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The NS800 is one of the most compact and exclusive in-ear headphones in the world. A high-fidelity headset with the most revealing sound in an incredibly small stainless steel housing. The Micro-Armature speaker is designed to deliver a well-balanced and superior sound quality. The NS800 provides precise and detailed acoustics throughout the entire sonic spectrum, backed by a natural bass,...
RedGiant A00 Malleus Solid Metal In-Ear Headphones
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The 50 Best Street Style Moments of 2011
Léa Seydoux is talking about shopping on a trip to New York when suddenly her tone turns conspiratorial. "I'm going to tell you the truth," she whispers. "I bought a ring at Cartier." Not just a ring but a Panthère bague worthy of the Duchess of Windsor. It's a major purchase by any standard, but perhaps holding your own opposite Tom Cruise, as Seydoux does in her latest film, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, is reason enough for an ingenue of 26 to merit a reward.
At a Paris Fashion Week party
Seydoux balances the occasional ultraluxe tidbit with plenty of chic no-nonsense basics. A typical off-duty outfit involves a black blazer, white T-shirt, jeans, and a scarf. (She favors Hermès.) Her go-to pieces — low-heeled Isabel Marant boots, Acne jeans, and Repetto flats — are the perfect Parisian jeune fille's uniform.
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Policy 440.30
Political Activities
Originator: Office of Human Resources
Subject: Policy Regarding Political Activities
University System-Wide General Policy
Employees are encouraged to exercise their rights and obligations as citizens and to participate in political activities. The University's policy is that an employee is free to exercise all usual rights and obligations as a citizen provided his/her political activities not be in conflict with the responsibilities of the employee to his University duties. (References to the University imply the System.)
- Federal Requirements for Implementing Merit System Standards
- The development of proper and efficient administration of grant-in-aid programs is a concern of both the Federal and the State agencies cooperating in the programs. Proper and efficient administration requires clear definition of functions, the employment of the most competent available personnel, and the development of staff morale and individual efficiency. The merit system provisions of Federal statues relating to the grant-in-aid program are directed to the achievement of these ends through the application of personnel standards on a merit basis.
- Merit system standards are issued by the Social Security Administration, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Department of Labor, the Department of Defense, and the Civil Service Commission.
- The University is the recipient of a number of federal grant-in-aid programs. Various federal agencies which make these grants may require the University to enter into a contractual agreement providing for, among other things, the maintenance of acceptable merit system standards including restrictions on political activities of those employees whose duties are performed substantially in connection with the Federal grant-in-aid program.
- The Maryland State Agency for Surplus Property, a unit of the University, is the only unit of the University that has been required to date to place restrictions on political activities of its employees.
- The Vice Chancellor for General Administration is responsible for informing the Presidents and other appropriate officials of the University of any future contractual requirement that places restrictions on political activities of University employees.
- The State of Maryland
The State of Maryland has not passed legislation that is designed specifically to prohibit political activities of its employees.
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Notwithstanding the exemption of University employees from the provisions of the Hatch Act, and notification of employees affected by merit system standards as described in paragraph B.5. above, any non-exempt employee of the University who is doubtful about his own particular situation, or feels that certain special considerations might impinge upon his planned political activities, may obtain a specific clarification of his individual status. The Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Civil Service Commission, 1900 E Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20415 is available for specific rulings on individual cases with respect to the Hatch Act, or the Office of the Vice President, Administration of the University may be contacted for assistance in any case, be it in connection with the Hatch Act or merit system standards issued by Federal agencies.
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text: For the ones stacking up around here, the Han Solo just isn't that great of a figure. There's nothing wrong with it, but nothing really right either. The clone trooper would have probably sold out if they'd gotten the paint on the helmet right. As long as it's been in production, there's really no excuse for that especially if they're charging more for it than a basic figure TRU was drowning in ROTS the last time I was there, but I attribute that th prices $3-$4 more than the competition. I've stopped looking there for figures for that reason.


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Legislature spurns higher ed
Gwyn Mellinger
The recent outcry against the Kansas Legislature's whack at higher education funding came too late to prevent a short-sighted and misguided assault on state-supported colleges and universities.
Though Gov. Sam Brownback sought to maintain funding for higher ed, his conservative legislative majority did not fall in line. Now the governor must confront cuts to higher ed that Tim Emert, chair of the Kansas Board of Regents, has called "devastating."
According to the regents' numbers, the damage over the next two years will total $48.7 million across the 32 public institutions under its umbrella. Among budget areas to be reduced are student financial aid and salaries.
