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Personal ScrumPosted: April 10, 2011 Filed under: Agile, Scrum | Tags: Agile Methodology, EE616, Personal Scrum, Personal Scrum Definition, Scrum 8 Comments
If you've been following my blog, you know that I have been using an adaptation of Scrum for a one-person team to manage my graduate project. I (and others) call this "Personal Scrum." The semester-long experience was very positive. The Personal Scrum methodology was an excellent tool to get the work done.
Personal Scrum Definition:
Personal Scrum is an Agile methodology that adapts and applies Scrum practices to one-person projects. It promotes personal productivity through observation, adaptation, progressive elaboration, prioritizing and sizing work, and time-boxing.
Personal Scrum vs. Scrum:
Let's compare aspects of Scrum as defined by the Scrum Alliance to those of Personal Scrum.
Scrum's 3 Roles:
A Scrum team has three roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Team Member. The Product Owner is responsible for the business value of the product and decides what is built. The Scrum Master is primarily a facilitator and enforcer of the Scrum rules. The Team is self-organizing and cross-functional. The Team decides how to build what the Product Owner wants and goes about doing it.
Obviously, since Personal Scrum is a methodology for one-person teams, one person must fulfill all three Scrum roles. This is not as difficult as it may sound, because Scrum's ceremonies typically focus on one role's responsibilities at a time.
Scrum's 4 Ceremonies:
The Scrum Alliance lists four ceremonies (think "group activities") used in Scrum: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives. Mysteriously missing from this list is Release Planning, perhaps because it is typically not a regularly scheduled event. Exactly what these ceremonies entails is beyond the scope of this blog post, but each of these ceremonies are reflected in some way in the Personal Scrum methodology. I used blog postings for sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospective. I tracked my daily work and release plans in Excel. It is important to observe and delineate these activities.
Scrum's 3 Artifacts:
The Scrum Alliance lists three artifacts used in Scrum: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Burndown Chart. Each of these artifacts are used in exactly the same manner in Personal Scrum.
My Experience:
- Initially, I thought I could accomplish way more in one semester than I was actually able to undertake. The Personal Scrum techniques helped me to focus on the most important work first. Velocity tracking and release planning helped me to identify early on that I was unlikely to finish all that I had started out to do. I was able to revise my goals and plan accordingly.
- I found that estimating work in terms of time is exceptionally hard, especially when you have no team members to help and few of your tasks are similar. I learned to expect my time estimates to be wrong.
- Estimating in story points is easy and effective.
- I tried one-week and two-week sprints. For me, one-week sprints were much more effective. One-week sprints have smaller scope. The shorter-term deadlines made the goals and tasks more salient. I found myself to be more diligent on the one-week sprints. The downside to one-week sprints is that you spend a greater percentage of your available time on planning and reporting; less time is available for actually doing the work.
- Burndown charts have to be done in terms of estimated hours of work accomplished rather than story points. One person is unlikely to finish more than a couple of user stories per one-week sprint. Burn down hours only when a task has been fully finished ("done done").
- Use story points to track velocity. Use velocity to do release planning. Release planning is a great way to project what you are likely to be able to accomplish by a certain date (the end of a semester for instance).
- Committing to posting your sprint plans, demonstrations, retrospectives, and burndown charts online is a great way to keep motivated and accountable. I found this to be an even greater source of motivation than having a faculty advisor. If you know your work is going to be visible in a very public way, you will be more likely to do your best work.
My Work:
The entire project has been chronicled in the materials below. To my knowledge, this is the first fully documented instance of a Personal Scrum project, and it is certainly the most open. My code has been released under the MIT License, and the Excel workbooks and blog posts are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
- Vision Statement
- Sprint #1
- Sprint #2
- Sprint #3
- Sprint #4
- Sprint #5
- Release #1
- Sprint #6
- Sprint #7
- Sprint #8
- Sprint #9
- Release #2
The Four Essential Product Owner QualitiesPosted: March 15, 2011 Filed under: Scrum | Tags: Agile Methodology, Product Owner, Scrum 7 Comments
InformedIt is imperative that the person in the Product Owner role have a firm understanding of the business processes and needs that are being addressed by the software to be built. A newbie to the business would not be a wise choice for the Product Owner role. A subject matter expert would be a better choice. A person that not only has intimate knowledge of the business but can also teach others well is necessary. The Product Owner has to be able to explain the business to the scrum team. Because the Product Owner is responsible for the project's return on investment, he or she needs to be well enough informed that they can judge the business value of each user story.
EmpoweredLike George Bush, the Product Owner must be the "decider," empowered to make the call when questions arise. The Product Owner is the one person on a Scrum project that gets to decide what is built (but not how it is built). One cannot hold a Product Owner responsible for a project's return on investment without also granting that person the authority to make decisions that impact the ROI. Furthermore, having one person designated to make decisions can greatly improve a project's velocity. If developers have to convene, address, and negotiate with some sort of council or project steering group each time a decision needs to be made, the scrum team will have difficulty removing roadblocks efficiently.
AvailableThe Product Owner role is a full-time job. The person serving in the role should be dedicated to the project. The Product Owner must be available to explain business concepts, processes, and needs to developers when questions come up. When decisions need to be made, the Product Owner must be ready to decide. When features need to be demonstrated and approved, the Product Owner must be available. Whenever a scrum team has to wait on Product Owner, the team's velocity is negatively affected and money/time is wasted.
PreparedBetween explaining, deciding, and approving, the Product Owner must be busy grooming the product backlog and release plan. Without a properly prepared backlog, a sprint planning meeting is a non-starter. An unprepared Product Owner can be the biggest source of delay to a scrum team. The Product Owner has an obligation to be ready prior to each sprint's planning meeting so that the team can begin the sprints on the right foot.
CrystalPosted: February 12, 2011 Filed under: Agile | Tags: Agile Methodology 1 Comment
A co-author of the "Manifesto for Agile Software Development"[1] and "The Declaration of Interdependence for Modern Management,"[2] Alistair Cockburn is a self-proclaimed "project witchdoctor and IT strategist"[3] who holds a PhD in methodology from the University of Oslo.[4] In the 1990s, Cockburn researched and interviewed software development teams in efforts to define IBM's methodology. The result is a family of lightweight, agile, project management methodologies he dubbed "Crystal".[5]
All of the Crystal methodologies can be described by a number of overarching themes. Crystal professes that no single methodology exists that is suitable for all projects. To put it more positively, different projects require different methodologies. Additionally, Crystal recognizes that the primary goal of a project is a successful delivery and that process is of only secondary importance. In light of these revelations, Crystal prescribes that one should use the leanest process necessary for the project to operate effectively. This family of methodologies places emphasis on people and communication, favoring the replacement of documentation with face-to-face interactions.[6] While people are the most important element in any project, they are also the most variable. Consequently, the Crystal methodologies are designed to be flexible and evolutionary.[7]
Crystal categorizes projects according to two primary characteristics. The first characteristic, criticality, refers to the severity of the consequences should the system fail. Criticality is described in four categories ranging from least to most critical: loss of comfort, loss of discretionary money, loss of essential money, and loss of life. The criticality of a system necessitates the level of safety measures required to ensure the system does not fail. The second characteristic, number of people involved, is measured by the size of the development team. The number of people involved in the project determines the amount of coordination needed for effective communication. When criticality is arranged along 4 segments of the y-axis and staff size along 7 segments of the x-axis, a grid (see below) is formed that can be used to select the appropriate methodology. The Crystal family is segmented into seven, color-designated methodologies by columns in the grid. These methodologies include, Clear, Yellow, Orange, Red, Magenta, Blue, etc. The criticality of the project determines the "hardness" of the particular methodology. Therefore, a 4 person project developing a life-critical system would use the Crystal Clear methodology with the highest level of safety measures (L6).[7]
In contrast to most methodologies, Crystal methodologies are described in terms of project properties rather than procedures. More colloquially, Crystal focuses on the ends rather than the means. Targeting properties is a more effective approach as any one set of procedures may not produce the desired properties in every project. Furthermore, there may be multiple, valid procedures which might achieve the properties for a single project. Crystal identifies seven properties of successful projects.
