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Move over random Starbucks, you've got some fierce competition.
This June, a startup company named Posh Stow & Go plans to unveil the first of several planned "luxury bathroom facilities" in Midtown Manhattan. The honor of using these squeaky-clean, soundproof lavs can be gained via an annual membership fee of $15 along with the purchase of packaging plans that start at $6 per visit and are available in three, seven, or 10-day increments. Essentially, this is Zipcar of, ahem, powdering your nose.
Geared primarily toward skittish and/or potty-shy tourists but also available to harried commuters on heavy fiber diets and those with impatient bladders and temperamental colons, there is indeed a "stow" aspect to the new venture that "aims to be the one-and-only, must-have service when taking a bite of The Big Apple." The facilities will include private lockers along with secured storage rooms for the unloading of oversized parcels too cumbersome to schlep around all day on "NYC's riveting streets."
But on the topic of unloading cumbersome parcels, it's the "go" aspect of these private stash-and-pee clubs where things get interesting. Each location will include a handful of "high-end" private restrooms that, as mentioned, are soundproofed for privacy and "immaculately cleaned and sanitized" by a staff member after each visit. They'll also boast motion-sensor faucets and toilet flushers, powerful hand-dryers, and charging stations so that you can power up your smartphone while seeing a man about a horse.
One in every five rooms will include a shower — some ADA compliant — for more thorough freshening up. Baby-changing stations will also be available. And on that note, as the company expands, private lounges for nursing mothers will also be among the amenities.
It's unclear at this point if these classy comfort stations will be 24/7 type of joints or only open during peak poop and pee hours. And one would assume that with each paid visit, there isn't a clock running so that you can go about your business at leisure, sit around for a while, read a magazine, relax.
Drop-in visits are verboten if you're not an annual member enrolled in a package plan. So if you experience emergency-level rumblings after scarfing one too many Activia yogurts before leaving your house — or hotel room — and aren't already a member, you're, well, you-know-what out of luck. Children under 18 can access the facilities for free provided that they are accompanied by an adult membership holder.
Inaugural Posh Stow & Go location will in proximity to Grand Central and Penn stations with future locations to open in Lower Manhattan.
If access to a private commode club isn't in your budget, there's always ToiletCity and several other bathroom-locating apps for when nature calls, whispers, yodels or screams. You may not get the best results, but, hey, it's better than the alternative.
More mandatory toilet reading on MNN:
- Recycled toilet paper entrepreneur stages squat-in
- World Toilet Organization campaign seeks to turn Black Friday brown
- L'Uritonnoir transforms hay bales into compost-making pee stations
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Geoff is taking off work early in order for us to get on the road for Bakersfield. I am looking forward to the trip because my mom will hold Phoebe the entire time and I will get a nice break.
I am wearing the shirt I slept in both for my nap today and last night. I haven't packed. I am doing babylaundry, Phoebe and I both need baths, and the house is a DISASTER.
But the good news is that whenever we head out of town, Geoff can USUALLY be convinced to stop off at In n Out for dinner, first.
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Happy Halloween, friends. Or Samhain, if you prefer.
Where I'm from, Halloween is sometimes controversial. People buy candy, decorate their lawns, and dress up in costumes just like anywhere else. But around the start of October, Anti-Halloween flyers start showing up in mailboxes or left underneath the windshield wipers of parked cars.
"It's Pagan!" said the preacher.
"It's All Hallows' Eve," said others. "That makes it Christian."
"No," said others. "It's Satan's birthday."
"You don't understand," whispered the handful of pagans and wiccans.
"It's just harmless fun," said most people, who carried on as they pleased, while the others argued on.
Some of my schoolmates weren't allowed to celebrate Halloween. My own church took a softer approach. Instead, we were told Halloween was a time of spiritual tests, where we good Christians of northeast Alabama were called on to defend their hearts, minds, and souls from the Devil's ever-looming presence. Enjoy the holiday, the preacher would say, but beware.
Regardless of this annual bickering, Halloween was always my favorite holiday. I suppose it's a little easy for a horror fan, but I don't care. As a child, the spooky aesthetic and muddled mythology of Halloween spoke to me. I'm not a spiritual person, but there's something magnetic about the Halloween vibe. I love stories about ghosts, witches, and monsters, but I also love strange history and interesting religious undertones that accompany it. It's a night filled with mystery. What could be better?
I don't believe in ghosts, witches, or monsters, but I love those stories. Halloween, in all its forms, gives me something special. On cold October nights, I can stand outside in the darkness, breathe in the cool scent of the season, and pretend, even for a few minutes, that I believe.
In honor of Halloween, I will tell you my own ghost story.


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My Rating: 4.25 stars out of 5
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Jeane Smith is seventeen and has turned her self-styled dorkiness into an art form, a lifestyle choice and a profitable website and consultancy business. She writes a style column for a Japanese teen magazine and came number seven in The Guardian's 30 People Under 30 Who Are Changing The World. And yet, in spite of the accolades, hundreds of Internet friendships and a cool boyfriend, she feels inexplicably lonely, a situation made infinitely worse when Michael Lee, the most mass-market, popular and predictably all-rounded boy at school tells Jeane of his suspicion that Jeane's boyfriend is secretly seeing his girlfriend. Michael and Jeane have NOTHING in common - she is cool and individual; he is the golden boy in an Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirt. So why can't she stop talking to him? (from Goodreads)


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Congratulations to Terri Sligar at Mount Baker Middle School for completing the Google Certified Educator Level 1 course and mastering the assessment to earn her Google Certified Educator Level 1 Certification! This course and assessment do a great job of highlighting the pedagogy and not just the tools. The course takes time, thought and reflection to complete, but in the end, you have increased your skills in using the tools available to help your students create, collaborate, communicate and think critically. You also get a cool and coveted badge to place in your email signature and people even write blog posts about you. :)
Mount Vernon teachers can earn clock hours for completing this course and passing the test through our Cloud Academy Courses. The cost of the exam is $10 and is administered online by Google.
The course is self guided, but I am considering developing a cohort of teachers next year who are interested in working together to earn their certification. If you are a Mount Vernon teacher and think that you might be interested, please let me know.
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Sunday, February 28, 2016
Disrupting Education: Holly Clark
I had the opportunity to attend the NCCE Google Summit in Seattle this last week. Holly Clark an inspiring educator who works with the EdTech Team gave the Keynote speech titled, Disrupt Education. At this point in the conference, the wireless was pretty sketchy, so my notes are a little hard to understand. But I was able to jot down several of the key statements and ideas that she shared.
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I Can See Clearly Now: Tools for Visual Learning
I did a fun, low key workshop just looking at some ideas for using visual tools to promote and share learning. Holly Clark talks about the importance of being "transliterate". We need to be able to read and speak all different types of informational media including images. I tried to focus more on the pedagogy and ideas and not just share a lot of resources. As Kevin Honeycutt says, it is not about the tools, it is about the possibilities. In all of my sessions, I tried to make sure that I included opportunities to create, collaborate, communicate and think critically. This is my new mantra. This needs to be a part of everything I teach.
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Great Google Gear for Teacher Workflow
I did a workshop at NCCE this last week on Google tools for Teacher workflow. I knew going in that I had really bitten off more than I could chew trying to share all of this in a 2 hour workshop. You really need time to work through each of these tools and practice how it would work with your workflow. The workshop might have been a bit of a brain blower, but if you take just one step at a time and take advantage of the resources shared, there are some really great tools here for you to explore the possibilities for how they might help you out in your classroom.
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Chrome is the New Black
I had the opportunity to present a session at the NCCE Google Summit this last week. I definitely feel that Chrome is the best browser, especially with Google Apps for Education. There are so many cool things that you can do in this browser if you just dig in a bit. In addition to the presentation slides, I also shared a resource page that goes into detail about many of the great things you can do with Chrome. Pin It Now!
