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Union membership in U.S. falls to 97-year lowSTEVEN GREENHOUSE
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Union firefighters march into the state Capitol during a protest against a budget bill in Madison, Wis., in February 2011. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the percentage of American workers in labor unions fell to 11.3 percent last year, the lowest ratio in 97 years.The long decline in the number of U.S. workers belonging to labor unions accelerated sharply last year, sending the unionization rate to its lowest level in close to a century.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the total number of union members fell by 400,000 last year, to 14.3 million, even though the nations overall employment rose by 2.4 million nationwide.
The percentage of workers in unions fell to 11.3 percent, down from 11.8 percent in 2011, the bureau found in its annual report on union membership. That brought unionization to its lowest level since 1916, when it was 11.2 percent, according to a study by Rutgers economists Leo Troy and Neil Sheflin.
There were several reasons for the steep one-year decline, according to labor experts. Among the factors were new laws that rolled back the power of unions in Wisconsin, Indiana and other states, the continued expansion by manufacturers like Boeing and Volkswagen in nonunion states and the growth of sectors like retail and restaurants, where unions have little presence.
These numbers are very discouraging for labor unions, said Gary N. Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Its a time for unions to stop being clever about excuses for why membership is declining, and its time to figure out how to devise appeals to the workers out there.
Labor unions have boasted of their successes in helping re-elect President Barack Obama and in helping Democrats pick up seats in Congress.
But the figures announced by the bureau point to grave problems for organized labors future. The portion of private sector workers in unions fell to just 6.6 percent last year, from 6.9 percent in 2011, causing some labor experts to question whether private sector unions were sinking toward irrelevance. Private sector union membership peaked at around 35 percent in the 1950s.
The report showed particular drops in union membership in two groups where unions have long been strong: local government employees and manufacturing workers.
Union membership showed sharp drops in Wisconsin, which passed a law in 2011 curbing the collective bargaining rights of many public employees, and in Indiana, which enacted a right-to-work law last February that might have prompted many workers to drop their union membership.
Such laws bar requiring employees at unionized workplaces from being made to pay union dues or fees. The bureaus report showed that union membership fell by 13 percent last year in Wisconsin and by 18 percent in Indiana both unusually large drops for a single year.
Barry T. Hirsch, a labor economist at Georgia State University, said an analysis he conducted found that the number of government employees in Wisconsin belonging to a union slid by 48,000 last year, to 139,000 from 187,000, as many public sector workers evidently decided to quit their unions after the Republican-led Legislature stripped them of most of their bargaining rights.
Speaking about the nation as a whole, Hirsch said, I am really surprised that the drop in unionization was as large as it is in a single year, and it was particularly big in the public sector. It does seem you are seeing reductions in some of the states that you might expect.
For instance, in Indiana, where the right-to-work law took effect last March, unionization dropped to 9.1 percent from 11.3 percent in 2011. Michigan enacted a similar law last month.
The bureau said public sector union membership long a labor stronghold fell to 35.9 percent in 2012, from 37 percent the previous year. The number of government workers in unions fell by 234,000, as many teachers, police officers and others lost their jobs. There were 7.3 million public employees in unions, compared with 7 million private sector workers.
William Spriggs, the AFL-CIOs chief economist, took a more upbeat approach to the report, noting that the bureau had found increased union membership in California, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas.
Its not a simple story that we dont have our act together, Spriggs said. I would be more concerned if union membership was down among Latinos and Asian-Americans, because thats a growing demographic, but its up.
He acknowledged that unions were doing poorly in manufacturing, retail and elsewhere in the private sector, which has been adding jobs even as union membership has continued a slide that has lasted for decades.
Our labor laws do not favor unions organizing, Spriggs said. It would be one thing to say were bellyaching, but the Republican Party is really being vindictive against unions, and employers campaign very hard against workers unionizing.
But Chaison said now would seem a good time for unions to attract workers.
Workers should be looking to unions because of job insecurity and stagnant wages, but theyre not.
In recent months, there has been an uptick in labor militancy as evidenced by recent protests at Wal-Marts across the nation and the one-day strike by fast-food workers in New York City in November. Both of those actions against nonunion employers protested what workers said were low wages and meager benefits.
