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Both technical patterns and our proprietary BittsBand indicated a resistance level at around 7700 USD and much clearer path above this price level. See our tweets:
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As we said in the tweet there was a higher chance of seeing a rapid rise once the 7700 USD level is broken. The optimal way of trading this would be to set up e.g. limit buy orders at 7750 USD. And what we conjectured has today indeed happened. Once the 7750 USD was broken the price rapidly rose for a return of +7% in less than a day.
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Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.
The place: ELLERBURN. Church dedication: ST. HILDA. Church type: Peculiar. Discharged Vicarage.
Area, 2,060 acres. Pickering Lythe wapentake. --Population, 192 *2; Church-room, 150 *3; Net value, £131. -This Church was anciently a Chapel belonging to the Church of Pickering, and was given therewith to the Deanery of York, to which it was appropriated, and on the 8 Id. Nov. 1252, a Vicarage was ordained with Wilton ; and a payment of 2s. per annum was reserved to the mother Church.
Patron, the Dean of York.
Mr. Torre gives only a broken catalogue of the Vicars.
The Vicarage is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £6. 13s. 4d.; in the King's Books, at £7. 4s. 8d.: in the Parliamentary Survey, at £23, including a Composition at Wilton for tithe hay ; and in 1818, at £145 per annum.
Augmented in 1760, with £200 -by lot.
An Inclosure Act was passed 36th Geo. III.
The glebe house was returned in 1818, as being " fit only for a pauper ;" and returned " unfit" in 1834.
The Register Books commence in 1691.
TOWN SHIP OF FARMANBY. -Anthony Denham's rent charge of 10s. per annum. Samuel Skelton's rent charge of 6s. 8d. per annum.
These doles are distributed among such poor as receive no parochial relief. -Vide 7th Report, page 736.
Post town: Pickering.
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 757. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. iii. page 107. Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 199. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Elreburne), page 11. 21. 29. Eastmead's Rievallensis, page 317.
*1 The township of Farmanby is partly in this parish.
*2 The Population in 1834, was returned at £43.
*3 The return in 1818, was 160.
George Lawton in 1842..
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by Colin Hinson. © 2013.


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The new sixth generation, Hyundai Elantra serving North Palm Beach, Jupiter, Stuart, and surrounding areas, stands out as one of the biggest rising stars in it's class. Originally designed as a compact car, this spacious four door automobile feels like a midsize sedan. Equipped with more passenger room, and cargo room, this vehicle keeps you moving forward without ever having to leave anything behind. And, it comes equipped with all of today's most advanced technology.


text: Paul Joseph Brady (born 19 May 1947, Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) is an Irish singer-songwriter, whose work straddles folk and pop. He was interested in a wide variety of music from an early age. During his career he has passed through several major bands and on to a successful solo phase. Read More


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May 5, 2017
We had to do it before we reached episode 300, otherwise we just wouldn't have the respect of our listeners if we didn't tackle the greatest question every filmgoer has these days... just why does everyone hate Katherine Heigl? To answer that question, Dave of Pop Culture Case Study discusses the arc of this leading lady's career from a budding romcom star trying to finally be the bride 27 DRESSES to the cold, controlling wife in HOME SWEET HELL. All of this and the new release UNFORGETTABLE which is here to keep Hollywood in business in between the latest FAST & THE FURIOUS and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.


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Almost every car insurance company now has a basic mobile app that lets customers handle simple tasks — think paying bills, filing claims and chatting with customer service. But for some insurers (and their customers), the mobile possibilities don't stop there.
Drivers might be surprised at just how innovative some companies have become in building their ideal customer experience. Here's a look at some of the coolest mobile car insurance apps available. Unless otherwise stated, all apps are available for both iOS and Android platforms.
Cash savers
Esurance Fuelcaster: Esurance's Fuelcaster tool predicts gas prices to help drivers decide when to fill up. Enter your ZIP code, and Fuelcaster will recommend either you fill up now because prices are predicted to rise soon or wait to fill up because tomorrow's prices are expected to be lower than today's. It also displays a range of gas prices in your area so you can see which stations are cheapest. Free for Esurance customers and non-customers.
Allstate Drivewise: The Drivewise mobile app tracks driving behavior and rewards you for being responsible behind the wheel; it even offers tips on how you can improve. Allstate customers can earn discounts or cash back on their premiums. But Drivewise is also available to those not insured by Allstate: These users can earn reward points and redeem them for merchandise, gift cards and other items.
[New driver? Comparison shopping can save you hundreds of dollars. Find low rates with NerdWallet's Car Insurance Comparison Tool.]
Metromile street sweeping alert: This is a welcome feature for big-city dwellers who know the panic of forgetting to move their car for that dreaded street cleaning. Part of Metromile's smart driving app, it uses internal city information to see where sweeping is scheduled. If your ride is at risk of being ticketed, you'll get an alert 12 hours in advance. Note that you must have one of Metromile's connected car devices to use this feature (either the Metromile Pulse for insurance customers or the free Metromile Tag for non-customers) and live in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco or San Diego.
Stress reducers
State Farm Driver Feedback: State Farm's tool distinguishes itself from other safe-driving car insurance mobile apps by targeting three specific problem areas: accelerating, decelerating and swerving. You don't need any plug-ins to use this app. Simply lay your phone flat on a secure spot or set it in your cupholder, and the app tracks and scores you in each category after trips, plus offers pointers to improve. Though participation doesn't trigger a discount (as with the Drivewise app), Driver Feedback can provide valuable peace of mind that you're extending the life of your car and tires, and practicing safer techniques. This app is available to anyone, not just drivers insured by State Farm.
Allstate Motor Club: This is a reassuring tool to have in your pocket if you like having assistance in reach, even in remote locations. If you become stranded, the Motor Club app uses your phone's GPS to locate your vehicle and send help. You can select the issue you need help with, such as a battery jump or fuel delivery, from a menu and track the estimated time of arrival of responders. It's available only to Allstate customers, and sign-up isn't free (the cheapest option is $52 for the first year, according to Allstate's site).
Esurance DriveSafe: Aimed at parents with teen drivers, DriveSafe lets policyholders track their kids' behaviors via a telematics plug-in so they know what's going on behind the wheel. Participants receive step-by-step instructions on setting up their device and connecting it via bluetooth to their phones. From there, parents can customize alerts whenever their teens make certain mistakes, such as speeding or driving after curfew. While the car's in motion, teens accessing their iPhones will even see a banner reminding them not to check their devices. (The app is also available for Android, but without that warning feature.) A complete summary of teens' driving is uploaded online for parents to review. This app is free for Esurance policyholders and is available wherever it offers car insurance, except Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Time savers
Metromile trip optimization feature: Also part of the pay-per-mile insurer's broader smart driving app, the trip optimization feature tracks where your speed tends to vary and how long your trips take. Over time, commuters can spot trends that are causing delays and, ideally, make changes for quicker routes. It's available to Metromile customers and non-customers.
State Farm CarCapture: For those researching a new car, the CarCapture app can help cut down on legwork. If you see a car you like, take a picture of the back to reveal the exact make and model, the market value (as determined by Edmunds), and local dealerships that carry it. The app is free and available to anyone, not just those insured with State Farm.
Esurance video appraisal: Esurance policyholders can use video appraisal to chat in real time with appraisers after filing a claim. Rather than scheduling an in-person meeting to assess car damage, you can have the initial inspection over your smartphone to allow for more appointment flexibility. The appraiser can give you a repair estimate and in some cases even hand out payment that same day.
Remember, while cool car insurance apps can help point you toward an insurer, it's still in your best interest to shop around. Try NerdWallet's car insurance comparison tool to narrow down the best estimates and possibly save hundreds on your policy.
Alex Glenn is a staff writer for NerdWallet, a consumer finance website. Email: [email protected]
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1. Product name: Crocheted Headphones
2. Background research: Music is a major part of my life. I listen to it all day long- at work, on the bus, on the train, at home, everywhere. But I have two major problems: 1- I have tiny ears and 2- I'm always cold.
These don't sound like applicable problems when considering the enjoyment of music but believe me, they are. I love my iPod and iPhone as much as the next person, but those non adjustable giant white earbuds- erg! They will not stay in my tiny ears for love nor money. Plus when the winter months roll around –and especially now that I live in the UK (where the winters are unbelievable) I always end up wearing earmuffs over my earbuds. It seems a bit redundant.
3. Hypothesis: If I use these beautiful Crocheted Headphones then I will be able to listen to my music, stay warm, and stop worrying about them not fitting properly.
4. Experiment: I chose the yellow headphones. Yellow is definitely my favorite color and this yellow is just the right shade. I can't wait to wear these headphones in the blustery cold weather of Wales, England, and whatever trips I happen to take. With the hours of listening I will be able to see if these headphones live up to my expectations.
5. Results: These headphones are very straightforward- no instructions needed. The adjustable headband is super handy- they adjust like any other headphones by pulling or pushing on either end. They are comfortable and warm- though if you have larger ears than I do (which isn't hard) they may not cover your whole ear and give the beloved ear warming effect to the full extent.
The only downside I found is the sound quality. They aren't as clear or as loud as earbuds- you have to turn your music up louder to hear it at the same level. Once you do that though, no prob. These headphones are a stylish way to warm up in the cold (even if that cold is just heavily air-conditioned public transport). In fact, I even wear them as earmuffs without plugging them in sometimes- I just tuck the cord into my coat pocket and I'm good to go.
6. The bottom line is these headphones are great. They come in super cute colors, they keep you warm, they're adjustable, and they do the job they're intended for. What more could you want? I love my new headphones!
– Brenda Barrett


