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Photographer's Note
I share this shot which was I taken from a rural village in Murshidabad(W.B.) at sun set time...
I like the calmness situation here at the end of the day with nice golden touch of this image.Hope you will like it :)
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besnard (59036) 2012-04-17 23:18
Bonjour Prasun
Un superbe coucher de soleil, de jolies couleurs, un bon choix de format et les piquets qui accrochent le regard.
Merci pour le partage et bonne journée.
macjake (92639) 2012-04-17 23:20
Hi Prasun
wonderful sunset photo.
has a tremendous romantic appeal, such atmosphere and elegance.
I really like this one.
Afsanehbagheri (3228) 2012-04-17 23:23
سلام دوست من
خیلی زیبا نشان دادی
Waylim (25436) 2012-04-17 23:40
Hi Prasun,
Beautiful color of the sunset, the reflection of the poles and the silhouette of the landscape give depth and enhances the composition. Beautiful mood with peaceful and serenity atmosphere.
gopalkrishna (74) 2012-04-17 23:48
Hi Prasun
Nice shot !! Nice colours and composition.
SnapRJW (31631) 2012-04-18 0:04
Hello Prasun - I love the simplicity of this shot. Serene and elegant and a shot that draws me in. Warmest regards Rosemary
jimkil (1706) 2012-04-18 0:13
Simple and elegant, beautiful tones and compo here Prasun, enjoyed the vertical composition very much.
Nard (6972) 2012-04-18 0:15
Hi Prasun
Wonderful colored picture of this quiet place. As you say "serenity". I like the perspective lines made by the silhouettes of the trees and the posts with their reflection. Very nice and harmonious.
Nicou (188618) 2012-04-18 1:01
Avec ces reflet sur les bouts de bois superbe compo e tiamge quel cile quelle vue et iamge sueprbe ce tons cette ambiance de rêve, amgique compo.
Bravo et amitié
lousat (121137) 2012-04-18 1:33
Hi Prasun,a great capture of this magic moment,very impressive light management for the best colors and beautiful details too.I wish to be there,there is a great sensation of peace and quiet there!Have a nice day and thanks,Luciano
delpeoples (60326) 2012-04-18 4:43
Namaskar Prasun
Oooh la la! What an amazing photo, so tranquil, with wonderful pastel colours and superb control of light. The poles provide interesting elements for the composition and their reflections are very attractive. Thanks for sharing this lovely photo with us, I feel calmer already.
Warm regards
Yiannis84 (2824) 2012-04-18 4:52
Hi Prasun..
Lovely color tones of the sunset! i love the reflection play on water and the excellent clarity as usual! very good compo..excellent job!
Best regards..Yiannis
baclama (19138) 2012-04-18 4:58
oh... a very beautiful landscape with warm colors...so serene....
thank you
bayno (18348) 2012-04-18 5:42
Hi Prasun,
an entirely appropriate title for this photograph, beautiful colors and splendid reflexes...i like the vertical framing...excellent work...
have fun...
timecapturer (49288) 2012-04-18 6:27
Hi Prasun
a beautifully tranquil and exquisite composition. Love the glow here and the irresistable shadows and reflections. Captivating!
Cricri (176) 2012-04-18 11:21
Hi Prasun
J'aime cette scéne du coucher du soleil qui appelle a la douceur et au romantisme, bien cadrer avec les reflets des piquets, belle réalisation
Belle soirée
bema (26591) 2012-04-18 11:23
Namaste dear prasun,
such simple design, but full of mood and serenity, like it a lot!
thanks for sharing, see you around, cheers Bernd
ourania (51103) 2012-04-18 11:31
Hello Prasun,
this is a picture of exquisite quality and beauty. I love the fascinating soft chromatic tones and the striking contrasts of the shore, the poles and their reflections. There's a lovely smoothness and peacefulness here that surely affects every viewer's mood. Congratulations and thank you!
All the best,
Gigidusud (21669) 2012-04-18 11:51
Hello Prasun,
Beautiful sunset with nice colors and reflections.I like it!
Thanks for sharing.
Budapestman (82620) 2012-04-18 15:17
Hi Prasun,
a beautiful peaceful atmosphere with superb composition, the colours and lights are picturesque, great view, Tfs! Have a nice week! Kellemes hetet kívánok!
abmdsudi (81698) 2012-04-18 21:46
Hi Prasun
A great image taken at golden hour and well balaced with excellent foreground subject as effective focal. Fabulous colors and shadows, lovely effect of the exposure, but the calmness on the water is really special, you can the feel of the peaceful atmosphere there. Great shot and TFS
Kind regards
serp2000 (47063) 2012-04-18 21:59
It's me. Once again. Superb! MY congratulations! Attractive composition, good idea and excellent realisation!
Graal (103038) 2012-04-18 23:59
Hi Prasun,
nice grapgical effect. Fine contrast and warm hues here. Good shot during the sunset time. Pleasant peaceful mood. I like it.
Have a nice day.
jjcordier (79299) 2012-04-19 0:33
Superbe photo à la lumière et aux couleurs splendides. La composition verticale est remarquable avec ces piquets et leur reflet accrochant le regard au premier plan.
Silvio1953 (191407) 2012-04-19 1:19
Ciao Prasun, fascinating sunset with fantastic reflections, splendid light, wonderful golden colors, magic atmosphere, very well done, my friend, ciao Silvio
Robert1969 (7160) 2012-04-19 23:56
Hello Prasun,
I like also the calmness in this picture.
This with the golden touch is a very nice
combination. The light management and
the composition are as alway great.
