! Traveling to all sorts of eerie and secluded locations, descending deep into haunted caves and caverns, researching sacred religious sites, objects, haunted buildings, and abandoned warehouses. Tyler has earned the title around the industry as "The Indiana Jones of The Paranormal". Tyler can often be found alone in the woods with just a flashlight and his gear, amongst some pretty unexplainable encounters.
Recently, Strand's studies at Tom Savini's Special Make Up Effects Program have brought his skills & contributions as an artist & occult adventurer to the screen in the Planet Weird documentary about an eerily synchronistic case starring the Powerhouse Paranormal Investigative Pair, Greg & Dana Newkirk about little goblin like, "3-toed creatures", out of a secluded small town in Kentucky! Tyler will be presenting and discussing at the convention about how he has used his skills in special makeup effects in many paranormal cases. How he has been able to preserve the paranormal history and authenticity of evidence, tracks and foot prints, items and objects, and so much more! His unique gifts and ability to use his talents in the paranormal field has even contributed to cracking a very mysterious case! (Our event organizers can't even ask about it!) Along with sharing some amazing adventures, Tyler will be bringing some of the actual objects in his presentation for the audience to hold, view, and touch! Tyler also contributed to the concept art, sketches, and visual representation based on the personal testimonies and interpretations of the many sightings and reports of the Kentucky Goblin creatures in Hellier. He sculpted the bust of the goblin featured in the opening credits.
Be sure to catch Tyler @ The 3RD Annual Mid-Michigan Paranormal Convention! As part of our Paranormal Line-Up of Paranormal Experts, Investigators, Researchers, Authors, Celebrities, and MORE! We've included the trailer to Planet Weird's Hellier below; be sure to check out all the high strangeness on youtube, vimeo, and amazon prime video.
Abraham Iris

The Abraham Iris was a two-seat touring airplane produced in France in the early 1930s in two slightly different versions, the Iris I with a 75 kW (100 hp) Hispano-Suiza piston engine, and the Iris II with a Renault engine. The Iris was a conventional parasol wing monoplane with a neatly faired-in engine.Eurothug finance ministers are now responsible for the coming destruction of thousands of Cyprus businesses who can’t get their money out of the banks to make payroll and meet expenses. These businesses will fail, unemployment will soar, their economy is toast. Small and medium sized businesses in Cyprus were not responsible for what happened but are being destroyed so that more billions will be pumped into the maw of a degenerate and corrupt financial system.
The problem is a international finance system that has become completely corrupt. Moving to the Caribbean or using Bitcoin won’t help. The Bible says money belongs to Caesar but Caesar is now a thief and mafioso.
If the locals thought the deposit haircut is the worst of it, just wait until the full brunt of what a -20% depressionary collapse in the economy hits them head on.
To repeat, the theft of depositor money in Cyprus bank accounts is now 80%.
I've had my tires rotated, my chassis cleaned, my oil changed and I'm ready to go.
To China, that is.
I had my annual physical today, after which the doctor suggested I call Kaiser's Travel Desk to find out if there is anything other than the routine stuff that I need to get or have with me to travel to China and Hong Kong. The operator took the information but was flummoxed when she got to Hong Kong. "That's H-A-N-...uh... how do you spell Hong Kong?"
These are the people who are in charge of my medical health. It does not give me confidence!
But all is well in the House of Beverly, it appears (other than the obvious). My blood pressure, while slightly high, was down from last year. My weight, miraculously, is sown 25 lbs (...and I do mean "miraculously"!) I'm up to date on almost everything, though she suggested getting a whooping cough shot just to be on the safe side, so that's done.
I've gotten a refill on my diabetes meds, since I'd (a-hem) not been a compliant patient for a long time and it's time to be compliant again.
We also talked about medical directives and that's very weird. According to the nice shocking pink form they ask you to fill out and post on your refrigerator (yeah--lotsa luck finding an 8x11 clear space!), in Part 1 you decide whether, in the case that you have lost consciousness, you want them to attempt resuscitation/CPR or not.