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Taking time to Create, Collaborate, Communicate and Think Critically
This fall I have had the great opportunity to teach a class at Western Washington University. The class is called Digital Decisions. The course is for pre-service elementary teachers. Most of the students are currently in practicums and will be starting their student teaching soon. The course is designed to help prepare students with the tools and knowledge needed to successfully and effectively use technology for learning in the elementary classroom. Although much of what I am teaching is similar to what I share with teachers in our district, I've had some opportunities to do things a little differently in the university classroom. Probably the main difference has been time. My opportunities to work with teachers in the district is always so limited by time constraints that I often resort to the fire hose approach of just trying to share as much as possible during the limited time available crossing my fingers that teachers will somehow find a way to revisit and explore the information shared. This is not an approach I like and it is not good teaching. When working with technology, teachers (and students) need time to play and explore. Especially if tech is to become anything more that a "how to" productivity checklist. Although I still feel the constraints of time teaching at Western, I do feel like I have a little more time to actually model and teach in a way that I would hope we would work with our students. I make sure that each session involves an opportunity to create something using both creativity and critical thinking skills. Students have many opportunities to collaborate and communicate with others in class and also with teachers and experts in the field beyond the classroom walls. Although, college educators are called "professors", I try to do as little "professing" as possible. I want my students doing the talking. I ask lots of questions and have students work together and share what they are learning instead of me just standing and delivering my knowledge and expertise. The reality of taking time for learning is difficult when the goals of the class are many and the time is limited. But there is great power in forcing ourselves to do this.
Although I feel like I was able to have success with this with my college students, I am still struggling with how to make time for staff/students to create, communicate, collaborate and think critically when I may only have a one hour window of time to teach a certain group of staff members about instructional technology during a given year. I try to have structures in place to use a blended model of instruction providing materials, resources and activities that can be done before and after training. But this approach requires a commitment to extending the learning outside of the training time. It requires a commitment to continued learning and exploring. And from me, it requires the ability to follow up with staff and teachers and determine current needs and next steps and the ability to help teachers make those next steps. Yes, we are all in the business of learning and learning can be hard and time consuming work.
Today is a great day to learn something new.
Take a look at the online courses I have compiled and created for teachers in our district. By using the "Just in Time" Flipped model approach, I am hoping to meet the professional development needs of more of our teachers. Pin It Now!
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Join the Sharing Revolution
In my job, I have the opportunity to get out into schools and see the amazing learning happening in classrooms across the district. I don't think that a day goes by that I am not asking a teacher or a student if it is ok if I share with others what I observed or learned from them. We have so much to share. This should be a part of what we do. We have so much to share and we also have lots to learn from the teacher in the room next door, or the school down the road. In addition to sharing with our fellow teachers, which in itself is so powerful, we should also sharing with our community. Our community is and should be part of our learning village. Whether we work for the district or not, we as a community all want to know about the great learning happening in our schools. This week, Andrew Bishop shared his latest "Ask a student" video with our community via Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. And as a community, we celebrated the thoughtfulness of the students and the creativity in sharing. With the social media tools we have available to us as teachers, we have the opportunity to not only open the doors to our classrooms so that students can learn beyond the walls, but we can also open our classroom doors for all to see the amazing things happening in our classrooms. George Couros, a champion in building innovative learning cultures in schools,shares this idea in one of his latest posts.
Of course, not all of what we see and hear on Social Media about our schools is positive. The best way to change this is to make sure that we are faithfully sharing and celebrating the good stuff and intentionally reflecting on even the "bad stuff". And because George Couros does such a nice job of sharing with others, I will end this blog with another great quote from George. "We need to make the positive so loud that the negative becomes almost impossible to hear."
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Building Communication and Collaboration Skills with Shared Computers
Our current reality is that we will continue to distribute devices to classrooms, as funding from our 3 year tech levy permits. This will result in more that 1750 new student devices added to our district on top of the classroom and lab devices currently available to students. The plan with this levy is to have shared carts for each elementary grade level and secondary content area. With our current funding, we will not get to one to one. But have hopes to move closer and possibly even achieve that goal when we run our next tech levy in another 2 years.
As I have worked with teachers on how to best use these shared devices, I have made a few observations.
Although it is sometimes nice to have all students individually working on devices at the same time. With this model, students can get through tasks quicker and every one can be on the same page. But often collaboration and communication skills are not a part of this type of use. This model doesn't always take advantage of the powerful learning students can achieve when working together. And since, for the most part, we are working with shared carts. This means that this type of work becomes an "event" when you can get the cart instead of a ubiquitous tool in the classroom.
Managing the devices by distributing to all of the classes sharing that cart requires a different plan for using the devices. The devices become a center in a rotation or they become one of many tools available to to a group of students working collaboratively. This model allows for students to work more on communication and collaboration skills. With this model, students begin to see the devices as tools for learning and less as an event. It does have some drawbacks such as the distributing, storing and charging devices becomes a bigger challenge as devices are assigned to one cart which may or may not be in a convenient location for everyone in the team to access.
I see value and challenges in both models and I think that with teachers working together on a schedule, that both of these models can be possible with flexible planning. I encourage artists in the craft of teaching to make the most of the tools you have. Remember that the tech is the tool, not the teacher. Think of how you can best take advantage of the situation. The necessity to share can lead to great opportunities for small group work, project based learning, collaboration and creativity. Make the most of this. Build on the strengths of your current model.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Time to Sign Up for the Hour of Code
The time is now to get your class signed up to join in on the Hour of Code. December 7th through 11th. Each teacher who signs up will receive a $10 gift card. If every class in the school participates, they could be eligible for a drawing for $10,000 workd of technology.There are many options available for participating. If your students participated last year, there will be new activities for them this year. There are activities at different skill levels and even opportunities to learn about coding in a fun and hands on way even if you don't have access to student devices in your classroom.
This summer I went to a workshop on coding and computer science put on by Code.orgcode.org. I think that my biggest take away was the importance of exposure. Although there are attributes to learning coding that make it useful for all students. (Great problem solving, critical thinking, sequencing, etc.) Computer Science will not be the field that every student chooses. But, if we don't provide students the opportunity to learn and explore computer science starting at a young age, we build a generation of students who see coding and computer science as hard, and an unattainable goal. Students who have the exposure at an early age, see computer science and coding for what it is, a fun and challenging field that they might enjoy and might choose as a career choice one day.
Besides encouraging you to find a way for your students to participate, I have a challenge to you as teachers. I challenge you to participate in the Hour of Code as well. Remember, it is just an hour and you don't have to wait until December 7th to give it a try. I warn you though, that once you start, it can be hard to stop. As you "play" with coding consider what learning benefits your students will get from this activity. How can this help them be better mathematicians, communicators, artist and scientists? How can this fit in with what you are currently teaching? Which of your students might be inspired to learn more?
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Visible Thinking Through App Smashing
The idea of App Smashing, encourages teachers and students to start building a menu of appropriate tools and then choosing what they think are the appropriate tools for the learning at hand. We might use one tool for collecting information, another tool for synthesizing that information and yet another tool for sharing the learning with others. At first, our tool boxes might be limited and our choices to complete the task may be suggested or very similar to each other. But as our tool box grows, so do the possibilities.
So how to we start growing this process with limited time to teach the tools and most likely limited devices?
One way I have seen teachers solve these issues is by creating task cards, with either an app menu or specific app suggestions for the activity. If constructed at an appropriate level, even very young students are able to follow the task cards independently.
