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Strategic Themes
UNDP's goal in the area of environment and energy is to strengthen national capacity to manage the environment in a sustainable manner to advance poverty reduction efforts. UNDP supports developing countries to mainstream environment and energy issues into development planning; mobilize finance for improved environmental management; address increasing threats from climate change; and build local capacity to better manage the environment and deliver services, especially water and energy.
Integrating Environment into Development
Mainstreaming environment and sustainable development, including climate change, in national development planning and implementation is central to UNDP's poverty reduction and MDG mission. UNDP works to strengthen the capacity of countries to integrate pro-poor environment issues into national, sectoral and sub-national development plans and budgets.
Environmental Finance
Environmental challenges are fundamentally development challenges, and a key response must include an integrated approach to environmental financing. UNDP helps developing countries catalyze investment into the green technologies, practices and enterprises that will make low-emission, climate-resilient environmentally sustainable development not only possible, but also economically attractive.
Climate Change
The impacts of climate change undermine development efforts and affect the poor in particular. UNDP is responding on the front lines of climate change by working with national, local, and regional planning bodies to help them respond effectively to climate change and promote low-emission, climate-resilient development. This is done through connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life; helping countries build more resilient societies; and strengthening the capacity of countries to access, manage and account for climate finance.
Local Development
Local action that reflects the demands, perspectives, and commitment of local actors is critical to sustainably managing the environment to reduce poverty and achieve the MDGs. UNDP's work at the local level is guided by four main strategic priorities: to promote rights, access, and finance mechanisms; enhance environmental management and finance capacity; facilitate learning and knowledge-sharing; and to strengthen community voices in policy processes.


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Are you coming to North East London to continue your studies but still haven't found a comfy place to settle into? Check out this place in Stratford, it might be the ideal one for you. The house has four bedrooms, a bathroom, a shower and a kitchen.
- Plaistow (Tube station, District, Hammersmith & City lines) - 6 min walk away.
- University Square Stratford - 22 min walk away / 9 min away on public transport.
- University Of East London, Stratford Campus - 18 minutes walk away / 13 min away on public transport.
- Loughborough University London - 35 minutes away on public transport.
- Queen Mary University of London - 22 min away on public transport.
Local Amenities
- Shops and supermarkets - 10 min walk away.
- Olympic Stadium - 29 min away by public transport.
- Memorial Recreation Ground - 16 min walk away.
Area Description
Stratford is now known best for being home to the 2012 London Olympics. The whole area was completely restructured and redeveloped and is now one of London's most prominent areas when it comes to modernity. Not only is the Olympic Park here, Europe's largest urban shopping centre opened here in 2011. The Westfield Stratford City has over 300 stores for you to explore!
Before the whole area went through this process of gentrification, it used to be quite run down, quite like most of the East End used to be. Historically, Stratford was an agrarian village just outside London, but as the city grew further and further, it soon became part of it. During the Victorian Era, most of the East End became heavily industrialised, which drove the property value into the ground, drawing in the lower-classes.
However, Stratford's location made it an important transportation hub for coaches travelling out of London, which in turn made the area the East End's place to live.
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Shards #9 reveals the lifestyles of the rich and busy, discusses the indignities of being short, presents some bouncy prose about running while female, and appreciates body-part art. City and country mice alike will like "Ways the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is Different Than Los Angeles." Plus, learn about the new U.S. air travel passenger uniform, erase a couple words from your vocab, and play some games.
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Still a ton of work to do on this but I finally got around to attaching my new dome to my scratch build. As I'm sure all of you have experienced, the idea of cutting a hole for a dent and two triangles into a dome that I just sanded for a week and a half is scaring the **** out of me.
I used Raf's templates for the sizing etc and have tried to place it as close as I can. Does this look good to everyone?
Also, is everyone just filling the dent hole with bondo and shaping it with a dremel? I have a feeling that my bucket is going to have quick a few pink spots on it for halloween
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Hey everybody. I've found myself in a unique opportunity to use a 3D printer in this next month or two. I got to thinking about using it to "print" myself Boba's blaster (since I originally didn't intend on getting one due to having no money ). While I'm working on an ROTJ suit (or SE depending on which paint job I do on the helmet), I figured I'd start modeling the ESB sidearm first since 1.) it's simpler in design thus easier for me to get my feet wet in working on this and 2.) the 3D printers can only go so big. The sidearm could be printed out in one large mass whereas the rifle would need to be broken up and assembled.
OK. Got the oval shape and set up everything so it should be ready to go!
Here is the printable STL file for those of you who want to print this out:
Now according to Maya it SHOULD be sized correctly but I would double check it to be sure. Let me know if there are any issues with the file and I will correct them as soon as possible!