The governor is left scratching his head, trying to figure out how to veto the cuts without simultaneously eliminating overall higher-ed funding.
Ironically, Kansas lawmakers passed this budget in a year when their peers in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma all increased higher-ed support.
Why is Kansas the regional outlier?
As usual in Kansas, the divide is not Republican vs. Democrat. This time it's not even conservative vs. moderate.
Instead, the politics of higher-ed funding breaks along a fault line separating those who value the life of the mind and recognize the economic development contributions of education from anti-intellectuals who see education as a commodity that should be produced with the fewest inputs possible.
In this political environment, the governor, who is no egghead but clearly understands the universities' links to quality of life and the state economy, parts company with those who are in his own ideological camp on most other fiscal matters.
He's not alone among Republicans in criticizing the Legislature's action. One of the most intriguing comments to be published following the budget vote came from Robba Moran, a regent and the wife of U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran.
"If you want to have outstanding universities, you have to pay for them," she said.
That's the crux of the problem. Those who voted to cut the regents' budget by 6.3 percent over two years do not see outstanding universities as a desirable goal — at least not one the state treasury should pay for.
This calculation does not consider the long-term cost of deferred maintenance to university buildings or institutions' inability to attract and retain top faculty.
Nor does it take account of the burden on Kansas families when costs are shifted to household budgets in the form of tuition increases.
The Legislature's budget vote comes at a time when higher education is experiencing historic challenges. A national debate rages over the comparative value of a degree earned in a four-year window by attending classes in brick-and-mortar classrooms.
Institutions of higher learning are under the gun to develop online and other non-traditional programs to meet the needs of adults (and their employers) who see evenings and weekends as more appropriate times to attend classes.
At the same time, the state's largest universities must expand the existing educational infrastructure for research and, at all institutions, increase enrollments of traditional, tuition-paying students.
Even without a budgetary whammy from the Legislature, the times demand creative responses from regents institutions.
Unfortunately, innovation, a process that requires trial and error, rarely happens when resources are deficient and administrators and faculty fear being accused of extravagance. Under overly restrictive budgetary conditions, it's human nature to make decisions that are safe and cheap, not ones that create new opportunities.
Even if the governor finds a way to restore funding, the Legislature has made a very public statement that support for higher education is a low priority and that university systems in other states are welcome to eclipse ours.
Gwyneth Mellinger is a professor and chair of the Department of Mass Media at Baker University.


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The complaint charges that Huntington National Bank does not record charges and purchases on ATM or debit cards in the order they actually occurred. Instead, Huntington National Bank reorders the charges and purchases so that the largest charge or purchase is the first one paid by the bank. This manipulative practice is intentionally designed, the complaints allege, to maximize overdraft fee revenue.
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Banks could simply decline to honor customer ATM or point-of-sale transactions if the account lacked sufficient funds, or the bank could warn customers that if they went through with the transaction an overdraft fee would be assessed. In fact, until a few years ago, most banks simply declined debit transactions that would overdraw an account.
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Karo Batak people
north Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century
wood, goat skin, iron nails, bamboo
28.0 (h) x 20.4 (w) x 10.5 (d) cm
Purchased 2006
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
For the Batak peoples of north Sumatra secondary burials are of supreme importance. At these rites the bones of significant individuals are exhumed, washed, wrapped in fine cloth and moved to an elaborate sarcophagus often guarded by images of singa lion-serpents. Masked dancers in fine textiles and beaded jackets perform in front of the former house of a prominent member of the village before accompanying the bones and coffin to the grave. It is hoped that these spectacular displays of respect will encourage the ancestral spirit to act favourably towards the surviving descendants.
The dramatic masks are sometimes left beside the grave, an allusion to the former sacrifice of slaves to serve the deceased in the afterlife. Throughout Southeast Asia, masks are widely donned to communicate with spirits.


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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 382, March 07, 2008
Using ezViz for Quick Tsunami Model Verification
[ By: Tom Logan ]
The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) and colleagues from the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science & Engineering (NACSE) have developed a tsunami computational portal. This portal allows approved oceanographic researchers to submit fully configured tsunami propagation runs to the HPC systems at ARSC through a web-based front end currently hosted by NACSE ( http://tsunamiportal.nacse.org/ ).
Staff at ARSC are responsible for proper integration, maintenance, and robustness of models contributed for portal use. The ability to produce quick visualizations ensures valid integration of models and allows for spot checking of jobs submitted through the portal.