Friendly regards,
everlasting (16634) 2012-04-20 12:52
Beautiful golden tones but its the silhouetted poles that break and make the photo
diafani (1143) 2012-04-20 13:17
Beautiful, serene but also powerful compostion.
only greetings,wonderful sunset capture
in a special way almost artistic
shot romantic dedicated to all those
who love sunset moments
shot with pale and delicate tones
of colours,great depth
have a nice day
ChrisJ (152546) 2012-04-21 2:01
Bonjour Prasun
Astounding silhouettes, with the effect amplified by the superb, symmetrical reflections. Wonderful warm orange sunset colours with good sharpness & graphism. The sun is well positioned away from the center & correctly exposed. Tfs!
Hi Prasun,
simple but beautiful compo, i like the setting sun golden light and colors.
vasilpro (41761) 2012-04-21 9:22
Hello Prasun,
Wonderful sunset composition, beautiful view, excellent POV, lovely warm light and color tones, very good clarity and sharpness, TfS!
Have a nice weekend, Vasilis.
adores (46979) 2012-04-23 14:04
Hi Prasun!
This is the Indian sunset I remember:)! A well chosen moment and great colours and composition! It was a good idea to include these poles with their reflections in foreground.
eldancer1 (36343) 2012-04-25 13:49
Wow! It is indeed very serene and beautiful. Love the colors of the sky and the water. Good dof with sharp details. Very well done, tfs.
paololg (31448) 2012-04-27 4:34
Ciao dear Prasun,
fantastic sunset characterized by beautiful golden tones and a beautiful warm light. The composition and the photo quality are perfect, but above all you have managed the difficult light beautifully. Sincere congratulations!
Ciao, have a nice weekend!
sacavem (18620) 2012-05-07 8:22
Olá Prasun,
Very beautiful sunset, good composition that he is taken at the good time and the moment.
Well done.
Didi (61569) 2012-05-13 1:08
Namaste Prasun
Very good lights ambiance, a very nice place to relax our daily stress of the life.
Well done.
Best regards
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- Copyright: Prasun Biswas (prasun984) (5590)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2011-06-05
- Categories: Nature
- Exposure: f/8, 1/100 seconds
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- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2012-04-17 23:11


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FDP Forum / Fender Guitars: Jaguars & Jazzmasters / Can I replace CP Jag HH Trem Bar with Jaguarillo bar?
Jan 24th, 2015 10:15 PM Edit Profile
I have a Classic Player Jaguar HH. Great guitar, but I do have a couple of issues with it. This model has the tremolo plate moved a little closer to the bridge to increase the break angle of the strings over the bridge. The bar also screws into the collet like a vintage Strat bar. Great ideas, but, unfortunately, they forgot to shorten the length of the tremolo bar to compensate for the new trem plate position. I find the bar to be too long. The tip of the bar bottoms out on the pickguard when I dump the bar all the way down. Also, the bar is not in the ideal position for me when the bar is screwed all the way into the collet. It sometimes gets in my way when I pick on the high E string. I recently had a chance to demo a Jaguarillo at a local shop. With the Jaguarillo, they seemed to have corrected the trem bar issues. Kinda frustrating, since the CP Jag is the more expensive guitar, but....whatever! They shortened the bar on the Jaguarillo to compensate for the new tremolo plate position. It also does not get in my way when screwed all the way down, yet is still within easy reach when I need to grab it. The bar is also stiffer than that on my CP Jag, which I prefer. Will the Jaguarillo bar screw directly into my CP Jag collet or would I also need to replace the collet? Does Fender sell these parts?
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Don't know the answer but why dont you take the arm from your jag into the shop and see if it fits the Jaguarillo.
If you ask nicely and buy some strings while you are there I'm sure they would let you try it.
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Unfortunately, I was out of town when I saw the Jaguarillo and did not have my Jaguar with me. No local music shops carry the Jaguarillo. I called Fender Customer Service and they did not have an answer. I can take a chance and order the arm only for $10, but they do not sell the collet seperately, so I would have to buy the entire trem unit for $60 if the arm did not work in my guitar.
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I rebend and adjust almost every wang bar I own the exceptions being the plug-in AM Dlx Strat style that fits well stock. I have a shortened vintage Strat arm ala David Gilmore on one guitar.
If the bar is too long it can be cut down and rethreaded at the tip end if need be.
I have an Offset Special that has the thread-in Jag arm and tailpiece, same as the CP. I really like this MIM unit. It works quite well.
Stiffness can be a product of spring tension setting. You can tighten the screw for the tension spring and retune. This will raise the wang bar a bit too.
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"Sometimes while I'm talking to God, He'll show me something about myself in such a way that I have to laugh at my own humanity and how funny I must look to Him." - Donna
Donna...just found your blog...I absolutely love it! And I love your singing! I'm at work right now and it was just exactly what I needed to hear to help me make it through tonight! Thanks for your ministry here! - Robert
Friday, August 19, 2005
Topsy Turvy Land Review on Amazon
Topsy Turvy Land is now available through Amazon.com. Today I had tears of joy as I read a review left by Michael P. Snyder:
A delight for the imagination, August 19, 2005
Reviewer: Michael P. Snyder (Spring Hill, TN USA)
The kids in my house love this book--the four little ones AND the two big ones. The words and pictures tickle the imagination and highlight the limitless breadth of God's creation. Biblical truth permeates every entertaining page.
