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Is Michigan overrated or is Alabama just that good?
I guess the coming weeks will give us a more definitive answer but what was very clear tonight was Alabama being the far superior team in Arlington as they rolled in a 41-14 victory over Michigan.
The only real offense Michigan was able to muster was a 71 yard pass from Robinson to Jeremy Gallon which set up a six yard TD run for Denard. The disparity though between the two teams on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball was really remarkable. It often times looked like a bunch of men playing against a bunch of boys while that gap between No. 2 and No. 8 in the preseason AP rankings looks to be huge.
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Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the new Chairwoman of the Indian Affairs Committee, said Coburn's amendment wasn't needed because all tribal courts have their own bill of rights that provides similar legal rights.
"All of these things are in the tribal system today under the Indian Civil Rights Act," Cantwell said. "Both tribal members and non-tribal members are protected in their civil liberties and ability to appeal in federal court."
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said that there is no appeals process in the bill and that he wanted to offer an amendment that would have done just that, but it was prohibited from getting a vote.
The Senate bill, S. 47, also prohibits discrimination against LGBT victims in grant programs to help victims, and would let illegal immigrants stay in the country to receive help if they are victims of domestic violence or rape.
VAWA provides grants to victims of domestic violence in order to encourage victims to leave their abusive situations. Some feel they can't get away from their abusers because they might not have another form of family income, so the grants can provide housing assistance and cellphones for victims. Under this reauthorization bill, these programs would continue for another five years.
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- Sen. Lisa Murkowski's (R-Alaska) amendment is a technical correction that would clarify that in Alaska, Native American tribal jurisdiction would be for the Metla Katla tribe, which is the only tribe with land in Alaska despite other tribes residing in the state.
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After too many instances in which "the system failed," one tires of wondering what could have possibly gone wrong and starts to examine how cruelly the system is rigged to protect some while exploiting the vulnerability of others.
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A few weeks back I was quoted in a blog called Down With Tyranny. The article was about the ongoing dispute over employers asking for employee Facebook passwords, as well as the overly broad social media policies of my own employer, the Hyatt Corporation.
After posting this blog to my own Facebook profile, I was a bit stunned by the quick response from an old conservative classmate from high school who didn't think there was anything wrong with employers asking job applicants to hand over their passwords as a condition of employment.
"If you don't like it don't apply to work there. You are asking them for a paycheck, why can't they ask you for something?"
A few other commenters joined the conversation including my own Canadian wife, who quickly jumped to my defense — which made me proud and embarrassed, all at once. I felt the need to hold her back from the computer. She was spoiling for a fight, as if the dear maple leaf itself had been attacked.
What is really odd is that I don't consider this a partisan issue at all, but an attack on the Constitution by the Corporate States of America. Imagine for a moment that your employer asks you to renounce all guns and to sell them before they agree to hire you. Imagine that an employer asks you to willingly suspend your Second Amendment rights just so that you can have a job. Do you walk away or do you give up your guns? Who's pissed off now?
Hyatt's social media policy has a phrase in it that should scare every employee who works for the company:
Avoid commenting on Hyatt or any Hyatt location . . . Hyatt may request that you temporarily confine your use of social media to matters unrelated to Hyatt if it determines this is necessary or advisable to ensure compliance with applicable laws or Hyatt policies.
Hyatt pretty much controls my speech while I'm at work. Why should it have power over me when I'm in the comfort of my own home? Isn't that my time? Or shall I clock in once I get home too? Perhaps I'll send them a bill and see what happens.
What worries me is this new employer/employee "agreement" to barter our First Amendment rights simply for a job. The Founding Fathers didn't anticipate that citizens would have to barter away their right to free speech, which is an individual freedom not owned by the state or the federal government. We don't allow federal or state governments to barter with us for this freedom and we certainly should not allow corporations to do this. George Washington didn't anticipate Facebook, but he certainly understood the privacy of one's own home.
Why am I making such a stink about this? Because I believe that this is a direct tactic of corporations like Hyatt to stop whistleblowers. I've written extensively in the past year about what I consider to be Hyatt's inhospitable work conditions — which is ironic, considering I work in the hospitality industry. I've written about the plight of the housekeepers in my hotel and how Hyatt is one of the worst offenders when it comes to its injury rates as compared to other hotels.
I'm sick and tired of hearing about China's working conditions when right under my own nose I see maimed and crippled housekeepers cleaning more rooms than they should. No words can describe what I feel for these women.
What is it about us, as Americans, that makes us love to examine other countries' abuses instead of our own? That we feel empathy for people in far away lands even when our own suffer right in front of us. Of course Hyatt doesn't want me to talk about our housekeepers. The truth is Hyatt has a lot of dirty laundry and I don't think all the housekeepers in the country could clean it.
