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Arsène Wenger believes it will do Aaron Ramsey good to return to the scene of his "car accident" on Sunday.
The Wales midfielder will line up at Stoke City, 15 months after he left the Britannia Stadium in an ambulance after breaking his leg.
Ramsey's return to Stoke will take up plenty of column inches ahead of this weekend's Premier League clash but Wenger thinks that the 20-year-old can use the opportunity to 'get back behind the wheel' and complete his mental rehabilitation.
"Yes [it is good for him to go back and] the earlier the better because there will always be a question mark about that," said Wenger.
"At the end of the day you focus on football and you play. It is like if you have a car accident - you do you never drive again? Of course you drive again and the earlier the better."
Ramsey's return has been slow but sure. He made his comeback for the Reserves before Christmas and then built up his sharpness with loan spells at Nottingham Forest and former club Cardiff City in the Championship. He got his first taste of Arsenal first-team football for 13 months when he came off the bench against Manchester United at Old Trafford in March and then scored the winner against the same opponents in an eye-catching display last weekend.
For Wenger, that was proof that Ramsey has overcome the physical and psychological hurdles of his injury.
"What I found when I was injured is you come back and for a long time you play in one gear," he said.
"It takes you a bit of time to find that fraction of second extra pace which allows you to get away from people. And for a while you wonder if you have lost it and whether it will ever come back. And that takes quite a while.
"Today the players are better prepared in their rehab than we were and they find that back much quicker.
"Aaron is a quiet but strong character and I think there is no better maturing system than what happened to him – blocked at 18 suddenly when you are just flying. Being knocked down and having to wait for a year, not knowing what really will happen."
"He is certainly mentally stronger now. After what happened to him you have to be strong."
This Sunday Ramsey will play for the second game in succession, with Cesc Fabregas still nursing a thigh problem. But Wenger can see them in tandem when both are fit and firing.
"Aaron is a great runner and has great timing to get into the box," said the manager. "He is an efficient player and I think they are a good combination together - Cesc and him."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Welcome to Maitland Florida as we are CELEBRATING OUR 25th YEAR! Come see our beautiful North Orlando lodging in the Winter Park area.
Located amidst 8 acres of lush land overlooking picturesque Lake Eulalia, Thurston House Bed and Breakfast is an unexpected treat! Built in 1885 and completely restored in 1991, the boutique inn accommodation combines all the charm of a period Queen Anne Victorian Farmhouse. It also has the modern room amenities of a fine, small hotel. The wraparound porch is an inviting respite after a busy day. Relax in the rocking chairs while watching cardinals and other birds chase each other from tree to tree. The osprey also entertains, showing off their fishing abilities as they catch their dinner from Lake Eulalia. Our property has proven to be a great place to watch birds of all types. For the more adventurous there are meandering walking paths, several garden areas, and many flowers to enjoy. The landscape includes 40 camellia bushes, several old citrus trees, many mature oak trees, tall bamboo stalks and a variety of other bushes and flowers. We are close to many restaurants, shopping areas, and museums. Thurston House Bed and Breakfast offers the best location to enjoy all of Central Florida. Our bed and breakfast is only 5 minutes from Winter Park and the esteemed Rollin's College, 10 minutes from downtown Orlando and Lake Eola, 25 minutes to the Disney attractions area, 30 minutes from area state parks, and an hour from East Coast beaches. Join Carole & Joe on the porch soon!

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Wayne Law to Host 16th Annual Bernard Gottfried Memorial Labor Law Symposium, Oct. 16
DETROIT (Sept. 8, 2008) - Wayne State University Law School students, alumni and guests interested in gaining additional insight into labor law are invited to attend the 16th annual Bernard Gottfried Memorial Labor Law Symposium on from 8:15 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008.
Sponsored by Wayne Law, the National Labor Relations Board, Region Seven, and the State Bar of Michigan Labor and Employment Section, the symposium will be held in the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. Specific breakout sessions, led by local and national labor relations experts, include:
- Dana Corporation and Voluntary Recognition – Protection or Peril?
- The Register-Guard – Employee Use of E-Mail and the Boundaries of the Law
- Recent Developments at the National Labor Relations Board
- Toering Electric / Oil Capitol and Salts
- Protected Concerted Activity – What is Protected and What is Concerted?
"We are pleased to honor the legacy of Bernard Gottfried through this symposium, and look forward to providing the legal community with this extraordinary opportunity to hear from well known labor law experts," said Wayne Law Dean and Professor of Law Robert M. Ackerman.
The registration fee for the symposium is $100 and includes all sessions, a continental breakfast and lunch. Students, NLRB staff and government employees may register for a reduced cost of $25. Those interested in attending should contact Robin Dortenzio in the Dean's Office at (313) 577-3933. The sign-up deadline is Oct. 2, 2008.
Parking for the symposium is available in Structure #1, across from the Law School, at the corner of Palmer Street and Cass Avenue, for $3.50. For more information on this or other upcoming Law School events, visit the Law School online at www.law.wayne.edu.
Proceeds from the symposium will be used to fund future educational programs and labor-related studies at the Law School.
Bernard Gottfried (1925-1992) was director of the National Labor Relations Board, Region Seven from 1973 until his death. He taught at Wayne Law for many years and this symposium honors his vision for labor relations.
Wayne State University Law School has educated and served the Detroit metropolitan area since its inception as Detroit City Law School in 1927. Located at 471 West Palmer Street in Detroit's re-energized historic cultural center, the Law School remains committed to student success and features modern lecture and court facilities, multi-media and distance learning classrooms, a 250-seat auditorium, and the Arthur Neef Law Library, which houses one of the nation's 40 largest legal collections. Taught by an internationally recognized and expert faculty, Wayne State Law School students experience a high-quality legal education via a growing array of hands-on curricular offerings, five live-client clinics, and access to well over 100 internships with local and non-profit entities each year. Its 11,000 living alumni, who work in every state of the nation and more than a dozen foreign countries, are experts in their disciplines and include leading members of the local, national and international legal communities. For more information, visit www.law.wayne.edu.


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At the beginning of the 1946/1947 season, Arsenal played their first Division One matches at Highbury in nearly seven years. As the demob happy crowds flocked back to the newly repaired stadium, attendances rarely dipped below the 50,000 mark for the rest of the decade. Arsenal weren't the force they had been in the 1930s, but they still provided Gunners' fans with many stellar moments.
