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This week on "The Amazing Race," we say farewell to the curious passport-stealing cab drivers of Russia, and we say do svidaniya to the Swim Coach of Frustration and the Professor (of Love). Time to go to someplace with a red, white, and blue flag. No, the other place.
The Chipps depart first at 7:32 p.m., and it is still daylight. This is only notable to me because at my house it's dark by 5:00. Yay, winter.
So Chippendale Jaymes gets a backstory interview: He says his dad is dealing with cancer, and he wants to win so he can help his dad with medical expenses. If you've ever watched this show before, you know that any extra time devoted to a sad story like that means elimination, and I am worried.
I know we were promised shirtless Chippendales, so if they take their shirts off in this episode I'm just going to stop loving them so I won't cry when they leave.
Paris? Amsterdam?
The clue at the start of the leg is a flag with a red, a white, and a blue stripe. Who thought it was France? Me too. As he heads for a cab, Jaymes shouts, "We comin'! I don't know where we goin' but we comin'!" They look up the flag on a computer and learn that it is The Netherlands.
Texi leaves 15 minutes later, and their cab driver tells them the flag is France. They're all excited for France, then they get to the airport and the Chipps tell them that it's Holland. "Thank God y'all saw us," says Jaymes as he takes them under his wing once again.
The Twins assume the flag is France but then look it up and discover they're wrong.
Boyfriend Ryan thinks it's France, but Abbie says no, so he guesses The Netherlands next. He's so smart, my nerdy boyfriend.
Even smarter are the Goat Farmers, who recognize the flag right away. I wish knowledge of the flag was a determining factor in the Race results, but it is not. Spoiler alert.
Frankfurt airport, man. Why did it have to be Frankfurt?
There are way too many options to get the heck out of Moscow. Every team chooses a different flight.
The Twins talk their way onto a flight that arrives first, even though there's an hour layover and the ticket agent doesn't want to sell them the tickets because she thinks they need more than an hour. But the Twins plead and promise not to hate the ticket agent if they miss their connection, so they get the ticket. They make the connection and arrive first.
The Chipps get a direct flight that arrives 45 minutes later. Texi was standing in line with them, but when the agent said there weren't enough seats, they graciously stepped aside. As they should have, so I don't know why I'm so surprised when teams show common courtesy.
Texi gets a two-leg journey that arrives 50 minutes after the Chipps.
All of those flights leave the following morning, so Dominate has a chance to catch up. They leave the Pit Stop 10 hours after the first team, but they still have decent flight options available.
Those flight options have layovers in Frankfurt. Dun dun duuuunh!!! Do you know why I made that sound so scary? Frankfurt is where they missed their connection two legs ago, where they spent the night, and teamed up with the Goat Farmers. Frankfurt is the reason they started out 10 hours behind the lead team. Abbie does not want to go through there ever again, but it's the fastest option. To be safe, they book two different connecting flights. Good thinking.
Cut to Frankfurt airport. They are denied entrance on the first plane because they weren't properly checked in on time. They take a shuttle bus across the airport and board the next plane. The Frankfurt Voice of Doom comes on the speaker and says that they're having mechanical difficulties.
They wait, and then learn that the de-icer can't be repaired and they have to switch planes. Needless to say, Abbie and Boyfriend Ryan are even more over Frankfurt, and they make some Frankly awful puns about how much it sucks.
When they finally arrive in The Netherlands, guess who they see at the airport? Their old buddies Brent and Josh, who left Moscow three hours later than them but managed to catch up. It's a sad day for Dominate. But wait! It gets worse ...
It's a Boat Bus!
This leg has a Fast Forward. The Twins have a head start on the leg, so they take it. They have to ride an aquabus, and while it's in the water for seven minutes, they each have to eat five herrings. The herrings are big, coated in fish oil, and covered in white flakes that are probably salt but could also be concentrated fish-flavored fish goo, just to give it that extra kick.
The Chipps head for the Fast Forward, but they arrive just as the Twins are getting off the bus, stinking of fish oil but holding a shiny clue directing them to the Pit Stop. They arrive on the mat in first place, and they do a shoulder shimmy, which they say is their first place dance. Phil imitates it, but he secretly hates them (I'm pretty sure). He awards them $5,000 each. So, fine, done with them for the leg. Except for their evil manipulations ...
Organ to Grind
One half of the Detour requires teams to choose a large street organ (enclosed in a wagon, it's not a tiny accordion with a hat-wearing monkey, unfortunately) and grind it to collect 30 Euro in tips.
The Chipps get to it first, James does the heavy grinding work and Jaymes dances and calls to the crowd, "Go get some change and come back!" Things slow down for them, and I am both delighted and terrified that they remove their shirts, put on the Chippendales collars and cuffs, and "make a spectacle." Not a Magic Mike dance spectacle, I don't think I saw any serious hip action (and if it was edited out, well, I'm shaking my fist sternly at the editors).
Does this mean that it's their final leg? A lovely grandmother walking three young children gives them their final 10 Euros, and they're off to the next clue.
Trey and Lexi also choose the organ because Lexi is a born annoying saleswoman. She earns the money without removing any clothing.
Flashback Roadblock
I love when the show brings back old challenges that were horrible. Like "find a clue by unrolling 87 bales of hay bigger than your body." Or another one that I can't remember right now.
Who remembers ditch vaulting? It's like pole vaulting across a ditch, and Phil promises that it's easy, even though he shows us flashback footage of an old man falling into the mud over and over. I'm sorry that I can't remember your name, old man, but I remember your pain. This Roadblock was a challenge last time around.
This time, James nails it. His coach says, "All you need is courage," and I guess he's full of it. That was almost no muddy fun at all.
Trey also takes the Roadblock. Lexi advises that it's all in the hips, and that seems to work for him because he passes the first time, too.
Triumvirate of Evil Plotting
Let's jump back to the Moscow airport for a minute. The Chipps, Twins, and Texi were several hours ahead of the other teams. The Twins have an unfounded (to me) hatred of Team Dominate, and they want to bring them down.
While hanging out at the airport they polluted the relatively innocent minds of the others, forcing an agreement that, if there was a Double U-Turn, the first team to arrive would U-Turn Dominate, and the second team to arrive would U-Turn the first team, so that the net result would be that only Dominate is U-Turned.
It's strategy, sure, but it's against Abbie and Her Boyfriend, and we all know how I feel about them. The Twins say that "Brown[-haired] James" is in charge of the Chippendales at the U-Turn. They don't trust Blond Jaymes because he's too nice. In an interview, he agrees with them, because he likes Dominate and doesn't want to U-Turn them.
So, there is in fact a Double U-Turn after the Detour. The Twins bypassed it with the Fast Forward, so the Chipps are the next to arrive. Jaymes did not want to be in this position. He doesn't want to do it. But he also wants to go home and take care of his family, so they do, in fact, U-Turn Abbie and Boyfriend Ryan.
At the Pit Stop, when the Chipps arrive in second place, Phil says that they finally played the game today. Jaymes says, "I hope we don't lose a friend," and then a clock tower right behind him chimes ominously. He jumps and says it's a sign from God, and Phil raises his eyebrow. It's a nice interaction.
Jaymes further explains that he already sent a postcard to his family telling his parents that he's coming home with the money, and his family is more important than Abbie and Ryan at this time. If he's being honest, then I guess I'm okay with that.
Texi, by the way, gets to the U-Turn mat and sees that the Chipps held up their end of the bargain. They play along, then, and U-Turn the Chipps. They arrive at the Pit Stop in third place.
Dominate and Goats: BFFs again
Abbie, Ryan, Josh, and Brent decide to run the leg together again, as long as they can. They both choose the "Back in Time" Detour option, which is to recreate Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" painting with live actors in costume. The teams work side by side on their own tableaus and finish at about the same time.
Dominate assumes that they will be U-Turned, and the Goats assume that they will be, as well, or that Dominate will U-Turn them and they'll do the other side together.
But that's not what happened. This is when life gets really sad. The heavens weep, literally.
