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Bucknell vs Columbia (Men)/Bucknell vs James Madison (Women) Sunday, January 14th Kinney Natatorium, Lewisburg, PA Short course yards Results Team…
Columbia Swims Past Bucknell 193-105
Meet Stats Complete results Hosted by Columbia November 20, 2016 Score Columbia 193, Bucknell 105 Press Release Courtesy of Columbia…
Navy Men, Women Top Army West Point on Day 4 of Patriot League Champs
Emma Levendoski completed a perfect sweep of all eight backstroke titles during her four years of Patriot League Championships with a 1:56.90 win in the women's 200 back on Saturday.
Battle Heats Up for Second Place on Day 3 of Patriot League Champs
Chris Devlin of Bucknell broke the Patriot League record, winning the men's 400 IM in 3:49.04.
Midshipmen Extend Lead on Day 2 of Patriot League Championships
Fast swimming -with new meet and league records- marked Day Two of the 2016 Patriot League Championships.
Navy Men, Women Jump to Early Lead on Day 1 of Patriot League Championships
Navy men and women lead after Day 1 of the 2016 Patriot League Championships in Annapolis, Maryland.
Four Bucknell Swimmers to Participate in Mare Nostrum Meet in Spain Next Week
Louis Behnen, Chris Devlin, Julianna Foss and Emma Levendoski as well as the Bison coaching staff, will depart Friday for Spain. The swimmers will train outside of Barcelona for a few days in preparation for the two-day meet, which will take place June 10-11.
2015 ECAC Open Day Three: Pitt Women, Navy Men Hold On For Team Titles
Pitt women and Navy men held on to win their respective team titles at the 2015 ECAC Open Swimming and Diving Championships.
2015 Patriot League Championships Day 3 Finals: Navy Still Ahead But Army Moves Up
Bucknell's Chris Devlin won the 400 IM on Day Three of the Patriot League championships.
2015 Patriot League Championships Day 3 Prelims: Ups/Downs
Bucknell added 16 women and 12 men to finals on Day Three of the 2015 Patriot League Championships. Pictured is Chris Devlin.
2015 Patriot League Championships Day One: Navy M,W Win 3 of 4 Relays to Jump to Early Leads
Bucknell sophomore Louis Behnen led off the Bison's third-place 800 free relay on Day One of the 2015 Patriot League Championships in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Both Navy's men's and women's teams lead the field, and records are starting to fall already.
2015 Patriot League Women's and Men's Championship Fan Guide: Can Anyone Dethrone Navy?
The Kinney Natatorium at Bucknell is getting ready to host the 2015 Patriot League Championships this weekend. Stay tuned to SwimSwam for coverage.
Jakl Sets 2 Individual and is Part of 3 Relay Records as Columbia Men Down Brown, Then Bucknell
Columbia head coach Jim Boster added two to the win column over the weekend as his Lions beat both Brown and Bucknell on consecutive outings.
Army Men, Bucknell Women Claim Dual Meet Wins in Patriot League Matchup
Julianna Foss won two events as Bucknell women and Army men came out on top of their respective dual meets at Kinney Natatorium on Saturday.
Bucknell Men's and Women's Teams Host UMBC in Season Opener
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How Did the Ur Collection Come to Ontario?
The most difficult part of this mystery was how the Ur collection came to be in the Museum of Ontario Archaeology's collection. We tried various avenues of inquiry and met many dead ends before we finally found the answer in the Western University Archives.
The archivists found us a series of three letters between the former President of Western University, Sherwood Fox, and the British Museum. It seems the British Museum sent the collection as a gift to the university in 1933 after a request from Sherwood Fox in 1931. The British Museum had classified the artefacts as 'duplicates,' a term no longer used in modern archaeology for surplus examples of the same types of artefacts.
The excavations at Ur were popular news in their time and are rivaled only by the likes of Howard Carter's excavations of King Tutankhamun's Tomb in Egypt, and excavations at Pompeii, in Italy. When the Ur collection arrived in London, Ontario it was welcomed with a front page article in the London Free Press. Another article followed two days later, reporting on the contents of the British Museum's gift.
However, a week after the initial excitement, another article appeared which gives the impression that no one quite knew what to do with the exciting new collection. There were reports that the artefacts were to be repackaged until further notice.
As our research stands now, we are not aware of any exhibition of these artefacts following their repackaging in 1933. It is also unclear when the collection was shifted from the University to the Museum's collection. However, until 1981 the Museum of Ontario Archaeology was located in the same building on Western University's campus in the university Archives. We suspect the move occurred unceremoniously without documentation.
After visiting the Western Archives, their archivist, contacted us regarding another small collection of cuneiform tablets held in their collection. These tablets were soon passed on to the Museum to be part of the overall Old World collection.


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Intellectual Monopoly
I've posted many times on the problems with our current Intellectual Property regime. It's ridiculous. I agree with many that we need to have some sort of incentive for intellectual property, so there should be patents, and there should be copyright. However, I think patents last too long (especially with the life and death pharmaceutical industries) and are approved with crank-em-out rubber-stamp fashion. I also think the Digital Millenium Copyright Right Act, which is Satan's Embodiment in Law and made copyright last almost perpetually, has done more to hamper cultural creativity and create those damned "frivolous lawsuits" Republicans complain about that anything done by Congress in the last ten years. And that's saying a lot. I'm always then told when I espouse such views that I am a pinko Commie leftist for believing the government shouldn't hand out monopolies to people either for long periods of time (patents) or forever (copyright) and let them earn millions or billions without being subject to any market pressures or competition. How wanting the market to be more free is socialist and wanting people to have monopolies artificially created and enforced by the government is capitalist, I'll never know.