As I stated in my last Frying Pan post, the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel has decided to challenge Hyatt on its broad social media policy and I'm extremely grateful for it. Yet it might be nice to be protected by the First Amendment as it was designed, rather than simply by a good union attorney. I would certainly feel safer when discussing the plight of our housekeepers.
My conservative classmate later stated in our ongoing Facebook discussion:
"My country has given me the right to walk away and say no thanks, no job is worth giving up your right of privacy."
That's true, but it's also where I draw the line. Our civil liberties are in jeopardy precisely because people have decided to walk away. Our liberties are only as strong as we are, and we as individuals must take some responsibility for the erosion of these freedoms. If the audacity of Corporate America has been its vast overreach into our lives, then we too must be audacious and fight back. The Constitution is only as strong as we want it to be.
It is truly amazing to me that half the country has been on guard for socialism while fascism has crept right through the back door for the rest of us. I'm not okay with that and none of us should be.
As my wife said to me later in the eve.
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Ormat Technologies has completed the Don A. Campbell geothermal power plant in Mineral County, Nevada. The plant is producing its full capacity of 16 megawatts (net) and performing as expected. Read more >>
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Giraffe, gorilla, grasshopper and gerbil are animals that start with the letter G. G is the seventh letter and the fifth consonant of the English alphabet, found between the letters F and H.
Every class of vertebrate has at least one member that starts with the letter G. Reptiles have geckos, mammals have gerbils, gophers, gorillas and guinea pigs, birds have Galapagos penguins, fish have the guppy and amphibians have the gliding tree frog. Quite a few dog breeds start with the letter G as well, including the Great Dane, the German shepherd and the giant schnauzer. If none of these are enough, try on the scientific names of animals, such as Gallinula, Gerridae, Giraffa, Gliridae, Gruidae and Gynnidomorpha.
Many plant names also begin with the letter G, such as grapefruit, goldenrod (a type of flower) and of course, the grass that people mow. Some Spanish names for animals start with G, such as "gato" for cat, "grillo" for cricket, "grulla" for crane, and "gavilán" for hawk. Finally, the Galapagos islands, also, of course, starting with the letter G, are one of the most biologically diverse land regions in the world, containing many species that only inhabit this chain of islands.
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Choice Extremely Fine 1795 Capped Bust Right Eagle, Taraszka-5 Die Marriage1795 $10 13 Leaves XF45 PCGS. B. 4-B, Taraszka-5, R.5. This is an easy variety to attribute in as much as the reverse displays a sizeable rust lump at the margin between the F in OF and the first A in AMERICA. This reverse is the same as that used to strike the Taraszka-4 example that we are also offering in this sale. The obverse die, however, is different, and it is readily identifiable by the fact that the 5 in the date overlays Liberty's bust. This is a yellow-gold example with modest remnants of a semi-prooflike finish. Certain angles also reveal rich green-gold undertones. The number of small and moderate abrasions is consistent with an early Eagle that saw 15 points of wear, and the focal devices retain bold overall definition. Although many 1795 Eagles were saved as the first of their kind, the rarity of this issue relative to the number of advanced gold specialists in today's hobby ensures continued demand for problem-free circulated survivors. (NGC ID# 25ZT, PCGS# 8551)
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Past Events:
June 17-21, 2015
Schaumburg, IL
Once again TBRR joined forces with PennLUG to create a mighty town/train layout at Brickworld. Attending from TBRR were Tony Sava, Edward Chang, Will Heron, and Steve Jackson.
Ed's Princess Train won Best Train against some really tough (that is, beautiful and well-built) competition.
Tony's train MOC donation to the chairty auction went for $550!
Tony's travel blog:Tony's photos:
May 16-17, 2015
Austin Mini Maker Faire 2016
Austin, TX
Our thhird year at this show. This year it was back at the Palmer Event Center. Between TBRR, the Austin AFOLS, and the Austin brick businesses, we had a large area this year, with trains, pirates, town, and other awesome Lego THINGS. And we got a lot of traffic. A LOT of traffic. A wholly successful show.
Lasso organized the display and brought monorail, including a new pirate monorail station arrrrr.
New discovery: Chairs, with a banner-rope of Texas flags, make GREAT crowd control barriers. And the only thing we had to carry was the flags.
April 11-12, 2015
New Braunfels, TX
This event is sponsored by the New Braunfels RR Museum, and they appreciate us and always make a point of advertising the Lego trains. Overall, it went very well. This was our first year in a space separate from TexLUG-SA, and it was far enough away that we had to make a minor pilgrimage to visit them, and vice versa. We were on the main room stage, but we were at the back, behind two N-scale layouts . . . so if you didn't know we were there, and didn't read the banners, you might not see us. During breakdown, we met a couple of people who said "Oh, I didn't know you were back here!" On the other hand, we had a large space (and a bit more is promised for next year) and the two clubs in front of us had VERY nice stuff, so a lot of people came up just to see them, and then visited us. More than once our tables were completely surrounded by spectators.
