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Obama Seeks an Israeli Shift
JERUSALEM—President Barack Obama sought to kick-start a Mideast peace effort in a speech here Thursday by wooing the Israeli public and then admonishing them that they must treat Palestinians better to achieve peace.
The U.S. leader, on a three-day visit, sought to shed past tensions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and win the support of an Israeli public that has seen him as neutral or pro-Palestinian.
But after spending a day cementing his relationship with Mr. Netanyahu, the U.S. president took his appeal directly to a group of young Israelis, who were receptive to his message of fair treatment for Palestinians and peace in the Mideast.
Mr. Obama first met Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, calling for new peace efforts, hours after militants in Gaza fired four rockets into southern Israel. The rockets caused no injuries.
He then returned to Jerusalem to address Israeli students in a 30-minute speech liberally sprinkled with Hebrew and references to Israeli pop culture.
One of the loudest outbursts of applause and a standing ovation followed Mr. Obama's statement that "the only way for Israel to endure and thrive as a Jewish and democratic state is through the realization of an independent and viable Palestine."
A senior Obama administration official said the speech was aimed at getting the Israeli people to believe once again that peace was possible, calling it a necessary first step before floating more ambitious proposals.
"If people don't get reinvested in the idea that peace is possible, it doesn't matter what confidence-building measures you do," he said.
Secretary of State John Kerry has already begun meeting with Israeli, Palestinian and regional leaders to suss out how to revive peace negotiations.
Mr. Obama said on Thursday that Mr. Kerry would try to move the two sides closer to agreement, but the president didn't offer a specific plan for getting Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to the table.
Mr. Obama's approach Thursday appeared aimed at winning Israeli trust for his effort by showing them a robust embrace of Israel.
Many Israelis reacted warmly to the speech. "He made several points that were an absolute home run with Israelis," Israel's foreign-ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said.
Israel's incoming deputy defense minister Danny Danon, a pro-settler hard-liner, praised Mr. Obama's "recognition of the historic connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel." Mr. Danon said that connection justified continued Jewish settlement of the West Bank.
Mr. Abbas, after his meeting with Mr. Obama on Thursday, voiced hope for progress but said Jewish settlements in the West Bank were a hurdle on the path to a two-state solution. Mr. Obama backed away from the demand in his first term that Israel freeze settlements before entering negotiations.
Hani Masri, a Palestinian political analyst, said Mr. Obama's speech suggested the U.S. leader had shifted his support fully behind the Israeli narrative.
"Obama's second term is going to be even worse for the Palestinians than his first term," said Mr. Masri. "Receiving Obama in Ramallah today is a humiliation for the Palestinian people."
But Israeli and Palestinian officials said Mr. Obama's criticism of Israel's treatment of Palestinians was unusually direct and candid for a sitting U.S. president.
Arab Israeli lawmaker Ahmed Tibi, who is close to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Mr. Obama "was the first American president who spoke like this about the suffering of the Palestinians."
Throughout the first half of his speech, Mr. Obama framed Israel's history and current security concerns in the same language that Israelis themselves use.
He denounced Hezbollah as terrorists, urged Arab countries to fully normalize their diplomatic ties with Israel, and reiterated his pledge to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. And then, Mr. Obama shifted. He told the audience of Israeli students that Palestinian self-determination must be recognized.
"Put yourself in their shoes—look at the world through their eyes," he said.
—Joshua Mitnick contributed to this article.
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About Cristina De Middel
Cristina de Middel presents fictional scenes through a reality-based lens in her photographs. Disenchanted with photojournalism and the media's shaping of public opinions, de Middel emphasizes holistic storytelling in her art, which is rooted in systems of beliefs, rituals, and religions. She is best known for "The Afronauts," a self-published series about the short-lived Zambian space program. The series follows a fictionalized representation of true events, juxtaposing space age themes against a folk art aesthetic with the intent of criticizing the Western media's stigmatization of Africa. De Middel's goal is to spark debate about representations of the truth through these staged images. Most recently, de Middel has used photography to explore community militarization in Brazilian favelas, slums in Lagos, and Nigerian spam emails.
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The seven habits are applicable to anyone, and for public relations professionals, they are particularly helpful in your work with journalists, clients and the public. Here are ways you can apply Covey's proven seven habits to your PR work.
Habit 1: Be proactive.
Instead of waiting for an opportunity to emerge, smart PR pros create opportunities.
This is especially applicable to client relationships and business development. As Angelique Rewers of The Corporate Agent says, "Sell to the spark":
"Spark events are changes, decisions and activities within an organization, or in the market or industry in general, that can create an immediate need or desire for your service offerings. Contacting a potential client when it coincides with an appropriate spark event can create just the window of opportunity you need in order to grab the prospect's attention and also dramatically shorten the sales cycle." — The Corporate Agent
"Spark events are changes, decisions and activities within an organization, or in the market or industry in general, that can create an immediate need or desire for your service offerings. Contacting a potential client when it coincides with an appropriate spark event can create just the window of opportunity you need in order to grab the prospect's attention and also dramatically shorten the sales cycle." — The Corporate Agent
Selling to the spark is the ultimate embodiment of the "be proactive" habit applied to business development.
Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind.
This habit is particularly important when planning a campaign or PR program. Before you develop media target or desired outcomes, it is important to understand the overall goals of your client or brand: What do we hope this program achieves for the business or organization? Does this program help drive fundraising, increase sales, or increase overall brand awareness?
Understanding the goal helps with the planning process.
Habit 3: Put first things first.
Every day, a public relations professional's calendar is filled with competing priorities. It is important early in one's career to learn how to prioritize what tasks are truly important and must be tackled first.
Habit 4: Think win-win.
Whenever you are trying to establish partnerships in PR, you must think win-win. The road to successful community and corporate partnerships, sponsorships, media placements, fundraising success, and success of any other kind within PR is paved with mutually beneficial relationships.
Before you ask a potential partner to do something on either your or your client's behalf, think of how the partnership can be beneficial to both your partner and you.
Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
This is a great one to put into practice when you work with journalists.
When I worked in the newsroom at the "Washington City Paper," I would often get pitches from well-meaning PR specialists who didn't understand my beat or interests. I was hungry for great stories—I always had to feed the news beast—but despite my desire to take my editor five or six viable story ideas each week, I often found myself with an inbox full of pitches that weren't a good fit.
If you are pitching a journalist, it is important to know what types of stories he or she is looking for before you pick up the phone or send that email. With the Internet, this is easier than ever. It takes but a moment to do a Google search on your reporter's past coverage.
Try to understand the reporter's interests, and then try to get a sense of her schedule so you know her needs. Most reporters are on deadline from mid-morning to late afternoon, so if you want to get them on the phone, early in the morning or later in the day could work.
Habit 6: Synergize.
When it comes to PR, it truly takes a village. Think of the last major successful event or campaign you witnessed. Now think of the last successful campaign you pulled off yourself. Chances are you relied on the talent of many to make your vision a reality.
Particularly in a collaborative field like public relations, where you are asked to win the public, media, potential partners, and sponsors, it takes the effort of many to make something spectacular happen.
Habit 7: Sharpen the saw.
In the age of social media, a public relations professional must always look for ways to learn new skills. Learning doesn't end in the classroom, and the field is ever-changing. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist a decade ago, yet now they are mainstay tools of communication.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning, and understand there is always more to learn. You're never too much of an expert to learn something new.
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Sam is your buddy. Sam is the guy who will pour your beer, lend you 20 bucks, or pick you up from the airport. As up-front and amiable as it gets, Sam is a refreshingly honest name. And as Tiger Woods proved, it makes an adorable name for a baby girl as well.


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Whatever the procedure, it is always possible that it will favor certain types of cases in the population more than the others, in other words the data from the sample will be biased.
In descriptive studies the presence of bias is usully a grave handicap, because it can prohibit generalizing the results into the population. This is a difficulty that you will meet later in your project, when Assessing Non-Random Sampling and when writing the final chapter of your report, so it can be prudent to think about it in advance, when selecting the sampling method.
When assessing a non-random sample you should ask yourself: Will the results from the sample be the same that you would get from the population? Is it certain that the criterion that you have used in selecting the sample (e.g. the willingness of people to participate) has no relationship with those variables that you want to record from the sample? If there is correlation, your sample will be biased and you should consider constructing a new sample with less correlation.