For these tasks, we have found ezViz to be an invaluable tool. ezViz is visualization package developed by the HPCMP DAAC- Data Analysis and Assessment Center ( https://visualization.hpc.mil/ ) and is available on many resources within the HPCMP including midnight and iceberg.
Prior to the use of ezViz, spot-checking and validation was accomplished using Matlab. The process involved transferring filter, deformation, and sea level maximum files (5 or more files totaling from 20 to 100 MB per run) to a suitable platform (e.g. Mac laptop), starting up Matlab, reading in these largish files, and, finally, generating output images that can be examined for expected patterns of deformation and sea levels.
Using ezViz, all of this post-processing can be performed on the HPC platform with a minimal number of commands in mere seconds. On midnight, one can use the 'display' command to look at the resulting jpeg files right away - no explicit data transfer is required and, if one wants to save results, they only need transfer small jpeg images (typically less than 100kb each).
Admittedly, our use of ezViz takes advantage of only the most rudimentary features of the package. For this purpose, that's all we needed and ezViz readily met the requirements.
As far as using ezViz to create a single image, here's what we're doing:
Create an initialization file. Here's an example (called layer1.ini):
[INPUT] format=RAW file=layer1.def options=I=870;J=300;K=1;TYPE=float [OUTPUT] format=jpg size=720p file=test.jpg [RENDER] operation=model zoom=1.5 [colormap] colorfield=data colorbar=bottomThis example directs ezViz to read a raw binary file named layer1.def of size 870 samples by 300 lines of 4-byte IEEE floating-point data. The output image is a 1280X720 pixel jpeg file that includes a colorbar along the bottom of the image.
Invoke ezViz from the command line:
% ezVizGeneric layer1.iniUsing the layer1.ini given above, the output image will be named test.jpg. This step assumes you have ezVizGeneric in your PATH. You can add ezViz to your PATH by loading the "ezViz" module on either midnight or iceberg.
The beauty and ease of ezViz is that one can readily create Unix scripts to invoke ezViz in a variety of ways. For example, here's the script that is used to examine the output of two benchmark runs (used during model modification and validation):
make_images script:
#!/bin/csh set BENCH1=${ARCHIVE_HOME}/bench1 set BENCH2=${ARCHIVE_HOME}/bench2 cd bench1 ezVizGeneric ../layer1.ini -input layer1.slmax -output bench1_slmax.jpg ezVizGeneric ../layer1.ini -input tsu_layer1.def -output bench1_def.jpg ezVizGeneric ../layer2.ini -input layer2.slmax -output bench1_layer2_slmax.jpg ezVizGeneric ../layer2.ini -input tsu_layer2.def -output bench1_layer2_def.jpg ezVizGeneric ../mask.ini ~/portal/utils/utils/diff_bin layer1.slmax ${BENCH1}/layer1.slmax 300 870 diff.slmax ~/portal/utils/utils/diff_bin tsu_layer1.def ${BENCH1}/tsu_layer1.def 300 870 diff.def ezVizGeneric ../layer1.ini -input diff.slmax -output bench1_diff_slmax.jpg ezVizGeneric ../layer1.ini -input diff.def -output bench1_diff_def.jpg cd ../bench2 ezVizGeneric ../layer1.ini -input layer1.slmax -output bench2_slmax.jpg ezVizGeneric ../layer1.ini -input tsu_layer1.def -output bench2_def.jpg ezVizGeneric ../layer2.ini -input layer2.slmax -output bench2_layer2_slmax.jpg ezVizGeneric ../layer2.ini -input tsu_layer2.def -output bench2_layer2_def.jpg ezVizGeneric ../mask.ini ~/portal/utils/utils/diff_bin layer1.slmax ${BENCH2}/layer1.slmax 300 870 diff.slmax ~/portal/utils/utils/diff_bin tsu_layer1.def ${BENCH2}/tsu_layer1.def 300 870 diff.def ezVizGeneric layer1.ini -input diff.slmax -output bench2_diff_slmax.jpg ezVizGeneric layer1.ini -input diff.def -output bench2_diff_def.jpg
The first thing to note is that the layer1.ini file is reused with different input and output files using command line specifications (in this case, the images must be of the same size; thus the need for layer1.ini and layer2.ini files). A new .ini file does not need to be created for each image.
The mask images contain integers rather than floats, so the mask.ini file contains "TYPE=int" rather than "TYPE=float".
