So, good morning, friends. I would like to make, first of all, a few remarks, which I am simply to thank the Interpol leadership for inviting me to take part in these expert meetings. And as the director just mentioned earlier, I was very much involved in the early trainings which took place in Arusha. And I'm glad with my new hat also to continue to work closely with Interpol. And with your permission, being in Lyon, this beautiful French city will allow me to continue my statement in French. I would like to say, first of all, that I would like to thank, very sincerely, Interpol for having organized this meeting today which comes to an end. Despite the misfortunes of the past, it remains in the world today probable cases of genocide, of war crimes, of crimes against humanity, or situations that lead to these atrocities. Prevent these serious crimes and the affair of all. No country can believe in the fact that every human being has played a part in prevention. You will come with me that the prevention of genocide and massive atrocities represent a huge task that requires the active participation of all the actors at all levels. It is only if the states, the regional and sub-regional organizations, the international organizations and the civil society have all the advice that we can seriously envisage to prevent these horrible crimes. In the final document of the World Summit of 2005, all the state leaders and governments have assumed the obligation that they should include individual and collective members to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, including the incitement to commit such acts. It is a remarkable achievement since, by this document, all the state members have committed themselves to prevent these crimes. To give them a concrete follow-up, we must take appropriate measures, especially to put in place appropriate structures and mechanisms. My experience as Secretary-General of the International Commission for Justice in Geneva is to identify the International Penal Code for the Rwanda and today, the functions that I assume as Secretary-General for the Prevention of Genocide have allowed me to understand that the possibility of massive mass atrocities has always been a delicate question for many states. In the whole world, the states are reluctant to admit that atrocities could be perpetrated or are perpetrated on their own territory. But we know very well that no state is entirely in the hands of these dangers. Mass mass atrocities can occur in any part of the world. Consequently, we must all remain vigilant and intervene as soon as the situation commands it. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Interpol leaders who have understood the issues of the fight against mass atrocities by periodically meeting experts from all over the world to reflect on the issues of prevention and repression of genocide. Interpol's mass atrocities are at the point of the fight that took place in this domain. If you allow me, I would like to very briefly expose the attributions that are mine as a special advice for the prevention of genocide, and more precisely, the thefts of my mandate, the entry into the enforcement of the capacity of the United Nations organizations and the international community in terms of analysis and management of information related to the genocide and the apparent crime. I would also like to explain how my office works, especially through training programs that he has put to the point. As you may know, it was only since July 2012 that I was appointed to this position by the Secretary General of Ban Ki-moon and its first functions since September. I have been supported on the work of my predecessor Francis Ding and on the conceptual framework that has led us to complete extremely complex and delicate missions that we have entrusted to us. To understand the attributions of the special advice for prevention of genocide, it is important to remember that this mandate was created in 2004 by the former Secretary General of the United Nations and is now following a request from the Security Council to remove the self-evaluation to which the organization was delivered after having failed, as everyone remembers, to prevent or stop the genocide of Srebrenica and Rwanda. In terms of the mandate, the special advice is to charge two, first of all, collecting all the information, especially within the United Nations system concerning the rare and massive violations of human rights and international law founded on the ethnic origin and the race and which, if nothing is done to prevent or stop them, can take the risk of genocide. Secondly, to make a quick alert mechanism for the Secretary General and pass on the intermediary to the Security Council by paying attention to all the situations that are at risk of genocide. Thirdly, to formulate recommendations to the Security Council by the Secretary General's intermediary on measures aimed at preventing or stopping all the genocide. And finally, to assure the relations with the United Nations on the activities of prevention of genocide and its efforts to improve the capacity of the UN to analyze and manage all the information related to the genocide crime and the connex infractions. The adoption of my office was extended in December 2010 in order to include all the situations that lead to a risk not only of genocide but also of war crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing be it the four types of crimes and violations aimed at the definition of the concept of responsibility to protect. This extension followed the decision of the Secretary General to create a bicephal structure, the Department of Prevention of Genocide and the responsibility to protect in order to keep in mind the particularity of the mandate of each of the two Special Councils and their complementarity. Dear friends, if I have to define in one word my role as a Special Council member, I will be the catalyst. Indeed, I have the mission to pay attention to the leaders of different organizations of the United Nations on the situations that have left them to evolve in order to get rid of genocide or apparent crimes and to mobilize efforts in favor of prevention. My role does not limit itself to drawing the signal of alarm but it is also possible to trigger, within the United Nations system, a direct reaction to prevent or cease crimes against God. And in this regard, two elements are decisive for the execution of my mandate, the management and the analysis of information and the ability to react actively and judiciously. As you remember, my predecessor, genocide can be considered as an extreme form of identity conflict, that is, a phenomenon that occurs in plural societies where different national, racial, ethnic or religious groups are caught up in. The intention of these groups does not come from their differences as such, but often from an unequal level of access to power and prosperity, to services and resources, to employment and development prospects, to the citizenship and to the exercise of freedom and fundamental rights. Since all states have a mixed population, no one should be considered to have such tension. Since then, the constructive management of diversity has appeared as an important strategy of prevention for all countries. The idea is that public powers must make sure that all groups of populations exercise their freedom and fundamental rights without discrimination and in equal conditions on civil, cultural, economic, political and social, as well as the international law of law. When populations are faced with an imminent risk of violence, it is too late to start the prevention work that must be done in a precondition way to dissipate the potential causes of tension between groups before the situation becomes uncontrollable. The states must give themselves structures and institutions must even protect the populations, national and independent institutions, strong and credible, who seek structural protection and are able to adjust in a peaceful and equitable way the differences and agreements between groups in respect of the majority of human rights and the principle of non-discrimination. In addition, to change the perception that a society of certain components is fighting against born or installed antagonisms, the feeling of opposition between the world and them, public teaching must be taught that includes values of the youngest. Let's go back to my mandate, in which the First Disposition prescribes the special advice to collect all the information. And to avoid this task, my office has put together a method of evaluation that gives a systematic character to its approach and has developed a system of management of information at least of which it collects and records useful information concerning the worrying situations around the world. And thanks to this system, my office receives daily confidential and public information providing different sources, especially the various centers of the UN situation, the civil society organization, the press organization of the university world, etc. In specializing in information, we proceed to an evaluation of the received information, we select those who present an interest and compiles in hebdomada and mensual reports that are issued to partner entities in the UN system. The office has also created a geographic data base in which information is recorded in relation to my mandate, such as the incidents affecting security, violence attacks and the rape of three people. This base offers the possibility to map the information and to perform quantitative analysis. On the other hand, the office has established a systematic analysis of worrying situations. It is a tool for evaluating risks applicable to all situations that comprise eight indicators or risk factors, such as the state of relations between groups of people and discriminatory practices aimed at such or such groups, the constitutional date of genocidal crime, the presence of illegal weapons and armed elements, the structural or conjonctural conditions putting the state in the inability to prevent a genocidal crime or the declining factors such as the lack of election or the non-constitutional power. This case is presented in the form of a document that you can, on the other hand, consult on our website. To be able to evaluate such or such situations in a deeper way, with the help of the analysis framework, my office is employing regional references that do circumstantial research, collect information from colleagues from the headquarters or local offices in the United States and experts from countries concerned with the organization of civil society, etc. And if the office does not manage to obtain the information that it needs to correctly evaluate a situation, an investigation mission can be sent on site. The conclusions are communicated by David, address to the Secretary-General and public statements. They also serve as internal decision-making processes for the Secretary-General at different levels. The management system of the information and the analysis framework developed by my office is for the United Nations. We use it in the same way, especially to collect and analyze the information on situations that lead to a risk of genocidal crimes, of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The framework has been largely diffused. It is now used by other departments, offices and institutions of the United Nations, for example, special rapporteurs on the contemporary forms of racism, the racial discrimination of xenophobia and intolerance associated with it. Regional organizations such as the African Union and the Economic Community of the United States of Africa have also adopted it. My office currently works on the elaboration of an analog analysis framework for crimes against humanity. For the help of other actors to identify the factors of risk and to intervene, my office joined in 2009 in a training program designed for the UN staff, the United States, the regional organizations, the civil society organizations. This program aims to strengthen their capacity to help them identify the factors of risk, to collect, evaluate and manage the information on these factors and to elaborate the mechanisms in the scope and to define and apply preventive measures. Our training stages on measures meet the particular needs of the participants. In the last three years, we have organized in 16 countries, such as Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, Lebanon, Poland, Thailand and the South, to participate in more than 25 nationalities. Our training program is in collaboration with partners of the UN system, such as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Governmental Organizations, such as the Auschwitz Institute of Peace and Reconciliation and the Siegeldagen Institute. Allow me to give you an example of what we do in terms of training. By adopting a protocol drawn from the Convention for Prevention and the Refression of Genocide Crime in 1948 and the Statue of Rome of the International Penal Code, the International Conference on the Region of Grand Lac has become the first sub-regional organ to take part in an exclusively dedicated mechanism to prevention and repression of mass atrocities. In 2010, it created a regional committee for prevention and repression of genocide crimes, war crimes, human rights crimes and all forms of discrimination in which members have decided to take legal and administrative measures in view of creating national committees. My office has provided technical assistance to the regional committee and to the three national committees created in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, especially by organizing training workshops on the implementation of strategies and pre-cross alert mechanisms and the elaboration of action plans for committees. At the end of October, I had these days in Uganda where I had very rich support with the highest government authorities. The representative of Interpol in Kampala is preparing my exchanges with the interior minister who asked for training for the Ugandan police. I gave my agreement and certainly Interpol will provide its support. As far as the small structure is involved in a vast mission, we are trying to use the resources at our disposal and by privileging the training of people who think they can influence things by relying on policies, decisions and measures aimed at improving the protection of the population against atrocities. The interest associated with this program and the support I receive are very encouraging. My office is also very concerned with the situation that is prevailing in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo according to reports that the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs was published in October 2012. More than 475,000 people were displaced in the country from the north and south of the eastern province since the current crisis in April 2012. A crisis that you saw in the images from last night on TV has become very, very disturbing. More than 50,000 people were refused in Luganda and 25,000 in Rwanda. Armed groups, especially the M23, the FDLR and the MISMAIMAI, are responsible for the killing of civilians of mass rape, of forced recruitment, especially in children's homes, of child abuse and torture acts among other violations. We must find the means to put an end to these atrocities. I would like to finish by observing that in January 2012, the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon wished that 2012 would be the year of prevention. Provinces have been accomplished this year by young democracies who are looking for a more representative institution. However, the tragic escalation of violence in Syria makes us measure the path that remains to be taken, before we even join together to prevent or stop atrocities and show how important it is to succeed. We all have a role to play to be effective in preventing the determination and initiatives at a local, national and international level, which means, in particular, 100 years to build tolerant and open societies to diversity. I would like to once again thank you for having organized this meeting of immense importance and for offering us the possibility to dialogue in a constructive way and to discuss these recent issues. I hope that this is not the only step on the path of the Union that allows us to transform speech and intention into act. I thank you.


