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Menu Module
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You can access the Menu module by either opening an existing Menu module in the Module Manager or by creating a new Menu Module. You can access the Module Manager by going to Extensions > Module Manager
This Module allows you to place your Menus on the page. Every Joomla! website has at least one Menu that is created in the Menu Manager screen. The Menu Module allows you place all or part of the selected Menu at the desired position and on the desired web pages.
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- Select Menu. Select a created menu to use for the module. The default is the menu with the lowest ID. Note that you can have more than one Menu Module with the same Menu Name
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- End Level. Optional level to end the display of the Menu. Default is 0, which will display all levels of the menu.
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Recreating music videos and crating hip fads are all the rage lately. From Gangnam style to Somebody I Used to Know, fans are looking for their own fifteen minutes of fame by riding the coat tails of popular musicians. Google search Gotye's hit single and an endless stream of parodies will come up. Recently, Adamantium laced Hugh Jackman was doing it Gangnam style so it seems that even celebrities are jumping on the band wagon.
In a post on Mashable, Peter Gabriel is asking fans to recreate scenes from his popular 1980's music video Sledgehammer. Though Peter Gabriel is not a fresh and hip musician from this generation, I think fans of Peter Gabriel will jump at the chance to recreate the video. An interactive tab on his Facebook page will direct fans on the submission guidelines and coincidently coincides with the 25th anniversary of the album So which will be released in three different versions.
The popularity of a music video can shift from average to viral in a matter of moments if enough people see potential to parody the video. Gotye's popularity had skyrocketed overnight with such parodies as The Star Wars I Used to Know and even an orchestrated presentation of the hit song. How can a popular music video parody teach social media agencies about strategy?
- A music video parody makes us laugh
First and foremost, anything that makes us laugh is worth sharing. If a video that is usually serious is altered towards a humorous direction, audiences will find it more than hilarious. When creating corporate videos (whether it is for your business or a client) professionalism doesn't have far to go before it becomes boring as hell. Adding a little humor into your videos without losing brand integrity can go a long way.
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There are a ton of people involved in creating a music video professionally. If there is something that a social media agency can learn is that people LOVE to be creative. Give your staff the chance to be funny, creative and outgoing and the product will definitely amaze you. Don't be afraid to make sure your staff is staying on task! Keeping tabs on your staff's productivity is important and will keep them from straying from the brand message.
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This weekend saw the launch of a great new addition to the E-Lites Family as we began our adventure in the British Touring Car Championship. Our Believe You Can philosophy can be applied to any team or driver on that grid but none more so than our partner team Rob Austin Racing, as they are the only independent team on the grid.
Our main driver for the season is Hunter Abbott – a new recruit for the BTCC this year. He can be identified by the E-Lites logo on his bonnet and despite being new to the Championship, made a solid start at Brands Hatch at the weekend, coming in 18th, 18th and 15th in the three races.
We'll also be supporting team mate, fan favourite and E-Lites user Rob Austin, who despite a breakdown in the second race of the weekend, managed to secure a bundle of points with a 5th and an 11th place.
In British Touring Cars, the top fifteen finishers all score points. Rob Austin's finishes leave him 10th in the standings with 16 points, and Abbott's debut weekend saw his 15th place land him his first Championship point. The cars to watch out for this season are #101 - Austin, and #54 - Abbott, who will be sporting the E-Lites logo on the bonnet.
Hunter Abbott said "Watching the BTCC in the Nineties is what made me want to race in the first place. Racing in the BTCC is the realisation of part of a childhood dream and finally I've got an opportunity to do it – and with a team that's clearly on the up. I'm delighted to welcome E-Lites on board and with their help and their philosophy of strong self-belief, I believe I can reach the podium this season."
With Tim Hastings set to start his Supersport season on Easter weekend at Brands Hatch, we've got some amazing E-Lites racing coming this season, and the only place for updates on our Believe You Can partners is right here on E-Lites.co.uk
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Martin Brest was born into a Jewish family on Aug. 8, 1951 in the borough of the Bronx, NY. Upon graduating from Stuyvesant High School in 1969, he enrolled in New York University's School of the Arts. It was there that he wrote and directed the short film "Hot Dogs for Gauguin" (1972), a dark comedy notable for the fact that the 21-year-old film student engaged the services of future comedy stars Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. NYU degree in hand, Brest soon made the move to the West Coast, where he enrolled in the Directing MFA program at the prestigious American Film Institute Conservatory. Once again utilizing his powers of persuasion, Brest enlisted an eclectic cast that included Ray Sha... Continue Bio >>
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Mel and the Maccabees
The Hanukkah story could be the script for Mel Gibson's next biblical epic. Will it cause the religious tensions 'Passion' did?
Anyone who took offense at Mel Gibson's"The Passion of the Christ"
, with its depiction of Jewish leaders condemning Jesus, should get ready soon to be offended all over again. Gibson, it is reported, has his heart set on doing a movie version of the story commemorated by Hanukkah. His text will be the novel "My Glorious Brothers" by Howard Fast. Ironically, this book is a sentimental favorite with the older-generation Jewish audience that also tends to be the main financial supporter of Gibson's primary antagonist, the Anti-Defamation League, which led the drive to condemn "The Passion" as anti-Semitic. The Fast novel tells the story of Jewish heroes, circa 167 B.C.E., who defeat Greek oppressors of the Jewish people, retake the Jerusalem Temple, and relight the great menorah.
So what's so offensive? If this sounds, on the contrary, like a mollifying gesture to ADL national director Abraham Foxman, you might want to look a little more closely at what Hanukkah is actually about.