In this script, we also compare this run's output with a saved "correct" version using the portal tool "diff_bin". Note that we are able to automatically create visualizations of these difference files as well, thus allowing a nearly instantaneous check of differences introduced by recent model modifications.
This image shows the initial surface displacement due to a theoretical offshore earthquake in the gulf of Alaska.
This image shows the maximum sea level resulting from the initial surface displacement shown above.
As previously stated, ezViz has a plethora of options and capabilities beyond the basics we use here. For instance, the recent transition of the visualization process from Iceberg (IBM) to Midnight (SUN) was quite simple - only a single line of each .ini file had to be changed to account for the endianness. The line:
EzViz supports over 40 different input data formats, not just the simple flat binaries that we use for the portal. Outputs can be in a variety of standard image formats as well as geometric objects. Many different rendering options exist as well (such as volume rendering). Finally, color maps can be fully specified in a variety of formats or one can simply use the defaults (as we have done in this article).
More information and tutorials on ezVizGeneric, the ezViz API, and other awesome goodies supported by the HPCMP DAAC can be found at: https://visualization.hpc.mil/wiki/Main_Page.
Programming Environment Updates on Midnight
There will be several programming environment updates on midnight during the scheduled maintenance on March, 12. The following updates will be made to the PathScale and Sun Studio programming environments:
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|was PrgEnv.sun-2006-12-r2
If you use the default Programming Environment and you do not wish to use the newer version of the PathScale compiler you will need to update your ~/.login (csh/tcsh users) or ~/.profile (ksh/bash users) to use PrgEnv.path-2.5.E.g.
# module load PrgEnv # explicitly load PrgEnv.path-2.5 module load PrgEnv.path-2.5
Gaussian 03.E.01 and NWChem 5.0 Now Available on Midnight
Gaussian 03.E.01 and NWChem 5.0 Now Available on Midnight
The chemistry packages Gaussian and NWChem are now available on the midnight.
Gaussian 03.E.01 has been installed along with TCP Linda, which allows Gaussian to be run on multiple nodes. Additionally, Gaussview 4.1 has also been installed to help assist with the setup and launching of jobs. Gaussian samples are available in $SAMPLES_HOME/applications/gaussian. Gaussian Linda based examples for multinode jobs will be available soon.
NWChem is installed as version 5.0. Sample scripts are available in the samples directory $SAMPLES_HOME/applications/nwchem.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:[[ I have an MPI code and would like to find out how long each [[ MPI_Send call is taking. The first way I thought of doing this [[ was adding MPI_Wtime() calls before and after the MPI_Send and [[ printing out the difference. [[ [[ Is there a better way to do this? A method that doesn't involve [[ me changing my code a whole lot would be preferable!! # # Editor's solution. # There are probably more graceful ways of doing this, however I thought it would be fun to solve this using the Profiled MPI (PMPI) interface to MPI. This solution involves implementing an alternate version of MPI_Send. Here's one implementation that does timing using MPI_Wtime(): E.g. mt342 % cat my_mpi_send.c #include <mpi.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int MPI_Send(void* buf, int count, MPI_Datatype datatype, int dest, int tag, MPI_Comm comm) { double ctime; int err; static int rank; static int rank_set; /* The next line ensure that we only call MPI_Comm_rank on the first call to MPI_Send. */ if ( rank_set == 0 ) { PMPI_Comm_rank(comm, &rank); rank_set=1; } ctime=PMPI_Wtime(); /* start the timer */ err=PMPI_Send(buf, count, datatype, dest, tag, comm); ctime=PMPI_Wtime()-ctime; /* stop the timer */ fprintf(stdout, "Send from %d to %d; tag=%d; count=%d; time=%f\n", rank, dest, tag, count, ctime); return(err); } First we need to compile this code into a shared object: E.g. mt342 % mpicc my_mpi_send.c -shared -o libmy_mpi_send.so Next compile the MPI application as we normally would. You need to make sure not to use static MPI libraries for this technique to work. E.g. mt342 % mpicc mpi_bandwidth.c -o mpi_bandwidth Lastly set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable when using mpirun: E.g. mt342 % mpirun -np 2 LD_PRELOAD=$PWD/libmy_mpi_send.so ./mpi_bandwidth 100 10000 10000 Send from 1 to 0; tag=101; count=4; time=0.000010 Send from 1 to 0; tag=101; count=4; time=0.000004 10000 1063.829787 Cleaning up all processes ... done. The best part about this is that you don't even need to recompile to go back to the normal behavior. E.g. mt342 % mpirun -np 2 ./mpi_bandwidth 100 10000 10000 10000 1103.752759 Cleaning up all processes ... done. The following links provide a little bit more of an introduction to PMPI: http://www.arsc.edu/support/news/HPCnews/HPCnews328.shtml#article2 http://www.arsc.edu/support/news/HPCnews/HPCnews329.shtml#article1 Q: I have an executable that uses shared libraries. Is there a way to show the which shared library each symbol is provided by?