So, to do this exercise, all you have to do is you can be seated or standing, it's just use your fingers and press into that part and then as you press into the part, just use the sound.  You can actually kind of like, to go deeper, you can actually collapse it, collapse so you can do, you can press deeper into there. It's kind of, you're squeezing out the negative energy and the color associated with this is yellow.


Jeremy, fel y bydd ac eisiau tyi'r wych, yn ymdeg o'r prifau? Ahef, fe hefyd, eich deithas iawn, esud rinnau'r newyddóon, a eich wneud, unrhyw rhaid i'r team yn y freifeynt, ac mae hyn yn byw'r freifeynt, mae hyn yn fwy mwyais yn grwresach. Ac mae'n bwysig eu gweld y maeth a'n ymgynghwil. Yn ddweud maen nhw, mae'n rhan o'n credu iawn. Reif, mae eich mwyaf, ac mae'r freifeynt. ac hynny, oes bydda i'w cullwch i ddyfynidol yn y sprynbryd a gweithio i gyd.EEוח ni o'r fats o edrych fel y dywedd, nad yw rhywbeth beth yn beth ymgyrch â ddi yn digwydd? Mae angen, roedd y ffaith ymlaen nhw. Mae y gallwn gwirionedd y peth neu rydyn ni'n gallu bod iawn o ffordd o blaen pwyllfa ymlaen. Dw i'n gwirionedd y ddoedd yma, o'r teimlo i'n 60 o 70 gydael a'r hyn i sicr fel legi. Mae'n rhaid yn ffordd o'ch gwedd a'r ffordd. I'm delighted with my performance and it's a good start to you. What were your first impressions of Vallipur Red as a Braffin City player you obviously played here before as a visitor? Yeah, it was fantastic. I think the fans stuck by us from the first minute to the last and I'm just delighted that we got the winning goal to send them home happy. I guess for you, the gaffer may have touched on it, you may have heard him in previous interviews. It seemed to have a similar pattern to a lot of the games that we've had here over the course of the season and the difference was that today we made it count. We took our chances and we got the points, I guess for you to be a part of that having already said that you want to be able to bring in product goals and assists, that's good. Yeah, I thought we actually started the game okay and then as you say that was kind of like similar games, we've got to go behind. I thought the boys showed great character as I just said before against 10 men and thankfully we got the three points in the end. You mentioned that character and again that's something that gaffers probably touched on over the course of the past few weeks and months particularly last week but we didn't have that cutting edge to be able to go and win the game. I guess being a part of that again today shows that it was a good move from his point of view bringing players like you in and that's what you want to be going and doing further forward. Yeah, definitely. I think first and foremost you always want to work hard as a player and that's what the fans always love but hopefully over the coming weeks when I get a bit more sharper, I can produce a few things going forward, add a few good touches today and stuff like that but hopefully I can produce more over the coming weeks as I get sharper. As you mentioned, you've all been in a couple of days and there have been you training a couple of days. I guess those relationships with your team mates as well although they looked good and positive here today will come and will develop. Yeah, I think I've only been at the club maybe three or four days so I'm still getting all the players as people and the way that they want to play so hopefully over the coming weeks I can get to know that a little bit more and hopefully it can stand us in good stead. You're confident this system and this way of playing particularly in the second half the way we came forward will bring the best out of you in a sense and ensure that you can get yourself on the score sheet and provide assist for your team? Yeah, I think so. Probably the 4-2-3-1. The 10 position probably suits me the best. As I've just said before, first and foremost it's all about getting three points but hopefully going forward as I get a little bit sharper I can get myself on the score sheet and produce a few goals from my team mates. I guess for you now it's positive having more time on the training pitch with a three week this week and the lead up to Rochdale. Get used to the team mates a little bit more and a little bit more training into your legs and get ready for that game. Yeah, definitely. It's clear for everyone to see I've not played a lot of football in the last maybe six, seven, eight months so I'm looking forward to getting back on the training pitch, getting to know the boys and obviously getting a bit more training in my legs.