Rain falls at the U-Turn mat as Abbie and Ryan say, "We're done." They hug Josh and Brent and head back to do the organ grinder.
As they walk away, the Goats are worried. Josh, in particular, wants to go back and help them. But Brent wonders what will happen when they get to the mat, if Dominate will just step aside for them. Josh says, "Everyone wants us out of the Race because we're not the strongest competitors." Brent rubs Josh's head and says, "Well, we should just prove them wrong then. Can you prove them wrong?"
That scene was just sweet and sad and thoughtful, it really showed what kind of people they are, and their inner spirit. Hugs to them, even if it means the downfall of Dominate.
Organ Grinder of Sadness
Ryan grinds the organ while Abbie dances in an empty, rainy street. She jokingly asks a car to run her over because it would be easier. I don't know how much time passes, but she earns some money, dances with a few people, and seems a step above utter desolation.
At the end, one woman keeps dancing with her, over and over. Finally, Abbie asks, "What can you do for me?"
"I'll make it so you're done,' the woman answers, and she gives Abbie the rest of the money she needs.
Abbie cries and hugs her. Ryan comes over and hugs the woman, too. Then Abbie hugs her again and just breaks down, crying on the woman's shoulder, and it almost makes me cry.
That was another beautiful, tragic scene. Perseverance, the saving grace of friendly locals, the comfort from a stranger. This episode is all deep and profound tonight.
Ditch Vault of Tears
The Goat Farmers get to the Roadblock. Josh takes it, and he trips in the field on the way to the canal, hurting his ankle. He makes the jump on his first try, though, but he slips a bit on the landing because the grass is wet. Brent promises to massage his foot all night.
They check in at the Pit Stop, not completely happy. They tell Phil that they hated leaving Abbie and Ryan. Phil offers to eliminate them and save Dominate, and I wonder if they accepted if Phil could really do that. Of course he could, he's the Philiminator! But they accept their position. Brent says that whoever is meant to win will win, and they'll race hard to the end. Phil makes them promise.
Then my precious nerdy Boyfriend Ryan is at the ditch vault. As he tries and fails, Abbie narrates all the ways the universe has messed with them that day. It goes back to Frankfurt two legs ago, but then Frankfurt again, and then the U-Turn which stabbed them in the back.
They make it to the Pit Stop and Ryan can't even talk to Phil when they get eliminated. It all feels wrong, he says later. I agree.
In a new feature that I made up last week, called Let's Pretend Happy Ending, let's pretend that Dominate and the Chipps watched this episode together at one of their houses, and they were all sitting on the couch together, best friends after all. And Jaymes' dad is fine. Yay!


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Bad colleagues can wreak havoc. One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining -- intentionally hindering a colleague's success, reputation, or relationships. If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
Most people assume that relationships are either bad or good. Our coworkers are either takers who undermine us or givers who support us. But research shows otherwise: negative and positive relationships are independent. Many of us have ambivalent relationships with a colleague who undermines us in some situations but supports us in others. What are the implications of these ambivalent relationships?
In a fascinating study led by Michelle Duffy, police officers filled out a survey about how often their closest colleague undermined and supported them. Officers who felt undermined were less committed at work, experienced more physical health problems, and were more likely to take unauthorized breaks and be absent from work. Being undermined was a major source of stress.
But when the underminer was also supportive, things got worse. The officers experienced even lower commitment, had more health issues, and missed more work. It can actually worse to have a colleague who alternates between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde than to work with Mr. Hyde all the time. When a colleague is a pure taker, you know what to expect, and you can devise strategies for minimizing your exposure and collaboration. But if that colleague takes in some situations and gives in others, it's harder to avoid the relationship altogether, and it can be quite unpredictable. As Duffy's team explains, "It takes more emotional energy and coping resources to deal with individuals who are inconsistent."
Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace. Psychologist Bert Uchino finds the same patterns in everyday relationships. In one study, his team surveyed older adults about how the ten most important people in their networks responded to requests assistance. Some relationships were consistently helpful, others made things worse rather than better, and some were ambivalent, featuring a mix of the two. The adults completed two anxiety-provoking tasks: delivering a speech with minimal preparation and taking a rapid-fire math test. Uchino's team tracked their heart rates.
The more ambivalent ties people had, the more their heart rates spiked during the speech and the math test. Having close connections that were both undermining and supportive was associated with greater stress. In another study of several hundred adults, the more ambivalent relationships they had, the more likely they were to be stressed, depressed, and dissatisfied with their lives.
One implication of this evidence is that it could be wise to avoid ambivalent relationships, even more so than purely negative relationships. But a different strategy might also be effective. Although receiving support from the same person who undermines us is stressful, receiving support from a different person can serve as a buffer. In the study of police officers, Duffy's team found that having a supportive boss partially reduced the negative effects of an ambivalent coworker. Indeed, after reviewing several decades of research on good and bad bosses, psychologist Robert Sutton concludes that one of the most critical roles for a boss is to serve as a human shield, protecting people against the slings and arrows of bad relationships.
When we're being undermined by one person, we recognize the importance of seeking support from someone else. But it may be even more critical to invest in those supportive relationships when dealing with someone who's guilty of both undermining and supporting us.
For more on how relationships affect our success and well-being, see Adam's new book Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.


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Category: 300 News Posted by: admin LOS ANGELES -- In 480 B.C., a band of 300 Spartan warriors led by King Leonidas fought to the death while holding back a million-man Persian army under their god-king Xerxes.
'300' an epic film sensation
Article Date: March 8, 2007 | Publication: Sun Media | Author: BRUCE KIRKLAND
Source: http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2007/03/08/3714142.html
This now-legendary Battle of Thermopylae, staged in the confines of the Gates of Hell and one of the pivotal historical moments for Western civilization, was transformed into a graphic novel, 300, in the 1990s. The author was Frank Miller, a freak for Spartan culture.
Now filmmaker Zack Snyder, another Spartan devotee, has transformed Miller's heroic vision into a surreal film. He uses the same thrilling, heightened and stylized approach Robert Rodriguez employed to make Miller's noirish Sin City into a film.
"The film is mythology out of history," says co-writer and director Zack Snyder, best known for remaking George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. "I think historians have been obsessed with taking mythology and making it real, and we kind of went the other way."
The film 300 was photographed on a sound stage in Montreal, with only one scene -- Persians messengers thundering toward the camera on horseback -- shot outdoors. Otherwise, the cast led by Gerard Butler as Leonidas, Lena Headey as his kickass queen Gorgo, David Wenham as warrior-storyteller Dilios and Rodrigo Santoro as Xerxes, did all its work inside in front of blue or green screens.
Everything else, such as scenery, the Sparta cityscape, mountains and cliffs, rampaging rhinos and elephants, Persian ships, an army of one million and more carnage than in Saving Private Ryan, was added digitally.
Yet 300 looks real, in an odd, dreamlike fashion. "It's the tool of the movie," Snyder says of CGI effects, most of which were done in Quebec as part of the tax incentive that drew the Hollywood filmmakers to Montreal. After the shoot, Snyder and his crew distressed the celluloid film stock, added dirt and grain, played with colour and took the polish off.
"One of the most important things to me was that the movie didn't look like it was just spit out of a computer," Synder says. "I wanted the film to feel organic because I feel the book feels dirty. Not in a sexual way, although that would also be great. But it's just gritty. It has a dark quality to it."
The film is sexualized, however. Headey is smoldering hot in a copulation scene with Butler. The Spartans are all ripped, with muscles on their muscles. Like in the homoerotic graphic novel, the men are nearly naked in battle.
Real Greek warriors wore heavy armour, but invoking mythology meant he had the freedom to play with body image, Snyder says. So he challenged his actors.
"I was not in great shape when I started training for the film," Scotsman Butler (from the movie musical Phantom of the Opera) says of his pudge. "I realized it and, trust me, everybody else did as well."
So Butler went into a Spartan-like training regimen.
From June to October 2006, when filming began, the actors trained together, bearing down to reach a level of physical fitness that is nothing short of phenomenal.