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From John Kerry no less.
A $20 MILLION budget item stuck in the DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL to partially fund some kind of Teddy Kennedy memorial school or some other BS.
Hell, have the fricking Kennedy's write the damn check or your wife, a$$hole.....it's a tax write-off for god's sake.
I'm offended as hell that taxpayers dollars are going to ANY Kennedy memorial.


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" Definitely recommend these headphones! sound quality is sick and the designs are awesome. I've never had a more comfortable and useful set of headphones that work with skype, ipods, iphones, and basically everything else. They do have black/gray headphones that are less striking. But you can get black headphones from any manufacturer. These headphones are for those who want to stand..." --jjdee
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Callicoon is well upstream of Easton. In fact, it is well upstream of the Water Gap. The town of Hancock, NY is about 15-20 miles or so upstream of Callicoon. In other words, I fished for shad in the very top end of the river just below the confluence of the East and West Branches. A 2-hander with sinking tips would be ideal for shad in the upper Delaware, and you could fish for trout when you got tired of hooking shad without having to go elsewhere.
Yep, shad are a load of fun and not all that easy to land because of their soft mouths, which tear fairly easily.
Thanks for your input MRobertson.
maintenance was an issue I have been pineing over.
I'm actually starting to consider a stich and glue boat over a framed boat one because I believe I can make it lighter and two because I think it will take a little less maintenance. I don't think it will be as much fun to build, but I hope it will hold up better. Maybe I can set up a place on the forum were I can show pictures of my progress. Although the wife said I have to build a shed first. lol
You are probably right about stocking shad fry to get good returns and I'm sure it is something that should be done systematically over many years for good results.To be honest Shad doesn't seem to be a prority for the Fish commision any more.
For some reason a lot of the gas has run out of the shad fishing scene here. We used to have a shad festival, and the shad contest would draw many many anglers but I think the festival is no more and the contest isn't well attended. I remember we used to even have a shad hot line you could call to see if the shad had made if past the wing dam down near New Hope. Their was I guy down their that had the last comercial license to net in the Delaware. He would supply all the local resturants with roe which was always on the menu from late April through may.
To be honest I 'm not sure what has happened I know I stopped fishing for them once I found the long rod. Most of our water is to deep to fish with a floating line and the season runs parralell to some of our streams local hatches.
I'm not sure were Callicoon is in relation to Easton but I'll look it up on the map. I fished mostly from Easton north. Me and Dad would put the canoe in the morning pack a lunch and make a trip out of it. Usually did more paddleing than fishing but dad loved to canoe still does at 79! Yeah, it was a lot of fun those shad were called poor man' s tarpon for a reason. I'm going to look into what is going on with the fisherie a little more and get back to you.
In my opinion, it is going to take a lot more than ladders at the two dams at Easton to get the shad back in the Lehigh. I think that it is going to take a fair number of shad fry being put in the river, preferably at the mouth of (or possibly in) each of the currently clean, larger feeder streams (Mud Run and Hickory Run come readily to mind and I know there are others because I used to access the canyon above Jim Thorpe via them) as well as the river just below the dam, at White Have, Lehigh Tannery, Jim Thorpe, Lehighton, Palmerton, and Bowmanstown. I think a rather large number of shad fry in all these spots is needed to begin the re-eatablishing the run because hatchery raised anadromous fish have return rates of around 5% and of those returning, very few will probably successfully spawn and produce another generation in the wild.
I have many fond memories of shad fishing in the Delaware in the area around Callicoon.
Just saw this thread and thought I'd throw in my .02 cents. I built a Tatman about 12 years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed the process and, as Eric mentioned, felt a lot of satisfaction fishing and rowing that boat. I built the 16 footer which is really a 2 man boat. It will fish 2 anglers and an oarsman, but it didn't handle well with the second angler in the back. I would definately go with the 17 footer if you plan to have three people in the boat.
Maintenance and storage are two factors to consider carefully. You will have maintenance and you need to have a covered space to store a woodie. After 10 years, I sold my boat to some friends because I didn't want to go through another painting/varnishing session. I now own a Boulder Boatworks boat and have virtually no maintenance issues with the hull.