The October What's Neat starts right now! The What's Neat show is sponsored by Lombard Hobbies. Your value hobby shop for over 40 years of modelers helping modelers. Big inventory, value pricing, fast shipping and great service. And by Bachman Trains. Now that's the way to run a railroad. Check out their website at BachmanTrains.com and thank you for helping us support the best hobby in the world. This is What's Neat for October 2022. I'm your host Ken Patterson and this month we've got a great show in that we go to the NMRE National here in St. Louis with seven great interviews including five manufacturers and two layouts. And so this is going to be a pretty good show that Lego layout is absolutely amazing. Also be sure to check out the What's Neat this week podcast that we shoot down here every Saturday night keeping you updated weekly on what's new in our hobby including new products, special guests and a lot of other great information that is this the best hobby in the world. You can look up the What's Neat show at WNIndex.com or you can Google WNIndex and there you will find an index for all of the What's Neat shows that we've done including the how tos, subject matter and everything else. But before we start this show I'd like to introduce you to Larry Harrington out in beautiful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that's going to update us on a lot of the new products that Bachman Industries now has. Larry, how are you today? It's great to have you on the show. Great to be with you today too. It was nice stopping by your actual studio the other day and getting to see how everything really works out there. It was really nice. Today we have a tremendous amount of items to go over. We've launched our annual NMRA announcements which is usually tooling or improvements to tooling or improvements to products. So we have a tremendous amount of products to share with you today. That's awesome. So I can start right off or if there's anything else you want to discuss before we go we'll just go into it. No, I'm very impressed with the new Assella. I was impressed with the new Transfer Combuse from Missouri Pacific in the paint scheme. It's totally killer. And that end scale narrow gauge locomotive that doesn't have a face on it. Now it's got a prototype front on it which lends itself well to people that want to model narrow gauge on their HO scale layouts. So pardon me if I look away but I'm going to use my second monitor here as a cheat sheet to see what I'm going through. The first announcement we have is and you can actually tell you for all the watchers out there and listeners go to our website www.BachmanTrains.com and in the upper right hand corner there's an icon says catalogs and brochures. You click on that. That'll take you to a digital version of all the products that I'm going to talk about today. So you can see the actual illustrations, you can zoom in, you can get all the information. So being new announcements we don't have a lot to share with you as far as the actual physical product at this point. But we're working on them actively. I did share a few with you when we were last month. Actual the girder bridge from end scale and the large scale announcements that are on the brochure. So I'm not going to repeat those again today for time purposes. But again go to the brochure, check it out. The first thing you were talking about was the Arcella 2. The new version of the Arcella that you're going to see in service soon. They're doing some testing on it right now. And we're going to sell that as we have in the past with a set. It's going to have several cars and two powered locomotives and a dummy locomotive. And that'll be the starter set for you. The basic you can run that, everything will work together fine. It'll come with the power pack and controller and also the loop of 22 inch radius concrete tie track. So that's one thing we just introduced last year was the concrete tie track. And it makes sense to have them with all the passenger service on the Northeast Carter because that's what the track is. Then also along with that we have the additional cars that you can purchase to actually make the entire nine unit train if you wish. So those will be separate sale items but those will be more for the modeler that wants to get the actual complete set. So we figured it might be a little large for a starter set for the beginner even if they like it.  So going in the next item we have an HA. We have two more paint schemes in the ACS-64. One people were screaming about was the Phase 3 train sim World 2 wrap that Amtrak has put on their locomotive. And as soon as that hit the rails, when are you going to do it? So we had to work through some licensing with train sim and dovetail and we did that and we were able to introduce that for this brochure. So we have that and along with that we're also going to do the tribute to the gun unit for the David Elgun number 600. So we'll have that. A lot of people have asked for that one as well. So that will come as the previous one with full sound from Well Sound. It's got the keep alive and all that good stuff and lots of sounds. So very good quality. The next item we have is either love it or you hate it. This is the HO BL2. It's always been kind of a model that I thought was a pivotal model and a pivotal prototype in the industry that got us all the jeeps. If we didn't have the BL2, we wouldn't have the jeeps these days. So BL2 was not the most successful locomotive, but it was on a good number of railroads. I think there's at least nine different including demonstrator plus there's multiple paint schemes so that the model has some life. It's one thing when we pick a locomotive or piece of rolling stock, we have to be able to have multiple paint schemes in order to pay for the tooling expense down the road. Very cool. Very cool. Next item, we're chock full of passenger equipment. So the Amtrak modelers and passenger models will be real happy. We've announced it previously but not officially. We're doing the venture cars for both the VIA rail so that you can make your complete set because we did announce the VIA charger locomotive previously but not the cars. But now this will have all the cars in the consists including the cab car that will have prototypical details. And then we're also doing at this time the coach for the Amtrak Midwest or the i.coach. That's the only one that's currently on the rails. We probably will do additional models as they are delivered but right now that's the only ones out there. Also an HO, next is a chemical tank car with platform. And we're doing this model. We did show this at the show so I'm going to go over quickly but it does have two different domes for the different prototypes. So that's it for that and let's see what else we got here. We got as you said before with the transfer caboose and I got numerous emails from Missouri Pacific modelers saying this is not a transfer caboose. This is a short bay caboose and I am aware of that. But we have to kind of have one name for a product when we introduce it in the catalog. So we're doing it as a transfer caboose. You can call it, when you put it on your layout you can call it whatever you want. But we do know that that was a mainline caboose. So as you mentioned in the narrow gauge line now we're taking the narrow gauge Fletcher Jennings 042T locomotive. We got one in front of you there. I love this locomotive. It runs really good. Now are you anticipating putting DCC in this or will that be DC? Right now just DC. It's awfully small. It is small. I'm sure that it's possible to get DCC in there. We've done it with small models before. We've done it with an in scale 44 tunner. So I think it's possible but I can't promise that until I actually look at it. Okay. So also in H.O. and Thomas and friends we have Bow which is a 440 American character that was in one episode. And we have Rebecca. And then we will be introducing some, excuse me, I can't read the screen here. Some narrow gauge box fans. No, not narrow gauge regular. No, it is narrow gauge. I'm sorry. We have these box fans in every gauge and scale. So it's Thomas's Doug Blaine's realm of expertise. I'm not always as up on the products as I should be. But I should be able to read. We love Doug Blaine. He is the king of Sodor. Oh yeah, king of Sodor. So we're doing, this is by the way, our first introduction into the train business was Plasticville. If you know the history behind Plasticville we made, I believe the first thing we made was a lot of people used to make Christmas gardens, especially people from Germany and Poland and they used to make, they call them putzes I think, where they used to make a little diorama under their tree. So the first thing we did I believe was like a garden fence. And then we expanded the line to include houses and numbers of other things as well. Telephone poles, light posts, things of that nature. That happened 75 years ago. Yes. So that's when we really started getting involved in trains was 75 years ago. So we're in tribute. We're making a special addition in both HO and end scale for models in each of the HO using the box. People have the original artwork that we used when we promoted the items. It'll never be out of date when I was in fourth grade for Christmas. I got my first Plasticville buildings that came in a set of six and that absolutely made my four by eight Tycho layout for me. And you know to this day, I mean I personally have model train collection and I know lots of other people do it. If you acquire a collection of any kind, of any size, you're going to find Plasticville of some sort in that box. So it's been around for a long time and it is the standard. A lot of modelers have made serious models out of the gas station because that is the one kit that as I recall it's based on a prototype. Well actually if you've seen our Thomas layout at some of the shows that we take it to travel around and usually the world's greatest hobby. My colleague Ray Butoe built a really neat mining thing out of the coal tower. So it's pretty neat. So I'm sure you can look online to find it somewhere. So to continue on here we have an end scale. We kind of had a soft announce earlier with the ALC 42 because there was speculation since we did the SC 44 that we would be also doing the ALC 42. So we'll be doing the ALC 42 and four different items. One would be the day one paint scheme as we did in HO. Then we'll do the phase six and then we'll do two of the phase sevens that just hit the rails.  But we'll do the phase seven soon to follow in HO as well. That wasn't officially announced but you know it's coming. Yes. Some of my favorite Amtrak locomotives. They're killer.  We worked very closely with Siemens. We worked with TCS and between all the companies we got probably one of the best diesel models we've ever built. With the sound and light functions it's incredible. Next end scale item is SD 40-2. We'll have that available in four road names. The Santa Fe, CSX, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific. Now we've done something and we get criticized for this sometimes but darn it, it's fun. And you know what, fun should be part of the hobby and we've done it in HO, we've done it in large scale and now we're doing it in end scale. It's the animated stock car. It has the two animals that Bob in and out and you know what they sell very well. So the critics out there are the purists that say it's a bobblehead car.  