The best endorsement I can give this book is this: Last night I allowed my 5-year old and my 4-year old to take three books to bed with them. The five-year old grabbed Topsy Turvy Land, igniting a small skirmish. The peace talks ended with a compromise--a five minute limit on Topsy Turvy Land before swapping with your brother. I guess we may have to buy another copy....or three or four.
Wow! What more can a children's author ask for? Thanks, Michael and family! Here's the link - Amazon.com
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
My First Interview
Alyice Edrich of The Dabbling Mum interviewed me after Topsy Turvy Land was published. Click HERE to read the interview.
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Cleansing Grace
Bitterness pools deep within the soul -
dark and murky with bottom unseen.
Stagnation hides resentment and lost desires,
locked in muddy sediment of unfulfilled dreams.
Daily the cesspit grows deeper.
Can anything stir emotions; cause still waters to flow?
Anger has been the only turbine –
the cause of untold hurt and pain.
Is there nothing that can clear the waters?
Is there relief from the turmoil within?
Can darkness receive light
and hope be renewed once again?
With cleansing God alone can perform,
His love purifies the depths of the heart,
ridding the soul of bitterness
revealing tenderness only grace can impart.
Forgiveness rushes through the depths
with penetrating power unknown to man
Refreshing the capacity to love.
Faith and hope remain.
© Donna J. Shepherd
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Topic Page: Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
Peter Ackroyd is a prolific writer whose novels, biographies, and works of non-fiction have attracted a wide audience and sustained acclaim. He started out as a poet and a critic, but soon found his niche as a novelist who delights in ransacking the past and rewriting its literary and cultural histories in a manner associated with postmodernist fiction. The majority of his novels center on London, as does most of his other work. The English capital is the site for delving into a number of recurring themes: the influence of place upon the psyche, the spiral nature of time, impersonation and imitation, the Catholic heritage of England, Englishness, occult beliefs, and strained father-son relationships. His characters are often transformations of real-world figures such as the poet Thomas Chatterton, the music hall performer Dan Leno, and the essayist Charles Lamb.
Ackroyd was born on October 5, 1949 and brought up on a modest East Acton council estate in west London. His parents separated not long after he was born and his maternal grandmother played an important role in his upbringing. A precocious child, he excelled at school and entered Clare College, Cambridge in 1968 to study English literature. There he was exposed to the "Cambridge poets" group (J. H. Prynne and others) whose experimental approach toward language was later to inform his own poetry and fiction. His year of postdoctoral study in 1972 as a Mellon Fellow at Yale University furthered these interests. Here he came into contact with the poet John Ashbery and drafted an aesthetic manifesto (Ackroyd 1976).
It is London, though, that has had the biggest impact upon his writings. He often refers to it as the landscape of his imagination and it functions like a character in its own right in his work. Many of the subjects of his biographies have London in common, too. He has dealt with "Cockney visionaries" such as Dickens (1990) and Blake (1995); writers to whom the capital is significant, such as T. S. Eliot (1984) and Shakespeare (2004b); and the city itself (2000). Ackroyd is one of a number of contemporary British writers – among them Iain Sinclair, J. G. Ballard, and (to a lesser extent) Martin Amis – who focus upon London as a source of inspiration. These novelists follow in the footsteps, sometimes literally, of their literary ancestor Charles Dickens. They bring to their explorations of London a sense of the capital as a labyrinth of possibility as it stretches infinitely through space and time. Ackroyd's first novel, The Great Fire of London (1982), picks up on the city's historical echoes and artfully deploys Dickens's Little Dorrit as an intertext. His later substantial biography of Dickens merges factual and imaginative material to examine its subject.
Ackroyd's novels show a fascination with the wide range of English discourses that have existed in history. A good example of his mastery of mimicry is Hawksmoor (1985). This compares and contrasts the opening decades of the eighteenth century, when the rational procedures of science began to supersede the more ancient forces of animistic magic, with the urban squalor of 1980s London. The chapters narrated in the The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction General editor: Brian W. Shaffer © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd first person by Nicholas Dyer, loosely modeled on the historical figure of the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, present a convincing pastiche of the prose of the earlier period. Ackroyd spent six months in the British Library reading texts relevant to his setting. He recorded phrases and sentences into his notebooks until their language became second nature. In doing so, he followed the method established in his previous novel, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), of building upon a specific literary style as a template for his own inventions. It is a technique associated with T. S. Eliot. Eliot's influence is particularly noticeable in Hawksmoor as events from the late sixteenth/early seventeenth century are juxtaposed with a series of murders in the present day.
Subsequent fictions expand Ackroyd's thematic and stylistic concerns. Several probe the subject of fakes, forgeries, and plagiarism (1987, 2004a). Some focus on the occult and the paranormal (1989, 1993, 1994). Other novels excavate the past to present alternate histories (1996, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2008). Perhaps his keynote novel, though not the most successful artistically or commercially, is English Music (1992). This novel features chapters that imitate the styles of many English writers, such as Bunyan, Defoe, Blake, and Carroll. It, too, is set in London, the source of Ackroyd's vibrant muse. With unflagging vitality, he continues to celebrate the capital in his numerous books, reviews, television series, and plays for both radio and the stage.
SEE ALSO: Historical Fiction (BIF); London in Fiction (BIF); Postmodernist Fiction (BIF)
- Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism. London: Vision. (1976).
- The Great Fire of London. London: Hamish Hamilton. (1982).
- The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde. London: Hamish Hamilton. (1983).
- T. S. Eliot. London: Hamish Hamilton. (1984).
- Hawksmoor. London: Hamish Hamilton. (1985).