Here is an example from 1st Grade Teacher Meghan Zigmond. Students learned and wrote pumpkin facts. She then created a simple task card using the pumpkin carving app on the ipads. The task cards included pictures that showed the student what apps to open and step by step what to do. Students saved their pumpkin pictures on the camera roll and then opened up Chatterpix. Students used Chatterpix to record their pumpkin facts. She then published the videos to YouTube.
Based on the ideas I have learned about App Smashing and the belief that giving students choice is important, Paula Dagnon and I have built a few App Menus to help you get started doing some App Smashing of your own. We've tried to limit our list, so that you or your students don't end up with an overwhelming laundry list. We've also included both iPad and Web Based apps so that you can use the tools appropriate to your classroom.
What I would LOVE to see happen is that we as teachers begin to build and share task cards for our students using apps and programs we have available in our district. Let me know if you are interested in doing some collaborative App Smashing.
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App Smashing is the process of using multiple apps to create projects or complete tasks. App Smashing can provide your students with creative and inspired ways to showcase their learning and allow you to assess their understanding and skills.
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Facebook likes moving fast and breaking things. Back in 2013 Facebook Mobile apps were really lagging. Acquiring Parse was the right step to help Facebook make their mobile apps awesome.
Today at 2016 and after Facebook had made a quite successful quarter (2105 Q4), generating a lot of revenue from ads on mobile. Now they just want to shut Parse down as they are done with it, to focus on their core business as they claim and may be to stop any one from building successful mobile apps more easily (Enough with WhatsApp, Instagram and alike apps – It should be just Facebook apps).
Actually Parse and Facebook were never made for each other, while the later company moves fast and break things generating ugly Facebook APIs and bugs, …
Parse have always been moving slowly and surely (like Apple), adding stable features and beautiful APIs. And may be that's why Parse CEO left Facebook Last year.


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There are several things you should consider before you specify a property that you buy, because you certainly do not want to regret it when buying a home, there are many shortcomings, for loan tips, you can see it through http://www.fundingcards.com/.
here are some tips before you buy a property.
1. Location
This is an important aspect to consider before determining the property that you will buy. Location election should be tailored to your needs, whether you will buy the property is destined for residential or for business purposes? if for a place to stay, which should be considered are:
– Are the facilities provided adequate, in terms of the following infrastructure in terms of security environment, the following shopping area playground for children – children;
-Is an area being developed or have been developed;
if you buy a property that is intended for the purpose of business, then the things to consider are:
– Is the location appropriate to the market share of business that you run?
– Is the area being developed or have been developed?
Is the number of inhabitants in the area has good potential for the kind of business we run?
2. Classification of land
It can generally be classified into four categories, namely: commercial, residential, industrial and agricultural.
By knowing the type of soil, will certainly help us to find properties that we want as needed.
3. Passive Income
Whether the property has potential passive income? Is there a tenant or prospective tenant?
What is the price that has been offered the tenants for that property?
The best option is a property investment options can be "self-liquidating assets" that generate passive income and able to build an asset for you. try Consider the following scenario: Buy property in a strategic place, the location is quite attractive tenants. you do not need to pay in cash on the overall price of the property, you simply pay a deposit and let the tenant to pay the mortgage on a monthly rental fee. Amazing is not it?
4. Status of land
The land certificate is a legal document that describes the status of ownership. carefully check on the status of land mail, make sure the name on the letter of the land according to the name that will sell the land? Does the seller have the legal right to conduct such transactions? do not forget to insure How many square meters of land area?
5. encumbrances
Encumbrances refers to the boundaries of the property. Are there pleasures that limits the property occupiable space. Perhaps partly owned land has been granted, for example, road. Are the claims of the other party? checking against it are essential to avoid lawsuits later, lawsuits are problems inherent to the property. make sure that no other party which claims ownership of the land? Is certificates were pledged to the bank? If that happens like this, then the mortgage should be canceled immediately because if not, then the other party such as a bank one day may seize the land, if the owner is not able to repay the loan.
6. Tax Payments
The property includes taxable goods. By looking at the tax payment notification letter, of course, we will be able to know how the value of the property that we will buy. Make sure that the payment of taxes on property that we buy have been paid in order not to be a burden in the future.
7. Other Issues
Another issue you need to consider before making a purchase of a property is whether or not the occupants / tenants illegally. because the amount of legal fees that would be required to expel illegal people is quite large, other than that they are also able to steal something that has a market value of your property.
Thus things that seem trivial but often a big problem if you do not watch carefully. I hope this article can be useful.


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A prominent public official finally said what we've been saying all along in these pages:
"The U.S. presence in Iraq is hurting the worldwide war on terrorism and benefits only Iran and al-Qaeda, U.S. Rep. John Murtha said on Sunday. 'The only people who want us in Iraq are Iran and al-Qaeda,' Murtha said on CBS's Face the Nation political talk show. 'And I talked to a top-level commander the other day and he said China wants us there also. Why? Because we're depleting our resources our troop resources and our fiscal resources.'"
Not to worry: Iran, it seems, is next on our hit list, and this is largely at the behest of the one beneficiary of the Iraq war Murtha fails to mention: Israel. The Israelis have been loudly howling for months about the prospect of a nuclear Iran: their amen corner in the U.S. has gone into overdrive, pushing for sanctions and drawing a dire picture of nuke-wielding "mad mullahs." The world was shocked when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to wipe Israel off the map, yet it has to be said that even the maddest mullahs don't imagine nuking Washington, D.C. Iran's nukes, if it ever acquires any in 10 years' time, like the experts say will more than likely target Tel Aviv, not Toledo.
Yet in one important sense, at least, the former is just as American as the latter at least it is in the eyes of American decision-makers, who conduct U.S. foreign policy as if Israel were the 51st state. An outstanding example of this unique symbiosis is the news that the Israelis have penetrated Iran via U.S.-occupied Iraq, with the full complicity and assistance of the Americans:
"Israel's special forces are said to be operating inside Iran in an urgent attempt to locate the country's secret uranium enrichment sites. 'We found several suspected sites last year but there must be more,' an Israeli intelligence source said. They are operating from a base in northern Iraq, guarded by Israeli soldiers with the approval of the Americans, according to Israeli sources."
This sort of scuttlebutt has been knocking around ever since Seymour Hersh first broke the story of Israel's penetration of Kurdistan. The point is that the extension of American power in the Middle East has allowed Tel Aviv's tentacles to slither all the way to the Euphrates and beyond to Tehran.
The Times of London also reveals that NATO is keen to get in on the act: "multilateralism," i.e., gang-banging, is back in style. This ought to delight the Democrats, who are in some ways ahead of the Republicans (and certainly ahead of the Bush administration) on the Iran issue. Hillary Clinton has done everything but call for declaring war on the mullahs, and House Democratic mis-Leader Nancy Pelosi supported the movement to impose draconian economic sanctions on Iran. The supposedly "antiwar" Democrats are getting way out ahead of the Bush administration when it comes to Part II of the Great Middle Eastern War. With Hillary's finger on the trigger, the first shots of World War IV are almost certain to be sounded.
The dramatic narrative of the Iranian nuke crisis is going according to a familiar script, one we became well-acquainted with in the run-up to war with Iraq. All the same ingredients of the Iraqi potboiler are being thrown into the mix: a Middle Eastern country ruled by an unattractive tyrant, Israel's partisans furiously beating the drums for war, and "weapons of mass destruction" described by dubious exile groups. Playing the part of Chalabi, we have the Marxoid-feminist cult of Maryam Rajavi and her army of Amazonian fighters. Ostensibly corralled within the walls of Camp Ashraf in Iraq, these Iranian "freedom fighters" half of them women are on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations. Yet I have it on good authority that American visas are being handed out to these burly gals at a fast clip: all they have to do is show up at a U.S. embassy somewhere in the Middle East say, Istanbul and they are granted "asylum" in the U.S. They constitute a reserve army ready to spring into action when the time comes to put an Iranian face on an American invasion.