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The American Hereford Association (AHA) announces a breed-specific DNA profile enabling genomic-enhanced expected progeny differences (GE-EPDs).
In partnership with GeneSeek, a Neogen Corporation Company, the Hereford GE-EPDs are powered initially by the GeneSeek Bovine 50K and soon available through the GeneSeek Genomic Profiler (GGP).
The availability of the Hereford GE-EPDs is a direct result of a multi-year collaboration between AHA, National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium (NBCEC), the USDA, Meat Animal Research Center, Iowa State University, global Hereford associations and GeneSeek.
"The association will continue to provide our members with the most technologically superior resources available to make generational turns quicker," says Jack Ward, AHA chief operating officer and director of breed improvement. "We encourage our breeders to use and accept technology to allow their commercial customers to be profitable."
The GeneSeek Genomic Profiler is derived from a 50K SNP panel and is used to obtain genomic information that increases the accuracy of traditional Hereford EPDs.
In addition to being able to provide information that will enable the calculation of GE-EPDs, the GGP also provides ready access to parentage, horned/polled and other diagnostic tests of interest to the Hereford breed.
"The increase in EPD accuracy allows Hereford producers to make faster genetic progress and to improve their selection decisions in the most efficient manner possible," says Elisa Marques, GeneSeek market development manager for genomics.
"The GE-EPDs that are now available to Hereford breeders were researched and developed specifically for Hereford cattle, which makes it more predictive of performance than a product developed across several breeds," Marques says.
"The GeneSeek Genomic Profiler in turn will be the most comprehensive and cost-effective product for Hereford producers in the marketplace today."
Dorian Garrick, Iowa State University chair in animal breeding and genetics and NBCEC executive director, has led the project research and development. He states the real benefit to cattle producers is utilizing the genomic information to make better mating and selection decisions.
"We have the ability today, to predict the performance of Hereford offspring earlier and with more confidence," explains Garrick. "The improved accuracy of the EPDs allows producers to improve their selection practices, especially in young animals."
"Every animal a producer tests is not only an investment for their own herd, but an investment of the entire breed, as it will contribute to ongoing improvements in predictive ability."
To order DNA testing kits, Hereford breeders should contact AHA. Ward states producers need to have registration numbers ready for the animals they plan to test.
The association will mail testing kits directly to producers in time to take DNA samples. Hair is the preferred collection sample but Ward says if hair is not available, breeders may submit semen or blood.
Following collection, producers should mail the completed DNA samples to GeneSeek for processing. Results will be returned to AHA in a timely fashion for dissemination to the breeder and inclusion into the AHA database.
For more information about genomic-enhanced EPDs available from the American Hereford Association, call (816) 842-3757. For more information about GeneSeek, call (877) 443-6489.
—From American Hereford Association news release


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Manchester - Mark Cavendish has been warned by team selectors that he must finish in the top three at next week's World Track Championships to remain in contention for a place in Great Britain's squad for the Olympic Games in Rio.
The multiple Tour de France stage winner has declared his intention to compete in the multi-event omnium in Brazil in early August as he seeks to win a first ever Olympic medal.
But first he faces the World Championships at Lee Valley Velodrome in London, the scene of the 2012 Olympics, where he must prove his form in the omnium starting a week on Friday.
"For Cav to be in Rio he needs to perform well next week," said GB technical director Shane Sutton.
"He would be expecting that of himself. Otherwise he would rule himself out.
"And if he can't make the top three in the world I would think he would put his hand up and go back and pursue his dreams of the leader's yellow jersey and winning stages on the Tour de France.
"I believe he can do it, we wouldn't have selected him otherwise. That's not us being brutal, that's Cav being Cav, probably the greatest road sprinter of all time. He needs to know he can go to Rio and get the medal."
The crux of Great Britain's issue remains Cavendish's desire to do well in the Tour de France, an event in which he has won an astonishing 26 stages during his career.
But his track coaches remain unconvinced that the 30-year-old can take part in one of the sport's most gruelling events throughout July and then hit peak form in Rio in August, with only two weeks between the end of the Tour and the start of the Olympics.
"Mark knows what is needed, I'm not talking to a little kid, he knows he has to prioritise," said mens' endurance coach Heiko Salzwedel.
He added: "If you ask me realistically, riding for two or three weeks on the Tour de France, he might be fit for the (Olympic) road race but not for the Olympic omnium. Cav has to digest and make a decision about this."
Cavendish himself has remained adamant, since declaring his interest in riding at the Olympics, that he can balance his commitments between his national team and his new professional road outfit Team Dimension Data.
The Manx rider has never won an Olympic medal, having missed out in Beijing in 2008 where he failed to medal in the now-defunct Madison event, riding with countryman Bradley Wiggins.
"I haven't won an Olympic medal yet. I would quite like to do that this year," said Cavendish.
"It's not like we pay a pound to racing on a Sunday in a club races or we are out after work training. We are professional bike riders, it's our job.
"It's different from professional bike riding. I am definitely proud to represent my country.
"I said the other day, nearly half of the Worlds (Championships) I have done I have won something. But I never go in and just cruise around training in a GB tracksuit.
"I am always motivated to do well and win. I appreciate what it means to be selected for your country."
Cavendish added: "I have always wanted to be the best that I can be. I wasn't always the best at everything but wanted to be. "I enjoy riding my bike. That is why I train, I race, I still love it.
"The winning bit is built-in and part of my nature. I am watching everything I am eating because I am doing the track."


