remember I have 2 pipes - 2 zone valves for the heating, they are next to each other; if I had to introduce one valve for heating [feeding the 2 pipe zones] and one for water.
Thank you in advance


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Even though Waze is owned by Google completely, it doesn't play favorites with the app and continues to support it for other platforms. Today, the app got pushed to version 3.8 on both Android and iOS. The social GPS app has added some social features in the latest update. Here's the changelog:
- Find friends on Waze by adding Contacts
- Send friend requests & manage your list
- New design for sending location
- Locations sent between friends are saved for future navigation
- Easily share drive from ETA screen
- See who's viewing your shared drive
- Keep Waze on screen when answering calls
- Bug fixes
The update allows you to add friends on the app using your contact list. Locations shared with friends are also saved for future reference. Then, the update makes it possible to see who's viewing your shared location. You can grab the app at the store links given below.


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The Self Does Not Die; Titus Rivas; Near-death experiences | Parapsychology
In this interesting book Titus Rivas, Anny Dirven, and Rudolf H. Smit address one of the most important aspects of near-death experiences (NDEs), veridical manifestations such as obtaining verifiable information during the experience.
This interview is with the first author, Titus Rivas. He has masters degrees in psychology and in philosophy and is a freelance author who has published over 20 books, among them, Reincarnation: The Evidence is Building (with Dr. K.S. Rawat). Furthermore he has published many articles about psychical research, and other topics, such as animal rights and veganism.
Titus Rivas
The Self Does not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiencesis available here.
Can you give us a brief summary of the book?
The book consists of a compilation of over 100 cases of near-death experiences with externally confirmed paranormal aspects. These concern ESP (clairvoyance and telepathy), encounters with known and unknown historical deceased persons, lucid consciousness that is not supported by sufficient cortical activity (according to the dominant materialist or physicalist paradigm), "miraculous" healings, perception by others of the NDEr while the latter is out of his or her body, and paranormal abilities (including psychokinesis) after the NDE. It also contains empirical, theoretical and philosophical analyses and a thorough evaluation of various arguments defended by "naturalistic" skeptics.
It is a book in the tradition of early psychical reseachers such as Camille Flammarion, F.W.H. Myers, and Ernesto Bozzano, and we are also indebted to contemporary investigators such as the late Ian Stevenson, Mary Rose Barrington, and Erlendur Haraldsson.
Together with my co-authors Anny Dirven and Rudolf H. Smit, I wanted to present a collection of all strong cases of NDEs with paranormal aspects that are directly confirmed by a third party. I regard such cases as scientific or scholarly evidence rather than just so-called anecdotal material without any solid implications. By collecting all strong cases, including a few new ones that we directly investigated ourselves, we've tried to demonstrate that the evidence for paranormal phenomena linked to NDEs is very strong, and certainly cannot be explained away anymore.
Rudolf Smit has even written a whole chapter about the desperate attempts of pseudo-skeptics (or "debunkers") to immunize their world view against this kind of evidence. They have done everything they could, but they've simply failed miserably. This means that materialism is not a serious theoretical option anymore for NDEs as a whole, and even deserves to be abandoned in all respects, something that had been concluded before by colleagues such as Charles Tart, and Chris Carter, and by the authors of Irreducible Mind.
We also tried to show that the evidence we collected, particularly concerning consciousness and veridical perception in NDEs during cardiac arrest, really leads the conclusion that there is an non-physical self that survives clinical death. It must be a personal self, which retains its consciousness, episodic and semantic memory, cognitive faculties, and psi abilities.
We indicate why extrapolation of this conclusion to the self's condition after irreversible physical death is purely rational and parsimonious, and why alternative theories such as super-psi or living agent-psi are really less plausible in this particular case. We base this analysis both on cases of consciousness during cardiac arrest and on NDEs that involve paranormal encounters with deceased persons.
The Evidence for Life After Death
There is scientific evidence for the afterlife
Why don't more people know about it?
Scientists who investigated
Science and Psychic phenomena
1. Modern physics and the afterlife
2. Psychics
3. Remote viewing
4. Psychic detectives
5. Exceptional human functioning
Direct contact with the afterlife
6. Near death experiences
7. Out of body experiences
8. End of life experiences (Deathbed visions)
9. After death contacts
Consciousness Without Brain Activity: Near Death Experiences – Dr. Bruce Greyson – YouTube
Beyond the Mind-Body Problem: New Paradigms in the Science of ConsciousnessAn excerpt of Bruce Greyson, MD, PhD, from the panel discussion "Beyond the Brain: The Experiential Implications of Neurotheology", speaking about how the brain does not equal the mind, and how near death experiences can contribute to knowledge about the mind-body connection.
Does Consciousness Depend on the Brain? – Graham Hancock Official Website
Chris Carter received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Oxford. The author of Science and Psychic Phenomena: the Fall of the House of Skeptics, Carter is originally from Canada and currently teaches internationally.
Dream Meeting of Dead Friend
Is Consciousness More than the Brain? – Campaign for Open Science
The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death
Professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry and surgery at the University of Arizona and director of its Human Energy Systems Laboratory. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he served as a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic. He has published more than four hundred scientific papers, edited eleven academic books, and is the co-author, with Linda G. Russek, Ph.D., of The Living Energy Universe. His most recent book is a highly controversial study of eveidence for life after death, based on a scientific investigation of communications through mediums, The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life after Death.
Website: http://www.openmindsciences.com
More on Gary Schwartz
Meeting Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather
In 1965 I had finished my tour in the service and was working as a reporter for both The Daily Press and the Times Herald in Hampton/Newport News, Virginia, when a man my age — about 23 — showed up at my family's farm. Strangers showing up was very unusual since we lived at the end of a long lane, at the end of a n unpaved school bus road in Gloucester County, then very rural. Paul Ronder was a newly minted graduate of a New York film school who had gone to Williamsburg to produce a movie about the Revolutionary Period. We got to talking and the end result was that I agreed to write his movie with him.
We launched into the work with a will and I started making frequent trips to Williamsburg. What made the project particularly intriguing is that my mother's family had been in the area since the 1600s and I was told that there was even a house in the colonial restoration area where a great-great-great-great grand father of mine had lived.
I got into the habit when I was down there of walking through the old town late at night, when all the tourists were abed, and the streets and houses, looked much as they had in the 1700s. One night in the fall I was walking and came around a corner. About 100 feet in front of me a man was walking. He was dressed in colonial garb with a tricornered hat. I took him to be an employee of the Williamsburg Foundation walking home after a long day. The employees who work in the restored area live in the houses, and wear period clothing.
We went along for a while companionably; nothing was said, and I thought he was unaware that I was behind him, although my footsteps on the brick walk seemed very loud to me. Since I walked faster than he, the distance between us shortened, and I was only a few feet behind him when he stopped at one of the houses and walked up the stoop. As he got to the door, he turned and, in the light of the moon, for the first time seemed to see me. We made eye contact which we held for a beat or two. Then he smiled, doffed his hat and turned back to the door. He reached out his hand for the knob… and walked through the door. Through the door. It never opened. I was left standing on the street with goose bumps and a dawning sense of what I had just seen.
The next day I went over to the Foundation offices to see the historian who had been assigned to help me with the details of the story. I told him what had happened. He asked which house and he looked at me very oddly. Then he left the room and came back with a large book. "Was this the man?" he asked. It was. John Watson, my grandfather many times removed.
And She Came Back
Irene and I were married during 1966. Twenty-six years later (1992) we had three beautiful daughters and a wonderful marriage. In April she was diagnosed with cancer. She died November 19, 1992. The last eight months were among the best and the worst of times. We seemed to be more and more in love as she slowly slipped away. We were rarely apart. While Rene knew she was dying, she did not want to know about the nitty gritty of it. She wanted me to take care of "all that palliative stuff," and so I did. During her last seven days I never left her side except to use the bathroom. And then she was dead.