But, anyway, I found out today Cato agrees with me, at least a little, in my Communist and lefty feelings about the excess of intellectual property law. They've published a brief today on how the Digital Millenium Copyright Law has had more than preverse effects on just copyright, but also hamstrung the entire hardware and software industry too. The issue revolves around that great savior of the content industry: Digital Rights Management. Explaining this is complicated, but its basically a thing within the law that forces manufacturers and programmers to aid the content industry, at their own expense, in their efforts to enforce their monopolies, and punishes them should they try to undermine these monopolies. Cato's Timothy B. Lee writes the following:
The result has been a legal regime that reduces options and competition in how consumers enjoy media and entertainment. Today, the copyright industry is exerting increasing control over playback devices, cable media offerings, and even Internet streaming. Some firms have used the DMCA to thwart competition by preventing research and reverse engineering. Others have brought the weight of criminal sanctions to bear against critics, competitors, and researchers.
The DMCA is anti-competitive. It gives copyright holders—and the technology companies that distribute their content—the legal power to create closed technology platforms and exclude competitors from interoperating with them. Worst of all, DRM technologies are clumsy and ineffective; they inconvenience legitimate users but do little to stop pirates.
Fortunately, repeal of the DMCA would not lead to intellectual property anarchy. Prior to the DMCA's enactment, the courts had already been developing a body of law that strikes a sensible balance between innovation and the protection of intellectual property. That body of law protected competition, consumer choice, and the important principle of fair use without sacrificing the rights of copyright holders.
That's just the website preamble, but the brief itself is full of useful facts and examples. I know I'm the only one who gives a shit about this, but you all should too, because it's probably the biggest example of people getting rich and profitable for no reason they should be. And in a way that makes all of our daily products and entertainment more expensive and less useful than it would be otherwise.


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VFW Post 609, Alexandria, Virginia
Post 609 meets on the second Saturday of every month at our "Post Home", in the Caretaker's building of the Alexandria National Cemetery, located on Wilkes Street in Alexandria, VA. For the immediate future, however, the Post is holding its meetings at VFW Post 3150, located at 2119 19th Street, North, in Arlington. This is a temporary location due to the fact that the Caretaker's lodge at the Cemetery is undergoing MAJOR refurbishment and we hope to be able to move back in sometime in the next few months.
Since we meet on federal property, no alcoholic beverages are allowed anywhere on the site, and no smoking is allowed except outside of the building.
Annually, we sponsor–and host–the "Flags Out" ceremony for Memorial Day (with the flags being collected and re-stored on the following weekend) plus the "Wreaths Across America" ceremony which is held in December. We also continue to render any and all assistance to the Cemetery office, located in Quantico Marine Base, any time the flag needs to be lowered or raised, inspect the cemetery and Caretaker building after heavy storms, and other requests as they may occur.
Through our efforts, the Alexandria National Cemetery has become a place of assembly for other military or historical groups, such as the Daughters Of The American Revolution.
If you are eligible to join the VFW, and would like to join a community-focused VFW group, we would enjoy hearing from you.
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Have you ever thought about acting in TV, film, or commercials? If so, this is the class for you. Come and find out what it takes to begin the path of acting in the Entertainment Industry in TV and Film. You may have a background of acting in theatre; this class would help you understand the difference of these two mediums in auditioning, acting styles and techniques. This class is fun and informative. All work is done on camera so that you will really see and know how your work shows up on screen.
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One of the most important gifts authors and publishers have been given is the treasure trove of creative works known as the public domain (" PD"). When a work passes into the public domain it can be used without permission or charge because no one owns it. However, great care must betaken to determine if a work is truly in the public domain. This article addresses recent changes in the law, and provides information to help readers negotiate the sometimes daunting public domain maze.
Many people are surprised to learn that there is a moratorium on new works entering the public domain. During the Clinton administration, the controversial Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) was signed into law. Under the Act – which added 20 years to most copyright terms–no new works will enter the public domain until 2019. Enacted to ensure adequate protection for
U.S. works abroad, the CTEA restricts access to works published after 1922. In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Eldred v. Ashcroft, rejected a popular challenge to the CTEA. While the CTEA has substantially lengthened the commercial life of many works, the public domain remains a rich source of quality, inexpensive content for anyone dealing in creative works.
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Copyright protection does not last forever. That is why copyright is often called a "limitedmonopoly." When copyrights grow old and die, the works they protect fall into the public domain. Subject to certain exceptions, public domain works may be freely copied or used in the creation of derivative works without permission, or authorization, of the former copyright owners.
In addition to works no longer protected by copyright, the public domain also includes works that are in the public domain for failure to include a proper copyright notice. Prior to March 1, 1989, notice of copyright (e.g., © 1941 by Irving Berlin) was required on all published works. If the notice was omitted, or appeared in the wrong form or location, the work was put into the public domain. Be aware that if the copyright notice was omitted on copies of works published between January 1, 1978 and March 1, 1989, copyright was not automatically lost if certain measures were taken to cure the oversight.
Besides "expired" copyrights, and works lacking proper notice, the following categories of works are also not eligible for copyright protection: (i) U.S. Government works, (ii) state judicial opinions, (iii) legislative enactments, and other official documents, (iv) unadorned ideas and facts,
(v) blank forms, (vi) short phrases, (vii) names, titles and slogans, (viii) extemporaneous speeches, and (ix) standard plots and stock characters.
It is important to emphasize that copyright protection is not the only form of legal protection forcreative works. Although a work may be in the public domain for copyright purposes, rights to the material may be protected under various legal theories such as trademark or unfair competition laws (which protect against confusingly similar usage by another); an individual's right of privacy (the right to be left alone); or a person's right of publicity (an individual's exclusive right to benefit commercially from his or her name, voice, photograph or likeness).
Similarly, works such as databases may be protected under trade secret or contract law. And, asdiscussed below, new or later versions, to the extent the underlying PD work has been embellished with new material, may also require permission.
Whenever you rely on the PD status of a work, it is important to make sure that the particular version you want to use is actually in the public domain. Later versions or adaptations (e.g., translations, revisions, annotated and illustrated editions) of PD works may be protected by a separate copyright.
Copyright in later versions or adaptations, relates to the fresh layer of creative material added by the second author. To avoid legal entanglements it is important to use only the original PD version—not any later copyrighted version that may contain editorial interventions. WhileShakespeare's Hamlet is in the public domain, the New Folger Library Edition of Hamlet is not.