Tony's photos are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/
Did we have a crowd there, or what?
Did we have a crowd there, or what?
March 7, 2015
New Braunfels, TX
"Kids Run The Train" is a regular event, every first and third Saturday, at the New Braunfels RR Museum. This was the first time TBRR has helped, but hopefully not the last! Steve Jackson took a three-loop layout. The kids liked it! And sadly, there are no pictures, because Steve is an idiot . . .
February 21, 2015
Trains On A Train 2015
Austin, TX
The first "Trains on a Train" event went so well that Lasso organized a repeat. This time it was even bigger. Thirteen fans of LEGO, of assorted ages, rode the Austin metro line and built trains. Four different sets were assembled, plus some Mixels, because, as we all know, those are really trains.
No, really. Mixels are totally trains.
January 24, 2015
Clear Creek High School, Clear Lake, TX
CreekCon was a one-day officially-sanctioned event at Clear Creek High School in League City. It is a ComicCon-style event open to the public ($10 admission) with cosplay, games, workshops, guest speakers, and so on. It's intended to become an annual event. The CCHS librarian and event director saw the last TexLUG display at the Children's Museum and invited us to display.
Edward Chang was Trainmaster. His summary:
- Make a note here. Huge success.
- 1380+ ticket sales.
- Would be a nice annual event.
- ME Model curves are awesome.
This was a joint display with TexLUG. The attendees were mostly students and families, many in costume and sometimes in charactor too. Despite this not being a train-themed event, the trains were still popular - our display has movement. The Princess Train has been renamed "Elsa Choo-Choo" (in toddler voice) with the addition of a new Frozen refrigerated boxcar. Some of our hidden references were definitely more recognized at this show (Dr. Who and Friend, Shakespeare in the park). New TBRR member Susan Earls and her family attended, and she was able to run her Emerald Night and coaches.
We did not use a grand curve, but ME Models delivered Tony's Kickstarter order of wide-radius curves in time for him to build a 4x4 corner with a ballasted 104/88 curve. See Tony's article on Railbricks. The curve performed wonderfully. There was a big improvement with the larger trains - less overhang, more constant speed through the corner. The curve was easier to set up and handle, and integrated better into the city "grid." Track alignment was not any worse than with stock track, and the transition between stock and ME track was no problem for any of the trains. Overall, the new rails seem to have great potential to become a staple in the LEGO train world (at least for the PF side of things).
We didn't request any support this year because we had no idea what to expect, but this event would clearly qualify for CEE support. It would be nice to have more theme-appropriate displays . . . our only Star Wars reference was Yoda standing in line for a mini-train ride. We were given much more room than we could use (we had 2 venue tables - folding cafeteria tables, possibly 15' long, that we did not need).
Pictures from this show: Tony Sava's Flickr album and his video.
November 29, 2014
Houston Fall Model Railroad Tour
Orange, TX
November 15-16, 2014
New Braunfels, TX
November 8-9, 2014
Texas City, TX
October 4-5, 2014
Galveston, TX
2014 was is our third successive year at this show. Tony Sava coordinated. Eight AFOLs displayed and/or came by to help. Our layout included Lasso's lighted monorail and one of his stations, though Lasso himself was at the AMRE show in San Antonio with more monorail! This makes him the first TBRR member to officially be in two places at once. Between Lasso and Superman, we had a monorail track that everyone enjoyed. This was also the first outing for Ed's miraculous People Gate, which WORKS, and a display/staging yard using Tony's modified switches. We actually performed operations in that yard, with very little evidence of the Giant Hand From The Sky - another first for the club.
This is an excellent show that always draws good layouts in various scales, and the museum has a fine display of rolling stock, AND there's Galveston tourism for after hours. All of which we enjoyed. As long as you accept "visited Fuddrucker's" as tourism.
We've been asked back for 2015, and their current plan is to give us a separate LEGO room with a lot more space. The idea of a lot more space is exciting . . . and to the extent that we can't fill it with amazing train stuff, the museum is delighted to have us invite AFOLs with neat non-train stuff, the better to show off the awesomeness that is LEGO. We'll have more specifics on that when we can announce the 2015 Galveston dates; that won't be for a while yet.
(Pretend there is a picture of Superman here, until image uploads are fixed. You can see it in your head. You know you can.)
While you're at it, pretend Steve has put in the links to the photosets. Real Soon Now. Gotta get back to less-fun work for a couple of hours.
September 6-7, 2014
Houston, TX
This was our first time at the Big Texas Train Show, organized by the Gulf Coast Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. It was in downtown Houston, at the huge George Root Brown Convention Center. They gave a large space - though it turned out, not large by their standards, so if we go another year and have more tables, we could ask for more space! As it was, we used all of our new tables . . .