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Quite often in the evenings, my family looks for activities to do together. Sometimes we're frugal and we go to the park – other times we're not so frugal and we go to the bookstore or to a botanical garden with an entrance fee or the like. The important (and healthy) thing is that we are spending time together, right?
Well, it turns out that almost every night in our local community, there's some sort of free entertainment going on: a farmer's market, a municipal band concert in the park, a play on the town stage, a free concert by a local band in the park, a planning meeting for the town festival, a basketball game at the local high school, a community dinner for the fire department, and so on. These events are all either free or else offer a deep discount (like a freewill donation at the fire department dinner, where $5 in the pot gets dinner and contact with people in the community).
If you want a ton of free entertainment, there's a ton of it to be found in your local community. The only problem is that it can be difficult to be aware of what is going on. There's a solution to that: call your city hall and also give a ring to your chamber of commerce and ask for a community calendar. In many cities, a weekly or monthly community calendar is printed and given away freely, which lists community activities of all kinds. Circle some that you like and attend them – you can't get a bigger savings than having an entertaining evening for free.
Even more important: your local community can be a valuable resource, and this is a great way to get to know them. I've
discussed the financial value of being involved in your community before, but when you pair it with activities that are free to begin with, you're actually throwing away opportunities and wasting money by staying at home or going out to shop in the evenings.


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We are delighted to announce that Swim Ireland have taken the plunge and selected GoMembership, to streamline and manage their members, clubs, coaches, events, courses and communications.
Swim Ireland is the National Governing Body for swimming, water-polo, diving and associated aquatic disciplines in Ireland. Established over 120 years ago, Swim Ireland now has over 17,000 members and over 150 affiliated clubs.
Swim Ireland will benefit from all the standard GoMembership features – Member, Club & Team Management, Course & Event Booking Management, Communications & Marketing Campaigns, Online Payments, Enquiry Handling as well as a Reports component which provides a set of standard reports required for managing memberships, events and courses. In addition, GoMembership will provide Swim Ireland's affiliated clubs with some core features that will help them better manage their membership in relation to NGB needs.
David Pring, GoMembership CEO comments, "We are delighted that Swim Ireland have chosen to work with us, and are confident that GoMembership will help streamline the administrative effort that every National Governing Body faces. We are confident that by implementing GoMembership, Swim Ireland will strengthen their engagement with members, clubs, coaches and volunteers."
Swim Ireland Membership Manager Adam Cox said "We are really looking forward to working with GoMembership and getting the new system in place. We were very impressed by the professionalism and functionality of the system, it will streamline everything we do across the organization. One of the key improvements will be for our clubs and members, they will see a much simplified affiliation process for 2017/18."
For more information on Swim Ireland, please visit their website here.