Keep in mind that there are many works published works before 1923 that were later revised (e.g., Dale Carnegie's Public Speaking, A Practical Course for Business Men (1915)), and that these later versions are subject to copyright protection and royalty payments. Therefore, in the event of a legal dispute, you should retain in a safe place a copy of the PD work you referenced or worked from.
The following is, perhaps, the most insidious trap of all. Although a work may be in the public domain in the United States, it may still be protected in other countries. For example, a work by a United States author that is PD in the United States for failure to renew, may still be protected in countries such as Germany—where copyright duration is based on when the author died, not aspecific term of years. If you plan to publish a public domain work abroad, you may be required to obtain permission if the author died within the last 70 years.
If you fail to obtain permission, you will expose yourself to the risk of one or more lawsuitsoverseas. Beware! Many foreign works that were previously in the public domain for failure to comply with technical requirements of United States law (including copyright notice and renewal requirements) were restored to copyright in 1996 under the GATT and NAFTA international trade treaties. In order to be restored, the foreign work had to be under copyright in the "source" country, and not first published in the United States.
Revived works, which are no longer in the public domain, cannot be used without permission of the copyright owner.
Knowing when a copyright expires will allow you to take advantage of the abundance of materialfound in the public domain. Therefore, it is helpful to have a basic understanding of copyright law.
One helpful rule-of-thumb is that all works published in the United States before 1923 are in thepublic domain in the United States. In addition to pre-1923 works, there are also millions of other works that have fallen into the public domain for either (a) failure to renew; or (b) failure to affix a proper notice.
As discussed below, in the United States, the length of copyright protection a work receives depends upon when it was created.
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Works created before January 1, 1978, were until recently protected for a total of 75 years, provided, certain copyright renewal formalities were followed. The CTEA amended the Copyright Act by extending the term of protection for works currently in their renewal term from 75 years to 95 years. Under the new law, any work published in 1923 (which would have otherwise fallen intothe public domain on January 1, 1999), will now be protected until January 1, 2019.
Under the old Copyright Act, before 1978, we had a sensible system in which you were required to both register and renew your copyright in order to enjoy copyright protection. Prior to January 1978, the duration of all copyrights was split into two 28-year consecutive terms. Once the work was published with a valid copyright notice, the copyright lasted for an initial term of 28-years. However, the copyright owner was given the option to renew the copyright for an additional period of 28-years during the last year of the initial term.
In trolling for public domain works, one of your objectives is to determine whether the copyright owner renewed, or forfeited, their copyright. Over time, the renewal term was extended by Congress from 28-years to 47-years, and with the passage of the CTEA, from 47-years to 67-years—bringing the maximum total to 95-years (i.e., 28 + 67 = 95). For example, a work published in 1930, if properly renewed, will expire at the end of 2025 under the CTEA.
In 1992, Congress enacted a law that made renewal automatic for works published between 1964 and 1978. However, if a work was published between 1923 and 1963, there is an excellent chance itmay have fallen into the public domain for failure to renew. For example, copyright protection for Frank Capra's classic film, "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) was lost in 1974, because someone inadvertently failed to file a copyright renewal application with the Copyright Office during the 28th year after the film's release. Notwithstanding, the film's owner has asserted rights based upon copyright in the underlying story and musical score which were properly renewed.
TIP: Pre-1978 works what are in the public domain because they were published without proper copyright notice, or, in the case of pre-1964 works, were not timely renewed, do not receive retroactive protection under the CTEA. Similarly, works published before 1923, do not receive retroactive protection, and remain in the public domain.
Newer works, created after January 1, 1978, which were previously protected for the life of the author plus 50-years, are now are protected for the life of the author plus 70 years—with no renewal term. Copyright in works created by two or more authors, now expires 70 years after the death of the last surviving author. And, if the work is a work for hire, or anonymous or pseudonymous, the term of protection is the shorter of 95 years from first publication, or 120 years from the date of creation. Consequently, no post-1978 works are scheduled to fall into the public domain until the middle of the 21st Century1.
According to a 1961 Copyright Office study less than 15% of all registered copyrights have been renewed. For books and other textual materials, that number jumps to more than 90%. If you are interested in older – permission free – works published between 1923 and 1963, you will need to investigate whether the work's copyright was renewed. In this case, you'll need to do a copyright search by contacting the Copyright Office, or a qualified copyright search firm or intellectual property attorney.
To investigate the renewal status of a work, you will need the following information:
Start by looking at the copyright notice (e.g., © 1929 by Damon Runyon). The date of the copyright notice will usually indicate the work's publication date. Some copyright notices may even include the copyright renewal date (e.g., © 1929 by Damon Runyon. Renewed 1956 by Damon Runyon, Jr. and Mary Runyon McCann), in which case, if you tend to believe what you read, there is no need for a renewal search.
Whether the Copyright Office staff searches the records for you, or you engage the services of a professional searcher, the objective is the same—to determine if a copyright renewal certificate exists.
Keep in mind that Copyright Office searches may not be conclusive. Although the Copyright Office's records are essentially complete, there are a small number of files missing from the official records at any time. This is especially true for older works. Also, bear in mind that some works may have been registered under different titles, or as part of a larger work such as a periodical or other compilation.
Until recently, unpublished works created before January 1978 (including very old works), were entitled to perpetual copyright protection, provided they remained unpublished and uncopyrighted. These works included unpublished civil war diaries and anonymous works found in attics and trunks. Arguably, works dating back to antiquity were protected under what was known as "common law" copyright. On December 31, 2002, the era of perpetual copyright ended. On that date, all works that were unpublished as of December 31, 2002, were released from their perpetual copyright. Although published before 1978, these works are now treated no differently than post1978 works. The term of protection for such works is now the life of the author plus 70 years. And, in the case of anonymous and works for hire, the duration of copyright is 120 years from the date of creation.