"On Phantom," Butler remembers, "I hadn't had a single singing lesson in my life." So getting buff for 300 seemed like the same challenge, he says.
"I think it's fear. I operate well with fear and stress, like a Spartan. I think there is a lot of Spartan in me."
300 is about Spartans, and you are NOT a Spartan
It is a mistake to think that 300 -- Zack Snyder's movie version of Frank Miller's graphic novel about Spartans -- is a political commentary on today's world politics.
"Mistake? It think it is!" says Snyder, when Sun Media suggests that people might be eager to interpret the film as a metaphor for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- with Americans as the heroes.
"The movie is about an event that took place over 2,000 years ago (480 B.C. to be precise)," says Snyder, adding that, like Miller, he tells that story "from the perspective of Spartans -- who are not us!"
Spartans developed a warrior culture that required extraordinary discipline and the search for "a beautiful death," says Snyder. Their regimen included killing unwanted babies and brutally training young boys in battle techniques.
"To assume we are the Spartans ... " Snyder says, pausing for effect. "You don't throw your babies off cliffs.
Although (Spartans) are super cool, I just don't think it's a modern aesthetic."
The movie has clues, he says: "Whenever I could, I tried to remind the audience, 'Hello, that's not you! Wake up! It's fun to be with the Spartans but you're not a Spartan!' "
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Registration will be held from 6-8 p.m., Aug. 21 and 28 and 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Aug. 22 and 29 at Buffalo Creek Park, 8100 Erie Road, Palmetto. North River National and North River American are the only two little leagues that offer softball in Manatee County. The leagues are open to all Manatee County girls ages 6-14 regardless of where they live.
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Small businesses targeted in magazine ad scam
United States Postal Inspectors have a warning for small business owners. Authorities say con men are targeting them in a magazine ad scam, and in one particular case, admitted it.
"The defendant told us they were just taking the money," said Inspector George Clark.
Clark says in this case, the victim gave the con men money in exchange for ad space in what was called a 'Public Safety Magazine'. But this so-called magazine turned out to be a few colored pieces of paper stapled together.
"They would tell whoever answered the phone at the small business that they had already agreed to place an ad they were simply calling to confirm that the business was prepared to pay [for the ad], " said Clark.
While sometimes the magazine would be a pile of paper, most of the time there was no magazine at all.
"In the early part of the operation they were publishing magazines but by the time we started our investigation we don't think any magazines were being published," Clark added.
Postal inspectors discovered both suspects had a history of telemarketing schemes. In this particular case, they both admitted their guilt.
"These guys made about $1.5 million in the last five years...but since these guys have been doing telemarketing schemes in way or another in their adult life I would say it's a safe bet they have made 5 million dollars in the last 15-20 years," said Clark.
Small business owners need to remember before you pay for an ad or a service, make sure you're getting what you're paying for. Check out the business you're dealing with before you pay. And as part of your research, check the internet.
"Get the name of their business - get the name of the publications - Google them; you'll be surprised how much you'll find," suggested Clark.
In this case, one con man was sentenced to two years in prison and the other was sentenced to five years.
We did a little digging and found an interesting article which highlighted common scams where small businesses are targeted. One scam involved invoices that were sent to a business for unordered products, in the hopes the phony invoices would be paid without a second look. Experts say to avoid this, businesses need to have a system in place to review all invoices and compare them to expense records to make sure they are legitimate.
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campbell mattinson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 116 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
The Wine Hunter
I am the author of The Wine Hunter. This book was released commercially in 2006 but I am releasing a limited edition hard-cover version. The aim of this edition is that it be beautifully produced. It is a romantic tale of a French-Australian who gave up everything to make great wine between 1921-1956.
Buyers of a prestige LIMITED EDITION book. Principally food and wine lovers though this is written in the style of a novel. ***I want people who don't usually buy wine books to be drawn to this story.***
This will be an expensively produced book; the audience and design will reflect this.
The front cover of this book will be 200mm across x 235mm down.
The spine will be 32 mm.
This is the story of a great Australian winemaker. He worked between 1921 and 1956.
His name was Maurice O'Shea. He was French-Australian.
There is a picture of his winery here: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an6942405
I want a beautiful cover. Stylish.
Book title: The Wine Hunter
Book sub-title: The real life story of Australia's greatest winemaker
Author's name: Campbell Mattinson
The front or back cover will include these words:
"One of the most remarkable wine books to come my way … It will capture anyone who reads it: this is not a wine geek book but an epic."
James Halliday, THE AUSTRALIAN
On the back cover:
"(The) Wine Hunter is a breakthrough wine book: an astonishing, cerebral, emotional entanglement of fact and dramatisation, of tender detail and beautiful, expressive words. Has there ever been a wine book written quite this way?" Jeni Port, THE AGE
On the back cover:
"This is the best book on wine to be published in Australia for many, many years". Max Allen, THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
On the back cover:
"I started reading a wine book last weekend and finished it on the Sunday night. Literally couldn't put it down." Paddy Kendlar, Herald-Sun
"Campbell Mattinson is arguably Australia's most literate, and certainly most literary, wine writer. I ... admire his monograph on the Hunter Valley pioneer Maurice O'Shea immensely." Jancis Robinson
As an idea of my personal taste, I think this is a beautiful cover: http://www.villagebooks.com.au/shop/prod42.htm
... though the design here doesn't have to be along these lines.
We will worry about getting it print ready later.
Good luck!
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US Ambassador-at-Large of War Crime Calls for Arrest of More Suspects
Khmer Rouge leaders are currently on trial by the UN-backed tribunal for genocide. The tribunal is facing serious roadblocks, including Tuesday resignation of UN judge Mark Harmon. Judge Harmon's resignation, said to be made for personal reason, coincides with Cambodia's failed arrest of two key suspects he named for the indictment in the ongoing trial. VOA Khmer's Sok Khemara talked to Stephen Rapp, US Ambassador-at-large of War Crimes, and has the interview.


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With all due respect to my friend Dave Blesing, Ohio Issue 2 does not take away his or anyone else's right to vote. Let's dial back the emotion for just a moment and do a quick fact check.
For starters, Issue 2 makes no changes to Ohio's ballot initiative law and constitutional amendment processes. Secondly, Issue 2 in no way restricts the power of the Ohio General Assembly. Finally, if Dave or anyone else disagrees with the outcome of Issue 2, he can fight it out in the Ohio court system.
To see for yourself what Issue 2 is really about, Google "Ohio senate joint resolution 6," click on the first result and read the full text of the proposed legislation. It's a single page and written in plain English.
Issue 2 proposes a constitutional amendment to provide for the creation of a thirteen member, Ohio livestock care standards board. The board must consist of the state director of agriculture, the dean of an Ohio ag college, a food safety expert, a county humane society representative, two Ohio consumers, two statewide farm organization representatives, two state licensed veterinarians and three family farmers.
The obvious question is why do we need or want this? We don't! But, it's the lesser of two evils.
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has informed the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation that it intends to seek its own ballot initiative in Ohio on the 2010 ballot. Their initiative would create a constitutional amendment that would ban several common livestock practices in the state.
HSUS is a humane society in name only. It operates no pet shelters or adoption facilities anywhere in the U.S. and contributes less than 4% of its substantial budget to organizations that operate dog and cat shelters. In fact, HSUS is the largest and richest animal rights lobbying organization, with an operating budget of $91.5 million in 2007 and net assets exceeding $200 million. Despite the fact that they say it is a problem, HSUS funds no research on farm animal care.
Their real agenda is to end all meat consumption. The HSUS factory farming home page directly advocates for veganism. Their factory farm campaign manager, Paul Shapiro, told a recent conference that, "nothing is more important than promoting veganism." With offices in San Francisco, Hollywood, New York City and Washington, D.C., they are a fund raising machine.
If you're still up in the air on which way to vote on Issue 2, it's pretty simple. Who do you want deciding what constitutes humane treatment for our farm animals, San Francisco vegetarians or Ohio veterinarians?
Get the facts...be informed...vote yes on Issue 2!