Many Jews grew up thinking of Hanukkah (which in 2004 falls on December 8-15) as an innocuous children's festival. Actually the Maccabean revolt was deadly serious business, and it recalls one of the great tensions in our own modern American society: the conflict was between what today one might call religious fundamentalists and the secular elite.
Here's what happened. Jewish Palestine had fallen into the clutches of the Greek kingdom of the Seleucids, with their tyrant Antiochus Epiphanes, headquartered in Syria. While the Greeks were not anti-Jewish per se, they had little patience with the perceived particularism and parochialism of Judaism. (I say "perceived" because Judaism's vision, when properly understood, is in fact highly universal.) The Greek vision was one of mutual theological acceptance. They were relativists, in the sense we know today, believing that not only the God of Israel butall
the gods should be worshipped at the Jerusalem Temple--and believing that dissenters from their "tolerance" deserved to be suppressed.
Religiously committed Jews, however, were less troubled by the Greek Syrians themselves than by Jewish "Hellenists" in Palestine, and in the holy city itself, who had thrown in their lot with the Greeks. This was a way of social climbing. By embracing Greek culture, with its aggressive relativism, ambitious Jewish elites hoped to improve their own social standing in Greek eyes. They embraced Greek customs that religious Jews found disturbing - exercising naked in the gymnasium, with an emphasis on discus-throwing in the nude, or (far worse) effacing their circumcisions through a surgical operation involving cutting a flap of skin around the penis and letting it hang by weights. In his standard history of the period, "Alexander to Actium," Professor Peter Green calls this "select club of progressive Hellenizers" a "specially favored cosmopolitan class dedicated to social and political self-advancement," seeking "sociological privilege and status."
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Introduction to Multithreading, Part ILast updated Dec 5, 2008.
After the approval of the Committee Draft in September 2008, it's time to introduce the new concurrency facilities of C++0x. Before we can start with the technical details of threads, condition variables, mutexes etc, it's important to establish a common framework. I will first explain the rationale behind multithreading and contrast it with the traditional single-threaded execution model using a real-world analogy.
Concurrency In The 21st Century
Concurrency is a general term that refers to various models of parallel execution of software. Concurrency can be implemented by multiprocessing, or executing multiple processes simultaneously, by launching lightweight processes inside a parent process, or by launching threads inside the context of a single process. Before we delve into the gory details of each concurrency model, let's see what concurrency is all about and what its advantages and disadvantages are.
Concurrency and the Hollywood Principle
The "Hollywood principle" is a jocular term based on the "don't call us, we'll call you" cliché. In the Design Patterns parlance, the Hollywood principle refers to the familiar notion of callbacks and other forms of event-driven programming. I took the liberty to borrow this phrase and assign a completely new meaning to it.
Suppose your journal editor has given your team of three talented authors an assignment: watch three DVD films and review them. Skipping certain portions of any of these films, fast-forwarding or basing your review on the trailer alone are all considered cheating. However, the team is allowed to split this Hollywood-related task at their convenience. Either each author will watch one film and write one review, or all three members will watch the same films and write the three reviews together. Assume that you have only one DVD player that can take one disc at a time, and a single TV screen. The film viewing process (to which I henceforth refer as "the task") now becomes the subject of our discussion. What is the fastest way to complete the task?
Don't try to be too creative; the only legal option is to watch the three films in a row, one after the other, alone or together. The total time needed for that task can't be lower than the constant x which is defined as:
x=duration(fim1)+ duration (film2)+ duration (film3);
In practice, you will notice that the actual time needed for completing the task is higher than x because of the extra context switching time needed for ejecting a disk once you have finished watching it, inserting a new disc, getting back to you comfortable seats and pressing PLAY. Context switching time will be represented as the variable c. Thus, the total time needed for completing the task is w which is defined as:
w=x+c; //total time needed for task completion
Context switching may also include popcorn preparation, ordering a pizza, and checking emails on your blackberry between films. Considering the restrictions stated earlier, the only legal way to reduce w is minimizing c. For example, you can order a special high volume disc that includes all three films without any copyright nonsense, ads and "the making of". You can pre-order a pizza; turn off your mobile phone and other external distractions that might get in the way. Still, w will never be smaller than x. Now let's get back to the computer world.
When Hollywood Meets Reality
Imagine a program (a task) that has to complete three operations. Each operation is the equivalent of watching a film. The computer running that program has only one CPU and one monitor. These are equivalent to a single DVD player connected to a single TV screen, respectively. The fastest way to run this program is by performing the three operations serially, or watching all three films in a row without any breaks. Frankly, such serial execution is what single processor machines do best, and fastest. However, you probably know that computers with a single processor supported some form of concurrency even in the 1960s. How did they accomplish that feat? They cheated. They didn't execute anything in parallel. Instead, they would switch context frequently, giving their user the impression that several operations were taking place simultaneously. In our Hollywood analogy, this is similar to watching a single scene from film1, then pressing STOP, ejecting the disc, inserting film2, watching a scene, pressing STOP and so on. If you tried this at home you would notice two things:
- The variable w increases dramatically because c has increased dramatically.
- Context switching is exhausting!
Is Concurrency A Bluff?
Trust me, single-processor computers that pretend to be executing programs concurrently are exhausted too. They spend precious system resources on frequent context switching. So why did so many applications, operating systems and programming languages use concurrency when it increases the overall time of completing a task instead of reducing it? First, most users are completely unaware of the significant amount of resources spent on context switching. Secondly, interactive applications often wait for a human operator to press a key, insert some data to a spreadsheet cell or read the End User License Agreement before pressing "I accept". Under these circumstances, it makes sense to interrupt an idle process waiting for I/O and switch to another process briefly. Finally, hardware architectures have been designed and optimized to enable efficient context switching. Thus, instead of pressing STOP, ejecting a disc, and inserting a new disk, these optimized architectures can skip from frame T of film U to frame X of film Y and back to frame T within microseconds. Today, single processor machines are very efficient at context switching but at the end of the day, they are still most efficient when performing one operation after another without any context switching. In other words, the most efficient way to complete your editor's assignment is watching the three films in a row, wasting as little time as possible on context switching. For convenience, I will refer to this conclusion as the "Hollywood Principle theorem".
