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Half-Life games are now all free until Half
| Thursday, January 23, 2020
The preceding Half-Life titles were immensely popular on release, and Valve often discounts them during its Steam sales, too. Valve has announced that it is celebrating the impending release of Half-Life: Alyx by making the whole of the preceding franchise free to download and play - until the new VR-only game is released. [Full Article...]
Saudi Crown Prince Behind Bezos' Phone Hack
According to Bloomberg, these suspicions were premised on the fact that Bezos owns the Washington Post , which has written critical stories about United States president Donald Trump. Bezos and Mohammed reportedly exchanged phone numbers at a dinner in Los Angeles during the Saudi leader's 2018 tour of the U.S. The Washington Post , which is owned by Bezos, reported previous year that the... [Full Article...]
The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge is now available
| Friday, January 17, 2020
The Chromium foundation, however, gives Edge access both to Microsoft's list of curated plugins as well as the vast array of extensions available via Google's Chrome Web Store, which offers far more flexibility than the old Edge ever did. [Full Article...]
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G will have up to 16GB of RAM
Meanwhile, Apple also announced the six versions of the iPhone 12 before the year ended. This is the 20+ variant of the phone, so Samsung has chose to drop the secondary front-facing depth sensor it used past year. Samsung is set to unveil the S20 during a live-streamed keynote next. According to some reports, Samsung Galaxy S20 + 5G is expected to house a 6.7-inch Infinity-O Super AMOLED dis... [Full Article...]
How to get new DLC Pokemon in Sword & Shield without buying it
| Sunday, January 12, 2020
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Sony Reveals Vision-S Electric Concept At 2020 CES
No one was expecting Sony's progress towards mobility especially at the time when the competition in the consumer electronics segment has hotter up. But then Sony went ahead and unveiled an electric auto. Sony surprised everyone by announcing a self-driving auto at CES 2020 , the world's biggest tech show. [Full Article...]
LG talks about 'real' 8K
Unveiled at CES 2020, the new LG OLED TVs - and new 8K and 4K LG NanoCell LCD TVs - are created to deliver stunning picture quality and innovative design with upgraded performance and artificial intelligence-enabled features that bring movies, sports and video games to life. [Full Article...]
New lithium-sulfur batteries could keep a phone charged for five days
Researchers at Australian university have developed a battery which will keep the smartphone charged for five days or provide power to an electric auto for 1,000 kilometres. Prototype cells have been manufactured by German R&D partners of the university called Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology. The first testing will take place in Australia early this year. [Full Article...]
SpaceX rocket launch scheduled for Monday night from Cape Canaveral
| Wednesday, January 08, 2020
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Evidence suggests Apple is ready to get rid of the iPhone's notch
| Saturday, January 04, 2020
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Microsoft announces games with gold for January 2020
Batman: The Telltale Series will be joining Shards of Darkness as the Xbox One's second free game, and it's worth noting that this isn't just the first episode of the episodic game that's free - instead, all five episodes are included in this Games with Gold offering, so you'll get the complete experience. [Full Article...]
Sony files patent for new PlayStation controller
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Russia Successfully Tests Own Intranet; Disconnects From The Internet
The test results of the unplugged internet will now be presented to the Russian President Vladimir Putin . The ministry said that the drills are aimed at ensuring the "integrity" of the internet. This is especially as ICANN and key internet servers remain based in the USA and increasingly vulnerable to United States protectionist interests under Donald Trump's presidency, one that has seen ... [Full Article...]
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MS MR at Popscene at Rickshaw Stop | San Francisco, California | 5/7/2015 (Concert Review + Photos)
May 10, 2015 by Jason DeBord Leave a Comment
"My only birthday wish is to fucking bring the house down……" MS MR playing Popscene at Rickshaw Stop on Thursday night, being a traditional Popscene show that runs late into the night, it literally became Lizzy Plapinger's birthday at some point during the show. When, exactly, was anybody's guess, as she and her partner, Max Hershenow, blasted through hit songs and songs yet to be released at the sold out show in San Francisco. Keeping with the duality of their performing and recording name, the old and the new songs split the exactly hour long set in about in half, giving fans a preview of the upcoming sophomore album, due out in July on Columbia Records. MS MR easily sold out two shows at the much larger Fillmore last year (see past review), so it was special seeing them playing a smaller, intimate venue. The new music is fantastic, and shows a lot of growth for the duo as the expand their musical horizons. I ranked their debut, Secondhand Rapture, as my favorite album of 2013, so I really look forward to seeing how the studio versions of the full album measure up to the brilliant Popscene show this past week.
Filed Under: Concert Reviews, Live Rock Music, News, & Events, MS MR, Popscene, Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco California Tagged With: 2015, 2015 concert reivew, aaron axelsen, album, Concert, concert photos, Concert Review, dj aaron axelsen, live, live photos, lizzy plapinger, max hershenow, MS MR, photography, photos, popscene, review, rickshaw stop, San Francisco, secondhand rapture, set list, setlist, sold out, tickets, tour
MS MR at The Fillmore | San Francisco, California | 4/14/2014 (Concert Review + Photos)
April 16, 2014 by Jason DeBord Leave a Comment
"You're one of the first cities that really, really supported us." Lizzy Plapinger, the "MS" half of MS MR showering the crowd at the sold out Fillmore in San Francisco Monday night with some sincere gratitude. I'd seen the break out duo twice at The Independent last year, and as their success continues, they have stepped up from supporting at the Independent, to headlining multiple shows there, to now headlining multiple shows at the historic Fillmore, where they opened for Marina and The Diamonds a few years ago. As has been my experience seeing the band evolve, the "MR" half, Max Hershenow, seemed as thrilled as ever to step away from his keyboard a few times to dance and provide some backing vocals on Lizzy's mic. I personally ranked their incredible debut studio album, Secondhand Rapture, as my favorite release of 2013, so they certainly won me over as a fan. While they always sounded amazing live, they seem to grow in confidence with each new tour, while maintaining that humility and earnestness which is somewhat rare in the contemporary music scene. This was their best show year, and while it clocked in at just under an hour, to me that was just perfect, and I applaud that they keep the studio length of the songs rather than trying to stretch them out to fill out more time as some young bands succumb to when touring with just one album under their belt.
Filed Under: Concert Reviews, Jagwar Ma, Live Nation, Live Rock Music, News, & Events, MS MR, San Francisco California, The Fillmore Tagged With: 2014, album, album review, announcement, april 14, Concert, Concert Review, dates, fauxchella, fillmore, jagwar ma, live, live nation, lizzy plapinger, max hershenow, MS MR, north america, photography, photos, poster, review, San Francisco, secondhand rapture, set list, setlist, sold out, The Fillmore, tickets, tour, tour dates, world tour
Radio 94.7 Presents Electric Christmas with Cage the Elephant, Alt-J, GroupLove, Capital Cities, The Features and MS MR
November 4, 2013 by Jason DeBord 2 Comments
Radio 94.7 in Sacramento will be presenting a special multi-artist concert event in December dubbed, "Electric Christmas". The line-up includes performances by Cage the Elephant, Alt-J, GroupLove, Capital Cities, The Features and MS MR. The concert event will be held at Sleep Train Arena on December 4th, and tickets are currently on sale at Ticketmaster. [Read more…]
Filed Under: "On Tour" Dates & Announcements, Alt-J (∆), Cage the Elephant, Capital Cities, Electric Christmas, GROUPLOVE, MS MR, The Features Tagged With: alt-j, announcement, Cage the Elephant, Capital Cities, cities, city, Concert, dates, electric christmas, electric concerts, Features (The Features), grouplove, live, MS MR, news, pre-sale, sale, sleep train arena, tickets, tour
MS MR at The Independent | San Francisco, California | 10/21/2013 (Concert Review)
October 22, 2013 by Jason DeBord 1 Comment
"Thank you so, so much for being here tonight. It means so, so much to us." Lizzy Plapinger, the "MS" in MS MR thanking the crowd at the Independent in San Francisco last night for being "early adopters" of their music, while the "MR" half, Max Hershenow, preps the crowd for the last song of the night, "Hurricane". Appropriately enough, the new band has taken the music industry by storm with their phenomenal first studio album, Secondhand Rapture, which I certainly rank as one of the Top 10 Albums of 2013. Their unique blend of at once dark and poppy electronic music has taken me back to those same feelings I had when I found Yazoo 30 years ago (with another male-female duo in Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet), though updated and reflective of our time today. This was the third of three sell out shows at The Independent in the past week, which is remarkable since it was only four months ago that I saw them take the same stage supporting CSS back in June. In much the same way Imagine Dragons graduated from The Independent (they played there as well earlier this year) to filling sports arenas, I suspect that MS MR will continue on with their upward trajectory, carried by their awesome music and brilliant live performances, which sound as sublime as the studio recordings. This is definitely a tour that fan who are lucky enough to check out will not forget.