– Clark Emmons
Chesterfield township dairy farmer


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I don't know what it is about denim dresses, but they've always seemed relatively taboo and untouchable in my mind. Like more than overalls, more than harem pants, more than how I once felt about our beloved birkenstocks, may they trend forever. All I can picture is like, a swarm of denim jumper donned elementary school teachers in the 90's, herding us children into the school gym for a class assembly. And my mom. I think my mom had one at one point. And my 4th grade best friend's mom. I mean now that I think about it, denim jumpers were an essssssential backdrop of my childhood. SO SHOULD THEY BE EVEN REMOTELY INVOLVED IN MY TWENTIES? You know?
I guess we're gonna go with yes, why not.
This isn't exactly a denim jumper, anyway. And this is not the 90's. This is straight up what the 70's did best. With a belt! And pockets! And so much stain resistance it's insane.
I'm talking myself into it.
Oh and while we're here, talking about clothes and what not for a change, I should mention that I just started using the WEAR app, as another form of stalking other people's outfits when I'm feeling stuck in a rut. You can see where to buy the items right in the app, so it makes tracking a favorite item a lot easier. You can also search for the ways others are styling the same item of clothing you're wearing, by using the Closet tab on your profile. If you'd like, you can check out my profile page and follow me HERE, and be sure to download the app to see my most recent outfit posts and start uploading your own!


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Gene LaPorte, Carolyn Newbert, Carey Kish and Jeff Nichols won the "Where in the Woods Am I?" game for the OJI Mountain in Baxter State Park in June 2013 given these verbal clues and the following gallery of photos:
Last week, I traveled to one of my favorite places in Maine (I have many), Baxter State Park. Try to guess which mountain I hiked by viewing the photo gallery below. Do you recognize the view?
Leave your best guesses in the comment section below. Winner gets an internet high five and a mention in the updated post. And stay tuned for tomorrow's "1-minute hike" video of the adventure, as well as a write-up.


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Trolltech Developer Days in Munich
The second annual Trolltech Developer Days took place last month in San Jose, USA and on last week in Munich, Germany. They featured keynotes and presentations from Eirik Chambe-Eng, Trolltech's co-founder and President; Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE and Trolltech's Vice President Software Development; Aaron Seigo, KDE Core Contributor and many others. Read on for a summary of some of the keynotes and presentations given in Munich.
Eirik Chambe-Eng
The first keynote by Eirik Chambe-Eng, Trolltech's co-founder and president, gave an overview of the company's current situation and future plans:
Trolltech continues to grow at an impressive rate, they increased their staff from 80 to 140 employees in the last twelve months. A second round of fundraising, which brought $6.7 million of disposable money to the company, was recently completed. Trolltech has opened an office in China. And of course the long awaited Qt 4 was released. In the coming twelve months Trolltech will become a professional service organisation. They will develop new products that complement and expand the usage of Qt. A continued focus on making Qt easier to use, faster, leaner and better will be kept and it is expected that Qtopia will explode in the phone market.
One of the new products complementing and expanding the usage of Qt will be a thin client architecture called Qt/Coco, named after designer Coco Chanel who said one can never be too rich or too thin. It is targeted at enterprise users and it will allow server side Qt apps to be deployed on thin, universal clients in an organisation, with the goal to dramatically reduce administration costs. Currently, Qt/Coco is in the prototype stage and it already shows amazing performance (ten times faster than X11). Trolltech is also developing Java-bindings for Qt called Qt/Java, which will allow Java developers to use the Qt API. A prototype will be available in the first quarter of 2006.
Qtopia is another success story for Trolltech. The company currently has 85 customers using Qtopia, from which 30 are mobile phone builders. Linux is the disruptive force in the handset industry and Trolltech's goal is that 100 million handsets are sold using Qtopia by 2008. Qtopia 4, which is currently under development, will be based on Qt 4. Some of its highlights will be a native sandbox for safe execution of programs, an integrated SQL database on every device and advanced graphics due to the new Arthur painting subsystem in Qt4. Some of the advantages of Qtopia over .Net are: customisability of the user interface, lower memory consumption and the availability of the source code.
Matthias Ettrich
The second keynote by Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE and Trolltech's Vice President of Software Development gave an overview of Qt 4:
The design goals of Qt 4 were to enhance the capabilities, to increase the flexibility and to lay a solid foundation for the future. Mostly Qt 4 turned out as an immediate success. The clean Qt 4 code base allows Trolltech to turn quickly and there are successful and fast ports from Qt 3. Qt 4 has also been quickly adopted in the open source world. However, some users are dissatisfied with the speed of certain painting operations and the qt3to4 porting tool and the Qt3Support library partly failed to deliver: some ported applications compiled, but looked very odd when running. Qt 4.1 brings many small bug fixes, based on customer feedback. Arthur, the painting subsystem of Qt 4, is optimised, including accelerations using OpenGL. It also included a highly improved and extended Qt3Support library and an enhanced Qt Designer with an action editor. Qt 4.1 also includes a new painting backend for Arthur: a SVG backend that renders SVGs either using the native rendering backend (e.g. Render on X11, core graphics on MacOSX) or OpenGL.
For the future, Trolltech is porting Qt 4 to Windows Vista and it is improving the embedded and the MacOSX version of Qt 4. Also the Qt 3 to Qt 4 migration experience will be further improved. New features according to customer needs will be integrated. Some examples could be: scripting in dialogues, printing (currently there is no cross platform preview function available), desktop integration (systray, mimetypes, help system), high-level mainwindow integration in native platforms (e.g. always use SDI on MacOSX), cross desktop IPC, improvements to the help system (currently there is no infrastructure for a context sensitive help system) and a component model.
Aaron Seigo
After lunch, Aaron Seigo talked about Qt and the Future of the KDE interface.
Aaron first summarised some facts about KDE 3. It is based on monolithic libraries, has an attractive interface which is limited by the current desktop imaging techniques, has lots of features and lots of applications. KDE 4's library layout will follow Qt 4's more modular approach. The libraries will be split into modular components and frameworks and the naming and API consistency will be improved.
Next Aaron discussed the merits of the single click interface. Single clicks are good because they are easier to learn and more predictable then double clicks. In addition they are quicker. The downsides are that it is not straight-forward how the user can select something. And single click actions still have to be learnt. An alternative approach that shares the advantages of the single click interface, but does not have the disadvantages, is a mouse-over based interface. The basic idea is that a (transparent) menu opens if the mouse is over an icon. This context menu presents options like select and activate that can be performed with an object. The image below shows a mockup of such a mouse-over based interface.
Mockup of a mouse-over based interface
KDE will also feature an improved KDevelop and Kontact. The MDI mode and the toolbar configuration will be reworked and enhanced. KDE will also feature a new default icon theme called Oxygen.
I want to thank Matthias Ettrich who made it possible for me to attend the Trolltech developer days in Munich
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
I'm a huge BSD license advocate. But claiming the GPL is not "really free" is disingenuous.
This argument against Qt is a smokescreen. No matter what Trolltech does, the GNU/GTK/GNOME community finds some new argument to pollute the mindspace. When Qt was proprietary they said it should be free. When Qt was QPL they said it wasn't GPL compatible. Now that it's GPL they say it's not free enough. The lesson has been learned: the naysayers don't want a solution, they want to complain. Even if Qt were placed into the public domain, with absolutely zero restrictions, people will STILL bitch about it. All you need to do is to look at any Slashdot topic on KDE or Qt and see the silly arguments waiting in the wings.
I know several small proprietary firms who have decided on Qt for their development toolkit. I talked with a developer of one a couple of weeks ago, and he said that Qt pays for itself by speeding development. He said that even though .NET is a vast improvement over MFC, coding in Qt is still more efficient.
By Brandybuck at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
Nobody is bitching here. Face the facts: with Gtk you can develop commercial apps for free, with Qt you cannot. You get it?
Nobody can suspect the people here to be Gtk fans. And yes, we will be comming to this problem as long as it will persist. We do it because we like Qt and therefore we are bothered because we see the commercial licencing cost as an important disadvantage of Qt versus Gtk.