Reality Bites
The Hollywood Principle theorem holds true so long as the original assumptions are unchanged. What would happen if instead of one DVD player, your team had two players? What if your team also had two TV screens? In the next part I will show how these factors affect your optimization options.


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Topic: Kongregate Multiplayer Games / [Castlot] Bug Reports
Character Name: Presz
My main hero seems to have disappeared out of thin air. Did he go to the void to find Magdelene or is this a bug? I think it's the latter; and no I didn't send him anywhere.
I was doing faction battle and then while the battle was happening, I went to check for relics to seize. I attacked someone, failed, and came back to faction battle to send another wave. To my horror, two waves later, I find that I've been sending my last two waves in faction battle without my main hero. He's not in any city, and he's not in any garrison, and he's not in any army, going or returning. Can you fix this before some seize-happy league decides take Great White Shark bites on me, or worse, nibble me to death?


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China's Marlboro Country
The strange, underground world of counterfeit cigarettes.
Accordingly, counterfeiters deploy a number of tricks to dodge authorities. One manufacturer built a factory that masqueraded as a military compound, complete with 20 laborers—dressed in castoff army uniforms—who would conduct faux-military drills and sing the national anthem in the yard every morning. Other cigarette-making machines have been hidden on ships, inside concrete bunkers, and even under a lake.
Back in the 1990s, Chinese counterfeits often came with misspelled health warnings, blurred lettering, and other obvious giveaways. These days, their sophistication sometimes challenges forensic investigators. In the United Kingdom—where authorities report that up to one-third of all cigarettes sold in some areas are fake, mostly from China—customs officers have deployed a trained dog to sniff out counterfeits on the streets.
For the enterprising smuggler, custom-made fakes are only a few clicks away. Manufacturers openly court clients through online storefronts, touting quality guarantees and their equipment's international caliber. One Yunxiao operation, established in 1993, assures customers of its experience exporting to Asia and Africa and says it maintains its own tobacco fields in Laos. The company—which churns out 80 million cigarettes a week—promises a six-day turnaround, door-to-door delivery for certain overseas clients, and impeccable customer service.
The tone is reassuring and gently instructive. For hesitant buyers, the owners guarantee that the U.S. market in particular is a "profit business."
"We strive to build and maintain a total honesty management culture," the manufacturers say, "and will appreciate the chance to do business with you."
But for U.S. consumers, inhaling the knockoff cigarettes may do even more damage than their genuine counterparts. Lab tests show that Chinese counterfeits emit higher levels of dangerous chemicals than brand-name cigarettes: 80 percent more nicotine and 130 percent more carbon monoxide, and they contain impurities that include insect eggs and human feces.
None of that stops counterfeiters, who reap prodigious rewards from the trade. According to manufacturers in Yunxiao, state-of-the-art cigarette-making machines can set a factory back $1.5 million to $3 million. "But everyone knows that the investment can be recouped in just a few months of manufacturing," a Yunxiao cigarette broker told me.
Even area officials speak of the region's counterfeiting prowess with pride. "For a long time now, a lot of Yunxiao's cigarettes have gone to Russia," said one police officer. "The feedback from Russian customers is that they've gotten used to the fake flavor, and now they don't want the real ones anymore."
The broker says Yunxiao might change someday, but the transition could take many years. One of the manufacturers she knows invested $2.5 million to start a legitimate business elsewhere, but recently quit and returned—disappointed because "the profits could never match counterfeit."
Still, she hopes the industry will make a shift: "We locals would like to see Yunxiao start its own legal cigarette factory someday."


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We are delighted to announce our plenary speakers:
Over the last few decades the world has experienced a period of significant instability. In addition to an epochal financial crisis whose effects continue to reverberate, there have been a swathe of significant geo-political upheavals across the globe. It may also be fair to suggest that such macro level events have been mirrored in various ways by increasing fractures and upheavals at the micro level of societies. Thus political and economic turbulence has destabilised communities and dislocated individual lives to an extent that has undermined faith in many democratic institutions, even amongst those that were once regarded as being most mature and developed.
On a more optimistic note, the extension of new technologies is creating possibilities for new forms of interpersonal relationships, as well as a resurgence of grassroots community and political engagement. Against this background, a key challenge for contemporary sociology is to document and foster greater understanding of these developments and their ramifications. In doing so, sociology might contribute to both policymaking and wider public engagement in a manner that offers possibilities for a progressive way forward from this global metamorphosis.
Our themes are deliberately broad and all-encompassing, designed to appeal to the entire spectrum of sociologists and stimulate lively debate. You are at the heart of the discipline. Your voice is important. Join the finest scholars from across the globe to lead the debate. Policy makers are coming to hear what you – the people with real experience – have to say.
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Wednesday, November 14
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Project Inform will honor a select few of the activists, volunteers and philanthropists who have contributed to the work of Project Inform since its founding in 1985. Confirmed honorees include: longtime supporter Barry Krost, producer and manager of some of Hollywood's leading talents; Brenda Freiberg, former Assistant Mayor of Los Angeles and Project Inform Board member; as well as AIDS activist and well-known comedian Bruce Vilanch.