- Frequent Delivery
- Reflective Improvement
- Osmotic Communication
- Personal Safety
- Focus
- Easy Access to Expert Users
- Technical Environment with Automated Tests, Configuration Management, and Frequent Integration
Of these seven properties, the first three are common across the whole Crystal family of methodologies. "Frequent delivery" refers to the practice of iterative development in which the project is organized into a series of iterations of no more than four months at the end of which running, tested, and usable code is delivered to the users. Frequent deliveries facilitate rapid and regular feedback. The property of "reflective improvement" refers to the process by which the team regularly reflects over what is and is not working and adjusts accordingly by adding and/or subtracting elements from the project methodology. This property mitigates variations in people, technologies, and requirements by evolving the methodology to suit. The third most important property is "osmotic communication" which means that information flows readily and richly with little disruption of individuals' work. This kind of communication is commonly achieved through the co-location of team-members in the same room.[9]
By providing a framework of flexible methodologies, Crystal is an antidote to the one-size-fits-all approach to software engineering methodologies. Stressing a less-is-more philosophy that emphasizes effective communication over rigid processes and documentation, this family of methodologies puts the focus of projects back on the elements that contribute more directly to success. Allowing the methodology to evolve over time ensures that Crystal methodologies will not be rendered ineffective by changes in a project's environment. Overall, Cockburn's Crystal presents a refreshingly human-centric suite of methodologies.
[1] http://agilemanifesto.org/
[2] http://alistair.cockburn.us/The+declaration+of+interdependence+for+modern+management
[3] http://alistair.cockburn.us/
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_Cockburn
[5] http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1380616
[6] http://alistair.cockburn.us/Crystal+light+methods
[7] http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Crystal_Methods
[8] http://alistair.cockburn.us/Crystal+light+methods
[9] http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=345009


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A belated update to Transcending CSS (not an April Fools' joke)
I always vowed that I wouldn't update Transcending CSS, but there's always been something about that old book that disappointed me and now I have the chance to fix it.
And all that Malarkey
For over ten years our blog's been a popular destination for thousands of website designers and developers from all around the world.
I always vowed that I wouldn't update Transcending CSS, but there's always been something about that old book that disappointed me and now I have the chance to fix it.
The Guardian's Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent recently wrote about their struggles and strategy for dealing with Internet Explorer 8. People visiting my site using Internet Explorer 8 are few and far between these days, but those that do could be good customers, so with our redesign I wanted to make a real effort to give them a good experience.
Apple doesn't have what many of us would consider to be a fully responsive website, but that doesn't mean they don't sometimes use two of Ethan's ingredients; flexible media and CSS3 media queries, to improve the placement of some elements on an otherwise fixed page.
Exactly ten years ago today, on October 20th 2003, A List Apart published Doug Bowman's Sliding Doors of CSS.
I sometimes work with other designers helping them to translate their design atmosphere and wide screen layouts into responsive designs. Breaking down their designs into systems is big part of what I do. In practical terms that means working through what are sometimes dozens of static visuals to identify patterns of typography, use of colour and layouts, both smaller modules and whole page compositions. From these patterns I classify and identify elements and compose stylesheets based on them.
Following up on my M M M Madness post, here are two good links to more on CSS filters:
John Allsopp recreates iOS7's translucency and blur using CSS filters. I suspect we'll see a lot more of this design aesthetic on the web in the months to come.
Alex Danilo's presentation on CSS filters from Web Directions Code in Australia is well worth your time too.
My prediction? Designers are going to go CSS filter crazy over the next year.
While I was preparing the slides from my full day CSS3 For Responsive Web Design at Smashing Magazine, I got very excited by the new filters in CSS. (313 onwards in my slide deck.) These filters — not to be confused with those legacy, proprietary Microsoft filters — are now well on their way to becoming part of a standard.
I'm struggling to believe it quite frankly, but The CSS Zen Garden was planted ten years ago today. I don't think we should underestimate the importance of The CSS Zen Garden in the history of the web. Its influence still resonates today. Now it's back accepting submissions and making some of us feel very old.
My Responsive Web Design workshop at Smashing Magazine is getting closer and some tickets are still available. In the meantime, here are three useful new resources for responsive layout using CSS3:
An interesting media query mixin that also deals with legacy Internet Explorer. I need to play some more, but this looks promising as a better solution than mine for Rock Hammer.
The Stuff and Nonsense nutty boys header is pretty tall and I decided I wanted to reduce its height for small screens, such as phones, in landscape orientation. When I wrote the CSS to make this happen I made some nutty assumptions. In the spirit of sharing our mistakes:
We know that it's only web designers who habitually resize a browser window to see if a site's responsive. But why not reward their dedication with a little something special? Add this to your stylesheet:
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Not since the turn of the century, when we largely shifted from using CSS positioning to floats, has CSS layout been so interesting. Here are three great reads from just today that are all worth your time:
Jeremy is at An Event Apart in Atlanta, and reports on Eric Meyer's new talk, Strong Layout Systems in which Eric speaks about flexbox and grids, both new CSS modules that were created specifically to allow us to create layouts.
Coyer (who deserves a medal for the work he does ) weaves together old and new flexbox syntaxes for better browser support. Anything lower than or equal to Internet Explorer 9 is still tricky though, so you'll still need to get handy at designing around that problem.
Back at a conference, this time in Orlando, Zoe Mickley Gillenwater also spoke about CSS layout techniques including Grid Layout and Flexible Box Layout. Her slides are available on Slideshare, then check out her post as it's full of examples and resources.
PS: If you can remember either The Noodle Incident or Position Is Everything, it's past your bedtime.
Microsoft launches Windows 8 in just a few days, so now's a good time to turn our attention to Internet Explorer 10. Here are two links to help you get prepared:
Tweetbot for Mac Alpha is notable for a whole bunch of reasons I won't get into here. Instead, I found something notable about the CSS the Tapbots team used on the page for their alpha release.