As a contrast, in research and development projects the risks in using non-random samples are smaller, because often a bias can be compensated later. For example, it is common to use convenience sampling when selecting potential customers to a think-tank in order to develop an early product concept. The selection of persons will probably be biased, as well as the proposals from the think-tank, but normally the proposals will be rectified at a later stage when they are evaluated anew by another, larger group of people.
Common types of non-random samples include:
1. Convenience sample. A coincidental group, e.g. people at a meeting, might be specified as a sample. More exactly, the sample contains those persons in the group who are willing to take part. Such a sample is often heavily biased, but this can be accepted if the data obtained from the sample are not really going to be used, such as is the case in demonstrations in survey method classes at universities. Likewise, this is a possible method when you need a few potential customers to assist in product development, on the condition that the obtained results shall later be tested with a better sample from the intended customers .
2. Sample of volunteers is created when all the members of a population have the opportunity to participate in the sample, and all volunteers are accepted. If you insert a survey form in an Internet page and ask people to give their opinions on a topic, you will get this type of sample from all the readers of this page. Similarly, the persons who spontaneously send customer feedback to a company are a sample of volunteers from all the customers.
A sample of volunteers can be a practical alternative when there is no list of the members of the population from which a random sample could be drawn, or when it is difficult to contact the people in a sample because their addresses are not known. The disadvantage is that it is difficult to assess the presence of bias, i.e. whether the opinions or other interesting properties of the volunteers deviate from those of the population. When considering this question, there are two questions to ask:
We're not just gathered here on a lovely May day in an ordinary auditorium at SF state. We're all strapped in, seated together on a gigantic ball whirling around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour, nested in a galaxy hurtling through the depths of space and time at 1.3 million miles per hour.
That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.
Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.
Respect people with less powe then you. I don't care if you're the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.
By all reckoning, the bumblebee is aerodynamically unsound and shouldn't be able to fly. Yet, the little bee gets those wings going like a turbo-jet and flies to every plant its chubby little body can land on to collect all the nectar it can hold. Bumblebees are the most persistent creatures. They don't know they can't fly, so they just keep buzzing around. Like the lowly bumblebee, honored graduates, never give in to pessimism. Don't know that you can't fly, and you will soar like an eagle.
I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?
Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living— to burst the double bubble of comfort and convention and just do stuff, even if you don't know precisely where it's going to lead, because you don't know precisely where it's going to lead.
Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.
Mental Health Concern
We work with two groups of people:
The service is available to families and care staff working with people who have diagnosed dementia and are behaving in ways that are challenging. This is why referrals are usually made by health professionals such as GPs, psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses, or social workers.
We know that caring for someone with dementia can be very hard work. We also know that some people with dementia find it hard to communicate, can mistake what is going on around them, and can behave in ways whichare difficult to cope with. Such behaviours can include:
By giving practical advice and 'hands-on' support, our team'saim is to help to reduce the impact of these challenges on caregivers and, where possible, prevent the challenges from happening in the first place. The team want to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of the person with dementia, and of the people caring for them.
Whether at home or in a nursing home, we work with carers of people who have a diagnosis of dementia.
We understand that every case is different; it will take longer than one visit to develop an action plan. After the assessment, we will create a personal package that is suited to your circumstances. Our team will spend time with you, support you, and show you how best to care for the person with dementia – and specifically how to approach their difficult behaviours.
We provide:
We aim to leave you with better ways to manage within 12 weeks.
Often the people we work with are already in contact with mental health professionals, who will refer on to us. If you are caring for someone with diagnosed dementia who is presenting with challenging behaviour and you are not in contact with a mental health professional, please hand this leaflet to your GP, who will be able to help.
Once we receive a referral, we will contact you within 72 hours. During the initial conversation, we will offer help and arrange a suitable time to visit. We understand that caring for someone with dementia is a 24-hour job, and sometimes it is during the early hours and through the night when help is most needed. In these circumstances, we can plan a visit at a time that suits you.
We may ask you some questions about any help you have received up to this point, and what you are finding challenging. On our first visit, you will meet at least two members of our team. We will work with you to create aims and goals and to find out as much as possibleabout the person with dementia – this allows us to identify the best way to help you.
If you are a carer for someone who has dementia and think that we might be able to help you, please get in touch and we will advise you how to contact the right professional to refer you. We will respond within two working days.
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Selena Gomez: PCAs Favorite Breakout Artist!
Selena Gomez proudly shows off her award for Favorite Breakout Artist at the People's Choice Awards 2011 on Wednesday (January 5) at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles.
The 18-year-old singer and actress picked up the accolade after performing "A Year Without Rain" with her band, Selena Gomez & The Scene.
On the carpet, Selena wore a Paule Ka dress with Giuseppe Zanotti pumps and a Kotur bag. She completed her look with Trésor earrings, a Vahan bracelet, and a Brumani ring.
During her performance, she wore a butterfly dress by Irina Shabayeva and Polki Allure Hoops by Isharya.
Backstage, Selena met up with fellow winner Taylor Swift and joked that the country star was taking over the world! Taylor then said the same thing about Selena!
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Browns 3rd-string QB Thad Lewis likely to face Steelers because of injuries to Weeden, McCoy
BEREA, Ohio – Injured Browns quarterbacks Brandon Weeden and Colt McCoy are not practicing, making it almost certain that third-stringer Thad Lewis will start the season finale at Pittsburgh.
Both Weeden and McCoy injured their right shoulders last week at Denver. They have not practiced this week. Lewis took all the snaps with the first-team offense during the portion of Friday's practice open to the media. Coach Pat Shurmur will provide an update following the workout.
Also, rookie running back Trent Richardson remains sidelined with a sprained ankle and will likely miss Sunday's game. He needs 50 yards to reach 1,000.
Lewis' first NFL start will be a daunting one as the Steelers' defense is ranked No. 1 overall in the NFL. The Browns signed free agent Josh Johnson to be his backup.


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A pop / lite rock track with ethnic vibes. The instrumentation includes mallets, guitars, drums, bass and of course the gong . This track combines exotic and exciting elements with the modern pop or lite rock music and would go well with different kinds of lifestyle or travelling programmes or similar kind of other media projects.
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I got stuck today at Pl. Ap. 31e2 where we have these reinforced negatives. I finally understood what they are only after checking my commentary,
and I couldn't find a reference in Smyth. Are there any rules put in place for a student to recognize when a negative comes merely to reinforce
the previous one, not to negate it? Is it always after phrases like οὐκ ἔστιν ὅστις/οὐδεὶς ὅστις that a following statement would have, if required,
reinforced negatives?
Here, οὔτε ὑμῖν οὔτε ἄλλῳ πλήθει οὐδενὶ after οὐκ ἔστιν ὅστις σωθήσεται is translated as καὶ ὑμῖν καὶ ἄλλῳ πλήθει τινὶ
γνησίως ἐναντιούμενος.
I know this occurred already in previous sections, but I have trouble internalizing it.


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* What's your favourite piece of furniture in your house?
That would be my chairs. I really like chairs in general, I could buy a chair every day! I like combining different designs. My all-time favourites are my black chairs by Arne Jacobsen. They are original pieces dating from the early 60's and they look a lot better crafted than the reproductions. They were a gift from my grandfather when he moved to a new place.
* Is it hard to keep your work and living space separate?
I don't really keep them separate. I just got rid of my entire living room, so that I could have more space to work. I also live in this space. Working, reading or eating all take place in the same area, so I don't really have a clear delineation of these areas.
* How and where do you see yourself living 10 years from now?
If I could dream, I would love to have bought a place within the next 10 years. Like an old mansion or a deserted factory. An old office would also be nice. Just a place with a lot of space so that I can make a screen printing workshop in my house. It will probably be in Antwerp, although Amsterdam is also an option.


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Having developed this issue myself last Friday after no problems playing since release, I have spent the weekend trying to troubleshoot the problem and now believe I have finally identified at least a workaround, if not a definitive cause (probably only Turbine can do this). This has been confirmed now as working for others with similar issues (including being stuck at an earlier stage)
Issue: During the launch process of the Mac client LotroLauncher.app (in the Finder named The Lord of the Rings Online™), after connecting to the patch server and Check product stage; instead of progressing to the Login/Password stage the launcher shows the error message;
[sic]An update error occured
And just repeats a Retry every 60 seconds will no progress. Relaunching will only repeat the loop.