The team, still managed by George Allison, was an eclectic mix of old stagers, ambitious youngsters, war heroes, and cult heroes. For a couple of years, George Male and Cliff Bastin, now in the twilight of their careers, were present and correct to remind Arsenal fans of the glorious Thirties. Reg Lewis and Laurie Scott, having missed a sizeable slice of their career due to the war, played the game with genuine ferocity and hunger. Jimmy Logie – the nearest thing Arsenal had to a new Alex James – scored and provided assists for colleagues on a regular basis.
Cult hero status could so easily be granted to several members of that side. The craggy faced Ronnie Rooke was one such candidate. Arsenal's six foot three man mountain plundered goals with aplomb, as defenders literally bounced off him in the process. There was also Denis Compton, the Brylcreem boy, who only clocked up 59 appearances for Arsenal in a 12 year Highbury career.
"Denis hardly ever played for us, but he was always there at the right moment in Cup Finals and crunch games. Typical Denis, he'd always let the others do the hard work before he finished it off," Laurie Scott commented.
The bona fide crowd favourite of that era was Joe Mercer. Signed in November 1946, after the Gunners' disastrous start to the season saw them spiral towards the relegation zone, Mercer's stabilising defensive presence saw Arsenal eventually finish in 13th position.
He didn't look anything more than the shortest of short term buys when George Allison signed him for £7,000 in November 1946. Already 32, and in dispute with Everton over the terms of his new contract, he appeared to be on the verge of retiring from football altogether, opting to concentrate on his flourishing grocery store in Wallasey. George Allison persuaded him otherwise – with a few concessions. Mercer persuaded him to give consent to him staying in Liverpool and training with the Anfield outfit during the week, and travelling to London or wherever he was needed for away games on Fridays.
George Male later commented: "Mercer sort of reflected everything about Arsenal at that time. A bit clapped out – like the East Stand needed a lick of paint in the late '40s – but still really classy." The former Everton star's arrival had an immediate galvanising effect on the Arsenal dressing room. Reg Lewis recalled: "Joe earned our respect on the pitch. He had these bandy legs and knobbly knees. He could barely run. I don't think he had any real pace anyway. But he could organise and cajole. He reminded me of Bobby Moore, in that he always seemed to know how to poke the ball away from an opposition defender without ever over committing himself. Great defenders just know what they're doing, and Joe was a great player."
George Allison and Mercer decided that he would stay for 12 months at Highbury. Mercer ended up playing for seven seasons. "Joe played until he was nearly 40," explained Laurie Scott. "That was pretty much unheard of back then. He'd come in every Saturday, and you knew that he loved the glory of captaining the Arsenal."
An unprecedented 17-match run at the start of the 1947/48 season saw the Gunners cruise to their first post-war title. By this time, George Allison had retired, mentally exhausted by the demands of football management, and another fine Arsenal servant Tom Whittaker took over the reins. Fired by Rooke and Lewis's goals, Highbury was in carnival mood by the time sacrificial lambs Grimsby Town gambolled into town on the final game of the season.
Gunners fan Jim Baines recalls: "Arsenal beat Grimsby 8-0 and Grimsby were absolutely terrible. The Arsenal players were virtually queuing up to score. Rooke got four, and then late on Arsenal were awarded a penalty. We were at the Laundry End, and the players were play fighting amongst themselves to see who would take it. Jimmy Logie pulled the ball out of Rooke's hands and playfully clipped him around the ear, as if to say, 'you've scored enough son – it's my turn.' Then across comes Joe Mercer. He'd never scored for Arsenal, and he never looked likely to either. As captain, he tried to take the penalty. You could see the others telling him to forget it. The crowd was chanting: 'We want Joe, we want
The Grimsby match also spelled the end of Male's illustrious career. "There were tears in my eyes, and in some ways I'm disappointed that I never had a chance to say a proper goodbye, because the Arsenal fans didn't know that I was retiring. But going out by parading the trophy wasn't a bad way to finish."
Arsenal signed off the decade in fine style by defeating Liverpool at Wembley in 1950. It was fitting that Reg Lewis, who missed so much of his career due to the war, should score both goals. Both Lewis's goals came after sharp, incisive breaks by the Gunners, and Lewis tucked both his efforts away comfortably past Liverpool goalkeeper Cyril Sidlow.
Throughout the cup run, Arsenal didn't leave London, having been drawn at home all the way through to the semis, where they faced Chelsea at White Hart Lane. For Reg Lewis, it partly made up for all those lost years. "I loved scoring goals, and that day at Wembley was the best in my life, no question at all. I'd written my name into the history books, and my team had won silverware. Perfect!" After the Final, The Mail suggested that the 1950s, "could belong to Whittaker's Arsenal in the way the 1930s were dominated by Chapman's and Allison's sides."
- At the start of the 1946/47 season, the Islington Gazette reported: "For weeks, the talk around here has been of little else. The Arsenal are about to return home"
- By 1950, large sections of the crowd sang "Anchors Aweigh" at Gunners matches"
- Another Arsenal crowd favourite of the late 1940s was Dr Kevin O'Flanagan (pictured above) who had represented Ireland at rugby, and was also an Irish sprint/long jump champion


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The Canisius men's lacrosse team opened conference play with a 5-4 victory over Monmouth University at the Demske Sports Complex on Saturday afternoon. The Golden Griffins snap a three-game losing streak and even their overall record at 3-3, opening MAAC play with a win for the second consecutive season.
Junior Tim Edwards led the Golden Griffins with two goals to go along with 10 groundballs and a 9-for-12 performance at the faceoff X. Junior goalkeeper Alex Govenettio made nine saves for Canisius to pick up his third win of the season.
"We had to show a lot of resolve out there today and really battle Monmouth the whole game," Canisius coach Randy Mearns said. "We got a lot of opportunities on the offensive end but just couldn't bury those chances. Being able to win a faceoff with 12 seconds left, down a man in a one-goal game is huge.
"We're excited to get a win to start MAAC play, and now we have a week to prepare and get ready for Detroit."
Neither team could muster anything on offense on a cold day as Monmouth got on the board with just over five minutes left in the first quarter. Canisius knotted the scored with just under three minutes left in the quarter on the first goal of the day from Edwards.
The Hawks led 2-1 after the first quarter but Canisius scored two goals in 29 seconds early in the second quarter to take a lead the Griffs wouldn't relinquish. Freshman Nick Binnert scored his first collegiate goal to make it 2-2 and then Edwards rifled one in from the right side for his second goal of the day.
Canisius extended its lead to 4-2 when junior Brandon Bull picked up a groundball after a shot from sophomore Vince Gravino was saved. Bull quickly shot it past the new Monmouth goaltender to put Canisius up by two goals.