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Archive for February, 2013
Cheat in Candy Crush Saga: Easier than you think
by Nick Stallman on Feb.28, 2013, under club penguin
Well the other day I took a little peek at Candy Crush Saga's security mechanisms and I found them somewhat lacking. It is trivial to skip levels and input arbitrary scores and their servers will accept it without too much trouble.
First you need to get your session id. In Chrome you can do it by opening Facebook, right clicking on a blank bit of the page and in the Developer Tools menu clicking 'Network'. Then open the game.
You will see a lot of different hits that your browser is making, but you want to scroll down until you find the gameInit request. Copy and paste that url in to a new tab to load it and scroll right down to the bottom. There will be a chunk of text at the bottom like "currentUser":{"userId":10169xxxxx. 10169xxxxx is your user id so keep that for later. In the url you also see gameInit?_session=M-RzT9CNQfjM6xxxxxxx and the part after the = is your session id. You also need this.
Behind the scenes Candy Crush Saga uses a different naming scheme for the levels. You have an episode id and a level id. Episode id seems to be after every 'break' in the track in game and level id is the number of levels after the break starting from 1. For example level 39 is episode 4 level 4.
So you now have the following information:
Episode id: 4
Level id: 4
Session: M-RzT9CNQfjM6xxxxxxx
Facebook id: 10169xxxxx
Score: 123456 (Make something roughly plausible up for this)
You now need to make the security checksum. They simply hash a specific string and use the first 6 hex characters. Open a online MD5 tool such as this one which has a text box and a button and it outputs a string of gibberish when you press the button.
In the text box write this, filling in the values inside the square brackets as you go:
The bit on the end is their 'top secret' verification string. You end up with something like this:
Pop that in to the MD5 box and hit hash. Make sure there are no spaces before or after your text as that changes the outcome. You should get 72a872f0399990657b6dd5fd2012691d for this example. You are only interested in the first 6 characters so keep 72a872 and ignore the rest.
Then you create the magical submit score request and load it in your browser. Fill in the blanks then open it.
https://candycrush.king.com/api/gameEnd?arg0={"score":[score],"seed":1361826675157,"cs":"[6 character hash]","timeLeftPercent":-1,"episodeId":[episodeId],"reason":0,"levelId":[levelId]}&_session=[sessionId]
Remember the bits in [] brackets are the sections you replace. Don't alter the rest.
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Gun background-check supporters struggle for votes
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate gun control supporters struggled Tuesday to salvage their drive to expand background checks to more buyers, buoyed by a visit from wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords but facing enough potential opponents to derail their endeavor unless they can figure out how to win more votes.
No. 2 Democratic leader Richard Durbin of Illinois, his party's chief vote counter, left a lunch of Democratic senators saying they would need support from nine or 10 Republicans — a tall order. Subjecting more firearms transactions to the background checks now is the main thrust of the gun control effort launched after December's Newtown, Conn., shootings.
Attending Tuesday's Senate lunch was Giffords, the Arizona Democrat severely hurt in a 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly. The two, both gun owners, have started a political committee that backs candidates who favor gun restrictions.
"His message was, 'We've been through this,'" Durbin said, describing Kelly's remarks to the lawmakers. "'We're ready to fight back to stand up for those who have the courage to vote for gun safety.'"
Giffords did not address the lawmakers.
In a blow to gun control advocates, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., became the latest Republican to say he will oppose a bipartisan compromise broadening background checks.
"I believe that this legislation could lead to the creation of a national gun registry and puts additional burdens on law-abiding citizens," he said.
Before the lunch, Giffords and Kelly met privately with Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa. The two senators have written compromise legislation that would expand background checks to cover gun shows and the Internet, a plan gun control supporters think gives them the best chance of pushing a broader system of checks than the current one through the Senate.
Though the Senate has been debating a broader gun bill for days, it remained unclear when votes on the Manchin-Toomey plan or other amendments would begin. Democrats were hoping roll calls could start as early as Wednesday, with the two senators' proposal generally seen as the first vote.
Besides the Manchin-Toomey proposal, Democrats were ready to offer other amendments — likely to lose — banning military-style assault weapons and ammunition magazines capable of carrying more than 10 rounds. Authorities have said both were used in the Newtown rampage.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate GOP leader, said he was working on an amendment requiring states to recognize each other's permits for carrying concealed weapons.
Using procedural moves, opponents would need just 41 of the Senate's 100 votes to derail the Manchin-Toomey background check plan.
Thirty-one senators voted last week to completely block debate on overall gun legislation. Just two were Democrats — Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mark Begich of Alaska.
If all 31 vote against the Manchin-Toomey measure — which is not certain — opponents will need just 10 more votes to prevail.
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Observe right to unionize by making it reality
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Houston Chronicle, December 10, 2003, p. A-35; and Austin American-Statesman online.
by Pat Youngblood and Robert Jensen
Fifty-five years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set forth basic standards for what many hoped would be a new world emerging from the devastation of World War II and the horrors of colonialism. Among the rights articulated in that document is, "to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests."
This was in line with U.S. law; the 1935 National Labor Relations Act declared it the nation's policy to encourage "the practice and procedure of collective bargaining" and protect "the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection."
Unfortunately, the principle on the books is not the typical workplace reality in the United States today. Existing laws are inadequate, and employers routinely violate even those.
As the world today [Dec. 10] observes Human Rights Day, Americans should heed the conclusion of a Human Rights Watch report in 2000 "[W]orkers' freedom of association is under sustained attack in the United States, and the government is often failing its responsibility under international human rights standards to deter such attacks and protect workers' rights."
