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Barack Obama won the 2012 presidential election with nearly five million more popular votes than Mitt Romney and a resounding electoral vote majority of 332 to 206. But was his electoral vote victory necessarily so clear?
If six states Obama carried that have Republican governors and state legislative majorities had provided for casting their electoral votes in a different way—one that several of them are now contemplating—the result would have been entirely different.
Indeed, if Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin had allocated their electoral votes as Maine and Nebraska now do (and all states can) to their winner in each of their Congressional districts, the 2012 electoral results would have been:
A tie would, of course, have thrown the election into the House of Representatives, whose Republican majority would have made Mitt Romney president—never mind the fact that he got only 47 percent of the popular vote to Barack Obama's 51 percent. But even that result is not as straightforward as it might seem.
While leaving it to the states to decide how to pick their electors, the Constitution provides that when a presidential election is decided by the House, each state shall have one vote. As matters stand, that would still leave the Republicans in control—but these sands can shift swiftly, as evidenced by the fact that the 2010 Congressional elections produced a swing from 33 House delegations with Democrat majorities to 33 controlled by Republicans.
Worse yet, the one-state-one-vote prescription flies in the face of the one-man-one-vote mandate that the U.S. Supreme Court has set for all other elections in this country. Theoretically, at least, the 26 smallest states (population-wise) with only 18 percent of the U.S. total could decide who holds the nation's highest office. Short of that, the thought that California's 37 million residents should have no more voice than Wyoming's 600,000 is abhorrent.
The prospect for gaming the elector selection process that's now emerging coupled with all of the anomalies make a compelling case for scrapping the present system and going to direct election of the president by popular vote nationally.
That case is reinforced by the fact that in the 2012 election, only about 10 so-called battleground states mattered in determining the presidential outcome. The two campaigns virtually ignored heavily Democratic states like California and heavily Republican states like Tennessee, and a vote cast in those states counted for next to nothing compared to a vote cast in Nevada or New Hampshire.
Popular vote election of the president would sweep away such disenfranchisement. Each voter in every state would have an equal voice, and the possibility of a tie would be infinitesimal.
Former presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and George H.W. Bush have all favored scrapping the Electoral College and going to a popular election. In Tennessee, so have Howard Baker and, of course, Al Gore, who lost the 2000 election despite winning a majority of the popular vote. So it's not, or shouldn't be, a partisan issue, and it commands broad public support.
In an op-ed piece in The Tennessean last March, co-authored by a former chairman of the state Democratic party and a former chairman of the state Republican party, they report that, "A statewide poll conducted by the McLaughlin Group, a conservative polling firm, found that four of every five Tennesseans want the candidate who receives the most votes to win the White House."
The main arguments against this are that it would result in the election of presidents who've gotten less than a majority of the vote, lead to more third-party and independent candidates, and perhaps even the fragmentation of the two-party system that has been a source of national cohesion.
It's true that 15 U.S. presidents have been elected with less than a majority of the popular vote, including most recently George Bush and Bill Clinton, and with Abraham Lincoln garnering the fewest at just under 40 percent. But there's little basis for asserting that they or John Kennedy or Harry Truman or Woodrow Wilson—to name the other 20th century "minority" presidents—would have governed any less effectively if they had been elected with a plurality of the popular vote.
In all probability, other formidable third-party candidates, perhaps even a Tea Party candidate, will emerge to produce more plurality presidents. But experience in all 50 states whose governors can be selected by pluralities, militates against the proposition that this will result in fragmentation of the two-party system.
In Texas, Republican Gov. Rick Perry won election in 2006 with 39 percent of the vote, but has been a popular governor, and was reelected in 2010 by a large majority. And does anyone believe that Gov. Bill Haslam has been any less effective because he only got 47 percent of the vote in 2010 Republican primary?
It's widely supposed that it would take a cumbersome Constitutional amendment to change the way the president gets elected. But that is not the case. Eight states and the District of Columbia have already started down a different path through adoption of what's known as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The compact pledges them to cast their electoral votes for the candidate receiving the most popular votes nationally, but it would only take effect after enough states to produce an electoral vote majority have adopted it.