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Crowdfunding a roleplaying game for kids
I'm making an entry-level tabletop roleplaying game for kids. I started playing the D&D Red Box when I was 9, and so did pretty much everyone else in my generation. There hasn't really been anything like that available in Finland, and from what I can tell, not really anywhere. (If there is, please correct me, but definitely nothing over here.)
Therefore I hope to publish a tabletop roleplaying game for kids 9-13 years old, and I'm raising money for it. Myrskyn sankarit ("Heroes of Storm") is based on my earlier tabletop RPG, Myrskyn aika ("Age of Storm") that was also the setting for the larp Dragonbane. Here's the crowdfunding site: http://www.indiegogo.com/myrskynsankarit
The story is about a group of brave rebels who live in the forest and fight against an evil witch emperor, in the vein of Robin Hood, Star Wars and Knights of the Round Table. And yes, it will have lots of strong female characters, as well!
The initial version will be published in Finnish, but while I'm at it, why not aim for a bigger thing.
If I raise enough cash (and I think I will), I can publish this in Finnish. Hopefully we'll get some supermarket distribution, but at least it'll be available in all the gaming stores and the like. Now, after that, the translation into English won't be too big a hassle. (I already have people to do that.)
But for all this to work, I need money NOW to pay for the printing, storage, postage, marketing and so on. I've just added a special international friendly "Khaleesi Daenerys Targaryen" Perk for $75 that will get you a copy of the Finnish language box, a PDF of the English translation (if we get to that), and eventually a boxed copy in English or whatever your chosen language is (if we get to that). If the project doesn't reach its funding, you won't pay anything,
Here are the other Perks in English, in case you want to invest more!
We've already raised almost half of the money (in less than a third of the time), have 350 Facebook supporters, and yesterday the crowdfunding site IndieGoGo.com decided to honor us by having Myrskyn sankarit as one of the featured projects on their homepage! Please participate, and help spread the word!
Turku Manifesto in Polish
The Manifesto of the Turku School has been published in Polish as Manifest Szkoły Turku! The translator Oskar Mieczkowski was my host at Copernicon in Torun where I was the Guest of Honor last year. If you can read Polish, check it out here. Or read the Vow of Chastity here, and follow the comments, too.
Po tym, co do tej pory zostało tu napisane, łatwo domyślić się jakie są wzajemne stosunki pomiędzy Szkołą Turku a innymi szkołami myślenia o RPG – czyli pomiędzy Turkuistami a gamistami i dramaturgistami. Szkoła Turku walczy o bezpośrednie, ale też długofalowe cele eläytyjistów (immersjonistów) i symulacjonistów.
The English version and all the other Turku School texts are available here. The Manifesto has also been translated into French, Slovak, Russian and Italian.
The Manifesto of the Turku School is a roleplay-related controversial art essay focusing on character immersion.
Solmukohta is awesome!
Some thoughts and reminiscences from this year's Solmukohta (Knutepunkt) in Finland. Solmukohta started as a conference/festival of Nordic larpers and has become a conference/festival of international larpers interested in the tradition of Nordic larp.
I've been a regular Knudepunkt goer since the third one in 1999. I haven't missed a single event before last year's one in Denmark. Which meant it was amazing to go back there this year when it was held in Helsinki.
This year apart from all the Nordics, I talked to people from Russia, Croatia, Israel, Germany, England, Latvia, Italy and the United States. On top of that I know we had visitors from pretty much all around Europe from Portugal to Latvia, from England to Bulgaria. So it's really becoming international.
The editor of this year's Solmukohta book States of Play, Juhana Pettersson, observed that "Nordic larp" has become a tradition independent of the Nordic countries. So you can have Nordic larp in Mexico or Egypt. But you can also have larps in Finland that belong to some other tradition or remain more or less unaffected by that tradition. And that way you can even have Nordic larp being in dialogue with Finnish larp, and I guess my own Täällä Kirjokannen alla had quite a bit of that going on.
For me the whole experience started with the Nordic Larp Talks on Wednesday in Club PRKL in downtown Helsinki. You can see my talk titled How To Become a God, and all the others here.
Next day all three hundred and sixty of us got on buses that drove us to the conference hotel Kiljavanranta next to some lake in the middle of the Finnish forest with some patches of snow left.
I ran two programs this year. One was called the Folk Fantasy Workshop, based on my article in States of Play (PDF). I gave a short presentation on the world in Täällä Kirjokannen alla, and then we started workshoping on taking each participants' own country/nation/tribe/city/identity and turning that into a folk fantasy world. We had people from Sweden, China, Croatia and Russia present, and we had hardly gotten started when we already had to stop. The workshop might've been over ambitious, but I think the participants still made some interesting connections and maybe had some ideas they can later use for whatever they wish.
The other item was originally titled Contacting the Characters Within You, a self-help kind of approach to taking the roles and characters we carry around with us and using them for other things. Since the workshop was scheduled for Sunday morning, I had to rename it Hangover Yoga Workshop (and Contacting the Characters With You).
We started with twenty minutes of simple yoga exercises designed not to feel too bad for the hungover people, and wake everybody up a little bit. Then we started meditating on the characters we've played trying to identify five archetypes. The Good One, The Trickster, The Leader, The Shadow and The Brain. Not everybody had experience with all of these, but I think people sort of got the idea. We examined each one a little bit, and then chose two of them. Those two we made our own, trying to develop their physical language and put them on and off faster and faster. The idea was that the participants could learn to call on these characters in tricky situations in their ordinary life. For example a test might be very difficult for the participant in their everyday role, but putting on the role of The Brain might help them deal with it better. Different situations might require taking on different roles, and these sorts of exercises will hopefully help people to identify them better.
I think the workshop was a success since many people came to thank me for it later. I'm not an expert yoga master, either, but I think that went fine, as well.
One of the many highlights was being able to buy an early copy of Leaving Mundania from the author Lizzie Stark. I knew who she was since people had told me she visited last year's Knudepunkt in Copenhagen. Leaving Mundania is a non-fiction book about larpers and the larp scene. It mostly focuses on larp in the United States, but the last chapter is titled Knudepunkt Blew My Mind. It was thrilling to read an excited outsider's perspectives on the whole scene and the games we play and the the people we know. Of course, Lizzie's not an outsider anymore.
She signed my copy "Turku this!" Ironically, I accidentally left the book in the Turku School room (all the rooms were named after concepts in larp theory). So I really did Turku it. The next day it was gone. If you have it, I want it back!
The Pan-European tv drama / larp / transmedia experience The Spiral (formerly The Artists) is partly built by larpers, specifically Martin Ericsson and Adriana Skarped. They showed us a sneak preview of the tv show's trailer, which seemed really cool. Parts of the whole thing are made through a larp, as some sort of mocumentary. Difficult to explain, but you should totally follow it when it airs in September in several European countries including Finland. Or take part in the larp parts – it's not too late!
The social aspect is very important in these events. Even though I went to bed quite early on two nights, I had a chance to party it out Saturday. DJ Hakkis's 90's gothic hits marathon was well appreciated! Also interesting discussions on commercial larps in Siberia, how Taoism relates to the works of Ursula K. Le Guin, politics in Israeli larps, German film funding, the great roleplaying theories of the day, capitalism and socialism in post-apocalyptic Swedish larps and lots of other great stuff.
There's an influential indie roleplaying scene mostly in the US, but also internationally, that used to be associated with the forum The Forge. Over the years they've sent one or two ambassadors that usually get converted, but this time it seemed like there was a whole faction of these great people. Some came to preach, others to listen, but continuing this dialogue between ambitious clicks is very fruitful. The Swedish/Danish jeepform tradition is, I think, a sort of love/hate child between Nordic larp, US indie and Danish tabletop. The US indie crowd is discussing Solmukohta at the Story Games forum.
Some random notes I made during the event:
"We have a special way of playing the post-death game." -Alexey Fedoseev on Russian larps.
A StPetersburg game had in-game elections. If the conservatives won, the city was taken into history. With liberals, to the future.
Larps are not artificial, they are artifactual.
The Hollow Man Syndrome = there is no character, the player has to use their own experiences.
Read the book The Art of Curating Worship, a guidebook for Christian priests.
Solmukohta 2012 appreciation thread: http://laivforum.net/threads/20275-Solmukohta-2012-appreciation-thread!
Solmukohta talk on Twitter is here: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23sk2012
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Trailer for Son of Man
My autobiographical Jesus novel Son of Man will be published tomorrow in Finnish. As I'm writing this, the translation rights are still up for grabs, but in the mean time here's a trailer for the book. If you represent a publisher or know of people who do, make sure you check it out.
The Conspiracy For Good wins to BANFF Awards
The 2011 Banff World Media Festival was hosted at the beautiful Fairmont Springs in Canada every year. On June 15, 2011, CFG was up against nominees from all over the world in interactive entertainment.
The project helped build several libraries in Zambia, and stock them with 10 000 books, as well as give 50 girls scholarships. The app for the project was downloaded over 900 000 times.
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Conspiracy For Good nominated for awards
Conspiracy For Good that was played last summer in the streets of London, and before that all around the world online and with mobile phones, is nominated for some of the top prizes in interactive media.
The media festival South By Southwest (SXSW) gives out awards every year for interactive works, and Conspiracy For Good has been nominated in the mobile category. Cool! SXSW takes place in Austin, TX, March 11.-20., and the award gala will be March 15th.
The last time The Company P won an International Interactive Emmy was a few years ago with Sanningen om Marika at MIPTV in Emmy. That award was for Best Interactive Tv Service. Now we're nominated for the same award again. The name is no the Interactive Digital Emmy, though, and the category Digital Fiction. The lightning-winged Emmy goddess might end up in our hands on April 4th in Cannes.
Exciting! 🙂
PS. If you missed Conspiracy For Good, here's a great video that explains the whole giant of an experience in a few minutes.
Nordic Larp is coming out!
My friends Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola have been working for eighteen months on a huge photo book about the most ambitious larps in the Nordic countries. Nordic Larp will be published today Wednesday. I got my copy Tuesday afternoon, and it's worthy of much praise!
The book has thirty excellent live roleplaying games from Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Some games I've been involved in creating (Luminescence, inside:outside, Europa, PanoptiCorp, Dragonbane), in others I've been a player (Helsingin Camarilla, Ground Zero, The Executive Game, Hamlet, Zombie, Mellan himmel och hav, Silmäpuoli merirosvo), and all of them I've heard lots of good things about.
During the fifteen larp years in the book, the scene has deal with gender roles, society, cancer, Norway's Nazi occupation, the mafia, nationality, insanity, capitalism, Shakespeare and the homeless, and adventure with vampires, dragons, steampunk spaceships, pirates and dead spirits that communicate through radio. Many of these in the same game.
My article In Prison With Kafka and Beckett is about inside:outside (2001-2002), a larp Eirik Fatland and I designed, and Irene Tanke produced, that was my first larp to be exhibited in an art gallery. The book has eight pages of text an Frode Dybvad's photos for the game. While the pictures are good, many more articles are much more visual, since the originals were somehow lost in the Faroe Islands in Frode's bag. (I think this accurately displays what a huge undertaking Stenros and Montola had in getting photos of some of the older games.)
Since a larp is an immediate work that cannot be recorded or reproduced, editing and publishing a book like this is a great deed for the whole culture. Without one the visionary live roleplaying games of old would remain only in the dimming memories of its participants and turn into vague stories told over proverbial campfires, but now they are documented with visual proof. With this book the history of Nordic larp is immortalized.
I obviously haven't read the whole tome yet, but after browsing it, I can tell it's full of interesting articles and brilliant photo pages. The book will be available online and in select bookstores, but you can also get it at the publishing party today on Wednesday, Dec 22th.
There will be four or five simultaneous parties held in Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, at least. The parties kick off at 19:00 local time. The Stockholm part fill be held in Betahaus (Skeppsholmen 30), and in Helsinki the location is Dubrovnik Lounge (Eerikinkatu 11). Locations for Oslo and Copenhagen will be announced here.
The parties are also connected to each other with a live stream. You can also watch the video online in real time, or take part by Tweeting (#nordiclarp). (I promise not everyone there dubs themselves a Social Media Expert!)
The story of the Conspiracy For Good has begun…
The Conspiracy For Good is a combination of participatory storytelling, gaming and attempt to support real-life NGOs and charities. The story has now begun in earnest, so you can go check out the latest videos on the blog daily. Our story begins in Zambia:
Conspiracy For Goodin website has lots more videos, discussions and riddles… What is Blackwell Briggs doing in Zambia and can we stop it? Where are Missä David, Nadirah, and Ann Marie now?
Recapping the Conspiracy for Good
Here's a three-minute recap of the Conspiracy for Good so far. Join the movement, become a nonmember! Remember, this is just the beginning…
The Conspiracy for Good
What is this I'm Not a Member thing? It's all to do with The company P's, Tim "Heroes" Kring's and Nokia's new game/media/activism project, where we want to create a conspiracy for good. It's a balancing force to such well-known villains as the mega-corporation Blackwell Briggs. Tim Kring explains the concept:
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Question: "How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?"
Answer: "Just one, but the light bulb must really want to change!"
How many Indian men does it take to change a culture, a workplace, a team, or even one woman's career? It can start with just a few--but it can't stop there.
Research shows that women really want to advance in the workplace, and it's not their choices or aspirations that are holding them back, but a lack of inclusive workplaces. Part of the solution is to engage men in the conversation to #DisruptTheDefault.
The past year, and especially the past month, has seen a momentous shift in mindsets about men's role in fostering gender equality around the world, particularly in India. With Emma Watson converting thousands of sceptics into believers with the UN's HeForShe campaign, online communities such as MARC, and the series finale of the Indian television show Satyamev Jayate, which asked us to redefine traditional notions of "mardaangi" (manhood), awareness of men's key role in advocating for gender equity is a noticeably heightened.
Drawing from these broader movements, from my own role models and experiences and from recent events, I'd like to share the following reflections.
1. Charity--and the business case--often begin at home.
Time and again, senior Indian male leaders cite examples from their personal lives when asked how they became champions for gender equality at work. Whether it's discovering powerful role models in their mothers, or empathy for their wives' struggles to balance home and work, or recognizing that their daughters aren't being set up to succeed, many men have strong personal reasons for challenging the status quo. In a recent event I attended, a man named RC shared that growing up, he was "keenly aware of the different standards my sisters were held to" compared to him--even by his loving and 'liberal' parents in urban India. This realisation later motivated him to get involved in his company's women's network!
2. Why don't we ever ask, 'Can men have it all?'
In VJ's company and team, flexibility is the norm. In fact, the culture of flexibility is so ingrained that a manager needs to ask VJ's permission to refuse a request for flex work, not to approve it! By setting this tone at the top, VJ battles gender stereotypes by reminding employees that everyone benefits from flexible work options. It's time we consider whether our traditional way of working keeps all employees, including men, from 'having it all.' In an example closer to home, I grew up with both my parents at home--my father left his 'office' job when I was nine or ten to be an independent consultant, and my mother left hers when I was born. The money my parents might have made in the corporate world was nothing compared to the satisfaction they derived from raising their kids together, making every financial and domestic decision as a real team.
3. It's not about quotas or tokenism; it's about capitalising on differences.
BS, a managing director of a large successful company, first thought about the power of gender diversity while reflecting on a particularly tough decision his team had made. When he was repeatedly urged by the only woman in the team to consider a particular perspective, he was at first annoyed, but later he realised that her lone voice ended up improving the outcome. Now he knows it's not about one gender being better or worse; it's about celebrating--and leveraging--the differences. In conversations about whether women or men make better leaders, I always remind people that some women do and some men do! By discounting half the population, we aren't tapping into the entire available talent pool--and that's the opportunity for organisations.
4. Labels and language matter.
Men in India often hesitate to join gender diversity/inclusion efforts because of how they are positioned. 'XYZ Women's Network' and 'Gender Sensitisation for Men' are labels that repel men, even those who support the intention behind the effort. Instead, a male leader, RS, suggests it's better to invite men into the diversity council or network and call it a 'gender equality' forum, an 'inclusion' initiative, or even a 'talent network.' A man named MC suggested that instead of 'employee resource groups,' we should call them 'business resource groups' and encourage men to join and even lead them.
5. Remember, you can show your support in many ways, but benevolent sexism is not one of them.
In India's patriarchal culture, supportive male colleagues can often appear paternalistic. Considering the challenges women face with respect to safety inside and outside the workplace, managers (often men) in India currently seem to have an obligation to ensure the safety of their women employees. A savvy manager named YR realised that this 'protective' attitude can itself be a form of sexism, in that it reduces access to hot jobs and influential networks for women. YR's advice? Never assume a woman will decline an assignment out of safety concerns or family priorities--whenever such a chance comes along, just ask her! From my own experience, I know that stereotypes are often disguised as well-meaning advice by authority figures--and those are exactly the kinds of 'defaults' we have the opportunity to disrupt with intentional leadership efforts!
Men in India are at a crossroad today. They have the choice to remain silent and be a bystander to continued inequity, or to get actively involved in the effort to have an equitable society and workplace for all Indians. All it takes is a few actions by a few men to snowball into a real movement with benefits to everyone.
Please share stories below about men in your organization who DisruptTheDefault--and what others can do to help create more inclusive workplaces!