A study by a leading labor researcher, Cornell University professor Kate Bronfenbrenner, found that when faced with employees who want to join a union, 92 percent of private employers force workers to attend closed-door meetings to hear anti-union propaganda; 80 percent require supervisors to attend training sessions on attacking unions; 78 percent require that supervisors deliver anti-union messages to workers they oversee; and 75 percent hire outside consultants to run anti-union campaigns. Her study, commissioned by the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission, also found that half of employers threaten to shut down if employees unionize and that in a quarter of organizing campaigns, employers illegally fire workers because they want to form a union.
Bronfenbrenner also discovered why these tactics are so common -- they are effective, increasing employee insecurity and applying downward pressure on real wages and benefits. The negative effect on communities is widely felt; a 2000 study by the Economic Policy Institute found that American families, on average, work 247 more hours per year than they did in 1989.
Workers whose rights have been violated can try to use the law to fight back, but these days that's a thin reed on which to lean. Business owners know that the federal government long ago abandoned serious enforcement, and cases brought before the National Labor Relations Board can drag on for years before workers get justice.
One simple way to give workers more meaningful organizing rights would be to establish the right of workers to start a union through the "card check" process. If a majority of workers sign a form authorizing union representation, the company would have to recognize the union. Under current law, companies can ignore the workers' wishes and demand an NLRB election, which gives managers the opportunity to engage in these coercive anti-union activities and create an atmosphere of fear.
Legislation introduced in Congress last month, called the "Employee Free Choice Act," would give workers the right to unionize through card check, as well as provide mediation and arbitration for first contract disputes, and establish stronger penalties for violation of employee rights during organizing drives and first contract negotiations.
Such a law is hardly radical; it's a small step toward reversing the assault on workers' rights in this country and bringing the United States closer to basic international norms. In addition to the Universal Declaration, such norms are also articulated in the "Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work" of the International Labor Organization, an independent U.N. agency of which the United States is a member. That document states that member nations have an obligation "to respect, to promote and to realize, in good faith" four key principles, the first of which is "freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining."
The key term is "effective" -- rights in the abstract mean little to workers who are coerced into abandoning a union campaign or fired for organizing activities. It's time for the United States to make those rights real for all workers.
Pat Youngblood is coordinator and Robert Jensen is on the board of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center in Austin, Texas. They can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com.


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Washington County is the 65th healthiest county in Florida, making it among the worst according to a new survey.
Obesity, smoking, teen pregancies and dropout rates are just a few of the factors researchers looked at for the "2013 County Health Rankings."
Chipley resident Willard Whitcomb is doing his part to buck that trend.
"I'm doing a lot of cardio right now because I'm trying to lose a little weight," Whitcomb said. "I'm trying to take a little weight off to get my blood pressure down."
Health Department Director Rick Davis says most of the county's heath woes are caused by poor lifestyle choices, things like smoking, drinking and eating unhealthy foods.
Bay County ranks in the middle of the pack at 35 out of 67. Walton County is 41st. You can find out where your county ranks by clicking the link below.
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Despite mounting obstacles to keep the Sacramento Kings — the latest of which finds billionaire Ron Burkle's financial backing on the outside looking in — Mayor Kevin Johnson was able to share some good news this week. Fila is bringing back his shoe.
The KJ7 made the former Phoenix Suns star point guard, as he told reporters during a press conference at Sacramento's Downtown Plaza on Monday, "the first player in the NBA to wear Fila."
Fila plans to release the KJ7 in "Suns" and "Kings" inspired colorways next winter.
Per mayoral protocol, Johnson isn't permitted to accept royalties from the shoe's sales so Fila will instead make a $25,000 donation to Sacramento Public Policy Foundation and a $25,000 donation to the team dedicated to completing a new Kings arena called Think Big Sacramento.
Basketball shoe fans remember Johnson wearing the Converse Run N' Slam during the Suns' 62-20 title run 1992-93 season.
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Cadillac Converj Plug-In EV Gets Green Light for Production in 2013
Posted By Molly Cotter On August 16, 2011 @ 10:30 pm In Green Transportation,Innovation,News | 2 Comments
Rumor has it, the Cadillac Converj [1]luxury coupe has been approved for production – again. After wowing the crowds at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2009, and enduring an on-again off-again release deal [2]with General Motors, the sleek sports coupe will be Cadillac's first plug-in electric sedan [3], and on top of that, the fastest!
Inside sources are optimistic that the coupe is back in the GM production plan for good and will most likely be launched as a 2013 and a 2014 model. Based on the same platform as the Chevy Volt [4], the Converj will feature an updated version of the extended-range electric powertrain that allows it to travel 40 miles on a single charge without fuel. This update will also include faster acceleration.
Many say it's about time Cadillac steps up their plug-in game. The brand's sole electric vehicle [3] is still the 2011 Escalade Hybrid, not exactly the paradigm of green transportation, nor the ideal gateway vehicle for those looking to transition. With the Chevy Volt, the most fuel-efficient compact car in the US almost completely sold out this year, and other luxury brands such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi preparing to carry multiple plug-in options [5], Cadillac has the opportunity with the Converj Coupe, to find its place amongst the innovative electric vehicles while still remaining the classic luxury brand.
Via Green Car Report [6]
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Roundup: WVU quarterback award semifinalist
West Virginia's quarterback Geno Smith has been named a semifinalist for the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award.
Three Davey O'Brien finalists will be announced on Nov. 19 and the winner will be announced on Dec. 6 on ESPN.
WVC HONORS: Concord's Jake Lilly, Fairmont State's Daniel Monroe and Shepherd's Keon Robinson have been named West Virginia Conference football players of the week.
Monroe earned offensive accolades in the Falcons' 54-47 win over Seton Hill. Monroe rushed for 136 yards and had three touchdowns, adding four catches for a career-high 103 yards.
