Jerra
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(must have X feedback, nobody outside the UK, no non-payer etc),
I don't buy or sell on ebay but this intrigues me. I do look at things on ebay and wonder how anybody is supposed to build up the required feedback when so many refuse to take bids unless you have the feed back.
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When they knock on a pensioner's door and steal their under-bed savings. Can't see anyone doing that without nefarious leanings.
Basically as soon as they use the impersonation to benefit themselves, i should think. Then there's dangerous misleading, which would be misuse of assumed (wrongly) authority.
So isn't there a possibility this person is leading towards that sort of nefarious behaviour. The reports I have seen mention money and piloting boats.
This gives the opportunity to "case the joint" and or commit an opportunist crime. Scenario - once on board "piloting" can I use your loo, a few seconds below picks up smart phone reappears and says I nip off at the next bridge hole.
I am well aware that there are many people who are well meaning and like to help at locks (I might be one myself if I lived near a canal) but I am amazed at how it is automatically assumed there is no harm in this case.
There was a huge outcry in a recent thread about finding a man on board uninvited, to me this is potentially (from a theft point of view) similar except he has been invited on board.
OK maybe I am just a suspicious grumpy old sod.
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I don't think there's any law of the land saying that its illegal to pretend to be from CRT. There may well be waterways byelaws and rules against it and it is obviously heavily frowned on by CRT.
An interesting point. It made me wonder at what point does it become illegal to impersonate - say water board worker, meter reader, gas man etc?
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But is IS within their (CRT's) powers to say when 'the board is satisfied'.
Perhaps she means they can never get the board to agree (a bit like some debates on here).
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I think you will find it's maize, not sweetcorn, totally inedible unless made into flour.
Sweet corn and maize I think you will find are both varieties of Zea mays. However like many cultivated crops different varieties have different characteristics e.g. the amount of sugar.
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I applaud the spirit of adventure but I think I read somewhere that 95% of the rivers (and lakes?) in England are not accessible to the public. You need to come up to Scotland where it is 100%. I regularly see canoeists on our local river with their camping gear and feel a little envious of the sense of freedom it implies but I get the impression it's very frustrating in England.
I can speak about rivers that are navigations but in England (for rivers that aren't navigation) you should have the permission of the riperian rights owner. I would also suggest you keep well clear of fly fishermen they get very stroppy and can cast very intimidatingly. I know various Lakes in the Lake District limit the number/type of boats allowed e.g. Wastwater 15 rowing boats IIRC but I am unaware of any saying no canoes.
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Out cruising on our boat. The one thing in 'nature' that has struck a chord is the amount of Japanese Knotweed, Balsam and Buddleia that line the banks of the inland waterways. Now, you might think with CaRT getting all touchy feely over ecological and environmental issues. The invasive stuff would be high on the agenda of protecting hundreds of miles of waterways habitat, rather than voles and shrews. Or maybe Great Nature Watch is a bit of lip service to placate the punters.
Sorry I need this explained a little for me. How is the buddleia threatening the waterways? Little short of a nuclear attack is going to shift the Knotweed, once it is there it will be very expensive to even try to eradicate let alone succeed. I can imagine the howls of dismay at tens if not hundreds of thousands being spent on trying to clear the banks rather than say dredging or lock maintenance. The Balsam will as far as the watercourses are concerned (rather than natural habitat) only be a problem where there is a chance of running water eroding the bare earth exposed in winter - less of a problem on canals than rivers.
Perhaps the survey will help to do two things - alert the CRT to problems and help to draw in interested people. Volunteers can do a lot towards Balsam control by hand.
Where in the survey does it indicate voles and shrews are of special interest or is this just your imagination?
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I downloaded this app and can't see the point.
There are relatively few options for the description of the canal at a particular location, and incredibly few animals, (89?), the list doesn't even include ducks.
In the FAQs, there are questions about both the above, and the answers are both along the lines of "there are so many options availabele, that it would be impossible to include them all"
Quite amazing - I would be embarrassed if I had been tasked with creating the app, and it was now being publicised all over the place. It seems a bit like an app that you might create in a learning environment.
Given the levels of technology, and information available, how hard would it be to include reference to thousands of animals, and how hard to give many more options for the canal description.
Somebody is getting paid to do this???
I suspect the data provided is kept "slim" for a few reasons. The first being they don't want to scare people away by making it look too complicated. Second they may have chosen their species as being indicators of a particular habitat etc. After all seeing a Mallard barely even indicates that there is water present. Another reason could be that they have a particular reason to gather knowledge of a particular problem e.g. if a species is/isn't found in a particular area/habitat.
Without knowing more about what they hope the survey is going to do I would find it difficult to criticise sensibly.
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I almost started a thread to ask this! I am glad to see that I am not the only one who
1. Wondered which was generally accepted
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2. Says wind (as in clock) because to me it is logical I am turning.
I also sometimes do it on still days so winding (as in blowy stuff) wouldn't apply
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When i work out how to do it I will share the results on here. Already had 63 people do it thanks everyone I really do appreciate you taking the time.