As a result, on January 1, 2003, a torrent of unpublished works by creators who died before 1933 was ejected into the public domain. Because locating a creator's heirs is extremely difficult, this change in copyright status, was a tremendous gift to scholars and society. As Robert H. Hirst, head of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California in Berkeley, said, "[F]or the first time in history the owner of an unpublished Mark Twain manuscript or letter now also owns the publication rights to it."
If you are trolling the public domain for works to adapt, reuse, or republish, be aware that there are many traps for the unwary. If you are unfamiliar with the intricacies of copyright law, you should consider hiring an intellectual property attorney or qualified rights clearance expert. While there are many PD gems out there – including classic films and unheralded works waiting to be discovered—be aware that all that glitters may not be gold. As suggested by this article, licenses may still be needed from rights holders as well as identifiable persons.
© 1999 -2003 by Lloyd J. Jassin.
LLOYD J. JASSIN is a publishing and entertainment attorney and coauthor of The Copyright Permission and Libel Handbook (John Wiley & Sons). He has offices in The Actors' Equity Bldg., 1560 Broadway, Ste. 400, NYC, 10036. He can be reached at 212-354-4442 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com, or you can visit his firm's website at www.copylaw.com)
NOTICE: This article discusses general legal issues of interest and is not designed to give any specific legal advice pertaining to any specific circumstances. It is important that professional legal advice be obtained before acting upon any of the information contained in this article.
1 Assuming an author died shortly after publishing a book in 1978, that work would enter thepublic domain on January 1, 2049.
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My wife and I had just finished breakfast with friends at a local neighborhood restaurant. Leaving the restaurant and driving through the neighborhood we spotted a yard sale. You should understand that the only thing I enjoy less than holding a yard sale is attending someone else's yard sale. But on the spur of the moment, I suggested that we stop and look around (much to my wife's pleasant surprise, I might add). Rummaging around in someone else's discarded stuff, I spotted it in a box of books. "It" was a "discipleship training manual" produced by the founding Pastor and staff of a local mega-church ministry. I had heard about their "discipleship program" from others, but I had never actually seen the manual. There in a box of miscellaneous books sat two unused copies for sale, along with the accompanying DVD set (O.K., I'm not even going to ask why they were unused, and being dumped in a garage sale). It's against my religion to pay good money for bad books, but there it sat begging to be negotiated for. After some quick haggling, we settled on the outrageous sum of $1 (Just the book, no DVDs. Blood pressure.).
Flipping through my newly acquired treasure confirmed my fears. Listen to the lecture, look up the verses, answer the question by filling in the blanks. Congratulations, you're now a disciple. You know, the same way Jesus did it with the twelve. And that is sort of my point.
American/Western Christianity seems determined to define discipleship as a class and a training manual, combined with participating in Church activities. In the process, we have traded depth for breadth. Big numbers. We're very wide. We are also very shallow. One could say that we are as "deep" as a training manual can make us. Our discipleship classes operate on the assumption that we can turn nominal believers and religious consumers into committed self-denying disciples by teaching them "stuff" in a classroom, something even Jesus never tried to accomplish. Discipleship they way Jesus modeled it with the twelve represented the Company of the committed, not a class for the curious.
But there's more.
A flood of articles in recent years has highlighted a disturbing reality. In our efforts to make disciples, we are combating profound biblical illiteracy. People both inside and outside the church do not know what the Bible teaches. That illiteracy extends to what Jesus taught about being a disciple of the Kingdom. We will never overcome that illiteracy in any meaningful way with a DVD set of lectures and a fill-in-the-blank workbook.
But there's more.
A training manual – any training manual – embodies someone's agenda, and is structured to generate a pre-determined outcome. I've been a theological curriculum writer. I know how to formulate "learning objectives," to write a curriculum to achieve those objectives, and then to devise a test to determine if the student has achieved the desired objectives. Tell me what outcome you want to achieve and I can write a training manual (complete with Bible verses to look up and nifty diagrams) to achieve it. It's done all the time.
But biblical discipleship embodies a journey of radical faith and radical obedience in the Kingdom of God, resulting in personal transformation and Christ-likeness, not a class engineered to produce a particular kind of worker. We need to stop and ask ourselves an honest question: What are we doing? Are we equipping disciples for their journey in the Kingdom, or are we simply training worker bees for our programs? Jesus never manipulated and cajoled disciples into a training class. He invited them to join Him on a journey of faith and obedience, and to discover the Kingdom of God. Is your goal to reproduce a class, a curriculum, and an outcome? Then go to Bible school. Classes produce and reproduce students. Yokes, crosses, and journeys produce and reproduce disciples. Too much of what passes for discipleship in American/Western Christianity is the product of a classroom, where lessons are taught, but never caught.
But there's more.
In American/Western Christianity, discipleship discussions tend to emphasize methodology and classroom instruction. Jesus focused on relationship and on truth experienced over time. We offer a class. Jesus offered a yoke, a cross, and a journey. American/Western church leaders pride themselves in their supposed knowledge and understanding of methodology. After all, church growth methodology produced the mega-church movement. And who can argue with the success of having 2,000+ people attending your church every Sunday. Unfortunately, the mega-church movement has produced countless religious consumers. But it has produced few disciples, as their own studies "Reveal." Beware of embracing a "discipleship methodology" devised by the same methodologists who created mega-churches filled with religious consumers. Biblical discipleship is not an exercise in religious consumerism on steroids.
In the Kingdom of God, certain truths cannot be taught. They must be caught. In this sense, discipleship is more of a yoke than a book . . . or a workbook. In the discipleship school of Jesus, genuine discipleship is about accepting Jesus' yoke of obedience to the call of the Kingdom and following that yoke wherever He and it lead us. Jesus yoked His disciples to Himself and refused to release them until their religion-shaped spirituality had given way and been replaced with a spirituality shaped around Himself.


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Alright team, here's the thing. I'm doing a creative writing course and I have to submit my first draft tomorrow. I've been reading short stories and the like as research, but I think I've settled on my usual format, that being surrealist humour aimed at audiences my age and younger. So, knowing that my story attempt will be read widely as part of the course, I thought I'd post it here and get some feedback and suggestions from my charming and attractive readers.