We were both confirmed agnostics: She was a former Presbyterian and I was a Roman Catholic until I turned atheist at age 15. By 25 I was an agnostic because it was the only reasonable position. Death, we agreed, was probably the best night's sleep a person ever got. According to her wishes she was cremated in something like a cardboard box and we remembered Rene as she lived — not in death. Out of respect for her wishes there was no memorial service. I cite these behaviors and ideas to indicate the firm belief we both had in agnosticism.
However, as any good agnostic would do, I said to her two days before she died and while she was conscious, that if she continued after death I would sorely want to hear from her. I anticipated a very long lonely road. Rene in her usual, somewhat humorous way, raised one eyebrow as she looked at me in the way she would do when she nonverbally queried if the other person seriously meant what they said. We did not discuss it any more than that.
Two weeks after her death I was going through the motions of acting as though life had meaning. Two of our daughters were still at home and "Dad" was needed to be there for them. Our family is about as close as five people could be and Rene had been the center of our collective universe. I was sleeping a lot, as depressed people are likely to do. I knew I was clinically depressed, fought it for the girls' sake and tried to live a normal life — under the circumstances. I entertained no notions of seeing or hearing from Rene again. The black hole was deep and appeared to be never ending. I was learning to accept the idea that the major part of my life was over and only cleaning up was left to do.
As best I can remember, I was lying on the couch about 11:00 PM. I was probably in a hypnogogic state when I got up to answer a knock at the front door1. The girls were young adults and I expected any 20 something male or female at that time of night. I opened the door and was startled, surprised, taken aback. There stood Rene in the long red velvet cape I had bought several years ago. I loved her in that red riding hood cape. She was statuesque, regal, and commanded attention whenever she walked into a room. I was proud just to be with her when she wore that cape. Need I say that she only ever wore it at my insistence.
My stupid comment was, "What are you doing here at the front door?" The thought in my mind was, "You are dead – how can you be here?" But I was trying to be tactful2. She answered with, "You know why — I don't live here anymore." There was a smile of love and kindness and also of hesitancy. She turned and walked across the porch to leave3.
I was dazed, confused and "came to" standing in the living room. I had closed the door but do not remember doing it. The event was unbelievably real – "more real than real" as the people who have Near Death Experiences say. By the next morning I had pretty well dismissed the whole event. Had to be some kind of hallucination. Though I have never, to my knowledge, hallucinated4 or suffered anything worse than the depression I was now in. It seemed that maybe I had better straighten up and get on with my life before my daughters noticed how strange their father had become.
And yet — every memory of it was as though it were real. To say I was confused is to put it mildly. Over the next few days I seemed to become more confused, more depressed. Think of the possibilities – maybe she still lived in another world, maybe I would see her again after I died. No, the dead were – well – dead. This hallucination, if that is what it was, was more torturous than not having it. Was she alive — was she not alive? Does she love me, does she not? Like picking the petals on a daisy, though far more painful than such adolescent musings: I was contemplating the center of my universe. By turns I was elated, hopeful, a little giddy and alternatively deeply depressed missing her, anticipating a dismal future, helpless and hopeless. I felt like I was going around the proverbial bend. "Definitely a sharp left turn," I said to myself.
About ten days later I was in my study / therapy office. Our home was in the country and I had a separate wing for my research and practice. This night, as had been common over the last few weeks, I slept wherever I found myself. I just could not bring myself to sleep in our bed. I had worked all day, and I had worked hard to try and loose myself in something other than my own depression. By 11:00 PM I was literally falling asleep as I sat reading on the couch. I nodded once, opened my eyes and there stood Rene where it was impossible for her to stand in a six inch space between two file cabinets. In front of her was the wheel chair that I had pushed around for the last four months (In reality the chair had been returned to the supply company). Some how the chair was now gone and we were in a long embrace that seemed to last 20 – 30 minutes. I have never felt so loved and cared for in my life5. We did not talk about anything of consequence. In fact I don't really remember what we said. I do know that the conversation was not in words and I also knew she was "dead" and I was not.
Eventually a woman got my attention and said she wanted to show me something that Rene had made. The lady was kind, I did not want to be rude, so I walked into the other room so she could show me whatever it was. She showed me some sort of other world crystal carving of a butterfly or something similar. I tried to be polite, said it was beautiful6 (which it was) but that I had to get back to the other room. When I got back, Rene was gone.
All this could be a hallucination, or a dream and indeed if I were to hear it in my clinical practice I would place much emphasis on the hypnogogic state on both occasions. However, it happened to me and I know it was real as well as I can know anything. The ramifications have been long acting for now all of my non-teaching time is spent in studying after death experiences. In the last seven years I have read and studied more about parapsychology, after death, near death and dying than I ever read for a PhD in developmental psychology.
In lucid dreams I have seen and spoken with her. I have talked with her again and I have very clearly heard her say to me (at 10:AM) about two years later as I was coming down stairs in the morning. "Well, you have had that dream three times. Are you going to go and get Beth and bring her home now?" When I heard her voice as clearly as I hear anyone speak who is standing three feet behind me, my hair stood on end, and yet I was comforted and I knew what had to be done. Her voice brought the importance of those forgotten dreams back to the surface.
At the time I did not consciously consider that my youngest daughter was having problems – she was, I got her, and Beth did move back home. I could have known that Beth was having problems from her nonverbal behaviors, her clothes and her quiet attitude. The conscious side of me was trying to accept her and her ways as she matured into adulthood carrying that deep sense of loss for her mother. I could have determined that she was having a very difficult time but it took Rene's comment to bring it to the surface and make me realize in a startling manner that action was needed now.
To me these experiences are real. So real they have changed my life. My depression was gone – absolutely lifted, after the second instance. I have never looked back7. I know she lives on somewhere and that life after what we call death is far to important a topic to leave for soft headed people to think about.
Now from a hardball scientist who teaches multivariate statistics, research methods and one who wrote computerized diagnostic software, I have joined the paranormal set. I am sure that some of my colleagues think I have indeed gone round that bend when they hear about my public talks and workshops exploring the issues as we in the sciences are prone to do.
And that little agnostic side of me creeps in and says, "Even if you are deluded, the positive affects of after death experiences are too therapeutic to ignore." They sure can be life changing.
Study of Near-Death Experiences
Near-death Experience – Campaign for Open Science
Consciousness Independent of the Brain (1:24:19)
Bruce Greyson
Founder and Past President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, Dr Bruce Greyson discusses NDEs, complex consciousness with minimal brain matter, memories of past lives and other research supporting consciousness apart from the brain: from the Cosmology and Consciousness Conference – Mind and Matter 2011, hosted by Upper TCV, Dharamsala.
Mitch Liester, Robert Mays, Suzanne Mays, and Jan Holden
A panel discussion from the 2015 IONS conference on what topics should be the focus of future NDE research, and challenges in conducting such research. Participants include Mitch Liester, Robert Mays, Suzanne Mays, and Jan Holden.
Nonlocal Consciousness: A concept based on scientific studies in NDE
Pim van Lommel
For more than twenty years, cardiologist Dr Pim van Lommel has studied near-death experiences (NDEs) in patients who survived a cardiac arrest. In this presentation he reviews his research and how it relates to non-local consciousness.
A Neurosurgeon's Journey through the Afterlife
Eben Alexander
In this intimate and powerful re-examination of his best-selling book "Proof of Heaven," Dr. Alexander looks at the past two and a half years of his life spent in trying to reconcile his rich spiritual experience with contemporary physics and cosmology. This presentation was part of the 128th Summer Convention of the Theosophical Society in America, 2014.