Some believe the Compact could run afoul of a Constitutional prohibition against states entering into compacts with each other without Congressional consent. But this could be rectified by a majority vote of Congress rather than the two-thirds vote required to initiate a Constitutional amendment that must then be ratified by three-fourths of the states. Still, a Constitutional amendment would be preferable for the long run.
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Congressional consent is not required for the National Popular Vote compact under prevailing U.S. Supreme Court rulings. However, because there would undoubtedly be time-consuming litigation about this aspect of the compact, National Popular Vote is working to introduce a bill in Congress for congressional consent.
The U.S. Constitution provides:
"No state shall, without the consent of Congress,… enter into any agreement or compact with another state…."
Although this language may seem straight forward, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, in 1893 and again in 1978, that the Compacts Clause can "not be read literally." In deciding the 1978 case of U.S. Steel Corporation v. Multistate Tax Commission, the Court wrote:
"Read literally, the Compact Clause would require the States to obtain congressional approval before entering into any agreement among themselves, irrespective of form, subject, duration, or interest to the United States.
"The difficulties with such an interpretation were identified by Mr. Justice Field in his opinion for the Court in [the 1893 case] Virginia v. Tennessee. His conclusion [was] that the Clause could not be read literally [and this 1893 conclusion has been] approved in subsequent dicta."
Specifically, the Court's 1893 ruling in Virginia v. Tennessee stated:
"Looking at the clause in which the terms 'compact' or 'agreement' appear, it is evident that the prohibition is directed to the formation of any combination tending to the increase of political power in the states, which may encroach upon or interfere with the just supremacy of the United States."
The state power involved in the National Popular Vote compact is specified in Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 the U.S. Constitution:
"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors…."
In the 1892 case of McPherson v. Blacker (146 U.S. 1), the Court wrote:
"The appointment and mode of appointment of electors belong exclusively to the states under the constitution of the United States"
The National Popular Vote compact would not "encroach upon or interfere with the just supremacy of the United States" because there is simply no federal power -- much less federal supremacy -- in the area of awarding of electoral votes in the first place.
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The U.S. Constitution says "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . ." The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as "plenary" and "exclusive."
The normal way of changing the method of electing the President is not a federal constitutional amendment, but changes in state law. The U.S. Constitution gives "exclusive" and "plenary" control to the states over the appointment of presidential electors.
Historically, virtually all of the previous major changes in the method of electing the President have come about by state legislative action. For example, the people had no vote for President in most states in the nation's first election in 1789. However, now, as a result of changes in the state laws governing the appointment of presidential electors, the people have the right to vote for presidential electors in 100% of the states.
In 1789, only 3 states used the winner-take-all method (awarding all of a state's electoral vote to the candidate who gets the most votes in the state). However, as a result of changes in state laws, the winner-take-all method is now currently used by 48 of the 50 states.
In other words, neither of the two most important features of the current system of electing the President (namely, that the voters may vote and the winner-take-all method) are in the U.S. Constitution. Neither was the choice of the Founders when they went back to their states to organize the nation's first presidential election.
In 1789, it was necessary to own a substantial amount of property in order to vote; however, as a result of changes in state laws, there are now no property requirements for voting in any state.
The normal process of effecting change in the method of electing the President is specified in the U.S. Constitution, namely action by the state legislatures. This is how the current system was created, and this is the built-in method that the Constitution provides for making changes. The abnormal process is to go outside the Constitution, and amend it.
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By Tony Tsoukalas / Sports Writer
The Meridian Star
Quitman High School set a school-record for wins Friday night, beating Columbia 49-14 and moving to 12-1 on the season.
"It was a great performance on the night," Quitman head coach Steve Bynum said. "We played well on both offense and defense. I'm really proud of the way our guys played tonight, they did a super job."
The contest was never in doubt for Quitman. After stopping the Wildcats on their first possession, Franklin Jones and Panthers got to work. Jones marched the Panthers down the field 60 yards on seven plays, ending in a 5-yard touchdown run from the senior quarterback.
On the Panthers next possession, it only took the them four plays to find the end zone, as sophomore running back Josh Davis did most of the work on a 52-yard run to make the score 12-0 at the end of one quarter.
Quitman was just getting started.