My biggest problem is that I don't know where this story should go. The only conclusions I can come up with involve hideously hackneyed "and then he woke up, tra la la la." So, I will post as much as I have so far and if people can see it going in a direction (remembering that it's a shortish story, and I have to finish the draft by tomorrow), please enlighten me!
There was a crunching noise, and he swore loudly. As he pulled the steering wheel violently to the left, he felt his world tip upside-down. He tumbled once, only vaguely aware of the huge sound around him. Everything was grey like the upholstery, then black like the dashboard, then red like whatever it was that was running from his forehead, then blue as a window flashed into view. It was a gorgeous day, he thought, before realising how utterly ridiculous it was to contemplate the weather whilst inside a rolling vehicle. What should he be thinking about? Shouldn't his life be flashing before his eyes by now? He was particularly looking forward to seeing himself as a twenty year-old again, back when he had hair.
His mind hadn't wandered this much since his last staff meeting.
Shouldn't he be at least mildly aware of the pain in his head and the sound of glass tinkling to the ground? He became aware of the gentle chirping of birds, then he noticed the absence of the sound of metal being wrenched and pulled. The car had stopped.
"Any crash you can walk away from…" he whispered to himself as he pulled his rather rotund body from the car. This involved exiting through the back window, which was pointing uncomfortably towards the sky. The rest of the car was buried completely in a mound of earth, so his car resembled the top of a vegetable protruding from a garden bed. He held his hand to his forehead, identifying the stickiness as a drying cut. He turned from the car and looked at his surroundings. Because he was expecting to see the familiar country road between his house and the township where he worked, he was understandably confused to see a small forest of tall, slim trunks topped with broad, flat leaves. That forest had never been there before, or perhaps he'd just never noticed it. Yes, that was it. It had always been there, of course. He was always so tired when he drove along that road, whether he had just woken up and was heading into town for work, or he had finished work and was heading home for a nap, that he had just never taken it in.
Regaining his senses, the man reached into his pocket for his mobile phone for the purpose of calling his wife or a taxi, and found instead a small, flat stone. He was confused, but only for a second. His phone must have slipped out of his jacket while the car was rolling, and the stone must have slipped in as he pulled himself out of the hole his car was currently resting in.
He turned back to his car with the idea of climbing back into the wreck and locating his phone in the forefront of his mind. His car was gone, which was more than a little bit unusual. In its place was a carrot the size of an SUV. At least, Mr Pennant-Cord assumed it was a carrot, because the root of the vegetable was buried in the hillock that had once housed his car. Convinced that he was suffering from concussion, he asked a nearby post-box to quiz him, to check for signs of amnesia
"Your name?"
"Melville Pennant-Cord."
"What year is it?"
"1998, I believe. March, isn't it?"
"Yes, the frosts are early this year, aren't they?"
"Golly, yes. Just the other day, my wife and I went for a stroll after breakfast and she tripped on a heel and fell into a snowdrift! Imagine, snowdrifts in March!"
"It really is unusual. Global warming, I suppose."
"That's what they're saying."
Mr Pennant-Cord finished his conversation with the post-box none the wiser as to whether he was concussed.
* * *
It was later on that day that Mr Pennant-Cord came to the realisation that he was no longer in 'Kansas', so to speak. He had, in fact, never been to Kansas, so he could actually be there now and not know it. As that thought entered his mind, he tried to recall various titbits of information he had been told about Kansas. No one ever mentioned that Kansas consisted of condominiums shaped like oversized mushrooms, or that the Kansas Postal Service employed talking post-boxes, at least four of whom he had met as he wandered down a lane paved with curiously sponge-like stones. From this, he deduced that he was neither in Kansas nor his own township, the post-boxes in which never said a word.
"Do you have a clue where you're goin', guv?" A vaguely cockney, vibrantly red mail-postage-facilitator asked Mr Pennant-Cord as he passed by. It was nearing the evening by this stage, and the sun was setting and throwing an orange glow across the plush road and seemingly empty mushroom-houses.
"I'm quite ashamed to say that I haven't a clue where I am, where I'm going, or where I've been, for that matter." Mr Pennant-Cord said, panting only slightly as a result of his lengthy trek.
"Well, where are you usually at?" The post-box enquired politely.
"I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by 'at'." The round, bald, sweating man collapsed onto his broad bottom, surprised by how comfortable the spongy paving-stones were.
"When you're not here," The post-box gestured widely with a long, arm-like appendage unusual for a post-box to possess. "Where are you?"
Mr Pennant-Cord pulled a small box of mints from his jacket pocket and popped three into his mouth.
"You mean to ask me where my home is."
"Yeah, your normal place of residence."
Mr Pennant-Cord sighed a long, world-weary, lonely sigh.
"Brookdown. Have you heard of it?"
The post-box shrugged and scratched an eyebrow. Mr Pennant-Cord bristled.
"Please keep your armlike appendage away from my eyebrows."
"You just seem very tense, is all, guv."
Mr Pennant-Cord sighed once more, and began to explain that he was, in fact, quite tense. This was due to the fact that he usually spent Thursday evenings at home with his wife in front of the local news with a snifter of brandy and a pair of delightfully cozy slippers, and so found it unusual to be thrown into a strange and befuddling world in which inanimate objects caressed his eyebrows and cars turned into vegetables.
"I don't believe my insurance covers that." He said, shaking his head sadly.


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At 9:00 am Central European Time (5pm here and 3pm in Manila), those with precious free time and broadband connection might want to witness a public hearing of the World Bank's poverty alleviation policies in the developing world.
Lidy Nacpil of Jubilee South Philippines will be one of those who will give the opening address.
Hopefully we'll be able to access the live streaming of this rare event here or here.
From the Bank Information Centre:
The Tribunal's jury will analyze two policy 'cases' of the World Bank: economic conditionalities and the funding of extractive industry projects. As in the recently held Independent People's Tribunal on the World Bank in India, the European Tribunal will hear from witnesses from Southern continents who will give testimony of the impacts of World Bank policies and practices, especially in the areas of conditionalities and fossil fuel project funding. The hearing will also serve as a "forum for a debate on the future of the World Bank, the current development model and potential alternatives."