If they attempt resuscitation/perform CPR, you are, by default, agreeing to Full Treatment. Full Treatment means medication, positioning, oxygen, suction, manual treatment of airway obstruction, antibiotics, IV fluids, mechanical ventilation, defbrillation, and transfer to hospital.
Now if, for example, your wishes are that if you are so far gone that there is no hope of regaining consciousness and all you really want is for them to see if they can revive you, you can't elect to choose anything less than the full monty.
So if you pass out and want CPR, that means you have tacitly agreed to everything in man's power to keep you alive. But if you want only minimal intervention (and, say, not being put on a ventillator), then you have to express your wish NOT to have CPR and not to have anybody attempted resuscitation.
I asked the doctor about it and she agreed that it seemed silly, but that since the form was written that way I had to either opt to be resuscitated or not resuscitated. Resuscitation comes with the possibility of being attached to a machine and unable to respond...forever ('cause we all know from watching medical shows that once you are ON a ventillator, the person who holds your medical power of attorney does not have the power to ask them to turn the ventillator off.
So let's just hope I don't pass out somewhere in China,OK?
This evening I went back to part 2 of the Twitter class and got my questions answered. Actually it was probably a good thing because I couldn't remember my twitter password, so had to set up a new account and the new account has fewer followers and I can start with a clean slat and maybe make it work for me from the get-go. It also has the advantage of NOT rolling all of my tweets over to Facebook. Right now the main thing I have used Twitter for is to post updates to Facebook, but that doesn't mean I want EVERY tweet I write to be rolled over to Facebook.
Interestingly, at the end of the class, after everybody had left except the teacher, the DCN assistant and my friend Kari, whom I taught to use Twitter and who then surpassed me in spades, were left. Kari and I were talking about our former use of Twitter and the teacher looked up and said something like "...because you two were the big names in Twitter in Davis when I first started using it...." Now that was a huge surprise. Never dreamed I was the big name in ANYTHING involving the internet, even locally.
I hope we don't miss too much of your blogging, Bev.
I'll miss it. I may even go into some form of withdrawal.
I am already starting to perspire.
Oh....never mind. It is 90 degrees out.
You did hear about the secretary whose boss asked her to book him a hotel in Louisiana? She told him the travel agency told her there was no such hotel in LA (Los Angeles).Under the influence of maritime climate, the subtropical island of Taiwan features high temperatures and humidities. Despite adverse environmental factors, domestic animals including livestock and poultry grow well. As a result of continuous economic development and improved living standards in recent years, the demand for animal protein in the daily diet of local citizens has increased sharply, making animal husbandry one of the most prominent industries in local farming villages.
Livestock and poultry sanctioned by the ROC government include pig, dairy cow, sheep, horse, rabbit, chicken, duck, goose and turkey. Other major poultry raised by local farmers include quail and ostrich yet to receive government sanction. Due to high land prices and rising environmental awareness, most local farmers operate on a small scale in rural areas of Central and Southern Taiwan. Coupled with import-dependent feeds and expensive laborers, the local livestock industry operates at a rather high production cost. Fortunately, local livestock farmers are highly diligent, and have advanced feeding and breeding skills. As a result, domestic livestock products such as pork not only meet domestic demand but also supply foreign markets. Since the outbreak of the Food-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), however, government policy priorities have been shifted to the domestic market, reducing livestock export to a role of balancing production surpluses.
As certain parts of meats in Taiwan have long enjoyed a price advantage over imports, it will take time for us to adjust to new market parameters. For example, the imported drumsticks, chicken wings and pork bellies, which cost little in the U.S., could be sold at a much higher price here, while the chest meat and other pork cuts are on the reverse. The opening up of the domestic market to foreign imports therefore will prompt the prices of the whole hogs and chickens to drop and result in