The Hawks made it a one-goal game with 9:50 left in the third quarter. Neither team would score for nearly 22 minutes, but the Griffs went back up by two goals with 2:59 left. Canisius worked the ball around the perimeter with Bull finding sophomore Billy Jacobbi who found the upper corner to make it 5-3.
Monmouth scored a man-up goal with 12 seconds left to get within one goal, but Edwards clinched the game with a faceoff win. The junior continued to dominate at the faceoff X with nine wins on the day, including all three fourth-quarter opportunities.
Nick Hreshko made nine saves in the first half but received the loss. Garrett Conaway made seven saves in the second half for Monmouth (0-6, 0-1 MAAC).
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i came across this game a few months back and it got me excited. wanted to see what the community thinks about it?
looks like the alpha testing starts up on march 20th.
BGO : http://bg.snailgame.com/
Hey Guys,
i came across this game a few months back and it got me excited. wanted to see what the community thinks about it?
looks like the alpha testing starts up on march 20th.
BGO : http://bg.snailgame.com/
I'll admit that their "Time system" confuses me. From what I understand, they're charging you for your own loot? But other than that, the game looks fun.
Game looks really great but loot system sucks i hope they change it.
are you referring to there paid system?
From what i understand its Free to play. but if you do subscribe you get extra 'loot' depending on how much you play. I don't think you get any extra loot that someone cant get with-out the paid system. i believe you just get more more loot per drop for example if you kill a sheep it drops 2xwool for a non-subscriber and 4xwool for a subscriber (extra quantity based on play time).
But i could be totally wrong just what i got from it.
It's just another way they can sap all the money from their cust****s. They did the same bullshit with the vip system Age of Dogshit did. Not touching this game with a mile high stick. Snail Games can go under for all I care.
Looks interesting, really wouldn't mind to train a new mmorpg again
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This is another trailer those shows active combat and dodging. It's an open world pvp faction vs faction game.
Is the alpha under NDA?
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It's only an alpha test that ll start the 20th of this month. So not interested at all. If i m going to try this game then i ll wait for at least the open beta if not the official release. But D3 RoS ll be released the 26th of the same month so good luck competiting with it BGO.


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Perhaps Victoria's best-known snake, the Mainland Tiger Snake, Notechis scutatus, varies in colour from uniform light brown to black. The most frequent pattern is alternating light and dark bands, which gives rise to the common name. It normally has 17 mid-body scale rows, although there may occasionally be 15 or 19 rows. The anal scale is single, as are the 35–65 subcaudal scales. The frontal shield scale is almost square. Adults can reach 1.5 m.
Tiger Snake (light-banded form)Photographer: Peter Robertson. Source: Wildlife Profiles Pty Ltd
This species is common in some metropolitan areas of Melbourne, particularly the basalt plains of the western suburbs. It is widespread in Victoria although is absent from the non-riverine areas of the semi-arid north-west.
Active both day and night, Mainland Tiger Snakes feed mainly on frogs, but also on a wide variety of other small vertebrates. Females usually give birth to 20–30 live young in late summer or early autumn.
Mainland Tiger Snakes are extremely dangerous and can inflict fatal bites, although they are aggressive only if aroused. If bitten on a limb, apply a pressure bandage, immobilise the limb and seek medical advice immediately. If bitten elsewhere, apply continuous direct pressure to the bite site. Do not wash the wound, as the venom on the skin can be used to identify the appropriate antivenom.
Tiger Snake (grey-banded form)Photographer: Peter Robertson. Source: Wildlife Profiles Pty Ltd
Coventry, A. J. and Robertson, P. 1991. The Snakes of Victoria – A Guide to their Identification. Department of Conservation & Environment/Museum of Victoria.
Cogger, H. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Reed Books.
Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2003. Reptiles of Australia. Princeton University Press.
Hi Micah,
You could try around the creek systems like the Yarra Bend parklands – they like to bask on the asphalt walking tracks in summer. Tiger Snakes are highly venomous, so it is best to leave them alone – look but don't touch! It is also illegal to capture native wildlife without permits from the Department of Sustainability and Environment.
Hi Claire, Elapid snakes, like Tiger Snakes, usually overwinter under logs or rocks, but can be active periodically throughout winter depending on the temperature. They have a preferred body temperature of between 30 and 35 degrees and will find warm spots to bask to maintain that body temperature. Research on copperhead snakes has found that alpine copperheads can be active and hunting even when their body temperature is as low as 12.5 degrees. Activity also depends on the species and where they live. Copperheads that live in colder areas emerge from hibernation earlier in spring and in the morning and retreated earlier in the evening and in autumn than copperheads from warmer localities. I couldn't find a specific temperature at which snakes will hibernate as they respond to the environment. I assume the tiger snake you saw was still nice and warm after basking during the day.
I am not sure about snakes being more active after earthmoving, but you may well have disturbed the snake and thus it was on the move looking for somewhere quieter to hang out.
Hi Drew, Snakes don't hibernate in the way some mammals do; instead, they go into a torpor in winter because of the cold temperatures (and remain inactive for long periods). If there is an extended warm patch in winter, which allows a snake to get warm enough, it may indeed have periods of being active in winter. So, yes in a mild winter, if the temperatures are high enough for long enough, you may see active snakes (& lizards). Read more about when snakes are active in our article "Cold Blooded" Snakes.
Hi Arni,
Research has found that tiger snakes are territorial, so if the snake you found is a tiger snake chances are it is likely to remain in the area. If you are concerned about the snake you should contact your local council for the name of a registered snake catcher.
Hi Chris,
Research has found that tiger snakes are territorial, so if the snakes you found in your yard are tiger snakes they are likely to remain in the area. The average litter size is 30, and the young are totally independent once they are born. If you are concerned about the snakes you should contact your local council for the name of a licenced snake catcher.
The snake is most likely a Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus), which is one of the most variable snake species, varying from plain yellow-brown to black and many variations in between. Tiger Snakes commonly swim across the Goulbourn River at this time of year, and their darker bands often appear greenish in the water.
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Bryce Canyon
National Park
Ancient Sedimentation
Our dynamic planet is constantly being shaped and reshaped by dramatic events such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and mudslides. Other changes may not be detected in a human lifetime. Geological timespans or Periods cover millions of years. The Cretaceous Period began some 144 million years ago and lasted until about 63 million years ago. The rock formations you see exposed at Bryce Canyon began to develop during this time. For 60 million years a great seaway extended northwestward into this area, depositing sediments of varying thickness and composition as it repeatedly invaded, retreated, then re-invaded the region. Retreating to the southeast, it left sediments thousands of feet thick. Their remnants form the oldest, lowest, gray-brown rocks at Bryce Canyon.