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Nintendo DS
Nintendo, G, RRP $50
Nintendo's latest pet project will make everyone sit up and beg for more. It's an adorable virtual pet simulator with 18 breeds of incredibly life-like puppies. Users can interact with their pooches by touch or voice commands. After watching your exuberant pups frolic, it is impossible to resist giving them a pat. Touch-screen controls are instinctive and the voice recognition reliable enough to feel realistic. Players can groom their puppies, feed them, take them on walks and teach them tricks such as sitting, begging, rolling over and chasing their tail. Accessories and toys such as balls and ropes can also be bought. Puppies can enter three different tournaments: obedience, agility trials and a Frisbee catching challenge, which are fun but become repetitive. Some could find the novelty of Nintendogs quickly wanes but it is refreshing and rewarding.
Total Overdose
Atari, MA15+, RRP $100
Also Xbox, PC
The lazy tag will be "Mexican Grand Theft Auto" but "Chilli Con Carnage" is more apt. Total Overdose's focus is flamboyant, gratuitous gunplay. Players control a bad-boy undercover agent launching a full-frontal assault on Mexican drug lords. Enemies are dumb and plentiful but it is the outrageous way you deal with them that counts. Slow-motion dives, Matrix-style cartwheels, wall jumps and last-second jumps from speeding cars are thrilling. Players are rewarded for chaining kills together in wild rampages. Amusing "loco" moves such as the human tornado can floor multiple opponents and you can even reverse time after a fatal mistake. The lack of polish is forgiven when the action is so exhilarating but frequent loading delays disrupt the pace.
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Underground Rivals
Electronic Arts, G, RRP $80
This wisely eschews many of the features of its console street-racing brethren in order to provide fast-paced thrills. Loading delays and some clumsy menus can slow the action, but hand-held drivers can still have plenty of fun even with limited playtime. There are only 10 courses but a wide variety of events, including circuit races, relay competitions where you swap cars between laps, knockout events with the last-placed racer eliminated each lap, slalom-like checkpoint challenges against the clock, drift competitions and drag races. Success unlocks new vehicles and customisation options. Upgrades include turbo chargers, nitrous systems and cosmetic additions such as spoilers, rims, decals and neon lights. The 20 vehicles include many favourites and the sense of speed is impressive.
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If she is going to use it for target practice and plinking it's hard to beat the old Ruger Marks. They don't cost a arm and leg and that always helps. Good luck.
Getting my wife a gun for christmas. I have ruled out the Walther and the Sig. Now i am leaning toward the Rugers or the S&W. My brother says to go with the Ruger.
If she is going to use it for target practice and plinking it's hard to beat the old Ruger Marks. They don't cost a arm and leg and that always helps. Good luck.
Another vote for the Rugers; fine guns, all.
I'd further recommend getting one of the metal-framed models instead of the .22/45; if she initially doesn't like the "feel" or wants to dress it up in the future, you could change-out the grips for some nice wood ones.
I just bought a .22 one week ago. I looked at the Rugers, but the horribly obtrusive "loaded chamber indicator" on the Mark III's turned me off. I opted for a Browning Buckmark Standard with 5.5" bbl. Of course, the fact that it was marked down to $229, NIB, didn't hurt. They had kept it in inventory a while, because the date on the envelope with the spent casings was 2002. It shoots nice, however. It was a little picky chambering the first round in a magazine, and you had to push the back of the slide once and a while on the first round. However, that got better as I shot the second hundred rounds through it. BTB, I was using CCI standard velocity, and never had a bit of trouble with it cycling after that first round was chambered.
Just got back from the gun store. That is the same gun I just bought. I took my wife and we both tried on several different models and we both liked the 5.5" buckmark best. We also picked up a 10/22 carbine junior model for our 9yr old daughter. Great day!
Good on you Soup, you got the whole family shooting. That's the best way to do it. Another high mark for letting the wife pick her own gun. The carbine for the little girl. Man you got your act together. Good luck and have fun.


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America is so used to watching canned, scripted and staged scenes labeled "reality TV" that we've lost all sense of what is real and what is not. Even when watching TV news.
So today we will look for reality another way. We'll focus our lens first on real problems of real people. Maybe it will help us see past the canned, scripted and staged politics and motives that hide the hardcore reality of how things really run here in Hate City.
SCENE: It is almost midnight and on the TV, a nonstop cable news network is running clips of freshman tea party Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, still insisting we must defund the Affordable Care Act, now known as Obamacare. The failure to halt Obamacare was his tea party's justification for shutting down the government.
Someone switches the TV to ESPN baseball highlights — but that doesn't hamper our focus on health care. Because we are in the emergency room of the Holy Cross Hospital in suburban Silver Spring, Md., just a 20-minute drive north of the White House. Here we can observe the reality of our wasteful health care system that is finally being replaced by the imperfect but still-funded Obamacare.
About two dozen people are inside the ER waiting room and very few seem to be what you would recognize as emergency cases. Several worried mothers are there with children; some mothers tell me their children have fevers, but they don't have health insurance. They are in the ER so a doctor will treat their children.