Panthers defensive back Jeffrey Duncan broke open the score on Columbia's next possession, stepping in front of a pass and returning it 24 yards to the end zone to put Quitman up 19-0. Jones added another touchdown on the ground, this one from 9 yards out later in the quarter, and the Panthers rolled in to the break with a commanding 27-0 lead.
Jones finished the game with 12 carries for 132 yards and two touchdowns on the ground and matched the total in the air, passing 6 of 6 with 132 yards with a touchdown in the air.
"I felt real good, except my hand was kind of cold.," Jones said. "We had some plays that we worked a lot on in practice, and when you work on them as much as we did, you get real good at it."
A lot of Jones' success stemmed from the attention the Wildcat defense put on Davis. Despite a stacked box, Davis still was able to rush for 76 yards and a touchdown on nine carries.
"It's a great help to have him back there with me," Franklin said of his running back. "I don't have to do as much on offense and it's not all on me. He does a great job, and defenses have to focus on him too."
Due to the blowout, the Panthers were able to rest their starters during the second half. Quitman will need all the rest it can afford, as the Panthers will travel to Forrest County AHS next week.
"It was pretty good to get that rest," Jones said. "We didn't get any injuries, and that's important, because you can't lose anyone in the playoffs."
After such a dominant win, Panthers players are starting to believe this could be their year. With such a dominating win Friday, it is really hard to blame them.
"I don't feel like we can be stopped," Jones said. "We are just going to keep focused and keeping working on things to get better for next week."

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The composition Boyd County Middle School band members will be performing Thursday prompts them to think about more than the notes they're playing.
The piece, commissioned for the band and written by Chicago composer Timothy Loest, is titled "Stone Serpent Mound" and was inspired by a prehistoric earthen effigy on property in Catlettsburg owned by Marathon Petroleum.
It incorporates properties of Native American music like beating drums and jingling bells, according to Loest's notes.
"It makes me wonder what were people thinking about when they made it and what the mound looks like," said Heaven Wheeler, a trombonist in the band.
That and other questions were in Loest's mind when he wrote the piece, according to his notes: "When was it made? And for what reason was it constructed? Was it a monument? Did it somehow play a part in ritualistic or ceremonial life?"
The band commissioned the work as part of a year-long Kentucky history unit that was a collaboration among the teachers in the school's related arts department, band director Annie Johnson said.
During discussions with Loest, they talked about the Indian mounds located here and there in the region, including Central Park.
From that, Loest found an article on the Stone Serpent Mound published in an archaeological journal.
That started him thinking about native culture and music, and from there he wrote the piece.
The composition opens with an incantation of flutes and goes into a ceremonial dance, Johnson said. Listeners then will hear sections with some interesting sounds, such as rattles and hisses, that the students find very entertaining to make, she said.
The overall tone of the piece recognizes the cultural and religious sensibilities that native people put into their earthworks.
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Well, I've been thinking about what you said anyway Cul, and I have decided to change things a little. Lets make this thread the 'discussion' type thread you mentioned, but you can also post pics here that you take for the challenge. You can post as many photos as you want that have to do with the challenge and then everyone can discuss them, ask how you took them, and ask any questions about the challenge in general. Then at the end of the month, perhaps on the 25th or something, I'll post a 'July Photo Challenge Vote' thread or something similar where you can post *only* your 2 submittals and then your vote for best/favorite picture. Then we will have only this thread and that thread for the challenge, and like you mentioned, you can see the pics submitted without any chatter between them.
Unfortunately, I can't edit my first post in this thread to reflect these changes. I don't know if thats something a mod can do for me or not. So if not, here are the changes:
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I guess thinking back on it would be better to have a single Photo Challenge thread each month, but try and limit it to the initial post outlining the theme and rules, and beyond that the phtotos and comments about the phtots. Then we could set up a poll at the end of the month.
I'm still for only two photos in the main challenge thread, though. Sorry to have derailed this so, I swear I didn't mean to!
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Which brings up a good point - photo manipulation. Are we talking straight photography (with, of course, the usual digital fixes), or else full-blown digital art?
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This competition is for people to upload their own photos - that's why it's a "photography challenge".