Lilly picked up defensive honors for the Mountain Lions. In a 21-13 loss at Division I Liberty, Lilly made a career-high 18 tackles, including 12 solo stops.
Robinson was tabbed for special teams honors, helping the Rams to a 41-20 win against West Virginia State. Robinson returned a punt 61 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter as well returned an 88-yard kickoff for a score in the third.
LOCAL GOLF: Steve Fox and Harold Payne have the early lead in the West Virginia Senior Four-Ball Championship at The Greenbrier Monday. The duo shot a 1-under-par 69 on the Meadows course, the only team in the championship division to shoot under par.
One stroke behind are Vienna's Scott Bibbee and Bill Boyle, and Beckley's Greg McGraw and Dennis Vass - both at even par. Leading the Senior division are Hurricane's Tommy Holland and Tom Turner, shooting the low round of the day with a 6-under-par 64.
The best-ball championship final round begins at 10 a.m. today with a shotgun start.
WVU FAN CLUB: Quincy Wilson, former Mountaineer running back and now assistant director of football operations, will speak to the Charleston WVU Fan Club at 7 p.m. Thursday at Harding's Restaurant in Charleston.
WVU TECH SOCCER: Joe Jackson and Dennis Furst each netted three goals as WVU Tech's men downed Southern State Community College 12-1 Monday.
Rodrigo Manzanares also added a pair of goals for the Golden Bears, while Michael Powell, Craig Mitchell, Jordan Brooksher, and Edson Borja had single tallies. Greg Roades had the lone goal for Southern State.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service paid out more than $110 billion in tax credits over the past decade to people who didn't qualify for them, according to a Treasury report released Tuesday.
The Earned Income Tax Credits were intended for poor working families. In his report, IRS inspector general J. Russell George said more than one-fifth of all credits paid under the program went to people who didn't qualify.
"The IRS should be commended for implementing numerous processes to educate Americans and identify and prevent improper EITC payments," George said in a statement. "Unfortunately, it is still distributing more than $11 billion in improper EITC payments each year and that is disturbing."
"The IRS must do a better job of reining in improper payments in this and in other programs," George added.
IRS efforts are hampered by unscrupulous tax preparers as well as honest families that have trouble figuring out how to calculate the complicated credit, the report said.
"The IRS appreciates the inspector general's acknowledgement of all our work to implement processes that identify and prevent improper EITC payments," the IRS said in a statement. "Every year, the IRS conducts 500,000 EITC audits as part of a broader enforcement strategy, and EITC claims are twice as likely to be audited as other tax returns."
The agency said it prevents "nearly $4 billion in improper claims each year and is committed to continuing to work to reduce improper claims."
The EITC is one of the nation's largest anti-poverty programs. In 2011, more than 27 million families received nearly $62 billion in credits.
The credit is attractive because, if it is larger than your total income tax bill, the IRS will pay you the difference. This is especially helpful to low-income families because many pay little or no federal income tax.


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Dear Garrison,
I've been a listener to your programme off and on for about the last 6 years now, especially since it started to be carried on BBC7, the BBCs digital radio station for comedy.
I was talking with a friend up in Scotland about APHC and he said he had read a copy of your autobiography, about how you got into radio. I didn't know you had written such a book, only the Lake Wobegon books. Has he got the two mixed up or have you in the past written an autobiography?
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Chris, I didn't write an autobiography as such but perhaps your Scottish friend happened onto a copy of a book called Homegrown Democrat which includes some stuff about me and which is now widely available on remainder tables for about 69 cents a copy. Remainder tables are the ones bookstores put out on the sidewalk so as to make shoplifting easier. As for writing a real autobiography, it's far down on my list of things to do. I just don't feel confident about being able to, frankly. Like most people, I can take myself back to various points in the distant past the house I grew up in, my school playground, the Mississippi River, a backyard in St. Paul in the fall of 1947 and cousin Kathy and an apple tree and coal smoke in the air, a visit to Brooklyn, New York, in 1953 but nothing happens to me when I arrive there: the memories don't expand, the light doesn't spread my memory seems to consist of postcards rather than film footage and so I'm leery of writing a series of fables and foisting it off as a memoir. This may be the fate of a fiction writer: you plunder your memory for characters and story elements and bits of dialogue and you wind up changing it, blurring truth and fiction. My father-in-law, who is 82 and never wrote a book before, wrote an extraordinary and beautiful one (unpublished), which is, on the face of it, a memoir of all the cars he has owned. It's a brilliant framework for autobiography, utterly original, and what's more he is blessed with near total recall, and he is free of literary self-consciousness. If I can't write something as good, then why bother? I don't want to walk up to a Barnes & Noble and see the Story of My Life on sale for 69 cents.
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Business owners are worried about the future of Fort Carson. It's an estimated $1 billion chunk of our economy here.
Here's the problem: because of budget cuts, the Mountain Post is facing the possibility of huge reductions over the next 10 years. Sixteen thousand of its 24,000 soldiers stationed there could be gone.
Now, there's a new campaign by the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance to try to keep them here.
11 News stopped by several businesses Tuesday night. We talked to one restaurant owner who said it would be tough for him to keep his restaurants open if that many soldiers and their families are moved out.
A possible reduction of 16,000 Fort Carson soldiers is an impact all of Southern Colorado would feel. That's what the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance said, and that's what they're hoping to prevent.
"It's a billion dollar impact to our economy across the state if the cuts that have been mentioned or listed as a possibility take place," El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Wayne Williams said.
"If that many soldiers [move] out, not only my business...whole city is going to be hurt," restaurant owner Kyung Lee said.
Lee owns and operates Sushi O Sushi near Fort Carson and Korea Express on post. He said even during the deployment of a few hundred soldiers, he notices a big difference at his restaurants.