File this one under gotchas.
I'm desktop browser testing a series of layout templates for a current project today. Everything was going really well until I encountered some files where my web fonts stubbornly refused to display in Firefox, but rendered perfectly in every other browser. Luckily I found the reason for the problem and a solution to it.
I've been reading Jonathon Snook's Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS book this week. (It's well written, practical and perfectly formatted for Kindle. I learned a lot and I'd highly recommend it.) In SMACSS, Jon recommends breaking down stylesheets into rules for:
He establishes a naming convention for these categories of styles. Jon says:
I like to use a prefix to differentiate between Layout, State, and Module Rules. For Layout, I use
layout-would work just as well. Using prefixes like
grid-also provide enough clarity to separate layout styles from other styles.
I like this idea a lot because, 1; I've had a fascination with naming conventions, and 2; I've long had a problem with mixing styles for layout with styles for 'atmosphere' (colour, texture and typography,) something we've all done for years.
To me, using classes makes sense when we need to 'classify' items such as modules on a page. They make sense for groups of styles in a theme too. But it doesn't make sense to me to use classes for the layout outline of a page, particularly when many times we add the elements they style purely for layout reasons and especially in a responsive context. It feels somehow messy.
Years ago, when oft-used browsers only supported element, class and id selectors, we didn't have much choice. Now that browsers from Internet Explorer 7 up have solid support for CSS attribute selectors, we can bind our styles to elements based on their attributes. That's why we've seen more and more people binding styles using ARIA role attributes. For example:

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[role="main"] {
/* styles */ }
Reading SMACSS got me thinking. Why not abstract layout styles even further than Jon suggested, by using HTML5's
data- attributes instead of classes. Something like:

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[data-layout="content"] {
/* styles */ }
Conceptually, this fully separates styles for layout from every aspect of atmosphere. Although I'm aware that there are no practical advantages to using
data-, to me it somehow feels cleaner.
I'm not 100% sure if this could be a legitimate use for
data-. What are the experts' opinion? I'd be interested in hearing if you've used this approach already and what you think might be the possible advantages and disadvantages?
Faruk Ate? in Opera Confirms WebKit Prefix Usage:
I'm left feeling that this is just Browser War II, and what grace we'd regained by switching to Feature Detection rather than UA sniffing will be lost once again as a result of these moves.
With some luck, things will just become better for the users of those browsers who will once more pretend to be someone they aren't, and us web authors aren't inconvenienced too much. Meanwhile, it is left—again—up to web authors to invent the tools to placate the browser vendors who gave us this mess in the first place.
I commend Opera for finally admitting — through their decision to adopt WebKit Prefixes — that their real motives are the corporate motives we always knew them to be. That they're not the standards champions they pretend to be. That they're prepared to break a fragile, but working standard for corporate gain.[1]
What their actions also tell us is that despite hiring some of the best minds in the business[2], their strategy of evangelists and 'web openers' has resoundingly failed to convince developers that Opera is relevant. If that wasn't the reality, they would have no need to adopt another platform vendor's prefixes.
What Opera forgets in its colossal arrogance, is that vendor specific prefixes were intended to give developers a choice to support a browser platform — or not.
We were never 'required' to include a full set of prefixes.
Excluding Opera didn't qualify as 'invalid.'
If I choose to exclude Opera (or Webkit or Mozilla or Microsoft,) that's my choice and my right.1. For the record, I don't have a problem with a profit motive, just hypocrisy. 2. I don't have a problem with individual Opera employees either (although many think I do). This isn't about them.
A lot's changed since I wrote the original '320 and Up' — my 'tiny screen first' responsive web design boilerplate — one year ago.
It's been almost three years since I launched, what most people thought of as the bat-shit crazy Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS stylesheet.
After pushing my redesign live yesterday, I've been asked a few times about why I pulled respond.js (and with it, CSS3 Media Query support for older versions on Internet Explorer) from the new site.
As Jeremy mentioned yesterday, just before An Event Apart in Seattle, I spent a few hours on a spot of guerrilla testing at an AT&T store. Specifically, I was looking at how Windows Phone 7's Internet Explorer browser handles 'responsive sites'.
Please use 320 and Up instead.
Making layouts responsive using CSS3 Media Queries are a big part of the work that I'm doing for the Hardboiled Web Design site in the run up to the book's launch.
Yesterday, Mike Davidson announced the sweeping redesign of msnbc.com article pages. The redesign is especially brave from a traditional news outlet business perspective as it emphasizes readability and enjoyment over page views. But I do have a minor gripe with its typography and set out to find a solution.
Yesterday Microsoft announced the third Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9. I've been using this preview for a while, testing how their newest browser stands up to the examples I've designed for Hardboiled Web Design.
Today, RIM unveiled its latest mobile browser. It runs WebKit making every mobile platform except one run that rendering engine. With that in mind, I'd like you to try this experiment.
Always an example of the best the web design industry has to offer, this year 24 ways, the advent calendar for web geeks, has its focus firmly set on moving your web design forward.
Writing this week about eating accessibility humble pie and using CSS attribute substring selectors, a comment by clever Craig Cook sent my imagination reeling.
We all make mistakes. Right? Particularly when it comes to accessibility. Often in the rush to ready a site for launch, we forget to check the details that can make a world of difference. That's what I did when I launched the latest For A Beautiful Web.
Changingman, a liquid three column CSS layout with a fixed positioned and width centre column, released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. (This entry was originally posted on 23rd November 2005 and has been updated in 2009.)
I'm busy working on the slide deck and example site files for our Advanced CSS Styling workshops in Birmingham, Newcastle (and Tokyo). I'm really excited about this new workshop format and wanted to share one of the example site pages.
Smashing Magazine published an excellent primer for CSS3 properties by Inayaili de Leon today which referenced a little of my work. I was pleased, but as today as gone on and I've watched the comments roll, my heart started to sink.
Could this be the day that I eat my words about CSS frameworks? I've been mean to them in the past, written harsh things. I once likened them to instant cake mixes in response to Jeff Croft's What's not to love about CSS frameworks?
I wanted to learn more about CSS attribute selectors.—This article was originally published on And All That Malarkey on February 20th, 2005.
How do you answer the Internet Explorer 6 question?
I've got a Honda CRV. It's eleven years old. It's rusty around the bonnet, the electric windows are sticky and the exhaust is noisy. That's OK. It's been reliable, hardly serviced and as I only drive it a few miles about twice a week, it does everything that I need it to do. I'll probably drive it until I can't drive it anymore.
The Internet Explorer team today posted details that IE8's Compatibility Mode (replicating IE7) will not render sites exactly as IE7 does.
A couple of weeks ago, Ryan Taylor interviewed me for the Boag World bodcast on the subject of Internet Explorer 8 and the state of CSS in browsers generally.
No they don't. As Jeremy Keith so kindly pointed out, it's a subject that I have been
banging on about for quite a while now.