Filed Under: Another Planet Entertainment, Concert Reviews, Live Rock Music, News, & Events, MS MR, San Francisco California, The Independent, Wildcat! Wildcat! Tagged With: 2013, album, album review, announcement, another planet entertainment, brazil, Concert, Concert Review, dates, independent, live, lizzy plapinger, max hershenow, Miles the DJ, MS MR, north america, october 21, photography, photos, release, review, secondhand rapture, the independent, tickets, tour, tour dates, Wildcat! Wildcat!, world tour
CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy), MS MR, and IO Echo at The Independent | San Francisco, California | 6/16/2013 (Concert Review)
June 17, 2013 by Jason DeBord 4 Comments
It's rare that audiences are treated to a real triple header concert, but that was my take on the female fronted trio of bands that owned the stage at The Independent in San Francisco last night. How I ended up there… I blame the Swiss (more on that later), but it was a real showcase of contemporary alternative bands that are making incredible music and bringing it on the road. All three have also released amazing new albums this year (more on that later as well) and this material seemed to please the sold out crowd of 800 at the intimate Bay Area club. They are all doing it again tonight at the Great American Music Hall, and I can't recommend enough checking it out. If they aren't coming to a city near you, I can't recommend enough picking up their albums, each released this year. CSS's Planta, MS MR's Secondhand Rapture and IO Echo's Ministry of Love are, for me personally, three of the best releases of the year, and there is a good chance all three will appear in my Top 10 Albums list for my 2013 End Of Year article.
Filed Under: Another Planet Entertainment, Concert Reviews, CSS, IO Echo, Live Rock Music, News, & Events, MS MR, San Francisco California, The Independent Tagged With: 2013, album, album review, announcement, another planet entertainment, brazil, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Concert, Concert Review, CSS, dates, hangover, independent, IO Echo, ioanna gika, june 16, live, lizzy plapinger, lovefoxxx, max hershenow, ministry of love, MS MR, north america, nylon summer music tour, photography, photos, planta, release, review, secondhand rapture, the independent, tickets, tour, tour dates, world tour
MS MR Release 'Secondhand Rapture', Continue World Tour / To Join CSS On Some Dates, Who Just Released "Hangover" Video
Today MS MR have released their debut album, Secondhand Rapture, and will continue their world tour with their own headlining shows as well as some dates supporting CSS and some festival appearances. I am a huge fan of the New York-based recording duo of Lizzy Plapinger and Max Hershenow, and definitely count their new album among the best released in 2013. CSS themselves today released their official video for "Hangover", and will be touring North America in June and July, not only with MS MR but MNDR and IO Echo as well. [Read more…]
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The FTC is wrong about antitrust fears over Android
Microsoft can't develop a successful mobile operating system, so it's making a crybaby case against Google
If Google's Android business is really an anticompetitive monopoly, as the U.S. government apparently believes, it's a mighty strange one. After all, Apple -- not Google or Samsung -- makes almost all the profits in the smartphone business. And unlike Apple, Google shares its operating system with other companies, and it controls less than 60 percent of the U.S. market for mobile operating systems.
Ultimately the test of an antitrust case in the United States is whether consumers are hurt by monopolistic practices. Last weekend, Apple sold 13 million units of its new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus smartphones. Can anyone seriously argue that consumers don't have a choice of smartphones or the mobile operating systems that power them?
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Yet it appears that the Federal Trade Commission is preparing to make that very argument. Reporting by Bloomberg Business and the New York Times indicates that the agency believes Google uses its Android operating system to dominate competitors as more consumers go mobile, and the agency may launch a formal antitrust investigation.
The potential prosecution is rich in irony.
Google could face punishment because it's more open, not less open, than its rivals. Google makes Android available to all, so it has the burden of treating companies that accept the invitation equally. In that context, Google's imposition of its apps, APIs, and services is considered a monopolistic rigging of the market. Though they thoroughly control what's on their devices, neither Apple nor BlackBerry could ever be accused of that monopolistic rigging -- because neither company provides its technology to third parties.
In other words, it's OK to thoroughly control a platform you don't share, but it's questionable to impose requirements on one that you do.
Talk about a double standard.
Despite the FTC's thinking, there's no U.S. monopoly for Android
Relatively cheap Android phones have given that operating system a huge share of the global market: a little less than 83 percent, compared to iOS's share of almost 14 percent, according to IDC. But in the United States, Android's share was 59.3 percent compared to 38 percent for iOS in the second quarter of this year.
Microsoft, one of the companies complaining about the alleged Android monopoly to regulators in Europe and the United States, had a share of only 2.4 percent in the same period, says IDC. Would Redmond have its panties in a bunch if it hadn't failed to develop and sell a competitive mobile OS?
Based on the number of subscribers using each platform, Android is even less dominant domestically: In terms of actual subscribers (those with active cellular accounts), Android had a share of 51.4 percent, while iOS ranked second with 44.2 percent, according to ComScore.
Consumers who want to buy an Android smartphone have plenty of choices as well. Samsung, LG, HTC, ZTE, Motorola (now part of Chinese giant Lenovo), Alcatel, and others all sell Android phones in the United States, in addition to Google, which resells other makers' devices under its Nexus brand. Amazon.com sells tablets running its own version of Android. But only one company makes the iPhone.
All the diversity means that developers have the freedom to write for a platform or smartphone of their choice. That's not anticompetitive.
You could also argue that Android's openness actually hurts Google, reducing its purported monopolistic practices' effect. Android's diversity can be viewed as fragmentation, which leads to confusion and a less satisfying experience for the consumer. By contrast, the user experience and the apps for Apple and BlackBerry devices are tightly controlled, which arguably benefits users.
Is the FTC saying that Google needs to act more monopolistically to benefit consumers? Obviously not, but, such facts highlight the faulty logic behind the developing case against Android.
There's even a whole separate version of Android called AOSP (Android Open Source Platform). It's the truly open source part of Android, used as the basis of inexpensive smartphones and tablets throughout the world. AOSP is cheaper to use because its services are so basic that it can run on inexpensive hardware better suited for the small incomes of poor countries. And no Google apps or services are forced on devices running AOSP-based versions of Android.
For example, AOSP is the foundation of Amazon.com's Kindle Fire tablet OS and why it offers none of the Google services you'd expect from Android. That's one reason it's a failure -- but Amazon was free to make that choice. If Google were truly a monopoly, that choice would not exist. Fire is not the only example: The OnePlus series uses the AOSP-based Cyanogen version of Android, and the Blackphone uses its own AOP-derived Android version.
Meanwhile, the E.U. goes after Google search
While the United States is looking at Google's possibly anticompetitive Android practices, the European Union is investigating Google's possibly anticompetitive search practices.
The FTC looked hard at Google's position in the search market two years ago but did not bring a charge against Google, although agency staff members had reportedly lobbied for such action. As a result of the investigation, Google agreed to stop "scraping" reviews and other data from rival websites for its own products. The FTC also required Google to allow advertisers to export data to evaluate advertising campaigns independently.
Earlier this year, Europe's antitrust chief challenged Google over its dominance of Internet search. The E.U. has also started its own investigation into Google's Android platform following complaints from a group called FairSearch.org representing Microsoft, Expedia, and Nokia. (Interestingly, Expedia used to be a division of Microsoft, and Microsoft took over Nokia's smartphone business a couple years ago.) It isn't clear to what extent E.U. and U.S. antitrust investigators are cooperating.
FairSearch.org welcomed news of the FTC's Android inquiry, saying Google "has used a range of anticompetitive tactics. The stakes are extremely high, because Google's behavior impacts the entire mobile ecosystem, including map and location services, and app developers."
Despite the fact that Microsoft has failed for years to get its own Bing search engine to succeed against Google, there may be legitimate issues stemming from Google's search monopoly. If so, it is possible that the E.U. can prove that the company's practices truly damage the interests of consumers.
That's a very different matter than the investigation into Android by the FTC, which is really a case of no harm, no foul -- which means there shouldn't be a case.
San Francisco journalist Bill Snyder covers business and technology. He writes regularly for CIO.com, Stanford's Graduate School of Business, and the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Before there were regular street cleanings and trash pick-up, garbage and filth accumulated on the streets and alleyways of big cities. Diseases like tuberculosis, dysentery, and cholera were rampant. In 1850, the average age of death in New York City was younger than 21.
However, through the use of laws and policies, public health practitioners of the 19th and 20th centuries turned these trends around. This legacy of using legal tools to ensure the health and well-being of people and their communities continues today.