Oh, yes! This was the first outing for TBRR's new 3x6-baseplate tables built by David Hawkins! He finished all ten of the planned first wave. Pat Hough picked them up and brought them in, and they worked perfectly and looked great.
Edward Chang was our Trainmaster for this one. Also exhibiting: Tony Sava (with his new telephone poles), Pat Hough (with another new railway/monorail station), Mellichamp père et fils with Robert's harbor area, and Steve Jackson.
We had large crowds and lots of very enthusiastic kid builders. Matt Sailors' old stanchions worked, and they worked even better when taped down.
July 5-6, 2014
San Antonio, TX
Brick Fiesta was in San Antonio this year. The organizers had no room for layouts, so there was no TBRR group exhibit. Next year's show will be in Austin, and the Austin organizers intend to have more room and want us to come. More on this as it happens . . .
June 11, 2014
Schaumberg, IL
Brickworld is one of the biggest LEGO conventions. Three of us went: Tony Sava, Steve Jackson, Edward Chang.
TBRR and PennLUG set up a joint layout, since, conveniently, we build our track to the PennLUG standard. We are unashamedly thrilled to share a layout with these master builders! And GFLUG was right next to us! We also invited other train-AFOLs who brought rolling stock to run it on the layout . . . so they got to see their stuff in motion, and we got more good trains. We really ought to make this a tradition.
Award nominations included:
• Best Building: Tony Sava's Cathedral of St. Francis of Asissi
• Best Train: Edward Chang's Berkshire (which won the Peer Choice Award from the trainhead contingent)
• Best Train: Tony Sava's Daylight
• Best Train: Robin W (GFLUG) for his Amtrak
Edward's photo set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/42114068@N06/sets/72157645202391411/
Tony's photo set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/
Edward's new builds stole the show. The trainheads voted him the Peer Choice award for his engine; the kids followed his Friends train around the track; his raised display track gave the whole layout a third dimension, and now we want to figure out how to do runups and make it live running track.
Edward's new builds stole the show. The trainheads voted him the Peer Choice award for his engine; the kids followed his Friends train around the track; his raised display track gave the whole layout a third dimension, and now we want to figure out how to do runups and make it live running track.
May 3, 2014
Austin, TX
Maker Fair is a Saturday-only event. We had excellent participation, and enough minders for everyone to walk around and enjoy Maker Faire. Stefan Garcia, Steve Jackson, Ed Frazee, Ethan Balmer, Kurt Baty, and Brian Lasseter displayed MOCs. Josh Thomson, Jennifer Lasseter, Amy Meyer, Richard Meyer, Evelyn Meyer, Jacob Meyer, Deanna Frazee, Erin Frazee, Thomas Sitch, Devon Helms, Glenn Copeland helped with crowd wrangling. Kristena Bins-Turner, Denise Gall, Andrea Norman, and others managed the Bricks-4-Kidz tables.
We were worried about our upstairs position, but we seemed to have good flow all day, and we had good AC. We easily had double the crowd from last year, but it was easier to manage since we had lots more people and four times the area allocated to us. As you can see from the pictures, fully half of our display area was just open play on tables. http://lasso-jenn.com/photos/
The fully stocked bar behind our display area helped to lubricate the day. I enjoyed my cranberry and vodka.
Cleanup went pretty quickly with the many hands, and I know I was out of there by 7pm, which was a mere one hour after the event closed at 6pm. (SJ adds: It's a bit difficult to get a whole floor of exhibits down the single elevator in reasonable time. We may need an Elevator Conductor next year to make sure it doesn't go down without a full load.)
March 22, 2014
Trains on the Train!
Austin, TX
Brian Lasseter is organizing this for all interested AFOLs, not just TBRR:
Come join us for a mobile meeting! The March 22nd Austin TexLUG meeting will be on the Capital Metro Red Line train! The goal is to build trains . . . on the train. So bring a set of your own, or some parts. We will attempt to sit at the tables on the SOUTH facing side of the train. There are 2 tables that seat 4 people each. I will get together one of my Futron Monorail 6990 sets. Can anyone volunteer to bring a Constitution Train Chase 79111?
Pics of the train tables: http://littleaustinite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tableseats.jpg from http://littleaustinite.com/2010/06/riding-the-capital-metrorail-for-fun/ They are small, but useable. The regular seats have tray tables, and there is spotty wifi on the train.
The train leaves from Kramer Station at 4:00pm sharp. So be at the station 15 min early to buy a ticket from the kiosk, or park at my house at 3:30p to carpool to the train station. There is some street parking on Brockton Drive near Kramer Station, which should be available early on a Saturday. I live less than a mile from Kramer station. People coming from the south could meet us at the Downtown station. Unfortunately, it would cost money to park in the Austin Convention Center decks near the Downtown station. People would also have the choice of joining us for 1hr 8min, or 2hr 16min. These are the times that a MetroRail train would leave a given station if you were riding one train back and forth:
3:30p - Lasso's house
4:00p - Kramer Station (going Southbound)
4:41p - Downtown Station (going Northbound)
5:08p - Kramer Station (going Northbound)
5:56p - Lakeline Station (going Southbound)
6:16p - Kramer Station (going Southbound)
6:30p - Culver's (dinner)
6:57p - Downtown Station - for those who joined us downtown at 4:41p, and do not want to go to Culver's
Lasso's house: Pending permission to post address.