Workaround: Rename the application from The Lord of the Rings Online™ to The Lord of the Rings Online by removing the '™'. Relaunch the application and it should now progress to Login/Password and allow you to enter the game.
NOTE: Some players have found that this does not work but doing the same for the lotroclient within the app via Right Click > Show Package Contents does work. The path is;
Note that in the Finder you will see The Lord of the Rings Online™ as the name, not lotroclient./Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online.app/Contents/Resources/lotroclient.app
NOTE: This solution was posted for the original direct download from Turbine. It may not work on the Steam download now also available.
Image: This is the error message on the launcher window;
Note: This workaround has been confirm to work on this and similar issues during patching and checking before the login/pass stage. There are other options to resolve this issue which are;
Optional Workarounds
Launch the LotroLauncher.app directly
1. Navigate to /Applications > The Lord of the Rings Online™ then right click the app and select Show Package Contents.
2. Navigate to Contents >MacOS >LotroLauncher (LotroLauncher.app if extensions are shown) and double click to launch directly. This will automatically open Terminal and run the launch sequence. This should result in you reaching the Login/Password stage ready to enter the game.
You do not have to alter the app name to do this (although that is the neater solution). It is also possible to drag this to the Dock (right or lower part) to make a shortcut.
Reinstall the Application
Initially I resolved this after a lot of checks by removing the following (I moved them to a new folder on the desktop);
(normally this is /Applications/LotroLauncher.app but shows as this with a problem install)/Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online™.app
and all the supporting/related files;
Then mounting the LotroLauncher.dmg disk image again; Letting the Verify complete (takes a while but important) and copy to Applications by dragging it to the folder on the disk image window (takes a while as a large file).~/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient
~/Library/Preferences/com.turbine.LotroLauncher.plis t
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.turbine.lotroclient.savedS tate
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.turbine.LotroLauncher.save dState
Launch the fresh install and let it patch. This time it worked without the error. Just make sure that all the files noted are removed.
This issue is caused because LotroLauncher.app (viewed as The Lord of the Rings Online™ in Applications) is unable to check and confirm correctly the installed files with the Turbine patch server.
Initially it appears a classic connection issue, but it is not. After doing a lot of troubleshooting tests (Mac maintenance/ troubleshooting checks, firewall/router/traceroute/port/dns checks and then file permissions. Even an incremental removal and swap of all enclosed files/folders did not seem to identify the problem.
Booting into Bootcamp and connecting first time with the PC LOTRO client confirmed it was not a connection issue. And, having checked all folder/files individually, I noticed the path name was different after doing a fresh install rectified the problem and allowed me to compare the working and non-working apps. BY being able to replace the entire Contents folder and still having the issue, it left only the enclosing package and why I then tried removing the 'tm' which worked.
That the client was able to connect correctly to the Turbine patch server was confirmed by running a Traceroute;
Applications/Utilities/Network Utility.app > Traceroute & patch.lotro.comA fresh install from the LotroLauncher.dmg disk image will show the path to the LOTRO app as;Traceroute has started…
traceroute to serviceengine.turbine.com (220.127.116.11), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1 192.168.0.254 (192.168.0.254) 1.045 ms 0.626 ms 0.623 ms
2 192.168.254.254 (192.168.254.254) 64.979 ms 68.598 ms 62.291 ms
3 bzn-6k-5-v201.routers.proxad.net (188.8.131.52) 82.404 ms 65.166 ms *
4 th2-crs16-1-be1200.intf.routers.proxad.net (188.8.131.52) 65.305 ms 64.666 ms 67.252 ms
5 te0-7-0-18.338.ccr21.par04.atlas.cogen tco.com (126.96.36.199) 65.388 ms 63.933 ms 63.310 ms
6 te0-1-0-4.ccr22.par01.atlas.cogentco.c om (126.96.36.199) 64.117 ms
te0-2-0-3.ccr21.par01.atlas.cogentco.c om (126.96.36.199) 64.282 ms
te0-1-0-4.ccr21.par01.atlas.cogentco.c om (220.127.116.11) 66.407 ms
7 te0-4-0-2.mpd22.lon13.atlas.cogentco.c om (220.127.116.11) 72.742 ms 79.375 ms 72.373 ms
8 te0-0-0-4.ccr22.bos01.atlas.cogentco.c om (18.104.22.168) 146.676 ms
te0-3-0-4.ccr21.bos01.atlas.cogentco.c om (188.8.131.52) 150.969 ms
te0-0-0-4.ccr21.bos01.atlas.cogentco.c om (126.96.36.199) 148.330 ms
9 te3-4.ccr01.bos06.atlas.cogentco.c om (220.127.116.11) 345.112 ms
te3-2.ccr01.bos06.atlas.cogentco.c om (188.8.131.52) 364.353 ms
te3-4.ccr01.bos06.atlas.cogentco.c om (126.96.36.199) 210.494 ms
10 188.8.131.52 (22.214.171.124) 142.701 ms 310.494 ms 218.029 ms
11 border1.te7-1-bbnet1.bsn003.pnap.net (18.104.22.168) 143.202 ms 154.098 ms 142.623 ms
12 turbine-7.border1.bsn003.pnap.net (126.96.36.199) 143.923 ms 143.713 ms 142.835 ms
13 220.127.116.11 (184.108.40.206) 142.418 ms 144.734 ms 144.839 ms
14 18.104.22.168 (126.96.36.199) 152.051 ms 148.801 ms 142.581 ms
It appears something is changed at some point, also even after being able to patch, login and play the game for sometime, where it then shows as;Applications/LotroLauncher.app
Another symptom appears to be the generation of new empty folder in the app;/Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online™
There can be multiple copies of this folder with incremental index xx numbers/Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online™.app/Contents/MacOS/<Error: Cannot convert wide char to multi-byte: char 0x00002122 index 42>
I suspect it is the 'tm' character causing this issue which is related to do with converting wide character to multibyte error as shown in the folder name error.
This error refers to char 0x00002122 which just happens to be Unicode Character 'TRADE MARK SIGN' (U+2122)
This error is preventing the patch check process from completing properly, perhaps from the incorrect path name. You can see this happening in the
In the first of the two records copied here you can note the name of the app has the 'tm' and end in the error which just repeats. The second does not and connects and completes correctly.~/Library/Logs/com.turbine.lotroclient/PatchClient.log
A clean install will be the same as the second and work correctly but have the correct file path and name;//****************************** ****************************** ****************************
000000000.000: preconfigured proxy settings.
000000000.000: Using settings from INI file [/Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online™.app/Contents/Resources/coreonline.ini], section [PatchClient]
000000000.000: Importing public key
000000000.000: Connecting to patchserver at patch.lotro.com:80
000000001.301: Checking for file patches.
000000001.301: application directory: </Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online™.app/Contents>
000000001.301: temp directory: </Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online™.app/Contents/Resources/tmp>
000000001.301: forward directory: </Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online™.app/Contents/Resources/forward>
000000001.301: backup directory: </Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online™.app/Contents/Resources/backup>
000000002.301: Response received from patchserver.
000000002.301: No file patching necessary.
000000002.301: Patching files...
000000002.400: File patching complete. 0 patches applied, 0 bytes downloaded
000000002.403: Checking for data patches.
000000002.403: Loading data patch dll.
000000002.403: Could not init the patchtime manager
000000002.403: Failed to create a patchtime patching manager in </Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online™.app/Contents/Resources/lotroclient.app/Contents/Resources>: error 0x81930003
000000062.400: Connecting to patchserver at patch.lotro.com:80
000000122.400: Connecting to patchserver at patch.lotro.com:80
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// Filename: /Users/simon/Library/Logs/com.turbine.lotroclient/PatchClient.log
// Description:
// Version: Portal:
// Process ID: 1035 (0x40b) Thread ID: 3079 (0xc07)
// Log Creation Time: Mon Nov 19 00:36:43 2012
// Current Time - System: Mon Nov 19 00:36:43 2012 Game: 000000000.000
// Times wrapped: 0 Writes: 0 Bytes Written: 0
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000000000.000: preconfigured proxy settings.
000000000.000: Using settings from INI file [/Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online.app/Contents/Resources/coreonline.ini], section [PatchClient]
000000000.000: Importing public key
000000000.000: Connecting to patchserver at patch.lotro.com:80
000000001.301: Checking for file patches.