Another young woman is suffering severe abdominal pain. She has a master's degree but no health insurance. She has been diagnosed at a free clinic with a fibroid tumor that apparently has grown larger. Tonight the pain became unbearable; her sisters and friends carried her to the car and drove her to the ER. She thinks she will need surgery — soon.
Because we Americans are a compassionate people, we don't let sick or injured people go untreated even if they have no money. This means we pay their bills, sooner or later. Every time. It is the most costly, least-efficient way to provide health care.
Now that the Supreme Court declared Obamacare the law of the land, the good news is everyone can be covered and it will save us all money.
The bad news is Obamacare is a market-based effort that has flaws and must be fixed. Sensible Republicans know this; but if they work with President Barack Obama to fix his plan, tea party Republicans will demonize and maybe defeat them in primary elections. So, Republicans duck and cover rather than lead.
Two weeks ago, members of the tea party minority forced the House Republican majority to shut down the government.
Then, even worse, they played chicken (yet again!) with threats of not raising the debt ceiling — even if that would force America to default on its debts for the first time or break our commitments on Social Security and other programs to fellow Americans.
SCENE: Hundreds of tea party-led protesters — enough to fill video screens coast-to-coast — descended upon the World War II memorial that was barricaded shut because of the government shutdown the tea party championed. "This is the people's memorial," the ubiquitous Cruz proclaimed. He demanded that the monument be opened to visiting veterans despite the shutdown he'd championed — and denounced the fact that tax money was spent to also barricade Mount Vernon, Mount Rushmore and so on.
(But what would Cruz and his tea party protesters say if vandals permanently defaced our national shrines during their gleeful government shutdown?)
Tea party protesters then dragged the barricades from the monument to the White House to protest that anyone would dare shut down monuments due to a government shutdown.
One speaker took the spirit of the moment one step further. Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal activist group, declared: "We are now ruled, quote, unquote, by a president who bows down to Allah. This president is not a president of 'we the people.' He's a president of his people. ... I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come up with his hands out."
So it was that one dared say out loud what too many think (and maybe say only in mass emails) here in Hate City. Last Sunday, the hate that now fuels our politics spewed into the open, for all to hear. That is the shame that has befallen the game that once was America's politics.


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Property Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2017
Revenue and Taxation Code
Property Taxation
Part 2. Assessment
Chapter 3. Assessment Generally
Article 3. Arbitrary and Penal Assessments
Section 505
505. Entry by assessor. The assessor shall make an assessment subject to penalty by entering on the local roll the assessment and penalty in such form and manner as prescribed by the board.
History.—Added by Stats. 1945, p. 2034, in effect September 15, 1945. Stats. 1966, p. 663 (First Extra Session), in effect October 6, 1966, substituted "assessment subject to penalty" for "penal assessment" and the balance of the sentence after "local roll" for "opposite the name of the assessee the words 'Penal assessment.' "


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Hi everyone,
first off thanks for XBMC 11 - sweet piece of software :-)
So I recently decided to buy a new fancy 3D TV. I am using the latest XBMCbuntu on an Acer Aspire Revo with NVidia ION graphics. My problem is that in its default configuration, XBMC's screen is too large for my TV, so I set the Skin Zoom to -2 which fits perfectly. Later I noticed that for some videos the picture is still too large for the screen, so I used the "Calibrate" function while playing the video to adjust the screen size. This works great for regular videos, but now I can't watch 3D movies (left-right) anymore. Before I adjusted the video size it worked great, and it appears that now the shift between the 2 pictures that are required for 3D is too large (when looking at it without the shutter glasses one can see that pretty well).
My next step was to remove my user settings and redo them, but this time I gave nvidia-settings a try and set overscan compensation there (which basically has the same effect as what skin zoom/calibrate does) - same problem :-(
Also, I notice that when playing music and using the visualizations the picture is incorrect - it looks like it moves the whole picture a bit to bottom left, and even when playing a video after listening to music there will be a black stripe at the top and the left side.
Did anyone ever see similar issues and maybe even found a way to solve these? I looked in my TV's settings but there is no option to adjust the screen size, so it needs to be done on OS level obviously.
PS. The issue doesn't seem to be XBMCbuntu specific, before it was released I was running XBMC Live but with upgraded XBMC (Beta + RCs), and I had the same issues there. And yes, I know I should have reported this a long time ago during the Beta/RC phase but I didn't get to it, I am sorry.
Thanks in advance for any hints
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Have you got any over scan options on the tv?
On my Panasonic its called 16:9 over-scan and ive got it turned OFF. i was always changing the over-scan options in xbmc until i found that option on my TV
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Well, after spending a few more hours googling for all kinds of different search terms it turns out my TV actually has an option to set the display size to "Native", which fixed my issues. The option isn't reachable via the config menu though, it has an extra key with a weird symbol on the remote, so much for usability... BTW its a Toshiba TV.