Kramer Station: 2427 ½ Kramer Lane, Austin, TX 78758
Downtown Station: Outside the Austin Convention Center on 4th St. between Neches & Trinity.
March 15-16, 2014
New Braunfels, TX
December 7-8, 2013
Rosenberg, TX
Christmas in Rosenberg is sponsored both by the Rosenberg RR Museum and the city. It closed down the entirety of downtown Rosenberg! Tony Sava and Robert Mellichamp started setup Friday in very cold weather – despite three propane heaters in the room, they could see their breath. By the time the show begain at noon Saturday, Tony, Robert, and Edward Chang had the whole layout set up. The propane heaters struggled with the cold all through the show!
Edward showed off his complete Polar Express coaches. Robert displayed his now massively expanded container port. Tony brought new "generic" passenger coaches, and displayed St. Francis' Cathedral with colored lights inside. The dimness of the room made the stained-glass effect dramatic.
The museum had not advertised the TBRR display for Sunday, but we kept it up for a 1:30 birthday party, much to the delight of the little boy and his family. At about 2:30 we began teardown, and we were completely loaded up by 4. We did not have as much turnout as hoped, both because of the weather and because not everyone could find the outbuilding where we were set up (though the museum did try to direct visitors there). But the people who braved the cold had a good time.
Images: Tony Sava's video, Tony's photoset, and Edward Chang's videos here and here.
November 30, 2013
Orange, TX
Tony, Edward, and Robert and Thomas Mellichamp, with help from KFOL A.J. Sava, did a one-day setup in Orange for around 150 visitors, an increase from last year when Tony did the show by himself. This was the first outing for Tony's Grand Curve/baseplate design, which proved easy to set up and take down and was judged a success. It was unloaded AND set up in only about a half-hour!
The Mellichamps set up an ocean freight terminal, Edward ran his Polar Express, and Tony once again gave in to the temptation to let a thousand plastic flowers bloom.
Images: Tony's Flickr set.
November 16-17, 2013
New Braunfels, TX
We did this show in cooperation with TexLUG-SA. SJ was supposed to be the coordinator, but when he was swept away by the Halloween flood, Stefan Garcia of TexLUG-SA stepped in and very ably pulled together a large layout with more than a dozen exhibitors.
Notable new MOCs included Doc's large RR car, Pat Hough with a 3x6 harbor area featuring a large frigate (which has now been disassembled, so be sure to see the pictures), Lasso's suburban stations, and Kurt's beautiful new engine.
The very generous event-brick support from LEGO was parceled out, with each full-time participant getting a couple of gallons, and some leftover play brick returning to Austin with Lasso for local events.
Images: Stefan's photos.
November 9-10, 2013
Texas City, TX
This is a family-oriented train festival focused on displaying to people of all ages the world of model railroading and attracting more people to the Texas City Museum. It was a quiet show in a huge venue.
Tony reports: "When my son and I arrived late Friday, Robert and his son were already there and set up. They, and several members of the host train club, helped unload my truck in less than 5 minutes. We then rearranged tables and started unpacking. Robert had already been there for many hours, so he left shortly thereafter. We set up till about 9:30 before we called it quits.
"I arrived back Saturday morning and continued setting up. Ed came by and visited, helping to set up derail bits on my layout. Robert and son arrived before public hours and added to their display.
"Robert brought his civil war train diorama, his WWII rail gun diorama, and his holiday train. He also had set up informational cards and a bucket of patent pending bricks which he generously gave to show attendees.
"My layout was pretty standard for those who regularly see me. New for this show was Old MocFiller's farm which Christina set up. It looked really quire awesome. Also new was the fishin' hole, aka Old MocFiller's pond.
"The show was a quiet one; apparently there was some issue with public advertisement. But the people who did attend seemed to enjoy themselves and our layout. Several members of other clubs asked what company made the steam and engines I had on display. The folks from Orange were there as well, which gave us an opportunity to plan in person a bit for that show
"The museum venue is huge, and sports a truly massive permanent model train layout upstairs. "
October 5-6, 2013
Galveston, TX
We had a great time at the Galveston show. Six AFOLs exhibited - Tony and Christina Sava, Pat Hough, Edward Chang, Steve Jackson, and Robert Mellichamp. Phil, Steff, and Kira were at the show, too. The layout covered ten 6' by 30" tables, and featured a double-mainline loop with a Grand Curve, a small 9V loop, and monorail track all the way around the perimeter - set up as two bounce lines so there were two monorails moving at once.
