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A glorious day has arrived for the State with the introduction of the latest
Strategic Light Interceptor and Combat Escort ship in to active service. The
Cosmos Directorate is proud to announce the upgrade to the SLICE series, the
SuperSLICE. Almost three years to
the date after the introduction of the original SLICE, this new fighter bares a
striking resemblance to the original but at twice the size.
Full Story,
Flickr,
Classic
Space
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I will be hosting the next DixieLUG meeting at my home in Marietta, GA on July
14, 2007. Come and join us, talk some LEGO, show off some MOCs.
Date and Time:
Saturday July 14, 2007
1:00pm to 4:00pm EDT
Get Directions:
http://tinyurl.com/2wqaw4
for more information on Dixielug, feel free to join our Yahoo Group at:
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/dixielug
-Jason
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In lugnet.mediawatch, James Trobaugh wrote:
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This past wednesday LEGO and Scott Lyttle helped out the local FOX news with
their
“Wednesday’s Child” segment.
Good job Scott!
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Way to go! Great Job Scott!
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For attention.
We found company ready to EXPLODE!!
Put CGDC on your radar's now. This shows a significant up in
price and sometimes in days, not months or years.
Watch CGDC like a hawk Monday!! The alert is on!!
CHINA GOLD CORP
Sym: CGDC
Current Price: 0.30
A Company engaged in gold and minerals exploration and development of
gold and mineral properties in China.
Why consider CHINA GOLD CORP (CGDC)? Seee n0wadays what happened.
Rising gold prices are further accelerating this gold rush - The
price of gold has up 250% over the past five years, and this is still only
a quarter of when the price peaked 25 years ago. (Adjusted for
inflation.)
HUGE gold discovery in southwestern China - Resources have already
been estimated by analysts at 14 million ounces...and the number keeps
climbing.
China is the worlds last great under-explored land-mass - Locked
away in a Marxist time-warp with limited exploration technology, China
rich virgin gold fields have been overlooked and ignored until recently.
China is already the world 4th largest producer of gold ?and will
soon be the world #1 producer AND #1 consumer. The country is going
gold-crazy!
Foreign gold companies are now welcome - and the laws have been
changed to provide full legal protection.
You can see China developing gold boom is building momentum. Rare
0pp0rtunity for early investors!!
CURRENT NEWS: China Gold Corp. Announces Shareholder Update
China Gold Corp. (CGDC - News) is a Nevada Corporation, engaged in gold
and minerals exploration and development of gold and mineral properties
in China. The company is pleased to announce has entered into
negotiations with Zhong Cui Investments LTD. for the acquisition of Gold Mine
property in the rural mountainous Guang Ning District near Zhao Qing
City, Guangdong Province of China.
China Gold Corp. is currently evaluating the Gold Mine property
preliminary geological information and the property. If the company due
diligence produces favorable results, management is expected to sign the
letter of intent with Zhong Cui Investments LTD. in the next thirty (30)
days. The Letter of Intent requires both parties to draft a definitive
agreement and terms of any subsequent joint venture. Property
description and all additional information will be available upon finalization
of the agreement. The company will be made further announcements in
this regard in coming weeks.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
China Gold Corp. is a Nevada Corporation, engaged in gold and minerals
exploration and development of gold and mineral properties in China.
China Gold Corp. is dedicated to delivering growth to the shareholder by
employing a disciplined business methodology through acquisitions and
joint ventures. The Company seeks to acquire properties with the
following development criteria: largely unexplored but highly prospective
geological regions, ability to generate near-term revenue and cash flow,
tremendous geological potential for world-class economic deposits.
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I'll be up in Atlanta in about 3 weeks for the weekend, but won't have
much time to hit Lego. I'd like to have the 2 stores programmed into my
NAV so I know which I might be closer to depending on where I am when I
find the time.
I have the following:
LEGO® Outlet
Discover Mills
Lawrenceville, GA, USA
5900 Sugarloaf Parkway
Suite 609
Lawrenceville, GA 30042
USA
Phone: (678) 847-6078
Dawsonville store (official name of store and mall??)