I agree that Trolltech needs the money to pay the bills and keep Qt on the top. But does the price really need to be that high?
By Krystof at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
The price is not high at all.
By ac at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
"Face the facts: with Gtk you can develop commercial apps for free, with Qt you cannot."
And still you see nearly no commercial apps developed with GTK+, in that arena it's vastly outnumbered by Qt. This should tell you that people developing commercial applications are willing to pay for the advantages they get by using Qt, and for the support they don't get with the develop for free alternative.
Besides you should really talk to some commercial Qt customers about how they rate the value for money when buying Qt. And stop listening to the theories about those hypothetical commercial basement developers.
By Morty at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
"with Gtk you can develop commercial apps for free, with Qt you cannot"
Perhaps you meant "proprietary" instead of "commercial"? But in either case, I see far more commercial and proprietary software written in Qt than in GTK+.
By Brandybuck at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
"The current price (cca 3000E per developer!) is...."
...about one months salary for a programmer. Is it REALLY unreasonable to invest some money on a quality set of tools? And in corporate-environment, the cost of Qt is peanuts. Yes it is. It's only a fraction of the cost of the employees salary, and the salary is only a fraction of the total-costs the employee causes to the employer. So cost of Qt is a fraction of a fraction :). And besides, there are some tools that can costs over 10.000e!
"look how Novell has chosen Gnome/Gtk as default desktop/toolkit. The main reason is money, off-course."
Please provide me with a link where Novell said that "we chose GTK/GNOME because commercial Qt is just too darn expensive". If you have no link, then you are merely making assumptions.
By Janne at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
What I meant to say was that if qt was really free (BSD/LGPL) or at least very cheap from the begining, Novell would hardly ever had bought into Ximian and got infected with Miguel Icaza and Co :-)
I thing the same applies to RedHat and Sun. Choosing default toolkit is a strategic decision for years and choosing toolkit which is controlled by a private company was risk for them. People run to Linux to escape the vendor lock-in. Why do the same mistale again?
Yes, I know that the full GPL developers don't have to bother about it. But private companies see this differently. What if Trolltech goes mad and increases the prize 10 times? As a commercial developer you're doomed. With Gtk you avoid this risk regardless to how this toolkit sucks.
By Krystof at Fri, 2005/11/11 - 6:00am
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
If Trolltech will increase the price 10 times, then Trolltech will be the doomed one. It will lose most of its clients.
By Er at Sun, 2006/01/22 - 6:00am
Is there going to be a a Qt/WinCE?
Is there going to be a a Qt/WinCE?
By Pedro Alves at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Java Bindings
Official Java Bindings would be nice. But an SWT implementation, or better a solution of the licensing issues (GPL vs EPL) regarding SWT, and maybe a good AWT implementation would be much more useful. At least for KDE/Linux users. I know, it is unfortunately a licensing problem and for Trolltech it is difficult to solve, because they want sell their commercial licenses to Java developers too. But for Java developers it makes much more sense to use SWT instead the Qt API in Java directly.
By Bernd Lachner at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Java Bindings
Did you ever use/program SWT?
Did you ever try to create a cross platform GUI with SWT which does not look alien on all platforms?
If you ever did you would know that Qt has a lot more to offer to Java developers than SWT.
Qt/Java is easier to program (much nicer API) and provides a native look and feel on all supported platforms.
Actually Qt/Java is solving the major problem of Java for GUI applications. In addition there is a reason why not even eclipse is using SWT.
It is funny to note though that initially Java was hyped for GUI applets in the early nineties but won the hearts of the developers for server applications.
By Martin Konold at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Java Bindings
> Did you ever use/program SWT?
> Did you ever try to create a cross platform GUI with SWT which does not look
> If you ever did you would know that Qt has a lot more to offer to Java
- SWT and Eclipse RCP Applications would better integrate in a KDE environment.
> Qt/Java is easier to program (much nicer API) and provides a native look and
> Actually Qt/Java is solving the major problem of Java for GUI applications. In
By Bernd Lachner at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Java Bindings
> Eclipse don't use SWT? This is new for me.
Yes, sorry this was an factual error of me.
By Martin Konold at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Java Bindings
> Did you ever try to create a cross platform GUI with SWT
Eclipse is created with SWT and it only looks alien on linux :) (much is solved by gtk-qt, though)
Your problem is that you don't distinguish SWT from Swing. But then, why are you disinforming people?
> In addition there is a reason why not even eclipse is using SWT.
This is certainly entertaining to read, because Eclipse is precisely _the_ SWT thing.
And what do you mean by 'not even Eclipse'? That's like saying that a bad solution has got to be an Eclipse solution :) But Eclipse is the KDE of development tools, it's powerful, flexible and moderately easy to use.
> Qt/Java is easier to program
There is no Qt/Java as of yet.
> (much nicer API)
Yes. That is right, the Qt API is what makes Qt great. I'm a Java developer and I'd choose Qt anytime, if the API would outweigh C++'s aversion towards threads etc.
> and provides a native look and feel on all supported platforms.
SWT also does that, unless you're on Linux (yes, I hate that file dialog that Eclipse pops up :) . as a matter of fact, the GTK file dialog vastly beats the stupidity of reversing the buttons and 'spatializing' the file manager)
> Actually Qt/Java is solving the major problem of Java for GUI applications.
There is no Qt/Java today so it isn't solving anything now.
> It is funny to note though that initially Java was hyped for GUI applets in > the early nineties but won the hearts of the developers for server
Yes. That's beacause the language is great, but Swing sucks. SWT is better, but Qt/Java will probably be even better.
By ac at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Java Bindings
> if the API would outweigh
Replying to myself I apologize for the bad grammar.
By ac at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Java Bindings
Actually, there _is_ a working Qt/Java right now. In kdebindings, and has been there for ages.
By Boudewijn at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
SWT-GTK-Qt okay, but SWT-QT not?
huh? can some licence docter help me, please?
i learned that:
now i just read that that using gtk-qt (a gtk lib that uses qt to draw widgets) along with Eclipse it is possible to have a nicer looking Eclipse.
so can i conclude that:
an other question:
i dont get it. please someone, enlighten me.
By cies breijs at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: SWT-GTK-Qt okay, but SWT-QT not?
Nice questions. Unfortunately they beat me.
Eclipse comes with SUSE 10, which ships gtk-qt enabled by default. Of course, this turns Eclipse into a friendlier thing.
> with a bit of LGPL 'glue' code it is allowed hook my propietary code up
Nope. However, Eclipse is not proprietary code.
The FSF says:
"The Common Public License is incompatible with the GPL because it has various specific requirements that are not in the GPL.
By ac at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: SWT-GTK-Qt okay, but SWT-QT not?
GPL compability are not really important when it comes to Qt, as it's dual licensed GPL and QPL. The QPL are rather easygoing license, it has two simple requirements. The code is under a open source license and the code are freely available. So the Eclipse's CPL are no problem as long as the code are available.
By Morty at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
Re: SWT-GTK-Qt okay, but SWT-QT not?
That makes it sound like there is no real reason for there not to be an SWT-QT.
So, where is it?
By oatkinson at Wed, 2007/08/08 - 5:00am
Re: SWT-GTK-Qt okay, but SWT-QT not?
Someone create the myth that it wouldn't be possible, a lot of people believed it and the remaining ones either have already enough to do elsewhere or do not want to invest time into something which is obviously worked against intentionally.
By Kevin Krammer at Thu, 2007/08/09 - 5:00am
Re: Java Bindings
"maybe a good AWT implementation would be much more useful"
Don't Trolltech already sell a Qt version of AWT?
"But an SWT implementation, or better a solution of the licensing issues (GPL vs EPL)"
Java developments tend to have huge budgets with large numbers of programmers. I don't think toolkit license costs are much of an issue. The flexibility of being able to choose between a Free or Commercial license is a big plus point for Qt and not a negative at all.
"But for Java developers it makes much more sense to use SWT instead the Qt API in Java directly."