The Programme
Overview of the history of the World Bank with reference to the Tribunals in 1988 and 1995, and the reasons for this Update Hearing
Lidy Nacpil (Jubilee South, Philippines), Antonio Tricarico (CRBM, Italy)
Artist presentation
Testimonies on the impact of privatisation, liberalisation and fossil fuel project funding with questions from the expert panel
Gonzalo Salgado, National Consumer Defence Network, Nicaragua
Miguel Palacin, CONACAMI Peru
Collins Magalasi, Action Aid Malawi
Temo Tamboura, CAD Mali
Svetlana Anosova, Berezovka Initiative Group, Kazakhstan
Michael Karikpo, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria
Expert Panel
Maartje van Putten, Former member of the World Bank Inspection Panel
Francesco Martone, Senator, Italy
Marcos Arruda, TNI and PACS Brazil
Medha Patkar, Founder of the National Alliance of People's Movements, India
Charles Abugre, Development Economist, Ghana
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Does the tavern exist?
I got a mail from Alexa, she writes: I googled the island, you made it sound beautiful. I saw the harbor and houses, it's so real. So do Kostas and the tavern exist?
I think I can answer this without giving away any spoilers. The answer is actually both yes and no. The tavern exists, I have spent many evenings there sitting on the patio and looking out over the old harbor.
Kostas and Agafi is a different story, they are a fiction of my imagination. The inspiration though actually comes from an old couple that I met on another island in Greece. We were staying at their hotel and they had such an interesting dynamic between them, a very philosophical look on life, especially late in the evening when they sat down in the tavern with their ouzo and started to talk to the remaining guests.
So when I started to write Unexpected Journeys, I didn't think that much about it. When Agafi and Kostas started to take shape I suddenly recognized them. So I guess the resemblance were accidental.
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Andrew Clarke and Bob fishing day
30th June 2014
brilliant catch Andrew
This was a special Christmas present form Andrew's wife Hayley.0 the venue was a club lake in Little Easton near Dunmow, Essex. Andrew requested that he would like me to fish as well. It was a warm summer morning with almost no wind.
Andrew with his first fish
There are 3 lakes on the complex and the first one we tried proved very tough, so we decided to move to the middle lake this was much better. Loose feeding with 4mm hard feed carp pellets with a banded 6mm on the hook to try to avoid the roach this was imposable but they were up to 8ozs and just loved taking pellets.
this is a good fish
Between roach we were catching brown goldfish, crucians and carp. Andrew wanted to try my pole and was soon catching carp up in the water. We took the catch shot at about 5pm and I guess between us we had caught close to 70lbs.
Some more pictures:
Andrew tried my swim
I like your pole Bob
a big brown goldfish
a beautiful 6lb common
almost in the net
a brown goldfish close to 3lbs
a beautiful mirror carp
a common carp about 6lbs


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This is a tutorial how to setup and use a vocoder in Cubase.
You can download the free MDA Vocoder here.
I noticed today that an iLok has a SIM card slot in it.
I was trying to mic up my amp with SM57 and I was trying to remove the high pass filter from my preamp, but accidentally pushed the phantom power switch next to it, and it actually improved my guitar tone. Like night and day difference. Watch the video for sound clips.
This is one of my sound design school assignments, where we had to remove the original sound from the video and re-create the soundscape ourself and make it something totally different. The original sound mix was in 5.1 surround sound, this is a stereo mix down.
95% of the sound effects and foley sounds were created by me, music used under "Fair Use" (short snippets), rest of the sound effects from freesound.org.
2010 (c) Anssi Tenhunen
Original video is Limp Bizkit – Boiler musicvideo
2000 (c) Interscope
Music by: Whispered, Animals As Leaders, Guadalajara, Psycho & Ave Satani, Barry White, Pedestrians Motor


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The Buck Pets first Restless record, To The Quick was described in Billboard as a record that "minces up prepunk and classic punk styles for a ballsy brew that could light up modern rockers." Their follow-up will be recorded when they get back from the road and is scheduled for September, '94.


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The Year in Review: 2015
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Hello everyone,
Sherlock Holmes took a little longer than anticipated to prepare, so it won't be going up until tomorrow, I'm afraid. In the meantime, for those curious about how the blog performed this year, WordPress has supplied me with its annual report, and you can peruse it at your leisure here.
Happy New Year, readers!
Heritage Press – Dangerous Acquaintances by Choderlos de Laclos (1940)
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Dangerous Acquaintances by Choderlos de Laclos (1940)
Sandglass Number Unknown
Artwork: Illustrations by Chas Laborde
Introduced by Andre Gide, translated by Ernest Dowson
Heritage Press exclusive; part of the Nonesuch Press/Heritage Press Great French Writers collaboration.
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Front Binding – Dangerous Acquaintances is our selection today, continuing our look into the Heritage/Nonesuch Great French Romances series. This book was the progenitor of the line, being the first issued back in 1940. For a more detailed look into the series, see here. This edition, like yesterday's post on The Princess of Cleves, is from the Nonesuch Press. Alas, this is also not my copy, and it too lacks a Sandglass or whatever Nonesuch may have issued, so I won't go into production details here. Like Cleves, this volume's a Heritage exclusive. The Limited Editions Club never printed this book (or anything else by Choderlos De Laclos), and they did not rehire illustrator Chas Laborde for any other commissions.
Dangerous Acquaintances is structured like a series of letters sent between the primary cast, and is very critical of the French Aristocracy, particularly the Ancien Regime. Published in 1782, it has gone on to become one of the premiere examples of the epistolary novel in any language, but its intent continues to be debated to this very day (De Laclos never specified his reasoning for writing the piece in his lifetime).
Chas Laborde did the artwork for this edition, and his hand seems apropos for the novel. As I mentioned before, he was not called upon again by Macy.
Title Page – "Englished" by Ernest Dowson (a strange way of putting it), and introduced by fairly renowned French writer Andre Gide.