Union officials acknowledge that it is often hard to persuade a majority of employees at a big-box store or other workplaces to vote to unionize.
Glenn Spencer, vice president of the Workforce Freedom Initiative of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Wednesdays report has some alarm bells ringing at union headquarters across Washington.
With workers no longer spending their entire career at one employer and often switching jobs, he said, workers no longer felt as attracted to unions.
Unions have fundamentally had a hard time conveying to workers what their value proposition is, how theyre really going to make workers lives better, Spencer said. And if you look at union contracts and their rigid work rules, there is no incentive for employers to embrace unions either.
According to the report, North Carolina has the lowest unionization rate, 2.9 percent, followed by Arkansas, at 3.2 percent. New York had the highest rate, 23.2 percent, with Alaska second, at 22.4 percent.
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Shared sacrifice was on display during the session of the West Virginia Legislature that ended recently.
But greed was there, too.
As you may know, times are tough in state government. Revenue is below expectations.
To balance the state budget for the year beginning July 1, Tomblin and lawmakers are having to take $147.5 million out of our cherished Rainy Day fund. It could have been worse but for some unusual moves legislators made.
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*Sits on the highest branch of an oak tree that stands at the centre of a huge open field.*
No one but myself and Sensei to post here unless asked.
Hello, Rasnall. I am quite honored that you would deem me a master, but I no longer have a Wood bio and Scary Yamato is but the sage of Wood and my sensei too. He deserves that title rather than me.
Nonetheless, may I ever so humbly know, why you wanted to learn Wood? What do you see in it that so fascinates you?
(Did you learn any Jutsus yet?)
I did ask SY...who said he would...but after a month of linking him I think he may be to busy, or he hates me lol
But it is an honour you would have me as a student.
Mokuton is an elemental favourite of mine. Suiton is my specialty and I see the same versatility and power in Mokuton in Suiton. Just the way it flows and fills the space. Also how it has the same "creative" quality as Suiton. I have nothing in this element.
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Naw, SY has a family and a job, so he's quite busy these days. :p
And no, the pleasure is mine. I feel terrible for forgetting this thread. @_@ I think I was linked several threads that day and then completely forgot to subscribe to yours'. >.<
You are correct about Mokuton. ^_^ It is indeed one of the most creative elements ever. I always enjoy telling people that creativity is the most important - it is not the jutsu that makes it OP, heh, it is the user! The limit is nothing but your own imagination!
So, onto the practicalities for now. What might be the strengths and weaknesses of Wood and how might you utilize these?
And also, may I inquire, where was SY at in the training or did he never start it?
Oh don't get me wrong I am not annoyed or anything. But maybe I would have proffered him to say no lol maybe he is to nice for his own good haha.
Well from the top of my head;
Mokuton would have an elemental weakness to Katon and Raiton. Katon I believe can burn wood if strong enough and Raitons cutting abilities would slice right through it. Also a few KG may have a "one up" on Mokuton such as Ice, Lava and Dust.
Mokuton would have the advantage against Suiton the same as Doton does, it can obstruct, channel and even re-direct its energy by taking advantage of its fluid state. Mokuton would (I feel) have an advantage over the Doton, as it can be used as a catalist for the Mokuton element and greatly work again an opponent.
Also as you mentioned, in our RP the Mokuton element is the most versatile and creative after Suiton. This grants the user with unlimited (power..haha had to) options to counter, defend and attack!
Btw this was all done from the top of my head and me sat downstairs while my wife watches Xfactor...so if it has made me stupid please forgive lol
Heh, well, for some weird reason, most senseis are "too busy" to even take 10 seconds to politely reply to an inquiry. >.> <.< >.>
LOL, no worries, excellent reply on everything but the fact that Wood is actually not weak to fire.
Actually, I was just about to go off that factor.
Say, you tossed an explosive tag onto a Wooden pillar and detonated it, then sent that pillar towards your opponent.
How might this empower your move?
I was a bit unsure about the Katon weakness so thats for clarifying.
I would say....
As the dislodged pillar of wood is sent towards my opponent I could use that as a "bridge" to build further a attack or defense etc. I could change that pillar into a cage or a torrent of spikes perhaps?
Wood is neutral to Fire. ^_^
Pinpoint on the pillar, but what about the effect of the explosive tag?