It seems like a lifetime ago that I first sat down with a cup of tea and a bourbon biscuit and thought about the conventions that we use for naming HTML/XHTML id and class attribute values.
Who said that you can't teach an old rocker new tricks? At An Event Apart Chicago, it was Dan Cederholm's latest talk example, Color Transparency With RGBa that made me sit up and take notes.
I just cannot believe it has was three years ago almost to the day that I first published this. From the dusty Stuff and Nonsense archives: CSS: Specificity Wars.
I was lucky to be sent a preview copy of Rachel Andrew's soon-to-be-published book Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!, published by those nice chaps at SitePoint. I'll be writing a full review later this week, but as the book is largely (almost exclusively) devoted to CSS
display : table; properties, I couldn't wait to try out some of the techniques she advocates.
Want an easier way to re-style and optimize your pages to work better in Safari Touch (or Mobile Safari if you prefer) on the iPhone or iPod Touch? I did and now with a custom version of Allan Jardine's Conditional-CSS I have it. And you do too.
Back in April, I was booked by Carsonified to present a half-day workshop on Microformats as part of their Future Of Web Design London spectacular. So what have Microformats got to do with death rays?
Having been booked by Carsonified to host a full-day workshop on advanced CSS back in May, in the weeks leading up to the show I had a flash of inspiration. Why not combine one of my favourite topics with one of my favourite musicians?
My entry of last week, where I called for the current W3C CSS Working Group to be immediately disbanded, has generated some serious debate, and a few raised voices. I'm glad that is happening. Now, after a little more consideration, I thought I would outline some concrete proposals for how the CSS Working Group could change for the better.
Following Opera's action, today I am calling on Bert Bos, chairman of the CSS Working Group, and those higher up within the W3C including Sir Tim Berners Lee, to immediately disband the CSS Working Group in its current form. I am asking for immediate action to be taken on the formulation of a replacement CSS Working Group that will include new members who are not the representatives of browser vendors.
Over the past several weeks, I've been bombarded (in e-mail, in person, and over IM) with questions about instant cake mixes. It's completely understandable people would come to me with these questions.
If your Internet connection happens to lose a bit of CSS data, you get a mess on your screen.
I would prefer that clients save money for more valuable things than achieving pixel perfection.
How can the CSS Working Group give web designers, developers and visitors want they need?
To Chris Wilson and the IE7 team, I acknowlege the work that you have done thus far and I'm confident that IE7 will be everything that I expect it to be. Please don't let me down.
The one where Malarkey takes his clothes off.
The one where Malarkey sits with the Internet Explorer team at MIX06 to ask for a recommended answer to a common question.
If you can help out by checking across a range of pages and posting links to screenshots, I'll be unconditionally in your debt.
As with all good thrillers, I want to find out what will happen at the end.
A few weeks back in Cupertino, I saw Aaron explain how the specificity of CSS selectors is calculated in a way which I hadn't seen before. Then today I came across a knotty problem while building XHTML and CSS templates for a new project where two selectors behaved differently to how I expected and I realised that I had not completed my training.
Covering  attributes, attribute selectors and pseudo-elements. Scattered thoughts written during the 2005 Stuff and Nonsense design.
My CSS Zen Garden submission, unimaginatively titled 'Invasion of the Body Switchers,' has been accepted. Thanks Dave!
I've been trying to better optimise my CSS recently, and this has lead me to wonder where certain rules are best arranged.
I've been thinking about making a CSS Zen Garden entry for a little while now, but before I think about design, I wanted to understand the Garden's XHTML structure. I don't know if this has come up anywhere before, but it seemed sensible for me to make a graphic illustration of the XHTML file.
A recent dig into Mozilla's style-sheets and coding guidelines got me thinking more about the conventions that I use inside my CSS files, to make them more logical and easier to update.
While Internet Explorer's patchy support for W3C CSS can lead to hair-pulling frustrations, its CSS extensions offer designers and developers an extra set of tools which, it might be argued, have their rightful place.
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Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth has a long history with Metal Blade that goes back to their debut album, 'Once Sent from the Golden Hall'! After almost 20 years later, it's now time for a vinyl re-issue of this album, as well as 99's 'The Avenger'.Read More
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For a preview of 'Carpe Noctum', a live video of 'Aftermath' from the Aschaffenburg show can be viewed at metalblade.com/armoredsaint - where the new Metal Blade Records pre-order for Carpe Noctum has also been launched.Read More
Irish pagan metallers Primordial have announced the release of the first live album in the band's history, 'Gods to the Godless'. To hear the live version of 'Wield Lightning to Split the Sun', head over to NoCleanSinging.com nowRead More
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General Franco launched a propaganda campaign to try to counter a report by The Times that exposed the attack on Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, according to original documents.
George Steer, who was covering the war for the newspaper, revealed how the Nazi Luftwaffe Condor squadron reduced the Basque market town to rubble and unleashed a firestorm that killed 1,600 unarmed civilians.
Mr Steer's report outraged the world and inspired Picasso's masterpiece Guernica.
Thousands of original telegrams sent by General Franco to the Duke of Alba, the Nationalist Ambassador in London, are to go on show to the public


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features include a completely enclosed motor drive, a jog feature for easy unloading and polished 304 stainless steel construction for quick cleanup. The Leland Southwest Double Action Hydraulic Mixers are designed for 300- to 600-pound batch sizes. All models are USDA-approved, use UL-listed components and are made in the United States.
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Double Action describes the unique, counter-rotating paddle configuration of the Leland Southwest Double Action Mixers. Product is moved in a "figure eight" pattern through the mixer, effectively combining all components, even micro ingredients. The Double Action paddles work in unison: the "inner" paddle blades rotate inside the "outer" ribbon blades. All Leland Southwest Double Action mixing paddles rotate at less then 26 RPM. The Leland Southwest Double Action Mixer, in one and a half minutes, will extract enough protein from sausage, without smearing or raising the temperature of your product, to make stuffing a breeze. The Double Action Mixer was designed to effectively and efficiently extract protein from sausage for better bind, bite and yield.
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"...as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience."
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point.
HERE COMES HARRY: Just a day away from the release of the new Harry Potter movie and the stars out explaining what's going on in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The sixth movie in the series is being reviewed as a bit more soul-searching than its predecessors as the young actors who play the key roles grow up. The film opens in Toledo Wednesday and The Blade's Kirk Baird will have a review in that day's paper. (RL)
JACKSON REALITY SHOW: Here at Thin Slices we're trying to resist Slicing up the Michael Jackson saga as much as possible because it's just kind of sad and weird. But here's one from ABC News indicating that Joe Jackson was planning a family reality show. Like we said: sad and weird. (RL)
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First Daughter Weddings
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In anticipation for Chelsea Clinton's wedding this weekend we enjoyed taking a little trip through history to see other nuptials in which our presidents served not just as our commanders in chief, but also as the fathers of the bride. —Glo
Alice Lee Roosevelt, Feb. 17, 19062 of 8
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This Victorian-era celebutante enjoyed smoking ... in public! After flirting with men, sans chaperon, Teddy's daughter married Republican congressman Nicholas Longworth at the White House without bridesmaids — she didn't want to compete with anyone for attention.