In the Tertiary Period, between 66 and 40 million years ago, highlands to the west eroded into shallow, broad basins. Iron-rich, limy sediments were deposited in the beds of a series of lakes and streams. These became the reddish rocks of the Claron Formation from which the hoodoos are carved and for which the Pink Cliffs are named.
The Cretaceous Seaway moved northward from the Gulf of Mexico into this region of North America (left). Sediments deposited as the sea invaded and retreated became the brown and gray marine rocks now exposed at the park's lowest elevations and across the Paria Valley.
Deformation, Uplift, and the Grand Staircase
Horizontal compression related to the formation of the Rocky Mountains deformed these rocks. Then volcanic flows from the north covered parts of the region: black rocks at the mouth of nearby Red Canyon and on the Sevier Plateau to the north still protect softer underlying layers. About 10 million years ago the Earth pulled apart, moving and tilting great blocks along north-south trending fault lines. Layers, once connected, were displaced vertically by several thousand feet, forming the High Plateaus of Utah.
Older Cretaceous layers rested side by side with younger Tertiary layers across fault lines. Streams began to remove sediments deposited by their ancestors. Working on the weakened edges of the upthrown blocks, water gradually removed the uppermost Tertiary layers and exposed Cretaceous rocks once again. Now these drab former marine sediments lay on the surface of the land side by side with the brightly colored deposits of freshwater lakes and streams.
Differential Erosion
Water erodes rock mechanically and chemically. Scouring, abrading, and gullying occur when fast-moving water scrapes its silt, gravel, and rock debris against firmer bedrock. Slow-moving or standing water enters minute rock pores and dissolves cements holding the rock together. This leaves loose grains to wash away. Softer Cretaceous rocks were loosened and carried away from the upthrown block by the Paria River. The resulting Paria Valley is carved out of rocks that lie deep beneath the Paunsaugunt Plateau, whose edge now is exposed to erosion.
Hoodoos Cast Their Spell
Hoodoo - a pillar of rock, usually of fantastic shape, left by erosion.
Hoodoo - to cast a spell. At Bryce Canyon National Park erosion forms a remarkable array of fantastic shapes we know as hoodoos. Surrounded by the beauty of southern Utah, these hoodoos cast their spell on all who visit. Geologists say that ten million years ago forces within the Earth created and then moved the massive blocks we know as the Aquarius and Paunsaugunt plateaus. Rock layers on the Aquarius now tower 2,000 feet above the same layers on the Paunsaugunt. Ancient rivers carved the tops and exposed edges of these blocks, removing some layers and sculpting intricate formations in others. The Paria Valley was created and later widened between the plateaus.
The Paria River and its many tributaries continue to carve the plateau edges. Rushing waters carrying dirt and gravel gully the edges and steep slopes of the Paunsaugunt Plateau on which Bryce Canyon National Park lies. With time, tall thin ridges called fins emerge. Fins further erode into pinnacles and spires called hoodoos. These in turn weaken and fall, adding their bright colors to the hills below.
Early Native Americans left little to tell us of their use of the plateaus. We know that people have been in the Colorado Plateau region for about 12,000 years, but only random fragments of worked stone tell of their presence near Bryce Canyon. Artifacts tell a more detailed story of use at lower elevations beyond the park's boundary. Both Anasazi and Fremont influences are found near the park. The people of each culture left bits of a puzzle to be pieced together by present and future archaeologists. Paiutes lived in the region when Euro-Americans arrived in southern Utah. Paiutes explained the colorful hoodoos as "Legend People" who were turned to stone by Coyote.
The Paiutes were living throughout the area when Capt. Clarence E. Dutton explored here with John Wesley Powell in the 1870s. Many of today's place names come from this time. Dutton's report gave the name Pink Cliffs to the Claron Formation. Other names — Paunsaugunt, place or home of the beavers; Paria, muddy water or elk water; Panguitch, water or fish; and Yovimpa, point of pines— were derived from the Paiute language.
The Paiutes were displaced by emissaries of the LDS Church who developed the many small communities throughout Utah. Ebenezer Bryce aided in the settlement of southwestern Utah and northern Arizona. In 1875 he came to the Paria Valley to live and harvest timber from the plateau. Neighbors called the canyon behind his home Bryce's Canyon. Today it remains the name not only of one canyon but also of a national park.
Shortly after 1900, visitors were coming to see the colorful geologic sights, and the first accommodations were built along the Paunsaugunt Plateau rim above Bryce's Canyon. By 1920 efforts were started to set aside these scenic wonders. In 1923 President Warren G. Harding proclaimed part of the area as Bryce Canyon National Monument under the Powell (now Dixie) National Forest. In 1924 legislation was passed to establish the area as Utah National Park, but the provisions of this legislation were not met until 1928. Legislation was passed that year to change the name of the new park to Bryce Canyon National Park.
Each year the park is visited by more than 1.5 million visitors from all over the world. Languages as varied as the shapes and colors of the hoodoos express pleasure in the sights. Open all year, the park offers recreational opportunities in each season. Hiking, sightseeing, and photography are the most popular summer activities. Spring and fall months offer greater solitude. In the winter months, quiet combines with the area's best air quality for unparalleled views and serenity beyond compare. In all seasons fantastic shapes cast their spell to remind us of what we protect here in Bryce Canyon National Park.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.
View the park's map to create your own personal maps and images right here.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A geology photo album for this park can be found here.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
NPS Geology and Soils PartnersAssociation of American State Geologists
Geological Society of America
Natural Resource Conservation Service - Soils
U.S. Geological Survey
General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


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this joke is told with a Scotish Accent hence the spelling!!!!!!
A woman goes to the Doctor in Glasgow, worried about her husband's temper and threatening manner.
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When organizational, personal values collide
I resigned from a board yesterday, an affiliate board of an international organization whose name you may recognize (especially if you were anywhere near a news outlet or social media vehicle in the last 48 hours). I've been squeamish about activities emanating from headquarters throughout my years as a volunteer and board member (dating back to 1996). This time was different for me, as an individual event and as the latest example of things that bother me deeply about the larger entity.
I've held my nose - a lot recently - and kept my focus on the good work we've been able to accomplish in Wyoming. I've chaired the affiliate's grants committee since joining the board in 2007. I've seen the numbers and can state unequivocally: we saved lives. We educated. We raised awareness. We provided services to populations that would otherwise not had access. We also saved lives. That's always been the bottom line for me, and my motivation for local service with this group. It's kept me going when the stench rising from the south was particularly bad.