Laws and policies stop the spread of communicable disease, ensure that our food is safe for consumption, shape our transportation infrastructure, establish guidelines and codes for safe housing, and much more. Equally important, however, are our civil liberties. Public health officials and policymakers — those responsible for designing, implementing, and enforcing these policies — must always take into account the rights of affected individuals. Preview the content of our full-length training by watching this video short about public health law authority and this video short about types of laws.
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The Proletarian Literature Movement: Japan's First Encounter with Working-Class Literature
Mats Karlsson
Affiliation: The University of Sydney, AU
Chapter from the book: Lennon J. & Nilsson M. 2020. Working-Class Literature(s) Volume II: Historical and International Perspectives.
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This essay explores Japanese working-class literature as it developed within the wider context of the so-called Proletarian Cultural Movement that was in operation for about ten years, peaking in the late 1920s. While tracing the origins of the initiative to create a "proletarian" literature in Japan to Marxist study circles at universities, it discusses the movement's quest to foster "true" worker writers based on the factory floor. Next, the chapter highlights literary works by female writers who were encouraged at the time by international communism's focus on the Japanese women issue due to their high inclusion in the industrial work force. Finally, the chapter discusses the legacy and continuing relevance of Kobayashi Takiji's The Crab Cannery Ship, the flagship of working-class literature in Japan. Throughout, the essay endeavors to paint a vivid picture of writer activists within the movement.
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Regular blog readers will know that I frequently tease Himself about the amount of time he spends playing at the real FR / WHR when he should be hard at work building the layout, but I have to admit that sometimes it pays off.
Take one of his visits this autumn, for example, when he joined the crew of the Greasers Express - a train which tours the entire system over the course of a weekend, stopping at every point to service the mechanism, remove gunge and apply fresh grease.
While riding in the open B Wagon he noticed a distinct kink in the formation on the run from Cemetery Crossing to Goat Tunnel, to the south of Beddgelert station.
This is at the far left hand corner of our Bron Hebog layout, a section upon which he had recently completed the scenic outline - but without the kink!
Unfortunately I don't have a snap of this bit of the layout to hand but I have doctored a copy of the picture above to try and illustrate how our trackbed cut straight across the kink and the hillside, instead of having a hollow, continued down to meet the track.
There was nothing else for it but to hack back all the scenery that had been so carefully crafted: peeling back the chicken wire and modroc surface and re-profiling the wooded formers beneath.
These views below show the section following the scenic re-design and should conform a little more closely with the real location.
Legs 56
Another fiddly session with the observation armchairs adding the legs, four of them on each of the fourteen chairs.
With the huge window at the end of the carriage there's no hiding place here so each of the styrene sticks had to be cut and glued in place individually.
Here are two of them posed in position.
All 14 have been done but they won't be fixed in place until the other bits of the interior - like the compartment dividers, tables and the big wing chairs - are made up and ready to go in.
So there's still a way to go but I'm getting there....
MOTW - The Iron Bogie
Interactivity is all the rage in the media these days. It's no longer any good for professional journalists - like me - who've spent their whole careers researching a subject to tell you what to think about it, now every ignoramus has to have their say. (*Irony alert for those with no sense of humour!*)
So in this spirit I'm delighted to be able to respond to a reader's request for the subject of this Model Of The Week feature, the 6 wheel coal wagon or 'Iron Bogie'
Or, as my correspondent referred to it, the 'I can't believe it's not a Cleminson' wagon.
It was built at Boston Lodge Works in 1880 and mounted on flexible two-wheel trucks, but later investigations revealed its underframe arrangement does not conform precisely to Cleminson's patent. Although the outer axles can turn and the middle one can swing there is an extra link between them missing.
Some have suggested this may have been an error born out of ignorance or a cunning wheeze to avoid paying for the use of the patent, but either way they probably need not have bothered because experiments running the chassis around sharp curves during restoration in the 1990's showed the centre axle hardly moved anyway.
Which is all the justification I needed for not bothering to articulate this model at all! The one concession on an otherside solid chassis is the some side play on the centre wheelset. Instead of a pin point axle it has a longer axle and the centre axle boxes are drill through allowing it to move about 2-3 mm either way.
I confess I can't remember a great deal about how I built it (it was probably more than 15 years ago now) but I seem to recall I chopped up some old Egger wagon frames to make a 3-axle chassis and the body was built from styrene.
What I do remember very clearly is attempting to slice the thinnest possible slivers of styrene rod to represent rivets on the strapping on the iron body and gluing each one of them on by hand.
In these days of waterslide resin transfer rivets these now look horribly crude and make me wonder whether I should build a replacement with more subtle detailing?
So, to bring us back to the theme of interactivity with which I began this post, I'll throw the question out to you all.
If this was your model what would you do?
Armchair Modeller
I'm turning my attention to the interior of the 7mm WHR Pullman Obs 'Glaslyn' now that most of the main construction work on the body is done.
I've begun with the posh armchairs in the Observation Saloon. There are 14 of these to make. Here's a snap of the early stages of four of them.
If they look a little short to you that's because I haven't added the legs yet!
I make the semi-circular sides by rolling a pre-cut and shaped piece of styrene around a small cylinder - something like a pencil - which releases enough of the tension in it for it to be glued to one part of the base, left for a while, before curling it around and bonding it on the other side.
Another 10 to go and then I'll start on the big 'wing' chairs for the back half of the carriage.
100 Ready To Varnish
Here are some shots of my 7mm scale model of FR observation carr 100 which is now more or less complete.
It only requires a coat of varnish to be applied and the glazing slotted into place before it is ready to be sent off to its new owner.
For my first attempt at 7mm carriage building I have to say I'm quite chuffed with it.
MOTW - S&T Tool Van
We're back with the engineering fleet on Model Of The Week. This time our subject is the Signal & Telegraph department's Tool Van.
If you're being pedantic about it then this wagon should probably be referred to in the plural as Tool Vans. The wagon is a three-in-one contraption - something we only found out once we had built it! But more on that later.
The main bits of the Tool Van wagon - the big square bits - are a classic piece of FR recycling. They started life on the roads as the back bit of BT vans and just happened to be just the right size to fit within the FR's loading gauge when mounted on a four wheel chassis.
The two are linked together by a platform with steps in the middle on both sides.
Now, when I first made the wagon, I assumed the boxes and the platform were a fixed structure and the two chassis swiveled underneath like normal bogies, and built it as such.
But how wrong you can be.
I can't remember whether we discovered our error by someone telling us at an exhibition, or whether Himself got down on his hands and knees and looked beneath the real one, but we discovered the wagon is articulated by very different means.
Instead it is the vans at each end which pivot on the centre platform - the chassis are fixed beneath the vans - and not only that but there is also a tiny pair of wheels beneath the centre platform.
The model had already been finished when we found this out, but Himself managed to prise the three sections apart and reverse-engineer the proper articulation.
The wagon was scratchbuilt in styrene and two vans are sitting on chassis from Parkside Dundas V tipper wagons. The wheels beneath the centre platform have had their tyres removed in order both to fit them under there and to aid smooth running.
Some other later additions to the model were the 'X' boards carried at each end, the skylights on the ex-BT vans and the lights on the inside ends.
It is pictured in a typical S&T train formation on Dduallt with 'Harlech Castle'. Van 51 and the Cherry Picker, which will be the subject of a future Model Of The Week.
While some carpet fitters were doing their thing on the stairs today I grabbed a couple of hours at the workbench to get a few more bits added onto 'Glaslyn'. In fact they were the final few big ticket items which means the bodyshell is more or less complete now.
I began with fashioning and fitting the two window pillars at the front of the observation compartment.
These two pieces are among the trickiest bits on this model to get right because not only have they got to be placed on a curve (and what's more, a curve which is not a constant radius) they are also leant back. So it really is a three dimensional puzzle to get them placed correctly.
As you can see from the picture above, looking at them from the side, or three-quarters on, is not very helpful because of the illusion created by the lean of the pillar. A more reliable guide to whether you've got them positioned correctly is to look end-on or from above.
You'll see that the front skirt has been added as well. These bits really do make the model look 'complete' although, of course, it is still a long way from that.