I agree. And they'll see all that will bring excitement to your layout. They're not going to care what a prototypical locomotive is but if they see that horse bobbin in and out you may have a new hobbyist there. So we're going to induce those in four paint schemes. CBNQ, Union Pacific, Baltimore, Ohio and a famous Christmas reindeer car. So while we're at it we're also going to do the stock car which hasn't been in our line for a while Actually I made a mistake, I'm sorry the animated car will be rear grand not B&O the B&O will be in the standard stock car. We'll have C&N, excuse me, Canadian National New York Central and Pennsylvania will be the other three road names in that gathering there. End scale continues. We'll have the drop-end gondola, 52-foot 6-inch gondola. So we'll do that in Frisco, Great Northern, New York Central and Union Pacific. Nice. And we'll share some of these images with you so you can put them up on your screen when you are doing the actual final cut here. And the bridge I talked about, we'll skip over that. We've got the Gordon and End Scale and Toad and End Scale for the Thomas End Scale fans there. Now on to our O&30 line. Yes. We're bringing back with some improvements the O&30 280. Consolidation. Consolidation. So we're doing a painted unlettered version. We're doing a United States Podash version and a White Pass and Yukon version. Nice. All will feature details to the prototype and this model will feature our first Tsunami II decoder from Soundtrack. So it's going to be a very nice sound package and this will also have some upgrades to the drivetrain as well. And then as I mentioned with Plasticville we'll have four items in O scale as well as HO. And then on to large scale we made the announcements at the show of the GP-40. Yes. That'll be in CSX, Norfolk Southern, Santa Fe and Union Pacific. We also, people, we did the end of train device and the large box car, the 53-foot Evans car and people said, I want the car too. So we decided to introduce another number without the end of train device for the ones that we had the end of train device for and then we also added two numbers of the Tropicana Orange juice box car. Nice. So that's, and then also pairing up with the 129th scale, large scale items the 100-ton Bethel and Ames steel hopper which will have the Pennsylvania Power and Light, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific and each one of those will come in two road numbers. Nice. So, and then we'll have the, in Thomas' large scale we'll have the museum coaches and the museum brake coach. So, and then winding it all up here we have some items in our O gauge line, the Williams line where we continue to add on to the Easy Street line which is, we'll have a vehicle, kind of a morbid thing, but it could be for Halloween to hearse an ambulance and a station wagon. So we will introduce those sometime next year and also we'll have a track pack for the Easy Street to, so you have everything you need right out of a box to make an oval of track. That's cool. And finally, last but not least, we have the much anticipated upgrade to Easy Command. It's the Easy Command Plus model. Okay. This will allow you to do more things than everybody, a lot of people grew up with Easy Command. We've probably made tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of units of the Easy Command. And it's got a lot of people into DCC but there was always some limitations and now we have less limitations. So this model will have feature the ability to address all 28 function buttons. It will have 128 speed steps. It will have an emergency brake option which just will address the current locomotive that is being operated. And it'll still have the emergency stop for the entire layout which kills power to everything but the emergency, the e-brake as it's referred to will just stop the one locomotive you're currently controlling. And it has a speed indicator as well. So when you switch between locomotives you can see approximately how fast you're going when you go between different locomotives. It still supports the one analog operation so those people are transitioning from analog to DCC can still take advantage of having it on their layout. And then it also has the ability to control our turnouts with the, you can turn eight different turnouts with the Easy Command unit. That's very cool. That's a lot of new products and that's what I've seen. It's a lot of new products. One of the most I think we've ever introduced at NMRA. So it's going to be a busy year for me. It is. It's going to be. I look forward to that Osella. I can't wait to see that running down here. That's exciting because on the last podcast 207 we in fact talked about the Narrow Gauge ON-30 consolidation that's coming out with sound. That's exciting. I want to start a new project layout for that which I think will be very entertaining all through 2023 as we build that. But this Osella again is very exciting. It's a beautiful model and I can't wait to see it. We can't wait either. It's going to take some time for development because it's a complex model but we're going to make sure it's right and deliver it. By the way, that is sound ready. That'll be DCC sound ready. So we'll have a speaker installed and a 21 pin plug so you can plug your favorite decoder in there. That's very cool Larry. So that rounds it out for the Bachman New Products for this month of October. Is that right? That's right. Hopefully we'll have some samples of new stuff the next time we talk. We love it when you introduce our viewers to all the new products like you've had. So with that now let's continue on the Annamarie Show 2022 here in St. Louis for the October What's Neat? Hello, this is Michael Gross and you're watching What's Neat with Ken Patterson. Today we're at the Annamarie National 2022 convention in St. Louis, Missouri. Right now we're in Collinsville, Illinois at the Gateway Center and I've got Joshua and Daniel from the podcast with us today. Guys tell me you've been here for one day so far. This is our second day at the show. What do you think starting with you Josh? Just amazing all these layouts so you can see all the functionality of all the trains, all of the vendors that are here. It's just amazing all the things to see here. You need more than one day. You need all three days. Right. I agree. Daniel have you spent any money yet? Not yet. Maybe tomorrow. What do you got in mind? A lot of things in mind. I might have that new Blue Dummy Decoder soundtracks came out with which I think we're going to have an interview here with George pretty quick. Yeah that's some pretty exciting news. The Decoder that works on Bluetooth with your phone. You can optimize all the settings no more CD programming but just stay tuned for that. Right so with that we're going to do some interviews look at some layouts, a few manufacturers and just see what's all exciting here in this show. I'm standing here with Samantha Pogue from Woodland Scenics in Lynn Creek, Missouri and you are the director of marketing of this company that has made our layouts beautiful for years and years because with your products I can do that too is the way it really is. Tell me about your passion for the hobby. I've been watching you do these clinics and you've just got this personality that radiates when you're doing your presentations. Oh well thank you so much. I really do love these products. What I love about them most is that they're so easy to use. We have little kids six, seven years old all the way up to older modelers that have been experienced models and they never even tried their hand at scenery before and they are doing it for the first time and they're all doing it so easily that's what is so great about our landscape products. Anyone can do it, you can't mess up and it all looks so realistic for your model train layouts. That's absolutely awesome. Now you've got a couple of new products that you're announcing here at the NMRA show. Tell us about those. Okay yeah our first one which is going to come out early this fall it's one of our newest built and ready buildings it is our toy and hobby junction and it comes in N, H, O and O scales and the nice thing about the toy and hobby junction is that you can actually see the interior it has a very highly detailed interior with little airplanes on a couple of the scales that hang from the ceiling which is so cool and all kinds of little fun things that you would see in a toy and hobby store and you can see them from each side of the building which is so cool from the windows because it's a two-story building which is brand new for us we've never done that before that actually can see both levels now that kind of joined some of our other recent buildings that came out earlier this year like the Smith Brothers TV and appliance that has little TVs that flash and also our Miss Molly Steiner and our Carver Sputcher shop so both of those it's really exciting to have this new edition we've had a lot of interest about it so far That is really cool and I love those flashing TV screens in that building I know, are they so neat? Yes What a neat concept the design guys hats off to them Oh my gosh that helped design your products now you've also added to the just plug lighting system tell us about the exciting new signals Oh, we're so excited to announce this so we have our brand new traffic lights okay it's a great accessory for any model layout that you have and what's so nice about it is they're kind of modeled after the 40s and the 50s but there's still traffic lights that you're going to see on roads and at intersections busy intersections today we have three different kinds we have the pedestal which is one that you see kind of in busy historic downtown areas then we have a mast arm that kind of hang over the intersection nice and then we also have a suspended flashing so this one actually has a yellow flashing signal like you would see it a rural intersection a kind of poshing to the hey, slow down before you move through the intersection and they're all common NHO and O scales they're all very highly detailed weathered, authentically weathered so they're a great addition and they plug simply plug right into your light hub with the just plug lighting system it's that easy it's amazing the LED seemed to last forever the concept of it is so easy and that you can hook it up we actually made it what's neat video on the entire product line about 2017 and it came out really good good, thank you so much for that so Samantha, thank you so much for sharing all the new products with our viewers on what's neat great, thank you so much Ken, I appreciate it I'm standing here with the amazing Steven Priest and Steve you've made some major announcements at this show including a new wonderful company in our industry thank you tell us about that well, we're actually going into the model rare production aspect of the the great hobby of model rarity oddly enough I've been producing models for other manufacturers for years and years and years we produced hundreds of models for other companies as a contract company for them so at this point we decided hey, you know we're kind of foolish if we don't just go ahead and go the extra nine yards and kick her on off and start our own company so we decided to do that and so we've started Class1ModelWorks.com primarily we're going to be selling direct but we will work with a certain group of select hobby shops that we have been vetting over the last probably six months or so and we have our first products in China being produced and we'll talk about those a little bit today okay okay I'm excited because I've seen them tell us what they are okay, so we've got currently we've got some interesting intermodal cars we've got a TW F10 which is a fantastic unique intermodal car but had a very special place in the intermodal world and if you're an intermodal fan you'll real quickly recognize that these cars look like nothing else they have a special or unique truck underneath them and they were designed to carry very heavy container cars in service because instead of carrying the weight of the car in the bolster which is a center pin they actually carry the cars on the outer edges of the car which is why they have this large structural area around the car around the ends of the car and the point of that is is basically to just distribute the load of the car differently so extremely unique cars and they actually have the names or the nickname of Dreadnought or Battleship in the railroad world because they kind of look like a battleship sitting low in the water Cool cars we designed them they're all metal with plastic detail parts and etched parts on them and they run beautifully and of course they have a never before produced wagon union truck which is something that's never been produced in the hobby before and track extremely well and are really selling quite well we're actually kind of stunned at how well they're moving right now so we're enjoying it the intermodal guys are enjoying it especially so we're bringing them out in three versions as delivered kind of an intermediate service life and then a late service life version that has some built-in weathering to it and some patching on it which as you know as modelers that's kind of an neat thing to do that because it kind of gives them a history through time via paint we also have containers for these we have two types of containers we have a monon and a Hyundai container and that's what these are here a couple varieties each we're going to be doing a lot of these containers and they're have never been done before especially with the raised outer supports and this level of detail so these are selling well as well so we're extremely happy with that I'm going to run B-roll on the next product you're going to talk about tell me about this beautiful center depressed flat car okay so it's interesting heavy duty flat cars had two purposes the first purpose was to obviously carry things