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Modoc Northern 700 rolls along the old Southern Pacific Lakeview Branch in Alturas, California. The elegant Mission style building in the distance was once the general office of the Nevada-California-Oregon narrow gauge. Today it houses the Alturas Elks Club.
It was a blisteringly hot day. Note that the crew has fully engaged the locomotive's air conditioning device.
A not dissimilar view to the last shot, but showing a couple of interesting features not shown before.
In the north gable wall, the remains of which I am standing in, two mural chambers can be seen on the extreme right. The upper one was simply a small room off the north end of the Hall, perhaps a strong room. The inner wall has failed at the doorway leading to it, holes for the door bolt being still visible in the jamb. The lower room is an access passage which at its far end has a very small hatchway in its floor, 18 inches square, which forms the entrance to a dark dungeon in the north-west angle of the keep. I didn't know about this so I didn't go looking, but I believe it is all still there to be seen. In the wall below where I am standing, was the entrance passage leading into the ground floor, with an opening to the left leading to the stair. This is all buried now in the rubble from the collapsed roof vaults etc.
The other item of interest in this photo is the remains of the massive Hall fireplace, the base of it level with the top of the lower vault. The remains of carving can still be seen on the jambs and there is an aumbry in the far side. To me the most interesting feature is what looks like a narrow ledge in the back wall of the fireplace (it shows as a dark line), probably just above the level of where the lintel would have been (so just up into the chimney). Formed from two stones, it has wording in prominent Gothic script carved on its lower face. The left stone has 'Maria' carved into it but the right stone is no longer decipherable.
Maria obviously refers to the Virgin Mary and It is thought the other was a saint's name and that their purpose was to deter evil spirits from entering the house through an otherwise 'unprotected' entry point (down the chimney) and bringing bad luck. In medieval Scotland, witchcraft was many people's biggest fear. This was a form of what is known as an Apotropaic Device, intended to divert the 'evil eye', and similar to the eyes painted on the bows of fishing boats in Asia or gargoyles on medieval churches, or even hanging a cross on a chain round your neck! (Carving faces into pumpkins at Halloween is supposed to serve the same purpose!) Anyway, if that was indeed its purpose here, it was, as events will show, to fail spectacularly!!
Everyone has a right to access our public lands, but few of Glacier's trails were created with accessibility in mind.
A first step to addressing limits to accessibility is to identify them.
Glacier and the National Park Service are using tools—like the orange, one-wheeled device a ranger is pictured here using—to evaluate trails in the park using the High Efficiency Trail Assessment Process (HETAP).
HETAP identifies trail variables: grade, cross-slope, trail width, surface material, and more.
This data allows park managers to prioritize future trail improvements, and allow visitors in the future to make more informed decisions.
I was invited to spend two days at Europe’s most comprehensive IoT Event. This leading forum focused on case studies that show today’s Industry and Enterprises leveraging IoT technologies to transform their business through creating value and efficiencies.
The Internet of things (stylised Internet of Things or IoT) is the internetworking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as "connected devices" and "smart devices"), buildings and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.
"Things," in the IoT sense, can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, electric clams in coastal waters,[16] automobiles with built-in sensors, DNA analysis devices for environmental/food/pathogen monitoring or field operation devices that assist firefighters in search and rescue operations.[18] Legal scholars suggest to look at "Things" as an "inextricable mixture of hardware, software, data and service". These devices collect useful data with the help of various existing technologies and then autonomously flow the data between other devices. Current market examples include home automation (also known as smart home devices) such as the control and automation of lighting, heating (like smart thermostat), ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and appliances such as washer/dryers, robotic vacuums, air purifiers, ovens or refrigerators/freezers that use Wi-Fi for remote monitoring.
upcoming nokia 1002 phablet phone with curved body and screen.
upcoming Nokia 1002 phablet phone Runs Windows Phone 8 / Windows 8.this amazing Featuring a curved 7.5-inch display, it might become reality some day.However, enthusiasts are looking forward for seeing a Nokia phablet pushed to shelves in the not too distant future, and are also imagining what such a device might look like. this phone lookking so cool.
this Nokia 1002 Phablet comes with a 1.8GHz quad-core processor inside, and with a 7.5-inch screen capable of delivering a 1800 × 900 pixels resolution.