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MINNEAPOLIS – December 19, 2013 – CenterPoint Energy recently awarded Robbinsdale's School of Engineering and Arts at Olson Elementary (SEA) with certificates and a monetary gift card for helping make holiday cards for recipients of the Metro Meals on Wheels (MOW) program and The Salvation Army. MOW aims to help home bound clients receive the nutritious meals and human connection they need to help them live independently. The Salvation Army ensures basic needs are met for those in need. Together, these organizations help those who need groceries, assistance paying bills and with long term aid solutions. The holiday cards will be distributed by CenterPoint Energy to MOW clients along with natural gas energy assistance and conservation messages this holiday season. "Each year, we try to teach our students what is like to walk in other shoes. This year, we are teaching our children about empathy at SEA. Working with CenterPoint Energy on a shared goal to help the Metro Meals on Wheels program and The Salvation Army programs provided our school with the exact synergy we were seeking," said Kim Hiel, principal of SEA. "We appreciate the opportunity to educate our students about empathy and appreciate the certificates and monetary gift that we plan to use to purchase science supplies to further enhance the brilliant minds of our children." Suzanne Pierazek, manager of Corporate Community Relations added, "We are proud of our relationship with Volunteers in Partnership (VIP) who connected us with the students at SEA. CenterPoint Energy has partnered with VIP since 2009 in Robbinsdale Area School District. We also learned from Principal Hiel that the school shares our energy conservation goals as well as community involvement. The school is planning a 'Power-down Day' in the near future to help their students understand how to save energy and money and reduce their carbon footprint. We couldn't be more proud of this talented group of students and staff. " CenterPoint Energy lends support to educational, community development and environmental initiatives that enhance the quality of life for our customers, the environment and the community as a whole. To see what CenterPoint Energy is doing in the community, visit CenterPoint Energy.com/Community.
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MINNEAPOLIS – June 15, 2017 – CenterPoint Energy recently announced the three recipients of the 2016 Conservation Improvement Program (CIP) Energy Efficiency achievement awards at the
2017 Energy Efficiency and Technology Conference: Customer of the Year; Trade Ally of the Year; and Most Innovative Project of the year.
"We congratulate our winners and are confident that our Conservation Improvement Programs make it easier than ever for customers to become more energy efficient and save money on their monthly energy bills," said Brad Tutunjian, vice president of Gas Operations for CenterPoint Energy in Minnesota. "Taking steps toward becoming energy efficient is good for consumers' wallets and the environment."
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"We would like to take this opportunity to thank those who participated in our CIP programs in 2016 and helped achieve record natural gas savings of just over 2.0 billion cubic feet. The savings during 2016 were the equivalent to the annual natural gas usage of 22,200 residential homes and the emissions savings were the equivalent to removing 17,800 cars from the road for one year," added Tutunjian.
CenterPoint Energy is committed to energy conservation and has been a leader in delivering Conservation Improvement Programs in Minnesota since 1992. The company has significantly increased its energy efficiency programs to help residential and business customers lower their energy costs. In addition to foodservice equipment rebates, the company offers rebates for high-efficiency heating systems, water heaters, industrial process equipment and custom projects for commercial and industrial businesses.
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"Lending a helping hand is a strong part of our company culture. Our charitable giving and employee volunteerism strategy are guided by our core values and desire to be a valuable part of the communities we serve," said Diane Englet, senior director of Corporate Community Relations for CenterPoint Energy.
In partnership with the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center, which serves the world's largest medical campus, CenterPoint Energy employees in Houston have collected 67,725 units of blood since 2002, enough to save more than 203,000 lives. Several drives went beyond being held at the company's facilities and engaged community partners to support collection efforts.
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HOUSTON - June 1, 2017 – Hurricane season officially begins today and CenterPoint Energy is gearing up by incorporating the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones, into its Emergency Operating Plan (EOP). Drones could help expedite the company's ability to assess damage to its electric transmission and distribution system following a hurricane.
"We had the opportunity to test drone technology following last week's severe weather in Sealy, Texas, and see potential for drones to play a key role in storm and disaster response," said Kenny Mercado, senior vice president of Electric Operations for CenterPoint Energy.
"Obstacles such as downed trees or flooded roads make it difficult for crews to assess damage following a severe weather event, which in turn can hinder response and restoration time," added Mercado. "Using drones in areas that are inaccessible by foot to capture high-resolution imagery in real time will help us assess damage and deploy the right resources in the right places to restore power."
CenterPoint Energy has used helicopters in the past to assess system damage and will still use them as necessary; however, drones can typically be deployed faster than helicopters.
"We also urge amateur drone operators not to fly them following a natural disaster," said Mercado. "Doing so will not only hinder CenterPoint Energy's ability to assess damage, but may also interfere with the drones being used by emergency response agencies to assist in the recovery effort."