Peer-Reviewed Research Papers – Windbridge Institute, LLC
Beischel, J., Boccuzzi, M., Biuso, M., & Rock, A. J. (2015). Anomalous information reception by research mediums under blinded conditions II: Replication and extension. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing, 11(2), 136-142. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2015.01.001
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Beischel, J., Mosher, C. & Boccuzzi, M. (2014-2015). The possible effects on bereavement of assisted after-death communication during readings with psychic mediums: A continuing bonds perspective. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 70(2), 169-194. doi: 10.2190/OM.70.2.b
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Rock, A. J., Beischel, J., Boccuzzi, M., & Biuso, M. (2014). Discarnate readings by claimant mediums: Assessing phenomenology and accuracy under beyond double-blind conditions. Journal of Parapsychology, 78(2), 183-194.
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Beischel, J. (2014). Assisted after-death communication: A self-prescribed treatment for grief [Extended abstract]. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 32, 161–165.
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Delorme, A., Beischel. J., Michel, L., Boccuzzi, M., Radin, D., & Mills, P. J. (2013). Electrocortical activity associated with subjective communication with the deceased.Frontiers in Psychology, 4: 834. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00834
Beischel, J. (2012). A quarter century of applied research. Journal of Parapsychology, Special Issue Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Journal of Parapsychology: Where Will Parapsychology Be in the Next 25 Years? Predictions and Prescriptions by 32 Leading Parapsychologists, 76 (suppl.): 9-10.
Boccuzzi, M., & Beischel, J. (2011). Objective analyses of reported real-time audio instrumental transcommunication and matched control sessions: A pilot study. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 25, 215-235.
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Beischel, J., & Rock, A. J. (2009). Addressing the survival vs. psi debate through process-focused mediumship research. Journal of Parapsychology, 73, 71-90.
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Rock, A. J., Beischel, J., & Cott, C. C. (2009). Psi vs. survival: A qualitative investigation of mediums' phenomenology comparing psychic readings and ostensible communication with the deceased. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 13, 76-89.
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Rock, A. J., & Beischel, J. (2008). Quantitative analysis of mediums' conscious experiences during a discarnate reading versus a control task: A pilot study. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 8, 157-179.
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Beischel, J. (2007). Contemporary methods used in laboratory-based mediumship research. Journal of Parapsychology, 71, 37-68.
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Rock, A. J., Beischel, J., & Schwartz, G. E. (2008). Thematic analysis of research mediums' experiences of discarnate communication. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 22, 179-192.
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Beischel, J., & Schwartz, G.E. (2007). Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing, 3, 23-27.
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Skeptical of Skeptics, Chris Carter Tackles Near Death Experience Science
Chris Carter: Yeah. You said earlier that the near-death experience poses a threat to mainstream science. I really don't see it that way at all. In fact, if you do surveys of scientists, the vast majority of them are remarkably open to the existence of human abilities such as telepathy.
A large number are open to the possibility that the near-death experience really is a genuine separation of mind from body-that the mind can continue to function even after the brain stops functioning. So, you know, I think that cardiologists and physicists and neuroscientists, like everybody else, they really are a mixed bag of different opinions.
Alex Tsakiris: You know, I'm not sure I quite agree with you on that last point. And I think it's kind of an interesting cultural point that maybe we can dip into for a minute.
I think when we undersell the significance of the near-death experience phenomena and the findings in terms of it overturning fundamentally and impacting–again fundamentally– just about every area of science we can imagine, I think if we undersell that too much by saying, "Oh, it's clearly no big deal here."
I think that causes more confusion and really becomes part of the problem in this debate. Doesn't NDE science really turn everything on its head? I can't think of an area of science that it wouldn't significantly impact to say that consciousness is not only separate from our here/now brain, but somehow in some way we don't understand, it survives our bodily death. To me that seems pretty earth-shattering.
Chris Carter: I agree with you in that it's earth-shattering and may have earth-shattering results for society, but I do not agree with you that the acceptance-say of telepathy, or the acceptance of the near-death experience as a genuine separation of mind from body, I do not think that would challenge any aspect of science. I don't think it would change the way that neuroscientists come in and do their jobs.
I think that everything would be exactly the same. They'd continue looking for the same chemicals, the same neurotransmitters, the same areas of the brain that light up. They'd still be trying to work with split brain patients and patents who have damaged brains. I don't think that anything would change.
Except, yes, their conversations down at the pub on weekends would change. Absolutely. The philosophical conversations would change. But I really don't think that it would impact anything in science simply because modern neuroscience is completely neutral as to whether the brain produces the mind or whether the brain acts as a receiver/transmitter for the mind.
Alex Tsakiris: I just can't quite get there because to me it's almost like having a microscope or not having a microscope. Or having an MRI or and FMRI device or not having it.
If we have this whole other area that is completely unexplored, which is your consciousness as it exists on some other plane, in some other dimension, and that that's somehow interacting with you on this what appears to be a very fundamental level-and we didn't know about it and now we accept it. I think if you're a neurologist you have to go back and look through every study you've ever done, every building block of assumption you've ever made, and re-examine it in the light of this new finding that this consciousness seems to emerge from some other dimension.
Let me give you a final thought on that and then we'll move on, because I really want to talk about skepticism and near-death experience because I think that's really right up your alley.
Chris Carter: Okay. I'd just like to say something briefly about that, because what you're talking about is the relationship between Materialism and science. You know, Materialists sometimes like to claim successes in modern science have been due to a Materialistic outlook. You've probably heard that before. But this is nonsense.
The three men most responsible for the scientific revolution, Galileo, Keppler, and Newton, were not Materialists. One of the reasons Galileo recanted his views is because he feared the Church would excommunicate him. Newton spent the last half of his life writing on theology. I mean, Materialism is an ancient philosophy that basically asserts that everything has a material cause. Therefore, the brain produces the mind
This dates back at least to Democratists in ancient Greece. It was thought to gain support from the physics of Isaac Newton, although Newton himself did not agree. Newton himself instead followed the Dualism of Renee Descartes. It was really the 18thcentury philosophes such as Diderot and Voltaire who spread the doctrines of Materialism and Mechanism. They did this in order to combat the religious fundenaticism and superstition and persecution that were common in their time.
So I really don't think that there's anything in modern science, or even for that matter in classical science, which would be strongly contradicted by these results.
Alex Tsakiris: Okay. Let's talk a little bit about skepticism. This skeptical mindset that really goes beyond the skeptical community, but we always wind up focusing on the skeptical community because to their credit, they're the ones who are brave enough to stick their chin out there and say, "Come on, this is the way that it is." Now we've talked to quite a few of those folks on this show and have tried to create this dialogue and find out what they're really saying.
We've talked to anesthesiologist G.M Woerlee; we've talked to University of Kentucky Professor Kevin Nelson, who has an alternative theory on what causes near-death experience. We've talked to Yale neurologist Steve Novella.
And the story's always the same-that "Hey, there's a conventional explanation for all this, guys, just hang in there a little bit. We're figuring out that this is all explainable with conventional medicine." What do you think about this skeptical response to this point to near-death experience science?
Chris Carter: Well, in my second book, Science and the Near-Death Experience, I've got several chapters devoted to these attempts to explain away the near-death experience within a Materialistic framework. In a nutshell, I'm not the slightest bit impressed at all. The more I read about it the less impressed I become.
Essentially, this debate is not about evidence. The debunkers and the deniers are defending an outmoded world view in which psychic phenomena and the separation of mind from body are simply not allowed to exist. It's essential to realize that most of these deniers and these phony skeptics are militant Atheists and secular Humanists. For various reasons these people have an ideological agenda, which is anti-religious.
One of the pillars of their opposition to religion and superstition is the doctrine of Materialism. That is, the doctrine that all events have a physical cause and that the brain therefore produces the [mind]. If they conceded the existence of psychic ability such as telepathy, if they conceded the existence of the near-death experience as a genuine separation of mind from body, then Materialism, this pillar of their opposition to religion, would crumble. This explains their dogmatic denial of all the evidence that proves Materialism false.