However, the latest action by headquarters left me feeling that I had no choice. There are other reasons, other factors leading up to this point, that are neither germane nor appropriate to discuss here. But the final straw feels like a lesson fitting a larger theme of this blog: my personal values no longer fit those of the larger organization.
If you've been reading this blog for awhile, you know my mantra: If you can't fully support the mission, vision and values of the organization, you have no business serving on its board. Usually, I'm sharing that in the context of new member recruitment. Yesterday, I was facing that dilemma five years into my own six-year commitment to this organization and its work.
Yes, I could have bitten my lip, sucked it up, and plodded through for one last year. (Though some of those other factors not discussed here were making that an increasingly impossible option.) In the end, it came down to walking the talk. How could I face you, how could I preach personal/organizational alignment in my work with boards, if I'm living in conflict with what I believe is the essence of nonprofit governance? Our local affiliate has some degree of independence. But in the end, our organizational mission and values are those defined and exercised by the international entity. They cannot be completely separated. Their enacted values ultimately are ours. But they aren't mine.
If you're reading this, I've obviously decided to go ahead and publish. I don't make that decision lightly. I am aware of the potential perception that I'm only seeking some kind of personal validation, or joining the growing national bandwagon protesting the organization's actions. Neither is true. Mostly, I'm just sad and angry.
Nonprofit governance ultimately is as much a process of the heart as it is the head. Our heads may be able to walk us through the motions of meetings and committee work. But if our hearts aren't in it, we are probably not providing the kind of leadership that our organizations require.
I'm not saying quit when it gets tough. I am saying don't ignore your gut. Listen when your heart is telling you that something is not right. Act with all your might to change that. Stand up for your collectively held values and the ways in which they are demonstrated in your organization's work. But in the end, if that gap still exists, do what is right for you and the organization - even when doing what's right means going your separate ways.
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- Bonnie Koenig said...
Debra - Thank you for having the courage to hit publish - I know it was not a decision you took lightly. The kind of transformative change we want to see in the world is only going to come about when people are willing to take difficult stands, to 'walk the talk' and live their values. Thank you for being a role model for us all.
- February 2, 2012 at 8:05 AM
- Nancy Iannone said...
Thank you for sharing your personal struggle with this difficult decision.
I wish that all board members looked at these issues of commitment, organizational values and personal values, not only when joining a board, but throughout their service. To invest oneself deeply can lead to amazing outcomes. Unfortunately, as you've shared, sometimes it also leads to painful choices.
Thank you for sharing your experience. Your walk through this choice is not only a personal story but an important lesson in governance.
- February 2, 2012 at 8:45 AM
- Ericka said...
You are a leader. You took a stand. You showed us the way. Thank you.
- February 2, 2012 at 9:18 AM
- Debra Beck, EdD said...
Thank you, dear friends, for your words of encouragement. I debated whether to even write - let alone publish - this one. Even rereading it is hard, frankly. That moment will pass. In the meantime, your support expressed here will carry me over.
- February 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM
- Cynthia Bemis Abrams said...
Preparing for a leadership development session next week, I re-entered term "organizational values" in Google Alerts. Your post appeared in my e-mail almost immediately, and I find it to be timely, gripping and very real. Thanks for mustering the courage to share. As difficult as it surely was to write it and even read it now, your clarity and precision carries the right amount of emotion. You've earned a new reader in Minnesota!
- February 3, 2012 at 9:42 AM
- Ken Goldstein said...
Great posting, and great lesson. The personal/organizational alignment is vital. Walking the walk consistent with our talk is everything. Thank you.
- February 3, 2012 at 9:47 AM
- Debra Beck, EdD said...
So grateful for your feedback, Cynthia and Ken. I've kept a low profile with this one, because it was such a personally painful decision decision. We make very deep commitments when we accept a board position. Quitting shouldn't be easy- and it wasn't.
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DETROIT (June 14, 2011) – Wayne State University Law School's Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights is pleased to announce that the exhibit Marching Toward Justice: The History of the 14th Amendment will be featured at John Marshall Law School in Chicago June 15 through July 8. The exhibit coincides with the 105th annual convention of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the nation's oldest historically black fraternity. A grand opening reception is scheduled for Wednesday, June 22, from 5-7 p.m. in Room 3 East at John Marshall Law School.
The Honorable Damon J. Keith, LL.M. '56, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, also will be honored at the fraternity's convention.
Marching Toward Justice is part of the Damon J. Keith Law Collection of African American Legal History, a central repository for the nation's African American legal history. The exhibit was created to inform the public about the fundamental importance of the 14th Amendment and our nation's ongoing quest to realize the high ideals of the Declaration of Independence. It tells the story of our government's promotion of justice and equality for some while condoning the enslavement of others. Since the inaugural exhibition at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C., the exhibit has traveled to more than 30 sites, including locations in San Francisco; Chicago; Topeka, Kan.; Boston; Dallas and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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The Mitt Romney campaign was pretty good about paying for security costs for New Hampshire events during the general election. Nashua, Milford and St. Anselm College all billed the campaign, and the campaign paid the tab. The Obama campaign, on the other hand, repeatedly refused to pay.
In a response to this newspaper and a letter to Portsmouth, Obama campaign officials said they had no role in making security decisions, so the campaign should not be expected to pay. After employing that non-sequiter, the campaign directed local officials to the Secret Service, suggesting that federal taxpayers might help defray the burden placed on local taxpayers.
We do not find that at all surprising. To avoid such responsibility-shifting in the future, local governments should establish policies that state clearly whether they expect campaigns to pay for all or a portion of security costs. They should let campaign officials know of those policies in writing when events are planned, not after they happen. Then, if campaigns knowingly stiff the taxpayers, local officials will have something useful to share with the public.


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the door in the air cleaner snorkel is usually controlled by vacuum and that hose goes through a thermal vacuum switch located (usually) in the thermostat housing. The metal tube, or pipe that does down from the snorkel to the exhaust manifold draws warm air into the carb, again helping the mixture and warming the carb. This is expecialy helpful if you experience carb frosting. (not to be confused with chocolate frosting!)
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Dose, Dangel Named Smith & Nippert Award Winners
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The University of Cincinnati has announced the winners of the prestigious Jimmy Nippert and Helen Norman Smith Awards for the 2013-14 year. Senior golfer Olivia Dose is the recipient of the Helen Norman Smith Award, while senior pole vaulter Josh Dangel has won the Jimmy Nippert Award.
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Political, cultural, and economic combustion have created an edgy, fascinating contemporary art scene—in Beijing. The city's most thorough primer is at Dashanzi 798 Art District, a sprawling neighborhood of Communist-era factories and warehouses converted into art galleries, boutiques, coffee shops, and restaurants. Go to buy, or just to browse.