At the back I added the corridor connections and the footsteps, which are chopped off at an angle to keep this 14 metre carriage within the dynamic envelope. It's 1m longer than any other carriage on the WHR, which is the reason why the roof is cut back above the doors at the back too.
So for the next session I think I will start work inside. I feel some armchairs coming on....
Pullman Progress
Here's a shot to show progress on the 7mm model of 'Glaslyn' I'm making for a client.
I probably should have posed it next to a coin or some other everyday object to give you more of a sense of the size of the carriage: it is over a foot long but looking at this picture you could be forgiven for thinking it is a 009 model.
The domed end to the roof on this carriage is a big challenge. It fills a considerably larger area and is much shallower than on other FR /WHR carriages and is one of those bit of a model that you're continually tinkering with. Each time I go over it with the wet and dry paper I walk away satisfied, then return a while later, squint at it from all angles and pick it up and give it another going over, and so the process is repeated.
I shall have to call time on this palaver soon, however, because I can't get on with the next bit - fitting the two window pillars at the front - until the roof unit is glued in place.
There has been some more work done on the layout, on the southern portal of Goat Tunnel to be precise.
Portal is probably a bit of a poncy word to use in this case given the way the tunnels were left as bare holes in the rock.
If you have seen any of our layouts at exhibitions before then you will know that Himself is a believer in robust construction. He eschews modern trends for lightweight structures and instead our baseboards are made from 2 x 1, with the scenery built up with chicken wire, mod-roc and lashings of plaster on top.
So it probably won't surprise you to learn that the rockfaces on Bron Hebog are made out of - you guessed it - rock. And authentic Cambrian rock too!
At the bottom right of the picture you can see that he has also modelled the new outflow from the drainage channel which runs from Beddgelert station, through the cutting and out at the bottom end of the tunnel.
And a rather nice job he's made of it too, I hope you'll agree?
MOTW - Taliesin
This week we present for your enjoyment the one and only 'Gentleman's light sporting locomotive'.
That's how one of the pre-war FR drivers affectionately referred to the Single Fairlie 'Taliesin' which was reborn at the beginning of the 21st Century.
(Let's not get into the debate about whether it's a rebuild or a replica here.)
Our model is a pretty standard Backwoods Miniatures kit and it's a beautifully quiet and smooth running machine.
The real 'Taliesin' will be worth watching in the coming months as it emerges from Boston Lodge with a pair of beautifully disguised piston valve cylinders.
Him-Self Service
I can unveil what I believe may be the first ever model of the WHR's second Service Carr 2011.
(If I'm wrong I'm sure someone will let me know)
Himself has been painting this over the course of summer and has now applied the last transfers and given it a final coat of varnish.
If you're a relatively new reader of this blog you can find some of the posts detailing the construction of this carriage including the saga of the generator door louvres here, here and here.
Practical Modelling
I've been getting on with a few of the odd jobs still left to do on 100, like sorting out a way of attaching the couplings.
This is something I've been mulling over for a quite a few weeks now, and for two reasons:
1) I've not attached couplings to a 7mm scale model before
2) It's not my model.
Of these the second is of much greater concern to me because I want to ensure the client is delighted with the finished product. In this case the customer has advised me he needs the couplings attached to the bogies (as opposed to mounted somewhere on the carriage) and set at an exact height, which has been a big help. So the main issue was how to achieve it.
There's another difference to the 009 models I normally work with in that these are whitemetal bogies with just a central cross-member and no frames at the ends.
Clearly, then, there would need to be a long shaft of some kind running almost 2 inches from the centre of the bogies to the end of the carriage. And there was also the issue of avoiding the leading axle.
The pics below will show you the solution I've adopted.
A bit of (rather untidily cut) brass has been Araldite-d onto the whitemetal stretcher and then takes a cunning step up, which not only avoids the axle but also raises it up to the specified height for the top surface of the bemo couplings.
Then at the other end I've soldered on another bit of scrap brass to form a jaw into which the shaft of the plastic bemo coupling will fit snugly.
The beauty of it is that if, when the carriage is delivered to the Scottish Highlands, the couplings are either too low or too high to mate with my client's existing stock all he has to do is give the brass shaft a little tweak one way or the other and all should be well.
I'm not pretending it's the prettiest bit of model engineering you've ever seen, but I think it's practical and effective, and that, I would suggest, is what matters most on a layout.
MOTW - 'The Cric'
Our featured model this week is another of Himself's kitbashes.
The starting point for our model of the FR's diesel 'Criccieth Castle' (which was built at Boston Lodge in 1995 from a kit of parts bought from Baguley-Drewry's liquidator) is a Chivers Finelines whitemetal kit for sister locomotive 'Harlech Castle' running on a Grafar 08 chassis.
In recent years Farish have revamped their 08 with pukka outside frames and cranks but back when we made 'The Cric' the conversion had to be done the hard way, stripping down the chassis, replacing the axles, fashioning our own cranks, not to mention drilling into the chassis and creating a fourth axle and new rods for the jackshaft drive.
The alterations to the body were simple by comparison to the mechanics. The main difference between 'Criccieth Castle' and 'Harlech Castle' is the front bonnet which extends the full width of the locomotive, and is decorated with brass handrails and the go-faster grill with the whiskers.
We used the existing whitemetal structure as the base and bulked it out with styrene extensions and other details such as the grill and the exhaust.
Himself added more finishing touches including the buffer beam detail around the coupling, the windscreen wipers and the cab is flush glazed with each window cut out of styrene and fitted individually.
The model is most often seen on Dduallt doing what the real one was originally built for, operating in push-pull mode with the green & ivory InCa carriages.
'Criccieth Castle' has, however, been run to Beddgelert since the WHR was reopened so our model has many years of legitimate work ahead of it on the exhibition circuit on Bron Hebog.
Shunt The Pony
I thought we'd take a deviation from modelling, just for a little while, to show you some evidence of why nothing much is happening on the building the layout (the real purpose of this blog, after all) and because if you're reading this it's likely you've got more than a passing interest in the FR and the WHR and so might quite like to see the pictures anyway.
Himself has 'wasted' another weekend of valuable construction time playing around with 12 inch to the foot trains in the top left hand corner of Wales, once again lending his services to the 'Greasers Express' team during their quarterly fettling of the points on the FR / WHR system.
One of their extra jobs this time was to move Welsh Pony to another stable at Glan y Pwll.
I've always had a very soft spot for this rusty old nag, and there has been a great deal of intriguing talk in the last couple of years about whether the time has now come to return her to service?
There is, however, a very nuanced debate about the rights and wrongs of restoring one of the few remaining untouched artefacts from the orginal FR company which centre around the fact that to make it work again there wouldn't be very much of the original loco left. (Just like the 'original' FR engines which are in service - Prince, Merddin Emrys & Palmerston)
I'm firmly in favour of getting her going again and my money is ready and waiting for someone to start up a proper Welsh Pony restoration fund.
(I do realise that the FR Society has had a Welsh Pony fund for many years now but it is not, and this is the pertinent point, for the express purpose of restoring the locomotive to running order.)
Here's a shot of progress painting the 7mm scale FR carriage 100.
Apologies for the picture, which isn't the best, but it shows you where I've got to.
So far it's had two coats of maroon and cream and will probably need at least another of each, and then there's all the wee fiddly jobs touching it up here and there, painting the grab handles and the vac bags etc...
And then we'll have some fun with the dry rub transfers. Oh joy!
Pull The Other One
In the absence of anything new to build for the layout - although I'm keeping an eye on the progress of Super-Barn 108 at Boston Lodge, ready to pounce when it's rolled out - I've taken on another super-sized commission.
A new client has asked me to make a 7mm version of WHR Pullman Observation Carr 'Glaslyn'.
Here's a pic of my 4mm one on Bron Hebog...
The challenge with this carriage, as I explained in this Model Of The Week post is the curved observation end.
But that's waiting a little further down the track. The first task is to do the main bodyside pieces.
They are also a little more complicated than your average carriage. On a normal vehicle I can use styrene strip for the window pillars, which are easily chopped to an equal height before the top rail is fixed in place. On this Pullman, though, the pillars at the rear are very wide and it isn't so simple to chop them off at the top, especially on a 7mm scale model when they are 0.75mm thick.
Instead I had to prepare them in advance, taking care to ensure they were all exactly the same dimension so there wouldn't be any gaps when I came to glue the top rail in place. This rail is also very wide on this carriage (6mm) and unlike a normal narrow top rail there is no lateral 'give' if one of the pillars is a fraction short.
The other side has also had the second layer of detail added.
The beading is limited, compared to the standard WHR design, but the challenge is the curved corners. I'm using a similar technique to the one I have for raised window frames I described here, curling thin styrene strip into the corner and using model filler to get rid of the gap.