"Even if the soldiers, like 200 soldiers going in the field, even just a few it hurts my business. And then 16,000 soldiers? It's going to hurt really seriously," Lee told us.
Now, the business alliance is asking everyone to pick up a "Keep Carson Strong" postcard and send it off, to send a message and show community support for Fort Carson.
"We're hoping that we get thousands turned in and we hope that lots of people recognize the importance that Fort Carson plays in our local economy," Williams said.
"We have to stop it," Lee implored.
This is just the first step in a long process. No decisions have been made by the Army, the cuts are just a possibility.
The business alliance is asking that the postcards be turned in or mailed by Monday, August 25.
Locations of where "Keep Carson Strong" postcards can be picked up and dropped off are listed below.
Central: El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Office
Citizens Service Center 1675 W. Garden of the Gods Road West of Centennial 80907
Northeast: Motor Vehicle Department
North Union Town Center 8830 N.
Union Boulevard Research Parkway and Union Boulevard 80920
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5650 Industrial Place
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Cascade Avenue and Vermijo Avenue 80903
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Finally, school was out. It was mid-June, and I would be a big senior at Madera High when classes started again. It was time for summer fun. We dragged main (Yosemite Avenue) all day. We stopped at Big Top Drive-in for fries and a Coke, and later Reed & Bell for a great root beer float. In the late evening it was to the Madera Drive-in with another couple hidden in the trunk.
But this was the first weekend after school had ended and my dad was flying most of the day. He told me I could drive his maroon 1963 Olds Cutlass convertible, but to have it home by 6 because he was taking mom (Gail) out to dinner. I picked up my high school sweetheart (my future gal), her sister, Paula, and her boyfriend, Johnny. We were off to the big town of Fresno. Our stomachs growling, this time we stopped at Bob's Big Boy at Shaw and Blackstone avenues for burgers then cruised down Blackstone to Belmont Avenue and Mars' Drive-in for a lime rickey.
From there it was time to see the mall. We drove slowly south on Broadway Street with the top down listening to KYNO. Just as we passed the Rainbow Ballroom (the Mag) the radio station advertised the Cindermen would be playing at the big dance hall.
After just six months of construction and almost (only) $2 million, the mall had been officially opened by Edmund G. "Pat" Brown (the father of the current governor) on Sept. 1, 1964. It was an idea conceived by the redevelopment agency of that time to return shoppers downtown after the opening of the Manchester Mall in 1955. Fulton Street was originally J Street, but was renamed in honor of Fulton G. Berry, a prominent financier who died in 1910...


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The wind whipped through Dakota's hair until she could barely see. It did not matter to her, the image before her was already burned into her mind. The leaves scurried across the freshly turned dirt like nails on a chalkboard.
As thunder cracked the sky, Dakota looked up at the quickly incoming storm. Kneeling down, Dakota reached out and touched the top of the dirt pile. With her free hand, she reached in her boot and pulled out the knife she always kept there.
It stuck slightly in the sheath until she gave it a firm tug. The blade gleamed red from the stray beam of light in the sky.
Moving her hand, she thrust the blade into the mound of dirt where her hands had been only seconds ago. Dakota held onto the hilt a minute longer before standing up.
Standing there, she let the memories flash before her eyes.
The swing set.
The laughter.
The blanket under the stars.
The blue roses.
The walk through the woods.
The plans for the future.
Memories that were now surrounded by a black cloud.
Dakota turned as the first rain droplet hit her cheek. As the woods turned to chaos around her, she let the fire build inside.
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commute from Wenatchee to Entiat or Chelan, the question wasn't if you might hit an animal on Highway 97A,
it was more likely when you would. An 8 mile long fence between Wenatchee and Entiat have gone a long ways
towards lessening the danger on a highway that sported one of the highest animal kill rates in the state. State
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Merda! or in English, Shit! A semi-automatic failure might be annoying down the range but in close combat it's a life or death situation. Fortunately it's completely avoidable. The only failure I've ever had have been deliberate.
The three most common failures with a semi-auto pistol are failure to feed, failure to extract, and failure to eject. The first one, failure to feed, is the most common. Basically, the bullet doesn't travel from magazine to chamber and the slide only close partially aka "out of battery", there are three main reason for this: riding the slide, short sliding and muzzle contact with the target. Riding the slide is simply holding on to the slide as it travels forward, so it doesn't travel with enough velocity to properly feed the bullet into the chamber. Short sliding is not pulling the slide back far enough, which means it doesn't have the full range of motion necessary to chamber the round, and muzzle contact with the target has the same effect. All of these are easily avoidable — DON'T FUCKING DO IT!
The other reasons for a failure to feed are a dirty chamber, which doesn't really apply to modern semi autos, or a damaged magazine. But modern semi auto are designed to be twat proof, so if you have any sort of failure the chances are that pulling the trigger again will resolve the problem. The other two problems: failure to extract i.e. the bullet fired, but the extractor didn't pull the fired case from the chamber and you get a "double-feed" or another round in the chamber; and failure to eject, which is similar, the fired case is caught in the chamber, which causes the slide to lock, called "stovepiping". these failures can again be linked to a dirty chamber but in all reality you can pretty much guarantee the cause was "limp-wristing" (not holding the pistol firmly enough). Again the solution — DON'T FUCKING DO IT!
So having established that these failures are completely avoidable, why do they happen? Generally speaking, I'd say it was incompetence with the exception of riding the slide and short sliding, which can be the result of poor training. Not everyone is strong enough to pull the slide back with one hand, which is why I advocate the pull and punch method. I've yet to meet an able bodied adult who is not strong enough to do this, and in a real life situation when you want to shoot someone it's all too easy to short slide which is why I advocate carrying Condition One, with the gun all ready cocked.