that was heavy but the second thing was is to have a center that was depressed so that you can carry a taller load and a lot of people don't realize that part of the design of that was the taller load not necessarily the heavy duty so what we've done with that car is we've basically produced it it's going to have a metal frame as well outside roller bearings and things like that as well that are functioning as these cars do they have outside operating roller bearings the neat thing about the car is is that everywhere it had them I mean virtually everywhere it had that car they generally had one or two some had as many as 15 and they started in 1950 in their production and they're still out there today so there's an incredibly long run on them so you a lot of roads like Union Pacific you can put them in three or four different paint schemes because of just the longevity of the life and you can that's awesome so it's awesome they're awesome now you also made a new locomotive announcement that's coming out tell us about that so we're bringing out a GP40 and he's so anyway we're bringing out a GP40 and that GP40 is there have been a couple models out there produced before but they're getting a little long in the tooth as you may know and so the GP40s are are kind of ripe for a locomotive to get in and produce and I talked with a lot of people in the model rare world Brian Banna and a lot of the other guys and when we were originally doing this kind of ran kind of a an informal survey and Brian and some of the people said hey man you got to do the GP40 first because that's just fresh for picking I'm like okay here we go so we grabbed a hold of that and we're doing a lot of different body styles on it we're also doing things that have never been done in the model rare world industry before such as a steppable height if you look at the drawings over there there are two steppable heights which is basically the height of the stairs on the end of the engine the steppable else from the ground and there's two separate versions of that we're doing as well as a variety of jackpads and some other things like that complete animation in them sound obviously and then some other neat lighting features and things like that so as a hardcore you know modeler man this stuff right up my field and I love it you have a passion like no one else in this hobby I've watched you for years I think we met back in the early 90s at a Santa Fe modelers meet out in Kansas City and it was a joy to see your first layout that was in the condo and you've had so many other since we've had 16 layouts we built 16 layouts you're such a leader in our hobby and we can't wait to see what you do next and we really appreciate you sharing all your new wares with the viewers of what's neat thank you appreciate it I'm standing with Richard Glatter and this is a Lego layout otherwise known as LGMS the Lego gauge modular standard so this is actually a standard that we as the Lego community have come up with we actually came up with it after the Kansas City animal show we got together we filmed our display there we had about six individual layouts there and we decided hey why don't we all get together and come up with a standard so that we can all display together in one big layout nice idea so this is what we came up with so our standard just like any other traditional monorail road standard we define where the track goes we define track height all of that and that's all that we define in our standard we keep it pretty simple there are definitely a lot more nuances just like every other standard but this is our display it's amazing I do recall from that last interview y'all don't glue your stuff together you keep it so that you can make modifications along the line absolutely we do not glue anything I won't say we don't glue anything we do glue a couple of things there are some detail parts that tend to fall off especially in transportation that we might glue on just so that things don't fall apart but for the most part no glue all of our models are also scratch built so the vast majority of our rolling stock and locomotives we design from the original line drawings that we go out and find just like the scratch builders do and they're all designed from there we of course we do have some fun things too some non prototypical trains around too that the kids love but it's also fun to have very prototypical, very accurate models absolutely now is this battery powered? yes, everything is battery powered we use a couple of different control systems we use LEGO's control system which is power functions and powered up the power functions uses infrared control powered up uses bluetooth nice we also we don't have anyone here this weekend that is using it but we do have some people that use air wire okay and now after this weekend I'm sure that most of the people in the Model Rare community are familiar with Blue Rail or Blue Nami sorry, it's Sunday afternoon at the end of the show so we have actually bought those decoders and installed them here at the show fantastic, so you know they work absolutely, they work great walk us around some of the feature scenes on this layout that you like okay, absolutely so across the front of the layout here this is three modules from three individual builders but they work together in a combined scene and it was actually a happy accident that they worked out that way but this sort of factory scene kind of flows throughout the warehouse and then into kind of a more rural town area this was from three different builders one of the builders is from Indiana one of the builders is from Pennsylvania and the other one is from Texas and they all just kind of work together as we work our way more around the layout, you can see a cool beach scene this display has actually been around for a few years and it's been at many of our LGMS displays as an LGMS community display just at train shows like this, we also display at LEGO hobby shows and comic conventions and that sort of thing this display just to give a little bit more information is put on by members from all over the country but we are also members of individual clubs as well that we call LUBS LEGO user groups so we're all various members of our own local LUBS so as we move on into the huge buildings here cranes and the skyscrapers that are under construction so that is built by a member in Wisconsin and he's always built very big buildings and they're amazing on display here he has actually they're actually shrunk they go taller we run out of space here and when they set up their full display with their full log and they can go taller the only reason they can go taller is because they have a six foot six member that stands on the top of an eight foot ladder to be able to put the buildings altogether we actually had some interesting things happen this weekend that one of the towers started to lean so that was fun to try and figure out how to fix that but it is it's very cool what you can do with LEGO yes it's an amazing medium that we can just do anything with you can go from completely prototypically accurate train models to fantastic skyscrapers all with the same bits and blocks that's amazing as we continue to move through the layout we have a scene of a rail yard and that is a local rail yard to the member who built it so it's accurate to his local rail yard okay so he also has a lot of maintenance away vehicles all over his layout including the rail train where they use to lay rail yeah that's cool and it does actually run so moving to kind of more of our fun LEGO scene our amusement park it adds a lot of motion the roller coasters are amazing yes, yes they are one of them is an actual LEGO roller coaster the other one is made by a company called Coaster Dynamics okay and they're a lot of fun they're definitely a lot of work to keep maintaining but it takes a few days long it takes some work but it's all fun that's awesome and then the last module section that we have is a western scene that one of our builders built and also in the western scene he also has an ironclad ship which is actually the Cairo so it's actually the Cairo which was actually built here in St. Louis and it's on display in Vicksburg Mississippi this is a testament to what you can do your passion is obvious all over this work you guys have done a fantastic job thank you so much for sharing this amazing art with the viewers of What's Neat absolutely thank you very much good job hi I'm here with Denny Yelzma from Yelzma Graphics and if you remember in 2018 he was my very first interview on What's Neat and we're here now in 2022 and such amazing array of things you have Denny how are you oh I'm great Josh to me this is homecoming because like you say that was your first interview you did with me and you did such a great job and I'm so proud of you and I see you on the show all the time and I'm proud to say hey I know Josh and people ask me all over the shows all over the United States and they'll say hey what kind of a guy is Josh and so it's a thrill and it's a thrill to be back here in St. Louis this hobby is such a thrill and everybody is so nice and down through the years you know we've been doing this for 37 years wow and people have come by the show here and it's just so heartwarming and they'll say hey I bought a jacket from you 30 years ago and I still have it and I think wow and so it's just great to be back here I see all these hats behind me you have everything from Alco on this side to the Zephyr way on that side it's an amazing array of everything let's talk about this jacket here this jacket is absolutely amazing well this is the 25th anniversary of BNSF and this has been such a great seller the guys just love it it has all the logos and you know like I grew up in the cornfields of Iowa and I watched the Q go by so naturally I like the Q but I just you know watching these trains and you gotta be a real fan you gotta have a good quality jacket out there and that's a beautiful jacket all this stitching I mean this is thousands of individual stitchings on this jacket and that's not even mentioned this stuff down here that's individually sewn and it's just an amazing product this is a great durable material I have two of these actually one is my railroad and one is what's neat and I absolutely love these jackets I can't wait till fall to break them out yeah they're it's just to me it's just a work of art making them for guys and when they combine and show off their jackets and you know we do these for clubs also and it's just a thrill to see 10 guys go by and you know a jacket like this and so this is definitely art this is not just some stitches on there this is time consuming this is you have to have an artistic eye for this in order to get this and this is beautiful stuff and I saw this this is going to go home with me I love these beanie caps you have such a wide array and these are new for you correct well yes we have the you know the beanie cap then we have the traditional stocking cap and we have 1360 logos and you have the logo or you ask me what the logo is I'll have it and if I don't have it we'll make it for you well good it's very nice seeing you Denny I'm glad you're having a good time and come to your local train show because Denny's probably going to be there I'll see you later Hi I'm Dan with What's Neat and today we're with George from Soundtracks and we're here to interview him about a very new product and I think it's going to revolutionize the industry and moderating sound so George why don't you tell us about this new product so Daniel we're really excited this week we've got our brand new Blue Nami product now this is a play on the word tsunami and Bluetooth because it is a Bluetooth control direct from our app on our iPad and iPhone direct to the decoder inside your model so it is a DCC based product so you do still have DCC control but now you also have the added benefit of Bluetooth direct so you can buy a decoder a Blue Nami now install it in your model and run it with your other trains but if you want to have that extra level of control and I'm going to show you some of these really cool features here in just a second you can use the app now right now in front of me let's take a look and see what the app can do alright so show me all the features here of this new Blue Nami app sure so first off we have our app right now I've got our Union Pacific I dialed that up specifically for you so we're going to do our 2045 this is our G scale GP38-2 right here behind me now I have full control through the app so I can blow the horn and it's very responsive so take a listen to this so that's a direct response from the Bluetooth control directly to the decoder inside so I have full