Outage duration could be two weeks or longer depending on storm severity
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"No two storms are alike, which makes it difficult to forecast what the exact damage to our electric system could be and how long outages could last," Mercado said. "Customers need to be prepared to be without power for two weeks or possibly longer, depending on the severity of the storm. If a storm is approaching and someone in your home depends on electricity for life-sustaining equipment, you need to make other arrangements to provide for those needs."
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HOUSTON, TX – May 25, 2017 – CenterPoint Energy continues to make significant progress restoring power in the hard-hit area of Sealy, Texas. following Tuesday night's severe weather.
The company has already restored power to more than 48,000 customers, and is on target to restore service to all customers who are able to receive it by late this evening. In addition to damaging CenterPoint Energy's electric infrastructure and equipment, the storm may have damaged some customer-owned equipment. Customers should check their weatherhead – the point where power enters the home through a pipe. If this equipment is damaged, customers will need to contact a qualified electrician to make sure it is repaired before the company is able to restore service to them.
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AMES, Iowa — Iowa Learning Farms and the Sac Soil and Water Conservation District are hosting a field day on Tuesday, June 5 on the Dean Tiefenthaler farm, rural Breda, beginning at 6 p.m. The field day will focus on strip-tillage as a conservation farming practice. The field day includes a complimentary evening meal served by Leon and Margie Boes. The event is free and the public is invited to attend.
The evening will begin at Dean Tiefenthaler's farm, located one mile west of Breda, northeast of the intersection of county road E-16 (120th Street) and Falcon Ave. Tiefenthaler will share his experience in adopting strip-tillage and how he is succeeding with this practice. Strip-tillage marries the best aspects of conventional tillage with the benefits of no-till. Before planting (fall post-harvest, or spring pre-plant) a strip-tillage implement creates strips of tilled soil. Surface residue is left undisturbed between the tilled strips. Corn or soybeans are planted into the tilled soil strips, which warm and dry faster than the rest of the field. This practice offers better water infiltration, improved soil structure, and potential for reduced fuel, machinery and other crop input costs.
Attendees then will move to the shelter at Breda City Park for the rest of the event. Following the meal at the shelter, hear about the efforts to improve Black Hawk Lake and reduce the sediment losses from farmland into the lake. Representatives from Schenkelberg Implement Company, Brokaw Supply and Crop Production Services Inc. will be on hand to discuss precision agriculture, strip-till, nutrient management and soil sampling. Breda City Park is located at the corner of Park and N. 2nd Streets in the northeast area of town.
The Lil' Conservation Station also will be at the event. The Conservation Station is a mobile learning center that travels across the state teaching all Iowans how they can help to improve water quality and keep Iowa's soils in place—building a Culture of Conservation. The Conservation Station's rainfall simulator demonstrates the effects of rainfall on different land scenarios. Water runoff and subsurface drainage are collected in clear jars that show what is coming off the land including heavily tilled soil, minimum tillage and pervious pavement.
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Arsène Wenger insists that players should not be singled out for their high salaries.
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the abolition of the maximum wage and footballers have benefited more than most with some Premier League stars commanding wages of £200,000 per week.
But Wenger does not advocate a salary cap in his sport and, at his pre-match press conference, the Frenchman was quick to point out that other professions attract eye-popping wages too.
"Why would you just want to punish football?" he asked.
"There are plenty of people out there who make much more money than footballers. What you want is that every company is managed in a responsible way. That is the first step our society has to go.
"I don't know why if a company makes a £50 million profit, people in the company shouldn't be rewarded. That would mean only the owners would be rewarded, that would be unfair. People that work in the company have to get their share of the success of the company.
"In the whole of society if you want to limit wages, why not? That needs a complete debate and is more political than sporty."
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Re: Boat worth price?
As a point of reference... Over the weekend I bought a 1978 CD25 (after bridge deck, before bronze ports) and a never been submerged 2006 Triad float-off trailer with about 400 unloaded and 1 loaded mile on it for $4650. Found it listed on the Cape Dory forum and paid full asking price.
The boat has been on the hard for six and a half years. Hull, decks, rudder, and standing rigging look to be in great shape. Non-skid looks decent. A few small cracks in the non-skid and deck gelcoat to repair but decks seem dry. Original gelcoat topsides with a few small patches where the color doesn't match perfectly but you have to look for it. I have pictures from two years ago with the bottom stripped and the gelcoat looks original there too. It now has new bottom paint.
Main and hank on jib look good. Roller genoa could use some repairs. Sail covers have a few small holes in them. Halyards have all rotted in the sun. Only electronics are an older sounder and knot meter. No outboard. No cushions. Compass has been uncovered for many years and the dome is now so brown it is not readable from more than a couple inches away. It is a portapotty model and one came included but I'm thinking about adding a head. The companway drop boards were replaced by a sheet of plywood with a vent in it. It is now badly rotted so I'll build some new drop boards.
I pulled it from Maryland to New Hampshire with a Toyota Tacoma. I can't believe how well the Triad trailer tows.