- Chatterton. London: Hamish Hamilton. (1987).
- First Light. London: Hamish Hamilton. (1989).
- Dickens. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. (1990).
- English Music. London: Hamish Hamilton. (1992).
- The House of Doctor Dee. London: Hamish Hamilton. (1993).
- Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. (1994).
- Blake. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. (1995).
- Milton in America. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. (1996).
- The Plato Papers. London: Chatto and Windus. (1999).
- London: The Biography. London: Chatto and Windus. (2000).
- The Clerkenwell Tales. London: Chatto and Windus. (2003).
- The Lambs of London. London: Chatto and Windus. (2004a).
- Shakespeare: The Biography. London: Chatto and Windus. (2004b).
- The Fall of Troy. London: Chatto and Windus. (2006).
- The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein. London: Chatto and Windus. (2008).
- My Words Echo Thus: Possessing the Past in Peter Ackroyd. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. (2007).
- Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd. New York: Camden House. (1999).
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This is a review of "Alice in Zombieland" by Gena Showalter. It is the first book in The White Rabbit Chronicles.
Alice has a lot more problems than your average teen. Her dad is crazy. He won't let anyone in her family venture outside of the house after dark. He believes in monsters; Alice and her younger sister Emma just believe he's insane. He's embarrassing, and Alice is constantly wishing her mother would just leave the drunken mess he's become, and make a new life for herself.
Alice's whole world is rocked to the core on her 16th birthday. She's in a car accident that leaves everyone (but her) dead. The aftermath of the accident makes her realise that her dad was right. Monsters do exist… She saw them as they feasted on her family members. Alice is deeply changed by that night. Things will never be the same for her. She's confused. Did she actually see monsters? Do the monsters truly exist? She believes yes, but she's also scared that she's inherited her dad's cray cray.
Alice moves in with her grandparents, and starts at a new school. She makes new friends, and enemies, and even a few frenemies. She misses her family like nothing else, and more than anything, she wishes that she could atone for the way she treated her father. She wants to know more about the monsters, but where can she look? Who can she trust? Ali doesn't want her grandparents to think she's crazy, and she wants her new bestie Kat to think it even less…
And there's more strangeness. Why does she see white rabbits in the clouds? Do they warn her of danger as she's come to believe? And what's with the sudden and intense attraction to Asher High's bad boy Cole? Just why are Cole and his group so mysterious?
I didn't love this book, but I didn't loathe it either. I quite liked the premise, but it was a bit too "high school" for me, which is fair enough, as it is a YA novel. I did enjoy the character's banter with each other, and I was a fan of the dialogue for the most part. A lot of the time I didn't know what to make of Ali, she seemed a bit all over the place, but I guess that would be true of any teenager that has suffered such trauma. I didn't really like the way Cole treated Mackenzie, it was too commanding and it was really off-putting. I did think before reading this novel that it was going to be a post-apocalyptic pastiche of "Alice in Wonderland". It's really, really not. These aren't your regular zombies (which is kinda cool), and there were no great similarities between classic "Alice In Wonderland" and this tale, which I was a little disappointed with. I did like Kat's character (Cheshire Kat?) and I also loved Ali's grands, and their great lines (especially with their teen slang). "Alice in Zombieland" is definitely worth a read if you like teen romance novels with a supernatural flavour.
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Confirmed Ships for 2019
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US Brig Niagara
On September 10, 1813, nine small ships, including Niagara, defeated a British squadron of six vessels in the Battle of Lake Erie. A pivotal event in the War of 1812, it led to regaining Detroit, lost at the war's outset, and lifted the nation's morale.
The U.S. Brig Niagara is a two-masted, square-rigged sailing vessel, 198 feet sparred length, 118 feet tall. The current Niagara, the third reconstruction of the original vessel, was launched in Erie in 1988, the 175th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie. Niagara sails the Great Lakes, preserving and interpreting the story of the Battle of Lake Erie, and acting as an ambassador in her capacity as the flagship of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As a Sailing School Vessel, her crew of professionals and trainees actively preserve the skills of square-rig seamanship.
Schooner Appledore V
The Appledore schooners are owned and operated by BaySail, a private, non-profit organization. BaySail supports its environmental education and youth development programs through public sails, private charters, group tours and port visits.
Appledore V was commissioned by Smith in 1992 and later sold to the Traverse Tall Ship Company, who sailed her under the name of Westwind, in Traverse Bay. BaySail acquired her in October of 2002 and changed her name back to the original Appledore V. She spent many years operating in Bay City before moving to southern Florida in 2011. In May 2016, Appledore V will make her way home to Bay City.
Appledore V is a steel hulled Gaff rigged schooner of a type typical of those sailed on coastal waters and in the Great Lakes right up to the end of the age of sail. Schooners were the workhorses of their era providing the primary means of transportation for goods and passengers over long distances.
S/V Denis Sullivan
The S/V Denis Sullivan is a replica three-masted, wooden, gaff rigged schooner from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a flagship of both the state of Wisconsin and of the United Nations Environment Programme.
The construction of the Denis Sullivan was first proposed in 1991 by a group of Milwaukee residents and volunteers from other states. Their plan was to build a tall ship which would serve as a platform for educating people about the Great Lakes. Community involvement was welcome in the project, and almost a thousand people[2] donated almost a million volunteer hours[3] toward the Denis Sullivan's construction. Through the efforts of both professional shipwrights and volunteers, the Denis Sullivan was partially completed and launched in June 2000. She departed Milwaukee for her first sail to the Caribbean in November 2000.