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Q: Getting the ID of the persisted child object in a one-to-many relationship I have two entity classes A and B which looks as follows.
public class A{

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "a", fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = {CascadeType.ALL})
    private List<B> blist = new ArrayList<B>();

    //Other class members;

}

Class B:
public class B{

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long id;

    @ManyToOne
    private A a;

    //Other class members;

}

I have a method which adds a B object to an A object. I want to return the id of the newly added B object.
eg:
public Long addBtoA(long aID){

            EntityTransaction tx = myDAO.getEntityManagerTransaction();

            tx.begin();
            A aObject = myDAO.load(aID);
            tx.commit();

            B bObject = new B();

            bObject.addB(bObject);

            tx.begin();
            myDAO.save(aObject);
            tx.commit();

            //Here I want to return the ID of the saved bObject.
            // After saving  aObject it's list of B objects has the newly added bObject with it's id.
            // What is the best way to get its id?

}

A: I don't think the accepted answer is correct. See https://coderanch.com/t/628230/framework/Spring-Data-obtain-id-added
tldr;
You should just create a repository for the child B so you can save the child completely independently from its parent. Once you have the saved B entity then associate it to its parent A.
Here is some sample code with Todo being the parent and Comment being the child.
@Entity
public class Todo {

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "todo", cascade = CascadeType.ALL, orphanRemoval = true, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    private Set<Comment> comments = new HashSet<>();

    // getters/setters omitted.
}

@Entity
public class Comment {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long id;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "todo_id")
    private Todo todo;

    // getters/setters omitted.
}

If this was modeled in spring data, you create 2 repositories. TodoRepository and CommentRepository which are Autowired in.
Given a rest endpoint capable of receiving POST /api/todos/1/comments to associate a new comment with a given todo id.
    @PostMapping(value = "/api/todos/{todoId}/comments")
    public ResponseEntity<Resource<Comment>> comments(@PathVariable("todoId") Long todoId,
                                                      @RequestBody Comment comment) {

        Todo todo = todoRepository.findOne(todoId);

        // SAVE the comment first so its filled with the id from the DB.
        Comment savedComment = commentRepository.save(comment);

        // Associate the saved comment to the parent Todo.
        todo.addComment(savedComment);

        // Will update the comment with todo id FK.
        todoRepository.save(todo);

        // return payload...
    }

If instead you did the below and saved the supplied parameter comment. The only way to get the new comment is iterate through todo.getComments() and find the supplied comment which is annoying and impractical imo if the collection is a Set.
  @PostMapping(value = "/api/todos/{todoId}/comments")
    public ResponseEntity<Resource<Comment>> comments(@PathVariable("todoId") Long todoId,
                                                      @RequestBody Comment comment) {

        Todo todo = todoRepository.findOne(todoId);

        // Associate the supplied comment to the parent Todo.
        todo.addComment(comment);

        // Save the todo which will cascade the save into the child
        // Comment table providing cascade on the parent is set
        // to persist or all etc.
        Todo savedTodo = todoRepository.save(todo);

        // You cant do comment.getId
        // Hibernate creates a copy of comment and persists it or something.
        // The only way to get the new id is iterate through
        // todo.getComments() and find the matching comment which is
        // impractical especially if the collection is a set.

        // return payload...
    }

A: You should persist your newly created object first, then add it to its container. Additionaly, the save method of org.hibernate.Session returns the identifier of a newly persisted object. So you just have to update your code and/or your DAO to behave like this:
newObject.setContainer(container); // facultative (only if the underlying SGBD forbids null references to the container)
Long id = (Long) hibernateSession.save(newObject); // assuming your identifier is a Long
container.add(newObject);
// now, id contains the id of your new object

Anyway, for all object with generated ids, you can always do something like this:
hibernateSession.persist(object); // persist returns void...
return object.getId(); // ... but you should have a getId method anyway

A:
I have a method which adds a B object to an A object. I want to return the id of the newly added B object.

Then just do it! After the new B instance has been persisted (and the changed flushed to the database), its id has been assigned, just return it. Here is a test method that illustrates this behavior:
@Test
public void test_Add_B_To_A() {
    EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("MyPu");
    EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
    em.getTransaction().begin();

    A a = em.find(A.class, 1L);

    B b = new B();
    A.addToBs(b); // convenient method that manages the bidirectional association

    em.getTransaction().commit(); // pending changes are flushed

    em.close();
    emf.close();

    assertNotNull(b.getId());
}

By the way, your code is a bit messy, you don't need to commit after each interaction with the EM.

A: In case somebody doesn't find a solution on previous comments, another option is to add
@GeneratedValue(strategy = yourChosenStrategy)

over the ID of the entity you are persisting (or over the its getter). In this case, when persist is called, the id will be automatically set in the persisted object.
Hope it helps !