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Baldwin HIgh School students could soon trade textbooks for iPads
May 29, 2012
In a nod to the changing world of information access, USD 348 is looking to replace textbooks at Baldwin High School with iPads starting with the 2013-2014 school year.
Superintendent Paul Dorathy said in addition to providing students with up-to-date learning tools, the move would save the district from routinely replacing textbooks, which can cost from $70 to $80 each. Textbooks become out of date when their publishers print new editions, making those currently used worthless, he said.
E-textbooks, which cost about $15 each, would be accessed from the iPads and could be updated much cheaper because there would not be any printing cost involved, Dorathy said.
"It could save us quite a bit of money, while helping the kids learn to organize all their work and schedules and access information through the Internet," he said. "I think a lot could be done if we could get these in students' hands."
The USD 348 Board of Education has yet to approve the change, but board members were supportive when presented May 21 with the plan as part of its consideration of short- and long-term capital outlay proposals.
At the cost of about $500 per unit, the price tag of providing the about 450 students enrolled at Baldwin High School with iPads would be about $225,000, Dorathy said.
The superintendent anticipated the district would enter into a three-year lease-purchase agreement with Apple, which would provide iPads upfront to all BHS students. Apple usually provides those loans interest free, he said.
The district spends about $100,000 annually for K-through 12th grade textbooks, Dorathy said. He estimated about a third of that was for high school textbooks.
The iPad program would start with their introduction to the school's faculty for the 2012-2013 school year, Dorathy said. That would cost about $20,000, he said.
"They would go into the hands of staff for training this next year, and then be ready to go for students in the 2013-2014 school year," he said.
Dorathy said his guess was the iPad would remain the district's best option but it would explore products such as Kindle and others introduced in the next year.
"Over this next year, we'll do some evaluation to make sure the iPad is the best move for the district because there are other options out there," he said. "That won't stop our staff from learning to use the iPads. If they can use the iPad, they can certainly use any other thing that is on the market."
The district has used iPads in its high school 21st Century Literacy Program for the past two years, Dorathy said. That has allowed it to develop and test insurance and replacement policies in the event of damage or theft, he said.
"There's really been no problems with that," he said. "Now, there could be more with a larger scale, but iPads come with tracking devices so we can trace them."
The district also has in place filters that prevent students from accessing inappropriate Internet sites via the district's Internet, Dorathy said. Students could visit inappropriate sites while at home, just as they could with a home computer if unmonitored, he said.
Dorathy acknowledged the iPads would be dated and well used by the time they followed a student through four years of high school and anticipated the district would make them available to graduates for a nominal fee.
"I'm glad the board is committed to doing this," Dorathy said. "I think it's a good thing for our students and makes them more competitive with students on other Kansas districts that have already made one-to-one initiatives."
BaldwinDad 8 years, 5 months ago
One would think an eReader would be much better option and quite a bit less expensive then the iPad, you can buy quality eReader or even Android based tablet online all day for under a $100 each.
Even better is a laptop, windows based laptops are on sale all day from several brick and mortar stores for under $300.
While I think updating how we disseminate the information to the children via an electronic method is a good idea it sounds to me like Dorathy has done hardly any research on the topic or even tried to find the best solutions for the kids and the tax payers.
By the way I have not seen it posted anywhere, but has Dorathy revealed the official tallying of savings from closing the two outlying schools yet??
hyperinflate 8 years, 5 months ago
You're completely missing the point here. If TerriLois Gregory gets her way there will be NO limits whatsoever to the amount of property taxes that the School Board can assess. No simple low-end iPads for our students then. No Sirree.!!! It's gonna be fully loaded, 4G cellular enabled, retina display iPads for every single student. Scratch that, one iPad per student for the home, and another one for each student to keep at school since it would totally destroy the educational experience if the student accidentally left it at home or was unable to learn at all during homework time in the evening because the iPad was gracing the locker or desk at school. Gotta have hand-stitched leather cases for each iPad, engraved with the student's initials in order to make every student feel completely welcome and at ease with technology.
BaldwinDad 8 years, 4 months ago
It is pretty pathetic to even consider this with the costs being what they are, heck Walmart has a 7" Android Tablet on sale right now with the latest version of the O/S for like $99, not to mention the fact they have 11.6" Netbooks with Windows 7, which is a operating system the kids will actual find useful in the future business careers, for under $300 each.
The idea of iPads at $500 each even on a interest free loan is ridiculous considering half the internet which is Flash based will not even work on them. What you are paying for with Apple is service and style, not functionality and performance.
hyperinflate 8 years, 4 months ago
Free your mind, B-dad. Costs of items for the District (needed or not) are soon to be the most minor consideration. If Gov. Brownback's school finance plan (heartily endorsed and actively supported by Ms. Gregory) goes through, there is absolutely no limit whatsoever to the amount of property taxes that Dorathy can ask the rubber-stamp Board to levy. I have no doubt whatsoever that they will behave dutifully, just like the last Board did for him.
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The secret war in Thailand's deep southPosted: March 26, 2013 | Author: nohalal | Filed under: News | Tags: Government of Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Mae Klong, Malaysia, Pattani, Somchai Neelapaijit, Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra | Comments Off on The secret war in Thailand's deep south
Nisea Nisani was curled on a plastic mat outside the hospital's intensive care unit. His wife lay on a bed inside, battling for her life after a bomb blast.
There was some good news, said Mr Nisani, his eyes red and raw; although shrapnel had fractured both her legs, pierced a lung and torn into her diaphragm, his wife's doctors were hoping to transfer her to another ward. At that point he would have to tell her that their nine-year-year-old son, Nisofin – their only child – had not survived.
"We've not yet told her, said Mr Nisani, wiping his eyes with a towel. "We thought it might damage her heart."
Mr Nisani's wife and child, struck by a bomb blast last Thursday in the southern Thai city of Pattani, were the latest victims in an ugly, slow-simmering separatist insurgency that has transformed the region into a militarised zone.
While the casualty figures from most of the incidents of violence are low, the number of victims since 2004, when the insurgency restarted, has somehow crept past 5,000. More remarkably, this little-noticed violence is playing out just a few hours drive from holiday resorts and beaches such as Phuket and Krabi, packed with foreign tourists.
This week, in what observers hope will be a breakthrough, the Thai authorities are to hold their first openly-acknowleged talks with the most significant of several militant groups behind an insurgency that dates back to the 1970s. Thai military officials will meet with representatives of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional-Coordinate (BRN-C) in Kuala Lumpur, in an event hosted by the Malaysian government.
"It's a big step for the Thai government," said a national security adviser to the government of prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, asking not to be identified. "It's a huge political risk. But we want to get this it sorted out once and for all."
The insurgency in Thailand's deep south has its roots several factors. At its heart is the fact that anywhere up to 90 per cent of the population of Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and Songkhla – are ethnic Malay Muslims, rather than Theravada Buddhists. Three of the provinces once formed the independent Sultanate of Pattani, which was annexed only in 1909.
Those involved in the separatist movement say they are trying to protect customs, language and religious rights and to resist the migration of Buddhists to the south. Despite attempts by al-Qa'ida-affiliated groups to establish a handle here, it remains an insurgency drive by ethnic demands for greater autonomy rather than religious ideology.
The insurgents have taken their battle to the state with a combination of targeted assassinations and bombing campaigns. Alongside police and soldiers, many teachers and low-ranking officials have been targeted. The tactic of taking on such soft targets is designed to spread fear. Amnesty International estimates two-thirds of victims are civilians.
Sapeing Sulong, who had eight children, was a deputy headman in Suannok, a quiet village 15 miles from Pattani. Ten days ago, he was driving to the house of the second of his two wives when gunmen armed with an AK-47 rifle and a shotgun opened fire.
Struck several times in his right side, Mr Sulong leapt from the vehicle and lay in the foliage by the edge of the lane, seeping blood. "This is where he hid," pointed Mr Sulong's step-brother, Lachit Singh, standing on a stretch of back-country road surrounded by rubber trees and paddy fields.
Local people heard the gun-fire but were too afraid to move. "The doctors at the hospital said if he'd been brought in immediately, perhaps he would have lived," said Mr Singh.
At the home 55-year-old Mr Sulong built close to a mosque, his family declined to speculate on who was responsible for the attack, perhaps through fear. His boss, headman Ismail Leamo, said there had been no threats or warnings. "It makes no sense for us to say what happened to him," he said.
But at the police station in the town of Kho Pho, where Mr Sulong's bullet-ridden black Honda Accord was parked in a compound, officers had few doubts. "He worked for the government, he was an officer. Normally it's the government officers who are targeted," said a policeman who knew Mr Sulong but who asked not to be be named.
The Thai authorities have held a series of discrete, under-the-radar meetings with several of the insurgent groups since 2005 in Malaysia, Bahrain and elsewhere. Even now, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, brother of the current premier, holds unofficial meetings with representatives.
Yet the talks have made little progress. The Thai government has often appeared distracted by domestic political turmoil or suffered from factionalism, while at the same time wondering whether the figures they were meeting with had control over the actual fighters.
The authorities appear to have been pushed to the negotiating table by several factors, including a growing realisation among those involved that the BRN-C was the most significant of the groups.
Tony Davis, a Bangkok-based analyst with IHS Jane's, said the insurgents had also stepped up their attacks. In February, at least 16 insurgents were killed when they launched an assault upon a well-defended Thai marine base.
"In the last few years the situation has deteriorated on the ground with the insurgents attacking with increased capacity. The flip-side is that it's more difficult for the authorities to keep saying 'we are on the right track'," he said.
The Thai state has responded to the insurgency by amassing up to 70,000 of police, soldiers and paramilitaries in the south. Today, the landscape is filled with army bases and journeys are punctuated by check-points manned by heavily-armed troops.
Campaigners say one fall-out of the militarisation is widespread abuse. Individuals are detained under emergency laws, held without charge and sometimes tortured, before being released or set-free by the courts.
At an office close to the Pattani river, Anukal Aweaputah, of the Muslim Attorney Foundation Centre, said that since 2004 he had represented 600 people accused of being linked to the insurgents.
He said the both the police and army were involved in torture, which had become increasingly sophisticated. These days taking someone's clothes and placing the person next to an air-conditioner, hanging them upside-down and putting a plastic bag over somebody's head were preferred to beating, which leaves marks. Were police or soldiers ever punished for such abuse? "Not once," said Mr Aweaputah.
Sometimes the violence of the south slips from its boundaries. In the spring of 2004, Somchai Neelapaijit, a Bangkok lawyer went missing close to his home. At the time he had been representing five men from the south accused of attacking an army depot and stealing weapons.
His wife, Angkhana, said she believes his body was burned and thrown into the Mae Klong river. After endless lobbying, five policemen were arrested and one was found guilty of coercion but the judgment was overturned. "Everybody knows what happened. But they have no body so they couldn't charge them with murder," she said.
Those working for peace in the region say they consider the talks between the government and insurgents a positive step but expect few immediate results. "We support the dialogue. We want it to be a long and continuous process. We want people to understand the process and wait until it is completed," said Soraya Jamjuree, of the Women's Civic Network for Peace and a professor at Songkhla University.
It remains unclear what the government is willing to offer. During her election campaign in 2011, Ms Yingluck said she would consider greater autonomy for the south. Yet the national security adviser to the government said at this point "nothing is on the table". The authorities want the insurgents to end the violence as a gesture of good-will.
Once again, it is unclear whether those representing the insurgents, a BRN-C team led by a man called Hassan Taib, have it in their power to halt the killings. It has been reported that many of the 'old guard' of the movement are unhappy with the insurgents' tactic of assassinating teachers.
Among those murdered was Cholatee Charanchol, a physical education teacher at the Tangyong school on the outskirts of Narathiwat. On January 23, Mr Charanchol was overseeing lunch in the green-painted cafeteria alongside the main building when two men approached him, took out hand-guns and shot him in the head.
Mr Charanchol's seven-year-old daughter, Muhiyat, was among the pupils who saw everything.
At the family home, Mr Charanchol's widow, Pausiah, said her husband, a 30-year teaching veteran, lived for the children and for his family. He organised football tournaments and on occasions would load a flat-bed truck with pupils and take them to Pattani to watch a local league game.
Mrs Charanchol said she had received compensation from the government and that the education fees of her three children would also be taken care of. But she worried how she would cope with her two boys, Mohammed, 11, and 14-year-old Mubarak. "It will be hard. I cannot be a model for my sons," she said.
As she spoke, Muhiyat was completing a drawing with crayons. She had drawn a village with a football field located next to her home. There were three green hills and two yellow suns.
Mrs Charanchol said that in the days after the shooting, a psychologist from the hospital had come to visit the little girl. They had moved her to another school but she was now frightened her mother would be killed next.
"She is a strong girl," Mrs Charanchol said quietly. "I try to stop her talking about it. I want her to forget it."