Evidence for the Afterlife
- Introduction
- Detailed Overviews
The Evidence
- Individual Cases
- Reincarnation
- Shared Death Bed Visions
- Shared and Veridical Near Death Experiences
- Multiple Witness Crisis Apparitions
- Book and Newspaper Tests
- Cross Correspondences
- Drop-in Communicators
- Proxy Sittings
- Instrumental Trans Communication (ITC)
- The Scole Experiments
- Quantum Mechanics
- Philosophy
- Survival not Super-Psi
- Twenty Cases Suggestive of Survival
- Early Research
- Eminent Researchers
- On Line Classics in Psychical Research
- More Articles at "Life in B Flat"
Many scientists have conducted their own research into the afterlife and found the phenomena are real. Several Nobel Prize winning scientists, including Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, Brian D. Josephson, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie and others believed that consciousness or psychic phenomena cannot be explained by mainstream scientific explanations. (see the chapter on: Eminent Researchers for more information and links). These scientists were not fooled by magic tricks. Highly skilled stage magicians have investigated many mediums and have found them to be genuine (see the chapter on Skeptical Fallacies for more information and links). Studies have shown people with more education are more likely to believe in the afterlife, and most medical doctors believe in the afterlife (see the chapter on Skeptical Fallacies for more information and links). These highly educated and intelligent people are right, there is no death. Departed loved ones are not gone, they continue to live in a higher realm.
World War I Soldiers Helped by Their Dead Comrades – The Last Frontier
I recently finished Michael Tymn's book, Dead Men Talking: Afterlife Communication from World War I. The book is a review of channeled messages received from newly fallen soldiers in The Great War. Two of its most interesting features are the variety of messages and views, and the strange mixture of sophisticated accounts of the afterlife with simplistic accounts.
But what is fascinating is how these dead soldiers continued to interact with the battlefield, swiftly coming to the aid of comrades who are either dying or have just died. We get a glimpse of what war is like from the point of view of those who just died. Some offer their understanding of the purpose of World War I, from their perspective. And we learn how some soldiers adjusted quickly directly after their deaths and some did not. Those who did, immediately began rescue work for those who were dying in battle. Those who did not were helped with compassion and understanding.
Myth: Brain Produces Mind – Campaign for Open Science
Prof. Alexander Moreira-Almeida MD, PhD talks about the mind-brain relationship, showing that it is an open scientific and philosophical question and that it has not been established that mind is just a brain product.
Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science – Campaign for Open Science
10. Conscious mental activity can be experienced in clinical death during a cardiac arrest (this is what has been called a "near-death experience" [NDE]). Some near-death experiencers (NDErs) have reported veridical out-of-body perceptions (i.e. perceptions that can be proven to coincide with reality) that occurred during cardiac arrest. NDErs also report profound spiritual experiences during NDEs triggered by cardiac arrest. It is noteworthy that the electrical activity of the brain ceases within a few seconds following a cardiac arrest.
11. Controlled laboratory experiments have documented that skilled research mediums (people who claim that they can communicate with the minds of people who have physically died) can sometimes obtain highly accurate information about deceased individuals. This further supports the conclusion that mind can exist separate from the brain.
12. Some materialistically inclined scientists and philosophers refuse to acknowledge these phenomena because they are not consistent with their exclusive conception of the world. Rejection of post-materialist investigation of nature or refusal to publish strong science findings supporting a post-materialist framework are antithetical to the true spirit of scientific inquiry, which is that empirical data must always be adequately dealt with. Data which do not fit favored theories and beliefs cannot be dismissed a priori. Such dismissal is the realm of ideology, not science.
13. It is important to realize that psi phenomena, NDEs in cardiac arrest, and replicable evidence from credible research mediums, appear anomalous only when seen through the lens of materialism.
14. Moreover, materialist theories fail to elucidate how brain could generate the mind, and they are unable to account for the empirical evidence alluded to in this manifesto. This failure tells us that it is now time to free ourselves from the shackles and blinders of the old materialist ideology, to enlarge our concept of the natural world, and to embrace a post-materialist paradigm.
c) Mind (will/intention) can influence the state of the physical world, and operate in a nonlocal (or extended) fashion, i.e. it is not confined to specific points in space, such as brains and bodies, nor to specific points in time, such as the present. Since the mind may nonlocally influence the physical world, the intentions, emotions, and desires of an experimenter may not be completely isolated from experimental outcomes, even in controlled and blinded experimental designs.
d) Minds are apparently unbounded, and may unite in ways suggesting a unitary, One Mind that includes all individual, single minds.
e) NDEs in cardiac arrest suggest that the brain acts as a transceiver of mental activity, i.e. the mind can work through the brain, but is not produced by it. NDEs occurring in cardiac arrest, coupled with evidence from research mediums, further suggest the survival of consciousness, following bodily death, and the existence of other levels of reality that are non-physical.
Dr. Charles Tart's Study of Verified Perception in Out-of-Body Experiences
The following is an excerpt from an article by Dr. Tart which was published in theJournal of the American Society for Psychical Research. In it, Dr. Tart documents the out-of-body experience of a young woman who was one of his research subjects. What makes this particular out-of-body experience remarkable is that she was able to leave her physical body and read a 5-digit number, which was at a significant distance, and correctly give it to him upon return. The odds of guessing a 5-digit number correctly is 1 in 100,000. Her OBE a good example of "veridical perception" where verified events are observed while in an out-of-body state.
Important Research Articles
- Lancet Study on NDEs
- Comments about the Dutch Study From a Family Doctor Who is also a Near-Death Experiencer
- Dutch NDE Study Attracts Worldwide Attention
- Dr. Pim van Lommel, M.D.: Continuity of Consciousness
- Dr. Peter Fenwick, M.D.: Science and Spirituality
- REM Intrusion and NDEs
- Out-of-Body Experiences: All in the Brain?
- Penny Sartori, PhD: Prospective Study
- Greyson NDE Scale
Journal Articles
To download current journal articles, visit: http://www.windbridge.org/publications.htm
Beischel, J., Boccuzzi, M., Biuso, M., &; Rock, A. J. (2015). Anomalous information reception by research mediums under blinded conditions II: Replication and extension. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing, 11(2), 136-142. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2015.01.001
Beischel, J., Mosher, C. & Boccuzzi, M. (2014-2015). The possible effects on bereavement of assisted after-death communication during readings with psychic mediums: A continuing bonds perspective. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 70(2), 169-194. doi: 10.2190/OM.70.2.b
Beischel, J. (2014). Assisted after-death communication: A self-prescribed treatment for grief [Extended abstract]. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 32, 161–165.
Delorme,A., Beischel. J., Michel, L., Boccuzzi, M., Radin, D., & Mills, P. J. (2013). Electrocortical activity associated with subjective communication with the deceased. Frontiers in Psychology, 4: 834. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00834
Beischel, J. (2012). A quarter century of applied research. Journal of Parapsychology, Special Issue Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Journal of Parapsychology: Where Will Parapsychology Be in the Next 25 Years? Predictions and Prescriptions by 32 Leading Parapsychologists, 76 (suppl.): 9-10.
Survival After Death Information
Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century by Edward Kelly and Emily Williams Kelly
Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates empirically that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms. Topics addressed include phenomena of extreme psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms and secondary personality, near-death experiences and allied phenomena, genius-level creativity, and 'mystical' states of consciousness both spontaneous and drug-induced. The authors further show that these rogue phenomena are more readily accommodated by an alternative "transmission" or "filter" theory of mind/brain relations advanced over a century ago by a largely forgotten genius, F. W. H. Myers, and developed further by his friend and colleague William James. This theory, moreover, ratifies the common sense conception of human beings as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with leading-edge physics and neuroscience. The book should command the attention of all open-minded persons concerned with the still-unsolved mysteries of the mind.