800 HIGHWAY 400
Suite 1050
Dawsonville, GA 30534
706/216-2800
Are these currently correct?
--
Tom Stangl
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Looks like I will be hosting the next DixieLUG meeting at my home in
Marietta, GA on Saturday March 4, 2006.
DATE: Saturday, 4 March 2006
TIME: 1:00pm - 5:00pm (Eastern Standard Time, for those of you in AL)
PLACE: Jason’s House
(2421 Prince Howard Trail, Marietta, GA 30062)
Current plans for the gathering include:
- Bring any MOCs you want to show off (moonbases, etc).
- Planning for the upcomming BrickSouth & FFL Event
- Maybe another ‘part out’ of a set?
- Miscellaneous brick sorting/trading/etc.
- Dinner out afterwards, TBD
Others are welcome to follow up on this thread withanything else
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For the past 4 years the North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) has sponsored a
display at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Festival of Trees. This is an
event that consists of hundreds of decorated Christmas trees, wreaths, events,
rides and various other displays. To help make our tree special each year we
have incorporated the help of the patients of CHOA to actually build the LEGO
ornaments that are displayed on our tree.
This year is our 5th year of being a part of the Festival of Trees and I wanted
to make it stand out from all of our previous displays. So in order to “step it
up a notch” not only are the ornaments made out of LEGO but the entire tree is
made from LEGO elements. The tree stands just under 9’ tall with a base of 6’
wide, there are approximately 23,000 green bricks and plates that make up the
actual tree. The tree is built around a steel frame so that it can stand strong
and hold the weight of the heavy branches. The branches can be removed for
transporting the tree. Very little glue is involved, only on the trunk of the
branches themselves, all the needles are unglued.
Along with the LEGO tree we have four table top trees, these are 4’ tall
artificial trees each decorated with ornaments made by different children’s
groups. CHOA patients, 3rd grade elementary school class, Girl Scout / Browne
troop & 1st – 5th grade Sunday school class each helped contribute to the table
top trees as well as the main tree.
You can see some
pictures of our display from yesterday’s setup.
jt
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The North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) visited the Children’s Healthcare of
Atlanta at Egleston. For the fifth year in a row the NGLTC held our annual
Christmas ornament building session with patients of CHOA. The children are
helping make ornaments for the display being put on by the NGLTC at the CHOA’s
Festival of Trees. The tree display will include trees decorated with ornaments
made by the patients as well as many other local children. These trees are then
auctioned off to help raise money for the CHOA system.
The building session was a big success this year we had over 25 patients come
and help put together ornaments of all shapes and sizes. Not only do the
patients enjoy building with the LEGO but the entire family is encouraged to
contribute. This is a nice way to break up the day for children who have to
spend time at Egleston children’s hospital. It gives them a time to be kids and
not have to think about all the treatments and test they are undergoing.
The kids are a great help every year in contributing ornaments to the NGLTC
tree. We do make sure that no one goes home empty handed so each patient that
helped was given their choice of LEGO sets to take back to their room and
continue the LEGO building.
You can see pictures of all the fun
here
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=153941
jt
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Announcing Buzz, the wily mascot from Georgia Tech:
I made this for my wife’s 30th birthday last February. I guess I hadn’t gotten
around to uploading the pictures. Anyway, this creation was made with the help
of Bricksaic.
Many thanks to Bob Kojima for that program!
-Alfred
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That’s right, Buzz in minifig form!
The only thing I wanted to add was his Converse high-tops...
John Riley
MS in Materials Science, May 2005
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This past weekend (April 9,10) the North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC)
presented a layout at the Atlanta Greenberg Toy & Train show.
Our layout was a 20’x25’ layout including a kids play area and
Rail Racers set up.