And here's another vote for only two images in this thread. More than that would get clunky. I also like the idea of allowing photos that have been edited or made to look unusual through editing. But not digital art. Digital art makes me think of my Wacom Graphire tablet...
Oh, and what happens if two or more people upload the same kind of shot? I swear I took one of my photos on Wednesday (it being Friday today), and I see a similar idea already.... Can I still upload it at the end of the month? (That's when I'm uploading my entries.) You can ask Momo if you don't believe me - Momo was there when I took the shot!
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And on voting - best to make it a public poll, as well, so that we can see if people are voting for their own shots. Not that I'm saying anyone will, but best to remove that temptation altogether, I thiink.
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Er, bragging rights. Unless you want to supply a monthly prize, HJ? A hundred dollar voucher to the winner's preferred photography emporium, perhaps? Very generous of you to offer!
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Very generous indeed! I can hardly believe how generous I am!
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25th August 2007. Be there.
Lets see. Its been three days, and you would have probably read about that event. No? Rocky's, 3540's, Galadriel's,Screenshots,People's Parliament,A Little Taffer's,Walski's, Mage'sP, The senseintovert, shanghai fish, O.B.E. and probably the youngest blogger there that day, yeah,sure,whatever . (She was also the first to blog about the event!)
The gauntlet is thrown, so we now look ahead to having a road show around the country. I salute those who came from other parts of the country, Ipoh, Penang, Johor. There is hope for Malaysia. I am convinced.
What struck me most was the attendees. They were all in awe that Malaysians having met for the first time (most of them, anyway) would want to commit to a movement to truely come together as a one true Bangsa Malaysia. Never mind that the powers that be are more concerned about pointung out our differences! Never mind that!
For as long as we believe that our founding fathers meant otherwise, we have a future!
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OK. We have firmed it up for good. The Bangsa Malaysia Merdeka Get Together will be on 25th August 2007, Saturday, at 20:30hrs-midnight
Venue shall be the Blog-House, to be opened on that same day. The good thing about this do will be a start of a new page. The coming together of like minded Malaysians for a true Bangsa Malaysia. Its not just a feel good do, as there will be a forum preceeding this.
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- anfield devotee said...
Yo bro, you of all people should know the trick to getting a massive turn out is to prominently display the words "FREE BEER". Then u see la. Use yer contacts with the brewery to sponsor event?
he he...but our cables have all been severed! You know the saying, its lonely at the top? In my case, its even lonelier at the bottom!! LOL...
But thankfully, we have friends and they are also keen on this event, Keep praying, maybe we don't have to drink alone!!
- anfield devotee said...
dear Tony, a few of the old Broadwalk kakis have formed an alternative (unofficial LFC club). Would appreciate it if u could give em a shout out & perhaps include them on yer blog roll. TQ.
http://my-rawk.blogspot.com . Wanna join us for Villa game at old Broadwalk tomorrow -1210am? Come la, cheap beer!!!
- alliedmartster said...
OK..jokes aside.
Light refreshments and drinks (non alcoholic) will be served by the host.
The get together will kick off at about 20:30hrs, also promising refreshments and drinks.
As ALL-BLOGS will also be having the official launch of blog house and the alliance. So hopefully we will all have a great time!
- shar101 said...
Yo Bro,
After Saturday, you're giving 'Jack-of-all-trade' a run for his money.
Now, it's 'Tony, Yew can do it all'.
Kudos to you, bro, for holding the entire night together despite the 'hiccups'.
Like I wrote at OBE, am just glad somebody didn't plonk a guitar into your hands and ask you to sing as well! Far too many volunteers on that section.
And sorry for not getting up to the mike to say a few words coz a) I was devouring the excellent fried chicken, b) enjoying the look on What a Lulu's face when she turned around to say "You're OBE/shar101?" and c) still suffering a phobia from losing out in the first stage at the NPC karaoke contest.


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Three Northwestern girls basketball players signed scholarship papers Friday. Sha'Shay Alexander, Cayse Branyan and Natalie Henderson inked deals, making it four Trojans girls from this year's squad that will play at the next level.
Alexander will play at Denmark Tech, a junior college, Branyan will play at Southern Wesleyan and Henderson will play at Anderson University.