Examples of the Illustrations by Leborde (right click and open in new tab for full size):
Personal Notes – Like Cleves, this is a work I'd like to read sometime, but this copy is not mine; it's from my employer's university library.
Heritage Press – The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette (1943)
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The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette (1943)
Sandglass Number 8F
Artwork: Illustrations by Hermane David
Introduced by Jean Cocteau, translated by H. Ashton
Heritage Press exclusive; part of the Nonesuch Press/Heritage Press Great French Writers collaboration.
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Front Binding – At long last, here's the second volume from the Heritage Press and Nonesuch Press' collaborative efforts to reprint several French romances — The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette. Unlike the last volume I featured, The Gods are A-Thirst (where the series history is further detailed, and for those seeking a very thorough breakdown of this series, see here), this edition is from the Nonesuch Press. I recently purchased a Nonesuch volume for myself (the same as the copy I borrowed to make this post) that came with a plethora of documentation including a two-page Sandglass, so I can now discuss the production details. As the other nine volumes in this series, this was designed by Francis Maynell, owner of the Nonesuch Press and close friend to George Macy. He chose Cochin as the primary font, with Le Fourneir as the headlines. Curtis Paper Company supplied the paper, which was printed on by the Printing House of Leo Hart. Frank Fortney of Russell-Rutter, the everpresent bindery, did the duties for this volume.
This volume is a Heritage exclusive, unlike some later editions issued under this banner. The Limited Editions Club never printed Cleves, nor did they feature its illustrator, Hermine David, in any other publications. The book is one of France's most prominent works from a woman; de La Fayette (or her full name, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette) is considered one of the progenitors of the French novel (this work stands as the first historical fiction in French and is an early attempt at psychological fiction). It was issued anonymously back in 1678 — a unfortunately common happenstance for women who wished to branch out beyond domesticity in those heady times — but de La Fayette eventually was attached to the work and has since been credited for her efforts in launching French literature as we know it today. This series has done well to include such a critical work in its canon!
As for Hermine David, she was a member of the Ecole de Paris, a group of immigrants in France that all happened to be artists. This was the sole commission she received by the George Macy Company. Her illustrations were reproduced by the Photogravure and Coloring Company, with the colors handpainted by the studio of Charlize Brakely.
Title Page – An H. Ashton translated the book, while then-modern French writer Jean Cocteau introduces the work.
Examples of the Illustrations by David (right click and open in new tab for full size):
Personal Notes – I bought my copy from the local Goodwill for the cheap price of $2.99!
Sandglass and other Documents (right click to open full size):
Updated on 11/12/16
Heritage Press – The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling (1968)
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The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling (1968)
Sandglass Number Unknown
Artwork: Illustrations by David Gentleman
Introduction by Bonamy Dobree
Reprint of LEC #403, 36th Series, V. 5 in 1968.
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Front Binding – This post marks the debut of two new faces to our blog: the author Rudyard Kipling and the artist David Gentleman. The former is best known perhaps for this particular work, thanks to the likes of Walt Disney and his animators, but in the literary world he is also well regarded for Kim, Captains Courageous and his wide array of poetry. He was a late bloomer at the LEC, making his first appearance in 1962 with an edition of Kim, illustrated by Robin Jacques (who also did the lovely Poems of W.B. Yates), while this was followed up in 1973 by Tales of East and West, featuring Charles Raymond (who also illustrated Hard Times). I find it a little odd, given the proclivity of seafaring adventures printed in the Helen Macy tenure through Cardevon Press' run with the LEC, that Captains Courageous was not printed, but that's neither here nor there.
David Gentleman is also a late comer to the LEC canon, beginning his commissions with The Swiss Family Robinson in 1963. Next came The Poems of John Keats in 1966, followed by this book in 1968, and his last The Ballads of Robin Hood in 1977. I must admit that generally speaking I do not like his colored illustrations in Robinson and in this book; I think the Heritage Press' tendency in the years following George Macy's death to haphazardly color their printings of illustrations in two to three base colors worked against Gentleman's style. His linework is a little too detailed for that kind of production. That being said, I do like the black and white ink drawings quite a bit.
Somehow, I just now realized I didn't get a Sandglass with this, so I can't go into any further detail about its production.
Title Page – I quite like this title page. Very in tune with the book. Bonamy Dobree did the introduction.
Examples of the illustrations by Gentleman (right click and open in new tab for full size):
Personal Notes – I believe this came from Bookbuyers in Monterey, CA. I likely swapped for it with a plethora of my older titles. Look forward to reading it someday.
Heritage Press – The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor (1949)
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The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor (1949)
Sandglass Number Unknown
Artwork: Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson
Introduction by C.S. Forester; Translated by J.C. Mardrus (Arabic to French) and E. Powys Mathers (French to English)
Reprint of LEC #198, 19th Series, V. 2 in 1949.
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Front Binding – Today's book is The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, a collection of the folktales of the titular protagonist. These tales hail from the Middle East, featuring the supernatural and the sensational. No single author is credited with these stories, but they have been around for a very long time, and it's nice to see them in such a nice edition.
Edward A. Wilson, a frequent artistic contributor, stepped in to provide his touch to this book, and he's a really good fit, I'd say. I like Wilson's work in the more fantastical realm; it works well with his bold color palette and his gentle linework. His LEC/Heritage bibliography can be found here.
I can't go into thorough design notes, as I have no Sandglass. Sorry!
Title Page – C.S. Forester, author of the Horatio Hornblower series of novels, provides the introduction. Two translators reworked the text for this edition: J.C. Mardrus, who converted the original Arabic texts into French, and E. Powys Mathers, who took Mardrus' French and worked it into modern English.
Examples of the Illustrations by Wilson (right click and open in new tab for full size):
Personal Notes – The photos came from a library copy, but I acquired my own Heritage book from Liz shortly thereafter. I've also read the work, and it's pretty entertaining!