This was one our most animated layouts to date, not only did we have the running
trains and monorail there were lots of little goodies on the layout. We had all
of Mark Staffa’s great fair ground items that amazed the crowds as always,
plus a copy of Jason Allemann motorized cows (that were a variation of Erik
Amzallag’s cows)
and our ever hard working landscaper, but he never got more grass cut than the
single circle
There were also all the great MOC buildings and other structures:
We did have a couple of vandals “mark” one of our buildings but the local police
will had to take care of them (must be some kind of code word or something)
For all the pictures from the show you can see them in my
Brickshelf gallery
jt
James J. Trobaugh
North Georgia LEGO Train Club
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For those of you who didn't know the Dawsonville Georgia LEGO Outlet store is
being closed (this is the first US LEGO Outlet opened in Oct. 1999). I guess
this is another sign of the tough times for LEGO retail. I know many folks have
never understood why Atlanta had two LEGO Outlet stores to begin with.
Everything that is left in the store is 50% off. There isn't a ton of stuff left
but there are a few good deals to be had. Next week whatever is left will be
marked down to 75% off. January 22nd is their last day;I'm not sure how we are
going to survive in the Atlanta area with only one LEGO Outlet store...much less
one so far from my house.
Needless to say there will not be a NGLTC show on Memorial day at the
Dawsonville LEGO outlet, bummer :( The store and the employees will be missed. I
have heard that a few of the employees (Kenny) will be moving to the Discover
Mills store.
jt
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As of earlier this week, there were about 70 to 80 of this set (MSRP US$7) at
the Kennesaw TRU (just off Barrett Parkway, between I-75 and I-575), marked
(Green tag) at 3.98, underneath the "Green Tag Clearance -- Extra 70% Off"
sign...
Franklin
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Hello everyone!
As many people know, I have a model of Tech Tower from Georgia Tech. One of the
cool traditions about Tech Tower is the act of Stealing the “T” from the group
of letters on the top of the tower. Many attempts have been made over the
years, and for some fairly obvious reasons the school administration has been
increasingly vigilant in protecting the “T” and stopping these attempts.
Anyway, the neat thing about a model is you can recreate an event without
getting arrested. Since my wife (who was the one who went to Tech in our
family) never got to steal the “T”, I thought I would make a little story about
a (ficticious) “T” stealing attempt out of Lego.
Ok, I actually didn’t think that hard about it. The Tower was being displayed
on a NELUG layout at the recent Greenburg Show in
Wilmington, MA. In order to make the time a bit more entertaining, and to
practice my camera skills, I decided to shoot this lego caper.
Anyway, the full story is up on MOCpages http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/6690
and the photos themselves are in the usual place:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=108917
Also, in case you are interested, the Greenburg Show was a hit for other reasons
besides my little vignette. (Actually, I think only a few people noticed it at
the show!) We had automation in all corners of the layout, a helicopter, a
crane, out usual stunning fairgrounds, and a point-to-point trolley, not to
mention the automated train-gates.
While I am sure there will be a write-up on the NELUG
website soon, you can look through my pictures of the event here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=106943 and Chris Meeks posted
some here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=109239, and he has
some of his movies posted there as well.
-Alfred
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In lugnet.general, Timothy Wade wrote:
> First, let me apologize if I post this in anyplace that it shouldn't be...but I
> wanted to get the word out as much as possible!
>
> My place of business currently has around 10 wooden crates of varying sizes,
> some as small as 4x4x4 and some as large as 10x6x4. These crates are being
> tossed away.
>
> I've seen some photos of AFOL's that travel with exhibit peices and they use
> large wooden crates for transport...so it seems to me that if someone wanted
> these to use, might be a good deal! Contact me off post if you're interested!
>
> The crates are currently located in Tallahassee Florida. I can't move them at
> all, if you are interested you'd have to come get them yourself.
>
> Thanks and hope someone can make use of them!
>
> Tim
I might have to give you a ring about this. Hmmm..
-Lenneh
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First, let me apologize if I post this in anyplace that it shouldn't be...but I
wanted to get the word out as much as possible!
My place of business currently has around 10 wooden crates of varying sizes,
some as small as 4x4x4 and some as large as 10x6x4. These crates are being
tossed away.
I've seen some photos of AFOL's that travel with exhibit peices and they use
large wooden crates for transport...so it seems to me that if someone wanted
these to use, might be a good deal! Contact me off post if you're interested!
The crates are currently located in Tallahassee Florida. I can't move them at
all, if you are interested you'd have to come get them yourself.
Thanks and hope someone can make use of them!
Tim
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