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Croydon, United Kingdom
Croydon in the United Kingdom is London's largest borough by population. It has expanded from a small market town into a civic centre and houses the southeast of England's largest office and retail centre. The borough's entertainment and art venues contribute to its status as an important metropolitan centre.
Croydon Attractions
- Addington Palace
- Croydon Parish Church of St John the Baptist
- Shirley Windmill
Croydon Activities
- Try your hand at orienteering at Lloyd Park
- Watch the Croydon Football Club at Croydon Arena
- Shop your heart out at the Central Shopping Centre
Croydon Climate
Croydon boasts a mean annual temperature of 10ºC. The best time to explore the area's outdoor attractions is in the summer, in which temperatures can reach around 23ºC. If visiting in the winter months, it is best to wrap up warmly and bring an umbrella.
Getting There & Around
Croydon's nearest airport is London Heathrow Airport. Home to five terminals, this airport provides easy access to the main boroughs of the capital. Buses, trains and taxis can be picked up at the airport, granting a stress-free journey to your final destination.
Once you have arrived, you can use the Arriva bus service to get around town; tickets can usually be purchased directly from the driver. Alternatively, you could use the Croydon Tramlink or the National Express coach service. Network Rail and Southern Rail are also available for those who prefer to use the railway network.
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President Obama's new stimulus bill would likely provide the 25 million un- or under-employed Americans little if any relief in exchange for its $447 billion price tag. Like its $830 billion predecessor in 2009, this plan fails to address one of the fundamental factors hindering investment and hiring: uncertainty.
America's consumers, investors and businesses face great uncertainly over tax policy, federal regulations and our economic outlook. Without plans to raze these roadblocks to capital formation, business expansion and consumer confidence, most analysts — including those at the White House's budget office — expect national unemployment to remain over 8% through 2013.
Bottom line: We need systemic reforms to our tax code and regulatory policy.
The U.S. boasts the second highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. The gangly patchwork of deductions and credits lawmakers have implemented to offset this burden have transformed a level playing field into an uneven and perilous landscape.
During the last major tax code rewrite in 1986, the IRS instructions for Form 1040 totaled 52 pages. For tax year 2009, those same instructions more than doubled — weighing in at 105 pages.
According to the Tax Foundation, the Internal Revenue Code plus all IRS regulations grew from 5.7 million words in 1986 to 9.1 million words in 2005. And both the Code and regulations have expanded significantly since. Going back further, in 1955 the Code and all IRS regulations totaled just 718,000 words.
This boondoggle is both discriminatory and distorting. An original analysis of data from 12 major companies' SEC Annual Filings from 2006 to 2010 found effective tax rates ranging from 50% to negative 11%.
By costing $40 billion annually for businesses to comply and many billions more in economic distortions, our tax code also puts the U.S. at a disadvantage to foreign competitors who operate under what's know as a "territorial" system.
In fact, our "worldwide" system can cause American companies to face a tax rate on their foreign income a full 16 percentage points higher than that of their foreign competitors, according to the Business Roundtable. To incentivize domestic start-up firms and small businesses — the primary source of job growth — we must adopt a more rational corporate tax system.
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Military vet surrenders after standoff, shootout with Ky. police
The suspect was shot in the arm by police before he surrendered
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COVINGTON, Ky. — A military veteran who barricaded himself inside a northern Kentucky home for more than 19 hours has surrendered, police said Sunday.
Covington police told WCPO-TV that Michael Vaughan started a fire at the home and then began shooting at police. He surrendered after being shot in the arm.
Police have not said what charges he will face as a result of the standoff.
Officers went to the home Saturday after received calls that Vaughan had been making distressing comments on Facebook. Vaughan posted that he had no reason to live after his girlfriend left him.
When police arrived at the home, Vaughan was holed up inside with his three children, ages 15, 11 and 6.
After a long negotiation with authorities, Vaughan eventually released the children Sunday morning.
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creative conundrum! how to build a removable loft railing?
We just renovated our new (to us!) house... and created a loft in my boys room. i need ideas for a removable railing- we want the boys to be safe up there, but need to be able to remove it when necessary (this is the only access to our attic for storage.) i thought maybe a basic bunkbed railing - and c- clamps on the wall to slide it into... or maybe a shelf hinge type thing. anyone creative out there with the know-how?? thanks,
I did a similar removable railing with some L brackets for the top rail, and routed keyhole slots that slid own over a bolt head (out about 1/2") so only two screws held it in place an it then would lift up & off. For completely hidden, you could use the bolt heads and keyhole slots for all 4 points, but it would not be tamper-proof like with screws.
The L brackets were inverted so the parts that screwed into the newel posts were hidden by the rail ends, but the bottom showed, it was mortised into the rail so it was flush and there was a mechanical joint making it firmer. In your case you would mount 1x6's or whatever to the walls, and use them in place of newel posts. If you try to use the drywall, it's going to get torn up with the taking out an putting back.
This post was edited by sombreuil_mongrel on Mon, Jul 21, 14 at 20:35
Maybe you need something like this, brass threaded inserts, to let you bolt, unbolt, and rebolt the gate (which could be a simple wooden frame) to the wooden "newel posts" that Casey was talking about. (I do agree, you need a stationery wood (or metal) "newel post" to attach the gate to on either side; either w/ a hinge on one end, or with locks on both ends.
threaded brass inserts, that you sink into the newel posts, and then you can put a bolt through the gate frame and into the brass holes over and over again.