Wooden boats are the prettiest boats on the water. Since you are a carpenter, the maintenance issues probably won't bother you a bit. Love to see apicture of how it turns out.
I've heard stories about the way it used to be before the Damn Dam :-)
They are trying to get it figured out with the flows and temps. I think the rafting industry is losing some of it's muscle and fishing interests are starting to be heard. To be honest maintanable flows and temps should benefit all. They are also setting up lime beds to try to get a handle on the mine drainage on some of the feeder streams.
Shad: two ladders were built about ten years ago both at the dams in easton. To my knowledge after much fan fair the runs have been very poor the only thing I've seen through the viewing windows have been lamprey eels. To be honest it's my understanding the shad runs on the Delaware as a whole have been way down. It's been quite a while since I spent a sunny april day fishing for shad but I hear the runs have been dwindleing. Some say they are netting them off shore for fertalizer others that the Stripped bass which are much more prevelent in the river are eating them up. I don't think it's a polution problem the rivers are probably as clean as they have been in quite a long while. My dad tells me stories of how he used to go swimming in the Lehigh in the 30's and come home with an oil slick around him. Although both rivers do suffer from run off from develpoment and sewage instead of industrial polution. On a whole considering how populated both these drainage systems are it's amazing they do so well.
Glad to hear you got the 2-hander finished and that was able to be of some help to you with it.
Personally, I would have been much happier if the damn dam had never been built on the Lehigh because I remember how good the Lehigh was before the dam. I remember well the white water rafters arguing and getting their way for having the flows get ramped way up several times in summer back in the early 70's so they could do their thing in the Class IV rapids that result when flows are up in the willows, which they like.
It is good that the dam was raised so that cold water (instead of the tepid stuff that was released before it was raised) is released. This helps keep it the cold water trout river it was before the dam was built.
I have been told by my father and one of my brothers that PA is considering re-introducing shad to the Lehigh. I'd like to see that happen because there once was a very good shad run in it prior to the acid mine, zinc mining, and zinc smelting polution killed everything in the river below Jim Thorpe. Now that the polution has been cleaned up (and the zinc operations have closed up) the river has come back nicely and I think it is time to put the species back into it that were there before the polution killed them.
Good to hear from you again BTW I finished that spey rod I was working on this fall thanks for your advice. I didn't have much luck catching with it but had fun trying. Will give it a go again next season.
Yes I thought a D boat would be great in the upper Lehigh and Upper Delaware. I'm not much more than 40 minutes from Jim Thorpe. I think I mentioned the last time we spoke they are trying to make the Lehigh a year around trout fishery from the Damn down to Bowmanstown. They are haveing their difficulties, mid gates failed this spring, rafters worring about losing buisness,but they have raised the water levels allowed in the lake once and are trying to get another increase. It's a tough battle especially since water runoff is such a heated topic here in the northeast but, three hundred year floods in two years will do that to people.
Back to the boat, I think It would work out great and should be a fun project.
|I have two friends in Vt who built their own driftboats- they do the Delaware every May for a week. They also use them on the Upper Connecticut and two years ago on the East Outlet, the headwaters of the Kennebec River in Maine. There are quiet a few drift boats operating up here in Maine on the Kennebec, Androscoggin and Penobscot Rivers.
I grew up 15 miles from Hazleton and fished the Upper Delaware, West Branch, and Lehigh in the gorge a lot before I left PA at age 25 back in 1978. A drift boat would be a great fishing craft on either the Delaware or the Lehigh. Although I spent a lot of time walking the old RR grade on the west side of the Lehigh between Lehigh Tannery and Jim Thorpe, it would have been a whole lot nicer to have a drift boat to access this area.
You will find the drift boat to be very nice to take through the many rapids (yes, even the class III's found in this stretch). Likewise, a drift boat on the Upper Delaware mainstem, west branch, or east branch would have made a lot more water available.
Good tip about the book Eric I will find a copy somewhere. I understand your points about loading the boat for running white water as opposed to drifting and fishing. I have done many white water canoe trips to northern Canada many of which well over 100 miles. Part of the allure of a drift boat is that it will allow me to run water I wouldn't be comfortable running in a loaded canoe. Nothing like getting soaked, loseing your gear, or worse at the start of a ten day trip! Also rowing is a completely different dynamic than paddeling a canoe I love the sense of "setting up" a shot a drift boat gives you. I've also considered going the way of a raft or cat but there is just something about building a boat that intregues me even if I don't use it to it's full potential.
