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NEWS AND EVENTS ******* MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM TUG EXHIBIT IS OPEN The one-year Mystic Seaport Museum tugboat exhibit opened in May 2010. We encourage our members and friends to support Mystic Seaport in this important project and to make plans to visit the exhibit. CLICK HERE TO LINK TO MYSTIC SEAPORT'S EXHIBIT PAGE ******** Website Issues - Due to a pending computer and software replacement there will be limited rework of the website in early 2010. This may delay the posting of notices and the updating of information. ******* THE WORKBOAT SHOW The workboat show was held in New Orleans in December, and we have some interesting news from there. We were informed that they no longer allow you to take any pictures of the exhibits, including your own! If you want any photos you have to buy the ones offered by their "official" photographer. This came to us as information pertaining to the display of cutaway engines at the show. So if you are planning on attending next year and want to have any photos to remember the trip, you might want to check the rules first before you make plans to attend. ******* PHOTOS AND THE INTERNET It recently came to our attention that Google Images has been "indexing" images from our website and has displayed them on their website with only the disclaimer that "images may be copyrighted". The way they present them does not preserve individual page copyright notices or photographer credit lines. We ask our many members who have generously contributed photos to understand that this is done without our permission and is beyond our control. The only defense against this type of situation is to imprint a copyright notice directly on the image in a location where it cannot be easily edited out. We are starting to do that with some new image postings, but it is useless to do it for images that have already been indexed. ******* WRITE FOR TUGBITTS We hope you enjoy this website, but if you are thinking of submitting an article or story for the website, please consider instead writing it for TUGBITTS. Websites are fun but they are just a bunch of electrons, their existence is temporary, and their contents are too easily pirated by others. Good writing and good information deserve printed publication! ******* FOR ANNUAL EVENTS CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE TUG INFO INDEX PAGE ******* VISIT OUR NEW DIESEL ENGINE MODELS PAGES ******* VISIT OUR NEW ENGINE CUTAWAYS PAGES ******* MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL NOTE Just a reminder to many of our members - Delivery of the finial issue of a volume of TugBitts may complete your current membership cycle. Consequently there may be a renewal reminder letter arriving in the mail in the near future. If you have already renewed, we thank you for your continued support of TES ********** Copyright 2010 by Tugboat Enthusiasts Society
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