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The W3C Team Contacts for the Automotive Working Group are Kaz Ashimura and Ted Guild The co-Chairs of the Working Group are Paul Boyes, Rudolf Streif and Peter Winzell. However, with technology comes new ways of reading your trouble codes and now your personal laptop (equipped with a USB OBD II cable and the proper software) can do all the work for you.
And even though I know every nut and bolt on the F Bomb, I don't want to leave some small piece behind, that might save me from a day or two of repair time/waiting for parts, while out on the highway. At the time of writing, new technologies are seen on the market, by which a user can interact with the kiosk by simple arm or hand movements and one can assume that this is a matter of time before this technology will be displayed on the touch screen kiosks as well. Mobile or not, you will need good people skills to be successful in the automotive repair market.
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Scripture: Matthew 2:19-23
The second New Testament place that the subject of fear appears is in Matthew 2:19-23. This passage says, "Now when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, 'Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the young Child's life are dead.' Then he arose, took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of Galilee. And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, 'He shall be called a Nazarene.'" Here we see fear can be healthy and productive because it is verified by the angel. Fear served as a warning saying, 'Don't go reside there because that ruler will take note and will come after your Son. In this instance fear worked as a warning of what not to do and Joseph paid attention and as a result protected the life of Jesus toward God's ultimate purpose. The angel in effect said initially to Joseph, 'Don't be afraid of that, for marrying Mary is the will of God. In this situation the angel said, 'Yes, be afraid of that and walk this journey out protecting your family. Here fear became an agent of direction toward the will of God. Fear has to be discerned. Each time fear is present it can be either an agent of salvation or it can be an agent of compromise placing us in jeopardy. Fear can be a tool of the enemy to cripple or a tool of the Spirit to direct. The Holy Spirit has to be the Interpreter of the fears we face. Wow! There is no yardstick. We have to let God be God and the Holy Spirit has to interpret fear when it comes.