Near Death Experiences–Recommended Reading
Fenwick, Peter & Elizabeth Fenwick (1995). The Truth in the Light. New York: Berkley Books. Report by a well-respected neuropsychiatrist and his wife, based on a careful study of over 300 NDEs in the United Kingdom. See his article, "Science and Spirituality", on this web site.
Moody, Raymond (1975). Life After Life. New York: Bantam. The book that began it all. Easy reading, basic. An excellent phenomenological treatment of NDEs. While some findings have since been clarified and expanded by further research, this book remains the basic work in the field of near-death studies.
Long, Jeffrey & Paul Perry (2010). Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences. Long presents nine lines of evidence that we survive bodily death, based on an analysis of 1,300 NDE accounts from his NDERF web site.
Ring, Kenneth (1982). Life at Death: A Scientific Investigation of the Near-Death Experience. The first quantifiable attempt to describe the NDE itself. Most other researchers have corroborated the basic findings reported in this book.
Ring, Kenneth (1999). Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind. Palo Alto, CA: William James Center for Consciousness Studies. Evidence that the blind can see during NDEs and OBEs and that during NDEs sight has a different quality and is a kind of "transcendental awareness" referred to as "mindsight".
Sabom, Michael B. (1984). Recollections of Death: A Medical Investigation. A clearly written and fascinating discussion of the first physician-conducted study of near-death experiences, with special attention to verifiable out-of-body experiences. Highly recommended.
van Lommel, P. (2010). Consciousness Beyond Life: The science of the near-death experience. Scientific evidence that the near-death phenomenon is an authentic experience demonstrating that consciousness can be experienced separate from the body.
Holden, Janice Miner, Bruce Greyson, and Debbie James (Eds.) (2009). The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation. A summary of what has been discovered about NDEs in the first three decades of research; presentations from the historic 2006 IANDS conference at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Comprehensive, scholarly.
Carter, Chris (2010). Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions. Philosophical argument based on evidence from NDEs, physics and consciousness research that consciousness survives death.
Beauregard, Mario and Denise O'Leary (2007). The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul. New York: HarperOne.
Division of Perceptual Studies – University of Virginia School of Medicine
Founded in 1967 by Dr. Ian Stevenson, the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) is the oldest and most productive university-based research group in the world devoted exclusively to the investigation of phenomena that challenge current physicalist brain/mind orthodoxy – including investigation of phenomena directly suggestive of post-mortem survival of consciousness.
Through its research, DOPS strives to challenge this entrenched mainstream view by rigorously evaluating empirical evidence suggesting that consciousness survives death and that mind and brain are distinct and separable.
As we expand our leading edge research, we believe mainstream academia will become more accepting of survival psi and that science will enlarge to take on new challenges in studying the nature on consciousness and its interaction with the physical world.
Notable NDE Research
Science, Death, and Consciousness – Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Dutch cardiologist Pim Van Lommel estimates that 4.2% of the American public has experienced a NDE and reported it. The actual number is much larger since many NDEs go unreported to medical records, but that is still over 13 million people.4x4Van Lommel P. Consciousness beyond life : the science of the near-death experience. New York: HarperOne, 2010.
See all References4 And as resuscitation medicine advances with closer and closer monitoring, physicalist arguments about dying brains and hallucinations seem out of date, and not consistent with the observed evidence. One thing is certain, as more physicians become sensitized to near death, the more aware they are of NDEs, the greater the likelihood of cases being recorded. The data just keeps piling up.
The Spirit World
The Spirit World:
Descriptions by Early Spiritualists
Barbara N. Starr
Atlantic University, 2000
Advisor: Douglas G. Richards, Ph.D.
Spiritualism as a religion was at the peak of its popularity in the late 1800s and early 1900s, primarily because mediumship was providing answers to questions about life after death. This study explores the beliefs of the Spiritualists in that time period, and provides their answers to what the spirit world is, how it operates, and how it looks. Early Spiritualists believed the spirit world is divided into various levels and spheres, and each sphere is different, depending on one's spiritual development and growth. Specifics of physical surroundings, homes, clothing, food, relationships, occupations, education, and religion are discussed.
The information comes primarily from mediums who were communicating with those in the spirit world. Descriptions were often different because not all mediums, nor those with whom they were communicating, interpreted information in the same way. However, there is general agreement on what the spirit world looks like and how it operates.
Neuroscience, and Near Death: An Emerging Paradigm Incorporating Nonlocal Consciousness – Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
This work is pushing toward a new paradigm, one that is neither dualist nor monist, but rather one that postulates consciousness as the fundamental basis of reality. Max Planck, the father of Quantum Mechanics, framed it very clearly in an interview with the respected British newspaper, The Observer in its January 25, 1931 edition. Context is always important, and Planck understood very well that he was taking a public position, speaking as one of the leading physicists of his generation, through one of Britain׳s most important papers. He did not mince words: "I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."2x2Interview with Max Planck. The observer. January 25, 1931.
Two corollaries flow from Planck׳s assertion: first is the existence of nonlocal consciousness. An aspect of consciousness independent of space-time and not resident in an organism׳s physiology. Second that all consciousnesses are interdependent and interconnected.
A sign of the power of this trend is that most scientists doing research concerning consciousness tend to cite in their articles only work within their own discipline, or a closely related one. Physicists rarely cite physicians, and physicians rarely cite physicists. As a result separate literatures dealing with consciousness, both local and nonlocal, are developing independent of one another. It is only when seen collectively, however, that the emerging paradigm this research is producing becomes clear. A paradigm incorporating nonlocal consciousness.
The validation of Planck׳s perception proceeds on four fronts.
Seven Surprising Things You've Never Heard About Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
7 Surprising Things You've Never Heard About Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
by GOSTICA · January 10, 2017
Parapsychologists have been studying Near-Death-Experiences (NDEs) for many years, however, most of us aren't familiar with what they've been finding.
We are familiar with the idea that many see a tunnel or a light in the distance, see or meet passed on loved ones, and then return with perhaps a new outlook on life, but what else do you know?
Here are some of the more interesting phenomena scientists have reported:
1.) People can have NDEs when they are brain dead.
A famous case occurred during an operation referred to as a "standstill," where one's body temperature is reduced to 60 degrees (F), the heartbeat and breathing stop, and blood drains from the brain – in other words, a person is put to death to perform surgery.
In Pam Reynold's case, she left her body, observed the operation and also entered the tunnel and met with deceased loved ones, before returning to her body.
2.) People born blind experience sight during an NDE.
In the book "Mindsight," researchers documented 31 cases of the blind experiencing normal vision during NDEs and reporting identical experiences to those who experienced NDEs with normal vision.
3.) Scientific discoveries have been brought back by people having NDEs.
One instance happened when Lynneclaire Dennis returned from an NDE describing a three dimensional geometric structure of light she called "The Pattern" and explained was "the the essence of all being."
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The "Mereon Matrix", as it is called, has been studied by world-renowned mathematician Dr. Louis H. Kauffman, who concluded that a Ms. Dennis, non-scientist, had described in detail a complex geometric structure that coincided with knot theory in physics and did so without any prior knowledge of geometry, knot theory, or science.
4.) NDEs can be shared by groups of dying people.
A fascinating example is that of a crew of wildland firefighters that took place in Colorado in 1989. Trapped by a change in conditions, firefighters had to take refuge in individual foil shelters while the fire burned around and over them.
It was during this time in the shelters (known as "turkey cookers" in this field), that one firefighter found himself above this scene looking down.
As he looked around, he saw his fellow firefighters gathered near him, doing the same. He went on to witness the bright light and meet his deceased loved ones, but upon returning, discovered that several other firefighters had the same experience – they had experienced a group NDE!