New at this show: Pat's large tan/trans-clear station which unites train and monorail lines; printed "Texas Brick Railroad" signs to go on the monorail; Tony and Christina's plaza for the Cathedral, with Edward's flowered wall; Edward's design for diagonal monorail supports; Steve's Texas flag billboard with sign painter. New to most of us were Robert's plane and rail gun builds.
Also memorable: There was no unballasted track on the 10-table layout. We had a 20-high monorail loop all the way around the layout, divided into halves so two trains could run at once. Most catastrophic loss of MOCs in memory: Daylight locomotive, giant bricks flatcar, two Texas State Railroad passenger coaches, and several ballasted track sections). The Allegheny was able to pull 32 heavyweight cars, mixed freight and passenger load, with the aid of rare earth magnets. The tight turning radius of LEGO curves was a limiting factor because the longer cars began to tip over; Grand Curves would have allowed longer trains. The pulling power of the engine is limited by traction rather than pulling power; a 1-liter soda on the Allegheny tender increased its pull.
We got generous support from LEGO. We donated two door prizes to the museum, did a drawing for one, auctioned one among those present, and still had some left over for auctioning online or at later events. We discussed the tables and crowd control that this support will let us build; there were some very interesting examples on display.
We were only a few hours into the show when we were invited back for 2014!
July 19-21, 2013
Atlanta, GA
A number of LEGO clubs worked together to create a big layout for the National Train Show. This is the show held in conjunction with the national convention of the NMRA; for 2013, it was in Atlanta. Tony Sava and Steve Jackson drove to the show (in Tony's pickup, towing a trailer full of tables) to set up the TBRR part of the layout. Matt Sailors (now a Floridian and GFLUG member, but still with a Texas flag on his badge) and Edward Chang joined us there.
This year's layout was organized by Atlanta native Scott Lyttle, who also brought out the massive CUT (Cincinnati Union Terminal) building. This was a MOC originally created for the NTS in 2005, and now being revised and refurbished by Scott. Another central feature of the event was Matt Sailor's huge, working turntable.
Clubs in attendance were TBRR, the North Georgia LTC (NGLTC), the Greater Florida LUG (GFLUG), and the Mississippi Brick Railroad. The combined AFOLs had the second largest layout at the show and one of the most popular with visitors.
Photos can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
July 4-7, 2013
Mesquite, TX
Brick Fiesta was put on by TexLUG, the umbrella organization for Texas fans of LEGO. David rolled out more of his new 3x3 tabletop modules for their second major show, and they worked flawlessly. Tony's Allegheny successfully tested out her new wheels and was able to haul 18 freight cars. David's Steamwood Falls continued to impress and won the award for Best Train.
May 29-June 2, 2013
We had a one-day display at the Lone Star Express, setting up at the Sheraton DFW Airport Hotel in Irving. We started early in the morning of Saturday, June 1, and ran throughout the day. This is a milestone for Texas LEGO fans; it's the first time we have ever been invited to participate in a National Model Railroad Association event. We were one of the few actual layouts in the convention hotel, and they gave us 21 feet of space!
This event was organized by David Hawkins, who also exhibited brand new 30-inch square tabletops to allow for streams and other underworks, and switches trimmed to allow new train geometry. Tony Sava drove up from Houston with MOC buildings, MOC trains and trees. Kurt Baty and Chris MacDougal came by and helped. SJ couldn't be there, but sent trees. We got the usual ""Lego makes trains?" questions, but they will remember us next time!
This picture by Tony Sava shows the edge of a tabletop and the way it can be cut down to allow a brick-built river to flow under the bridge.
May 5, 2013
Austin, Texas
Texas Brick Railroad went to the Austin Mini Maker Faire on Sunday, May 5th. Brian Lasseter was the organizer; Brian and Steve J brought train and monorail, and drew a lot of interest, and got slashdotted! We also had a free-build area. Julie Rogers watched the table for a while, and Monica Stephens helped with the breakdown, but we could easily have used three or four more AFOLs to take care of the display and talk to the crowd. A couple more trains would also have been good. But it was a nice layout and, crowd-pleasing-wise, a big success.
April 6-7, 2013
New Braunfels, TX
We set up a big layout at the New Braunfels Train Show Jamboree. We had 11 AFOLs exhibiting and two more helping with table-sitting and breakdown. Our layout was a C shape 33 feet along the long side, 24 along the short sides, with lots of space in the middle. It looked excellent. Lee Rahe was our contact with the museum, with Joe O'Donnell planning the track.
Highlights of this show:
• We sometimes had seven trains running at once, with two of them monorail and a third monorail train on a "siding"! This was the best monorail show ever. The whole north side of the layout was covered with monorail, with a wiggly sightseeing line running halfway down the west side. Pat Hough brought his track/monorail union station, and Brian Lasseter debuted his brand-new monorail station, with finished interior and trans-blue canopy and accents.