000000001.301: application directory: </Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online.app/Contents>
000000001.301: temp directory: </Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online.app/Contents/Resources/tmp>
000000001.301: forward directory: </Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online.app/Contents/Resources/forward>
000000001.301: backup directory: </Applications/The Lord of the Rings Online.app/Contents/Resources/backup>
000000002.301: Response received from patchserver.
000000002.301: No file patching necessary.
000000002.301: Patching files...
000000002.401: File patching complete. 0 patches applied, 0 bytes downloaded
000000002.403: Checking for data patches.
000000002.403: Loading data patch dll.
000000003.501: Response received from patchserver.
000000003.501: No data patching necessary.
000000003.501: Patching data...
000000003.601: Data patching complete. 0 iterations applied, 0 bytes downloaded
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I am not sure what could cause the name to be changed on the path if it is not changed manually except that Turbine use a different display name on the app from that of the bundle name and it appears that it generates a new folder with the error message at around the same time.000000002.801: application directory: </Applications/LotroLauncher.app/Contents>
When I first installed the beta Mac client The Lord of the Rings Online™ I wondered then, why they had added a trade mark character to the name as it does not appear on the PC client folder? Even then it seemed a recipe for trouble as special characters can break things.
Perhaps the fix is as simple as for them to remove it. Or whether there is a deeper issue in why it is changing the name from LotroLauncher.app to the display name on the path. At least now it is identified and the bug report/s should help them fix it soon, as it is catching a lot players out who are wanting to try the beta Mac client.
As a last note, I find it ironic that even the error message has an error
'An update error occured' should read 'An update error occurred'
I would recommend that if you get this issue, you follow the third option above and do a fresh install of the app. In this way the correct path will show. Just ensure to remove all support files which are identified there. Keep the ~/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient folder so you can add this back after to retain your lotro.keymap, Plugins and any screenshots etc., as there doesn't appear to be anything in there which will cause this.
If the issue re-occurs you can follow the steps again above to rectify it and we can hope Turbine issue a fix soon.
Finally, do report this issue (and any others you find) via Submit A Bug Report
Make sure to select Mac as the operating system and give as much detail as possible, including system setup (ou can get details by clicking the Apple symbol top left of screen > About This Mac > More info and copy/paste details); OS X version; description of bug and detail including /loc location. Also attach a screenshot or system report (found at More info…, see above) if relevant. Then Turbine are aware of the issue and can help fix it.
Hopefully this helps resolve this frustrating bug for others also. Please post if it works (or not) for you. Any +Rep is appreciated!


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SOUTH GLEN FALLS, N.Y., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Police in New York state said they were looking into allegations that a mother hired strippers to perform at her 16-year-old son's birthday party.
South Glen Falls Police Chief Kevin Judd and Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy III said the mother, whose name was not released, threw a surprise party for her son's 16th birthday Nov. 3 at Spare Time bowling alley, and the event was attended by 80 people, mostly 14- and 15-year-olds, The (Schenectady, N.Y.) Daily Gazette reported Thursday.
Murphy said the parents of some teenagers called police when they discovered the event was attended by exotic dancers from Tops and Bottoms, an Albany strip club.
"We're looking into it," Judd said.
A Spare Time employee declined to comment on the incident.


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My daughter gave birth to twin girls on the 13th. One is a very aggressive nurser and the other had issues with her suck in the hospital. We were told to use a SNS to help her want to stay at the breast- she kept popping off, etc...
She has done great! She now has no sucking issues but I'm not sure how or when to wean off the SNS. She has experienced some reduced supply- possibly as a result of the poor suck or maybe the SNS itself.
I breastfed my own twins for nearly 3 years and had to fight for every drop they got. I want her experience to be more enjoyable and much easier.
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If Wednesday's open were up instead of down… then the balance of the session could have been spent trapping shorts. Instead, shorts were squeezed. A negative reaction to Friday's Employment Situation report could drop dramatically.
Pattern points… (Setups and technicals)
Monday afternoon's dive undermined the morning's buyers, but it was not deep enough to be the product of strong-handed sellers. Sellers were marginalized through the holiday. Tuesday's afternoon and overnight drop therefore was unlikely to extend down.
Exiting Tuesday's opening 15 minutes of volatility at 9:45 back above 1598.00-1600.00 also undermined the overnight momentum. The setup was duplicated, and a combined test of both bias-down parameters was nearly rejected by 10:15. Nonetheless, sellers were marginalized.
Marginalized sellers taking price back down to prior lows would have made a very bullish reaction very likely to Friday morning's Employment Situation report. Oh, well.
Instead, the balance of Wednesday's truncated session already rallied. Unfinished business above at 1611.25 was neutralized by retracing Tuesday afternoon's no-bias trending. Room for noise above it up to 1613.00 was touched at Wednesday's high. And yet another probe above last Friday's 1609.50 high held as resistance.
What's Next… (Outlook and opportunities)
More buying pressure can be expended up to 1614.50 and 1617.00 during Thursday's holiday trading. Greeting Friday morning's report from above 1617.00 would be vulnerable to reacting favorably. But greeting it from under 1602.00-1604.00 would be vulnerable to selling off sharply into the weekend.
Look for at least one update overnight or ahead of the Morning Market Tour… My thoughts on the day's econ calendar are linked here.


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WASHINGTON -- The nation's vexation over the morality and legality of President Obama's drone war has produced a salutary but hopelessly confused debate. Three categories of questions are being asked. They must be separated to be clearly understood.
1. By what right does the president order the killing by drone of enemies abroad? What criteria justify assassination?
Answer: (a) imminent threat, under the doctrine of self-defense, and (b) affiliation with al-Qaeda, under the laws of war.
Imminent threat is obvious. If we know a freelance jihadist cell in Yemen is actively plotting an attack, we don't have to wait until after the fact. Elementary self-defense justifies attacking first.


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AMD puts network, chip guru in charge of Opterons
Server CTO departed last December
AMD's new CEO Rory Read has been shaking things up in the past couple of months while at the same time settling things down – particularly on the Opteron server chip front. To help accomplish both, he's made a major management move, hiring Suresh Gopalakrishnan to be vice president and general manager of AMD's server business unit.
Read's needs are obvious: With Intel launching a bevy of new Xeon E5 chips and AMD not able to do much until the "Piledriver" family of chips come out late this year or early next, he needs to get everyone to hunker down and start thinking about the future out beyond a year from now.
And so he's handing Gopalakrishnan the reins of the unit that is responsible for Opteron server chips and the related SR family of chipsets – really server control hubs, since so much of the function of a chipset is on the Opteron itself these days.
As general manager of that business, Gopalakrishnan is in charge of research, development, production, sales, and marketing for the Opteron line, and reports to Lisa Su, who is senior vice president and general manager of AMD's Global Business Units.
Su, who was a CTO at Freescale Semiconductor before joining AMD last December and who put in stints at Texas Instruments and IBM Microelectronics before that, was put in charge of server, client, graphics, and game console products, reporting directly to Read.
In the wake of the acquisition of microserver and interconnect upstart SeaMicro back in February, AMD made it clear that over the long haul, SeaMicro would be a server-interconnect business, and that it expected to sell the "Freedom" 3D torus interconnect as a building block for servers and get out of the server business itself. AMD kept on SeaMicro's Andy Feldman to be VP and GM of a new Data Center Server Solutions group that was given that task, reporting to Su.
Two weeks ago, AMD formed an Embedded Systems Group charged with identifying markets where the company can carve out some niches and also find new areas where AMD can grow in the embedded space. Arun Iyengar, formerly vice president at field programmable gate array (FPGA) maker Altera, was named general manager of the Embedded Solutions Group, reports to – you guessed it – Su.
AMD is looking to gain some expertise in system interconnects, particularly with Intel now having control of Ethernet (from Fulcrum Microsystems), InfiniBand (from QLogic), and Aries router (from Cray) interconnects.
It's clear that the means of lashing servers together is just as important today as the server processors themselves, but AMD has not forgotten that the server chips are important as well – and Gopalakrishnan is being brought in to make sure that AMD has good designs out beyond Piledriver Opterons and can deliver on whatever its roadmaps promise.