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YC-14 in Flight over Coastline
The YC-14 was built to carry troops and equipment into battle zones with short, temporary airfields....
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The YC-14 was built to carry troops and equipment into battle zones with short, temporary airfields. Cargo and wheeled vehicles could be loaded into the wide fuselage via a built-in tail ramp. Although the YC-14 never went into production, its two prototypes, built in 1976, introduced significant technological breakthroughs, most notably an upper-surface-blowing (USB) design for high aerodynamic lift. The achievements of the YC-14 contributed in a significant way to advance studies of STOL technology.
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Is Post Malone Gay ?
Post Malone is a new sensation in hip-hop music industry and Pop Music. He is American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his Billboard hit single "White Version". The 22 years old rapper got famous from the popular collaboration with Kanye West for his track "Fade".
He is rumored to be dating Ashlen and is most popular for his dirt looks having gold teeth and braids. Post Malone has also done an opening act for Justin Beiber's Purpose World Tour in 2016.
Recently, he got into controversy for his criticism on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during the presidential election.
Born on 4th July 1995 in Syracuse, New York, Austin Richard Post was raised by his father Rich Post and his stepmother Jodie Post. His father Rich Post had been a disc jockey in his youth. It was his father who introduced him to the different genre of music. Then Post Malone started getting inclined to the hip-hop, country, and rock.
When Malone was 9 years old, his family moved to Grapevine, Texas as Rich Post became the manager of concessions for the Dallas Cowboys. Post started playing in his early years and auditioned for the band Crown the Empire in 2010. Post did not get selected for the audition as his guitar strings broke down during the audition.
He credits his initial guitar skills to the guitar learning popular video game Guitar Hero. And according to him, his professional music career began when he started playing in a heavy metal band. Later he transitioned into softer rock and hip-hop.
Post Malone created his first mixtape, Young and After Them Riches at the age of 16, using Audacity. He showed his work to his classmates and even voted "Most Likely to Become Famous" in his high school. He also worked at a Chicken Express as a teenager.
He got enrolled at Tarrant County College but dropped out. Then Post Malone moved to Los Angeles, California with a long time friend and a professional game streamer Jason Probst. He chose his stage name Post Malone at the age of 14. He also explains that he got his name from the rap name generator inserting his last name Post.
In LA, Post and other musicians and artists formed the music group BLCKVRD and recorded multiple tracks together. The group moved into a house in San Fernando Valley.
While working with BLCKVRD, in San Fernando Valley, Post got introduced to 1st down and Rich from Fki. With Fki and Rex Kudo, Post recorded several tracks. One one the major success with collaboration with Fki and Rex Kudo is his track "White Iverson".
In 2015, the track "White Iverson" was uploaded to Post Malone SoundCloud account. The single received praise from various Pop and Hip-hop stars including Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa. However, Post Malone received mockery negative comment from the famous artist Earl Sweatshirt.
After huge success from the single track "White Iverson" which got over million views within a month, Post Malone became famous and started getting several offers from different record labels. In August 2015, Post signed a recording contract with Republic Records.
Post got an opportunity to work with a number of prominent rappers such as 50 Cent, Young Thug, and Kanye West. It was at the birthday party of Kylie Jenner in 2015 when his performance attracted Kanye West leading to their collaboration for the single "Fade". Kanye West and Post Malone's track Fade got widely praised bringing him more fame in the music industry.
In 2016, he also performed an opening act for Canadian singer and songwriter Justin Bieber's Purpose World Tour after he started having a close friendship with him. Later in April 2016 Post Malone premiered his singles "Go Flex" on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show.
Again, in May 2016 Post released his full-length mixtape titled August 26. It was the reference to the release date of his debut album. On June 9, 2016, Post Malone made his first television appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, performing "Go Flex".
He made to the Billboard Hot 100 through his single "Congratulations" featuring Quavo at the number eight. His first album was Stoney featured Justin Bieber in the tracks "I Fall Apart" and "Deja Vu". Later in 2017, the album got certified with double platinum by the RIAA.
In early 2017, he revealed his new project Beerbongs & Bentleys. But, its released date got postponed to 2018. Post Malone released his first single from the album in September 2017. The track "Rockstar" featuring 21 Savage got into Billboard Hot 100. It holds the number one position for eight consecutive weeks.
In 2017, Rolling Stone mentioned him as "One of the most popular musicians in the country". Recently Post Malone and Ty Dolla Sign collaborated for the song "Psycho" in 2018. The song entered number 2 on Billboard Hot 100. It is his third entry in the TOP 10.
Post Malone has stated to release his pre-mentioned album Beerbongs & Bentleys on April 27, 2018.
Post Malone has recently captured the limelight in the music industry and gained fame worldwide. Within his short career, Post Malone has got successful commercially too. His net worth is still the hot topic but he is estimated to have the approximate over $1 million net worth.
Post Malone has a unique taste in the classic old low ride like Classic Ford Lincoln which he has posted in his official Instagram account having over 8 million followers. The Classic Ford Lincoln has stopped being manufactured and its premium price is rumored to be $15,000.
Post Malone has also earned through different brand promotion and endorsements. He has been the part of the official promotion of the new famous wine Luc Belaire Rare.
Malone has been posting pictures on various occasion posing with the Belaire. Belaire is a new loved wine brand. A bottle of Belaire Rose wine costs nearly $25.
Post Malone also earns from his official youtube account. His track White Iverson got 431 million views on Youtube. Post Malone has also been part of various high ranked artists world tour like of Justin Bieber and earned a beautiful amount of fame and money form the tours.
Post Malone was raised by his father, a former disc jockey and his stepmother Jodie Post. Post Malone solely credits his musical inspiration to his father. Post Malone is American and White but he has a unique personality making everyone confused about his race.
Post Malone has golden teeth and braids which is more popular in the media. Post Malone describes that his braids and teeth are nothing but his personal interest and he is not going change due to the controversy created by them.
Post Malone has been rumored to be dating a lady, Ashlen. Post and Ashlen started dating from the Justin Bieber's Purpose Tour. Later, the couple was captured sharing their relation in local radio channel interview. Media has not discovered much information about Ashlen and they are secretly dating each other till now.
Post Malone stands at the height of 6 feet and belongs to cancer star sign. Recently it is also rumored that Post Malone has a daughter. But no any media has confirmed the gossips and the truth is still unknown.
Post Malone has a tattoo of US President John F. Kennedy on his arm. According to him, Kennedy is the only president that speak out against corruptions, unlike other governments. In an interview, he reveals owing a myriad of guns and believes it to be the right of every American.
Post Malone has a number of tattoos many being in his face. Malone has a barbed wire tattoo across his forehead and up-side-down music note under his eyes. He also has tattooed "Stay Away" above his right eyebrow.
He also has huge interests in conspiracy theories. Referring to that, Post Malone said the biggest conspiracy theory in the world is US Government. Post Malone describes US government as a biggest weird reality show.
Even in his short career, Post Malone has faced many controversies. Many controversies are about the slang words used in his lyrics for famous personalities.
Lately, he also got into controversy for criticizing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the presidential election of 2016 when he stated that neither of the two is eligible for becoming the President.


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Black President Triggers Growth in Right Wing Militias
The 1990s saw the rise and fall of the virulently antigovernment "Patriot" movement, made up of paramilitary militias, tax defiers and so-called "sovereign citizens."
Sparked by a combination of anger at the federal government and the deaths of political dissenters at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas, the movement took off in the middle of the decade and continued to grow even after 168 people were left dead by the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City's federal building — an attack, the deadliest ever by domestic U.S. terrorists, carried out by men steeped in the rhetoric and conspiracy theories of the militias ...
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Undercover Operations Increasingly Turn Deadly
NEW YORK (NNPA) - The public may never know if Shem Walker, 49, knew that the man he scuffled with on his mother's steps one evening in mid-July was an undercover narcotics officer.
The officer was using the stoop to monitor a "buy-n-bust" operation a few doors away from the Walker home. What happened may never be known because Shem Walker is dead.
The New York Police Department and some witnesses say the men scuffled after Walker told the man in plainclothes to move on. Somehow the officer's weapon fired and a 15-year Army veteran died defending his mother's home, something he had done many times before in an area known for drug trafficking ...
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Student Loses Confederate Flag Petition
A federal judge last week threw out a free-speech lawsuit brought by a former Tennessee high school student who wore clothing bearing the Confederate flag ...
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Lousiana Democrat Convicted in Freezer Cash Scandal
William Jefferson, Louisiana's first Black congressman since Reconstruction, was found guilty on 11 of 16 counts in a high-profile case that attracted national attention after federal investigators recovered $90,000 in cash hidden in a freezer in the congressman's home.
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Michael Vick Looks for Second Chance in Philly
A remorseful Michael Vick wants a second chance and a fresh start with the Philadelphia Eagles — and knows he won't be easily forgiven by fans.
Written by Kam Williams Special to The Skanner
Quentin Tarantino: The 'Inglourious Basterds' Interview
Here, Quentin talks about his new film, "Inglourious Basterds," which is based upon a screenplay he started writing over a decade ago. The World War II action flick stars Brad Pitt as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army who leads a squad of Jewish soldiers on a mission behind enemy lines in France to go hunting for Nazis.
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Blanket Pardon for '60s-Era Protestors
Some protestors carry police record with pride, likely to reject pardon
Birmingham's mayor offered a blanket pardon Tuesday to thousands of demonstrators charged in this cauldron of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, a mostly symbolic forgiveness he acknowledges few may actually want.
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Philly NAACP Chief Blasts Da on Grand Jury Report
The Philadelphia NAACP is denouncing a grand jury's clearing of several police officers of wrongdoing in the arrests last year of three shooting suspects, who were kicked and hit by officers as they lay on the ground.
Black Male University Enrollment Still Lags
Black males accounted for about 8,500 of the nearly 72,000 students enrolled in tMississippi's public universities last fall, which is less than 12 percent.
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Republican-Packed U. S. Commission on Civil Rights Must Be Replaced, Rights Leaders Say
The 52-year-old U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, historically a leading force for overturning racist policies and enacting civil rights laws against Jim Crow segregation, has become obsolete and must be replaced, say civil rights leaders who are moving to make it happen.
Clinton Visits Angola, Top Producer of Crude
New York: Missing Women Fuel Speculation of 'Human Trafficking'
New Miss Black Usa Says She's No 'Pageant Girl'
Philly: Co-Worker Acquitted in Noose Threat Case
Mobile, Ala.'s 1st Black FBI Official to Retire
Death Penalty - Nc Lawmakers Ok Bias Test As Death Penalty Barrier
La Police Chief Bratton Stepping Down
Alleged Klan Member's Competency Hearing Postponed
Alpha Kappa Alpha Battles Internal Discord
Op-Ed: The Dtv Transition Puts Corporate Profits Ahead of the Public Interest