Ask to be dropped off on Jiuxianqiao Lu, near the Dazhong Electronics Market. Take an overpass across Jiuxianqiao Lu, and walk past the market and nearby Hongyuan Apartment complex. The neighborhood will begin to thin out. (Note: the numbered lanes aren't necessarily labeled or easy to differentiate. Luckily, there are many business signposts to help you out, and most spots are within two or three blocks.)
Stop in the (1) Long March Space (www.longmarchspace.com) on Jiuxianqiao Lu no. 4, a rambling gallery with multiple rooms and exhibits and a fun sensibility. Exhibitions run the gamut from videos, sculptures, and paintings, to commercial art forms—media, magazines, BMW art cars.
Turn right upon exiting Long March Space, and take another right at the next intersection. Mid-block, on your right, you will see (2) Chinese Contemporary (www.chinesecontemporary.com), up a flight of red stairs. The focus of this small (3,300 square feet) but significant gallery is on established or fresh mainland artists with ardent, often political messages. The roster reads like a greatest-hits list, from avant-garde (Huang Rui) to political pop (Wang Guangyi), performance stuntsmen (Zhu Ming) to iconic realists (Zhang Xiaogang).
Continue to the end of the lane, and you will see (3) Time Zone 8, a bookstore. Order a cappuccino and browse through the art books. "This is 798's cultural heart," says Jonathan Haagen, a guide for ArtWALK Beijing. This deep, well-stocked bookshop—run by longtime Beijing expat and avid collector Robert Bernell—has been around since 798's auspicious beginnings in 2001: The adjoining café and photo gallery hosts occasional performances and lectures.
Cross Jiuxianqiao no. 4 and turn left. You'll see a hulking complex to your right: Factory 798. Enter (4) 798 Photo Gallery. The curators of this gallery are well aware of 798's purpose as a destination for both tourists and serious collectors; last year, it garnered massive attention for a quiet, riveting exhibit of photographs from the Cultural Revolution.
Just inside the entry of Factory 798 is a small tangle of boutiques. Find floor-length coats and gowns with kitsch Mao-era patchwork at (5) Feng Ling, or the less dramatic linen blouses and trousers in (6) Ying's Studio, next door. To your left, go into (7) 798 Space (www.798space.com), one of Dashanzi's largest galleries, a yawning concrete space with red writing on the walls. Not all Chinese contemporary art is political. "The world vision of the 35-and-under generation is all about economics," says Karen Smith, author of Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China.
Once you've surveyed the exhibit, go up to the mezzanine and relax, or visit the small bookshop toward the back of the gallery, leading to Old Factory Café. Walk out the front door of the café to a narrow lane—a draw for Beijing's art cognoscenti.
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lmao. $250!? and i thought the ones i found for $75 were expensive.
Nice find. Too bad b_phett will have to buy four more to have all the original parts.
Price is whatever someone is willing to pay. I currently own quite a lot of original Fett parts. $250 for 3 original parts is not bad IMO.
How much do people spend on:
Dental expanders
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I guess me being a machinist and being able to offer replicas based off of correct dimensions to the group is not worthwhile then??
I look at the $250 as an investment. ;)
How interesting, who would really want to put real parts on a replica suit anyhoo. I would settle for machined reproductions that were made off of original parts any time.
Boba Phett I applaud your quest for accuracy!!!! My wife would divorce me if she seen I bought that!! You are inspiration to us all...
Pretty much tripled in price from when I got mine on Ebay.
Nice find Mark! I think you are wise in what you did. Since you are a machinist offering them, it's great to have an original to base it off of.
The auction was at about $35 until about 4 hours before the auction was ending. Then a competing bidder kept upping it $5 bucks or so at a crack. After a quite a few bids, they put in a bid for $6000. I'm assuming to see my max bid. They then retracted the bid and kept upping theirs until they were just below my max and stopped bidding. :facepalm
Would I have liked to pay less, sure who wouldn't. I knew going into it that the $250 mark would be all I was willing to spend. I roughly knew what my break even point would be for selling off accurate replicas down the road.
If someone, such as myself, offers a high quality accurate copy of the parts, most people will be content with that and not look to getting the "original" parts. This in turn lowers the demand on originals and helps keep the prices in check for the original parts. Case in point the Graflex replicas. Prices for original Graflexes have been holding steady and dropping somewhat in price from where they were 3-4 years ago.
In the meantime I'll be content with what I got and what I paid.
Look at his bid history. He's bid on a total of 2 items and has retracted his bids twice. I'd report that bidder to ebay.
One of the only reason I say this is because... it's a replica suit, not an original suit. Certainly, If I had an original suit part (Knees, gauntlet, ect) and I were misisng a few greeblies, if I could replace original parts on it that were missing, I would try to replace them with original parts. In this case, you're taking original parts, and putting them on fan made armor. If the replica was made out of the same material and of the same dimentions, and for all purposes identical to the original, but only a portion of the price, why spend the $250 on original pieces to put on a $10 piece of vac formed plastic? Would using original pieces on a fan made piece of armor make it any more accurate (assuming the replica parts are identical to the originals) ?
In some cases making a replica means casting it out of resin, and for the calc pad, or the dental expander, well, a resin replica falls WAY short of being accurate to an original. In some cases I can understand wanting the original part, but having a machined part, made of the same materials, to the same dimentions, for a small fraction of the price... for me will suffuce :p
Economies of scale not considered and assuming different individual preferences, are you going to pay a high price on a tiny piece and risk it falling off? The last dental expander I saw sold on eBay for $625. Next, are you going to put your $625 dental expander on your $100 gauntlets that are an artist's best "guess" anyway? It's like buying $800 wheels for your $500 car, and that only leads to one thing......girls, and lot's of 'em ..............................j/k.
I don't know anyone who can injection-mold plastic, but machining metal -- that's something hobbyists can do. Then, we can produce relatively inexpensive "identical" replicas of parts that increase everyone's accuracy across the board.
So what are you going to do? If there's a stamp on the back panel of the rocket pack saying "Pack 3," are you going to replicate that too until you are satisfied? Or are you going get it done, go to the hospital, and help a kid smile (wearing an aluminum replica of an insanely expensive part)? I'm not telling anyone what to do...I'm just saying make up your mind and do it.


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Steel boat Just get out the Oxy and cut and weld
The name you couldn't remember is Steve Dashew, designer of the Sundeer and Deerfoot series of custom boats.
As Xort said, the answer will vary widely with the specifics of the boats in question. There very well built fiberglass boats, and real junk out there, in much the same way as there are decent steel boats and some veryu junky steel boats out there.