Please can you add some sort of argument to support your assertion. Do you think there is something wonderful about subclassing event listeners as opposed to connecting signals and slots. In what way do you think that clunky way of doing things is a good idea?
By Richard Dale at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Java Bindings
> "maybe a good AWT implementation would be much more useful"
> "But an SWT implementation, or better a solution of the licensing issues (GPL
> "But for Java developers it makes much more sense to use SWT instead the Qt
By Bernd Lachner at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Java Bindings
SWT is unfortunately a no-go because the IBM legal team decided to use a licence that is neither compatible with GPL nor QPL.
Which is quite hard, but nevertheless manageable.
As for AWT, the GNU Classpath project is implementing peers based on Qt4
By Kevin Krammer at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
Re: Java Bindings
Well, it is compatible with the QPL, as long as you include the source code.
By ac at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
Transparent Menus
I might have misunderstud, but I already have transparent menus in my KDE 3.4.3
By Sindre at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Transparent Menus
If whats under the menu changes the 'transparency' on the menu doesn't update. Right now the method used is sort of a hack (though it works rather well).
By Corbin at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
mouse-over based interface
I am not convinced of the mouse-over interface, as from the mockup I don't see how the default operation (open, run, ...) can be found (and triggered) _fast_. Maybe if the menu would only be the half with of the icon, so clicking the icon that is not under the menu triggers the default operation. And if the mouse "enters" the icon from the left, the menu is display on the right side and vice-versa.
Another idea would be to imitate the behaviour of KDE toolbars: if there are additional operations, open a menu if the thing is clicked for a "long" time.
Sorry for my english.
By MM at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: mouse-over based interface
Agreed that mouse-over doesn't seem to be interesting, disagreeing with using some kind of menu with the left click: what's wrong with right clicking??
With a mouseover, there is usually a delay between the mouse pointing to an icon and the apparition of the menu: if there is no or a small delay then it annoys the users when it moves the mouse and it makes an unwanted menu appearing, if there is a large one then it annoys the user because it takes too long to appear..
I agree that double-clicking icons is not good, but my question is still what's wrong with right clicking?
By renox at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: mouse-over based interface
I don't think that there is anything wrong with right clicking, or another "special" action (Apple key), as long as you KNOW you can make a right click (or that special action) to 'do what you want' with the object you are looking at.
Okay, most users know about it, but an unknown percentage of a >6 billion population may have never used a computer.
If a good solution is found, that on the one hand does not confuse the user nor drives more professional users crazy and on the other hand gives any human in the world who is able to see (and read) an idea what he or she can do, it would be 'one small step' forward, away from a 'silly computer', towards a useful machine for everybody.
Right-clicking of course works. ENIAC did work as well but I though prefer my notebook (at least in every-day life).
By MM at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am


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Julia Creek is located on the Overlander's Way, the main route from Townsville that runs west to Mount Isa and on to Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Julia Creek started to grow when the railway line was extended in February 1908. The town was named after the niece of Donald McIntyre, the first European settler in the area. An interesting collection of memorabilia can be found at the Donald McIntyre Museum in Burke Street.
The district's main industries are cattle, sheep, and mining at BHP Cannington. Julia Creek is a major stock trucking and cattle sales centre. Its impressive saleyards are fitted with lighting for night loading and unloading.
The area is home to a rare and endangered marsupial, the Julia Creek Dunnart. Because of their nocturnal habits and timid natures, glimpses of the dunnart are rare.
While visiting Julia Creek why not visit the Proa Redclaw Farm. The 12 ponds use artesian water, some containing up to 16,000 redclaw. Self-drive tours are available.
Julia Creek has many sporting and social events on its calendar that are a major feature of the town's lifestyle. The annual Julia Creek Dirt n Dust Festival is held annually in April and includes one of the major triathlon events, the Artesian Express Horse Race (the richest horse race in the north west), at PBR Bullride and Australia's Best Butt Competition.
While in the area, take the time to visit Punchbowl Waterhole and Sedan Dip. On the Flinders River approximately 45 kilometres north-east of Julia Creek, the Punchbowl is an excellent spot for swimming, fishing and picnicking. Sedan Dip is on the Cloncurry River, on the Beef Road to Normanton, 100 kilometres north of Julia Creek.
In the late afternoon take a stroll along the nature trail at the back of the caravan park to enjoy the wonderful birdlife or enjoy watching the sunset while relaxing in the caravan park's naturally heated artesian spa after a long day's travel.
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(A) Pursuant to division (I) of section 5751.01 of the Revised Code, a person is deemed to have "bright-line presence" in this state for purposes of the commercial activity tax if the person meets one of the five tests listed in that section, one being that the person has property in this state with an aggregate value of at least fifty thousand dollars at any time during the calendar year. This rule is to address the application of the property test to highway transportation services.
(B) For purposes of paragraph (A) of this rule, a person providing highway transportation services will be presumed to have at least fifty thousand dollars of property in the aggregate during the calendar year if the person has property of such value in this state for more than thirteen days, which need not be consecutive.
(C) For purposes of paragraph (B) of this rule, "day" means a calendar day or any portion thereof. Multiple trips during the same day do not constitute more than one day.
(1) Persons providing highway transportation services must situs gross receipts from such services pursuant to division (G) of section 5751.033 of the Revised Code in proportion to the miles traveled by the carrier during the tax period within the state compared with the miles traveled by the carrier during the tax period everywhere. Even if a person has bright-line presence, however, that person must also have at least one hundred fifty thousand dollars in taxable gross receipts in order to be a taxpayer for purposes of the commercial activity tax. That threshold applies to a person who would otherwise be a separate taxpayer or to a group of persons who would otherwise be members of a combined taxpayer group, but does not apply to members of a consolidated elected taxpayer group. Please see rules 5703-29-02 and 5703-29-04 of the Administrative Code for further clarification on this issue.
(2) For example, assume a widget manufacturer located in Kansas contacts ABC trucking company (ABC), a Kansas transportation company, to arrange the transportation of one hundred thousand dollars worth of the manufacturer's widgets to XYZ retailer (XYZ), located in Pennsylvania. The total trip is nine hundred miles, of which two hundred fifteen miles are traveled in Ohio, and ABC charges the manufacturer ten thousand dollars. ABC loads the widgets onto its trucks in Kansas and drives them through this state to XYZ's Pennsylvania location. ABC's truck is worth eighty thousand dollars, and this is the only trip ABC makes through this state during the calendar year. ABC would not be deemed to have bright-line presence for purposes of the commercial activity tax because ABC is not in this state for more than thirteen days during a calendar year.
If, however, ABC contracted with the widget manufacturer to make bi-weekly trips to XYZ in Pennsylvania for purposes of transporting the widgets, and ABC drove through this state each trip, ABC would be deemed to have bright-line presence in this state for purposes of the commercial activity tax. It is important to remember, however, that ABC would not be considered a taxpayer subject to the commercial activity tax until ABC has at least one hundred fifty thousand dollars in taxable gross receipts (those gross receipts sitused to this state) during the calendar year. If ABC is a combined taxpayer, the entire group must add its taxable gross receipts together to determine if the group reaches the one hundred fifty thousand dollar threshold amount. (Please note that if ABC was a member of a consolidated elected taxpayer group, the one hundred fifty thousand dollar threshold would not apply.) In this example, assuming ABC meets the bright-line standard, ABC's ten thousand dollars of gross receipts would be sitused to this state based on the proportion of miles driven within this state compared with miles driven everywhere.
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates: 4/3/2019 and 06/20/2024
Promulgated Under: 119
Statutory Authority: 5703.05
Rule Amplifies: 5751.01(I)
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For Colorado Rapids technical director Paul Bravo, the last thing he expected earlier this week was longtime defender Kosuke Kimura to come into his office and request a move.
But after six years and an MLS Cup in Colorado, Kimura did exactly that. And by Thursday, Kimura was on his way to Portland.
The Rapids shipped the unhappy 28-year-old to the Timbers for an international spot and allocation money, a move that Bravo and Colorado said they didn't want to make, but felt they had to. Kimura didn't make the 18-man roster in each of the Rapids' last two games.