The Denis Sullivan is not a replica of a specific vessel. Rather, her design is inspired by that of the Great Lakes cargoschooners of the 19th century. Like many of those schooners, she carries a raffee, a square-rigged fore topsail which is triangular in shape.
In designing the Denis Sullivan, architects Timothy Graul Marine Services looked to several nineteenth century Great Lakes schooners for inspiration, including the Rouse Simmons, Clipper City, and Alvin Clark. Above the waterline, the Sullivan closely resembles these earlier vessels. Her shape is that of an efficient cargo carrier, and her riggingand deck arrangement are likewise authentic. She differs from her predecessors, however, below the waterline. Traditionally, Great Lakes cargo schooners were built with a fairly flat bottom to minimize draft and permit sailing in shallow waters. They carried a centerboard to compensate for this when sailing to windward. The Denis Sullivanstrayed from this tradition to meet both modern Coast Guard safety requirements and the practical considerations of a passenger vessel. She has a relatively deep hull and weighted keel, which provide greater stability to the vessel and allow for 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) of head clearance in the below decks accommodations. An additional concession to safety regulations was the division of the traditional cargo hold into watertight bulkheads.
Abbey Road
Lake Superior Tall Ships accepted the donation of the Abbey Road on April 7, 2014, and immediately began taking kids of all ages sailing on Lake Superior.
The trips are "Un-plugged" experiential learning voyages. Teamwork is required which fosters acceptance of others, cultivates personal responsibility and helps develop leadership skills.
Longer trips can be physically and emotionally challenging for some participants (although not dangerous). As controlled risks are overcome by participants they discover hidden strengths, acquire new skills and increase self-confidence.
They are very proud to have had over 3,600 participants onboard the Abbey Road since 2014. She is an excellent platform for small groups and they will continue sailing her into the foreseeable future.
Schooner Utopia
The 77′ staysail schooner, designed by the late Fred J. Peterson and built in 1946 by Peterson Builders, began its maiden sea voyage in 1947 when she cruised the North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea and Caribbean Islands. In November 1956, Fred Peterson and crew embarked on a three-year cruise around the world, stopping at ports in the Azores, Tangiers, Gibraltar, Canary Islands, Trinidad, Havana, Tonga, Galagapos, the Solomons, New Guinea and dozens more. It is estimated Utopia has logged more than 60,000 miles, including several Chicago-Mackinac races. In recent decades, Utopia, owned and skippered by Ellsworth Peterson, has been a goodwill ambassador in Door County, WI and elsewhere hosting numerous non-profit events and receptions.
M/V Sundew
former US Coast Guard Cutter
The former USCGC Sundew (WLB-404) served as a 180-foot sea going buoy tender from 1944 until its retirement in 2004. A Iris, or C-class tender, it was built by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Corporation in Duluth, Minnesota. Sundew's preliminary design was completed by the United States Lighthouse Service and the final design was produced by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Corporation in Duluth for the U.S. Coast Guard. On 29 November 1943 the keel was laid. It was launched on 8 February 1944 and commissioned on 24 August 1944. The original cost for the hull and machinery was $861,589.
Sundew is one of 39 original 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tenders built between 1942-1944. All but one of the original tenders, USCGC Ironwood, were built in Duluth. Like all of these tenders, Sundew was named after a plant, in this case the sundew, a carnivorous plant from the genus Drosera.
In 1958, Sundew was assigned to Charlevoix, Michigan, and the following November helped in the rescue of two survivors from the Carl D. Bradley when it sank in a storm on Lake Michigan 47 miles (76 km) west-northwest of Charlevoix. Sundew remained at Charlevoix until 1981, when she was replaced by USCGC Mesquite. Sundew was then moved to Duluth, Minnesota, where it served until it was retired in 2004.
Sundew served 60 years for the Coast Guard and was decommissioned and retired on May 27, 2004.
Gerhard Folgero
Built by Matt Putra, a professional welder in Kenosha, Wisconsin to the plans drawn up by the leading steel boat designer at that time from Philadelphia J. Murray Watts. Vessel then sold to John Caldwell who brought the boat to a higher standard of completeness and naming her ANNA Z. John enjoyed the vessel for many years before selling her to Ralph Hollingsworth who changed the name to Black Swan. I Randy Ellestad purchased the vessel in the fall of 2009 and had the boat shipped from St. Joseph harbor Mich to Knife River Minn.
He spent the next 4 years doing some major refits, building all new masts and spars all new rigging. He drew up a new sail plan and had sails made in Sussex England out of duradon.
The vessel was renamed to give honor and remembrance to the Norwegian explorer Captain Gerhard Folgero, who in 1926-1927 became the first to retrace the route believed to have been sailed by Leif Erikson and using a 42ft Viking ship to show that it could be done. He and his crew of 3 men ultimately arrived in Duluth Minn June 23, 1927. Later in 1929 he sailed a 60ft Viking ship from Norway to St. Paul Minn. becoming the first foreign flagged sailing vessel to arrive there.
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It's over. I'm through with brunch.
It's gone way too far. Saturday and Sunday mornings in New York's West Village, where I have lived for nearly 20 years, used to bring an almost pastoral calm. Now they're characterized by the brunch-industrial complex rumbling to life. By late morning, crowds of brunchers — often hung over and proudly bedraggled — begin to assemble, eager to order from rote menus featuring some variation of mimosas and eggs Benedict.
But discontent is simmering. In an interview last month in GQ magazine, when pressed for an answer on why he left New York City for an unnamed "upstate" locale, Julian Casablancas, the lead singer of the Strokes, said, "I don't know how many, like, white people having brunch I can deal with on a Saturday afternoon."