throttle control as well so I can run the locomotive forward and then I can run it in reverse and all of it is using this app now as you see this is the very basic screen to start off with operation but if you want to access the higher functions there's a little button right here on the side pulls out a little short menu and there's access to the first 14 functions and then you can go to the next 14 functions by hitting the second button there's the rest of it including your extra lights so you can turn on things like the class lights and the number boards directly on the locomotive just by using the app now this is how you can control it and so with the app open you'll gain access to throttle and direction without closing this window so you'll always have immediate contact control now where this is really going to shine there's two aspects that I want to show you is one down here we have a gear we have a settings this is basically a full decoder setup menu no longer have to deal with CVs directly so if I want to go through and change the air horn for example I just click this here where it says sound settings now I go to main sounds and I'll scroll down here where it says horn and I can click that pulls up the full menu and let's pick a different one we're going to pick that right there if I want to hear it get the sample and you can hear that instantly change if I want to adjust the volume I simply change the volume so that way before I leave the settings menu I can actually hear the sound and make sure I'm happy with the settings so all of this is completely setupable through the app I think I just made up a word there setupable that's great so anyway we're really excited about this because if you do still want to set CVs so let's say you know what CVs you want to do and you don't want to find them in the app great you hit the CV settings you can go through and actually program the CVs directly now all of this is stored in the decoder itself so if you were to set it up using the app pick it up and put it on your DCC layout all the settings are still there so you're not setting it here you're setting it there, you're just using the app to do that now here's one of the added benefits I want to show you usually when you get a new decoder let's say you were setting it up on your DCC system you want to read all CVs that takes several minutes watch this, we're going to hit the button read all CVs and we're done that's it I've just read all my CVs so if I was to program a CV directly using the DCC system and I want to see where that is I just read all my CVs so now I can get that in there so I'm going to show you the last really really cool thing so you have all these settings, actually there's a lot of cool things so I'm going to show you the last one in order to keep this short because we can talk for an hour so dynamic digital exhaust you can auto calibrate using the app what I really want to talk about is Consist so you and I have done a video on Consisting before so we've talked about lead locomotive and their settings, middle locomotives and the settings and the rear locomotive well here's how you can do this now you tell the app which one is the lead unit and you determine which functions turn on and off using the app and this will set it up so like say for example if you're lead locomotive you don't want to turn on something a light for example you can just turn it off we want to change this with our middle locomotives and our rear locos because you'll notice here when I open up the mid-loco there's no bell, there's no air horn there's no short horn it's all turned off, if I want to enable it I can simply just click it so this allows you to build your Consist now let's build a Consist really quickly with these locomotives behind me I have my Union Pacific and I have a small little HO scale Mopac SD40 so of course between you and I we're going to make that Mopac the lead unit alright let's do it so we're going to use this, we're going to use this arrow we're going to go to the control for the Mopac SD40 this chain down here on the bottom we're going to hit this chain link and you're going to see Consist A, B, C and D so you have up to 4 Consist that this unit will be able to talk to unlimited number of locomotives other than your track power so I can have 30 locomotives and a Consist if I want to collect this we're going to select Consist B so now we're set up to Consist B so now I have control of this SD40 so now we're going to go back to the Union Pacific 2045 we're going to make that its trailing unit so we're simply going to click the chain we're going to do Consist number B and look my throttle went away because it's Consisted now so I have two settings this is my rear locomotive and we're going to make it facing backwards so we're going to make sure that it knows it's facing backwards so now I'm going to go back to my Mopac SD40 I'm going to start moving him forward and you're going to notice that they're running in opposite directions because the way I built the Consist they're back to back okay so I have full control when I blow my horn it's coming out of the SD40 but now when I get to the end of my run I'm going to turn and I want to go back to the depot I come over here to my Union Pacific 2045 we'll go ahead and make that the lead so we push the lead button make lead now this locomotive is the lead we have our sounds what there they are we have our throttle we're going to go in forward here we're going to start moving and you're going to notice that the locomotives are now moving as they would if they were to reverse direction but all my horn and bell now have moved to what is now the lead unit Consisting is the breeze with Blue Nami so when you and I did a conversation before we set CV 19 21 22 245 and 246 and just to thank a jam drive what I use it also takes what 30 minutes maybe set up all individual functions and stuff like that so now you can have a fleet of Blue Nami we can run them using the app we only you're using the track for track power so think about this DC or DCC track power will work these Blue Nami is fantastic but think a little one step further battery power onboard battery power those garden railways Ken I know you have a garden railway we're going to have to get some in your hand once they're available but this is an unofficial official announcement of the large scale version coming next so we will have a Blue 4408 coming next so if you're not already subscribed to our newsletters or our YouTube channel make sure you do so that you'll be surprised of when those come out but this weekend we're selling our Blue Nami Blue 2200 which is the HO scale universal decoder retail price is 169.95 and so this makes it so much easier so if you're doing one railway with battery you're doing DCC with track power for you analog guys out there that are still using track power guess what your holdout is paid off now you have access to be able to run this and so maybe we'll try to see if we can get Mike Buddy to actually get some sound decoders in his locomotives because he no longer has to have DCC no he doesn't no George I think it's phenomenal when I saw the first announcement I'm like okay they got something cooking but I look at it bluetooth it makes sense you know as like you said you link it up to your phone and then a guy doesn't have to spend maybe $500 to start out with on his command system you know which they're normally $500 for a radio system like that but I think this is definitely going to revolutionize the sound industry as a whole yeah it's definitely a big change and we're really excited about it we've got a lot of buzz it's been busy I mean it's taking you guys almost two days to get over here it's been so crazy over here but what's really been fun I'll share this little story with you so when we had some of our first customers after the ad went out we started getting asked about this from some of the Lego guys the guys that are modeling in Lego they do some amazing work out there but they're all on board battery control they said oh my god this is fantastic so this morning this is Saturday we came in and I was greeted at the booth with a handful of Lego guys right here at the booth waiting for us they had built a model last night to put in their train so they had it running they came over we played with some settings we got it going and they're in a separate room here at the show as I'm sure you'll see in the video but Sean our marketing manager went over to go take some pictures and they applauded as he walked in the room you want to talk about that and the families are pointing oh my god that one has sound so this is really exciting we're really happy about this and we're hope we're excited that we'll be having more formats coming out soon down the line so this is really but like I said if you're still using DCC you can still use it so we're good to go that's great I'll definitely be getting my orders in very very soon so do so because they're selling fast all right George why thank you very much for your time you're getting a great product and that's excitement for what's neat I'm standing here with Ken Silvestri from Broadway Limited Models that amazing company that makes such beautiful steam power and diesel locomotives both in HO and N scale right and Ken you've been working for this company for many years we've known each other tell me how much fun it is to be in the hobby you love we love what we do you always hear that well you don't work if you do well we still do work it's not a vacation at all it's hard work but we love it at the end of the day I always feel like we're in the entertainment business we make things that bring people joy and the biggest thing the best thing that's ever happened to me is people come in and say you know for Christmas morning I got up and there was one of your locomotives there so we touch these people on Christmas morning yeah how good is that that's awesome it is the best hobby in the world it is now you've got some amazing new products that you're announcing here at the NMRS show tell us and these will be available between now and December okay and we'll start off with the my favorite steam locomotive is the Limburg special Vania E6 the 442 diecast smoke sound all of the Broadway the quality and I think what's special about that locomotive is that it's small enough that it looks at home on every layout it's a huge layout or a small layout it's a nice size and tons of pulling power all our stuff has tons of pulling power that's amazing right behind it is the Commodore Vanderbilt again another diecast smoke sound all the bells and whistles the stream line is beautiful and yeah or it's been called the inverted bathtub which doesn't sound so nice but it's still a good nice thing next we have in the back there is the blue goose which is a locomotive that if it's on any layout draws immediate attention it's just pulls your eye to it and again it's that's a hybrid locomotive and it's our smoke our sound all the bells and whistles because all of our electronics are essentially the same that go from locomotive to locomotive right that's amazing it's all good and then scale we have the Outgo RSD-15 and one of the most surprising things that occurred with that when we went to make it is we looked at our our sales history in HO and that has been our biggest selling locomotive the RSD-15 who thought it was what we all said they went wow okay and the response has been it kind of shows that people how much they want it and how much they're looking for it how much they're ready to order it very nice and then we have in new it's the Norfolk and Western Y6B articulated and scale full sound it has all the same features as the HO the HO locomotive still which to me it's remarkable to get that many we would always call it happenings what's going on in the locomotive there's all these happenings so we get all the happenings that we have in the HO into the end scale except puffing smoke and we just don't have the room to make the puffing smoke that's amazing so what's not on the table is the big boy in end scale which is doing in December and that's going to have a smoke unit in it not a puffing smoke unit but a sooth style smoke unit nice and all is scheduled to be here between now and Christmas I don't know how you do it you guys have got so many different product entries that you've had through the years and I've got so many of your it's just wonderful and I thank you for what you guys do for the hobby well thank you very much and I appreciate your audience and getting to talk to them and we love what we do so again it's still work don't ever get that wrong but of all the jobs you have what a nice thing that's awesome hi I'm David