I would imagine a large amount of shrapnal would be sent flying in all directions. Splinters and shards of wood would be very damaging in short range.
No, no.
Think of the fire from the explosive tag and how it would affect the wood.
Originally Posted by Kiritsugu
No, no.
Think of the fire from the explosive tag and how it would affect the wood.
It would singe and scorch the wood. As it's a nutural element the energy expelled from the expolsion would ppush the wood forward. Perhaps even on fire! FIRE WOOD!
LOL, yes!
So, basically, if you explode an explosive tag on the Wood, it would catch Fire, and basically, strengthen your move - much like when you create a forest and then set everything around you on fire.
Anyways, Wood is boundless. Your only limit of using Wood is your own imagination. Heck, it's like so many customs in one, if you want to put it this way.
You can create up to 100 pillars if you like, ride them like a wave, etc. Actually...I'll go over some of my personal tactics later.
Let's start simple.
Proceed to do anything you want with Wood.
Be creative.
Sorry lol....but my answer's were correct. haha ^_^
*Yamato forms the needed handseals and forms a huge rampent to rise up under him taking him high into the air. Once at the top of the rampant Yamato moves to the edge and takes a step off, as he does a branch of wood emerges from the side of the rampent allowing yamato to stand on it. He then quickly dashes diagonally down the side of the rampent, branches of wood coming out of the rampent like steps as he moves forward and retreating from where he has come from, this allows him to run down the side swiftly from step to step. As he reaches the half way, Yamato forms a thin pole of wood that he jumps forward to catch. In one fluid motion he uses his momentum to swing on the pole to fly forward free falling to the ground now. As he is about to reach the ground, he forms a tunnel of wood to rise up from the ground (twice his size) that he falls into. This tunnel then bends to the right and carrys Yamato's momentum with it like a slide shooting him out the end. He slides across the ground coming to a halt*
Like this?
*claps at the brilliant performance!* Excellent, excellent! I could see that happening with the imagery! ^_^ It's like a mini playground that you created. LOL.
(Mokuton: Moku no Goku Rendan) - Wood Release: Wood Pole Combo
Rank: D
Type: Offensive
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 10
Damage points: 20
Description: The user creates a thin pole of wood from either the ground or himself. The pole itself can be used as a hand to hand weapon to strike opponents or as a support tool.
Anyways, grow four kunais in your hands and target my clone with them. Treat them like a regular kunai in fact.
Actually going to derive into Ninjutsu a bit here. In what ways can someone use a kunai?
*Yamato holds his right hand out infront of him with his palm facing the sky. He focuses in his minds eye, the image of a kunai and begins to form one of wood in his hand. Taking note of the position of all of the clones, Rasnall quickly throws the wood kunai in his hand at the first clone while forming three move and throwing them, sweeping from left to right.*
Kunai's are a useful ninja tool. Most proporties resemble the knife (sharp, small, tipped) but has been created with a much greater aerodynamic design, which allows them to be thrown as projectiles with great accuracy and power. They can have other elements added to them to increase their speed, power etc but wood kunai's could be set on fire for added effort.
Excellent, and speaking aerodynamic designs, Shurikens are more suited for that, actually.
So, one more important thing about kunais.
What kinds of things can you attach to the top of it, the hole that has been provided?
Finally, if you were locked in close combat with your opponent and you had a kunai, where would you strike for instant death?
Oh ye of course :sy: You can attach explovise tags! BOOM haha
If I was using a Kunai in CQC the neck or spine would be the vital spot.
Last edited by Rasnall; 12-05-2012 at 06:20 PM.
Anything else besides explosive tags?
And good, good, vital spots for instant deaths.
Try slipping a kunai in between the ribs for the heart too.
Erm...well I guess you add different types of tags, ones that uses smoke, poison etc
You can also channel an element into it to increase it's power and speed. Raiton is usually the best choice as it will cover the kunai, but Futon can greatly increase these things also.
What of Smoke and Flash bombs?
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As more details unfold in the explosions during the Boston Marathon, it can be difficult for children to process what is happening.
Judy Swift's students at North Woods International Elementary school in La Crosse wanted to start class off a little differently.