His statement was picked up by New York's tabloids and made headlines in London, signs of a percolating brunch backlash that comes not a minute too soon: The meal has spread like a virus from Sunday to Saturday and has jumped the midafternoon boundary. It's now common to see brunchers lingering at their table until nearly dinnertime.
And for what? In his recent book "The Trouble With Brunch," Shawn Micallef, a Canadian writer and academic, writes that the meal brings out the worst in restaurants and their patrons. "Chefs bury the dregs of the week's dinners under rich sauces, arranging them in curious combinations," he writes. "Brunchers treat servers uncharitably and servers, in turn, view them with contempt." It's as if everyone feels entitled to wring as much out of this bad deal as possible.
I admit that I've found myself among the hordes on plenty of occasions. A particularly memorable fondue brunch in Chelsea that began at noon and broke up in a dive bar 15 hours later comes to mind. And there was the hedonistic all-day affair in Dubai, where I topped off courses of Japanese, Chinese and Lebanese food with a full English roast beef dinner, all consumed while hovering above the desert in an air-conditioned five-star hotel restaurant and guzzling a jeroboam of Veuve Clicquot. Nor am I immune to doing a little brunch legwork — I've been known to travel great distances for well-prepared grits.
But now that I have a young daughter, brunch is completely impractical. By noon I've been up for hours and am ready for an actual lunch — although that meal is an increasingly endangered species on the weekend. For most restaurant owners, serving brunch is mandatory. It's a revenue stream that also exposes restaurants to diners who might become regular customers. Even our local Thai restaurant insists on topping every dish with a poached egg on weekends and offering an ambiguously Asian mimosa.
There's something more malevolent at work than simply the proliferation of Hollandaise sauce that I suspect comes from a packet. Brunch has become the most visible symptom of a demographic shift that has taken place in our neighborhood and others like it. As rents have gone up, our area has become unaffordable to much of the middle class, and to young families who want more than two bedrooms — or can't even afford one.
This leaves an increasing number of well-off young professionals who are unencumbered by children — exactly the kind of people who can fritter away Saturday, Sunday or both over a boozy brunch. Our once diverse neighborhood now brims with the homogeneity of an elite university. (Julian Casablancas, I imagine, will be disappointed to discover the same crowd of white people brunching in Phoenicia, Hudson or Beacon upstate.)
"Brunch," said Mr. Micallef, the author, over the phone, "is a visible sign of the changes that sometimes feel out of our control."
For me, having a child — and perhaps the introspection that comes with turning 40 — made me realize what most vexes me about brunch: Once the domain of Easter Sunday, it has become a twice-weekly symbol of our culture's increasing desire to reject adulthood. It's about throwing out not only the established schedule but also the social conventions of our parents' generation. It's about reveling in the naughtiness of waking up late, having cocktails at breakfast and eggs all day. It's the mealtime equivalent of a Jeff Koons sculpture.
In neighborhoods like mine, where everyone seems to be from somewhere else, people are increasingly alienated from their extended and nuclear families. While Sundays were traditionally reserved for family, we now have crowds of unfettered young(ish) people with no limitations on their pursuit of weekend leisure, who seem bent on making New York feel like one big rerun of "Friends" or "Sex and the City." Here, and many other places, friends have become family and brunch the family gathering.
The friends aren't the problem, of course. Brunch is. Seasoned with the self-satisfaction of knowing the latest and hippest brunch boîte and the pleasure of ordering eggs Benedict made with jamón Ibérico and duck eggs, something so fundamentally conformist can seem like the height of urban sophistication. Worse than adolescent, it is an adolescent's idea of how adults spend their time.
I recently saw a man in my neighborhood wearing a T-shirt that read "brunch is for" — well, the last word was an epithet more forceful than "jerks." In a piece about Mr. Casablancas's statement and stance, The Guardian called brunch, which the British invented but Americans took to another level, "a symptom of the soulless suburban conformity that is relentlessly colonizing our urban environments."
Mr. Micallef suggested in our conversation that a growing brunch backlash was an early indication that brunch was falling out of fashion, comparing it to "an old pair of bell-bottoms."
I'm getting out, too. It would be unreasonable to say that I'll never again eat a meal that blurs the lines between breakfast and lunch (especially if grits are involved). What I can't do anymore is live the brunch lifestyle, which has become a parody of itself. Now that I see brunch for what it is — conspicuous consumption disguised as urbanity — I can't enjoy it.
And I know how to poach an egg at home. It's just not that hard.
David Shaftel is a freelance writer in New York.


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Altun Ha and Baboon Sanctuary Combination tour from Belize City
Altun Ha Maya Ruins and Baboon Sanctuary Combination Tour.
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Belize Cave Tubing Adventure Tour An hour's easy drive west from Belize City
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Cave Tubing and Zipline Combination tour from Belize City.
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Belize Cave Tubing, Zipline and Altun Ha triple combination tour from Belize City!
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Community Baboon Sanctuary from Belize City.