The UN Security Council is slated to discuss the Iranian nuke issue shortly, and the sequence of events Western demands that Iran cease and desist, followed by angry Iranian refusals is perfectly suited to war propaganda. As the pace of the narrative picks up and the tension builds, the war drama unfolds according to a by-now-timeworn pattern. It's not the kind of screenplay that usually wins an Academy Award: this is strictly formulaic stuff, designed to give consumers of war propaganda what they need in order to rationalize mass murder. It may be crude as in the case of Saddam Hussein's alleged ties to al-Qaeda, or tales of WMD hidden beneath Saddam's Babylonian palaces but it does the job.
Remember how important the nuclear issue was for getting us into the Iraqi quagmire: this time around, the same crew is pushing the same button. A recent poll shows that a clear majority of Americans are willing to risk war in order to stop the Iranians from going nuclear. Invoking the specter of nuclear annihilation is the best way to scare the living daylights out of otherwise thinking people. If the War Party can convince the Americans that the "mad mullahs" are on the brink of having the ability to nuke New York, they will have accomplished their mission.
Some, like Gore Vidal, believe we live in "the United States of Amnesia," and that Americans can't remember what happens from week to week, never mind the lies they told last year and the year before. I respectfully disagree: the people clearly realize they were lied into war, and they aren't happy about it. As to whether they'll let the War Party get away with pulling another fast one, that remains to be seen. The Republicans, if they are smart, will bet on "no" and back away from the abyss, while the Democrats blithely step off the ledge and invite the rest of the country to come with them. The Bushies are already under fire for going soft on those Ay-rabs with the Dubai port-management brouhaha, and the Democrats show every sign of taking up with alacrity Marshall Wittmann's advice and outflanking the GOP on "national security" issues, i.e., out-warmongering the Republicans.
As the next presidential campaign season looms, the prospect of John McCain and Hillary Clinton going at it mano a mano, in a contest to see who can bluster with a more convincing bellicosity well, all I can say is that the presidential debates will redefine gender roles for the next hundred years, and it isn't going to be pretty.


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Things to Think About
By Pepper de Callier
"If you can't fly, you run; if you can't run, you walk; and if you can't walk, you crawl. But no matter what, you keep moving forward." Martin Luther King
In my more than 50 years of collecting quotes, I can't begin to count the ones that deal with the concept of not giving up when times get tough, as they invariably do in life. This one, however, coming from a man who knew struggle first-hand, resonates so strongly with me for it's inspirational, progressive imagery and message—no matter what, no matter what setback you encounter, find a way to keep moving forward and, when you do, you reverse the imagery: you crawl till you can walk, then walk till you can run, and then soon you'll be flying again. Keep your head down and focus on the process, not the outcome. The process will lead you to the outcome.
Till next time…
About the Author: Pepper de Callier is one of the most respected senior executive coaches and authorities on leadership in Europe. Learn more about him at www.pragueleadershipinstitute.com
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2. Saturday, December 7 Craft Fair Rund Raiser
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4. WEDNESDAY Bird Walks: December 4, 11 and 18
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August 17, 2018,
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September 25, 2019:
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Service provider SSO set up
The SAML-based Federated SSO article describes the SAML instance where Google is the identity provider (IdP). This article describes the SAML instance where Google is the service provider and uses third-party IdPs.
Set up SSO
Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
From the Admin console Home page, go to Security, and then the SSO settings:
You must be signed in as a super administrator for this task.
Click Set up single sign-on (SSO) for SAML applications.
Or, if you don't have that option:
Click Set up single sign-on (SSO).
- Check the Setup SSO with third party identity provider box.
- Enter the following URLs to your third-party IdP:
- Sign-in page URL: The page where users sign in to your system and to Google.
- Sign-out page URL: The page where users are redirected to after signing off.
Note: All URLs must be entered and must use HTTPS, for example https://sso.domain.com.
The issuer is the entity ID element in the SAML request to the IdP.
If a username is provided in the SAML assertion without the domain suffix, it is automatically mapped to the primary domain.
You can choose whether to include a standard or domain specific issuer. When multiple domains are using SSO with the same IdP aggregator, a specific issuer can be parsed by the IdP aggregator to identify the correct domain name for the SAML request.
If you don't check the box to enable a domain specific issuer, Google will send the standard issuer, google.com, in the SAML request. If you check the box to enable this feature, Google will send an issuer specific to your domain, google.com/a/your_domain.com, where your_domain.com is replaced with your actual primary domain name.


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NZVERE, Zimbabwe — Along a road in Matabeleland, barefoot children stuff their pockets with corn kernels that have blown off a truck as if the brownish bits, good only for animal feed in normal times, were gold coins.
In the dirt lanes of Chitungwiza, the Mugarwes, a family of firewood hawkers, bake a loaf of bread, their only meal, with 11 slices for the six of them. All devour two slices except the youngest, age 2. He gets just one.
And on the tiny farms here in the region of Mashonaland, once a breadbasket for all of southern Africa, destitute villagers pull the shells off wriggling crickets and beetles, then toss what is left in a hot pan. "If you get that, you have a meal," said Standford Nhira, a spectrally thin farmer whose rib cage is etched on his chest and whose socks have collapsed around his sticklike ankles.
The half-starved haunt the once bountiful landscape of Zimbabwe, where a recent United Nations survey found that 7 in 10 people had eaten either nothing or only a single meal the day before.
Still dominated after nearly three decades by their authoritarian president, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabweans are now enduring their seventh straight year of hunger. This largely man-made crisis, occasionally worsened by drought and erratic rains, has been brought on by catastrophic agricultural policies, sweeping economic collapse and a ruling party that has used farmland and food as weapons in its ruthless — and so far successful — quest to hang on to power.Continue reading the main story
But this year is different. This year, the hunger is much worse.
The survey conducted by the United Nations World Food Program in October found a shocking deterioration in the past year alone. The survey, recently provided to international donors, found that the proportion of people who had eaten nothing the previous day had risen to 12 percent from zero, while those who had consumed only one meal had soared to 60 percent from only 13 percent last year.
For almost three months, from June to August, Mr. Mugabe banned international charitable organizations from operating, depriving more than a million people of food and basic aid after the country had already suffered one of its worst harvests.
Mr. Mugabe defended the suspension by arguing that some Western aid groups were backing his political rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, who bested him at the polls in March but withdrew before a June 27 runoff. But civic groups and analysts said Mr. Mugabe's real motive was to clear rural areas of witnesses to his military-led crackdown on opposition supporters and to starve those supporters.
The country's intertwined political and humanitarian crises have become ever more grave — with a cholera epidemic sweeping the nation, its health, education and sanitation systems in ruins and power-sharing talks at an impasse. Meanwhile, Mr. Mugabe has blamed Western sanctions, largely aimed at senior members of his government, for the country's woes.
His information minister even charged last week that Britain, Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler, had started the cholera outbreak — spread by water contaminated with human feces — as an act of "biological chemical war force," a charge widely derided as paranoid or cynical.
But for all Mr. Mugabe's venom toward the West, a central paradox rests at the heart of his long years in power. It was the failed policies of Mr. Mugabe and his party, ZANU-PF, including their calamitous seizure of commercial farms, that made this nation so utterly dependent on aid from the European and American donors he so reviles. And the same applies to Western leaders: Despite their scathing denunciations of him, it is their generous donations that have helped him survive by preventing outright famine among his people.
"You're acting to save lives, knowing that by doing so you are sustaining this government," said one aid agency manager, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. "And unfortunately, ZANU-PF is good at exploiting this humanitarian imperative."