Northwestern senior Mariah McCoy signed earlier in the year with Maryland-Eastern Shore, a Division I school.
"To have four girls sign is unreal," Northwestern coach John Bramlett said Friday. "Shows what kind of kids they are."
Of the team's six seniors, four will continue their basketball careers. This year's bunch makes for eight in Bramlett's six years, and McCoy is the third of those to go to Division I. Her abilities undoubtedly attracted more recruiters to the school, which in turn benefited her teammates.
"That's exactly what has happened," said Bramlett. "And that's what I preached to them all year. You don't ever know who's watching."
Sha'Shay Alexander
Alexander, a scrappy, tail-busting forward, will suit up next season for Javon Gilliard's successful Denmark Tech program. The school has won over 40 games the last two seasons, including two Region X championships, and Gilliard has helped his players move on to four-year schools.
In Alexander, Denmark Tech gets a player who grabbed 10 rebounds per game to go with 8 points, and earned All-Region 3-AAAA as a senior.
"She'll work. She's one of the hardest workers we have," said Bramlett. "I can't wait to see her flourish."
Alexander was an academic qualifier, so she can transfer after one season at the junior college. She likes North Greenville but indicated she would be open to anything.
"He has such a good reputation for developing players and getting them places," Bramlett said about Gilliard.
Alexander will study child care at Denmark Tech, but she wants to major in business at whichever four-year school she chooses. Alexander was joined Friday by her mother Tinsel Alexander and her sister Bernayjah Jenkins.
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Branyan sought out Southern Wesleyan for one reason: it focuses on forensic science, which caught Branyan's fancy.
"I was always interested in criminal stuff," she explained of the school located near Clemson. "I didn't want to be a cop, and I like science."
That she'll get to play basketball in school was just a plus. Branyan averaged 5 points and 3 steals off the bench, and knocked down 42 percent of her 3-pointers as a senior. Branyan shot over 40 percent from 3-point range during her Northwestern career.
"She wasn't flashy but when I needed energy off the bench she came in and either made a 3-point shot or stole the ball or just made a key play," said Bramlett. "She'd start for most teams. But the thing about her, she was okay with it. She didn't care if she started, just came in and did that kind of dirty work we needed."
Branyan's parents, Beth and Joey Branyan, joined their daughter at the signing.
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The 6-foot-2 Henderson opted for Anderson over offers from Wingate, Guilford and Belmont Abbey.
"That was where I fell in love with it all," said Henderson, who first started talking with the school last June. "It's going to be a lot of hard work and dedication, but I know I can do it."
Henderson averaged 7 points and 11 rebounds per game, while really making her presence felt with three blocks and three steals per game. She wants to major in kinesiology to become an athletic trainer.
Bramlett praised Henderson's growth in the maturity department "for allowing me to fuss at her. Two years ago if I had fussed at her she would have fell to pieces.
"She's very mature, she understood her role, and she really became a leader for our team."
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'Mad Men' Recap: Declaring War
Don and the gang debate when to say "no."
While the Vietnam War spirals out of control, the characters of "Mad Men" consider declaring war on one another in Sunday's episode, "The Collaborators."
Don is treating his sexual pleasures like business and his business partnerships as if they were romantic relationships. It is fitting then the big reveal about Don's past in this episode is that he grew up in a whorehouse, the ultimate intersection of business and sex. Now, he literally sees a whore when he looks at Sylvia, his married mistress, and even gives her money at the end of one of their liaisons.
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Meanwhile, one of his agency's clients is acting like a scorned lover. "I would rather retire than watch the man screw my girlfriend," the Heinz Beans rep says of his Heinz colleague, the younger, flashier ketchup rep. After "Beans" introduces Don and the gang to "Ketchup" (as the ad men refer to them for the rest of the episode), he forbids Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce from working with him. Don is willing to oblige, telling Ken, "Sometimes you gotta dance with the one that brung ya." If only Don could offer that kind of fidelity to his wife.