It measures 11 mm in thickness and its screen is a 7.5 inch unit with a 1800 x 900 pixel resolution. Other features include an 8 megapixel Carl Zeiss camera, a 3.2 megapixel front camera and the shooter at the back also has a LED flash and 108pp video capture. Nokia 1002 Phablet offers 64 or 128 GB of mass storage, as well as microSD card slot and SkyDrive, plus USB on the go. It has a 8000 mAh battery under the hood and as far as connectivity goes, you get microUSB 3.0, HDMI, DLNA, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 and Nokia AV 3.5.
The phablet has pretty much the same virtual keyboard as the Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms, adapted to the size of the screen and there also seems to be a sort of Home button on the side. I can see there’s also a camera button and the whole Nokia 1002 is a very curved concept tablet.
Nokia 1002 sports a curved body and screen, so as to better fit in the palm of users’ hands and to deliver increased solidity. A pen to expand the input options was also included in the mix.
At the unveiling of their first Windows Phone 8 smartphones, Nokia also said that Windows 8 could provide a great deal of opportunities, which could suggest plans for a tablet PC powered by this OS, thus making the Nokia 1002 Phablet a possible device in its future lineup. For the time being, however, it is only a concept device.
Watch this video again:https://youtu.be/aYk9isJ_kvo
Other video:
Top 5 New Best Future Gadgets and Tech of CES coming 2016-2017??
JW Library is now available for download at the three major app stores, and a fourth is on the way. Download it for your mobile device here:
For more information, click the link below at JW.org
"JW Library is an official app produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses. It includes six Bible translations.
The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (2013 revision) published by Jehovah’s Witnesses. This version contains:
An introduction that answers 20 Bible questions.
An outline of contents at the beginning of each Bible book.
Footnotes and cross references.
An index of Bible words and a glossary of terms.
An appendix that includes maps, charts, and timelines, which help you gain the most from your Bible reading.
The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References (1984 revision)
The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures. This Bible contains the Greek text edited by B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort. Between the lines you will find a word-for-word English translation.
The Bible in Living English (Steven T. Byington)
The American Standard Version
The King James Version"
Click the JW Library link for more information, app navigation instructions, and app support.
at first i thought it was written in french, dog of a panel to make but back lighting came out surprisingly well. hardest part is making the windows grey, not yellow and green like everyone else does, and zero light bleed through between chambers. still needs some work
1B +1 "Cloaking Device"
1Rd "20mm Stun Gun"
1Y "Twin Rotating Cameras" +1 Spot
Climb
Small
Terrestrial
LDD File: www.dropbox.com/s/s5mrb082civf3js/The-Chameleon-Stunner.lxf
It’s big, it’s heavy, and works very well.
Updated comment: 2016.01.20
I had some problems with AC87 and iOS devices, but in the last AC87 firmwares most problems had gone.
Asus AC5300 Works like a champ, no problems connecting a lot of devices, very stable, if there is one thing bad I today can say about this router is price.
I think AC88u and AC3100 are for shure great and secure purchases too.
Best regards.
Many of us who fly regularly have most probably seen a so-called winglet or wingtip device at the end of the wing of an airliner at least once. It is showing up more and more often on more and more types of aircraft, thus we felt it’s time to give an overview to our readers about these sometimes funny, sometimes cool and stylish looking aircraft parts.
History, Reason and Benefits
The initial theoretical concept goes back to times before even the Wright Brothers first took to the skies in 1905, but it was picked up and developed by Richard T. Whitcomb of NASA after the 1973 oil crisis – in order to reduce fuel consumption. The first tests were carried out in 1979/80 in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force. At almost the same time, but independent of any U.S. military organization, a private jet producer, LearJet exhibited a prototype in 1977: the LearJet 28 that featured the first winglets on a jet and a production aircraft. Flight tests made with and without winglets showed that the winglets increased range by about 6.5 percent and also improved directional stability for the LearJet- these two factors are the major reasons behind using this facility at any fixed wing aircraft ever since. A winglet is a (near) vertical extension of the wing tips. The upward angle of the winglet, its inward angle as well as its size and shape are critical for correct performance – this is why they can look quite different. Air rotating around the wing strikes the surface of the winglet that directs it in another direction – thus creating an extra force, basically converting otherwise wasted energy to thrust. This is a small contribution but can save a lot for an operator in an aircraft’s lifetime. Another potential benefit of winglets is that they reduce the strength of wingtip vortices, which trail behind the plane. When other aircraft pass through these vortices, the turbulent air can cause loss of control, possibly resulting in an accident.