• There was an excellent long "Main Street" line of buildings along the west side, with many of them Will's MOCs, and scattered buildings on the south side from Roscoe and SJ, plus Sharon's display of Friends sets.
• The whole west and south were a single long dogbone, almost all ballasted, with the wide curve in the middle and paired tracks running right through Lee's big station, so we tried a LONG train. We got a single Maersk engine to pull 20 units of Maersk and ATX container cars! Very slowly, and it stopped when it hit the flextrack, but it started the pull on its own and made it all the way through the wide curve. When we added Edward's two MOC engines on the front and another Maersk on the rear to push, the train moved out very nicely and made several loops.
• Thanks to fantastic LEGO event support, we had two Ninjago sets to give to the convention as door prizes, a Mini Modular set to give away in an AFOL drawing (Lasso won), a Spook Train to auction (another $50 for the fund), and 32 pounds of loose bricks, which were packed into grab bags and distributed. It was Christmas! Afterwards, there was a trading session, though it was more of a "generously giving our friends what they need from our bags" session than actual trading.
February 9-10, 2013
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Houston, Texas
This was the first show for the Texas Brick Railroad, and it was a big win. 13 AFOLs were present, and about 5,000 attendees. We operated eight trains (including a monorail!) at once. Old-timers agree this is a record for a LEGO show in Texas. We'll see how long it is before we break our own record. SJ was the organizer, with backup from TJ, who brought the tables and printed layouts.
Highlight MOCs of the display were T.J. Avery's Pennybacker Bridge, David Hawkins' railroad station, Tony Sava's Palestine (Texas State RR) layout, and (just created for this show) Pat Hough's monorail/train Union Station. We also did a presentation to introduce attendees to the world of LEGO trains. And we had a great dinner at Pappasito's!
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The Dime Building (now called Chrysler House) will be host to the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings' Structurally Sound concert series on Saturday. / William Archie/Detroit Free Press
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The Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings Structurally Sound series ventures downtown this week to the Dime Building, a 23-story neoclassical gem and one of the oldest skyscrapers in Detroit.
The series, which brings chamber music to architecturally significant buildings in the city, covers the waterfront stylistically. This time out, guitarist Alan Ayoubs Quintet has a crossover-fusion cast. The leader also plays a guitar synthesizer and laptop electronics, and the rest of the band includes trumpeter Walter White, electric and acoustic bassist Jeff Pedraz, drummer Dan Maslanka and percussionist Dennis Sheridan. The repertoire ranges from material associated with the Brecker Brothers, Antonio Carlos Jobin and Mike Stern to Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix. Ayoubs original music is also on the docket, and DCWS trumpeter Kevin Good will appear, too.
As far as the setting goes, the Dime Building opened in 1912. As the Freeps architecture critic John Gallagher once noted, the building, designed by Chicago firm D.H. Burnham and Co., typifies the evolving architecture of early skyscrapers with its mix of clean lines and traces of classical ornamentation. Since its recent acquisition by Dan Gilbert, the building has been known as the Chrysler House.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, 719 Griswold, Detroit. 248-559-2095. www.detroitchamberwinds.org. Advance tickets: $35, $30 seniors, $10 students. $5 more per ticket at the door.
Premiered in 1999, William Bolcoms A View From the Bridge already feels like a classic. Based on Arthur Millers tragedy set in an Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn in the mid-50s, the opera works the way all great opera works by fusing vivid music skillfully tailored for singers and orchestra to urgent drama and believable characters with whom you forge an immediate and deep connection. Bolcoms eclectic score bristles with modernist astringency but also inhales vernacular styles ranging from Neopolitan songs and Tin Pan Alley to tango rhythms and doo-wop rock.
Michigan Opera Theatres production, which opens its spring season, is uneven at times, but what always shines through is the brilliance of the piece itself and a remarkably intense and nuanced performance by baritone Kim Josephson as protagonist Eddie Carbone, whose illicit attraction to his adopted niece destroys his world and leads to a violent conclusion. With Beverly ORegan Thiele as Eddies wife, Beatrice; Kiri Deonarine as the niece Catherine, and Eric Margiore and Jonathan Lasch as illegal immigrants Rodolpho and Marco. Suzanne Mallare Acton conducts.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Friday-Saturday, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Detroit Opera House, 1536 Broadway. 313-237-7464. www.michiganopera.org. $25-$125. For a full review click here: www.freep.com/article/20140406/ENT04/304060125/Michigan-Opera-View-Bridge-Bolcom
Briefly: The Vivace Music Series in Birmingham presents the Manhattan Piano Trio, a promising young ensemble, in a program of music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Arno Babadjanian. The players are pianist Milana Strezeva, violinist Wayne Lee and cellist Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir. 8 p.m. Saturday, Birmingham Temple, 28611 W. Twelve Mile (between Inkster and Middlebelt), Farmington Hills. 248-788-9338. www.vivaceseries.org $23; $20 seniors and students.