American-financed charities and the World Food Program have been feeding millions of Zimbabweans since late 2002, at a cost of $1.25 billion over the years. After a slow start this year because of the aid suspension, the United States and the United Nations are feeding almost half of Zimbabwe's population this month.
But the World Food Program is short of nearly half the food needed for January, said Richard Lee, a spokesman.
"You're not looking at mass starvation yet," said Sarah Jacobs, of Save the Children, adding that without an urgent infusion of food, "we may be reporting an even scarier, more horrible situation by January."
No food aid has reached the village of Jirira in Mashonaland, near Harare, the capital. So each morning, people rise before the sun and stumble from their huts, beneath the arching canopy of a starry sky, to fill metal pails with the small, foul-smelling hacha fruit. Those who arrive as dawn breaks find the fruit has already been picked clean.
The sweet, fibrous, yellow pulp of the fruit has become the staple of the villagers' diet. The fruit is now infested with tiny brown worms. Nevertheless, the women peel it, crush it and soak it in water. Some of the worms float to the surface and can be skimmed off. The mashed ones they eat.
Parents search for other sources of food as well. Bengina Muchetu tries to quiet her 2-year-old daughter Makanaka's pangs with a dish of tiny, boiled wild leaves.
Maidei Kunaka grinds the animal feed she earns in exchange for her labor on a nearby ostrich farm — an unappetizing amalgam of wheat, soy bean, sand and what she calls "green stuff" — to nourish her three children.
"It's not tasty, but we at least have something in our stomachs," she said.
Villagers around here date the onset of Zimbabwe's decline to the year 2000. It was then that Mr. Mugabe first felt the sting of political defeat, when a referendum that would have given him greater executive powers was defeated.
He took his vengeance, unleashing veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war and gangs of youth to invade and occupy highly mechanized, white-owned commercial farms that were then the country's largest employer and an engine of export earnings. In time, thousands of farms were taken over. Farm workers and their families — about 1 million people altogether — lost their jobs and homes, according to a 2008 study by Zimbabwean economists for the United Nations Development Program.
Land redistribution often turned into a land grab by the political elite, and frequently poor farmers who received land did not get necessary support. The annual harvest of corn, the main staple food, has fallen to about a third of its previous levels, the Development Program reported.
The narrow roads that threaded this part of Mashonaland used to be lined with beautifully tended farms, residents say. Now, much of the land is overgrown with grasses. Trees sprout in the fields.
In Nzvere, a group of scrawny men sat under a Musasa tree, rolling cigarettes in bits of newspaper and chewing over the central fact of life in rural Zimbabwe: It is impossible to make a living as a farmer anymore.
In the 1990s, these men said, they harvested a cornucopia of vegetables on their small farms and sold the surplus in Harare. Now their land doesn't yield nearly as much. With the formerly white-owned, large-scale farms no longer productive, the economies of scale that kept prices low for hybrid seed and fertilizer are gone. These small farmers cannot afford the higher prices.
The dollars and cents of farming simply do not add up, they said. The government monopolizes the buying and selling of corn through the Grain Marketing Board. With inflation running officially at hundreds of millions of percent, anything the board pays them is worthless by the time they get it out of the bank.
The farm redistribution has done them no good, they said, instead benefiting those who helped the ruling party grab the land. Even when food aid has come, only those in the ruling party hierarchy have gotten any, the farmers said.
So they have become scavengers, living off the land and surviving on field mice and wild fruit, white ants and black beetles.
The story is much the same in Jirira. Hacha fruit has mostly sustained the villagers, but soon the season will be over. And then what? "Only God knows what will happen," Gloria Mapisa, the mother of a 1-year-old girl, said.
The suffering is not limited to the countryside.
This month, the Mavambo Trust, a small charitable group that works in a suburb of Harare, had its Christmas party, with a lavish feast of cornmeal porridge, chicken, vegetables and soft drinks. It was ample for 250 children, but more than 500 showed up. As word spread, famished children arrived early in the morning to wait by the steaming, fragrant pots of food. "So many came we couldn't even shut the gates," said Sister Michael Chiroodza, a Catholic nun.
Mavambo also runs a daily lunchtime feeding program for children on the grounds of a Catholic church. One recent afternoon, Annah Chakaka drifted into the church courtyard with her orphaned grandsons, Bhekimuzi, 13, and Bekezela, 10. They had come to beg for cornmeal to take home.
The boys, their handsome faces chiseled by hunger, said they do little now but help their grandmother with chores — fetching water, washing clothes, sweeping the floor. That, and hunting for food. They usually walk three miles to a muhacha tree to collect its hacha fruit.
But on this morning, Mrs. Chakaka said it had been difficult to wake the boys. They just lay there, too weak to get up. "Today we were just too hungry to look for wild fruit," she said.
They drifted from the church's courtyard as they had come, empty-handed.Continue reading the main story


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The first New World Thanksgiving celebration - the one held in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621 - wasn't really a Thanksgiving celebration at all (at least not as we have come to know it). It wasn't held on the fourth Thursday in November, and it wasn't held indoors. No, that first harvest celebration actually occurred somewhere between mid-September and late October and represented the continuation of an ancient secular festival known as Harvest Home, well known to the Pilgrims from their homeland. It's an idea whose time may have come again.
Traditionally celebrated after the main crop had been harvested, Harvest Home was, according to one historian, an annual event characterized by cakes and ale and hang the cost." Harvest Home festivals became so rowdy that none other than Henry VIII (a ruler not known for his aversion to a good time) let it be known that if the farmers were going to party with such earnestness, they should at least wait until the entire crop had been safely stored away.
Not only did William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony at the time, hold the celebration outdoors, but he and his guest of honor, Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags, presided over a great deal of activity among the 90 braves, 35 Pilgrims and 66 "strangers" (as the non-Pilgrims were called) during the meal.
"Activity" may be too mild a word. To quote from Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays by Robert Myers (Doubleday, 1972): Captain Miles Standish paraded his group of soldiers in a series of maneuvers ... Blank volleys were fired and bugles sounded. Stool ball, a kind of croquet game, was played. [Chief] Massasoit ... came with 90 braves, who competed against the settlers in racing and jumping games. The Indians showed their bow and arrow marksmanship, and the white men exhibited their skill with firearms. The celebrants are even reputed to have played games of chance.
The event was so successful and free of rancor it lasted for three days!
Why, with all their piety and aversion to celebrations in general, the Pilgrims chose to commemorate their first successful harvest with a raucous secular celebration instead of a solemn religious one is something we will never know. It wasn't until 1623, two years later, that the fall harvest was observed by sacred days of fasting and formal Thanksgiving.
If you find the idea of an exuberant Harvest Home more appealing than a formal Thanksgiving meal, at least it's an historically accurate option. After the last of the harvest has been plucked from my garden here in the Napa Valley, I find there's no better way to enjoy these riches than to pull out the picnic table and croquet set, call up friends and pass the ale. And if the crisp fall weather dictates that you move your feast indoors, it can still be your own unique way of saying thanks for nature's bounty and the blessings of the earth.
The following recipes feature fresh vegetables. All feed approximately eight people and can be easily doubled for feeding a crowd.
West Indian Pumpkin Soup
This is not your typical, sweet-ish pumpkin soup. The addition of even a small amount of fresh lime juice, ground cumin and a fresh cilantro garnish give it a West Indian flavor. The use of cream cheese may be unusual, but adds a silky texture and does not curdle in the presence of the lime juice. Serve in a hollowed-out pumpkin, if desired.