Winglet Types
In general any wingtips that not end the wing simply horizontally are considered as some kind of a winglet. Even though in strictly technical terms Wingtip Fences are not real extensions of the wing, and Raked Wingtips do not have a vertical part, they are still widely considered as winglet variants.
WINGTIP FENCES are a special variant of winglets, that extend both upward and downward from the tip of the wing. Preferred by European plane-maker Airbus, it is featured on their full product range (except the A330/340 family and the future A350). The Airbus A300 was actually the first jet airliner to feature this kind of solution by default, but it was a very small version of the tool. Provided that most of the Airbus planes (including all A320 family jets) feature such wingtip fences, this may be the most seen and most produced winglet type. Even the new Airbus A380 double-decker features wingtip fences.
BLENDED WINGLETS (the real “Winglets”) are the most popular winglet type, leveraged by Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Bombardier but also by Russian Tupolev and Iljushin. Blended winglets were first introduced on the McDonnel Douglas MD-11 aircraft in 1990 with launch customer Finnair (it also features a smaller winglet at the bottom side of the wing). In contrast to Airbus who applies the wingtip fences by default on most of their aircraft (and the winglets on the A330/340 family), blended winglets are considered by Boeing for example as an optional extra feature on their products, except for the Boeing 747-400. For some of the older Boeing jets (737 and 757) such blended winglets have been offered as an aftermarket retrofit, these are the newer, tall designs and do not connect to the tip of the wing with a sharp angle, but with a curve instead. These winglets are popular among airlines that fly these aircraft on medium/long haul routes as most of the real fuel savings materialize while cruising. Longer flights mean longer cruising, thus larger fuel savings. And they also server as marketing surface for airline logos or web addresses usually.
Just recently the Boeing 767-300ER has received 3.4 m high (!) winglets produced by Aviation Partners Inc. with American Airlines as the launch-customer with Air New Zealand and Hawaiian Airlines following with orders of 5 and 8 aircrafts respectively. 141 shipsets have been pre-sold already as the forecasted fuel savings range around 4%-6% for medium/long-range flights. Airbus earlier tested similar blended winglets designed by Winglet Technology for the A320 series, but determined that their benefits did not warrant further development and they stayed with the wingtip fences instead. Aviation Partners Boeing claims that winglets on 737s and 757s have saved a collective 1.2 billion gal. of fuel since they were introduced and 11.5 million tonnes of CO2 while reducing those types’ noise footprint by 6.5%. It has sold winglets to 140 airlines and 95% of all 737NGs are fitted with them. It is working on four winglet concepts for the 777 and hopes to finalize a design for that aircraft type by December, 2008.