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Tikal Peten Guatemala Tour from Belize City
Tour the ancient Maya City of Tikal, Peten Guatemala. Full day tour from
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The North West Learning Partnership is made up of:
St Mary and St Thomas Teaching School Alliance and STRATEGIC PARTNERS (Provide strategic direction and evaluation of teaching school activities. These schools will provide the trainers to lead on areas linked to new curriculum change)
St Austins Catholic Primary School (St Helens)
St Ann's C.E. Primary (St Helens)
Newfold Primary (Wigan)
St Silas (Liverpool)
Rainford High School (St Helens)
Liverpool Hope University (Liverpool)
Plantation Primary School (Knowsley)
St Theresa's Catholic Primary School (St Helens)
St Mary and St Thomas ALLIANCE MEMBERS (confirmed)
St Anne's Catholic Primary (St Helens)
Nutgrove Methodist Aided Primary (St Helens)
St Aidan's Primary (St Helens)
Willow Tree Primary (St Helens)
Rectory (St Helens)
Chorley New Road (Bolton) (St Helens)
Holy Cross Catholic Primary (St Helens)
St Mary's Catholic Infant and Junior School (St Helens)
St Basil's Primary School (Halton LA)
Sutton Manor Primary School (St Helens)
Queen's Park Primary (St Helens)
Corpus Christi (St Helens)
St Michael's Catholic Primary School (Halton)
St James CE (St Helens)
Holy Family Catholic Primary (Wigan)
Newton le Willows Primary School (St Helens)
Hope Primary School (Knowsley)
St Michael with St Thomas CE Primary School (Halton)
Tyldesley St George's Central CE Primary (Wigan)
St Gerard's Catholic Primary (Halton)
St John Fisher Primary School (Halton)
St Michael's CE Primary School (Wigan)
Leigh St Thomas Primary School (Wigan)
St Marie's Primary School Standish (Wigan)
Ashurst Primary School (St Helens)
St Margaret Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School (Manchester)
St Ambrose Catholic Primary School, Speke (Liverpool)
Green Bank Primary School (Liverpool)
Woodfield Primary School (Wigan)
Sutton Oak Primary School (St Helens)
Allanson Street (St Helens)
Northwood CPS (Knowsley)
Moorfield Primary (Halton)
Huyton with Roby (Knowsley)
St Peter and St Paul (Knowsley)
Westvale (Knowsley)
Broad Oak Primary School (St Helens)
Holgate Primary School (Wigan)
Belle Vale Primary School (Liverpool)
Hindley All Saints (Wigan)
Woodfield Primary School (Wigan)
Any school (primary, secondary or special) that is interested in becoming a member of the North West Learning Partnership should contact Lisa Bradshaw (Director of the North West Learning Partnership) to find out more.
With offices nationwide, CER has become one of the most successful education recruitment businesses in the UK.
CER (previously known as Capita) are proud to be working in partnership with the North West Learning Partnership and its members. We are on hand to provide ongoing support for NQTs, helping them get into paid teaching roles upon completion of their schools direct/SCITT course. CER are also committed to supporting each school within the partnership with our expertise and specialist recruitment skills across the education sector, including SEND, further education, leadership and early years. Our dedicated team also specialise in permanent recruitment, as well as long term and emergency cover with around the clock contact. For more information or to discuss your schools needs please contact Wendy Rowell on 0151 242 6536.


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Alzheimers: Every Minute Counts
Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts
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Every Minute Counts is an urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzheimer's disease. Many know the unique tragedy of this disease, but few know that Alzheimer's is one of the most critical public health crises facing America.
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Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts is produced by TPT National Productions. Corporate funding is provided by Home Instead Senior Care. Major funding is provided by the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation. Additional funding by the Helen Daniels Bader Fund, a Bader Philanthropy; the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund; Charles M. Denny, Jr.; and Ellie Crosby - The Crosswols Foundation. Key project partners include the Alzheimer's Association, National Partner; and Dementia Friendly America, Community Partner.


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Nintendo: All Access E3 Presentation - Play by Play
Nintendo held a surprisingly low key, Wii U focused press conference earlier today. Serving as a follow up of sorts to Sunday's Wii U oriented Nintendo Direct presentation, today's event consisted mainly of a Wii U software showcase. Shigeru Miyamoto began with a short Pikmin skit, hyping up the third game in the franchise by super-imposing the creatures on different audience members. Miyamoto continued by reiterating that the Wii U's goal was to reinvent the concept of the television/console relationship; the fact that consoles are dependent on the television is rather limiting. The Wii U was developed with it's own screen to circumvent this. Miyamoto stressed that he wanted the Wii U to be the first screen players and family would see when entering the living room. Pikmin 3 was first name-dropped several years ago, and it was thought it would be in development for the Wii. However, upon seeing the Wii U hardware in action, Miyamoto thought Pikmin 3 would be better suited on the Wii U and given an experience that isn't possible on any other platform.
The game looks absolutely gorgeous thanks to the horsepower of the new console. The gameplay of Pikmin 3 is very similar to the first two Pikmin, but Miyamoto found that the Wii U solved issues addressed in the first two games. He spoke of the camera issues, saying if it was too far away, one could see the landscape better, but couldn't see the Pikmin well enough to control them accurately. The Wii U has solved this puzzle, as one can see an expanded, natural setting on the Wii U game pad's screen, and the view on the television is more free because of this. The player can touch the map to more effectively place the Pikmin in different areas, and the game gets much more tactical because of this. The main game is controlled by aiming and throwing with the Wii remote and movement with the nunchuk. A new rock-type Pikmin was revealed, and it's uses were demonstrated by doling out more damage to enemies, and breaking down objects and obstacles faster than the other Pikmin types. Opening up multiplayer options was the announcement of four additional captains to control, but any information other than that will come at a later date. In closing, the hero of the previous Pikmin tiles, Capitain Olimar, was mysteriously absent from the title, and Miyamoto went on to say the reason for this was a secret.