Luci Johnson, Aug. 6, 19663 of 8
Time magazine described 19-year-old Luci's betrothed as such: "Without exception, her seven predecessors as White House brides took husbands who were mature, professionally established, wealthy, patrician, or all four. By contrast, Pat, 23, has a modest background and an uncharted future." Ouch! The marriage was annulled in 1979.
Lynda Bird Johnson, Dec. 9, 19674 of 8
A little more than a year after her younger sister got married, LBJ's eldest married Marine Capt. Chuck Robb in the East Room of the White House. Her husband went on to serve two Senate terms and become the governor of Virginia.
ON TRESSUGAR: Chelsea Clinton's Wedding
Tricia Nixon, June 12, 19715 of 8
Unlike her sister, who got married while dad was still president-elect, Tricia held off until her parents could host the event at the White House. In a dress that would wow today, Tricia married a law student with liberal leanings (Ralph Nader received an invite). Alice Lee Roosevelt, who married at the White House 65 years before, also attended the event!
Amy Carter, Sept. 1, 19966 of 8
The low-key bride baked her own cake and only told her family of her wedding plans a couple months in advance. The simple and sweet wedding, described as "homespun" by the New York Times, took place at the Carters' home.
ON TRESSUGAR: More Couples Waiting To Marry
Caroline Kennedy, July 19, 19867 of 8
The 28-year-old Kennedy heir married much older Edwin Arthur Schlossberg, who was 41 at the time. Mom Jackie planned the event, Senator Ted walked her down the aisle, and Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger was her matron of honor.
ON TRESSUGAR: Marriage Myths
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If Amy Carter's wedding was home-spun, Jenna's was down-home. The Texan skipped the White House because she wanted something more outdoorsy and less glamorous when she married Henry Hager. When asked about the wedding, the president said, "We're mighty blessed."


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Gun Digest Editors' Picks
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Love Gocks, their look and performance? Then here is the perfect addition to your personal shrine to one of the world's most popular handguns.
Editor's Pick: Gun Digest 68th Annual Edition
Gun Digest's most recent edition gives you the ins and outs on everything from handgun cartridges to hog hunting rifles. This is a must-have for firearms aficionados.
Editor's Pick: Glock Deconstructed
Top competitive shooter Patrick Sweeney breaks down the how's and why's in Glock's rise to one of the world's most renown handguns.
Editor's Pick: Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to Handgun Marksmanship
It's a difficult task to put into book form something so visually oriented as the fine points of correct grip, sight alignment, holster draw, and other necessary fundamentals. But Lessler does just that, with an exacting, fastidious manner of writing that fully explains what you need to know to perfect your skills with pistol...
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Only answer is the book's solution is wrong.
P(red rolls 1,2,3 or sum=11) = P(red rolls 1,2,3)+P(sum=11)-P(red rolls 1,2,3 and sum=11) = 3/6+2/36-0= 20/36 = 5/9
in a dice game, the player independently rolls a fair red die and a fair green die. the player wins if and only if red die shows 1,2 or 3 or if the total on the 2 dice is 11 . Prob(win)=?
In the solution, it says there are 6 ways to get a 1 on the red die, same for 2 or 3...I don't understand. I think it should only have 1 way to get 1 or 2 or 3 because the prob ( #=1) =1/6
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The nation's consensus top overall prospect in the 2013 class, defensive end Robert Nkemdiche (Loganville, Ga.), has had a long, fascinating recruitment.
The former Clemson commit had a change of mind shortly after his decision and appears to be close to deciding on a new team with national signing day closing in.
Nkemdiche is big, fast, athletic and immensely talented, which explains why every team in the country would be beyond thrilled to have him. Some fascinating situations make his recruitment that much more complicated, and family could indeed play a major role.
To figure out where he might commit, we turn to the Las Vegas-style odds board for answers.


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LIBERTY, NY — The Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Sullivan County Caregiver Resource Center (CRC) will hold a free web lecture, "Hospital to Home: Preparations for Seniors," on Wednesday, April 9 from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Gerald J. Skoda Extension Education Center. This lecture will help caregivers avoid unnecessary readmissions through preparations of the home and family for the older adult's return. Crucial aspects on what to expect the first day and first month after they return home will also be detailed. Coffee will be available.
Pre-registration is appreciated by April 7. Call 845/292-6180 or email email@example.com [2].


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Conservation Status
Few mammal species are farther from extinction than O. cuniculus. Not only is it valuable to humans as a domestic and game animal, but wild populations have established themselves successfully in many parts of the world. However, one variety of O. cuniculus found on islands in the Atlantic and Mediterranean may be at risk. (Wilson & Reeder, 1993)
US Federal List: no special status
CITES: no special status
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DENVER — Facing the Manning brothers is a difficult enough task with a complete complement of healthy defensive backs.
For the second time this season, the Cleveland Browns were at less than full strength against a member of the NFL's First Family of quarterbacks, and were punished again. Peyton Manning feasted on a depleted secondary that began yesterday without two safeties and lost cornerback Sheldon Brown to a second-quarter concussion en route to a 34-12 Denver victory.


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Regular readers of this blog and perhaps the Radcom column may remember that Mark, G4MEM and I collaborated on producing some contest calendars for mobile phones.
Yesterday, I received a delightful e-mail from Tom, G3HGE;
"Many thanks for your invaluable item on Contest Calendars On Your Mobile Or
The Web . This has got to be the best thing since sliced bread and beats CW
SKIMMER hands down .
At a touch , one can see the exact time to switch off , lock the shack door
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a look at THOSE DAMNED CONTESTERS HAVE RUINED HAM RADIO , Oh dear !! .
It used to be such a nice uncomplicated HOBBY ."
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Using Stimulation To Your Advantage
Contributing Monkie Brendan Brazier
Topics of Interest Brendan Brazier, Stimulation, Thrive Diet
Published on April 12, 2010
Section Fitness/Diet
Photographer: G Monkie (CC)
Unexpectedly hearing a loud noise when the room is quiet, you might feel a sudden rush of energy. This is the most basic form of stimulation, left over from your primal survival mechanism. Your body assumes the loud noise is a threat and prepares you for action by engaging the adrenal glands to draw more energy.
In reaction to the first onset of stimulation — a form of stress — we gain energy. We become more alert, our strength can increase and we have the ability to process information more quickly and react faster. Summoning its hormonal resources to momentarily improve strength and reaction time, the body would have likely improved its odds of getting out of a prehistoric bind. Early man would certainly have benefited from greater strength and quicker reaction time if confronted by a predatory animal.
Of course, we aren't confronted with those types of threats today. But we face a host of modern-day ones that evoke the same hormonal response. Stress of any kind — be it too much work, family-related concerns, poor diet, breathing impure air, constantly having to be "on", and not enough down time — put strain on the adrenal glands.


