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Greetings: At long last # 125 is ready. Mailing is in progress for paper copies..

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PICTURES. The pictures that we include in each issue can only be as good as the originals. Obviously when we get pictures sent as E-mail attachments and taken with a good digital camera, the magazine pictures will likewise be good. However, when we get old pages mailed in, or old newspaper clippings or copies of copies of copies that were downloaded from the web and printed at home, these can be pretty terrible, and no amount of Photoshop tweaking will really get them looking good again. So, for those of you who intend to have us publish your material in H&W, think about your pictures and try to send them as JPEG attachments to your E-mail. If you're sending in photographs, we can usually get pretty good reproductions from these. However, when you send copies of old newspaper clippings and other similar material, all bets are off as to how well a picture will look in the magazine. If it appears that a picture is too far gone to repair suitably, we will not include it unless it has a significant historical interest associated with it.

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This is one of the horn and whistle community's biggest annual events. Whistle owners from all over the country tap into the excellent steam supply from the Pratt Institute's famous power plant and you can also visit the famous Pratt engine room with all of the original steam engines still installed, and at least one of them will be running for the event. Now is not too soon to plan for the next Pratt Whistle Blow. Be sure to attend this first class event, hosted by the Pratt Institute's chief engineer, Conrad Milster. December 31 2011. The Pratt Institute is located in Brooklyn, NY. We'll have more to say about this when the event draws closer.

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