Peggy, now a female Don-in-the-making at a rival agency, is flirting with betrayal. Her old SCDP buddy Stan tells her about the Beans and Ketchup debacle, and her boss Ted advises her to use it to woo Heinz Ketchup to Cutler, Gleason and Chaough. "He's not your friend, he's your enemy," Ted says, when she worries that Stan told her the story in confidence. "This is how wars are won."
While Peggy considers turning friends into enemies, the other women of "Mad Men" treat their enemies like friends. Don's mistress helps his wife, comforting Megan about her miscarriage. Pete's wife helps his mistress, who shows up at the Campbell doorstep, beaten and bruised by her husband.
While Megan is still in the dark about Don's affair, Trudy declares open war on Pete over his infidelity. "I will destroy you," she vows, if he defies her demands now that she has confronted him.
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Justifying his actions after, Don asks an indignant Pete. "So we just keep saying yes, no matter what, because we didn't say no to begin with?"
"You know what this is? It's Munich," Don snipes, as Roger explains, referring to how the world ceded to Germany's demands in the lead-up to World War II.
"We gave the Germans whatever they wanted to make them happy. But it just made them want more," says Roger.
That is just the lesson Trudy has learned with Pete's latest affair. "I let you have that apartment – somehow I thought that there was some dignity in granting permission. All I wanted was for you to be discreet," she tells Pete, "I have never said no to you."
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"And you enjoy how foolish they look," she snaps back.
But one steamy monologue – a sales pitch, really – by Don and she is back on board with the affair. She may even be the one wanting more, as she owns up to feeling jealous and frets about falling in love with Don.
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Liferay portal is an enterprise web platform for building business solutions that deliver immediate results and long-term value. It runs on your existing application servers, databases, and operating systems to eliminate new spending on infrastructure. Liferay portal adheres to open standards for content, portlets, web services, and front-end technologies to reduce development costs.
An in-depth guide to the new features of Liferay 6.1 and 6.2, such as Liferay Sync, Liferay Marketplace, and Recycle Bin. Packed with practical examples to help you to develop an intranet portal in quick time; this book will also give you a comprehensive knowledge of Web Content Management, RSS and WYSIWYG editors, and Document and Image management.
With Liferay Portal 6.x Enterprise Intranets (Update), you will understand why you should use Liferay to build your intranet. You will start by installing and setting up the portal, and building a homepage. Then, you will move on to publish blogs and understand how to convert documents in OpenOffice. This book will also show you how to integrate email with the Mail portlet.
Finally, the book explains the integration of Liferay with Alfresco 4.0, SSO CAS, and LDAP.
A practical guide with a very user-friendly approach. The author has taken a virtual enterprise as an example and has used the features of Liferay to build a corporate intranet for that enterprise.
Who this book is for
If you are either a beginner or advanced portal developer who wants to develop an enterprise intranet portal for business purposes, this book is for you. It will be handy for IT professionals who know the concepts and the flow about how the portal technology works. However, prior knowledge of Liferay is not essential.


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Freedom of FUEL: The Q&A
- Posted May 6th, 2009 at 00:01 EDT by Steven Williamson
From deep snow to open wilderness, Codemasters' latest racing game, FUEL, is a multi-terrain racing experience that covers over 5,000 square miles of the world's harshest environments. Featuring on and off-road, two and four-wheeled vehicles, FUEL will pit players against the elements as they adapt their driving skills to cope with the likes of blizzards, sandstorms and tornadoes. We recently hooked up with Codemasters Producer Phil Wright to find out how FUEL plans to satisfy racing fans and thrill seekers alike.
PSU: What influenced you to create FUEL in an open-world, free-roaming arena rather than stick to the traditional menu-driven gameplay?
Phil Wright: Well, first I should say that if players prefer to negotiate their way through menus they are free to do so in FUEL: we've made sure that the game offers as much choice as possible, so for players who are just out to race, they have the option from within the menu system. But they'll be missing out! FUEL offers a beautiful, seamless space, with huge diversity in terms of environment and terrain, filled with hundreds of reasons to explore: events, vehicles, liveries, and so on. There's a lot to be said for the simple pleasure of cruising around the world for its own sake – checking out what's over the next hill, catching your breath at a beautiful sunset, speeding down the side of a mountain – before diving into the next race challenge. It would be a shame to deprive players of that opportunity.