5.) Some have had visions of the future during NDEs that later came true.
In 1975, Dannion Brinkley was struck by lightning while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm. During his NDE, he was shown 12 future events, presented to him almost as if he were watching the news on T.V.
One event Brinkley had predicted was the nuclear melt down and explosion that occurred at Chernobyl in 1986.


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Who doesn't love Jelly Belly jelly beans? Jelly Belly offers a ton of great holiday and birthday gift ideas for boys and girls. In addition to the regular gift packs, our kids absolutely love the Jelly Belly BeanBoozled game where you spin the wheel and take a chance on eating either a delicious flavor or something less desirable. Make sure you pick the correct bean or you could be eating a bean with the following flavor attributes: canned dogged food, skunk spray, baby whites, barf, and stinky socks. You can only imagine how much fun this game could be for 4, 5, 6, and 7 year old boys and girls!
Inexpensive Gifts Under $15:
Friendship Stamp Set from Melissa and Doug ($12):
Featuring a rainbow, hearts, and more, children love using 8 playful stamps and a two-color inkpad. It's fun creating countless scenes and coloring in the pictures with the 5 colored pencils! This well-crafted set is conveniently contained in a sturdy wooden box for organizing and storage. It's a tremendous value that children will use over and over again! Washable, non-toxic kid-friendly ink.
The Original Fairy House Book ($11):
My girls love "anything" to do with Fairies and this great book by Tracy Kane is one of the reasons why! Just turn the pages in the book and discover a world filled with whimsical habitats constructed from natural materials. The idea is to entice a fairy to stop by for a visit! From rustic dwellings to fairy mansions, this book is filled with inspiring ideas for the child to build her own fairy houses.
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Melissa & Doug Wooden Floor Easel
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Live Butterfly Garden ($16):
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Who knew science could taste so good? With this kit, you'll whip up cupcakes, cookies, candy, and more all in the name of science! Learn what makes cakes rise, candy crystallize, and more real chemistry happen in the kitchen. Tasty Science is packed with ingredients, recipes, activity cards, a test tube laboratory, and lots more to explore the science of taste.
Zentangle Arts and Crafts Gift Basket:
The Zentangle craze is upon us! If your looking for gift ideas for a creative boy or girl on your shopping list who loves art, you should really look in to the various Zentangle arts and crafts products available on the market. Simply put, Zentangle is an artform that formalizes the the "doodling" that children (and adults) love to do anyway. By using structured shapes and containers on a piece of paper, zentanglers are have the freedom to fill in the shapes and containers with any shapes, patterns or design of their choosing. You can arrange the containers and block shapes into various objects, or you can just keep stringing them together and see where your imagination takes you! You can put together and inexpensive gift basket, or you can go all out and put together a high end zentangle package with the latest books, pencils, pens and stencils.
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An Authentic L.L. Bean Sleeping Bag ($59)
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Children's Puppet Theater ($59):
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, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Thanks to the "multi-year, sustained effort" made by the U.S. government, what we were afraid of has come true: we all now end up under Big Brother's surveillance.
The latest revelation of America's ongoing spy campaign against Apple devices laid bare once again Uncle Sam's hypocrisy on cyber security and its blatant ambitions of seeking cyber dominance.
Investigative news site The Intercept reported Tuesday that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has conducted "a multi-year, sustained effort" to break encryption on Apple devices so as to spy on communications of iPhone and iPad users.
Efforts to break into Apple products by government security researchers began as early as in 2006, a year before Apple introduced its first iPhone, and continued through the launch of the iPad in 2010 and beyond, according to reports.
Apparently, the scale of the U.S. government's surveillance has reached a hair-raising level, and the depth of its secrecy might go beyond people's wildest imagination.
The Intercept's disclosure came after a recent finding by cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has mastered the technology know-how to implant spying softwares that are virtually impossible to wipe out.
It also reminded us of what seemed to be an endless series of revelations about an all-pervasive U.S. surveillance network that even includes eavesdropping on leaders of Washington's allies, leaked by former NSA employee Edward Snowden.
Believing that cyber weapons are as crucial to the 21st century warfare as nuclear arms were in the 20th, the United States is sparing no efforts in building a worldwide internet surveillance network where almost no one can escape.
Tapping into computers and accessing users' files, audio files, videos, e-mails or photographs, the United States has been peeping virtually without any limits,
It collects million of mobile phone records and SMS data on a daily basis. A computer can even be spied on via radio wave while being disconnected with the internet.
Granting itself the unprecedented degree of power, expanse of rule and length of reign on the internet, America has indeed become the Big Brother in the cyber world.
However, the biggest cyber bully who forces us into a no-privacy era is an old hand at applying double-standard on the cyber issue as it always portrays itself as the prime victim of hacker attacks and repeatedly makes baseless accusations of cyber espionage against other countries.
One can not always falsify truth. The country, which always claims to hold dear the value of human rights, is verified to be the one that has been continuously and disrespectfully abusing power and trampling freedom and the rights of all people in the world.
COLOMBO, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka on Monday arrested a former top police officer in connection to a highly publicized and controversial murder case.
Former senior deputy inspector general of police Anura Senanayake was taken into custody by the Criminal Investigations Department in connection to the murder of former Sri Lanka national rugger player Wasim Thajudeen.
Senanayake was arrested after being questioned earlier in the day and was accused of concealing evidence when he was involved in the investigations.
Earlier this month, the police officer in charge of motor traffic Amarasiri Senaratne was also questioned by the police over Thajudeen's murder.
A local Magistrate in February ordered the police to arrest the suspects linked to Thajudeen's murder after it was revealed that political interference was hampering the probe.
Thajudeen died on May 17, 2012 in Colombo and his body was found in his car which had crashed into a wall.
According to police reports in 2012, the rugby player was driving home after attending a party when he lost control of the car and crashed into a wall.
The police claimed that the car had exploded instantly and burnt the victim.
However, suspicions later arose over the manner in which he died and it was believed that he was murdered.
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Access the highest-quality resources and training.
Attending the ACA 2020 Conference & Expo is an investment in your career. There's no better place to demonstrate your commitment to the counseling profession by updating your skills, enhancing your knowledge, and broadening your horizons—all in one very special place!
Attendees have access to 20 CE credit hours in Conference Sessions, and additional 8 CE hours in the Pre-Conference Learning Institutes (additional fees apply).
As an attendee, take advantage of this opportunity to:
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ACA 2020 Pre-Conference Learning Institutes offer attendees an opportunity to come early and earn 8 additional CEs. Learning Institutes are organized in 5-hour daytime sessions and 3-hour evening sessions. Attendees can learn with well-qualified, highly rated presenters. We host both introductory level and advanced level courses. Class sizes are limited and some fill up fast, so plan to book early to avoid disappointment.
April 17 - 19, 2020 – Conference Sessions
ACA 2020 Conference offers you continuing education credits in nearly 500 sessions, organized into 36 tracks. Choose to learn on more than 30 topics ranging from counseling ethics to timely concerns such as opioid addiction - in variety of educational styles from classroom presentations to roundtable sessions. Your Conference Sessions registration also gives you access to our one-of-a-kind Expo Hall, networking events and much more!
One-day passes are also available, which include all education sessions and conference activities on the day of your choice.
For 2020, we're taking our conference to San Diego, California - America's Finest City! We can't wait to explore this waterfront city, well known for its gorgeous, year-round sunshine and mild climate, breath-taking natural harbor, and recent emergence as a healthcare development center.
When you're through exercising your intellect at our groundbreaking event, take some time to enjoy the wide range of waterfront views, top-rated tourist destinations including the San Diego Zoo, and notable beachside sights.
Located downtown along majestic San Diego Bay, the San Diego Convention Center is just a short walk from the vibrant Gaslamp Quarter and the San Diego Padres' PETCO Park.