Thanks for all the insight
Great Thread: Wish I'd Thought to Start It
JD makes some excellent points above.
Being a Bibliophile of Addiction, I would recommend you secure a copy of Dan Alsop's book, _Driftboats_ (Amato Publications, ISBN 1-57188-189-1) to get some real background on these remarkable, unique and wonderful craft.
Re Anglers in the Stern: Bear in mind that drift boats are white water craft. They were not designed with float fishing in mind, but rather maximum manueverability in heavy white water. When the boat tilts, as it does in heavy water, the chines on either side act as rudders to stabilize the boat. JD refers to rocker: the bow and stern should be a bit out of the water, but, in a heavily laden boat, this isn't always possible. I would never want to be in a boat that was laden below the rock boards if any heavy white water was to be encountered.
Bottom line, though, is to pull the weight. Make sure your load is in front of you. If you anticipate running class 2 or better rapids, make sure your stern angler sits up front. In flat water, doesn't really matter much.
When running, you'll want your passengers to distribute themselves so that the boat is centered. I have a gauge mounted on my brace board so that my passengers can see when Nimue is riding level.
Again, these are white water craft. There's a real high mixed with gripping fear that comes when you enter the tongue of a difficult rapid. Ahead you see only tumbling white water -- in your head you must see the boulders in your careening path and follow the plan you laid when you scouted the rapid from below. Pull, pivot, Pull, Pull, Pull, Pivot, Pull, Pull, Pull, whew! It's exhilarating!
Not that these aren't fishing boats. They are as stable a craft as a johnboat and can accomodate two fly fishermen very well (maybe only one Spey caster at a time). They are versitile boats and can be launched anywhere you can drag them or throw them (most of us Steelheaders carry 100 foot ropes for impromptu launchs).
But, as I said, they are built to get you safely through the rapids.
Get or borrow the book if you don't already have it.
Thanks JD
Their are a few drift boats in the east but not many, and I have yet to see a homemade one. To be honest that is a lot of my problem not much handy to compare too. I've done a lot of canoe tripping so at least I have some basic idea of what boat design entails. How much rocker would you suggest the boat have at a minimum? As I understand it if you want to fish with an angler in the back it is important that the stern be kept out of the water so as not to act like a rudder. Was your freind generally happy with his Tatman boat aside from the skidplate?
DB Kits
I have a friend who built a Greg Tatman boat. Nice looking boat. He put a 3/4 thk uhmw skid plate on the bottom which added quite a bit of weight. And he has had maintainence problems with the skid plate.
Somewhere on the web, I once found either uhmw or kevlar sheet in thicknesses of .060 to .090 to be glued on the bottom of drift boats. That makes more sense to me.
Things to check out when considering DB kits are specified length. Some are measured straight down the center line ,as you would suspect. Others are measured around the side. Like a 17 ft boat takes a 17 ft long piece of plywood to build it. But, in reality,, it may only be 15 ft down the c/l. The other thing that is important is the amount of rocker and the amount of freeboard. Being a rather specialized design in itself, there are no hard, fast rules for drift boats. And everyone will tell you theirs is the best for one reason or another.
You will probably have the only drift boat on the east coast. Enjoy.
A 17' foot boat is your best bet, I think. Big enough to carry gear, but not too big for smaller waters or short trips. I don't take my wooden boat steelheading on the Alsea.
The bottom of my boat is double-sheathed marine plywood coated with carbon-fiber impregnated epoxy over fiberglass. Very tough and very slick (but very heavy).
Yearly maintenance is simple: interior is oil finish. I recoat that as soon as it gets warm enough each spring. The clear wood on the shear rails and gunnels is coated with spar varnish. This again is a once-a-year touch up. The remainder of the exterior is painted with a marine paint. I've only painted this once and never repainted.
Incidentally, the whole boat is glassed.
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Seeking a subsidy from the school district. 48 votes17.84%
Cutting athletic programs, including skiing and golf. 64 votes23.79%
Increasing athletic fees. 72 votes26.77%
Introducing a new $85 participation fee on extracurricular activities, including Science Olympiad, National Honor Society, band and choir. 70 votes26.02%
I don't support any of the changes. (Share your idea in a comment below.) 15 votes5.58%
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Carrie Requist 4 years ago
So there is concern that if the athletic fees are increased then athletic participation would decrease; why is there not the same concern that adding a fee to non-athletic extracurricular activities would decrease the participation in those activities? Activities like Science Olympiad receive no funding and have to do bake sales and other fund raisers for any money that they need. To put a fee on these activities and then not let the participants use any of that money is pretty audacious and would certainly send the message to the participants that their activities are less important than sports. With that message (as well as the fee) I would expect that participation would decrease. My kids do sports as well as band and things like science Olympiad and they were really upset by this idea - that there would be a fee for participation and yet they would still have to do fundraisers and not actually receive any of that fee for their activity, even if it supported their athletic teams. If there are going to be more fees, they need to be kept within athletics.