PSU: How big is the game world and what locations and terrains can we expect to drive across?
Wright: The game world is huge – over 5,000 square miles with enormous diversity in terrain and locations. The map is generated from a selection of satellite data of the United States brought together to form a diverse landscape of snow-covered mountains, lush forests, deep ravines, dusty plains, arid salt flats and desolate coastline. This is all linked together by a vast network of roads, from highways to dirt tracks, and littered with the abandoned shells of vehicles and buildings that have been left to the mercy of the elements. All of this combines to offer an ever-changing, challenging and unique racing experience.
PSU: How do we jump into races and challenges?
Wright: Races and challenges can be accessed by driving to their start points in the map, or alternatively drop into the menu and select any race or challenge for the zone you are currently in. If you fancy racing in another zone that you've unlocked, you can either take the long drive in Free Ride or select the zone's camp from the map screen and teleport straight there. The choice is yours.
PSU: Aside from point to point races, what other challenges will we face?
Wright: We have a wide range of race events – large scale raid races, checkpoint races, events where you have to avoid being the last vehicle through a checkpoint or on a lap, chase events where you must catch up with a helicopter – there's a huge amount of variety.
PSU: We understand that there will also be collectibles to hunt down?
Wright: Throughout the world you'll be able to uncover extra challenges, vehicles, vista points and liveries to customize your vehicles. There are hundreds of these rewards dotted throughout the world to really encourage exploration.
PSU: With so many vehicles on offer, how have you managed to ensure that each one feels different to drive than the next?
Wright: FUEL features more than 70 vehicles split across six classes – bikes, cars, trucks, buggies, quads and specials – so there's something for every sort of terrain. Within these classes, some vehicles are better suited for roads, some for off road, and others perform well across all terrain. Then we factor in grip, acceleration and top speed… The development team has done a great job of giving the vehicles distinct handling properties which feel right for each class, then refining those handling properties so that no two vehicles feel as if they drive the same.
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UN Swaziland - About Us
We connect Swaziland to UN values
The United Nations is a universal organization whose purposes are to maintain international peace and security; to develop friendly relations among nations; to cooperate in solving international economic, social, cultural and humanitarian problems and in promoting respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; and to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in attaining these ends.
Swaziland is a member of the United Nations since indeopendence in 1968.
In Swaziland the United Nations is committed to enhancing the performance and impact of the UN system in contributing to the development of the Kingdom. Under the "Delivering As One" concept, the UN system seeks to further strengthen the management and coordination of UN activities so that they can make an even more effective contribution to the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals MDGs).
UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF)
To this end, the UN system in Swaziland has developed an action programme known as the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for the period 2011 to 2015. The Framework is designed to work in alignment to the national development priorities. The value the UN adds to development progress in Swaziland is its expertise in analyzing issues through its reports, its advocacy role in promoting the MDGs and its commitment to a pro-poor agenda.
In Swaziland, the United Nations contributes to agriculture and supports the country fight poverty and eradicate hunger through knowledge, policies and modern practices that improve productivity, self reliance and food security. The UN also supports the country deliver food assistance to save lives during emergency situations as well as promoting nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerabl;e people at critical times in their lives.
The UN connects Swaziland to a global network of knowledge, experiences and resources that contribute to building better lives. We advocate for human development and help the country develop and implement its own solutions to its national development challenges.
We also contribute to peace building and sustained development and intercultural dialogue through education, science, culture and information and communication.
The UN is active in support of child survival and development, education and life skills and safety nets for child protection. We work in education and promote the rights of children to access universal education.
In health, we provide leadership and help shape health policy. We promote equitable access to essential care and a collective defence against transnational threats to health.
Good health key to human development
We recognize that key to national development is good health of mothers. The UN promotes the right of women, men and children to enjoy good health and equal opportunity. We support the nation to use population data for policies and programmes and ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe and every young person is free from HIV&AIDS.
Recognizing that corruption is a cancer to development, the UN supports global efforts to prevent and eradicate transnational organized crime, terrorism and corruption. In Swaziland, the UN supports the prevention of injection drug use and of HIV transmission in prison settings.