Re: Boat worth price?
This may not be the model for everyone, but I generally look at a few of the higher priced and mid-priced 'similar' boats. I look at how those boats have been maintained and then I compare them to the one I am truly considering. I take my own pictures of the boat that I am truly interested in, and I do my own sort of quick survey of what it might cost (time & money) to refurbish/restore the boat. If it looks like the cost will run anywhere near or exceed the cost of the similar boats then it might be worth consider the others too. Of course, that's not all there is to it, but that's kind of a basic and way oversimplified version of the mental principle that I use. There's also plenty of gut feeling in it, oh, and don't discount common sense. it's amazing how many people disregard that last little nugget.
Re: Boat worth price?
Does it have an engine? Are the sails soft as bedsheets, blown out and shot? Are the trailer bearings rusty, or well greased? Or are you lucky, and it has Bearing Buddies on it?
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"Why do you think you need a 3/4 ton+ truck to pull a 4000lb boat on a 1500lb trailer? I personally think 4LO and a high tide are important if you launching/retrieving at a ramp. But it doesn't take a large powerful truck to pull 5500lbs up a ramp or along the highway."
I over estimated the weight of the boat and trailer. Yep, most half ton PUs are rated to tow at least 5500. I corrected my original post to reflect this.
Re: Boat worth price?
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I was considering purchase of a Cape Dory 25 (1975) with trailer for $5700. The trailer is rusty and the boat needs a new coat of ablative bottom paint, the teak needs to be resanded and refinished, and there are some cracks on the deck which don't look deep. I could not find soft spots on the deck. Is this a reasonable price?
Most boats of this size and vintage need paint and brightwork. You will pay a premium for one that does not. That premium might be well worth it.
Do you WANT a trailer? Is the trailer SOUND and what you are looking for?
I see a huge advantage of being able to haul the boat out myself when a major storm is coming, store/work on it in my own yard, and move it hundreds of miles to go explore a new sailing area.
However, finding a GOOD used trailer for a CD25 is hard. I looked an almost nice Greenwich 24 (same hull) a few weeks ago that had the hull deformed over time by the homebuilt trailer that it came on. Sellers are asking $1k+ for a rusty piece of junk you have to use a crane/lift to load and I wouldn't risk driving at more than 20mph. A good new launchable trailer for a CD25 will cost about $5700 by itself.
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Do you have a 3/4 ton or bigger truck to pull this boat and trailer?
Re: Boat worth price?
Inboard diesel or outboard version the first is worth a lot more.
UNLESS the diesel is U/S in which case it is worth considerably LESS than the OB version.
You can buy a S/H OB for $600
Re-engining a boat of that type in a yard $5k to $12k mounts exhaust shaft prop
Re: Boat worth price?
Have you considered getting the boat surveyed? Your post leads me to believe you're pretty new at this. So am I, so when I was pretty sold on a Cat 30 a few months ago, I had it surveyed. Survey turned up problems that would have turned a $12,500 boat into a $16,000 before I ever got to sail her. So I passed it up, found another Cat 30 with a fresh survey, in great shape, and bought her in May.
If you can't answer all the Q's Captainmeme suggested, I would suggest investing a little money in a survey.
Re: Boat worth price?
Really at this level, the question is more philosophical than absolute...
Is it worth that much to you...? Is it going to need more work to be sailable and is the extra costs acceptable to you...?
Is there (are there) other boats that may need more work (that your willing to do) at a lower price..?
Or are you not interested in working on the boat and willing to pay more for a "ready to ride" boat...?
I'm handy.. I have the technology and the tools and am willing to put in the work.. So I bought a boat for $760 and am traveling, trailering, and sailing for about $4,000 total...You still gotta paint the bottom and fix the trailer before you can even go out...
Re: Boat worth price?
I think that is a little high for a CD25 especially if it is not in excellent condition (cheap for a CD25D but they are very different boats).
If you like the Cape Dories, I suggest you check out the CDSOA at Capedory.org. They have a BB forum there too including a "for sale" forum.
Re: Boat worth price?
For that price the boat, and trailer should be in pretty good shape, and in workable condition. For comparison I paid $500.00 for a boat that had several issues, and a trailer that I had to spend $300.00 on tires to get it home, followed by new bunks, and paint, and lights, and brakes.
At that price range, and age what you are paying for is what you will get out of it,...a sailable boat. Only you can determine what that is worth to you, but I think there are cheaper trailer sailers, but maybe not exactly what you are looking for.
If you specifically want a cape dory 25, that is a very reasonable price for the boat you want.