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Dan Collins is President Trump's nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from California.
Collins' practice at Munger, Tolles & Olson focuses on appellate and complex commercial litigation. Over the course of his career, he has argued 36 cases in the Ninth Circuit, including two before the en banc court, and four cases in the California Supreme Court. Mr. Collins has also argued before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
In 2008, Mr. Collins obtained a complete reversal of the largest civil judgment in U.S. history (more than $603 million).
While serving in the Deputy Attorney General's office, Mr. Collins coordinated the DOJ's efforts on several major legislative and policy initiatives and testified multiple times before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
As a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Mr. Collins prosecuted more than 60 criminal cases, including eight jury trials. Collins was a member of the criminal appeals section, where he supervised the preparation of more than 100 appellate briefs and argued numerous cases before the Ninth Circuit.
Collins has been recognized nationwide and in California as a leading appellate lawyer by Chambers USA.


Today the Art with Heart Team girls are showing you their favourite bundles from the 2017 Stampin' Up! Catalogue. Bundles make creating a breeze, because of the perfect coordination. It's a bonus that you get 10% off by bundling the products together too. There are 24 bundles in the new catalogue so ask us about them, or for a catalogue today!
This card was made using the Eastern Palace Bundle. This bundle has stamps and dies to match. I love the new Lemon Lime Twist it is such a cool colour.
This card was created with the Daisy Delight bundle. This comes with a stamp set and a punch. The punch makes these Beautiful Daisies. The DSP in the suite are lovely colours.
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These are lovely! The mix pf papers on your cards is fabulous.
Beautiful cards Rebecca, love the colours you chose in your first card, and the daisy card is so pretty.
Lovely cards Rebecca, I am really starting to like lemon lime twist!
Lovely cards, Rebecca. I really like the medallion on your first card; very cool.
Great cards Bec! That Daisy DSP is so gorgeous and pretty. The LLT works great with the Eastern Palace bundle.
Beautiful cards and colours, I really love them both.