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Great gamexPsych0s1sx | Aug. 18, 2014 | Review of Dead Island Riptide 2014 - PC
If you're into zombie and RPGs this is the game for you, there are tons of different weapons you can find and use in your battle against the undead. There are also tons of different weapon mods and secret weapons you can find throughout the game. The game is open world which helps a lot and there is a decent amount of missions for you to play. The gameplay is great because killing zombies is always fun but killing zombies with modified weapons is even better.While it is basically just an expansion you can play it without playing the first one and still understand everything, everyone should give it a shot. You wouldnt be disapoointed :)
Gory goodnessxPsych0s1sx | Aug. 18, 2014 | Review of Manhunt STEAM - PC
If you're into extremely gory and violent games this is the one for you. I never thought I could find a game as messed up as this but I'm glad that I found it. You are targeted by many different gangs and they won't stop until you're dead unless you have something to say about that. There are tons of different weapons you can use each with 3 different styles of execution. You can run at the enemies head on if you're suicidal or you can play it smart and sneak around and kill them stealthily, The executions are the best part of the game and if you want a really violent and gruesome game this is the one for you.
Payne to the MaxxPsych0s1sx | Aug. 18, 2014 | Review of Max Payne STEAM - PC
I remember playing this game on PS2, it was a really great game then and it still holds up really well to this day. Max is a man with nothing else to lose, he lost his wife and daughter and he wants answers. The graphics are good for their time but you can tell it's an old game. The gameplay is great, I loved the whole bullet time mechanic to the game and the shooting was was fun and guns were plentiful. I beat this game so many times over the years, This game is amazing
One of my favorite games everxPsych0s1sx | Aug. 13, 2014 | Review of The Walking Dead - PC
I'm a huge fan of this game series because it has such an amazing story with simple but fun game play to go with it. This is one of the few games where I ever really felt a connection with the characters and felt sad when they died or got hurt. The game is basically a point and click game with choices thrown in but every choice you make is very important at one point or another through out the game, it can change anything from a person living or dying to items you take. There are times where you have to react quickly or you can be killed or something you don't want to happen might. The graphics are cartoon styled but it goes well with the game. The game play is quiet fluent and works well with this type of game. Everyone should play this game at least once because it is very emotional and it shows how you would react in difficult situations, buy this game. You won't regret it.
Amazing GamexPsych0s1sx | Aug. 8, 2014 | Review of Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Edition NA - PC
One of the best games I've ever played in my life. There is tons of content in the base game alone but once you include the DLC it seems to be 2-3 times more. I put over 90 hours into the game and I'm still not finished with all of the quests. There are hundreds of quests between the base game and all the DLC packs,multiple costumes and heads to unlocked and a seemingly endless amount of guns. It's a great game to play alone but once you include friends that's where the true fun begins. It's a must buy, everyone should play this game


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Greetings Ironlore,
First I want to say that I found your game "Titan Quest†to be a great game.
I am an RTS player who has tried for the last few years to play RPG games, but could not really get the fun part of it.
I tried Diablo 2, Sacred, Dungeon Siege, Fable, Morrowind, Never Winter, and many other RPG games and got bored by them very quickly.
Your "Titan Quest†game is the first RPG game that I got hooked to, and for that I must say that you have done a great job.
I also wanted to say that I do not understand critiques who say that your game is very much like Diablo 2, and because of that they take points off from the game.
Your game is 10 times better than Diablo 2 in all aspects including the fun aspect and that is the most important part.
I therefore feel that your game deserves a 9.5+ score.
Now for the issues:
When the day turns into night, the game is starting to lag and there are frame rate issues.
Gamespot reported the same problem.
I have a good PC (AMD 3700+ with 2 gig ram, and Geforce 6800GT card with 256mb).
This kind of PC should not have any lag.
I hope you can fix this issue soon, and if not then please add an option to disable the day/night cycle (I don't mind that).
There is so much loot to choose from and so little inventory space.
The main problem is not knowing which item is valuable and which one is not.
The solution for this is to have different colors for the different items which will represent their value (8 different colors should be sufficient).
Right now when we press "Z†we can see all the items on the ground.
I would like to suggest adding a new hot key (e.g. "Vâ€) for valuable items only.
This way when using "V†instead of "Z†we would see all the items that are worth at lest 100 gold. If the player can also modify this threshold value then it would be even better.
It would also be nice if the inventory space would be increased by 50% or more.
Being able to store valuable items in a special chest in some remote location could also help a great deal.
Just had my first crush on the second mission when moving from one zone to another.
For that reason when we "quick save†the game, the game should remember the exact place and condition we were, and it should not bring us back to previous location causing us to loose half an hour of game play.
Finally, I play on the easiest level and on the second mission (in Spartan) I found it very difficult to kill the man-horse.
I had to eliminate all the units that surrounded him first.
I then had to utilize hit and run tactics combined with drinking health potions in order to kill that men-horse.
I had to use 10 health potions before I was able to kill that creature one on one.
That is way too hard for "Easy†level.
I was also fully equipped with the most expensive and powerful items.
So far I spent all my gold (including from sold items) on health potions only.
It would be nice if these health potions wouldn't be so expensive, and if we were able to actually buy some good weapons from the shop.
So please keep in mind that some of us are beginners and we need the game to be somewhat easier on the easiest level.
I therefore hope that you can tone down a bit the difficulty level for the easy level.
I would really be disappointed if I get stuck at some point not being able to kill one of the powerful creatures.
Other then that everything else looks great.
Best regards, and keep up the good work,
Moshe Levi