with What's Neat and today we're here at the NMRA 2022 train show and I got Ricky Kyle here with the HL Scale Fremont and Ricky who looks at we've got a fantastic layout tell me a little bit about this absolutely we have modules from 10 states and one Canadian province Toronto is the city actually we have 15 modelers here about 160 feet of mainline and 26 modules all together so we started planning this several months ago when we found out about NTS and so the guys put a lot of work and they're getting this stuff really good looking and we've got it all together and the space is 50 by 25 normally for those people who know Fremont we go a lot bigger than this but I think in this space we've done a great job looks like you guys got a lot of miscellaneous different modules here I guess every club member here has their own module correct so most of these people are part of groups regional groups we've got capital Fremont out of the DC area we've got Minnesota Fremont we've got southern Kansas Fremont Nebraska Fremont and so they kind of concentrate on those regions where they are from and for example behind us we have the Bessemer and Lake Erie Kimball Viaduct and this is from Mark Gelatovic who's hiding down here behind us in a classic module and even though these are all representing different areas they all tie in together really nice so I see the flow and the dynamics of all the scenery like you just said they flow evenly now tell me what's your favorite scene on this railroad well I think we're standing in front of my favorite scene to be honest with you nothing beats a bridge this is attracted to a lot of crowds throughout the entire weekend people are just all inspired by seeing such a faithfully reproduced scene and watching that bridge or the traffic move over that bridge so if you want we can walk around I can show you some of the other ones this is called T&E this is Donnie Berg out of Nebraska just a little industrial spur and that allows us to actually go into another area so we have a Kansas module and in my module back here which is called Transload End so it's for a little bit of switching with Transload Sand and Boxcars this scene is out of Nebraska this is Bruce Hochberger and so this is DPC Industries and US cold storage so we have gas transfer here and cold storage freezer and refrigerator stuff over here and what we have rolling through right now is the Pioneer Zephyr and as you can see looks right at home going through Nebraska which is where this scene is actually filmed as we go on we actually a lot of modules get moved and this one actually started out in California it's called Old River it's David Grounds he now lives in Pennsylvania and so it still has a desert scenery but he's done a great job putting it all together he's still working on it and it makes a great big sweeping curve for us here looks like guys got a lot of run a lot of big equipment now I got to ask what kind of operation system do you use we use Digit Tracks the Fremo standard is LocoNet and Digit Tracks is the biggest user of the LocoNet protocol so we use Digit Tracks pretty much exclusively for the control systems on Fremo and that makes it interoperable with everybody else right and then we go into a couple of what we call the Kansas beer curves they are actually curves we messed up not from drinking beer so I don't want anybody to think that we actually got the measurements wrong on them but we decided we could still use them as Fremo modules and then going in we have a couple of modules out of Capital Fremo Clarence Gunther he's here from Virginia and it's called Mathis Creek and Larry's Farm and you can see how much corn he has put on this thing got a lot of core fields over here I don't want to I never wanted to ask him how many kits he used to make this because it would probably be mind boggling and then you can see his little creek and just to throw in we entered the module contest the overall layout, modular layout contest and we won second place so I'm pretty happy with that congratulations on that this next one is out of Oklahoma this modeler did not come with the module but he lent it to another modeler here that allowed us to put in our layout over here we have this is built by somebody several years ago unfortunately he's no longer with us he passed away but it's a car repair facility and we're using it as a yard to run around and stuff do you guys technically do like operations or do you just have guys run around with trains and have one guy dispatching it's kind of a combination of both we have had formal operating sessions but for setups like this we usually have asked for like four to five people to come on at any given time but because it's single track with passing sightings they have to do operations they can't just take off and not pay attention when it's out ahead of them even if we don't do formal operations we're still doing operations let's see here we can point out a couple other scenes back over here we have one of the kansas scenes it's called bonanza it's actually based off of an aircraft sighting Wichita, Kansas is the air capital of the world and so they used to ship airplanes out of that on rail so he modeled that and he's put a couple of the operational oil wells on there lately I'd say one of my favorite scenes I know I said the bridge was my favorite scene but either tide or a closed second is this one it's called hillside northern and this is by Bill Purcell out of Illinois and it's just gorgeous the location on here he's added on a little trestle bridge and if you look at the trestle bridge around it there's a lot of critters, let's just put it that way so he has done a lot of mini prints type things and he'd make a good advertiser for mini prints I would say that so back behind me the big grain elevator is my module it's called farmers co-op it's kind of a conglomeration of different midwest scenes out of Kansas around we have a module out of Arkansas that has all the pine trees on it and the covered bridge and then we go into another couple of Kansas modules just to again tie it all together with the midwest theme gotcha, gotcha looks like you got a lot of amazing modules here now tell me how long did it take you guys to get down here to St. Louis and are you guys willing to come back here for another show well it didn't take me long at all I live about 30 minutes away I guess it traveled our friend from Pennsylvania he's got a nine hour drive tonight to get home so we're going to try to get him out here at the fastest but so you can see we got the folks from Toronto, the folks from Nebraska they all have a significant drive ahead of us ahead of them and it's just something they're willing to do because getting together with their old friends and showing off their modules is just something they've always loved to do last night we had a big dinner together and we had a good time and it's sharing stories and talking about model trains looks like you guys got a lot of public draw here over the past three days here at the NMRA we want to thank you very much for coming to the 2022's convention well I appreciate it and thanks for stopping by and let me talk about Primo thank you Ricky and that's a segment for What's Neat all of the products seen on this episode of What's Neat are 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We should instead maybe teach the men that are not as successful with women to be more well-rounded to attain just as much success and they will have more, way more success because then it would lead to more longevity and more families in the black community because we see what black women are attracted to and black women are attracted to the future type because I mean listen it's the message right here black boy tell me how you really feel cuz I just want to build with you black girl tell me how you really feel I want to keep it real with you I want to live better eat better I want to love better sleep better yeah I want to feel so aligned so you're in a relationship with an excellent man based on the time I've spent with him what was your journey to getting to the point where or we put like this to becoming the woman who was able to attract him that's a loaded question loaded up okay I think first thing first would be my listening skills and my ability to receive information that maybe I might have rejected before cuz I thought maybe I knew it all I know how to get a man I I've never had a problem getting a man men are coming on to me but I didn't know the difference between getting a man and maybe getting a good man and the man that I actually wanted you know I think that was the key differentiator and I think it was also being receptive to listening to the men around me I think also having that idea in the back of my mind that men don't know what they're talking about that prevented me from from listening to the information that I was getting from men when if I look back the information that I became receptive to receive to getting at the time when we were just talking I was getting this this information years ago I didn't value it as much I just figured I know what I'm doing you can't tell me shit you know I can just open up my deans and men are there there's a flood of men there's no shortage of men that I did never came to my head there's no shortage of good men I didn't think there was a shortage of of quality men either I didn't think there was a shortage of high value men that was one of the big thing that I learned from the mannispheres space that clicked in my head that okay there's a lot of men but are they really options if you don't want them are they really options if they're not the type of men that you see your son's being you know a lot of the men that I was around or that I feel like that I was attracting or a better word would say that I was keeping around me wasn't men that I saw that I wanted my son to be and I think I think that's a that's a that's a sticking point and I want us to stay here for a second because you know very because this conversation is exclusively for me it's about black men and black women and what's tough sometimes talking to black women is that I think black women are the sexiest women on earth they're the most physically attractive women on earth and because of that I think because they don't have a hard time getting attention they conflate that with retention so they can get a man easy but they can't keep one you know it's kind of like the dude who always gets a job but he can't keep a job so like he never actually reaches his full potential as far as income so as a woman why do you think when you were younger and other women as well confuse attention I have 50 men in my DMs with or even I have 50 high value men in my DMs with I can attract and retain that caliber of man and inspire him to take a relationship to the next level why do you think there's that confusion I didn't know the difference until I turned 29 and I know many women around me didn't know the difference either until I would say a year ago it never it never came to mind that a man coming to me to talk to me is just coming to me to have sex with me of course you you think that but your ego prevents you from accepting fully processing that fact we all want to be loved and we all think that we're deserving of the highest form of love so I think that all women think that they're hot they're the hot shit right and we all think that I'm the light of your life like without me you're good as dead we all think that about men right so even if it doesn't work out we're not thinking oh that's because he was just here for pussy we just label it as oh he's a player oh he wasn't ready oh um I'm too good for him oh um you know I he I didn't want to keep him you know I'm single about choice I'm single or single choice um it's always it's it's the man's fault right why they're not around um in the first place so how could we process the difference between um retention and you know being able to get the man in the first place we we don't process that at all that didn't come to my mind at all until I turned 29 and I started to watch Kevin Samuels then I think that's when I begin to understand oh okay the reason why I there might there may have not been um the success that I wanted in some relationship was because maybe the guy wasn't there for the same thing that I wanted in the first place so I think you brought up something very interesting earlier um and I've talked about this it's something I'm suspicious of I'm not gonna say I'm 100% clear on it yet but you talked about how most women have been programmed to think less of men like that's your default setting to to think men are less intelligent or less capable or up to no good and sometimes even