San Diego Convention Center
111 West Harbor Drive,
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The ACA 2020 Conference & Expo is hosted by the American Counseling Association, a not-for-profit, professional and educational organization that is dedicated to the growth and enhancement of the counseling profession. Founded in 1952, ACA is the world's largest association exclusively representing professional counselors in various practice settings. Our conference aligns with our mission: to promote the professional development of counselors, advocate for the profession, and ensure ethical, culturally inclusive, practices that protect those using counseling services.
Who attends?
We welcome nearly 5,000 licensed professional counselors, counselor educators, students, school counselors, substance abuse counselors, career counselors, psychologists and others eager to interact with the latest and greatest products and services that help mental health professionals help others thrive. Attendees work in all settings including private practices, counseling agencies, schools and universities, government/military, treatment centers and more.
Held annually, the ACA 2020 Conference & Expo is the ACA's flagship educational event focusing on the professional development of counselors in various practice settings. The event attracts nearly 5,000 mental health professionals who come to learn new strategies for self-care, advocate for the counseling care of tomorrow and access the latest resources to support clients and students. No other professional counseling conference delivers the range of topics and the depth of knowledge found at ACA's annual gathering.


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Tesco has a half-price deal on nappies and bargain hunters can't get enough
Parents looking to stock up can pick up packs of Pampers nappies for £3.75 - better than half price
PARENTS looking for a bargain can save at Tesco, as the supermarket has reduced the price of nappies by more than half price.
Prices across the Pampers range are down from £8 to £3.75 and you can pick up a pack from today.
The offer is across nappies and pull up pants, as well as wipes - which have had their prices cut by half from £1.40 down to 70p per pack.
We've had a look at the price of Pampers at other supermarkets and it seems Tesco is currently offering the cheapest deal.
You can pick up the nappies in up to 700 stores, as well as online until January 29. So you've got just under a month if you want to stock up.
Tesco has over 3,400 stores across the UK and you can find your nearest one using its online store locator tool.
Which nappies can you get for half price?
THESE are the nappies that have been reduced from £8 down to £3.75:
- Pampers Active Fit Pants Size 4 Essential Pack 32 Nappies
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Shoppers on the Latest Deals Facebook page have spotted the deal in stores and it seems they're keen to get their hands on them.
Samantha said: "we'll have to stock up for pull ups", while Stephen wrote: "maybe time to start stocking up!".
The offer was also posted on deals website hotukdeals with one user saying: "will come in handy as we have another baby about to come any day now. Cheapest I've seen them for a long time too".
Tesco has also slashed the cost of Lego across its stores, with the popular toy sets being reduced to clear.
Shoppers hoping to cut the cost of food bills will be pleased to hear that Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Tesco have cut the price of thousands of items.
The "big four" supermarkets have also cut fuel prices this week by up to 2 per litre in a supermarket petrol price war.
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Workers' compensation insurers often pay compensation or benefits under Maine's Workers' Compensation Act of 1992, 39-A M.R.S. § 101 et seq., to or on behalf of workers whose injuries are caused by third parties. In those cases where the third party is legally liable for the worker's injuries, Maine law gives to the workers' compensation insurer the subrogated right to recover the compensation or benefits paid by the insurer from the third party liable for the worker's injuries. 39-A M.R.S. § 107. What happens, however, when the third party responsible for the worker's injuries is judgment proof and has no insurance to cover the insurer's claims against him? In some cases, the insurer may be able to recover from uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage available to the injured worker.
In the case of Wallace v. City of South Portland, 592 A.2d 1076 (Me. 1991), the Maine Law Court held that the statute allowing a workers' compensation insurer to recover from a "third person liable for the injury" included the right to recover from an uninsured motorist insurer and not just from the third party responsible for the injury. However, in the Wallace case, the insurance policy providing the uninsured motorist coverage was one that had been purchased by the injured worker's employer, not by the injured worker himself. The Court distinguished between insurance policies purchased by the injured worker, which are exempt by statute from any subrogation claim by the workers' compensation insurer, and policies which are purchased by third parties which may provide coverage to the injured worker. Hence, a workers' compensation insurer's subrogation claim extends only to insurance policies that are not purchased by the injured worker.
The Wallace case predates Maine's current workers' compensation act, which went into effect in 1992. However, the relevant wording of two statutes relied upon by the Wallace Court in reaching its decision were carried over into the current workers' compensation act verbatim. See 39-A M.R.S. § 107 and § 221(3)(F). There have been no reported decisions in Maine regarding the extent of a workers' compensation insurer's claim against uninsured motorist coverage since the Wallace decision.
If you are an insurer in need of assistance regarding subrogation claims for insureds located in the State of Maine, the attorneys at Gosselin & Dubord, P.A. located in Lewiston, Maine have extensive experience with insurer representation and stand ready to assist you. Please contact Attorney David R. Dubord at (207) 783-5261 or email@example.com.


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Aspirin May Cure Your Broken Heart
Like it or not, the emotional common denominator of humanity is heartbreak. But here's some good news for anyone who's ever felt the pains of a loss or a breakup (so, everyone): A remedy for your broken heart may be right inside your medicine cabinet.
According to psychologist Walter Mischel, a few aspirin and some healthy distraction may help in mending a saddened heart. His new book The Marshmallow Test is a culmination of his lifelong research in self-control and delayed gratification. Below, a few thoughts from Mischel's book on how physical and emotional pain are linked, and how practicing self-control may in fact be a better remedy for heartbreak than comfort food and bad sappy cinema.
In 2011, Mischel's team presented extraordinary findings about the way we perceive physical and emotional pain. In this study, Mischel and his team showed people who had recently experienced unwanted breakups pictures of their ex-lovers, and in another experiment subjected them to physical pain through thermal stimulation on their forearms.
Using functional MRI equipment, the researchers found that the same areas of the brain were stimulated in both scenarios. "These results give new meaning to the idea that rejection 'hurts,'" says the study. "They demonstrate that rejection and physical pain are similar not only in that they are both distressing —they share a common somatosensory representation as well."
So those timeworn heartache metaphors of physical hurt? Scientifically, they may not be so far off base. Mischel says that the "take two aspirin and call me in the morning" approach, while cold, may actually be a healthy response to a friend bemoaning a freshly broken heart.
In his Stanford Marshmallow Test, Mischel and his team studied the responses in 3- to 5-year-old children who were asked to think about "sad thoughts" and "fun things" while waiting for a marshmallow reward. Thinking "sad thoughts" while waiting for the reward made the delay time while waiting for the treat seem significantly longer. However, when distracted from their end goal of receiving a reward by engaging in other activities, he found, "cognitions about the rewards significantly reduced, rather than enhanced, the length of their delay of gratification."
Basically, out of sight, out of mind may have some significant sway in piecing yourself back together post-heartbreak.
Mischel adds that ruminating on the sad or negative experiences associated with heart break, shockingly, don't actually help the healing process. In fact, he says, brooding actually makes matters worse. Each times a person recounts their troublesome experience, he or she becomes further depressed. Objectively self-distancing oneself from the issue, in this case, is the healthiest way to move forward.
In summary: Ditch the wallowing, pop an ibuprofen, and find a new hobby. There are plenty of fish in the sea.


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The Lincoln Eliot Elementary School / NECP Project is a major priority for the City under its school improvement program, requiring major renovation or replacement as identified in the City's Capital Improvement Plan. The Lincoln Eliot Elementary School (Lincoln Eliot) received a rating of 3 for building condition (scale: 1 best condition – 4 worst condition) on the MSBA's 2016 Facility Needs Survey. Similarly, the "Newton Schools Long-Range Facilities Master Plan," updated November 2011, ranked the Lincoln Eliot School 3.1 for facility condition and 4 for educational space needs (scale of 1 best condition - 4 worst condition; a rating of 3 is defined as fair condition requiring repair or replacement and a rating of 4 is defined as poor condition requiring repair or replacement).