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Galaxies in Collision
Space Science News home
Galaxies in Collision European scientists use the Hubble
Space Telescope to catch merging galaxies in the act
July 15, 1999: Exciting new images of
more than a dozen very distant colliding galaxies have been
obtained by a European-led team of astronomers using the
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. These colliding objects are
part of a large concentration of galaxies, a galaxy cluster.
Though collisions have been observed in other clusters, this
particular cluster displays by far the largest number ever seen.
To astronomers, the finding indicates that, at least in some cases,
big massive galaxies form through collisions between smaller ones.
Right: This galaxy cluster, called MS1054-03, is 8 billion light-years away -- one of the most distant known groups of galaxies. Although hundreds of galaxies appear in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, a European-led team of astronomers has studied in detail 81 galaxies that certainly belong to the cluster, 13 of which are remnants of recent collisions or pairs of colliding galaxies. This is by far the largest number of colliding galaxies ever found in a cluster.
The Hubble Space Telescope studied 81 galaxies in the galaxy cluster MS1054-03, 13 of which are remnants of recent collisions or pairs of colliding galaxies. The 10-meter W.M. Keck Telescope was used to select these 81 cluster galaxies.
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"It has been a real surprise," says team leader Pieter van Dokkum, from Groningen and Leiden universities (The Netherlands). "Collisions had never been observed before at this frequency. Many of the collisions involve very massive galaxies, and the end result will be even more massive galaxies."
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"The Hubble image shows the paired galaxies very close together, with distorted morphologies," explains Marijn Franx, from the University of Leiden. "We can even see streams of stars being pulled out of the galaxies."
These new images from the Hubble Space Telescope will appear in the August 1 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters. To the authors the data strongly support a Big Bang model prediction that says that large galaxies were formed from smaller ones in many generations of mergers. It contradicts the idea that there was, in the past, a kind of 'galaxy boom' event in which all big massive galaxies were born at the same time.
Right: A gallery of HST images showing distant galaxies in various stages of collision. The merging galaxies have weird, distorted shapes unlike normal spiral or elliptical galaxies. Some show streams of stars apparently being pulled from one galaxy into another. All of the galaxy pairs shown here are located in a larger grouping of galaxies known as MS1054-03.
As Franx states, "the evidence for the theories of galaxy formation through collisions had been strong, but circumstantial. Here we finally see a large number of galaxies caught in the act. If observed in other distant clusters, it would represent a general confirmation for a crucial aspect of our galaxy formation theories."
Collisions are much rarer today than they were in the past, but not impossible. Our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, is currently "eating up" several small satellite galaxies. Within 5 to 10 billion years -- some computer simulations show -- the Milky Way may collide with the Andromeda galaxy, and the result would be an elliptical galaxy.
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My definition of a plug, nigga (get money, alright)
My definition of a plug, nigga (drug life)
My definition of a plug, nigga (drug life)
[Verse 1]
Come getcha what you want
Maybe front you one
If you cool, front you two
Let you do what you do
Ain't no drugs without a plug
That's like a plate without the grub
Like a hood without the fuzz
Like a nose without the snub
Nothin' snappin', nothin' poppin'
No connect, there ain't no profit
Damn dog, I whipped it hard
Can't go back and soften it
It's a drought, nothin' 'round
Not a pound, lookin' awful
Not a brick, not a nick
Clack, click, it's time for office
Now my fool just threw me four
Got some good news for my folk
Took that trip, hit that road
Dirty, far from fifty-four
I'm a hustler
Definition of a thug nigga
Drug life
And this my definition of a plug, nigga…
[Verse 2]
My definition of a plug is a Mexican
Put the work in the gas tank, and ship it in
Plugs, nigga, there's different type of plugs
'Cause I'm a plug myself
Ten brick minimum, I was really dealin' em
Plug gold chains, gold watches
I'm a dope boy, I am
I get that second, pass it off to Old Boy
Definition of a bitch is a rat, nigga
So never, ever, ever do that, nigga
House smellin' like yayo
Taste that residue
Got a million out the streets
Who'd of ever knew?
I'm talkin' UPS
The way it travel mint
I'm talkin' Fed Ex
To keep it 'round me
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The fuckin' definition, pussy nigga, I got pigeons
In the kitchen lookin' like I scaled 1000 fishes
Junkies itching, bitchin'
Ain't seen a decent rock in months
Now they back to rollin' reefer
Picture crackheads crackin' blunts
This the dope game, baby
Got a whole thing with me
Dope dollars
No bloodstains came with it
Time's money
Whip a eighth in eight minutes
The white team winnin'
Won a game in eight innings
They know I throw narcota
So they knock on my door harder
Got a starter kit
'Bout to start another Carter
I'm a hustler
Definition of a thug nigga
Drug life
And this my definition of a plug, nigga…
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This chapter provides guidance and
instruction on the classification and assignment of returns
with international issues.
In selecting returns for examination,
consider the objectives of the International Enforcement
Program. Select returns that contain significant international
issues that are:
Likely to result in tax changes
Require examination to achieve
voluntary compliance by an identifiable group
General procedures in this handbook, and in
theLaw Enforcement Manual,are
applicable to international classifiers.
Generally, returns received for
classification for international potential will already have
been classified for domestic issues. The international
examiner, subject to area instructions to the contrary, will
not screen returns for domestic issues.
Returns accepted as filed for
international features during centralized classification
that have not been previously classified for domestic issues
will be routed through regular classification at the service
Returns selected for international
features will be routed to the PSP Support Manager in the
area office. These returns will be filed in Central Files,
Priority Suspense Files, or assigned to groups following
area procedures.
Review the attached Form 5546 (Examination
Returns Charge-Out). This document contains
information that may be beneficial when deciding whether to
select or accept a return.
AIMS—Use of
Forms and Special Handling Notices Handbookhighlights
areas of the Form 5546 used for classification. It contains
a detailed explanation of all items on the Form 5546.
In classifying a return, if the classifier
determines the taxpayer is part of an identified LMSB
coordinated examination, transfer to the appropriate LMSB
International classifiers separate returns
into six categories:
Domestic issues not
classified—selected for International
Domestic issues not
classified—accepted for International
Accepted on classification for
domestic issues—selected for International
Accepted on classification for
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Transfers (show transferee area)
Classification stamps provided for
selected and accepted international returns are:
Returns not having international
potential are stamped as follows:
" International—Accepted
as Filed Referral Not Mandatory "
Returns having International
potential, or meeting mandatory selection criteria,
are stamped as follows:
" International—Selected
With returns meeting mandatory selection
criteria and/or selected for examination based on
international features, international classifiers will:
Affix AIMS status update labels to
Form 5348 (Examination
Stamp " International—Selected
" on the face of return.
For returns accepted
as filed during international
classification, classifiers will:
Affix AIMS status update label to
Form 5351 (Nonexamined
Place a red "B" in the
lower left-hand corner of labels if returns have a
Form 5713 attached.