um that idea is instilled in you by your father you know by the many in your life so talk about how you think that has affected the fact that um it took you up until 29 to really start understanding oh this is actually how men work versus just being a suspicious person who would tell herself stories just so she wouldn't have to accept that oh I was rejected or maybe he didn't want me yeah even you just saying that that just strike a little bit of pain inside of me to even process yeah maybe that guy didn't want me as much as I thought he would have wanted me and and I don't think I think a lot of beautiful women are there I don't think they're ever processing this guy just wanted pussy from me that's a hard hard harsh raw truth um and I know our fathers or our parents raise us to be suspicious of men to help us be more independent and self-reliant I know my father did my father um in essence because he loves me so much no man was ever good enough for me there was something wrong um with any man that I could have presented to him and that may be because maybe from his background as well when he was young you know so it could be for a lot of women their their father's no other men or the the worst side of men and wants to protect their daughters from that um but the unattended consequence of that is we raise our women to be just like men right so they become ultra self-reliant they become a I don't need no what I don't need no man type of woman um and they also um become a form of feminist you know but unintended I think I don't think um black women grow up and say to themselves I want to be a feminist and I want to be um I want to be this woman I don't need a man I think trauma causes that as well so having that preconceived notion that manning shit you may attract the same type of man that you fear um and because you're putting that energy out there you also get it back self-fulfilling a form of self self-fulfilling provis prophecy right um yeah I think I think what's what's tough you know because I pride myself in balance and you know as a as a new father this is stuff I have to think about and when I hear like oh part of why um some women are suspicions because of their dads I get it because and I'm sure your boyfriend knows this as well like most dudes under the age of 30 aren't trying to be serious that's the reality right and fathers know this because at one point they were under the age of 30 and they know how boys think and they know the type of testosterone is coursing through their veins what's messed up about it you know women's defenses your peak period is that under 30 so while you're trying to like relax it down he's really you know I'm trying to I'm out here in the street and you know so the suspicion is warranted but unfortunately like you said it also is a self-fulfilling prophecy so like if you could give me advice as a new father how can I convey that you know when my daughter is a teenager and stuff in a way that's going to click and make sense so it doesn't necessarily just lead to her being jaded or lead to her having negative um expectations of man. Good question. Good question. I would say giving her the hard truth early on and actually expanding on that rather than just say be careful about men oh you know saying things like a lot of men under the age of 30 aren't going to be serious I don't think that's a good statement to make around a young girl right because then that already forms the vision of the majority of men I think keeping a balance maintaining that balance and that separation there are good men and there are bad men there are men that are going to be serious and that are going to take you serious and there are men that aren't going to take you serious that are going to come here and you know use you um and lie to you and do this and I think the biggest part is education education and providing that um education for her to know the difference between the two and to be able to identify the difference between the two because our fathers wanted to basically repel this for men we didn't get that education on how to identify good men most women don't know how to pick good men and most women don't know what a good man looks like when that man is standing right in front of them why all they know is how to identify the bad guy why why do you think that is I would say a mixture of education inside the home uh well a mixture of lack of education inside the home and focusing on the negative men if you only know how to identify the bad you're only going to attract the bad you're only going to uh pick the bad because that's all you know right and maybe if your father wasn't around either to give you that example of the good um you might not you still won't know how to pick a good man um I will say this I think I think you could make a good argument that women in mass their kind of default setting is to be attracted to the um the enigma the the guy with an edge right and and it's like you know it makes it worse when you experience trauma your dad wasn't there but I think there was some something to be said for like women's baseline setting is to gravitate towards the pseudo the man's man don't take no shit and those tend to be the quote unquote bad boys so can can you help clarify because I have I've been a man for 29 years can you help clarify why that might be the case or do you think it's not the case why are we attracted to the bad boy do you think it's nature or do you think it's nurture I think it's nature okay I think it's nature okay and we have to unlearn okay as we go along and hopefully we don't unlearn too late that although what you're attracted to um is really what you're attracted to you can unlearn what attraction means to you and why you're attracted to that thing you can sit there and I've had to self reflect so it's possible to self I know that it's possible to self reflect and dig deep to understand why you're attracted to something and that's where I think nurture comes into play because you can you can't unlearn that we're not animals right just because something looks good it doesn't mean it's good and typically what you're attracted to maybe is not what you what you need what you want is not what you need right the bad boy although the bad boy it there's attractive qualities to that boy but I think it's it's a sexual attraction mostly this is what I want you to do for me because I am interested in part of my I guess north star is if I can imbue I don't even know if I'm using that word properly the good guys the solid the Russell Wilson's with some future characteristics so they can compete with the future naked you know I mean we can read because I think there is something to learn from everybody so for the Russell Wilson's of the world for the good wholesome dudes that typically get looked over because there isn't that animalistic initial and we need that what can they learn from the guys who get that initial animalistic what can they what piece of that game can they steal it's it's interesting that you say that because what I see from the man is fear space is that women are shamed for what they're attracted to but they're attracted to that for a reason right and instead of shaming it like you said we should instead maybe teach the men that are not as successful with women to be more well-rounded to attain just as much success and they will have more way more success because then it would lead to more longevity and more families in the black community because we see what black women are attracted to and black women are attracted to the future type because I mean if black men want to be the future there's no black man that's looking at future and saying okay I don't want to be that guy that looks like that he walks into the room bravado right whereas maybe Russell has that more you know timid type I see through it though and that's that's that's me I see through it but I get it good boy that's the difference between men and women you can look at the future type and see through it and see that pseudo masculinity women see that and instantly get attracted to that instantly want to birth a baby for that guy right and it's evident obviously we see that we see the Lord Dirk we'll see we see how many women are giving up their womb to these guys and we can't shame that maybe just like you said again understand it so let's break it down what the quote-unquote good guys could learn from the future type to be more well-rounded I would think maybe to be more fun have more have more of a personality I think because most of these guys spend their time I think of the nuclear physicist guy I think most of these guys spent their prime years that's not their prime years but women's prime years those guys spend those years building themselves focusing and grinding and you know their head is in the books yeah so they come out of that and they come to women and say okay well I have the money so therefore I'm great pick me that's not the case those guys women have a joke internally I say okay I'll have this guy as my husband and cheat on him because that's not the guy that's going to give you the quality you don't find that in the same in the same guy at all rarely do you're lucky I found it but you're lucky if you if you find it in the same guy where the guy is stable able to financially provide for you it's he's protective he gives you that savage like you know personality where he stands his ground and you know he gives you that masculinity type energy mostly the guys that are world-rounded financially they don't have that they don't have the fun quality they don't have the personality they don't have the confidence to even talk to a girl like a future like future would right because they didn't spend those years practicing that whereas future might have spent those years practicing giving what girls want and studying women and talking to women with confidence that comes with practice right developing a personality that comes with practice that comes with you know actually going outside and doing social things


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And when you look at tonight, what did you see that was the difference maker? We got smack. They were better, offensively and defensively. They played as a team, four quarters. When you think about what the Kings were able to do, you said, I know they played better. What did you see from the energy and the effort level from you guys? And how would you describe it? It was just consistent with a game plan stuck with it. Offensively, attack the rims, the bonus, a monster down there. Got a lot of great looks. Shot the ball well from three. Well, you guys had a tie in 40-all and then give up the 29-4 run. I mean, was that you guys pulling away from kind of the game plan and what you were supposed to be doing? Or was it something else that they were doing? I think, you know, tomorrow we'll look at film or tonight we'll look at film, see the real big differences in the first and that little gap that we had. I think they just played better than us tonight. They wanted them more. Obviously, we didn't want it. Generally, I mean, there's always runs in these games. Some of them get bigger than they should. But you guys didn't really have much of a response to that. I don't think that one, that's not acceptable for all of us players, coaches. It's not acceptable. What do you mean? No, I mean, I'm accustomed to playing though. So, you know, it's good to be out there when I get on the floor. So, you know, whatever coach wants, it's best for the team. If you go hardball, acting, being good. Yeah, I'm good. I'm bruised up, but I'm good. You scored this morning. It felt like you're moving better. You feel like tonight you had a real good game. You feel like each game, the rust is kind of knocking off a little more. Yeah, it takes time to build, especially with, you know, having the nerves. It takes 18 months for your nerves to fully heal. You know, people don't know that. But, you know, over time, you know, I get better and better. Just keep pushing. Do you expect this, though, to be, do you think it'll be linear? Like, or is it going to be like fits and starts kind of up and down? In terms of... One, in terms of you getting back to where you normally would be. It would just take time. I can't, I don't have the answers. I've never been through this, so, you know. If I did, I'd give it a straight two. Doc said a positive was just your mentality as you went around me. I know you said that you're slowly getting back. Was that indicative of kind of that? Yeah, and I gotta do that for this team, you know. I gotta, I gotta intact the room, find my guys. You gotta be me. And, you know, slowly, but surely, I think I'll get there.