If AMD is ever to woo back the server makers of the world – or help create a new set of server makers or attract the do-it-yourself crowd – then it is going to have to do better than it has done with the past couple of generations of Opteron chips. With Intel having the wafer baking process advantage, AMD cannot just hammer on the price lever all the time and be a growing and profitable company.
What AMD needs to do is innovate at the systems and cluster level in a way that it did back in the early 2000s when it exploited Intel's weaknesses in its 32-bit Xeon and 64-bit Itanium processors and shot the 64-bit "SledgeHammer" Opterons right between the two, absolutely transforming the server chip racket.
Unfortunately for AMD, however, Intel copied AMD's ideas about multicore, point-to-point interconnects, and other innovations, and now has the upper hand as if none of that ever happened. But it did happen, and that means it can happen again if AMD's techies can change the conditions of the test, Kirk-style.
Gopalakrishnan joins AMD from networking upstart Extreme Networks, where he was vice president of engineering. While at Extreme Networks, which is known as a speed demon in the Ethernet switching arena, Gopalakrishnan was also in charge of marketing and product management, and ran a number of different business units since joining the company in October 2009. For nine years prior to that, he was vice president of engineering at Riverstone Networks, a defunct maker of switching gear that was once part of Alcatel-Lucent, and he has similar engineering roles at Cabletron Systems, Ligent, and ZSP Corp in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Interestingly, way back in the dawn of time, Gopalakrishnan was a hardware scientist at HP's Integrated Circuits Business Division, in charge of PA-RISC workstation chipsets, and between 1994 and 1996 he was an engineering manager at Sun Microsystems, where he worked on aspects of the "Blackbird" UltraSparc-II processor that put Sun on the map in the data center because of its superiority over other RISC chips of the time.
Gopalakrishnan got his PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Idaho and is an adjunct faculty member there, as well as at Santa Clara University.
An interesting side note: Don Newell, an ex-Intel techie who was hired to be AMD's server CTO back in August 2010, actually left AMD back in December 2011 when Read was putting together AMD's new tech and management team. At the moment, Joe Macri, who is CTO for Global Business Units working beside Su, is the acting CTO for the server business unit. Gopalakrishnan will decide how he wants this CTO role handled once he settles in, an AMD spokesperson tells El Reg. ®


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This book is part of a series in which all have something in common. In all the books, the main character, Santa Paws, saves someone's life or rescues them from a bad situation. Gregory Callahan, reminds me of my brother. Both Gregory and my brother, Ryan, like to explore. I really enjoyed this book because there is always something exciting happening. Someone is either hurt or being saved. This book is similar to Brian's Winter because both tell about someone needing rescue and how they coped in the cold.
I recommend this book to people who are energetic, love animal stories and enjoy suspense. This book is a must read for adventurers eight and up!


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We live in serious times, and nowhere is this more evident than in our public schools.
Lockdown drills. Locker searches. Guards at the gates. The spate of school shootings has everyone on edge, which tends to eliminate tolerance for humor with any edge.
Last week I received an email from a student at Nipmuc Regional High School in Upton, who wrote that she was �very disturbed� about a teacher�s comment during the school�s lockdown drill.
�We were all getting ready to go sit against the wall when our math teacher, Ronald Cochran, said, �Kids with the lowest grades, go sit by the door.� While I can only imagine this was meant to be a sarcastic joke, it was scary and inappropriate.�
Was it really? She continued, �In a time when we were supposed to be feeling safe, we felt threatened and uncomfortable. The school will talk to him, but because he�s a union worker, their hands will be tied. My mother contacted the superintendent of schools. The fact that my mother asked if she should bring me right over and �no, tomorrow is soon enough� was the response she got seems crazy.
�To me, and to everyone else, we feel this is a huge deal and something finally needs to be done about this teacher. ... He has been known to refer to myself and fellow classmates as �not smart enough,� making us feel inadequate ... He makes snide remarks about us to our faces on a constant basis. Frankly, we�ve all had enough. ... We are tired of his actions going undisciplined. Please help us.�
Such a plaintive plea for relief cannot go unanswered. This student needs help, but probably not the kind she has in mind.
First, allow me to admit that I found the teacher�s comment ... kind of funny. God help me, but I laughed. This admission will likely incur the wrath of those compelled to point out that the murder of school children is never, ever amusing, as though any sane person needs that reminder.
But for those who don�t find the teacher�s joke funny, humor is subjective and I get that. Still, how does a student feel �threatened� by a dumb joke that wasn�t even directed to her?
Rather than simply brush off the teacher�s attempt at humor as oafish, she reports the incident to her mother. And the mother, rather than suggest her daughter get over herself, calls the superintendent. And not only does she call the superintendent, but she was apparently appalled that the school failed to treat the incident as a safety emergency.
I understand times have changed, and today�s entitled young people should never feel uncomfortable or inadequate, lest someone be made to pay. This is a radical departure from, say, the 1970s, when I was in high school and sporting a black eye from a basketball game. In biology class, my male teacher asked if my boyfriend had �smacked me around� and then offered that I probably deserved it. His comments weren�t funny, and yeah, I felt a little uncomfortable. But I figured that was MY problem; it never occurred to me to report this teacher for making a bad joke.
I suppose you have to admire a student who believes that any perceived slight to her delicate sensibility deserves attention from the newspaper and punishment of the offender. Neither the Nipmuc principal nor superintendent were inclined to discuss the incident. When I reached Cochran at the school, he declined to comment. So I don�t know if he was suspended, told to clean up his act, or hung from the rafters.
I do know that this incident underscores yet another case of political correctness run amuck. Pair that in 2013 with a young person�s self-righteous indignation, legitimate or otherwise, and this poor teacher is lucky he still has a job.


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One of the more intriguing comics on the horizon is "The Unwritten," a fantasy series that starts off as a dark, smirking riff on the Harry Potter publishing phenomena, then blends in some of the bitterness of Christopher Robin Milne's life (the real-life model for the "Winnie the Pooh" character chafed under the weight of the literary legacy) and finally soars off into its own unexpected directions.
I've seen the galleys for the first issue (which hits shelves in May) and there's a lot of promise in its pages. Check out Hero Complex contributor Alicia Lozano's interesting interview with creators Mike Carey and Peter Gross and peruse a three-page excerpt from the forthcoming premiere issue …
"100 Bullets," the final curtain falls
"The Alcoholic," a scabby triumph
"Fables," a storybook ending on TV?
Ed Brubaker goes "Incognito" with masked-man noir


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The Boomin' System - text
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[Marley Marl:]
Just kick a little something for them cars that be bumpin
Yeah aight
But we need a beat that they can front to
Oh, that'll work
Be funky
You know what I'm sayin?
(Cars ride by with the boomin systems)
(Cars ride by)
For all the cars out there
And all the brothers
That like to front in their rides
Check it out
You know it's funky, funky, funky cos you heard it from hear-say
A jam that you love that don't be gettin no airplay
Strictly for frontin when you're ridin around
12 o'clock at night with your windows down
Headlights breakin cos your batteries drain
Armor all on your tires and a big gold chain
Parkin outside of all the hip-hop spots
Push the E-Q and play connect the dots
Leanin to the side, people everywhere
The trunk full of amps, there ain't no room for a spare
Big beats bumpin with the bass in back
All the sophisticated suckers catch a heart attack
Cos they don't understand why I act this way
Pumpin up the funky beat until the break of day
It's because I want attention when i'm ridin by
And the girls be on my jock cos my system's fly
Girlies wanna ride with a brother like me
Cos they be hear me gettin funky frequently
They tell me don't drink and drive, I say what is this
Mind your business
Now pass it around
Laid back, hypnotized by the funky sound
People in the street see me bobbin my head
While I'm checkin out the rapper and the rhyme that he said
I'm frontin, and I don't care if you know
The backseat of my car is like a disco show
You would think I was a good friend of Al Capone
Crazy air freshener, who needs cologne
Bottom to the bottom to the top to the top
Cruise - it's 3 o'clock
The girlies, they smile, they see me comin
I'm steady hummin, I got the Funky Drummer drummin
My trunk be shakin, vibratin and rattlin
Pumpin so loud, all the shorties be battlin
A right-hand man's here without the swing
Every chance I get I'm showin off my rings
I can keep it up until the break of dawn
Cos I'm frontin in my ride and my word is bond
Sun roof open, so I can feel the wind blow
I don't give a damn if it cracks my back window
C to the o to the o to the l to the i to the n
To the f to the r to the o to the n to the t to the i to the n
That means I'm chillin
Like Spoonie Gee said, my seats are soft like a bed
They recline way back, so I can get real cosy
I got the gangster tapes in the place
Like a basehead would say: I want bass
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You're rollin up smilin, but you can't come close
Cos my system is pumpin loud
Like Rakim said: I wanna move the crowd
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Tell the cops: you gots to chill with EPMD
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Actually I was impressed that Pokey addressed this problem . I did take the "we suck" as a jovial way to get peoples attention . And it did. I have always been interested in the racing . I really enjoyed the mud racing when they had it in Sunnyside. Witch brings me to my point . I would've never been involved at all with it . But my friend happened to work with someone that was putting the event on. The reason was because I didn't know about it or hear about it. I got lucky and heard about the event ,word of mouth. I do understand about the undertaking a public viewed event is . This takes alot of work that is usually only done by the same very few people that get burnt out easy. And I would think the answer to that problem is only to make it public once a year.I think that would be enough to spark interest for most. To advertise this on the net is simple . Write a who,what,when and were post then copy and paste it to every forum you are on. Then in the same post ask others to copy and paste it to the forums they are on. It wont take long and everyone will know about the event and the PNW4DA will soon stop taking the heat for being unknown.