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I have been a reader of this forum for a few months now. It has helped me with a whole bunch of DIY's for my 2005.5 Jetta (oil, spark plugs, tranny fluid, filters. etc) It also gave me to bug to start tinkering with the car. (this was my downfall) I installed short shifter, and a tranny mount insert and I have been having a great time driving the car. SO then I purchased a light weight crank pulley and I just attempted to install it. Once I got to the stock pulley I noticed that the bolts were really rusty. I attempted to remove them with hand tools but I could not brake the bolts free. I decided to scrap that attempt figuring that I would use some air tools at my buddy's house tomorrow. I put the car back together and when I went to start her up, no dice.
I did some research (in frantic disbelief and dismay) and I fear that I must have rotated the crank and totally effed the timing chain position.
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Emmanuel Frimpong has hailed the Club's rising stars ahead of Tuesday night's Capital One Cup clash at Reading.
The midfielder made his comeback from injury in the third-round victory against Coventry last month, and was impressed with his talented young team-mates.
Frimpong has also featured alongside a number of them for the under-21s in recent weeks, and believes the future is bright for the Club.
"I really like Thomas Eisfeld," he told Arsenal Player. "I've hardly ever played with him before because I have been injured, but he looks really good.
"I also really like Kristoffer Olsson as well. When I played with them against Everton, after the game me and Jack [Wilshere] said to each other, 'Wow, they are really good'.
"The things that they do, you would think they'd already been playing for years. That's very exciting for Arsenal. Hopefully we will see these players [coming through] over the next year or so."
Frimpong was pleased to play his part in the 6-1 win against Coventry last month, and hopes for a similar display when Arsenal visit the Madejski Stadium.
"It felt amazing, I felt it was the right game to come back in," he said. "We were cruising at the time, I think we were 3-0 up, so it was a comfortable game for me to be involved in.
"I thought the team did really well, we had a very young team at the back. We had the likes of Martin Angha and Iggy [Miquel] playing but they did really well.
"Serge [Gnabry] came on and did his thing, he is really doing well at the moment, and I thought the guys did well because the first half wasn't that great, but in the second half we really pushed on.
"We played Reading a few weeks ago [with the under-21s] and Jason Roberts and Danny Guthrie played. They will be physical and will look to go forward quickly, so we have to make sure we are ready for the test and stand up to it."
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Except in Texas, which did away with the policy in 2011, condemned men in prisons throughout the U.S. continue to eat a hearty meal before their date with the executioner—some heartier than others.
Consider the final earthly repast of murderer Gary Carl Simmons, who was put to death at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on June 21. Simmons requested, received, and consumed two pizzas (one of them a medium Super Supreme Deep Dish pie from Pizza Hut), five pounds of Parmesan cheese, 10 cups of ranch dressing, two pints of strawberry ice cream, a family-size bag of nacho cheese flavor Doritos, and a super-size order of McDonald's fries with ketchup and mayo, and to wash it all down two strawberry shakes and 40 ounces of Cherry Coke. Total calories: 28,974.
The Daily Mail reports that the meal also provided 2,077 grams of fat, close to 35 times the USDA's recommended daily intake for that nutrient. One might argue that the man should be more vigilant about his diet. Then again….
Although the typical death row last meal gravitates toward high-fat and often fried foods, not all inmates have plebian tastes. The article notes that Robert Dale Conklin, who used a screwdriver to kill his gay lover and then dismembered the corpse in Georgia in 1984, feasted on shrimp sautéed in garlic butter with lemon, bacon-wrapped filet mignon,a baked potato with butter, sour cream, chives, and real bacon bits, corn on the cob, asparagus with Hollandaise sauce, French bread with butter, goat cheese, cantaloupe, apple pie, vanilla bean ice cream, and iced tea.
Simmons' meal meanwhile has rekindled an argument that life on death row is too comfortable. In a piece published around the time of the execution, ABC News recalled a galling letter sent to a local newspaper the previous January by one Danny Robbie Hembree Jr., a death row inmate at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C. In the letter, Hembree (who still awaits execution) boasted:
Is the public aware that I am a gentleman of leisure, watching color TV in the A.C., reading, taking naps at will, eating three, well-balanced, hot meals a day…. Kill me if you can, suckers. Ha! Ha! Ha!'
The spiteful taunt prompted death penalty advocate and New York Law School professor Robert Blecker to renew efforts to raise public awareness of the "undeservedly pleasant" life that has become the norm for prisoners inside America's maximum-security prisons. "They're playing on softball fields with lined base paths and umpires in uniforms, while other guys are hanging out, getting a suntan," he told reporters. "Those who committed the worst crimes, who deserve to suffer the most, generally suffer the least."
Blecker, who has produced a documentary and written a book about the pampered treatment accorded many of the nation's most flagrant offenders, said most Americans are clueless about the reality of prison life. He said prison life can be so cushy that some convicts claim to have killed just to get put away.
But back to Simmons's last meal. Lest anyone assume that his calorie-fest set some kind of world record, take note of food writer Waverly Root's description in his delightful Eating in America of a "normal dinner" for financier and gastronome Diamond Jim Brady. The meal "began with two or three dozen Lynnhaven oysters."