Is this food-friendly, moderately priced white "steeling" the spotlight from overoaked, overpriced, overhyped Chards?
Is this food-friendly, moderately priced white "steeling" the spotlight from overoaked, overpriced, overhyped Chards?
Ten years ago, we could probably have sampled all of the Sauvignon Blancs we could grab off retailers' shelves, from $7 on up to $50, and still had time left over before lunch. This year, it took Wine Enthusiast's tasting panel two or three weeks to evaluate Sauvignon Blancs for this tasting.
We knew early on that we would have to limit our 2002 look at this booming varietal. Motto, Kryla & Fisher, the Napa-based wine industry research firm, reports that there were 270 different bottlings of California Sauvignon Blanc alone last year. Add the bottlings from Sauvignon Blanc-heavy France and New Zealand, plus up-and-comers from Australia, Italy, South Africa and Spain, and we would have driven ourselves into a 700-bottle train wreck of a tasting feature.
We limited this survey to Sauvignon Blancs with a $15-30 retail price, which is just above the upper end of the varietal's $11-15 median retail price. Left out of the tasting were wines that are hard to find or allocation-only bottlings, and those that contained less than 75 percent Sauvignon Blanc. As a result of the latter restriction, many Sauvignon-Sémillon blends, particularly those from the Graves region of Bordeaux, were ineligible for review.
These wines were evaluated under controlled conditions: They were tasted blind, in flights of five, by three of Wine Enthusiast's tasting panelists. Our goal? To determine the overall quality of the wine that MKF says is poised to overtake in popularity Chardonnay, whose by-the-ton prices are declining at twice the rate that those of Sauvignon Blanc are rising. Our findings? That Chardonnay had best watch its back—this "alternative" white wine has price, food-friendliness and a racy, lighter style in its favor.
Of the 114 Sauvignon Blancs that Wine Enthusiast's tasting panel reviewed for this feature, 48 were from California, 20 were from France and 31 were from New Zealand. The other 15 came from Spain, Italy, Australia and South Africa, collectively.
The results of our evaluations confirm what you probably already knew: New Zealand makes consistently fine Sauvignon Blanc at this price point. More than half of the Kiwi entries (a full 16 of the 31 New Zealand offerings) scored 89 points or better—and all but three are from Marlborough, on the northeastern tip of the country's South Island. (The high proportion of good regional wines makes sense, given that two-thirds of the country's Sauvignon Blanc vines are in Marlborough.) Most, if not all, of these wines are cold-fermented in stainless steel.
By comparison, only 17 percent of Californian and 20 percent of French Sauvignon Blancs scored at least 89 points. While it may seem as though New Zealand runs circles around its two closest competitors, a more likely conclusion is that some of France's best Sauvignon Blancs retail for more than $30, and some of California's best cost less than $15.
What makes Marlborough Sauvignon Blancs so appealing are their pungent flavors and racy, sometimes bracing, acidity, which have everything to do with the region's climate—a long growing season and cool, breezy nights—and its free-draining, loamy terroir. George Geris, the winemaker at Villa Maria's Marlborough facility, also attributes the region's fresh flavors to "the stony ex-riverbed soils that devigorate the vines and concentrate the flavors in the grapes." Tropical fruit, gooseberry and zesty lime flavors are prevalent in wines from the region.
Entries from New Zealand's Hawkes Bay and Waipara appellations also fared well. Esk Valley and Mill's Reef from Hawkes Bay on the North Island, and Pegasus Bay from Waipara, on the east coast of the South Island, are a few of the non-Marlborough entries. Steve Smith, MW, winemaker for Craggy Range, has just harvested his first crop of Martinborough Sauvignon Blanc, and will be releasing this single-vineyard Martinborough Terrace Vineyard offering in the States in February 2003, along with two single-vineyard offerings from Marlborough.
The Loire Valley Sauvignon Blancs that we most admired did indeed adhere to the flinty profile that Elworthy describes. Didier Dagueneau's entry-level Sauvignon Blanc, the 2000 En Chailloux Pouilly-Fumé, has floral, quartzlike mineral flavors, with dust, smoke and lime aromas. The Sancerres that impressed us most, such as Lucien Crochet's 2000 La Croix du Roy and Pascal Jolivet's 2000 Les Caillottes, were zesty yet elegant packages of citrus and chalk, with some apple or melon fruit nuances.
"Chalky soil can demonstrate the very typical taste of Sauvignon Blanc from Sancerre," says Pascal Jolivet. His Caillotes (named appropriately, as "caillotes" is French for "chalk") is selected from 45- to 50-year-old vines, with yields of about 2.8 tons per acre.
California-style Sauvignon Blanc errs on the side of richness, not dryness. The state's typical Blancs offer stone fruit (particularly peach), tropical fruit, citrus and melon flavors; add smoke, spice and peppery flavors to that profile if the wine has spent substantial time in oak. These wines tend to be weightier and rounder than those from New Zealand and France. Our top Golden State picks include selections from Guenoc, rich with melon, pear and citrus flavors but nicely balanced, and Rochioli, which had nice talc-mineral flavors bookending tropical fruit flavors on the palate. Benziger's 2000 Estate Sauvignon Blanc had smoke and spice accents to its citrus fruit, thanks to judicious barrel fermentation.
Indeed, the wines that made the best impressions on the tasting panel were the ones that had little or no exposure to oak. We tasters were, on some deeper level, drawn to Sauvignon Blancs that didn't try to masquerade as The Other White Wine, Chardonnay.
California's Duckhorn and Cakebread bottlings (a moderate 32 percent and 15 percent of which, respectively, see French oak), says Hess, are among Sam's top-selling Sauvignon Blancs. Other California bottlings, such as Frog's Leap, are entirely tank fermented. Some California winemakers, at least, are making varietally true Sauvignons, and leaving the malolactic fermentation to Reserve Chardonnays.
Flowery in the nose, with hints of grass, green melon and mustard seed. The tangy, crystal-clean palate is loaded with orange, tangerine, nectarine and apricots. The long, flavorful finish features citrus pith, lime and minerals. If you want a combination of complexity and forwardness, this is your wine.
Lime, mineral and grass make up the pungent, pulsating bouquet. Apricots and peaches comprise the stone-fruit-dominated palate, which is touched up by a pinch of honey. There's a nice tang, and snap to the finish, which offers a little white pepper just to make things interesting.
Pink grapefruit is most pronounced on the otherwise soft, sweet bouquet. The mouth is tangy, with green apple and crisp pear in addition to green melon. In the mouth, there's a welcome creaminess. A long citrusy finish that offers plenty of sweetness closes things out.
Citrus and gooseberry define the all-fruit nose. In the mouth, you'll encounter the full allotment of cantaloupe, citrus and green herbs, particularly basil. The tangy finish is like grapefruit sorbet after a nice meal; it cleanses the palate, leaving no residue at all. It's refined, racy and tips the scale at just the right weight.
From the Awatere subsection of Marlborough, this wine is all about balance and tang. The nose offers cantaloupe, white peach and a welcome hint of green pepper. Tangerine and melon fruit mix on the palate, which is defined by its stony feel. The finish is ample and quite citrusy, and overall this wine features a bright, likable disposition.
What a clean, pretty fruit-and-flowers nose this has, and the flavors don't disappoint. Melon and citrus dominate, but it's all ripe fruit and not the least bit lean. The tail end is lengthy and layered, if maybe a bit chalky. But all in all this wine delivers the goods with a smile.
Right from the start this is clean, snappy and peppery, with an added touch of butter and honey. Lemon-lime flavors get a boost from fresh green herbs and white pepper, while the finish is spot-on. At one moment it's razor sharp and cleansing, and then it opens up to offer citrus and mineral.
Pink grapefruit, gooseberries and a floral accent mark the attractive bouquet of this winner. Round melon, kiwi and natural spice flavors do a dance on the palate, which also features red currants and more of the grapefruit present in the nose. The finish is lengthy and amply layered, so it goes out the way it comes in—with class.
Fans of New Zealand's SBs will like this wine's racy nose, which is packed with minerals, some stoniness, melon and a hint of grassiness. Citrus is in full force in the mouth, aided by a touch of green herbs and a white-pepper spice. The finish is elegant and offers hints of grapefruit. It's a youthful, fresh wine; one that will go well with salads or fish.
Score another for this Marlborough winery. Its SB mixes healthy doses of green pepper and snap peas with requisite citrus characteristics, and then underneath the surface there are notes of peach, melon and cream. It's a full-bodied wine, with a medium-length citrus finish and lots of texture and character. All in all it represents its homeland and the grape variety well.
White stone fruits, some smoke and toast, and ample spice makes the entrance to this wine really inviting. There's plenty of richness to the mouth, which is jammed with lemon, lime and a balancing dryness not unlike chalk. The fade is pure and dry, offering long nuances of spicy oak and white pepper. It's a wine that's integrated and satisfying.
Interestingly, there are dried fruits and flowers with a touch of petrol on the bouquet. This wine sits really nicely in the mouth, offering a plethora of lemon-lime, melon and pear flavors. It's rich and ripe, bordering on the heavy side. But it manages to toe that all-important line of balance, and therefore it qualifies as a winner.
In this vintage, one of Sonoma's top SBs scores points in all the requisite areas. A tiny bit of talc softens the tropical fruit bouquet. More exotic fruit is on the palate, highlighted by firm edges and some citrus rind. A bit of banana sweetens the long, dry finish, leaving you with the right overall impression.
Only the least of Dagueneau's wines is under $30, but a darn fine wine it is. Smoke, green herbs, flint and lime aromas and green fern, honeysuckle and powdered quartz flavors make for a complex drink that finishes ultraclean.
The catch-all nose offers grass, grapefruit, flint, vanilla and baking spices. What follows is a tasty blend of citrus, green herbs, Granny Smith apples and a welcome chalkiness. Round yet structured, this bottling offers most of what's great about Loire Valley white wine.
Among the range of Jolivet's 2000 Sancerres, Les Cailottes is the winner, hands down. It's zesty, with chalk and mineral qualities. The nose is clean, stony and pungent, while the flavors that come next are pure and ripe citrus and melon, with just a nip of honey. It closes out firm, round and full, and with elegance.
The tight bouquet tosses off a touch of mustard seed, lemon and lees. The mouth is full and round, bordering on plump. There is pineapple and mango to the sweet-fruit finish, and it goes down easily. It's the quintessential ready-to-drink Loire white.
Lutèce's Loire-raised chef, David Fèau, has such enthusiasm for the variety that he created a six-course organic vegetarian dinner, (available now until September) that's paired with Sancerres and Pouilly-Fumés. Even New Zealanders Elworthy and Geris extol the wine as food-friendly: Elworthy loves the wine with green-lipped mussels, baked in their half shells and covered with a spicy, tomato-based salsa; Geris declares rich, freshly caught salmon the best match with his wines.
"I've definitely seen a growing demand for Sauvignon Blanc this year," says Danielle Nally, wine director at New York's Lespinasse. "People who don't normally like white wines seem to be enjoying them, so they are great for large parties. And the price point makes them accessible to everyone." MKF's studies on current Sauvignon Blanc prices reflect their relative bargain status, particularly when compared to Chardonnay: The median price range for California Sauvignon Blancs is $11-15; that of California Chardonnay is $20-31.
Should we brace ourselves for the day that ultrapremium, limited-production $100 Sauvignon Blancs start hitting the shelves? Isn't that the natural progression for a variety that is all the rage when it's popularly priced? Next-big-thing watchers aren't holding their breath.
Vintners Sauvignon Blanc (Stellenbosch); $8.
Sauvignon Blanc (Sonoma County); $10.
Lake County, California, became the Sauvignon Blanc capital of the world for two days in May during the first International Sauvignon Blanc Symposium. Scores of California winemakers attended, as did a contingent from New Zealand and France.
Why Sauvignon Blanc? Because it's just about the only varietal left that doesn't have its own festival. "We're filling a gap," says David Weiss, chairman of Lake County's winegrape commission.
Why Lake County? Because it grows a lot of Sauvignon Blanc and the county is looking for a boost in the public and industrial eye.
There was plenty of buzz. With California Sauvignon Blanc sales growing at 5 percent a year—your mutual fund should do so good—interest in the wine has never been higher. And with the price of Sauvignon Blanc grapes expected to equal that of Chardonnay next year, the varietal has gone from dog to diva.