I have always known that the PNW4WDA had put on some kind of jeep barrel racing but had never seen a race. Until this year I found some you tube vids of a couple of races. I would think that I would put these vids of racing and a couple vids of trail runs that the PNW4DA hosted right on the main website page. I also think that the Assoc. should advertise like any other business. Any way they can! Me personally I would try to use every advertising media possible .
BTW: it is easy to photograph a race .
I personally would like to see this assoc. grow. Using a 4x4 is a unique and social thing.And to have such a large group to do it with is awesome!
Old thought ponderings - Some 20 years ago, there once was a fella named Tom Cowper that volunteered to help us (PNW4WDA) get noticed, fundraising, respected, create the atmosphere and so on that 'we' needed to get our sport - racing, trailing, 4X4 in general - on track.
The PNW4WDA BOD at that time said no way and they had a master plan - I see how well that worked. Tom kept in touch from time to time but has moved on to other things.
Secret and doing it the way its always been done is a thing of the past.
Trying things once again in a new way/format is/might work this trip around.
All it takes is some one to DO IT. If each of us takes on one pet project or one of our pet peeves and ALL the others SUPPORT that one person in their project rather than dissin' or complaining about it- we could do wonders to help support ourselves adn get things done.
There are many ways to get the job done but all it takes is the 1 way to do it and complete it!
Fall Delegates Meeting is tomorrow, that is the place to get it done or started - who is going??? Why or why not?
We suck because we chose to, plain and simple.
Shindig Wheelers #16
Pick Up A Mountain Coordinator
Its on the front page and on the main calender . Not really sure why the two calenders (forum/ main) dont seem to work together. Looks like a job for Dan or Ed :Cob:
The meeting is one of our two regular buisness meetings for the entire assoc. Reports are given from all of the officers as to whats happening and whats coming up. Nominations are opened for next years officers. The PNW4WDA competition chair is elected and our fianances are discussed as well as any other issues that may come up.
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Region 2 landmatters chairman
Well I stand corrected . It had been awhile since I had looked at the main page. Thanks Jim.And I suppose you would know,your jeep was the first pic I saw . You should really have told your jeep to take a nap somewere else then in the middle of the trail though.Kinda blocking traffic. And to whom it may concern it looks good.
At first I actually was a little offended by the title. Probably because the issue has to do directly with part of my role in the PNW4WDA and I felt it was a bit of a slam. I'm also a little thin skinned, but I got over it.
I completely agree, we do need to get the word out better. Not just racing, but everything we do. Some things that Rob and I have done regarding competition in the last couple of years are:
As soon as the race schedule is known (usually after Winter Convention in February) , its sent to the PNW webmaster to post under Competition and a link is created on the main page. Its also printed in the Tri-Power.
I update the calendar on the main page with dates, host clubs and contact info (although I think the hosting club should really be doing this). Unfortunately at this time there are 2 separate calendars, one on the main page and one under the forum. Ive been using the one under the main page because I assume thats where most people start looking, especially non-PNW members, for event info. I believe our webmaster is working on the 2 calendar issue. Its my opinion the calendar should be better utilized. There are lots of events that never even get posted. Any club hosting an event should update the calendar.
As flyers come out, I try to post copies in the forum under Racers Edge. Again, any club hosting an event should post their flyer under the appropriate section of the forum. The schedule is also "stickied" under Racers Edge.
A competition report is provided at every delegates meeting and at every BOD meeting that includes the schedule.
An e-mail tree was created so news, updates etc can be more efficiently communicated. Flyers are also distributed this way. Anyone who wants on the e-mail tree just needs to contact Rob.
The competition schedule was also distributed to the public during the January Monster Jam in the Tacoma Dome, the Moonshiners swap meet in March, 4-Wheel Parts Truck Fest in April at the Puyallup fairgrounds, and the WOHVA Expo in May at Straddleline ORV Park.
Ive also tried posting information under other forums but with little success. One response to a posting was we dont race, we dont care, but Im willing to post again.
These are all baby steps in getting the word out. If anyone has any suggestions, were all ears. The Competition Chairmans name, phone number and e-mail address is on every copy of the competition schedule but in case you dont know its: Rob Stafford, 253-691-4351, firstname.lastname@example.com. The phone is charged and theres plenty of room in the in-box, so lets hear your ideas.
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You should have given me a good slap yesterday then There was no malice intended in any way just a jovial retort to Ricks post on snort that in all actuality brought up a very valid point. Very sorry if anybody was offended in the method of my post. We all work very hard at what we do and I appreciate everyones efforts
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Oh and Tell Rob Thanks for the Plug about Me being good at putting things on the site. I heard some Grunts and chuckles in thew background but that's ok I Try but not everything gets put up in what the individual thinks is a timly mannor...
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Many of us have made several efforts to help make the PNW grow. Being raised by parents who raced back in the day when spectators and racers were turned away because the arena/ park/ facility was too crowded to hold that many people, has made me work hard to help bring that back.
Everyone has made valid points: from security, to responsibility of members, to advertising and publishing. Its an effort we all need to make, not just the select few. I believe ALL the clubs with members that race need to be joining together to help promote. Every race that is held, no matter where, I make sure my family and friends know where, when and how much it is to get in. If we don't start helping each others clubs and start making sure EVERYONES races are being promoted, then we all fail.
There are other ways to promote on the internet. We could start having local auto businesses add a link to the PNW webpage on their webpage. Have them post our schedules in their stores and maybe even run an ad in the newspapers the thur and fri before the event. Every newspaper has an event page and there is no reason what we do shouldn't be in there.
Many of the racers have been diligant in making sure their videos they post on You Tube are linked to the PNW in some way, so that when someone watches, they know instantly what organization we are associated with and can then go there for more info. With more events outside of the actual spectrum of racing and wheeling (i.e. Monster Jam, 4 Wheel Part Events, etc.) we will be able to spread the word further. So lets ban together, all of us, and show these people what we are made of!
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Replicating Natural Resource Management Strategies
Similar strategies are now planned for development in the provinces of Lomaiviti and Ba.
Board deputy Chief Executive Officer, Colonel Apakuki Kurusiga, said NRM strategies present a hope to resource owners within the 14 provinces, that their resources will be managed sustainably ensuring a ready stock for socio-economic development well into the future.
In August, WWF South Pacific facilitated a planning workshop for an NRM strategy for the province that is now in its first draft stage.
The thrust of such a strategy, which is incorporated into the provincial corporate plan, is about ensuring that developments within the province happen in a sustainable manner so that food security and the livelihoods of people are protected.
More than 89 percent of the 70 odd thousand people who live in the province reside in rural areas and directly depend on natural resources as a source of food and income and this could be placed in jeopardy without a plan for its sustainable development.
Colonel Kurusiga said the NRM strategy is a wise move by Macuata in light of increasing developments facilitated under the Look North Policy.
"There has been a boom in economic expansion and development in Fiji and this has attracted a lot of investors so we must be prepared as the largest resource owners," he said.