Scott Glynn 4 years ago
Unfortunately the paper has given an incomplete view of what has been discussed. For clarification, Mr. DeWolfe never mentioned cutting of ANY activity. His information was to show that if you cut sports out of the programs, the amount you saved is actually less than the amount of revenue you would lose from participation fees, therefore it doesn't solve the issue. One major concern is that increased fees lead to diminished participation. This scenario also leads to reduced revenue. Whether you have 40 football players or 45 the overall costs are almost static yet you are losing $900 in revenue. In the interest of full disclosure, I am the father of a high school and middle school athlete. They are also both in the GATE program, and one of them participates in band. My youngest has expressed an interest in science and is fully engaged to be able to participate in science olympiad, NHS, etc. While academic programs are phenomenal, they do not have any larger measure of intrinsic value than athletics. These academic activities have significant overhead that needs to be funded. Currently these funds come from the activities budget. The Booster Club feels that it has a fiduciary responsibility to the participants of all activities to supplement the budget to allow as much participation as possible. What has happened is that the district has mandated school sponsored transportation which is where much of the cost overrun is. If the district mandates it, it is the Booster Clubs position that they should fund it. The district has also made decisions recently that have severely limited the ability of Booster Club to raise the funds it is able to met out. We have lost out on a major fundraising activity solely based on the districts decision to open a medical clinic with which we haven't seen any benefit from. Much of this is in addition to the districts decision that flies in the face of community feedback and BOE budgeting. Last year the district requested funding for a secretary. They were subsequently denied that request. Somehow the district was able to "find" enough money to hire a part time secretary in January (9 months after the budget process). Now they are requesting funds to make that position full time. This $16,000 request doesn't seem like much, yet when combined with the additional $16,000 it stumbled across in January it is a significant dent in this funding shortage. These are the reasons that the Booster Club feels that the district should absorb the lions share of the budget shortfall that is upon us.
Scott Glynn - President Steamboat Springs Booster Club
Aaron Murphy 4 years ago
I'm not sure about Science Olympiad and NHS, but when I was in school, Band and Choir were considered electives - that is to say, they were classes you signed up for, not extracurricular. The band and choir also had fundraisers to participate in activities such as All-State honor events, trips to large group and solo and ensemble festivals, etc. If an $85 fee is necessary to keep extracurricular activites including sports and other activities as programs, I would support it - however it should not apply to elective classes.
One of the best things about Steamboat is the wide range of activities offered to students at the high school. I believe this is one of the major reasons we hear stories of SSHS graduates excelling in their post-academic endeavors. It would be difficult to choose which programs should and should not make the cut if $70,000 has to be removed. I don't envy those who have to make that choice.
Aaron Murphy 4 years ago
Also, if band and choir are, in fact, part of the elective courses that are offered by the school, wouldn't their budget be separate from the athletics and activities budget anyway? I don't understand why they are grouped into this discussion?
Scott Wedel 4 years ago
"These academic activities have significant overhead that needs to be funded"
Why? Why is there significant overhead? Why does it need to be funded? Is the overhead really untouchable?
Is there no way that district could certify some parents as drivers and their vehicles to satisfy the district's liability concerns? Looks to me like the smaller teams could often be transported by parents in safer and better vehicles than the district's buses. An SUV with seatbelts and airbags is a safer ride than a school bus.
And charging for NHS would seem to be absurd because the participants are supposed to be dong service projects for the school or community. So the school would be charging those that are volunteering on a service project.
Scott Glynn 4 years ago
Mr. Wedel, All activities are required to have a sponsor that is a member of the teaching staff. Unfortunately these teachers do not donate their time and these are paid positions that require income to be able to match their overhead. These groups take trips, participate in competitions, and incur other expenses, which cannot be met with bake sales. A participation fee is not unreasonable. I think you will find it harder to come up with examples of community service provided by "service" organizations than many of the varsity teams that SSHS has. I think you may be holding on to an outdated ideal of what the organizations had accomplished when you were in school. Opposed to the reality of current times.
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