Kimura speaks to media after first Timbers' practice
"We didn't go out looking for a trade," Bravo told MLSsoccer.com by phone on Friday. "We did have some conversations, and Kosuke came into my office a couple of days ago and said a change might be good for him. We weren't looking to move Kosuke."
"I talked to my agent a couple of times and I talked to Paul Bravo, and we had a really good conversation two days ago actually," Kimura told Portland-based website StumpTownFooty.com on Thursday. "He said he has no interest in trading me and I talked to him and said it is not working out for me well and I think it might be time for me to go and he said, "Alright Kosuke, here is the thing, if you don't really get a good deal, we can't let you go. You have done so much for the club and it is going to be tough for us."
A 34-game starter for the Rapids in 2011, Kimura – who was originally drafted by the Rapids in the 2007 Supplemental Draft – found himself increasingly out of favor in Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja's lineup. The Japanese right back started each of the Rapids' first eight games, only to fall behind veteran Hunter Freeman in the pecking order in recent weeks.
"I got the sense that he was looking for a little bit more stability as far as playing time with the emergence of Hunter over the past few weeks, where Kosuke hasn't been in the 18 in the past few games," Bravo said. "That, along with the fact that Kosuke has a contract at the end of the year and he was looking at it for an opportunity to market himself, I would imagine. You've got to respect that."
Aside from moving an unsettled player, the trade offered the Rapids flexibility to make an additional move, and Bravo pinpointed Colorado's struggling defense as a particular potential area of need.
"This certainly gives us flexibility and that's the important factor here," Bravo said. "We have some needs we're looking to address at this point. This does give us roster flexibility. It opens up a salary, it opens up the potential to bring in an international roster spot for us."
"We're always open to whatever move potentially makes us better. We've sent that consistent message through the preseason and throughout the season. I think we're comfortable with the group that we have in the attacking positions. Is there a player out there to help us? You know, we've had difficulty defending out of the identity we want to create, and if there are players out there that we think can help us in that area, then that's certainly something we're looking at."
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Children who join families through adoption can have unique medical, educational, developmental or behavioral issues, and it is important for both pediatricians and families to be aware of the psychological challenges that many adopted children experience. In an American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) clinical report, "The Pediatrician's Role in Supporting Adoptive Families," in the October 2012 Pediatrics (published online Sept. 24), the AAP recognizes that the characteristics of adoptive families are changing.
According to a 2007 National Survey of Adopted Children, approximately 2 percent of the U.S. child population is adopted, with 38 percent of adopted children coming from the foster care system, another 38 percent through private domestic adoption, and 25 percent adopted internationally. Black children were more likely to be adopted through foster care (35 percent), while 50 percent of white children were adopted through private adoption services. The majority of children adopted internationally were of Asian descent (59 percent). In addition, blended families, families with gay or lesbian parents, and single-parent adoptions are increasingly more common.
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Forgive and delete if this is an inappropriate thread but this seems to be a place to commune as I learn to use OpenMP.
I just started to read the book and it seems rather good. Perhaps I will glean what I need as I go since I program in C as my hobby.
Anyway, I am here and I will check back here to see if there are others learning too.
The examples have been downloaded and I successfully compiled the chapter3 so that is a start.
Okay then, feel free to chat with me on OpenMP if that is allowed.
Currently I am pondering using threads to each call an instance of a function with an integer that is incremented in the parallel region.
This seems to be a reasonable place to start to me and what I believe will be the program structure.
I assume a shared integer incremented or a for loop can provide an instance of value a thread can take with it into its instance of that function.
I assume that each thread will have a copy of that function all to itself. Seems like a good way to increase work done.
To ask a question. Is that reasonable usage? I do have more to read but I'll toss that out for conversation.


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"Radiation oncologists make people with cancer better and give them a chance of a cure for their disease," he said, adding that he's happy to be at Lexington Medical Center. "It's a well run hospital with caring and competent people who deliver good care."
Dr. Lawson comes to Lexington Medical Center from Moores Cancer Center in La Jolla, California, where he was an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology. Dr. Lawson earned an undergraduate degree in Biology and an MD at Emory University in Atlanta. He also completed an internship in Internal Medicine and residency in Radiation Oncology at Emory. He is board certified in Radiation Oncology by the American Board of Radiology.
Dr. Lawson and his wife Erin are originally from Atlanta. They have 4-year-old twin daughters and are expecting a third child later this year. "It's nice to be back in the Southeast close to family," he said.
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Angelina Jolie's latest visit to a foreign nation was so low-key, it wasn't even announced.
The actress and UN goodwill ambassador quietly visited Haiti over the weekend to meet with Haitian and UN officials, The Associated Press reported.
Officials from the UN did confirm Jolie's visit to the AP, but did not want to be identified because they were not asked to disclose the details of the visit.
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The Miami Herald further reported that Jolie was in Haiti to learn more about the situation regarding the country's children. She met with Haitian president Rene Preval.
Jolie, who is starring in the upcoming movie "Salt," has visited Haiti previously. She was there in February meeting with victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake.
She recently traveled to a part of Ecuador to bring awareness about the plight of women and children refugees.


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CRESTVIEW � Aspiring grid iron standouts of all skill levels can attend the Crestview Area Youth Association's Football Camp 2013.
CRESTVIEW � Aspiring grid iron standouts of all skill levels can attend the Crestview Area Youth Association's Football Camp 2013.
The camp � presented by Crestview High School head football coach and athletic director Tim Hatten � is for youth ages 5-18 and runs July 22, 23 and 25 at the CHS football practice field.
"We did this last year and it worked real well," youth association spokesperson Rebecca Martin said. "It teaches the players the fundamentals of football. It really is an excellent program."
Hatten is rounding up guest players from college teams and "maybe from the NFL" to help conduct the camp, Martin said.
The camp will teach playing techniques and sharpen players' abilities, she said. While the camp offers practice for potential middle and high school football players, it is also a fun activity for kids who enjoy the sport but don�t plan to try out for a team.
Participants should wear cleats and carry a water bottle, but otherwise no equipment is required, Martin said.
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Grains settled strong after a very weak start. March corn finished 12 ¾ cents higher, March beans 2 ¾ cents higher, and March wheat up 6 ¼ cents.
The trade continues to be choppy in 2011. Exports are being watched very closely by the market. The rumored 500,000 MT's of Australian Feed grade wheat bought by China was lowered down to 150,000 MT's. Weekly exports were delayed until tomorrow due to the holiday week. They will be in the EHedger Morning Grain Bulletin.
Expected weekly sales tomorrow in 1000 MT's:
Soybeans 450-750
Corn 500-900
Wheat 400-750
Also today, China signed a 1.8 billion dollar agreement for soybean purchases from the United States. At the same time, the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange said they are expecting the Argentine corn crop to fall to 19.5 Million MT's, which is well below the USDA's 23.5 number on the 12th. These factors certainly are supportive for our markets.
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Placed in Dec 113.7 102.8-120.6
Marketed in Dec 105.2 102.9-106.9
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PORTSMOUTH — Firefighters struggled in bitter cold temperatures and brutal winds Friday night to get ahead of a five-alarm blaze in the upper floors of a Bow Street waterfront condominium complex.
PORTSMOUTH — Firefighters struggled in bitter cold temperatures and brutal winds Friday night to get ahead of a five-alarm blaze in the upper floors of a Bow Street waterfront condominium complex.
After more than three hours of fighting the flames, crews from all over the Seacoast declared the fire contained shortly after 10 p.m.
"We still have a couple hours here," Exeter Fire Chief Brian Comeau said.
The fire, which Portsmouth Fire Chief Christopher LeClaire said started in a chimney, spread to residential units at the 135 Bow Street Harbour Place condominium building a few minutes before 7 p.m. Other media was reporting the fire broke out in Unit 13.
All residents had evacuated safely and no injuries related to the fire were reported.
One woman walking along Bow Street did slip and fall, according to LeClaire. He said it might have been from water used on the scene that had turned into ice.