Stamp returns:
" International—Accepted
as Filed Referral Not Mandatory "
Chief, Classification Section will ensure
Copies of Forms 5348 and 5351 are
forwarded to Regional Program Managers and Key
District Program Managers (DPM).
Selected cases, except returns with
tax havens, are updated to Project Code 090 before
forwarding to area PSP Support Managers.
Selected cases with tax havens are
updated to Project Code 091 before forwarding to area
PSP Support Managers.
Selected cases with foreign bank
accounts in tax haven countries are updated to Project
Code 155 before forwarding to area PSP Support
In situations when both Project
Codes 091 and 155 are applicable, Project Code 155
will be used.
Selected Form 1120F returns and Form
1040 returns with Form 2555 (Exemption
of, or Deduction from, Income Earned Abroad)
are updated to Project Code 162 before forwarding to
area PSP Support Managers. Project Code 162 takes
precedence over the project codes identified in (b),
(c) and (d) above.
Form 1120F returns are filed at the
Philadelphia Service Center. Returns with primary books and
records in a particular area will be transferred to the
service center servicing that area. The location of the
books and records is determined from the address in Question
D, page 1 of the Form 1120F return.
All returns with foreign addresses shown
in question D of the Form 1120F will be processed for
classification at the Philadelphia Service Center by
Assistant Commissioner (International), Office of
Compliance—Examination OP:I:C:E personnel.
Philadelphia Service Center will transmit
domestic address (question D, page 1) returns to the
respective service centers on Form 3210 showing:
" Expedite:
Forms 1120F—International Returns to be Classified
These returns are to be classified by
international examiners.
The returns selected for examination will
be updated to Project Code 162 before transmission to the
The Director, Compliance auditors will
screen all Form 1040 returns with Form 2555 first. Returns
identified for field examination with domestic addresses
will be transferred to the respective service centers by
Philadelphia Service Center.
Philadelphia Service Center will transmit
domestic address returns to the service centers on Form 3210
" Expedite:
Form 1040 with Form 2555—International Returns to be
Classified "
Besides the items shown on Form 8419 (International
Program Checksheet) for Form
1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return with Form 2555
consider the following factors when classifying these
Is the income from all foreign
sources reported on the U.S. income tax return?
Has the taxpayer used the proper
exchange rate for converting the foreign income?
Is there a Form 1116 (Computation
of Foreign Tax Credit—Individual, Fiduciary, or
Non-Resident Alien Individual) attached to
the return?
If Form 1116 is attached to the
return, determine if the credit claimed is at the
treaty rate or at the foreign country's statutory
rate. A citizen or resident claiming the treaty
benefit from a foreign country is limited to the
treaty rate as a foreign tax credit or deduction on
the tax return. Rev. Rul. 57–116 states in part that
the allowance of a credit for taxes paid to a foreign
country is limited to the tax that is a legal and
actual liability. Tax withheld at the source is merely
an advance collection of what may or may not be an
actual tax liability.
The Form 1120–FSC returns are filed at
the Philadelphia Service Center.
The Philadelphia Service Center will
transfer the returns to the service center that services the
area where the taxpayer's primary books and records are
located domestic address reflected on the tax return).
These returns will be transmitted on Form
3210 showing:
" Expedite:
Forms 1120–FSC—International Returns to be Classified
A copy of a valid Form 8279 (Election
to be Treated as an FSC or a Small FSC) must
accompany each transferred Form 1120–FSC return. A Form
1120–FSC return that does not have a valid election to be
treated as a FSC, should not be transmitted to a service
center for classification and should be treated as an
ineligible filer. See instructions for verifying that a
corporation is eligible to file Form 1120–FSC.
Chief, Classification Section at the
receiving service center will ensure that the Form
1120–FSC returns are classified by international
Every foreign corporation, whether a
resident or nonresident, which is subject to tax under
Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code must file a Form
1120F, regardless of whether it has taxable income or gross
income. If it has no gross income for the taxable year, it
is not required to complete the return schedules. However,
it must attach a statement to the return showing the nature
of any exclusions claimed and the amount of such exclusions
to the extent they are readily determinable.
A Form 1120F is similar to Form 1120 filed
by a U.S. corporation. The major difference is an additional
section on Form 1120F for U.S. source income not effectively
connected with a U.S. trade or business. Unlike a U.S.
corporation, which is required to include worldwide gross
income on Form 1120, a foreign corporation includes on Form
1120F only:
U.S. source income not effectively
connected with a U.S. trade or business (IRC 881)
Gross income effectively connected
with a U.S. trade or business, regardless of the
source (IRC 882)
Effectively connected income is income
generated from the active conduct of a trade or business in
the United States. During classification:
Review questions "A"
through "L" on page 1 and questions
"M" through "P" on page 5. Pay
particular attention to location of books and records,
type of business, and foreign country.
Foreign-sourced business profits are
taxable in the United States, if they are attributed
(effectively connected) to the U.S. business.
Check to see if interest, dividend,
or other passive type income is being reported as effectively
connected income (Section II of Form 1120F)
as opposed to not effectively
connected income (Section I of Form 1120F)
and, therefore, subject to tax at a flat rate with no
deduction allowed, particularly if the return is
showing a loss in Section II. Check the balance sheet
to see if there are investments that should be paying
interest or dividends.
Check foreign-sourced income that is
being excluded on Schedule M–1. Are deductions being
allocated to U.S. sourced and foreign sourced income?
Are the allocated deductions being excluded in
Schedule M–1?
Review IRC 864(c)(4) for the
definition of other types of income from sources
outside the United States
Review the definition in Reg. 1.864–2.
Note those activities that are not included in the general
definition of a trade or business. Review questions
"A" through "F" on page 1 of the tax
return and "M" through "P" on page 5.
Does the taxpayer meet the treaty definition of a trade or
business? Indications of a U.S. place of business are:
The return address
Rents being paid and deducted on
page 3
Property taxes paid and depreciation
schedule deductions
Salaried employees
Location of books and records
Treaty Benefits:
Check tax rates on income reported
on page 2, which is not effectively connected income.
If a treaty country is involved,
rates could be different.
Schedule M–1 or M–2:
If foreign sourced income or
tax-exempt income is excluded for tax purposes, are
there corresponding adjustments to deductions? Is
income excluded reasonable in relation to the type of
Are there any distributions that may
be subject to 1042 withholding?
1042 Liability:
Check Schedule M–2 for any
distributions that may be subject to withholding.
Is the taxpayer paying interest,
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that could be subject to withholding? Besides Schedule
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Home Office Expense or General and
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Review the method of allocating home
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Is the allocation made among U.S.
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Banks must report U.S. and foreign sourced
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Check treaty provisions if income is
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If income is excluded under the
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Check for computation of interest
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Check allocation of home office
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allocation to excluded income.
Computation of Reserves for Bad
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allowable percentage of eligible loans; eligible loans
at year end [Reg. 1.585(b) (4)]; loans applicable to
foreign sourced income for purposes of minimum tax
preference items; and write-offs.