2 T butter or margarine
1 medium onion, diced (about 2 c)
4 stalks celery, diced (about 2 c)
1 49-1/2-ounce can of ready-to-use chicken stock
2 c cooked pumpkin or winter squash
1 t ground white pepper
1 t ground cumin
1 T fresh lime juice
8 oz. low-fat cream cheese, at room temperature
fresh cilantro, for garnish
Melt the butter or margarine in a large soup pot. Saute the onions and celery over medium heat until limp. Add two cups of the chicken stock and simmer until onions and celery are very soft.
Process stock, onion and celery mixture in a blender until smooth. (Processing hot liquids in a blender is best accomplished with short periods of on" and "off" to reduce the chances of the liquid "erupting."
Return this mixture to the soup pot. Add remaining chicken stock, pumpkin, white pepper, cumin and fresh lime juice. Bring to a boil.
Remove from the stove and whisk in cream cheese until completely dissolved. Serve immediately, with fresh cilantro leaves as a garnish.
Potatoes with Mint and Garlic
The combination of flavors - mint and garlic - along with a little olive oil are a wonderful unexpected accompaniment to the bland wholesomeness of boiled potatoes.
3 pounds new potatoes (or small Yellow Finns, or the like)
1-1/2 t salt
1/2 cup olive oil
2-1/2 T wine vinegar
1 T water
2 t Dijon mustard
2 T mayonnaise
2 c mint leaves
4-6 cloves garlic, peeled
Boil the potatoes in salted water until just tender (approximately 20 minutes).
While potatoes are boiling, process olive oil, wine vinegar, water, Dijon mustard, mayonnaise, mint leaves and garlic cloves together in a blender. Process, on and off, until the mint leaves and the garlic are finely chopped.
Strain cooked potatoes and place in a large bowl.
Immediately pour dressing over the potatoes, and mix well. Allow to sit for one hour or more. Can be served at room temperature or chilled.
Taboleh "Stuffing"
Delicious and good for you, too! Ideal nontraditional stuffing to serve with Pandora's Turkey (recipe below).
3 c bulgur
1 large onion, chopped
7 c canned vegetable stock
1/2 c fresh sage, finely chopped
1 c fresh parsley, finely chopped
1/4 c olive oil
1 T vinegar
freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Toss uncooked bulgur and chopped onion together in a large mixing bowl.
Bring vegetable stock to a boil. Pour over bulgur and onion mixture. Mix thoroughly and allow to sit for one hour. Pour bulgur/onion mixture into a large colander or sieve and press lightly to remove any liquid. Return to mixing bowl and add sage, parsley, olive oil, vinegar and black pepper. Mix well.
Can be served at room temperature, or stored overnight in the refrigerator and served cold. The vegetable stock is salty enough that additional salt probably won't be necessary.
Roasted Beets and Carrots with Orange Ginger Sauce
In the days of the Pilgrims, beets and carrots were of the mammoth variety - the best size for winter keeping - and were traditionally roasted over or in the coals. Once you've tried them, you'll wonder why we ever stopped cooking them that way. Absolutely delicious!
To charcoal-roast beets: After removing the tops, either lay the beets directly on top of white-hot charcoal briquettes or, if you have enough briquettes, actually bury the beets in the coals. Allow to cook for 45 to 60 minutes, depending on the size (hardball-sized beets will roast tender in about 45 minutes). If the beets are resting on top of the coals, turn once or twice to evenly "char" on all sides. Once the beets are tender, remove from the coals and allow to cool to the point where you can handle them. Using a sharp knife, remove the charred skins and slice the beets into 3/8-inch rounds.
To charcoal-roast carrots: Wash and scrub (but don't peel) carrots. Place them on the cooking grate, directly over the coals (which should be white hot). Turn every 10 to 12 minutes until nicely browned on all sides. Large carrots will cook tender in about 35 to 45 minutes, Allow to cool slightly and then slice lengthwise in 3/8-inch slices.
Arrange warm beets and carrots on a platter, drizzle with Orange Ginger Sauce (see recipe below) and garnish with a little chopped parsley, if desired.
Orange Ginger Sauce
2 T mayonnaise
4 T fresh orange juice
1/4 t salt
1/2 c freshly grated ginger root, skin intact
Combine mayonnaise, orange juice and salt. Using your hands, gather grated ginger together in a ball, and squeeze tightly over the mayonnaise mixture. You'll be amazed at the amount of juice that comes out! Discard the pulp. Stir mixture and pour over warm, sliced beets and carrots.
Pandora's Turkey
Here's the simplest and best way I know to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving, or for that matter, at any time of the year. You'll need a covered kettle grill for this recipe. The reason it's Pandora's turkey is because once the turkey goes on the grill and the cover is put in place, there's no peeking allowed - period! The best part is that you can cook a 18- to 22-pound turkey in 2-1/2 to 3 hours. Here's how:
Ignite five pounds of charcoal briquettes in a covered grill.
Remove turkey from refrigerator 1/2 hour before grilling. Wash and dry it, and stuff neck and body cavities with a few handfuls of chopped celery and onions, mixed with a few tablespoons of melted butter and poultry seasoning.
Rub outside of the bird with vegetable oil or melted butter; sprinkle with seasoned salt and pepper, and place it in an disposable aluminum roasting pan.
When coals are hot, arrange them in even amounts on opposite sides of the fire grate. Put cooking grill in place, and position turkey (in its pan) directly in the middle.
Put lid on the grill. Leave both top and bottom vents fully open.
Do not remove the lid until the fire goes out, approximately 2-1/2 to 3 hours later, at which time your turkey will be perfectly cooked. Allow it to rest for 20 to 30 minutes before carving.
A. Cort Sinnes is the author of more than 20 books on gardening and outdoor living, including The Grilling Encyclopedia: An A-Z Compendium on How to Grill Almost Anything, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994; $16.
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Chargers hold off Broncos
Philip Rivers threw for 178 yards and one touchdown, surpassing Hall of Famer Dan Fouts to become San Diego's career passing leader, and the host Chargers held off the Denver Broncos 21-13 on Thursday night.
Rivers, in his 13th season with the Chargers and 11th as starter, has 43,094 career yards passing. Fouts threw for 43,040 yards in 15 seasons with the Bolts. Rivers threw a 5-yard scoring pass to rookie tight end Hunter Henry to cap the game's first possession and finished 18-for-29 passing.
The Broncos (4-2), with special-teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis subbing for head coach Gary Kubiak — ordered by doctors to sit out this one because of a migraine condition that mimics strokes — were mostly sluggish behind quarterback Trevor Siemian.
San Diego (2-4) prevented Denver from crossing the 50 on its own accord until there were two minutes left in the third quarter. Denver's loss left the Raiders (4-1) in sole possession of first place in the AFC West.
The Broncos' first score came after a punt bounced off San Diego's Travis Benjamin and Denver recovered at the San Diego 11. The refs initially ruled that the Broncos downed the punt, but Denver challenged and got the ball. Brandon McManus then kicked a 29-yard field goal.
Siemian was 30-for-50 for 230 yards, with a 5-yard scoring pass to Bennie Fowler midway through the fourth quarter.
The Broncos were threatening at the San Diego 20 with less than five minutes to go. But on consecutive plays, they were whistled for holding, Siemian was sacked by rookie Jatavis Brown and San Diego's Craig Mager recovered a fumble by Demaryius Thomas.
Denver's second straight loss ended its NFL-record streak of divisional road victories at 15.
Kessler to start: Cleveland quarterback Cody Kessler has recovered enough from an injury to his chest and ribs to start Sunday's game at Tennessee, a relief to a team that has started three quarterbacks and played five in five games.
Kessler, who got hurt in the first quarter of Sunday's loss to New England, practiced again Thursday. Following the workout, Cleveland head coach Hue Jackson said the third-round draft pick will make his fourth start.
"I think he is ready to go," Jackson said.