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She said tragedies like the one in Boston affect every child differently, and it's important for adults to be supportive and listen to what kids have to say.
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- Recent deep Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 imaging suggests that a majority of compact quiescent massive galaxies at z ~ 2 may contain disks. To investigate this claim, we have compared the ellipticity distribution of 31 carefully selected high-redshift massive quiescent compact galaxies to a set of mass-selected ellipticity and Sérsic index distributions obtained from two-dimensional structural fits to ~40, 000 nearby galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A Kolmogorov-Smirnov test shows that the distribution of ellipticities for the high-redshift galaxies is consistent with the ellipticity distribution of a similarly chosen sample of massive early-type galaxies. However, the distribution of Sérsic indices for the high-redshift sample is inconsistent with that of local early-type galaxies, and instead resembles that of local disk-dominated populations. The mismatch between the properties of high-redshift compact galaxies and those of both local early-type and disk-dominated systems leads us to conclude that the basic structures of high-redshift compact galaxies probably do not closely resemble those of any single local galaxy population. Any galaxy population analog to the high-redshift compact galaxies that exists at the current epoch is either a mix of different types of galaxies, or possibly a unique class of objects on their own.
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SG Warburg's fate shows why UBS shouldn't spin off its investment bank
Few, if any, banking brands have enjoyed the same kind of afterlife as SG Warburg. Nineteen years after being bought by Swiss Bank Corporation, 17 years after being subsumed into UBS and more than 10 years after being finally consigned to the history books, the fabled Warburg name still crops up regularly in speculation about the Swiss bank.
In a note sent to clients last month, Chris Wheeler, an analyst at Mediobanca, posited that UBS might be "dusting off plans, we are sure they have, for disposing of the investment bank" and may consider reviving the SG Warburg brand.
This line of thinking was inspired by the increasingly hard line Swiss regulators are taking towards bank capital. The activist investor Knight Vinke started agitating for UBS to split its investment bank from its wealth management and Swiss banking business last year. UBS's results this week may provide another opportunity for the arguments and theories to be aired.
But spin-out or no spin-out, why is the SG Warburg name even entering the discussion? How does a brand that has not graced a business card or an office building for over a decade still hold such allure? And to what extent can the firm's tale inform future strategic decisions?
Those who study the history of SG Warburg are likely to conclude that separating UBS's investment bank from its wealth and asset management operation would actually be a very bad idea (especially for the investment bank).
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SG Warburg is often described as the Goldman Sachs of its era. Certainly it was the leading investment bank in the world at one time and pioneered such innovations as the Eurobond and the hostile takeover. But comparisons with any modern bank are bound to miss the mark: part of SG Warburg's enduring appeal is that it has come to epitomise a now long-lost way of doing business.
SG Warburg was founded by Siegmund Warburg and Henry Grunfeld, German Jews who had fled the rise of Hitler in the 1930s and settled in the UK, building a firm of "merchant adventurers", in the words of the former. Its cosmopolitan and buccaneering spirit was personified by the likes of Herman van der Wyck, the Dutch baron who nurtured Warburg's lucrative relationship with Indonesia, a former colony of the Netherlands.
In the amateurish and clubby atmosphere of the City of London in the 1950s, 1960s and even 1970s, SG Warburg stood out for its diligence and professionalism. Sometimes this could border on the fanatical.
Senior bankers who started their careers at the merchant bank all remember the focus on correct grammar, punctuation and spelling. In a 2010 Financial Times article, historian Niall Ferguson recounted the story of Siegmund Warburg phoning the home of a junior banker to discuss a misplaced comma in a note the latter had written. It was Christmas Day.
Part of people's current fascination with SG Warburg stems from the fact that its demise in the 1990s more or less coincided with the start of the drive towards building global banking behemoths. Now that the financial crisis has halted – and, arguably, even reversed – that trend, the new business models being forged, especially those that rely on increased specialisation, are reviving memories of the past.
UBS's own retreat from certain fixed-income trading businesses to focus on equities and advisory banking could, at least superficially, be viewed as a partial return to SG Warburg's merchant banking and stockbroking roots.
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But SG Warburg ultimately failed to make that business model work. Siegmund Warburg himself recognised the problem as early as the late 1970s. In notes to colleagues he simultaneously bemoaned that his firm had "grown too much", which made "the various parts of the firm less and less controllable", and also that the merchant bank was finding it increasingly hard to compete with universal banks.