Heritage Press – The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci by Dmitri Merejcovski (1938)
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The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci by Dmitri Merejcovski (1938)
Sandglass Number Unknown
Artwork: Reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and paintings, selected and arranged by J.B. Neumann
Translated and Foreword by Bernard Guilbert Guerney
Heritage Press Exclusive: This is the second in the Heritage Club's Great Master Novels series (that designation is mine) illustrated by the original artists that the novel is based upon.
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Front Binding – After five years of running this blog, we finally have the third entry in the Great Masters novel series of the Heritage Press: The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, by Dmitri Merejcovski. This was the second of the series, preceded by Irving Stone's Van Gogh novel Lust for Life, and was followed up by R.v.R. and This is the Hour, the latter two I've covered before. Some day, Lust for Life, some day. Anyway, much like those other novels, J.B. Neumann curated the artistic selections for the book, although I don't have a Sandglass for this one, so I can't go into any further detail. I can tell you that the font is Scotch Roman and the paper was specially made for the book thanks to a small colophon in the back, but that's about it.
Title Page – Bernard Guilbert Guerney translated the Russian Merejcofski's text into English, and even provided a foreword on the work. da Vinci's art litters the text, with some color prints alongside many grayscale prints and several of his drawings.
Example of the text – I apologize for the obvious photo manipulation, but the lighting wasn't up to snuff on the da Vinci piece.
Personal Notes – This series is the one set of Exclusives I no longer wish to own, but I'm happy to finally get the third book onto the blog at last. Came from my employer's university library.
Heritage Press – Gargantua and Pentagruel by Francois Rabelais (1942)
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Gargantua and Pentagruel by Francois Rabelais (1942)
Sandglass Number 10M
Artwork: Illustrations by Lynd Ward
Translation and Introduction by Jacques LeClercq
Heritage Press Exclusive; the LEC printed their own LEC, #82, in the 7th Series, V. 12, in 1936 with a five-volume set featuring the talents of W.A. Dwiggins.
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Front Binding – Our weekend of Ward marches on with this delightful Heritage exclusive edition of Francois Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, an early French comedic romp filled with fantasy and humor. Despite being printed in the middle of World War II (of which I could compile a post of mishaps and tragedies that beset the George Macy Company's efforts…perhaps next year?), Macy managed to produce this lovely 800 page volume packed to the gills with 100 drawings from Mr. Ward, a mammoth undertaking for both press and artist! Rabelais, a monk and practitioner of medicine in his time, is best known for this work, and it's a defining classic of French literature. This work was also issued as a LEC earlier in 1936, starring W.A. Dwiggins in a five volume set.
Ward, as mentioned yesterday, has his bibliography here. And I won't mince any further words about him here, as I've probably gushed plenty about his talents elsewhere on the blog; just know that he did 100 line drawings interspersed in Rabelais' text.
Design Notes – The designer is not mentioned; we do know that LeClercq's translation comes from the LEC, so it's possible that Macy borrowed the textual design of that work for this reissuing (W.A. Dwiggins designed the LEC). However, Electra was Dwiggins' font of choice; here, Scotch is used. So I'm not sure who exactly to credit on this one.
The text was composed by Quinn and Boden and put to the page by Ferris Printing Company. The binding is a little strange — the Sandglass observes that a blue stamped design was intended for the book's tan linen, but as you can see, that didn't happen with my book (only on the spine). Perhaps World War II once again undermined Macy's intentions? And that's as deep as the Sandglass goes into production notes here.
Title Page – LeClercq serves as an Introductory voice to the text as well as its translator.
Examples of the illustrations by Ward (right click and open in new tab for full size):
Personal History – This was my first purchase of a Heritage/LEC title after I moved! Huzzah! Purchased at the Bookstore in Chico. Eager to read!
Updated 2/25/2018 – JF


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KAYAK+ is a 1 or 2 occupant, paddle or motor powered, small portable 2 or 3 part modular boat.
Ideal for cruising inland lakes and waterways.
Sample Assembly Photos from Instructions.
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Optional canopy top, for those hot, and sunny, summer days.
KAYAK+ with 2 Sections on Beach Ready for Assembly.
Short Video of KAYAK+ Cruising Lake Saguaro
A windy day on the water.
Completed, Double Occupant Version.
Completed Center Module. Waiting for Water Testing.
At the lake video with the KAYAK++
Hi Ken,
Just got back from the cottage and did some more work to the toter. Well, I have some good news and some bad news. During the weekend the weather was not too great and the lake had wind blown waves of approx. half to one foot in height. As I'm a brave soul. and sea water runs in my veins. I decided that I could not stand it anymore and set forth with the Kayak+ for a sail. Everything thing was going fine as I ran with the wind and waves, the funny sensation on the aft being pushed and lifted. I was very happy with the balance and no water coming over the stern. I then made a cut against the wind in the leeward side of a small island. Then to my horror the wind increased and in the shallows the waves strength became stronger. I was now in 1ft waves and approx 6ft between each, and white capped.
I had faith in the design and build that my small craft would not bust open. after another 10 mins I decided to return home with 3/4 speed on the trolling motor. The run back was more fun as I began to ride up one wave and cut through the next. The bad news was that I should have fitted a splash deflector after my last outing. The only draw back with the bow being flat is that the waves sometimes crash onto the bow, then in slow motion make their way back to the open cockpit. There go my trousers again, and wipe down with a cloth. I would amend the design and add a water deflector before the cockpit as to stop any ingress of spray or water making it back to the operator. My family was at the dock worried that I was going to get swamped and sink. They watched as my Kayak+ rode the waves and there I was with a silly smile enjoying every minute.
Good news the redesigned bow section of my Toter2 worked, with no major stress on the bulkhead, and as the pictures show, it lends itself to the boat shape. I must say tonight was the first time I put all sections together and was very surprised at the result. She has a wonderful line for a small craft, and I'm looking forward to see her in the water and under sail. I have been invited to a private lake that's more sheltered and has less traffic , so that I can test the boat out. You have made a wonderful looking boat here and I think I'll get some heads turning once she 's in the water.
Well, that's all for now.
All the best,