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text: Felis ISSN 2398-2950 Liver: cholangitis Synonym(s): Cholangiohepatitis Contributor(s): Ed Hall, Mark W Jackson Introduction Pathogenesis Diagnosis Treatment Outcomes Introduction A group of inflammatory liver diseases with a spectrum of histological classifications including neutrophilic (suppurative), and inflammatory (lymphocytic and biliary cirrhosis)*. Cause: unknown, ascending infection from gut. Signs: hepatic disease - icterus, pyrexia, anorexia, ascites, vomiting and diarrhea, lethargy, weight loss. Diagnosis: biochemistry, biopsy. Treatment: supportive as for hepatic disease, specific therapy depends on histological type. See also acute hepatic disease Liver: acute disease. * From the WSAVA Liver Standardization Group (2006): Neutrophilic cholangitis (acute and chronic). Lymphocytic cholangitis (acute and chronic). Chronic cholangitis (fluke infestation in endemic areas (not UK)). For neutrophilic and lymphocytic cholangitis terminology is descriptive of the major infiltrating cell type but mixed inflammatory reactions can occur. These are the two most clearly recognisable forms and both correlate to distinct, different clinical presentations that require different management. Pathogenesis Etiology Neutrophilic cholangitis: ascending infections believed to play a role. Escherichia coli Escherichia coli ,Clostridium spp Clostridia spp ,Bacteroides spp Bacteroides fragilis, Actinomyces spp Actinomyces pyogenes and Streptococcus spp Streptococcus spp have been isolated from biopsy specimens and more reliably from bile culture. Lymphocytic cholangitis: thought to be immune-mediated. Specific Bile duct/ gall bladder anomalies Bile duct: disease Gallbladder disease: overview. Cholelithiasis. PathophysiologyNeutrophilic cholangitis (formerly suppurative cholangiohepatitis) Ascending bacterial infection → hepatitis → immune-mediated response. Role of concurrent cholelithiasis, bile duct/gall bladder anomalies, pancreatitis and inflammatory bowel disease in etiopathogenesis is by association but mechanisms are unclear. Non-suppurative cholangitis Lymphocytic: ?Immune-mediated/autoimmune condition. Scirrhous or biliary cirrhosis Liver: cirrhosis: ?End-stage of other forms of cholangitis. Partial/total obstruction to bile flow → leakage of conjugated bilirubin into blood stream → icterus. Cholangiohepatitis is often found concurrently with other diseases, such as pancreatitis Pancreatitis and inflammatory bowel disease Inflammatory bowel disease: overview. The concurrent occurrence of these three disorders in cats is termed "triaditis". Diagnosis This article is available in full to registered subscribers Sign up now to purchase a 30 day trial, or Login Treatment This article is available in full to registered subscribers Sign up now to purchase a 30 day trial, or Login Outcomes This article is available in full to registered subscribers Sign up now to purchase a 30 day trial, or Login Further ReadingPublicationsRefereed papers Recent references from PubMed and VetMedResource. Weiss D J, Gagne J M & Armstrong P J (1996) Relationship between inflammatory hepatic disease and inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatitis and nephritis in cats. JAVMA 209 (6), 1114-1116 PubMed. Other sources of information Marks S L (2008) Feline hepatic disorders: update on diagnosis and management. Proceedings of the 51st BSAVA Congress, pp 201-205. Jackson M W (2008) New developments in liver disease in cats. ESFM Pre-Congress Symposium, 33rd WSAVA Congress. WSAVA Liver Standardization Group (2006). Standards for clinical and histological diagnosis of canine and feline liver diseases. Rothuzien J, Bunch S E, Cullen J M, Charles J A, Desmet V J, Twedt D C, van den Ingh T, van Winkle T, Washabua J (eds), Saunders/Elsevier, Edinburgh.


