STRIPPING: STORES NOW SHOW LESS
I checked two home improvement stores and three discount stores this week and found all of them seem to be carrying less weather-stripping than they used to.Modern doors and windows - from about 1980 on - are a lot more airtight than older doors and windows, and I guess the demand for weather-stripping is decreasing as replacement windows are installed and new houses replace old ones. Still, it pays to check the airtightness of your doors and windows yearly. Now, as cooler weather...
Times of Zambia - AAGM:
Stripping of ZR Rail Sleepers Worries State
GOVERNMENT has bemoaned the wanton asset stripping of Zambia Railways infrastructure and called for thorough investigations to establish whether it was part of the concession agreement.Ndola district commissioner Victor Konie, who toured the infrastructure, complained about the stripping of the rail sleepers across the Kafubu stream and the one leading into the goods shed. He also wondered why the plot where the railway line passed had been allocated to someone to develop because that...
WATER CURE,
CONSULTANT SAYS CORTLAND COULD CONSTRUCT AIR STRIPPING TOWERS IF CONTAMINATION SPREADS
The city should erect two air stripping towers if it wants to entirely remove several industrial compounds threatening the public water supply, according to a spokesman for the firm that has been studying the contamination of the area's ground water.``If they don't want to see any levels in the water, then they should build the towers,'' said Sam Stowe, vice president of Ground-Water Associates of Westerville, Ohio, who plans to meet...
Lawmakers seek licensing, counseling for young dancers,
Nonalcoholic clubs lack scrutiny, critics say
Targeting city's under-21 strip clubs
Looking back on her 19 years, BobbyLee Castoe says one year of stripping for a living was worse than multiple years in and out of the McLaughlin Youth Center -- juvenile jail. "Basically you feel like a dog," she said of stripping. "You do tricks."She hated hanging from poles while contorting her barely clad body, she said. Some men grabbed at her, she said, and others told her she was ugly. One smacked her when she wouldn't go...
Stripping the divvies only for the brave
Dividend stripping is attempted by thousands but pulled off by only a few. Alex Tilbury reports TO strip a dividend from a share price is easy in theory -- all you have to do is buy a stock before it pays its dividend and sell it shortly after -- but analysts say the strategy is fraught with pitfalls.For small investors, the trick is to cover your brokerage costs in the transaction that may last only a day or two.It is the franking credits attached to many dividends that makes...