That said, you need pretty specific reasons to buy a steel boat vs a fiberglass boat that few people actually have. This is especially true in the U.S. where steel tends to be poorly regarded.
Anyway, while it does not specifically address your question, the following is a draft of an article that was written for another purpose but covers the basics.
As I have said before, I am not a fan of metal boats. Compared to wood or glass I think they are way too heavy for the strength achieved and too difficult to maintain. They are noisy and prone to have problems that are not easy to get to and repair. For the distance cruiser any bonehead can carry and use glass or wood to repair wood or glass boats anywhere in the world. Welding a metal boat in some atoll on the backside of no-where is another story.
There is a relatively small and specialized market in this country (US) for metal boats; a bit out of ignorance and a bit because metal boats really do not make sense for the venues that most of us sail in. While cruising people are a bit more open minded toward metal boats, I think metal boats will be a hard sell in this country for a long time making resale a bit difficult. Many of the metal boats that we see over here are crudely built hard chine affairs. The chines are often laid out without care for their visual impact. Cabin and deck structures are often rather primitive. Hardware is often painted galvanized steel. As they age they develop areas that have been dented in between ribs and other framing. Which is not to say that there are not well built metal boats, but the perception of metal boats comes from the poor examples and the price of otherwise good steel boats are held down by that perception.
Amongst the proponents of Metal boats, much has been made of the ability of metal boats to bend rather than puncture. I think this is a little bit bogus. That may be true of the extremely heavy boats designed to workboat standards, but not really true of boats built to meet yacht standards which tend to be much lighter. These lighter weight metal boats use lighter weight skins spanning between a more closely spaced frame and stringer system. If the impact is on a frame you are more likely to bend the boat than puncture the skin but an impact next to a frame or between frames is more likely to sheer the skin than bend it in any impact that would be hard enough to puncture the average fiberglass boat.
The one advantage of steel is a higher abrasion resistance. In the unlikely event that you end up rubbing against a rock for hours on end without puncturing the skin, a steel skin can withstand abrasion better than glass. If you sail in an area where abrading against rocks is a serious problem then steel may make sense. As I use boats, the required compromises don't make sense for me.
Metal boats are seen as being very durable, but again in the weights of materials used in yachts I seriously question that idea. All boats flex; it is only a mater of degrees. Over time this flexing work hardens and fatigues the steel especially where the skin meets at frames and other hard spots. Rust, mostly from the interior makes the skin thinner. Like any other material each boat has a real lifespan. It may exceed our own but it may not. It is true that fiberglass will also fatigue and weaken over time especially non-cored hulls which tend to flex more. It is true that cored F.G. hulls may eventually delaminate from the core or the core itself may sheer but in well-built boats this is a very long-term process, but properly maintained glass or cold-molded wooden boat will last for 40- 50 years. The same cannot be said for steel.
In a number of studies that I have seen over the years, steel is generally seen as being the most maintenance prone material out there, both long and short term. This is slightly offset by some of the exotic steels being used in the last couple years but for the most part, just like wood you need to keep the actual hull and framing protected from water and air. Unlike wood this means both inside and out. On most steel boats there are areas on a steel hull that are inaccessible and just because you can't see them that does not mean that they aren't deteriorating. Rust never sleeps and metal boats actually deteriorate mostly from the interior out.
Then there is electrolysis. This used to be the kind of problem that was a compelling reason not to own a steel boat. In the early 1970's I worked in a boat yard that had to do an emergency hauling of a steel power boat to prevent it from sinking. This boat which had been launched weeks earlier in perfect shape had changed slips and was tied up next to a boat with an improperly grounded 110 electrical system and in a mater of days the bottom of the power boat in question had lost sufficient thickness and was covered with small pin holes that the boat needed replacement of her entire bottom plating. This kind of loss was not covered by insurance. Today, there are ways to combat the electrolysis problem but, in my mind, they are Band-Aids treating symptoms rather than real cures to the problem.
My biggest gripe comes down to compromised sailing ability and seaworthiness, poor motion comfort, and how this issue affects deck and cabin materials. Some of this goes away as the boat gets to be 45 feet or bigger. In boats under 45 feet, steel hulls are just plain heavier for a given strength than any other material except perhaps ferrocement. Weight in and of itself has no advantage at all. More weight means that you need to have more sail area for a given speed and a given sailing ability. More sail area means that a boat needs more stability to be able to stand to this bigger rig which means more ballast which means more weight which means more sail area. As a result steel boats tend to be a very poor choice for the
The problem gets worse because steel boats often have steel topsides, steel decks and steel deckhouses. This is weight high above the center of buoyancy and as such reduces stability further making it hard to carry a decent sail area to weight ratio. In the ultimate bad sailing day, it also means that once inverted you are more likely to remain inverted longer. This problem is often addressed by the use of wooden deck and cabin structures. Deck and cabin structures are the area of greatest maintenance in a wooden boat and so you are just upping the amount of maintenance even further. The heavy weight of the topsides and deck structure results in a boat that tends to roll and pitch through noticeably larger angles making for a wearing ride for crew.
Of course, like many subjects this is one that frankly does not have one universal always-right answer. The right answer is the one that works for you and while my opinions are based on the physical properties of the materials involved, in fairness, I must point out that puncture resistance has never been a criterion by which I select a boat. I should also note that my personal taste leans toward lighter boats. My prior boat was a 4,100-lb. 28 footer made of Kevlar over high density closed cell foam. She was one tough little boat. I have always been a proponent of buying a boat suited to your anticipated sailing conditions and in my case my sailing conditions are strictly coastal and do not include passages to remote areas, and she worked well for that purpose. If you are looking at passages to the remote areas of the Pacific Southern Ocean, then puncture resistance becomes more critical and the ability to make repairs in a remote area becomes even more critical still. You may also sail in a windier environment that I and maybe able to tolerate a heavier boat.
But also, to further explain my point of view, I am fan of truly traditional boats and also, although seemingly contradictory, fast lightweight modern boats. By traditional boats I mean boats that authentically draw off of the principles of actual historic craft with a high degree of integrity. I do not like quasi- traditional boats that wear their sense of tradition like tail fins on a 58 Caddy. I also like fast/ modern designs that have their own sense of integrity. I find both types of boats fun to sail but for very different reasons. I have owned both types. For my current life style I cannot imagine owning a traditional boat again but I truly do love them. It is hard and expensive to do a truly accurate traditional boat in metal and it is impossible to do the kind of small high performance boat that I love in Steel.