Some of the forums I use have the facility to have a "vote" on questions does anyone know if this software allows such a facility. It might be a useful way of sounding out opinion occasionally.
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Done. Thanks for your efforts on behalf of boaters.
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I think the guidance is really, really clear as it stands. Am I the only one?
No your not I feel it is as well.
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Many of the problems with "new" diseases and pests are due to the "shrinking" world i.e. goods and people being transported all over the world. Varroa in bees illustrates the situation well, the mite evolved with the eastern honey bee Apis cerana and the bees evolved to be able to deal with them. One the mite got to European Honey Bees Apis melifera they had no defences and readily succumb. The same is true of other pests and diseases, when they get into a population which doesn't have natural evolved protection all hell breaks lose.
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I have no problem with CRT taking proper and appropriate action against boats but to abuse their powers to remove it a boat is not one.
Presumably CRT have been able to show a judge enough evidence to convince him! If they can "prove" their case sufficiently well to get the courts to support them can they be abusing their powers?
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So should the limit be raised to 33?
A speed limit indicates the max limit, travelling at the limit increases the risk of exceeding it, you have a choice whether or not to do that. Discretion can be used by any copper but don't rely on it as a defence.
Just a couple of observations. First my speedo was showing 30 so I believed i was within the limit.
Second as I said in a previous post according to the speed awareness course (a course worth taking even if you haven't been speeding by the way) if a camera is taking a picture there is no discretion!
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My understanding is that it applies to cameras too but your guy may very well be correct.
I was once done for 34 by a GATSO in a 30 (ACPO gudlines would have said 35) but it was a long time ago and I'm sure pre- ACPO guidelines so I don't really know for sure if they treat the method of detection differently.
I was done by one of these camera vans for 33 just 100 yards from the end of the limit going uphill. So the 35 certainly doesn't apply in our area. (The speedo was reading 30)
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To be fair it could be argued to get prosecuted for speeding these days you do have to be driving pretty well over the limit and deserve to get fined. The ACPO guidelines for threshold for prosecution generally seem to be followed in my view. (Limit plus 10% plus 2mph eg 79 mph in a 70 triggers prosecution, 78 mph wouldn't.
The roads that cameras are used on are normally well sign posted as are average speed check areas, but you still see cars whizzing through these areas well above the posted limit and you can only assume some of them are driving a stolen car or on stolen plates.
I was given to understand by a guy who runs speed awareness courses for the police that if a photo has been taken some action follows no matter what the speed. The leeway is/was applied by police officers but not cameras. It seems (for England if you are only just over the speed limit you have a choice £60 fine and 3 points or £70 for a speed awareness course (providing you haven't already done one in the last 3 years).
If you are much over the limit it is a court case again AIUI
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Yes, speeding is a crime, there are laws against it and you can get points on your licence and fined if caught. Having trained officers spend an entire shift sitting in the back of a van, to catch people going over the speed limit, when there are violent crimes going unsolved, seems to me, like a soft option.
I wonder if anyone can supply numbers of those killed/injured in speeding accidents compared to violent crime?
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All very clever but I'd rather they developed a system to catch more actual criminals.
So speeding isn't a crime?
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The duty, is for propulsion, the use is domestic.
The point I was trying to make (obviously unsuccessfully) was it is fuel duty not propulsion fuel duty. HMRC and the gov website do not mention road or propulsion. So as far as I can see it depends on the individual if they want to/can alter the system to use fuel of one duty level for domestic fine. If they can't/don't want to then they are forced to use a fuel of a different duty level. Nothing to do with the duty level being for propulsion.
Cars which run on gas pay a different level of duty and it is still for propulsion. Petrol engined boats may have a by product (heat, electricity) from their petrol engine but again the duty is just plain fuel duty not road or propulsion duty.
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So the separate tank can be connected via pipework and valves, to the main engine? Post #73 suggests this setup isn't allowed. If it was, then its pointless having 2 tanks.
I admit it is a long time since I had connections with agriculture but back then it could be tested if an engine had used red diesel and if it was on the road having used red diesel at some time there were problems.
Things may have changed.
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The problem is, with the inability to (legally) put red diesel into the tank, one would be forced to use white, at its higher cost, for domestic purposes, thus paying tax on something its not used for.
I am not sure this logic is correct. HMRC and www.gov.uk both refer to the duty as fuel duty not road fuel duty. As a result those who have to use white diesel for domestic purposes are having to use a fuel which attracts a different rate of duty not paying duty on something it isn't used for.
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unfortunately, the government, who set the rates, refer to it as 'road fuel duty'Where do they refer to it as "road fuel duty" www.gov.uk doesn't seem to have a single reference to "Road Fuel Duty" but do have a page called www.gov.uk/fuel-duty
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No I don't have a problem with it either. I am just considering the need for it in this day and age. Is it just a waste of money that could be spent more wisely etc?
As far as I am concerned a paper trail is required and it may as well be in the window where I know where it is as tucked away in a file or a draw.
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Thank you.