Various factors contributed to SG Warburg's demise. But it was this central conflict that ultimately proved to be irresolvable. Modern banks are still struggling to answer the same question – where is the line between too big and not big enough? And it is one that UBS's investment bank will have to answer, regardless of what it is called.
Nor should it be forgotten that many ex-Warburgers attribute the firm's failure to its founder's inability to recognise the importance of its asset management business. Siegmund Warburg famously described asset management as mere "share-pushing" and the business, which became Mercury Asset Management, was partially listed in the late 1980s. The effect was that SG Warburg voluntarily jettisoned a potential source of stability just as the turmoil following the Big Bank deregulations was really kicking in.
SG Warburg had a similar model to Lazard and Rothschild – combining both corporate advisory with asset management. But Lazard and Rothschild understood and nurtured their buyside businesses; SG Warburg spun its out. The upshot: the Lazard and Rothschild names have survived and thrived; SG Warburg can be found only in the history books.
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An 18 century chateau in southwestern France was demolished after workers mistakenly took it down instead of a small building on the same estate. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
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Landfills aren't the answerMarch 21,2013
I applaud Secretary Markowitz and the Agency of Natural Resources for their decision to deny recertification of the Moretown Landfill. This decision is a necessary step toward sustainable materials management and says that there are consequences for polluters breaking the law.
At Toxics Action Center we believe that everyone has the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water and live in sustainable communities. Through its noxious odors and groundwater contamination, the Moretown Landfill stands directly in the way of these rights. Halting this polluting operation was the right decision for the health of the community and the future of Vermont.
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Fraser Statement on Groundwater Ruling
"I applaud the Texas Supreme Court's unanimous ruling that landowners own the groundwater in place as part of their land. This ruling affirms the intent of and also references SB 332 which I authored and passed in 2011.
"The right to own and produce groundwater from beneath your land is one of the most basic of all property rights. By today's ruling the current court affirmed that landowners own the groundwater below their land and the right is constitutionally protected. The decision today went a step further by saying groundwater cannot be taken without adequate compensation.
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Some days, I find myself wondering if I'm playing the same game as other people.
Whatever you might be focussing on right now; whether you're going insane over Dailies or trying to be first with Tier content or simply seeing how many of Item X you can farm in an hour... its your choice for a reason. Many of those motivations will be game related, but many more will be dictated from elsewhere. It is a difficult task sometimes to balance everything, as I am sure many of you know. I could at this point go into a long an detailed discussion about this but a) I've done it already and b) there's really no point because you already know how this works. The fact is, your enjoyment of any experience is going to be limited by your current mood. Don't play angry kids, and if you decide to use the game as an excuse for your ire... ^^
I try and be a Good GM (TM) wherever I can but it's hard work when everyone has their own personal set of priorities. In the end therefore I am faffing a lot, whilst at the same time getting stuff ready for the Serious Business. I have my Flask Alchemist ready to maximise Lotus usage. I have a maxxed JC-er whose trying to learn as many recipes as possible. I have a couple of stacks of Normal Banquets in the Bank ready to feed people who start their progression in 10 mans, whenever that may be. Eventually, enough people will be in a position for us to try the End Game and we'll be off, but until then... well, you need to have a sense of proportion. Pushing people to get ready in an environment where most of them log on as a pleasure is never a good idea. I learnt that to my cost a long time ago.
A lot of people spent quite a lot of time making this game for you to enjoy. Don't blame them if you're not, unless you can prove its their fault. Don't spend hours moaning unless you're willing to be both constructive and impassive. It is always the easy option to accuse without qualification, after all. Taking the time to question WHY something has been done the way it has is more complicated and inevitably more time consuming. It can also cause us to have to take a cold, hard look at ourselves in the process, and that is often a symptom of the bigger problem that we alluded to back in paragraph one and which I'm being dragged back towards with a saddening inevitability. The bottom line is simple: if you want to keep playing and you don't like what you're being asked to do, something has to give. You can either choose to blame Blizzard, the Conservative Party, Simon Cowell or whoever your personal figure of hatred might be and move on or simply just accept the fact that, EVERY TIME A NEW EXPANSION COMES STUFF CHANGES FOREVER. I can't believe anyone really wants to go back to Cataclysm as a benchmark, but I heard someone say they missed the way things were today. Each to their own.