The formulation of the NRM strategy has been made in consultation with resource owners, relevant government stakeholders and non-government organisations.
"Investors are keen to invest in businesses in Fiji but they are going directly to the mataqali and landowners and once they wave the dollar sign in front of the landowners, villagers readily agree to the investment without knowing the destruction it can cause to the environment.
"We want to see a reinforcement of values for the protection of the environment in and this is one way to do that," Colonel Kurusiga said.
"It has the function of forewarning resource owners of the possible pitfalls and degradation of natural resources to their detriment which protects their interests.
"All provincial councils should have this type of strategy because of Government's intention of forming environmental committees in all provinces and already Roko Tuis are conservation officers so such strategic actions bode well for the development of resources."


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By John Lowe, Aug 27 2015 11:25AM
It's that time of year again, on the Reef (Tenerife) I call it training camp, take in a little sun, walk or ride the fairways and bring the dart action back to it's best, will be ready to hit the road again on return, quite a few exhibitions in the diary, will post all locations later.
John Lowe. three times champion of the world in three seperate decades, the 70's, the 80's and the 90's, the first player in the history of the sport to achieve the perfect game of 501 on Television, in 1984, winning £102,000, winner of over 1000 titles world wide, simply: The Legend of Darts.
About John Lowe
Mr Maximums: Cliff Thorburn the first player to do a 147 Snooker clearance on TV and myself the first person to do the 9 dart 501 on TV
John appeared on ITV's Amazing Greys in 2014 he had to hit as many targets as possible in 30 seconds, all the targets where different heights and lengths, if the competitor beat John he would win £10,000, John won by a margin of 9.
One of John's favourite charity's is The Variety Club of Great Britain who raise many thousands of pounds by organising golf days around the country, the aim is to buy Mini Coaches for Children, in the picture John is at St Piere Chepstow and the Coach in view is about to be present to a School in Birmingham.
John talks to Matthew Rankin Unicorns Player Liaison Manager about his current darts set up and how important it is to have balanced darts, click the button above to see the whole interview
Royal Palm is John's favourite resort in Tenerife situated in Los Cristianos, it has everything you could ask for to make your stay enjoyable, immaculate in every way, all English TV and Satelite channels, quite, secure, close to excellent restaurants and friendly Bars, for a full tour of Royal Palm click the photograph above. Make sure you inform the Manager Neil I sent you, it makes a difference.
Unicorns YouTube Channel and all the interviews with John, click the buttons to view.
John talks to Tungsten Tales and explains his practise routine before a match and why he does it his way.
More Unicorn YouTube inveriews to follow, to view recent interviews click the buttons above, to visit the Unicorn main page for all product news and product viewing click the Unicorn logo at the top of the page.
The next generation of players begins now.
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John talks about his sporting heros
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VANCOUVER -- Dave Bolland won't play for the Chicago Blackhawks against the Canucks in Game 2 of the Western Conference quarterfinals, but the center is still optimistic he will take the ice at some point in the series.
"I have it in my head that I want to play in this series," Bolland said Thursday. "That's what I want but it's just how my head reacts to getting back."
Bolland, who suffered a concussion March 9 when he took an elbow to the head from the Lightning's Pavel Kubina, revealed he's also getting therapy for a whiplash resulting from the hit.
"It's still day by day, that's basically how these things work," Bolland said."It's frustrating. You think you're going to just go out there and play. One day I'll feel great to go out there and another day it's just like bang. There's still therapy I have to do. Doing that is slow but I want to be out there."
Bolland has not yet been cleared for contact and will have to go through testing and concussion protocols before returning to game action. The veteran participated in two-on-two drills with teammates Fernando Pisani, John Scott and Marcus Kruger on Thursday while the rest of the Hawks had the day off from the ice.
"Your awareness is probably the big (symptom)," Bolland said. "Just playing two-on-two with some of the guys you're still looking around and you're not sure where the guy is or where he's coming from. My awareness is one that I have to be cautious about."
Keeping positive while enduring the slow recovery is also important, Bolland said.
"It's a slow process--it sucks," he said. "I dread for guys who go through this because it's probably the worst thing ever."
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Jennifer Aniston: Bikini Sunbathing with Shirtless Justin Theroux!
Jennifer Aniston wears a pink bikini top while sunbathing with her shirtless fiance Justin Theroux on Christmas Eve Monday (December 24) in Mexico.
Later in the day, the 43-year-old actress changed into a green strapless bikini top.
Jen and Justin arrived in the sunny locale the day before to spend the holidays together in Cabo San Lucas.
Jen's We're The Millers co-star Emma Roberts recently talked about working with her in the flick.
"Jennifer Aniston is a genius. I've been such a fan of hers for so long, so to get to work with her was one of those dream come true, check-off-my-list kind of things that I've always wanted," Emma told the Huffington Post.
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On September 28, 1949, Los Angeles-Orange County State College began its first day of classes. One hundred and sixty students were enrolled for the first semester with thirteen full-time faculty. Classes convened in a converted apartment building at 5381 E. Anaheim where the foundation of our pride and traditions all began.
The arrangement was only temporary until the college found a more permanent home. This day marked the beginning of a growing academic institution into what is now California State University, Long Beach. Join us as we take a historical look through our golden decade year by year as we watch how our campus has grown brick by brick, from old traditions to new traditions, and the people that have become part of our university family.
"This has been a grand year and my sincere thanks go out to the many citizens and organizations of this great community; to the members of the State, county and local boards and departments of education; to the members of the State and local governments; to the local citizens of this great commonwealth; and to the students and faculty of this college for their support, guidance, and inspiration. It is our sincere hope that this spectacular beginning may bring forth one of the truly great educational institutions of the country."
Dr. P. Victor Peterson
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Explore our rich history, beginning with all of the milestones from the first decade, our Golden Decade.
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BOSTON — Does it really take three fights in four seconds to get the Bruins off to a flying start?
Well, it doesn't hurt. Or yes it does, but it also helps.
Sparked by fighting majors from Gregory Campbell, Shawn Thornton and Adam McQuaid in the first four seconds of tonight's game against Dallas, the Bruins jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first period en route to a 6-3 victory.
"Well, it certainly helped get everybody into the game, and the crowd into the game, that's for sure," said defenseman Johnny Boychuk.
Before the first period was over, Andrew Ference added another fighting major. More importantly, Patrice Bergeron scored twice and Milan Lucic and Shawn Thornton both added a goal in the game's first 16:01.
Here's a look at the rest of the box score:
•Tuukka Rask, making his first start since Jan. 20 (four games), stopped 30 of 33 shots to earn the win.
•Former Bruins goaltender Andrew Raycroft, who was traded for Rask five years ago, didn't fare as well. He was pulled after 1:20 of ice time after he allowed goals on his first two shots faced.
•Twelve difference Bruins players registered at least one point, led by Mark Recchi (three assists) and Patrice Bergeron (two goals, one assist).
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The inspiration for GreenButton was the devilishly complicated battle scene in the 2003 movie "The Lord of the Rings" that its founder Scott Houston pulled together in two weeks for director Peter Jackson against all odds. It was accomplished in record time with thousands of servers and little sleep.
Fade to today. The GreenButton start-up claims its newfangled Cloud Fabric is the first server solution to let users - both the enterprise and service providers - deploy, manage and run compute-intensive applications in either private or public clouds or, for that matter, in multiple multi-tenant clouds.
It's talking about what it calls "Big Compute," basically deploying as much supplementary processing power as the cloud can provide. Thousands of cores spun up in 20-30 minutes at a fraction of the usual cost.
An SGI and Compaq veteran, Houston says, "Cloud computing has been focused on running general-type applications with low memory and CPU requirements. We believe the future of cloud computing is to bring the applications that most people have said 'will never run in the cloud' to the cloud."
He claims to be seeing exceptional growth and adoption of his widgetry among High Performance Computing and technical computing users looking for a highly scalable, robust, cost-effective solution.
The company is targeting financial services, media and entertainment, aerospace, oil and gas, and biotech. It has partnerships with Pixar, SAP and some ISVs.
Enterprises are meant to run Cloud Fabric to manage workloads in their private clouds and then burst to public clouds when needed.
Only approved jobs are sent to the public cloud and only when on-premise capacity is exhausted. The job is matched to the cloud with the right SLA and price. The architecture is designed so the cloud handles failures and transient error conditions. Porting between clouds is supposed to be easy.
