• Updating the install instructions to be simpler and more compatible.
• The forum selection list is now hidden by javascript if/when the all forums checkbox is checked.
• Adding a record of when an advertisement was created viewable in the ACP (this will say N/A for ads created before updating to 1.0.4).
• Adding the option to display ads until a certain date or for a certain number of days.
• Adding the option to save note(s) along with the advertisement which are visible in the ACP.

The language files have been updated, so any translations will need to be redone. Old translation packages are available here for those who want to re-do them:
http://svn.lithiumstudios.org/EXreactio ... nslations/

How To Write A Petition

Launching a Successful Petitioning Campaign:

There are a number of differing reasons why an individual may feel the need to launch a petitioning campaign, but more often than not, they are unable to identify a starting point in the process. Given the right resources and knowledge, a petition can be an excellent tool for change. The successfulness of such a campaign is dependant on three key steps, those being the planning and development stage, implementation stage, and the execution stage. In this article we will focus on each of these three steps to develop a plan which, if followed, will help to ensure the success of your campaigning.

As is essential with most formal tasks these days, petitioning requires a certain amount of planning to account for all of the aspects of a petition that need to be brought together to complete a successful operation. In the diagram below, we show you the three components of the planning stage – the three things you will need to make a decision on before proceeding to step two, as well as the possible choices for each.


What we see here are three crucial factors that will affect the effectiveness of the petition. Your planning and preparation should focus on each of these. If you have more than one organiser or volunteer working on this campaign, be sure to form a solid plan for each of these people to refer to, should any confusions or questions arise in due course. By thinking ahead, you wont be left having to reflect on hindsight should something go wrong unexpectedly. Generally, the same planning stages you would employ when creating a corporate report or publication, formal presentation, or official document, can also be applied to a petition. That’s because a petition technically is an official document.

Moving on to the second of our three necessary considerations any petition should be given. The implementation stage is all...

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Creators Syndicate - Phelps Warned Not to Lick Medals

China's impressive haul of gold medals at the Beijing Olympics was tarnished somewhat today when it was revealed that "abnormally high levels of lead" were found in the first-place medallions.

This is another test post.

In my spare time, I've been attempting to create a Myspace Clone style for the wonderful Blog MOD.
Aside from the usual kinks of converting a style from one platform to another, I've run into a lot of crap thanks to the remarkably horrid code of Myspace -- whoever they hired for a designer should be shot.

Messy tables, messy Javascript, messy CSS, messy everything -- it is just a straight out nightmare trying to work this shit, especially considering I'm modifying it so that it's geared to display blogs and not display a pretentious about me section.

This should be way, way easier than it is, but alas it isnt.

Luckily though at this point there are still improvements I've been able to make without ruining user CSS support -- first off, since I'm compressing all these useless CSS files into one, removing just about all of the Javascript, and removing a bunch of IE6 conditional statements, pages should load faster, even though the markup is still, unavoidably, utter crap. Secondly, I'm putting User CSS in the head tag, so no ugly flash of butt ugly content will be present, thankfully.

I also made a Virb-esque make-your-own style, however that is geared specifically for a site I've been doing up and thus wont be released, looks cool though.