The plans that I once was considering for a folding workbench had you make a long bolt w/ a T-shaped handle; You attach a T-knob to a bolt, then slide the bolt through the gate and into a hole drilled into the "newel post."
if you could make something like that, it could be your bolt that holds the gate in place. (though the handle might make it too removable, while a countersunk bolt like the ones in the link above could be removed by you but not by the kids)
I wonder if this sort of hardware would help:
I think this is a similar piece of hardware--"great for knockdown or permanent applications"--you're the "knockdown" person.
(another bolt-with-a-knob: http://www.rockler.com/5-star-jig-knobs-through-hole-insert )


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If this IS a company offering pre-paid funerals, why does it think this is the best way to go about generating business? I have had several silent calls from this number recently. Particularly tactless in the case of those households where a death is imminent, as it is in ours.
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This number rang me today, said my husband had left our telephone number for him to call - unlikely as we are members of the Telephone Preference Scheme - said he was calling on behalf of Golden Charter in connection with pre-paid funerals. Told him we didn't want his service, thank you.
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If it is Golden Charter, they sell pre-paid funerals. I've had a few calls from them
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I have been getting this number calling my mobile since 13th may and still getting them, ignoring it but they dont get the message
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called for member of household, refused to say what Golden Charter was, abruptt when asked and hung uo
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Mini Schnauzer Jack Russell puppies.
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9 weeks old.
Tails are docked. First set of shots and deworming.
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$300, email me with a phone number if interested
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Beautiful small rare AKC Mini Schnauzer, white/chocolate, male with a super coat! He turned 8 weeks old on March 28. He should be around 10 lbs when fully grown. He is a playful puppy. He has his tail docked and dew claws removed. He us up to date on worming and shots. He is ...
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Beautiful small AKC Mini Schnauzer, liver/pepper, male with a super coat! He turned 8 weeks old on March 28. He should be around 10 lbs when fully grown. He is a loving puppy. He has his tail docked and dew claws removed. He us up to date on worming and shots. He is being ...
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I raise mini schnauzer with great temperaments and that are beautiful and fun to live with. Like me on FB blackwitch farms and mini schnauzers pages. I have been showing and breeding minis for 40 years and have over 100 champions. Come and see for your self, visitor are ...
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Puppies look a lot like schnoodles
Dad is Black and Silver mini schnauzer
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Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Manufacturers going uninspected
Lack of oversight 'puts workers at risk'
There are at least 600 manufacturing operations in Manitoba that have never been checked out by a provincial workplace safety and health inspector.
That's about to change.
Lower-priority guidelines
AMONG the 19 of 44 sections of the guidelines for workplace inspections that the province does not consider high priorities:
-- First-aid
-- Harassment
-- Violence in the workplace
-- Hearing conservation and noise control
-- Radiation
-- Fire and explosive hazards
-- Emergency washing facilities
-- Diving operations
Harassment, for example, does not refer to incidents of harassment, but for the existence of a policy to deal with harassment and the will to enforce it.
All 44 provisions can be found here.
Frustrated by an inability to reduce workplace injuries since 2010, the province has told inspectors to concentrate on enforcing the 25 most hazardous of 44 provisions of the guidelines within the Workplace Safety and Health Act.
And the government has told its inspectors to inspect workplaces that have never been checked out before, said Dave Dyson, assistant deputy minister of family services and labour.
"That surprises me," said Manitoba Chambers of Commerce president and CEO Graham Starmer, who was unaware so many workplaces have never been inspected.
It's unacceptable that so many workplaces have never been checked, said Manitoba Federation of Labour president Kevin Rebeck.
"It puts workers at risk," he said.
Rebeck said inspectors should visit every workplace at least once a year, though he cautioned: "You'd need four times as many (inspectors) to do it."
Dyson said government inspectors reduced injuries through the decade up to 2010 by concentrating on workplaces that had reported serious injuries to the Workers Compensation Board and by regularly inspecting repeat offenders. "We target those offenders who just aren't protecting their workers," he said.
Construction, manufacturing, agriculture and oil and gas were the major targets for inspection, said Dyson.
As a result of having conducted inspections based on WCB injury reports, "There are 600 workplaces that have never been inspected" just in manufacturing alone, he said. The department has now set priorities for workplaces with the highest hazards to be the focus of inspection, he said.
"High hazard is relative to a specific industry," he said. Machine protection would be the highest hazard in manufacturing, while anchored excavation -- preventing falls -- would be tops in construction.
Dyson said inspectors are to enforce all 44 provisions under the act. However, he equated the inspectors' priorities with a situation such as a police cruiser responding to a serious accident, but not stopping en route to issue a jaywalking ticket. "We've been tweaking what the high hazards are," he said. "We're focusing on trying to reduce serious injury."
Dyson said most of the workplaces that have never been inspected are rural and smaller businesses. In some cases, employers may have opted not to report injuries, he said.
The province doubled the number of inspectors within the last decade, said Dyson. Recently, it has significantly increased stop-work orders, shutting down worksites until hazardous conditions are rectified.
Rebeck said making high hazards the priority should not lead to ignoring lesser priorities, such as ensuring a business has a policy to deal with harassment or violence and the will to enforce the policy.
The MFL suspects some smaller workplaces manage injuries or even cover up injuries without reporting them to the WCB, Rebeck said.
The most prevalent reported workplace injury in Manitoba is back injuries for health-care workers, Rebeck said.
Starmer said government needs to make health-care workers a high priority, because, "That's where (there are) a lot of injuries."
The Manitoba chamber was aware "of the focus on high-risk areas" through its regular consultations with the Department of Labour and the WCB, Starmer said.
"I'd be surprised if there were just 600" that have never been inspected, Starmer said.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition April 1, 2013 A3
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