Then came half a dozen crabs, two bowls of green turtle soup, [six or seven] lobsters …, a double portion of terrapin, two canvasback ducks, a large sirloin steak with appropriate vegetables, and when a tray of French pastry was presented for dessert, its entire contents.
At the time of his death, Root later writes, Brady's stomach was six times the normal size.
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I'll never set foot in one again!!
JC Penney Jumps on News George Soros Is Shareholder
Shares of beleaguered retailer JC Penney rose more than 7 percent in aftermarket trading on Thursday after billionaire financier George Soros disclosed a 7.9 percent stake in the company.
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I'll never set foot in one again!!
JCP has sucked since the 80s.
i wonder how they have hung around this long.
expect Obamma to give JCP a big billion dollar bail out check any time since soros owns a big share--
got a double fire on this one--


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Don't have a clue. Try asking that at your favorite gun shop, or local NRA and see if they know were you can get a copy of NJ gun laws.
Hello just joined the forum very excited to get helpful information. I a fairly new to shooting and would love any information I am given. My first question (of many more im sure) is if anyone knows the best way to know the laws of my state, I live in NJ I know the basics but I have some questions and wanted to know the best way to find simple answers. Like I was wondering, I have my own handguns but am I allowed to borrow my husbands and go to the range and vise versa We both have different handguns but also different schedules so we can't always go together Thank you for all your help and future help
Don't have a clue. Try asking that at your favorite gun shop, or local NRA and see if they know were you can get a copy of NJ gun laws.
Welcome also from Jersey, If you go to N.J. State Police web site they have the firearms laws on there.
Will do thank you!
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Thank you Easy_CZ Those sites are great. Thank you everyone for the welcome!
It really is such a pain here. Was just at the station applying for 2 new permits and started talking to a cop who was so annoyed at the process he is good enough to be a cop but has trouble with his personal collection go figure
Some legislators just don't get it ...in states where gun laws are relaxed and more in line with constitutional rights, crime has dropped......
I couldn't agree with you more. My husband who got his license 5 years ago has rifles and handguns we recently moved and he went in for an address change and made a mistake on the application. He misread a question and now we had to hire a lawyer for 2,500!! Just in the hopes that he can keep his license It is now in the hands of the superior court. But when he first applied he answered everything the same way but for some reason now it's a problem. I hope it works out but if not I will just keep applying and he can get what he wants it's really unfair. BTW the question was something like have you ever been convicted of a crime that you could've been in jail for a specific amount of years and he put no. He was in trouble when he was 17 for being a stupid teenager and never thought he was convicted because he never went to jail or anything but because he saw a judge that is convicted. what a great state


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Party season's here again and summer's around the corner. A time, perhaps, when it's OK to turn up for work looking a little bit less groomed than usual? A time when a man's shaving routines can take a backseat to more important ways for a man to spend his morning? (Like sleeping off his hangover or finding his way home.)
No time to shave today, I'm going for the rugged look. The five o'clock shadow at 7.55am look. Big mistake? Quite probably.
Time was when we were a land of straitlaced, hat-wearing types, where, as one olden-days style dictator put it "it must be stated that all men are well shaved, helped by the efficiency of modern razors, electric or otherwise".
But Australia's a relaxed kind of a place now, where you can wear jeans to work on a Friday, forget about at least one of the shirt, suit, tie and shiny shoes combo and maybe get away with going to work with a couple of days' growth now and again.
So is the unshaven-at-the-office look OK these days? And does it matter what sort of work you do?
"It depends what it looks like,'' says Nicola Barnard, a Melbourne-based image consultant.
''If it's quite even and well-groomed then it may be fine but if it's a bit patchy don't bother. It's got to look like it's meant to be there.''
Barnard says that whether the five-o'clock shadow is OK also depends on the culture of the organisation you work for. Mainstream, corporate and conservative - no. Funky, fashionable and creative - yes.
A recent survey into attitudes toward facial hair - carried out for Nivea - confirms this. The survey found that 48 per cent of Australian men think it is unacceptable for chefs to have facial hair, 37 per cent think police should be clean-shaven and 31 per cent say bankers needed a smooth chin. It's OK for designers (only 13 per cent against) and sportsmen (15 per cent) to sport some stubble.
The survey also found that 40 per cent of Australian men in full-time work and 42 per cent of those earning more than $100K think they need to shave Monday to Friday, while letting their facial hair grow on the weekend.
So if you're in the sort of job where you should be shaving every day - ie. the corporate world - then you should keep on shaving every day, even if things seem to get less formal as summer approaches.
More relaxed types - advertising executives, cricketers and journalists - have it easier, thank goodness. But even in less uptight environments, it's better if it looks intended, rather than being just the product of laziness or too much pre-Christmas fun.
No matter what line you're in, it's possibly not the best idea in the world to turn up at the office with a face that screams "I really can't be bothered with anything today".


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