Review items on page 1 and questions on
page 2 of Form 1120–FSC that relate to qualification
requirements under IRC 922.
Evaluate Schedules B, G, and P in an
attempt to learn whether appropriate costs and expenses were
properly allocated or apportioned in computing the FSCs
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LOS ANGELES (May 8, 2013) — On May 28, 1973 Trinity Broadcasting Network, America's most-watched faith channel, made television history when it launched its first station, a tiny UHF channel in Southern California airing a few hours of programming a night. Forty years later TBN stands as the nation's second largest television broadcast group and the world's largest religious broadcaster, with 24 distinct global networks and nearly 20,000 television and cable affiliates worldwide, broadcasting a broad range faith-and-family programming 24 hours a day.
TBN announced that it is wrapping up production on a nearly 200-page full-color pictorial history documenting the past 40 years of the network's monumental growth, an era that parallels the increasing influence of Christian television around the world.
"In many ways TBN's development mirrors the unique story of Christian television, with all the trials and hardships, along with the successes and victories," said TBN Vice President Matthew Crouch. "From that first little station my parents, Paul and Jan Crouch, started with nothing more than faith in God and a small team of partners, Trinity Broadcasting Network — and Christian television — have grown to touch every inhabited continent with the life-changing gospel of Jesus Christ. This intimate and personal look at TBN's 40 years of broadcast ministry will show you how it all unfolded, and how the miracle of Christian TV continues to change lives."
Entitled The Call: Forty Years of God's Miracles, this remarkable pictorial history follows Paul and Jan Crouch from the moment God called them to launch their first TV station, through each significant chapter in TBN's history, recounting the many mountaintops, valleys, heartaches, and victories that have gone into molding TBN into one of the most impacting Christian outreaches — as well as one of the most influential networks — in the world. From its development in the 1980s and '90s into the nation's leading Christian network, through its dramatic global expansion over the past twenty years, to its role today as a leader in digital and online broadcast, TBN has been at the forefront of Christian television and media throughout four decades. This one-of-a-kind book provides readers with a front-row look at how it all happened.
"This full-color book not only documents the history of TBN, with the scores of ministries, international leaders, and other notable people who played a part," said Matthew Crouch. "It really provides a close-up view in the development of Christian television and media that have had such an impact on our nation and world. We think The Call is a book that will connect with the hearts of many people."
The anticipated publication date for The Call is May 28, TBN's 40th anniversary, and the book's official release will be announced on TBN's website, www.tbn.org.
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Motivational Monday, a Monday tradition at Bike Shop Girl, my goal to keep you motivated and to be striving on the bike even during a hard week or long hours at work. Are you a woman that bicycles? Fill out this easy form and be part of our motivational movement!
What's your name and location?
Shelley Childers – Charlotte, NC
What type of cycling do you enjoy?
Mountain biking
What is your first cycling memory?
Getting my white Huffy 'BMX' bike for Christmas when I was about 10.
Who inspires you to ride, and better yet WHY?
I have to admit that my friends inspire me. There are so many different levels of skillset and they all represent the 'why' part of this question. The inexperienced riders are the most vulnerable on the trail and helping them understand how to clear a TTF or to merely feel more comfortable on the bike gives me a warm and fuzzy. Seeing the smiling faces after their first ride is the inspiration for me to continue to ride and learn more about this sport so I can help others.
What has been your best moment on the bike this year?
My best moment this year was not necessarily 'on' the bike, but rather teaching disable children how to ride their bikes. I have volunteered the last 4 yrs at a camp called 'Lose The Training Wheels'. It is here in Charlotte(and all over the US) sponsored by the Autism Foundation of the Carolinas. It is a weeklong camp for kids who need a little help with the basics. The goal at the end of the week is to have the kids on a true two-wheels bike. For more information please check out their website here.
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Chocolate fudge cake
Nutrition and extra info
- Un-iced sponges can be frozen
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal502
- fat33g
- saturates20g
- carbs49g
- sugars35g
- fibre1g
- protein6g
- salt0.66g
- 200g plain chocolate, broken into chunks (use one with a low cocoa content - we used Waitrose plain Belgian chocolate)
- 200g butter
Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
- 200g light brown muscovado sugar
- 100ml soured cream
- 2 eggs, beaten
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition, packed with protein and a…
- 200g self-raising flour
- 5 tbsp cocoa powder
- hundreds and thousands, to decorate
For the icing
Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Line a 22 x 22cm square tin with baking parchment. Put the chocolate, butter and sugar into a large pan with 100ml hot water and gently melt together. Set aside for 2 mins, then stir in the soured cream followed by the eggs. Finally, stir or whisk in the flour and cocoa until lump-free, then pour into the prepared tin. Bake for 50-55 mins until a skewer comes out clean. Sit the tin on a wire rack to cool.
Meanwhile, make the icing. Gently melt together icing ingredients in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water, then chill or cool until spreadable.
To decorate, carefully turn out the cooled cake and peel off the baking parchment. Spread the icing over the top and scatter with hundreds and thousands, then cut the cake into triangles or fingers before serving.
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I don't know where I went wrong with this cake. It took 1 hr 10 mins to cook before the skewer came out clean but had cracked and when it cooled it was hard on the top and dry. I used 5 rounded tbsp of cocoa powder which seemed far too much. The icing was a nightmare because it was too runny and even though I put it in the fridge to try and make it become spreadable, it never did. I had to pour it on and it all ran off. So disappointed as had made it for my boyfriend's birthday cake. Had to transport it in the car to his house too which didn't help! He eats most things, but even he said it wasn't one of my best cakes.
Very disappointed.
such a different way of making a cake without using the mixer. The cake was gorgeous and the topping just right. I used smarties on mine which made it equally colourful. It tastes even better day after after being in the fridge as topping has hardened. I will use the right size tin next time as mine came out a bit flater after using a slightly larger tin. Lush!
I gave it 5 stars as it was delicious. However despite using the corrcet size tin it came over the top and also I do think it is more like a brownie recipe both in the method and taste. I had no problem with the icing and it just needs to be left to cool as the texture is different and doesnt run.
Not sure I would make it again as I have made better brownie recipes and better chocolate cake recipes,though itwas very easy
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• $24 ($50 value) for an adult course ticket (ages 12 to 64)
• $14 ($30 value) for a children's course ticket (ages 7 to 11)
• $17 ($35 value) for a junior course ticket (ages 9 to 11)
• $19 ($40 value) for a senior course ticket (ages 65 and older)
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You'll have your pick of a course to ensure you feel comfortable and safe while having plenty of adventurous fun. Everyone starts out on one of two harness courses, where you'll learn the rules and mandatory safety procedures. Children can join in on their own course fit with a climbing wall, suspended bridges, nets, a zip line, and more. Open every day but Wednesday, this 14-acre park is bound to provide you with plenty of high-flying adventures.
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- Limit 1 per customer, up to 2 additional as gifts
- Limit 1 per customer per visit
- Reservations required and subject to availability and weather conditions
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- Valid only Monday through Friday
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