When Reggie Fils-Aime took the stage, he promised 23 Wii U titles to hit the stage during the conference, though many of these were third party titles, teased in a sizzle reel. As has become a standard with any home console, planned Hulu Plus, Youtube, Amazon Video, and Netflix apps were announced to be available at launch, with "more on the way".


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The answers to the questions regarding YMS:
What is the size of the market (in term of dollar value)?
The standalone Yard Management Systems (YMS) market is approximately $ 35.000,000 US which includes C3, Pinc, Navis and Yardview software solutions. The other software companies that sell YMS below, sell it in conjunction with a Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Transportation Management System (TMS) so there is no way to gauge those YMS sales as they could be with, or without, the YMS system depending on the customer's needs. About 50% of companies still use clipboards, spreadsheets and walkie-talkies to manage their yards.
Software is a necessity in all facets of business today, but people are needed to manage the software, and insure data integrity for accurate data output. People are your most imprtant product. Use them to continuously improve your oragnization. Cross-Functional Teams are a good way to use multi-talented people to solve many kinds of problems and or opportunities in your organization.
Always listen to the Voice of your Customer (VOC), but do it correctly:
Common VOC Mistakes & How to Avoid Them:
First, let the Voice of the Customer (VOC) drive your company process improvements, but make sure to avoid VOC mistakes.
Voice of the Customer (VOC) is a critical component of Six Sigma, helping us establish measures that serve as a foundation for each of the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) phases, but, beware the common mistakes of VOC. Here are four (4) of them and what you can do to avoid them.
Computer security, also known as cybersecurity or IT security, is security applied to computing devices such as computers and smartphones, as well as computer networks such as private and public networks, including the whole Internet.
With all the discussion on the internet of things (IoT) and the network of sensors, robotics, RFID and software connected to the cloud, visibility, tracking, scanning and mobility to help supply chains respond to all the data and make it more usable, cybersecurity becomes a big challenge.
Gartner projects that by 2020 there will be 26 billion "things" connected within the IoT, supply chain visibilities are endless. Cybersecurity risks lie in each of these 26 billion things. There can be breeches in any one of these links. Solutions to security issues become paramount.
A supply chain must get the right goods and services to their customers in the most efficient, and cost optimized, way possible. To meet this goal, each supply chain partner must function as efficiently as possible. Collaboration and extensive communication must occur in the supply chain. It must also manage, coordinate and integrate upstream and downstream in the supply chain.
Simply put: inventory swings in larger and larger "waves" in response to customer demand (the handle of the whip), with the largest "wave" of the whip hitting the supplier of raw materials.
The pulse of a lean supply chain is accuracy in demand planning. Unforeseen spikes in demand or overproduction of demand planning stimulates the supply end of the chain to respond with changes in production. Production and supply issues impact the consumer end of the supply chain and the effects ripple up and down the chain.
This is often referred to as the bullwhip effect.
(In some industries, it is known as the "whiplash" or the "whipsaw" effect.)


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Civil servant David Keogh, 49, and former MP's researcher Leo O'Connor, 42, both from Northampton, were bailed to return in six weeks.
The case is believed to relate to the disclosure of details of a conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush.
The US President reportedly discussed bombing Al-Jazeera's studios in Qatar.
The contents of the memo were not discussed in court.
'Outlandish' reports
Mr O'Connor indicated he would be pleading not guilty.
Outside the court his lawyer Neil Clark called for the release of the papers to help his defence, saying it was "impossible" to defend otherwise.
The lawyer said that he did not know what was in the document, said BBC Home Affairs correspondent Jane Hughes.
The Mirror recently reported what it said was the contents of a memo showing Mr Blair had talked the US President out of the attack during a meeting in April 2004.
The White House has dismissed reports of the conversation as "outlandish".
Mr Keogh, a former communications officer at the Cabinet Office, is charged with making a "damaging disclosure of a document relating to international relations" without lawful authority.
'Heavy-handed' tactics
Mr O'Connor, a former researcher for the one-time Labour MP for Northampton South Anthony Clarke, is charged with having received a document "through its disclosure without lawful authority by a Crown servant".
It is alleged that Mr Keogh passed a memo to O'Connor between 16 April and 28 May 2004.
It is alleged Mr O'Connor knew, or had reasonable cause to believe, that the document was protected against disclosure by the Official Secrets Act.
The men were bailed on condition that they do not travel or attempt to travel outside the UK and they do not contact each other.
A government source earlier told the BBC that the document involved - the Foreign Office's Iraq in the Medium Term - referred to "heavy-handed" US tactics.
Its contents were reported in the Sunday Times in May last year.


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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- Genetic Algorithms for Water Distribution Systems Operations
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- Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories of Protogalaxy Physics: Canonical Star Formation Laws at Low Metallicity
- Evolutionary Genetics of CORL Proteins
- Social Skills and Executive Functioning in Children with PCDH-19
- Deep Domain Fusion for Adaptive Image Classification
- Software Defined Pulse-Doppler Radar for Over-The-Air Applications: The Joint Radar-Communications Experiment
The phrase water-energy nexus is commonly used to describe the inherent and critical interdependencies between the electric power system and the water supply systems (WSS). The key interdependencies between the two systems are the power plant's requirement of water for the cooling cycle and the water system's need of electricity for pumping for water supply. While previous work has considered the dependency of WSS on the electrical power, this work incorporates into an optimization-simulation framework, consideration of the impact of short and long-term limited availability of water and/or electrical energy. This research focuses on the water supply system (WSS) facet …
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