No matter what material you use, workmanship and quality materials will be critical. I do not believe that steel tolerates poor quality any better than any other material and since so much depends on the welds the welding needs to be top notch. Steel is not just one material but a family of iron based materials. How the metal is made, purified and alloyed affects initial strength, fatigue qualities and its resistance to corrosion.
You often hear that steel boats can be built cheaply. Quality metal construction never was cheap. You could build a quality boat in almost any other material as cheaply or for less. With advent of computer driven cutters and the more common availability of some of the newer (last 15 years) welding techniques steel has come down in price to the point that custom simplified steel boats maybe less expensive than custom boats in some other materials. The problem with the court of public opinion saying steel is cheap is that simple hard chine steel boats with workboat levels of finish are often compared to yacht quality boats of other finishes. Probably a properly comparable and way less expensive construction is glass over sheet plywood. Properly done, for its weight, this can actually be a far stronger and less puncture resistant material than steel. Glassed inside and out with quality laminates and epoxy resins, the plywood boat would have far and away less maintenance costs and would have a much lighter hull weight than steel, thereby having considerably better sailing characteristics in all ways.
I think much of the answer in picking a metal boat comes from picking the right designer. If I had to list designers of metal boats that I like, I think that Van de Stadt from
Yves Tanton in
Dudley Dix from
How could I forget Charlie Whittholz? I actually worked for Charlie Whittholz in the early 1980's. Charlie did some very nice, very interesting traditional designs in steel. Charlie was a neat guy. He actually worked for Alden and Rhodes before opening his own shop. I liked his work. His boats had a certain simplicity that was very elegant. He had a nice eye for proportion and a sweet line. Hard chine boats are actually very hard to design so that they look right. The chine forms a strong accent line that has to work with the desired hull shape, the physical properties of the plating and the other visual lines of the boat. Charlie was able to keep these sometimes-contradictory lines under control to produce attractive traditional craft. While I liked most of Charlie's work, one of my least favorite boats of his was a bilge keel cruising boat. (I drew many of the drawings for her) This was a purpose built boat for the European canals and as such was a good boat for its purpose but was not my kind of boat. Charlie and I would have lively lunch time discussions on our divergent points of view on modern lightweight boats. We both loved wood as a building material. I loved his stories of Alden and Rhodes.
Charlie made the final passage to Fiddler's Green a few years back. His family still sells his designs by mail order. I don't know if they have study plans but he used to have simple list of designs that listed the basics of each design. I believe that their phone number is 301 593 7711. Also WoodenBoat still markets some of his designs.
Bruce Roberts is popular but I am not a fan of his work. It is not so much that I do not like his work per se. I think that for the most part Roberts designs conservative simple boats, but to me they are dated. His Spray series have less than no appeal to me. Having read about the original Spray and the sailing ability of some of the so- called copies of her, I have come to believe that Josh Slocum made it around the world despite the short comings of Spray rather than because of her sterling virtues. Josh Slocum was the consummate seaman. Spray was a coastal oyster boat. Why anyone in this day and age would want to use her as a model for a whole line of boats is completely beyond me. But I emphasize this is only my opinion and Roberts has sold a bunch of these things so my opinion is not shared by everyone on this.
Roberts more modern designs were probably good designs in the 1970's but a lot has happened since then. To me his design ideas have not advanced as well. That said, Roberts has a boat he calls a 434 that someone built as a long range single-hander that looks like a nice boat but slightly dated to my eye. Still in all these are very heavy boats and I strongly believe that weight, in and of itself, has no inherent virtue and is a very serious liability.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, much of the questions in sailing have no one right answer. That does not keep people like me from having strong preferences and opinions. My opinion suits me, and the way that I choose to sail, very well. It may not suit you at all. It is easy for someone to refute my opinion on some other criteria than my own. As I have said before on this forum, ultimately that debate can have no more substance than a trying to prove that Vanilla ice cream is inherently superior tasting than strawberry ice cream, (which is why these are called 'opinions').
Good luck
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The one word answer...depends
depends on quality of construction
depends on knowledge of maintenance and skills to effect repairs
depends on usage
Hi There,
well I'll add my 2 bobs worth Yes I'm an Aussie,
having had both I have an advantage
Best self Maintenance Long Terms Glass
However saying that many Production yacht with bolt on Keels are coming up to a Major Major overhaul with replacement of Keel Bolts, Keel packing re glassing arount the Keel ( read your manufacturers recommendation Its a must)
Steel boat Just get out the Oxy and cut and weld
Minor scraps Both
Major collison Incident, Steel Easier, Cheaper and faster to repair.and can be done anywhere ( welder on Board)
Pointed object damage Steel
Boat dropped on a reef on its side Steel
Scrape a reef with the keel
Stronger boat Steel by far You can bend a Glass boat with your mast rigging
Lightning Steel
Sailing ability Both given the right boats
Cruising maintenance Steel ( can be fixed any where in the world I know I've been in Indonesia)
Noise reduction Glass
General Hull Maintenance Steel no ozmosis but rust mainly on the inside but there is the electrolysis issue
Sailing Cold weather Glass
Ease to learn to weld or fibreglass Glass
Making new fixings Steel
I must say I tended to be a bit more adventurist with a steel boat around Bommies and reefs because I knew it could stand some punishment and not have to run off and have it hauled out at every incident ( not that I was reckless)
ROI Glass but
my thoughts take them or leave them
|steel is colder in winter i know--btdt---was on 40 ft ketch ---steel---in 1998...lol---very very cold......now i have fiberglass......some steel is ok--but they are still cold---so it would depend on where you are and where will you be going and what can you tolerate and do you wish to have your boat xrayed occasionally for cracks and such......
Generally for average or better performance, and esp re-sale most f/g production boats would be better bets than steel. Many steel boats are homebuilt (with the notable exceptions - in our area - of Waterline yachts and the Amazon line) and as such will be perhaps suspect in construction, fit and finish, and even design (or the execution of a design)
There's nothing like the confidence you can have in a well built steel boat, but the maintenance aspects will for the most part be more daunting although modern coatings have gone a long way to make things better with steel.
Heading 'round the world? to the Arctic? Sailing at night through debris fields? then a steel boat may make more sense..... for the average recreational sailor not necessarily so much.
The steel hull would depend on how it was built. Ideally the framing will be flat bar so there are no spots where water can collect below. A lot of steel boats are foam insulated and there is no easy way to inspect the steel under the foam. Steel boat hulls rust from the inside. Of course there is the ongoing rust problems on deck but you can see those to deal with them. Any boat can be destroyed if you hit a rock hard enough. Fibreglass will have a lot less maintenance long term.
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