Apparently any application that can scale across multiple nodes can make use of GreenButton including highly parallel workloads, Big Data analysis and Message Passing Interface (MPI) applications.
The company says it's currently running rendering, animation, simulation, bioinformatics, audio/video indexing and captioning, geological analysis and Monte Carlo computations.
This Cloud Fabric stuff is also supposed to let service providers integrate and sell the solution to their ISV and enterprise customers.
They can run the platform on their own cloud infrastructure or on a public platform like Amazon, Windows Azure, VMware vCloud or Dell Cloud Services. OpenStack support is in the works. GreenButton was named Microsoft's Global Cloud Partner last year.
According to Dell cloud evangelist Stephen Spector, "GreenButton has earned the reputation as the best provider of HPC and on-demand computing solutions in the business. With Cloud Fabric, we are able to differentiate our cloud offering and drive utilization, giving our customers a proven Software-as-a-Service solution to help them get the most out of the cloud with the least amount of effort. Cutting time-to-market at a fraction of the cost is invaluable to all."
The company also offers a hosted managed service where it runs GreenButton in one or more public clouds for ISVs that don't have their own infrastructure but want to market a cloud-based service that their customers can take advantage of with the push of a button.
The New Zealand cloudbursting start-up is hawking a centralized multi-cloud management toolkit and SDK called GreenButton Mission Control.
It includes a development emulator to enable workloads and commercial features around billing, reporting and chargeback for granular visibility into cloud use and costs. The emulator is used to test and verify application integration prior to cloud deployment.
It also includes data synchronization tools for the cloud called GreenButton CloudSync, a seamless way to migrate data iteratively into the cloud as well as define custom data extraction for integration with other data sources that can automatically synchronize nominated files with the cloud. (Got that?)
Files can be as big as can be sensibly uploaded and downloaded to and from the cloud over the Internet. If they're so big that it's impractical to send them over the Internet, a physical disk can be shipped to the cloud provider to be uploaded or downloaded directly.
Only owners of the files uploaded to GreenButton can access them or the results of their job. After a job runs, GreenButton wipes the data from that compute node before it's allowed to process another job. All communication with GreenButton is secured using SSL so files and jobs can't be intercepted on the wire.
GreenButton services are exposed to clients via Web Services accessible from Windows, Mac OS X and Linux desktops and, in the rare case mobile devices complements of an integrated green button. Ditto desktop applications like Numerix and Deep Exploration. A green button can also be plugged into Office apps.
The GreenButton Q&A says its platform tracks the number of milliseconds that end customers use a third-party application and charges this aggregated time to the user's GreenButton account. It's an hourly rate and includes the compute and storage costs, GreenButton's management fee, and the software license.
Usage reports can be downloaded from Mission Control, with information about usage at the organizational, departmental and individual level. It provides this data as CSV files so they can be imported into Excel or some other financial tool and compared against budgeted numbers. Users can also get an itemized bill to drill down into how individual applications and jobs are tracking against budget.
GreenButton prices its platform-agnostic widgetry by asking would-be users how much time they've got and what they've willing to pay. Figure a company will pay $75,000 along with a $7,500 fee for each app. The integration work should probably take no more than a couple of weeks.
The company is working on angel investments and a $4 million A/B round from a couple of New Zealand VCs. It has offices in Seattle and San Jose along with East Coast ambitions and an unidentified telco account in Europe.
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45 Years Ago: Jimi Hendrix Dies
Jimi Hendrix, perhaps the most innovative guitarist to ever visit our planet, died on Sept. 18, 1970, leaving behind an unimaginable legacy and body of work considering his short time with us.
Born John Allen Hendrix on Nov. 24, 1942, the man we came to know as Jimi learned his way around the guitar at a young age. First shown the glories of the six-string by his father (who renamed him James Marshall Hendrix), he very quickly realized that he had found his calling. After a brief stint in the U.S. Army, Hendrix became an in-demand touring and studio player, working with established acts like Isley Brothers and Little Richard.
In 1966, Animals bassist Chas Chandler caught a Hendrix performance in New York City and convinced him to head over the England. In relatively short order, the guitarist recorded a version of the folk classic "Hey Joe," and history began to make itself made. However, After three incredible years and three amazing albums, the Jimi Hendrix Experience started to fall apart as Hendrix wanted to expand his musical horizons with other groups.
Alas, those options were never fully explored. Early on the morning of Sept. 18, 1970, his lifeless body was found by his girlfriend. His death was said to have been caused by taking too many sleeping pills, which caused him to choke on his own vomit and suffocate to death. It was a tragic and sad ending to such an incredible musical force, and Hendrix became one of an uncommonly high number of rock legends to die at the young age of 27.
When it comes to guitarists, there was no one like Hendrix before, and certainly only imitators since. Whether his style is your cup of tea or not, there is no denying his innovations and prowess on the guitar. Time has done nothing to diminish his legacy. In fact, his influence has only grown over the years. All these years later and we still can't help but feel cheated out of what could have been.
See Jimi Hendrix and Other Rockers in the Top 100 Albums of the '60s
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Open Spaces
Speculations on Openings, Closings, and Thresholds in International Public Media
Friday, March 1, 2013
48 hours to go until our FLEFF Kick Off event, Upstate Filmmakers Showcase, on Sunday, March 3 at 4 pm..
Why do we need to sell out this screening?
Digital conversion is the biggest challenge facing the film industry since the coming of sound in 1927. ...
Saturday, January 1, 2011
The Favorite Film Challenge winners and honorable mentions wrote about features and shorts, commercial cinemas and international art films. All the winners were students enrolled in Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis at Ithaca College in Fall 2010.
They wrote passionately and eloquently about films from China, the US, Germany, Senegal, Canada, India, and the...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Blog written by Patricia Zimmermann, professor of cinema, photography and media arts, Ithaca College and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
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Living in Borrowed Times
One of the last times I saw the late historian Howard Zinn, he had agreed to serve as a judge for a contest.
In June 2008, the Nation magazine published a special issue on the New Inequality that I helped to co-edit. We proposed a contest to "Name Our Epoch." "Historians divide history into epochs," we wrote. "The Gilded Age and the Great Depression, for example, are familiar to most Americans. Our current epoch, however—a period that has seen soaring grand fortunes for a new American superrich and a fading American Dream for nearly everyone else—lacks a label."
We received over 3,400 submissions and waded through them. Our panel of judges, Howard Zinn, Barbara Ehrenreich and Walter Mosley, wrestled with hundreds of finalists. But the name they chose—note this is before the economic meltdown accelerated in September 2008—was "The Borrowed Times."
Howard Zinn said the label was perfect: The Borrowed Times "reflects the economic reality that the illusory wealth and prosperity of this time is built on borrowing from the future. People and governments are borrowing at unprecedented levels, but we are also borrowing from the earth's carrying capacity."
In the curriculum for start-up Common Security Clubs, we have a unit inspired by Howard Zinn called "Living in Borrowed Times." It is one of the places where club participants face our personal debt, whether student loans, credit cards or mortgages. We also learn how the celebrated consumption and growth of the last epoch was built with borrowed money, not real wage growth.
We also watch videos, like "The Story of Stuff," and discuss articles that help us understand the ecological crossroads where we are.
The takeaway lesson is this: We are NOT going back. We're not going back to 2006 or 1996 or 1966.
A healthy economic future means we're not going back to past levels of borrowing and debt. Wall Street and the phantom wealth creators would like to revive the debt bubble economics that they benefited from. But we should reject this economic model.
Sharing the Good Life
Research shows that what the healthiest and happiest societies have in common is not more income, but more equality.
We can't go back to a model of economic growth based on unlimited cheap energy and dumping tons of carbon into the atmosphere every day. And we don't want to go back to an economy that produces extreme inequalities of wealth and opportunity.
In common security clubs around the country, participants wrestle with the questions: What does it mean to live in these "borrowed times?" How do we prepare ourselves and our communities for the economic transitions ahead? How will we live? What will the new economy look like?
One thing we know for certain: none of us can figure this out alone. That's the value of forming clubs, affinity groups, neighborhood groups—we need to strengthen our kinship networks in order to sit face-to-face and grapple with the practical questions of the future. In most common security clubs, people learn together, help one another, and take social action together. But most important, they face reality together, refusing to be lulled to back to sleep.