The current Lincoln Eliot Elementary School, built in 1939, with additions in 1965 and 1974 is approximately 51,074 GSF in size, on three levels, and sits on one acre of land. It has a current enrollment of 374 students, with an expected growth over the next five years up to 381 students. In order to meet the school district's capacity challenges, the replacement Lincoln Eliot School will be sized to accommodate some growth beyond its current 18 classrooms and capacity of 396 students, for an expected enrollment of 22-24 classrooms, and 450 to 490 elementary students.
The Newton Early Childhood Program (NECP) currently occupies 150 Jackson Road (former Aquinas College). The program was relocated to 150 Jackson Road in 2016 due to space constraints at its former locations at the Lincoln-Eliot School and the Education Center. Currently the program has approximately 200 students and utilizes approximately 13 classrooms. The program also serves 100 or more students on a part-time basis for services including speech therapy, occupational therapy or physical therapy. To keep pace with consistent long-term trends of increased need for special education services, the program is anticipated to serve 300-350 students in total and to need 14-16 core classrooms, expanded individual and small group spaces, as well as flexible spaces to be able to respond to community needs.
To meet the increasing enrollment, space demands, and physical challenges at the current Lincoln Eliot School and the NECP program at 150 Jackson Road, the City of Newton will undertake a Feasibility Study to determine the most educationally and fiscally appropriate solution.


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Sky Limit Records is thrilled to announce the release of the latest official video from their artist Merveille titled "Na You". The sound track was inspired by a true life story of the artist himself. The song is an Afro-pop style which brings out a theme of thanks giving and appreciation to God for all he has done and will do,in the life of the artist and the Company.This song is one of the songs from her album titled "A New Season"
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Merveille is an award winning singer,who has been in the shadows of 'popular artists' in Cameroon as a backup singer.In 2013,she was the winner of national music competition,"Mboalive show" organised by blaxity of 'Tony Nobody' in Douala . She sang the 50th anniversary song of Cameroon entitled "Here we stand" composed by Frank and the living stone in 2013-2014.In 2016 she came up with her debut titled "A New Season" produced by Skylimit Records.Merveille Onguenet is an artist,backup artist as well and composer.With her debut album,she won the Bronze Medal in the prestigious Global Music Award 2016 California USA with the song "Giving Love" and was nominated as Best Female Artist in Central Africa in AFRIMA 2017 for the song Toi.


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Alumni Volunteering and Mentoring Program transcript
ASTRID D'SILVA: For me, the Alumni Volunteering and Mentoring Program was all about giving back to the community.
SAM GINSBERG: It made me feel fantastic. It's such a pleasure to make a contribution to another person's life. And I know it made a difference.
ZUBEN RUSTOMJEE: I always see the next generation as being better than the previous one. And the reason why I say that is because they're able to learn from our mistakes.
ANNA CAIRO: They are diverse. They give their opinions. They're not afraid to say what they believe in. And they ask the best questions.
ASTRID D'SILVA: My approach was to use an informal one-on-one mentoring. We met as friends.
NILUSHA PERERA: My mentor helped me to realize my confidence. That's the main thing. I came to realize it's going to be a mutual understanding where thoughts, emotions comes into play. With the confidence is the key to success.
ANNA CAIRO: The focus was on career development. And the main point that I would give to them is to say that it's not possible to find the ideal job the first time. It's important just to get a foot in the door, and they will move forward from there.
SAM GINSBERG: I'm convinced that the program is as valuable to the mentor as to the mentee. I learned to be patient. I learned to listen carefully.
ZUBEN RUSTOMJEE: A lot of the skills I've learned about how to handle different situations, especially with people coming from different backgrounds, like an international student.
ANNA CAIRO: The key point that I did learn was that regardless of where people came from, they were basically the same, and listening and communication were really key to understanding those. The stand out is really the diversity of the programs, of being involved in a variety of activities, including public speaking.
ZUBEN RUSTOMJEE: Public speaking can be an opportunity to share your story and to share your feelings and the lessons that you may have learned.
ASTRID D'SILVA: The mentor is not a teacher or a coach telling them what to do or how to do, but it's sharing that expertise and just helping them help themselves.
ZUBEN RUSTOMJEE: Getting to see all of those students and being able to celebrate their achievements with them was an extremely humbling experience.
NILUSHA PERERA: I was excited and nervous about my graduation ceremony. When I shared that I am going to be graduated in the coming week. She was more excited about that event as well.
ANNA CAIRO: Sign up today, because it will be one of the best experiences you will ever have.
SAM GINSBERG: Give something back to the university that gave you such a huge start in life. Certainly, if I was a student now, I'd be jumping on the mentor program as a mentee.


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Risk Management System
Links clinical testing to Second Line Governance
Third Line Internal Audit Management Risk Awareness and Key Control Testing
Automated risk control and assurance testing
Real time risk profile analysis
Mapping risk to owners
Risk Library to support future and existing risk scenarios
Key Control Library as a central repository
Integrated with reporting dashboards
Inherent and residual risk assessment
A Risk Management Framework enables an organisation to appropriately develop and implement strategies, policies, procedures and controls to effectively manage different types of material risks.
To be effective, organisations must apply a Risk Management Framework (RMF) with a Management Framework (RMF) with a comprehensive organisation-wide view of its material risks and controls.
These comprise of systems, structures, policies, processes and people that identify, measure, monitor, report and mitigate internal and external sources of material risk.
To achieve this, QC Health employs three components of a RMF within an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) assessment, consisting of:
- Risk Allocation
- Inherent Risk Assessment
- Key Control Design and Effectiveness Testing
- Residual Risk Assessment
- Reporting
Make accurate decisions to mitigate risk with all available data
Ensure compliance with all controls and audits
Deliver 3 Lines of Defence for complete risk mitigation
Unparalleled insight into the risk landscape of your organisation.
Utilising this 3-pronged foundation, QC Health provides a comprehensive, automated Management Information System which links First Line Assurance (Clinical Audit) testing to Second Line Governance and Responsibilities, which are further supplemented with automated risk control testing and Third Line Internal Audit Management Risk Awareness and Key Control Testing.
Configured to meet the specific requirements of an organisation, QC Health provides regular, timely and accurate information concerning your organisational risk profile and management, enabling organisations to make sound business decisions backed by on demand information.
As with other solutions within the FutureIM suite, ERM was designed to be flexible in its configuration and deployment and easily integrated with other line of business systems.
ERM also integrates with Reporting Dashboards to enable thorough insights into the risk landscape of your organisation.
Reporting Dashboards aggregate valuable organisational information from all data sources that form the FutureIM solution as well as other third-party applications that are part of your organisation's IT ecosystem to provide complete visibility and analysis. Dashboards are configured to utilise this raw data and display it in a variety of ways, including charts, graphs, maps and more. Users can view and interact with these dashboards using filtering and drilldown functionality to create the exact view into the data they need to make critical decisions.
Reports can be deployed as role-based, enabling a consistent view of organisational data to all users of the same role. This promotes a consistent approach to data analysis and process improvement as well as stronger engagement and accountability across the organisation. Reporting dashboards utilise Microsoft's Power BI, the most sophisticated business intelligence and data visualisations engines available. FutureIM has experienced and professional data analysts on staff that can create spectacular visuals whilst providing the most up to date and contextual data needed to run your organisation.
Reporting Dashboards can be viewed directly from within QC Health, for relevant and up to the minute data on all aspects of an integrated Quality and Compliance system but can also be made available from other applications on various devices.
- Get real-time data and insights into your healthcare organisation
- Drill-down capability enables users to delve into your data quickly and easily
- Bring together data from multiple systems to get a complete view of your organisation
- Export data directly to MS Excel for ad hoc analysis


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