In all UN programmes, we are conscious of the nation's HIV burden. We support the country respond to the epidemic, the UN has pooled its collective resources and provides technical and financial support to HIV interventions and advocates for an expanded national response to the epidemic.
We value the promotion and protection of human rights, gender equality and the sustainable exploitation of the environment in all development efforts.
Working With Civil Society
Engagement with civil society
The United Nations in Swaziland has established formal structures for engaging with non-state partners as well as structures of elected leaders. This is both part of implementing the United Nations reform agenda, especially the Cardoso Report, but also, the desire for gbetter understanding of the national development context.
To strengthen its engagemernt in this sector, the UN has established relationships with the following structures:
a. Civil Society
At the global level, the United Nations has a long histopry of working with civil society in a range of issues and at various levels.
The United Nations is both a participant in and a witness to an increasingly global civil society. More and more, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society organizations (CSOs) are UN system partners and valuable UN links to civil society. CSOs play a key role at major United Nations Conferences and are indispensable partners for UN efforts at the country level. NGOs are consulted on UN policy and programme matters. The UN organizes and hosts, on a regular basis, briefings, meetings and conferences for NGO representatives who are accredited to UN offices, programmes and agencies.
In Swaziland the UN has a strong partnership with civil society organizations who have been, for a long time important development partners in the implementation of UN development projects. This role has grown increasingly important in light of the UN reform agenda which places increasing emphasis on the capacity of civil society in the implementation of UN development resources.
The progressive rollout of the Harmonized Cash Transfer modality has increased the demand for the UNCT to have a clearer understanding of the administrative capacity of implementing partners to absorb and deploy and properly account for UN development resources. This knowledge enables the UN to identify existing gaps and undertake capacity building for efficient and effective service delivery.
At the strategic level the UN also values engagement with civil society partners and their advice on the development policy environment.
In this regard, the UN has launched the UN Civil Society Advisory Committee (CSAC). It is made up of civil society leaders from a cross section of the development community. The UNCT regularly engages the CSAC for policy advice and analysis.
b. Working with legislators
The UNCT also recognizes the importance of legislators for their role as representatvies and the voice of their constituencies, their individual and collective input in the development of national laws and polices and their oversight over government deployment of national resources.
The UNCT has established a mechanism for a regular annual retreat of the UNCT and Parliament. The first joint retreat in July 2009 resulted in the creation of a Parliament Sessional Committee made up of members of both Houses of Parliament. The committee is responsible for overseeing the development in the relationship between legislators and the UNCT.
c. Working with the media
The UNCT has a regular quarterly consultation with the Swaziland Editors Forum during which it presents the collective interest of the UN.
The meetings which are attended by all editors from each of the principal national media organizations (Newspapers: The Times Swaziland, the Swazi Observer, Swazi News, Weeklend Observer, Times Sunday Broadcasters: Swaziland TV and Swaziland Broadcasting and Information Service (government radio) and Channel S TV) present an opportunity for the UNCT to promote UN advocacy by raising key issues especially around the Millennium Development Goals for dialogue with news media leaders.
The question and answer sessions that is part of these sessions, not only promotes understanding of the UN within the media and draw attention to upcoming UN events and interests; it also enables the UNCT to gain insigth of development dynamics as reflected through the media.
c. UN Association of Swaziland
The UNCT has established a United Nations Association (of Swaziland, UNASWA) to enhance the relationship between the people of Swaziland and the United Nations.
It is expected that the association will mobilize public support for and popular participation in those UN programs in which citizens are expected to play a role.
In this regard, a Preparatory Committee has been established. It is made up of leading figures in the political, professional and religious fields representating a cross section of groups within the Kingdom.
The association is in the process of registration and is expected to be launched during 2010.


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There is a holocaust happening. Right now. And it's not confined to one nation or even one region. It is a global crisis.
Species are going extinct en masse.
Every 20 minutes we lose an animal species. If this rate continues, by century's end, 50% of all living species will be gone. It is a phenomenon known as the sixth extinction. The fifth extinction took place 65 million years ago when a meteor smashed into the Earth, killing off the dinosaurs and many other species and opening the door for the rise of mammals. Currently, the sixth extinction is on track to dwarf the fifth.