With gusts blowing over the Piscataqua River, the billowing red and orange flames continued to give crews from Portsmouth, Rye, Hampton, Dover, Rochester, Pease, Newington, Stratham, Hampton Falls, Newmarket, Greenland, and Kittery, Eliot and York, Maine a difficult time.
At 7:45 p.m., Portsmouth began using their water truck to fight the flames as many onlookers watched from the Bow Street sidewalk.
Around 8 p.m., LeClaire said crews "were making progress," but that part of the building's roof had collapsed.
Of the five-story building, LeClaire said the fire was from the third floor to the roof. He said wind was not as much as an issue as the location of the building.
"It's tricky," he said about how the building sat right on the river. "Limited access."
A fifth-alarm was called in shortly before 10 p.m. in what appeared to be an effort to get more crews to continue to battle the blaze.
However, Comeau confirmed the fire was under control just after 10 p.m.
"The main body of the fire is all knocked out," he said. "The fifth alarm is more like overhaul to the damaged areas to make sure the fire is out and to help pick up the equipment."
He explained that the fifth alarm brought station coverage to the scene for extra man power.
"It is contained," he said. "When it is under control, it means it is not getting any bigger.
As of 11 p.m., fire engines and ambulances were still blocking Daniel and Bow Streets, which had both been blocked off to vehicular traffic since the fire began.


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Essendon legend: John "Killer" Kilby has been a part of the scene at Windy Hill since starting as the under 19s' trainer in 1968.I HAVEN'T reached John Kilby before he introduces himself and reaches for my hand, saying, "John Kilby, Martin. The players call me 'Killer'. I don't like the name, but they gave it to me 45 years ago."
At 77, tall, lean and tanned, Killer looks like the athlete he once was when he ran cross-countries and threw the discus for the Essendon Amateur Athletic Club. He's lost a lot of his hearing, but, in his grey-haired vitality and the way he leans forward bright-eyed to further impress his meaning upon you, he is slightly reminiscent of Doc from the film Back to the Future.
Killer was an only child – he says that explains a lot about his life. He was born in Tasmania and came to Melbourne when his father tried to enlist in the army during World War II. The family settled in Essendon. Two of his Tasmanian uncles, Duffy and Boy Plummer, had played for the Bombers so the family quickly became "Essendon people". Killer's parents travelled to away games in the back of a truck belonging to a fruit shop in Glass Street.
In 1968, the Bombers couldn't get a trainer for their under 19s, and Killer, an aircraft examiner, got the call. "I was the head trainer," he says leaning forward, his face scored with humour, "I was the only one." Killer was very happy with the under 19s, watching the young fellows progress, but eventually duty called. He was asked to be head trainer for the reserves, then the seniors; in time, he was the head trainer for the Victorian state team.
His best day at the club was the 1984 grand final when the Bombers won their first premiership in 19 years. "It was this feeling of joy at being involved with a great team, a great coach, a great administration. It was just a great day for my footy club." Killer's a great believer in the power of good administrators and, when asked to list the club's three greatest personalities in his time, he names two presidents, Greg Sewell and Ron Evans.
The other name, not surprisingly, is Kevin Sheedy. It was Sheedy who appointed Killer head trainer of the Essendon Football Club. "Because of him I got to stand on the MCG on grand final day and be part of four premierships. When he left I went into his office and told him I was very sorry to see him go. I'm a sentimental man. I had tears running down my face." His emotion is still visible.
Killer dates back to the time when the trainers organised functions for the players such as tennis and golf days, when they went on the end-of-season trips. Of all the Essendon players he's dealt with over the past half-century the one he remembers most fondly is the late Merv Neagle, a wingman from the 1980s. "He was rough and tough, but that's how footy was played then. He was a character." Neagle used to take Killer with him when he went home to watch the Horsham league grand finals. When Neagle was late for his wedding, Killer found him in a pub. "I said to him, 'Merv, they're waiting for you to get married'. "
Killer still hears from Neagle's former wife each Christmas. He even gets a Christmas card each year from Billy Duckworth, as rough and tough a character as Neagle. Paul Van Der Haar, the Maddens, the Danihers, Paul Salmon – the list of former Essendon players Killer has stories about goes on and on. A lot of them used to ring him but, being hard of hearing, Killer's not much good on the phone these days.
The low point of his time at the club has been the drug scandal, which Killer dismisses, with feeling, as "hogwash". But, he adds, he was very pleased that not one Collingwood supporter made a rude remark about it during last weekend's NAB Cup round. "And," he says, leaning forward as if to divulge a confidence, "I've never been a Collingwood person."
Killer never married. "I don't have a wife, my mum and dad are dead, I was an only child."
He has a dog – a Jack Russell called Rusty – that was bought for him by players David Hille and Chris Heffernan. "They said, 'Killer, you need company'. At the time, I thought I needed him like a hole in the head but he's a lovely little feller."
Hille visits Killer and Rusty at least once a week. Sometimes, they go for a walk in the Botanical Gardens or go for a meal. "We seem to have something special," says Killer. "I would love to have had a brother like him."
Hille says their friendship comes from having the same feeling for the game and their club.
The Essendon ruckman is a thoughtful young man. He says footy's changed a lot even in his time. "It's important that we don't lose people like John and others in that process."
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Dove-ville: Locust Grove wages peace on Iraq
Published November 21, 2002, in issue #42 of The Hook
Santa Cruz, California; Ithaca, New York; Locust Grove Neighborhood Association?
What do these communities have in common? They've all passed resolutions against war in Iraq.
And while Santa Cruz is known for its liberal tendencies, and the Utne Reader calls Ithaca America's "most enlightened city," neighborhood associations don't normally weigh in on foreign policy.
That didn't deter Garnett Mellen and Sarah Peaslee. The president and vice president of the neighborhood association surrounding Locust Avenue took action.
"The greatest concern for both of us was war in Iraq," says Mellen, and Peaslee was inspired by Ithaca's resolution against the war. She and Mellen, who have never been politically active beyond honking to show support for the living wage campaign or writing letters to elected representatives, brought up the idea of a resolution to the dozen or so people who showed up for the October annual meeting.
"I was really surprised no one spoke out against it," says Mellen. The rest of the neighborhood was advised through emails or letters, and only one resident responded.
"That was amazing," Mellen says. "I thought the general population supported the war."
Peaslee describes the neighborhood as "a much more liberal one than I've ever lived in." At the November 12 meeting, the five Locust Grovers present approved the resolution.
Gerry Berg is the neighbor who questioned the appropriateness of a neighborhood association trying to involve itself in foreign affairs. Since the resolution passed, he's reconsidering whether he'll remain a member of the association.
"We have elected representatives to deal with Iraq," he says. "We don't elect people to the neighborhood association to deal with issues of foreign policy. What next? Resolutions on genocide in Rwanda? Recommendations for funding aircraft carriers?"
Berg, who describes himself as a lifelong Democrat and who supports the war, also questions how democratic it is to have a handful of people claim to represent the neighborhood, although he concedes he didn't attend the meeting.
"I wouldn't like to think I have to show up at a neighborhood meeting to have my say on foreign policy issues," he says.
However, Center for Peace and Justice activist Clarence McClymonds, who lives on the Martha Jefferson Hospital end of Locust Avenue– not part of the Locust Grove Neighborhood– thinks it's a good idea and says he'll suggest it to his own neighborhood association. "It's a way of letting various administrations know that people out in the boondocks are talking about it," he says.
Mellen and Peaslee sent the resolution to Congressman Virgil Goode, Senators John Warner and George Allen, and City Council, and plan to let President George Bush and the United Nations have a copy, too.
Will Charlottesville City Council issue its own resolution against war with Iraq? Given that Council once passed resolutions declaring the city a nuclear-free zone and called for a moratorium on the death penalty, such action doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility.
What about local Republicans are they going to find a neighborhood association to issue a counter resolution in support of the war in Iraq? Top local Republican Bob Hodous doesn't think so, but he's chuckling over Locust Grove's initiative. "That's one of the beauties of the United States," he says, "that people can say what they want."