Tunsil expects to play: Miami rookie guard Laremy Tunsil said he expects to play Sunday after missing the previous game after he hurt himself coming out of the shower.
Tunsil said he sprained his right ankle hours before the start of Sunday's 30-17 loss to Tennessee.
"I walked out of the shower and slipped," he said Thursday. "Things happen. That's the only thing I can say. Things happen."
With Tunsil and left tackle Branden Albert sidelined, the Dolphins (1-4) gave up six sacks against the Titans and totaled eight first downs.
Reed out: Washington tight end Jordan Reed has been diagnosed with a concussion, the sixth diagnosed concussion in his professional and college career.


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Civil Investigation of Fraud (Code 9): historical record : general: CIF and criminal investigation
Serious tax fraud cases adopted for investigation are worked in two ways. Some cases of serious tax fraud are worked with a view to criminal prosecution and others are worked under the CIF procedure outlined in this note.
It is important to ensure that all facts and evidence, which might have a bearing on the decision to handle a case under the criminal or civil code, are reviewed with an open mind and that there is a clear audit trail on file leading to the decision made.
There is no definition of fraud in the Taxes Acts, though in simple terms, tax fraud may be considered in terms of someone seeking to obtain a material tax advantage by dishonesty.
The size and nature of the suspected fraud are important considerations in the decision to adopt a case for CIF. There should also be a judgement on the weight of evidence which already exists, or which could be obtained, to support the initial suspicion of fraud.
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If a case does not fall to be considered within the HMRC criminal investigation policy or is one where a submission has already been made but not adopted by Criminal Investigation (CI), then matters must be considered against the referral criteria for CIF.
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Ice dams form due to uneven roof heating. That is a simple explanation for a complex interaction involving snow cover, heat loss from a building and temperature changes outdoors.
The problems caused by this complex interaction may include damage to paint or exterior siding and compression of wall installation leading to decreased energy efficiency in a system that is already not operating efficiently. Leaking water can also stain interior ceilings and walls.
Damage to walls or ceilings can be "covered up" with fresh paint. But the dampness can lead to the growth of mold or mildew, which will eventually stain the new paint. Mold and mildew growth in the home is a cause of allergies and other illnesses.
Icicles are a sign that the roof has the potential to form an ice dam. Higher temperatures near the top of the roof cause snow to melt. Overhangs are typically cooler. The melt water freezes. Hanging icicles typically form first. The icicles are sometimes lovely to look at but they are a bad sign for the building owner.
If it snows again, the weight forces the melt water through the roof. That's why the ice is a major problem of roof leaks. The melt water cannot get past the ice dam as easily as it can get through the roof.
There are several steps you can take to prevent the formation of an ice dam. Some of these steps should be taken before the season's first snowfall.
An effective attic ventilation system helps in some areas. Mechanical attic ventilation is not a solution in areas where snowfall is heavy. In Minnesota, for example, mechanical air ventilation systems can create additional problems such as moisture in the attic. Natural (non-mechanical) attic ventilation systems are more effective for keeping the attic space dry and preventing heat buildup in the summer.
Any vents or pipes on the roof can be potential problems. Heat will rise from inside the building and through the openings causing uneven melting. Moving vents to the walls of the building is one solution. Additional insulation or weatherproofing at the point where the pipes or vent system passes through the ceiling of the building is another option. The goal is to make the ceilings as air tight as possible.
If you notice that there is uneven melting on the roof or you see icicles hanging on the edge, the immediate step to take is to use a roof rake to get the snow off of the roof. Use caution to avoid taking a fall. A roof rake has a very long extending handle and can be used from the ground in most situations.
If you can see an ice dam, you can hose the area with tap water on a warm day to melt away the ice. You will want to work upward from the lowest edge where the icicles are hanging to create a channel to allow the melt water to escape. This is a temporary solution at best and you can save yourself from future roof repair problems. As soon as the weather clears, you will need to take other measures to prevent heat loss that contributes to ice dam formation.


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SAN DIEGO – The news just got a little shorter on XETV/Channel 6.
The local CW outlet announced Wednesday that its 10 p.m. local newscast will be reduced from one hour to 31 minutes.
As of April 6, the "San Diego 6" newscast will air from 10 to 10:30 p.m., with "Seinfeld" repeats airing at 10:33 and 11:14 p.m, following the station's "11@11" 11-minute news roundup, which will continue to air at 11 p.m.
There was no word on whether the shorter evening newscast will result in staff cuts.
The station is also adding KOGO AM 600 radio personality Chip Franklin to its news lineup. Starting April 6, Franklin will provide 60-second video segments at the end of every weeknight newscast.


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Non-surgical extraction require dental forceps and an elevator for careful tooth removal. Anesthesia may be given to relieve the pain.
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Following a tooth extraction, bleeding is common during the first hour. It takes roughly this long for a blood clot to form in the socket. The open wound overlying the dental socket will take roughly a week to heal and the socket will fill in with soft gum tissue over the next one to two months. The final socket closure with bony remodeling can take six months or longer.
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People who live in small spaces have unique organizing challenges. There may be limited storage space (small closets and no garage, attic, or basement) and limited living space (small rooms used for multiple purposes).
The following are some suggestions for organizing in this kind of small space. The same ideas could be used in any space, but they are more important when space is at a premium.
Assuming you're planning to live in the same tiny space for a number of years, it's time to be extremely selective about what you let into that space. You probably don't have room for stuff that's just okay — as much as feasible, limit yourself to things you love. You'll want to avoid (or limit) those unitaskers, too.
Remember the wise words of Peter Walsh in his book It's all Too Much, where he recommends you begin your uncluttering/organizing project this way: "Imagine the life you want to live." If you're holding onto things that don't fit with your current reality or your realistic imaginings, it may be time to bid them farewell. (You may want to take some photos of special items before you part with them.)
You'll also want to give thought to how many of any one thing you need. How many sets of sheets? How many T-shirts?
Go vertical
If you have limited floor space, look to the walls. Can you use shelving (freestanding or wall-mounted)? What about hooks and/or wall pockets? Would a hammock for the stuffed animals make sense?
Consider vertical versions of standard storage pieces, too. For example, a shoe tree may work better than a horizontal shoe rack.
Try smaller versions of standard items
Many shelving units are 12-18 inches deep; for example, the Kallax system from Ikea (which replaced the very popular Expedit) is 15 3/8 inches deep. If you don't need that depth, you could get a shelving system that's only 10.3 inches deep.
Look for other situations where a smaller product will meet your needs, saving precious space.
Consider collapsible and folding items
You can get collapsible versions of many kitchen items: colanders, whisks, scales, dish drainers, etc. Another example: Gateleg tables fold up into a small space when not in use.
Look for hidden storage spaces
Not everyone likes to store things under the bed, but if this doesn't concern you, consider getting bed risers to provide more under-bed storage space. Paper towel holders can be mounted on the bottom of the upper kitchen cabinets. Shower curtains can have storage pockets. These are just a few of the ways to make use of every bit of space you have.
Consider dual-purpose furniture
I've visited friends who have no kitchen or dining table in their small home, but their coffee table has an adjustable height and it converts into a dining table quite easily. Some of this dual-purpose furniture is on the expensive side, though.
Go digital
If you're comfortable with digital solutions, you can save a lot of space that used to hold papers, books, CDs, DVDs, etc.
Avoid most bulk purchases
Even if it saves money, you'll probably have to pass on many bulk purchases because you simply won't have room to store what you've bought. Some people manage to find space for a few high-priority bulk purchases (toilet paper, paper towels, cat food cans, etc.) but forego the rest.