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Josephine Thorne, "Mose" or "Jo", as she was affectionately called, passed away peacefully during the early morning hours of Thursday, September 3, 2015, at University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was born on March 6, 1932, in Littleton, North Carolina, to the late Earlie J. Thorne and Martha Hawkins Thorne.
During her early life, she professed belief in Jesus Christ, was baptized, and became a dedicated member of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Littleton, North Carolina. Through the years, she served on the Usher Board and the Hospitality Committee.
Her formal education was received in the public school system of Halifax County, North Carolina, and she attended the former Edgewood School in Littleton.
She established a career in the food service industry for over fifty-nine years, and retired from the Halifax County School System as Manager of the Child Nutrition program at the former McIver Elementary School in Littleton.
"Jo" was a tireless, hard-working, independent woman who loved caring for others. Her greatest joy was cooking good food, sharing it with her family and friends, and embracing the fellowship with laughter and the joy of togetherness.
In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by two brothers, Charles Kearney and Joseph Kearney.
Her sweet spirit and loving heart will be greatly missed and forever remembered by her loving daughter, Tracey Thorne Eason (Jason); her treasured granddaughter, Jessica Eason; her caring sister, Linda Thorne White; three brothers, Sampson Kearney, William Kearney, and Vernon Thorne; five nieces, Nicola Josette Blue, Dawan James (Ramiek), Lakisha Kearney, Katanya Barnes (Myron), and Monique Price; three nephews, Donald King,Jr., Jamal Thorne, and Amir Thorne; nine great-nieces and nephews; three great-great-nieces and nephews; a loving and supportive family of cousins, other relatives and friends, including the Southgate Community, and her special, loyal friends, Pearlie Daniels, Catherine Baker, and Alice Evans.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, September 6, 2015, at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, 127 Rock House Road, Littleton, NC. Min. Geno Mitchell will deliver the eulogy, and burial will follow in the Crestview Memorial Cemetery in Roanoke Rapids, NC. The body will repose from 2:00 P.M to 8:30 P.M. on Saturday, September 5, 2015, at Robinson Funeral Home in Littleton.


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DH Coming to National League?
While talks of the designated hitter coming to the National League have been flirted with in the past, no such change has ever come to Major League Baseball. This is due to many reasons, mostly because it's a tradition, and new commissioner Rob Manfred himself has said "its the single most important feature that defines the differences between the two leagues". Baseball has always been about tradition, and I think in part that is why less and less people are watching it each year. It is still and will probably always be my favorite sport, but some changes may have to take place to get new generations to keep watching.


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SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Susan Chambers – April 19, 2017
More than 750,000 pounds of West Coast rockfish have been landed in roughly a month under an exempted fishing permit, creating a small boon for fishermen and markets.
The 2017 annual catch limits (ACLs) for many rockfish species such as canary and widow rockfish, formerly listed as overfished, increased more than five times what they were in 2016 — but the trawl fleet had no real way to access them under the catch shares program, which holds fishermen 100 percent accountable but did not remove archaic management regulations.
Four entities — the Oregon Trawl Commission, West Coast Seafood Processors Association, Environmental Defense Fund and Pacific Seafood — approached NMFS late in 2016 with the idea to relax some of the trawl gear regulations so fishermen could access the pelagic rockfish. The trawl gear regulations in the EFP would be a subset of the larger gear regulations package the industry hoped would be implemented in 2017 but found out was delayed.
The support of 13 lawmakers were instrumental in getting the project started. Reps. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore.; Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash.; Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.; Jared Huffman, D-Calif.; Derek Kilmer, D-Wash.; Denny Heck, D-Wash.; Greg Walden, R-Ore.; Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.; Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore; and Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, D-Wash.; and Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., all signed a letter supporting the trawl gear changes.
"This timing is essential because after new stock assessments showed that many rockfish stocks had been rebuilt years ahead of schedule, the PFMC approved rockfish trawl allocations for the 2017-2018 biennium that will allow for the first targeted rockfish fishery in almost 20 years," they wrote.
The lawmakers' letter to NMFS also supported approval of the full trawl gear regulations package.
"The goal of this EFP is to test how to improve harvests of healthy pelagic rockfish populations, like widow and yellowtail, with the least possible salmon impacts," EDF's Shems Jud said. "The fishing that has occurred to date under the EFP, which incorporates a number of incentive-based mechanisms as well as an overall cap on salmon to reduce bycatch, suggests we can dramatically improve rockfish attainment and fleet revenue with very low impacts to salmon stocks. We're very optimistic."
The EFP has not been without problems. It was meant to be implemented by Jan. 1, but delayed until the end of February, giving processors little time to market rockfish in time for Lent. Some distributors spent a lot of time and effort to create marketing plans for fish expected to be delivered in February, only to fall short and have major retail chains back away from purchases because product delivery was not made.
"It truly became a 'Lucy and the football' experience," Pacific Seafoods' Mike Okoniewski said.
Okoniewski's frustrations with the EFP are similar to the industry's frustrations with NMFS' overall regulatory process. In other words, if the seafood industry and communities are going to benefit from a rationalized trawl fishery, the fishery itself must behave in a "rational" business-like manner.
"Flexibility of the regulatory platform itself is key to realize this goal. Placing a Yugo engine in a Ferrari body does not yield a race car," Okoniewski said. "The West Coast trawl fishery catch share regulatory program must be made capable of operating in ways that enhance business opportunities, not suppress them."
Still, many are optimistic. Some local West Coast restaurants are featuring rockfish as specials on their menus and customers are starting to take notice.
The 765,225 pounds of rockfish landed included only four Chinook salmon and no catches of green sturgeon or eulachon smelt, both ESA-listed species. Five vessels made 17 trips since the beginning of March.
"Increased catch limits for several key West Coast rockfish stocks offer a lot of opportunity for trawlers, if they can use the right gear and techniques to harvest them," Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Marine Fisheries Section Manager Maggie Sommer said. "This EFP is a step in that direction. The EFP trips conducted so far have brought in good catches of midwater rockfish, with low bycatch, showing promise for a revitalized, clean midwater fishery."
For Oregon Trawl Commission Director Brad Pettinger, the success of a midwater rockfish fishery — something common when he was fishing more than 20 years ago — is a validation of sacrifices made since 2000.
"We're on the verge of placing the last piece of the puzzle to rebuilding this fishery," Pettinger said, noting the trawl industry has gone through a vessel and permit buyback, gotten MSC certification and transitioned to catch shares rationalization. "It's been a lot of work over the last decade-plus."
Photo Credit: Scott Malvitch, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
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How to Change the Background on an Extended Desktop
Using dual monitors to create an extended desktop in Windows gives you more flexibility when using multiple applications. For example, you can keep your email open permanently in one window while running other software on the second monitor, or test an application in one screen while writing your report in the other. By default, Windows clones one background on both monitors but you can also choose to extend one image across the two screens.
Right-click on one of the desktop backgrounds and choose "Personalize." Select "Desktop Background" from the list of options.
Click on the drop-down box to select the location of your image. You will need an image that is at least as wide as the resolution of both your monitors combined for it to fit without scaling. For example, if each monitor has a resolution of 1280 x 1024, your image needs to be at least 2560 pixels wide and 1024 pixels in height. Browse to your new image and double-click on it to select it.
Click the center option under "How Should the Picture be Positioned?" to tile the image across both monitors and click "OK" to save your changes.
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Isaiah 45:9-12
"Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
a pot among earthen pots!
Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?'
or 'Your work has no handles'?
Woe to him who says to a father, 'What are you begetting?'
or to a woman, 'With what are you in labor?'"
Thus says the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him:
"Ask me of things to come;
will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?
I made the earth
and created man on it;
it was my hands that stretched out the heavens,
and I commanded all their host.
Before I sat down to write this post I read some commentaries about theses verses, in order to get a better understanding of what Isaiah is saying, and to whom these words are directed.
Isaiah is speaking to the Jews who are grumbling against God. They are complaining about how God has allowed them to be taken into captivity before sending them salvation. Some of them are wondering why God didn't just cut out all the drama and turmoil of being enslaved by foreign invaders and just save them from being captured in the first place. Continue reading


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Anywho.... I was digging through my scrapbook gallery today and was actually surprised by how many I still lover even years later. Do you have some like that? No matter how much time goes by and how products and techniques change... I STILL love them. So thought I'd do a show and tell of those few pages that I still love to this day... and funny enough- a lot of them are from 2007. guess it was a good year for me lol ;)-
And then the last one is the most recent- did this one last week and have to say it's my new fav. I guess it's because i've used glimmer mist on the entire thing and how can you not love something sparkly and blingy? ( is that a word? it is now!)