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Brisk breezes blowing inland from the lake at Camp Keowa within the Ten Mile River Scout Camp in Narrowsburg meshed magically with a performance of "Inuksuit," featuring more than 30 musicians playing a variety of rhythm and sound instruments. The John Luther Adams piece is designed to be played outdoors to immerse listeners in a sensory experience of the natural world, combined with human-generated sounds.
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Winamp problems, Double Genres and Discovers
I recently installed Winamp for my S-Series Walkman and it was working great for the past couple of weeks. Now all of a sudden it's duplicating songs from my walkman to my computer and doing a whole bunch of other problems
Here is a list of the problems I am encountering.
- When I disconnect my walkman and check the genres, more than 1 of the same genre pops up. I tried to manually make sure that they are the same by typing them myself but it doesn't work.
- When I try to import some songs I get a error "8ooozed" or some crazy lettering this only happens to some songs and not all, all my songs are in the correct format.
- Now when I plug in my walkman altogether it shows my playlists under the WALKMAN list, but when I click on the walkman itself I can not see the full music contents, it's just blank. I know my music is there, because it's there I just can't see it. I can't physically go in there and modify it.
I already tried to uninstall and re-install Winamp, I also tried to do it in the library itself, it's just a matter of the library on my walkman to reveal itself.
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This is why I don't use any programs to put music on any of my players.
You'll have to use Winamp to view the songs on the Walkman. Whatever program you used to transfer to the player, that's what you'll have to use to view anything on it.
I'd recommend just putting everything in folders and dragging them onto the player itself through Windows. It takes the same amount of time and you don't have to worry about anything else.
As for the error code, without seeing the entirety of it, I have no idea what that's about.
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I tried to do that and I had crazy genres of chinese characters and I couldn't edit them in anyway. I had more problems doing it the manual way then the winamp way. However the next time I see the error I will post it.
I have always had issues with WinAmp and Sony Players. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I will not go into the long list of this I have done in the Options menu because you will not benefit from them because I can't explain concisely the things I have done.
As much as I rag on iTunes. It is what I use to transfer music to my Walkmans with "Content Transfer" Sony App. You have to open iTunes then open Content Transfer. The it is a matter of Highlighting in iTunes what you want on your Walkman and Drag the selection on to Content Transfer and C.T does the rest. Easy as pie.
Can you give an idea of what you did, maybe I can learn as I go. Any help you can give would be nice.
Why do I have double genres on my walkman?
But on the media players (Winamp, MediaMonkey, iTunes) it shows as one genre?
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If I had to guess it may be a tagging issue.
I have one Sony I manage in MTP with nothing more than drag and drop and never have any tagging oddities. You don't say how the files were created or what software was used to tag them. I you examine the files before you put them on the player with foobar2000's file integrity verifier it will let you know if you have multiple tags. You can also use it's Properties menu to see if the files actually have multiple tags.
Instead of creating a new thread it's better to bump your existing thread whenever you have new information or questions. If the direction of the thread changes and you would like the the thread's title to show that you can edit the title in the Go Advanced options in the Edit menu.
That way any helpful information won't be spread across multiple threads. It also allows anyone that might have a suggestion to see what's been tried already.
You can also use Mp3Tag and it's extended tags menu pane to take a close look at the tags. If more than one application has tagged them you may find anything in them. The same goes for a poor tagging app or ripper. I've seen some of the oddest things caused by the way Windows Media Player tags files.
You can also try putting the player in MSC mode and checking the disk for errors using Windows disk checker in the drive properties context menu. I don't know if that would cause something as specific as just bad genre tags but it can't hurt to check.
I haven't set up sync with Winamp in the last couple years. It seemed much too complex for just adding or deleting files and creating playlists. I did use it for creating playlists from files I added using drag and drop and used it to move enough files to be sure I didn't want to continue.
When you are trying to straighten something like this you will probably need to be patient and be prepared to load the player more than once. There may be a fair amount of work discovering what the problem is and providing detailed information helps with that.
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