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That the Western world is experiencing a crisis of political imagination is clear from the casual, everyday allusions to the Holocaust. Across the media, talk of Hitler and genocide and the 1930s is widespread. I've stopped counting the number of times I've heard people use the phrase 'he's like Hitler' to describe someone they disagree with or fear. Today's world is just like the 1930s, assert commentators and politicians. And of course the go-to metaphor for evil is the Holocaust. Comparing contemporary events with the period of the Holocaust has become the incantation of every third-rate sophist in search of an argument.
More and more public figures are becoming addicted to using the idiom of Nazism to score a political point. Some expect to have a monopoly over this language and will criticise others who adopt the same rhetorical strategy. Consider UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson. Last May, during the Brexit referendum campaign, he condemned the EU for pursuing the same goal as Hitler: establishing a European superstate. Yet last month he rightly criticised Labour MPs for 'demeaning the Holocaust' by comparing President Donald Trump to Hitler.
Listening to the recent parliamentary debate over Trump's state visit to the UK, one could be forgiven for thinking we were back in September 1938, in the aftermath of Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler over the annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia. Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner, who has forgotten nothing and learned nothing since entering parliament in 1970, mentioned Hitler and Mussolini in the same breath as Trump before accusing the government of collaborating with the 'fascist' Führer in the White House.


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Forest Garden restructured
Published: 29 January, 2010
HARTLEBURY: One of the UK's leading garden timber manufacturers, Forest Garden, has confirmed that it has completed its three-year programme of operational restructuring and is looking forward to a strong 2010 based on healthy financial and operational foundations.
The company, which underwent a management buy-out from 3i in 2006, has progressively streamlined its previously fragmented structure and is now said to operate the UK's largest garden timber products assembly and distribution facility complemented by two dedicated fencing sawmills.
Confirming its continued confidence in Forest Garden's long-term progress The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which has supported Forest Garden throughout, has renewed and enhanced its financing support for the Group going forward.
Guy Grainger, managing director of Forest Garden confirmed: "We are at the stage where the major restructuring programme and associated disruptions are well behind us, and we can now focus exclusively on delivering the ranges and services that continue to deliver profitability for our customers.
"Continual improvement remains our watchword, but I'm pleased to say Forest Garden has successfully concluded an essential period of change. In 2006 the buy-out team inherited seven disparate manufacturing operations across the UK providing excess capacity and many logistical challenges.
"We satisfy an annual demand of over 1.5million fence panels and 120 000 garden buildings to name but two ranges, so it's been critical to get Forest Garden's business model absolutely right. Today we are rightly proud to have both retained and refined our UK manufacturing heritage in the form of a simplified, vertical, and highly efficient operation on which to build a market leading service."
The effect of initial infrastructure changes was swift; in 2007 Forest Garden was nominated by RBS for the 'Private Turnaround of the Year' award for its improved financial performance.
Since then progress has continued with the consolidation of Forest Garden's financial turnaround, despite the recent tough economic climate – as evidenced in the financial outturn for 2009 which will show a trading profit of over £1m.
Mr Grainger added: "Our management team is excited looking forward. We have both confidence and enthusiasm, on the basis that we are single-minded in our focus on improving the service and products we offer to our customers."


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Albemarle County Initiates Exploration Of Private/Public Partnership For Courts Project
Evaluating possibility of relocating County courts and/or County administration to a site in the County
Albemarle County has contracted with Stantec to provide technical assistance with the exploration of a public/private partnership to relocate the Circuit and General District courts and/or County administrative office to a site in Albemarle County. The County Board of Supervisors provided direction for this effort in a resolution adopted in November, 2016, which directed County staff to explore and pursue partnership possibilities that deliver the most cost efficient economic benefit while preserving accessible Court facilities by relocating either Court facilities and/or County administration offices to an urban area in the County.
The resolution outlined justifications for exploring partnership possibilities, including:
After an initial stage of reviewing materials, the project team is entering a more public phase of work including engagement with Court system stakeholders and the release of a public survey in mid August. For more information, including project background, current options, major milestones and supporting documents, visit www.albemarle.org/courts.
Albemarle County has been actively engaged for a number of years in determining the best option to address the challenges facing the County's courts and to identify opportunities to improve infrastructure and the efficiency of court operations, while providing the best current and future value for County taxpayers. Any option to address the long-term needs of the Albemarle County courts will involve one of the most significant capital investments that the County anticipates over the next five to seven years. The Board of Supervisors has indicated a strong desire to understand the full cost implications and functional impacts associated with the project to ensure a prudent long-term investment that will meet community needs and benefit County taxpayers.
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Brookline Green Electricity includes 25% more renewable energy than is required by law, which is supplied to Dynegy by a non-profit third party called Mass Energy Consumers Alliance (Mass Energy). The portion of what you pay per kilowatt hour for the additional renewable energy electricity ultimately goes to this non-profit and therefore may be eligible for a tax deduction.The link below to the tax deduction calculator generates a receipt, sent to your email account, for tax preparation purposes and assumes that you have paid your electric bill in full.If you purchased 100% renewable energy, Mass Energy will mail you a receipt for tax preparation purposes; therefore, you do not need to generate a receipt via this calculator.Disclaimer: The Town of Brookline, Dynegy, and Mass Energy do not provide tax advice. Please consult with your tax advisor about your tax eligibility status. Mass Energy has devised this calculator. The Town of Brookline is not responsible for any calculation errors. It is assumed that you have paid your electric bill in full. For the Brookline Green 25% product, 0.7 cents of the 11.098 cents paid per kilowatt hour is paid to Mass Energy for the additional renewable energy. For the Brookline All Green 100% product, 2.8 cents of the 13.198 cents per kilowatt hour is paid to Mass Energy for the additional renewable energy.
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Hello, kids!
CHRISTMAS is almost here! My elves are busy building toys, reading your e-mails and keeping busy. A few of them spend far too much time on Facebook these days, but we're still on schedule so I won't complain.
Have you written out your Christmas wish list yet? No? Well, you better get busy. There's only a little time left before I load my sleigh up with gifts and make my journey around the world on Christmas night!
If you are having a hard time deciding what you want, may I suggest this?
Harry Nilsson was one of America's finest singer/songwriters, penning songs that you love (The Monkees' "Cuddly Toy", Three Dog Night's "One", etc) and recording other writers' material and creating classic hits ("Everybody's Talkin'" and "Without You"). But behind the scenes, Harry was self-destructive and hell-bent on having a good time... and that he did. This excellent documentary tells the whole story utilizing plenty of rare footage, soundbytes of Harry telling his own story plus interviews with famous friends such as Micky Dolenz, Yoko Ono, Gerry Beckley (America), Randy Newman, Mark Hudson, Van Dyke Parks, Jimmy Webb and many others. It is a fascinating look into the life of a true Pop legend and, dare I say it, genius. It's a glorious celebration of an extremely talented artist who spent a lifetime searching for the happiness he brought others and finally found it in the final chapters of his life. This is an emotional must-see documentary that should be viewed by anyone interested in music. Brilliant.
I must get going now. Mrs. Claus needs some help in eating those delicicious shortbread cookies and I don't want to miss out! They are fresh out of the oven, you know! Yum Yum!
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Chinese company Oppo officially announced its much awaited Find 7 smartphone at an event in Beijing today. The device packs a whooping 2560 x 1440 pixels in a 5.5-inch screen, thanks to the Quad HD display, the first of its kind. Continue reading
OPPO Find 7 confirmed & potential OPPO Find 5 Google Edition to come soon
OPPO today announced that it is planning to unveil another handset called as the Find 7. This revelation will be the next in line after the initial success that was achieved by OPPO. Being a newcomer to the already competitive Android Smartphone market, this disclosure promises to succeed in producing a quality handset. With a sleek design, exceptional battery life, unobjectionable software. Therefore the find 7 will be a successor the Find 5.
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