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This summer I decided to take holiday time far away from Edmonton. I went to Ireland with family and friends. While visiting Galway Cathedral, I stopped to browse in the cathedral bookstore. There I purchased an interesting book on Catholic ethical reflections on nuclear power titled Fukushima. It was by an Irish priest, Sean McDonagh, who is a leading Catholic environmental writer. As I sat down, many miles from home to do a quick browse through the book, I came across a section on the Alberta bishops and their June 2009 statement, Pastoral Reflections on Nuclear Energy in Alberta.
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It is now over three months since the close of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) event in Alberta. It was a time of listening and learning for both aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples. The theme of wisdom was chosen for the Alberta TRC event. One important aboriginal wisdom teaching is respect for all creation. The Alberta bishops in their ecology statement highlight the significance of this teaching: "We can learn much from the spiritual traditions of our aboriginal brothers and sisters which celebrate our kinship with the rest of creation and seek to strengthen the sacred circle of all creation."
Last December, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled that Canada's prostitution laws were unconstitutional. The judges gave Parliament one year to pass new laws that would pass the constitutional test. On June 4, Federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay introduced a new prostitution law (Bill C-36) into the House of Commons. Predictably, this proposed law has given rise to intense debates that go beyond predictable ideological divides. No government would voluntarily open up debates on prostitution legislation unless forced to by courts. Prostitution is a complex, difficult issue that defies a simple solution.
On May 8, I was asked to speak at the March for Life. The day started with the Alberta bishops leading a well-attended Pro-Life Mass at St. Joseph's Basilica. Bishop Mark Hagemoen of the Mackenzie Diocese gave the homily, spoke of the new life of the Easter season, and the strong family and community values of the aboriginal peoples of his diocese. After Mass, people gathered at the Legislature for prayers and some talks. Then everyone started walking together through downtown streets to Churchill Square by City Hall. At Churchill Square, we stopped again for prayers and some more talks. I was one of the speakers at Churchill Square.
It is now almost a month past the Edmonton national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). This was an historic event involving thousands of former students who attended Indian residential schools, members of their families, representatives of the churches who administered the schools, and many other aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians from all across Canada.
On Shrove Tuesday, I was at a church pancake supper. The conversation quickly turned to Lent, which started the next day, and about fasting. Each of us started talking about the specifics of what we were going to give up during Lent. Different foods and activities were named. Every year, there is a Scripture passage (Isaiah 58) that talks about fasting that appears in the Liturgy of the Hours on Ash Wednesday and in the daily Mass readings two days later.
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Last weekend, I took the time to read Pope Francis' new apostolic letter Evangelii Gaudium. It is a demanding read (85 pages, single spaced). It is a joyful, exciting, surprising and hope-filled text that continually challenges the reader.
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Heineken Cup: Leicester set up Pool 2 decider after draw with Ospreys
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Ben Youngs: Sparked Leicester comeback with second-half try
Leicester's Heineken Cup fate stayed firmly in their own hands after they drew 15-15 with the Ospreys at the Liberty Stadium.
The Tigers were behind for much of the contest but seemed to have turned things around following second-half tries from Ben Youngs and Niall Morris, only for Jonathan Spratt to level things up in the closing stages.
The result means the Ospreys' hopes of qualifying for the last eight are now over, while Leicester will progress as Pool 2 winners if they can see off Toulouse at home next weekend in a winner-takes-all showdown.
The Ospreys had the first opportunity to open the scoring but Dan Biggar struck a long-range penalty against the post, with the fly-half's second attempt from wide on the right also being off-target.
Biggar's streak of bad luck continued as his third attempt cannoned off the bar but his fourth, which came after a sustained period of pressure from the hosts, finally split the uprights.
The Ospreys continued to dominate and were rewarded in the 32nd minute when No 8 Joe Bearman finished off a fine move which featured some great play from Kahn Fotuali'i and Justin Tipuric.
The conversion was added by Biggar, while a Toby Flood penalty at the other end left the hosts 10-3 up at half-time.
Leicester came under pressure again early in the second half but managed to weather the storm and were still only seven points adrift at the hour mark.
And after Biggar had struck a third penalty against the woodwork, the Tigers levelled the scores as Youngs burrowed over the line from close range before Flood tacked on the conversion.
The home side were now reeling and fell behind for the first time in the match when Morris went over with eight minutes left, with his score being confirmed by the television match official.
However, there was still time for Spratt to cross in the corner for the Ospreys following a sensational break by Eli Walker, although Biggar missed a difficult conversion which would have snatched a dramatic win.
Despite the positive result the Tigers could be sweating on the fitness of Manu Tuilagi for the clash with Toulouse after the England international limped out of the contest late on.
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