G-TCCB - 40067F - Thomas Cook Airlines - Boeing 767-31K (28865)
"Deal Castle is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII in Deal, Kent, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the strategically important Downs anchorage off the English coast. Comprising a keep with six inner and outer bastions, the MOATED STONE CASTLE covered 0.85 acres (0.34 ha) and had sixty-six firing positions for artillery. " (Wikipédia)
Many are lining up to make a photographic memory. Many were from a tour group as noted by the blue strings attached to their devices
Sutter Street + Octavia Street, Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California
25 August 2013
"This lively corner structure is enriched with a wide assortment of Queen Anne devices, including a three tiered corner tower with both hexagonal and round sections, angled bays, multiple gables with window-lit gable-ends, assertive cornice lines, a dormer and an oriel, not to mention garlands, fishscale shingles, dentils, and assorted brackets. Much of the interior also remains, having been restored and refitted when the building became the Queen Anne Hotel in 1980. The original central hallway survives, with its oak paneling, as does the squared spiral staircase beneath a large stained glass skylight. The most important elements that have been lost include the bell-shaped roof to the corner tower and the grand exterior granite staircase to a massively arched open vestibule before the main door. Miss Mary Lake's School for Young Ladies was a fashionable , non-sectarian seminary that grew from Miss Zeiska's Young Ladies Seminary in South Park in the 1860s. Enrollment was probably about 120 students, ranging in age from "infants" through high school. There was room for 65-70 boarders in the building. James G. Fair, of Comstock Lode fame, and the father of girls, was the major benefactor of the school having the school built in 1889, sparing no expense, for $45,000.00. The school survived only seven years at this site. The building was then leased to the Cosmos Club which counted such local moghuls (sic) as James Flood and Governor George Pardee among its members. From 1909 to 1926, it was used as a boarding house. In 1926 the building became the Girl's Friendly Society Lodge, a home for young working women. From 1950 to 1975 it was used as a guest house called The Lodge. Henry Schulze practiced from 1887 through 1908."
Sutter Street, San Francisco, California
2016-05-14_05-59-11
After the fireworks were over, huge bright lights were turned on so the enormous crowd could find their way out of the park. We were on the water side of the hill, so it was still fairly dark where we were. However, the light of electronic devices lit the faces of my young Korean friends. The Gas Works are illuminated in the background.
OnOne Acid Frame
369 weeks lasted the Nazi regime in Vienna, during which more than 1,200 people, many for political reasons, were executed by the Guillotine.
369 Wochen dauerte das NS-Regime in Wien, während dessen mehr als 1.200 Menschen, viele aus politischen Motiven, durch die Guillotine exekutiert wurden.
Vienna Regional Court for Criminal Matters
The Vienna Regional Court for Criminal Matters (colloquially referred to as "landl" (Landesgericht)) is one of 20 regional courts in Austria and the largest court in Austria. It is located in the 8th District of Vienna, Josefstadt, at the Landesgerichtsstraße 11. It is a court of first respectively second instance. A prisoners house, the prison Josefstadt, popularly often known as the "Grey House" is connected.
Court Organization
In this complex there are:
the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna,
the Vienna District Attorney (current senior prosecutor Maria-Luise Nittel)
the Jurists association-trainee lawer union (Konzipientenverband) and
the largest in Austria existing court house jail, the Vienna Josefstadt prison.
The Regional Criminal Court has jurisdiction in the first instance for crimes and offenses that are not pertain before the district court. Depending on the severity of the crime, there is a different procedure. Either decides
a single judge,
a senate of lay assessors
or the jury court.
In the second instance, the District Court proceeds appeals and complaints against judgments of district courts. A three-judge Court decides here whether the judgment is canceled or not and, if necessary, it establishes a new sentence.
The current President Friedrich Forsthuber is supported by two Vice Presidents - Henriette Braitenberg-Zennenberg and Eve Brachtel.
In September 2012, the following data have been published
Austria's largest court
270 office days per year
daily 1500 people
70 judges, 130 employees in the offices
5300 proceedings (2011) for the custodial judges and legal protection magistrates, representing about 40 % of the total Austrian juridical load of work
over 7400 procedures at the trial judges (30 % of the total Austrian juridical load of work)
Prosecution with 93 prosecutors and 250 employees
19,000 cases against 37,000 offenders (2011 )
Josefstadt prison with 1,200 inmates (overcrowded)
History
1839-1918
The original building of the Vienna Court House, the so-called civil Schranne (corn market), was from 1440 to 1839 located at the Hoher Markt 5. In 1773 the Schrannenplatz was enlarged under Emperor Joseph II and the City Court and the Regional Court of the Viennese Magistrate in this house united. From this time it bore the designation "criminal court".
Due to shortcomings of the prison rooms in the Old Court on Hoher Markt was already at the beginning of the 19th Century talk of building a new crime courthouse, but this had to be postponed because of bankruptcy in 1811.
In 1816 the construction of the criminal court building was approved. Although in the first place there were voices against a construction outside the city, as building ground was chosen the area of the civil Schießstätte (shooting place) and the former St. Stephanus-Freithofes in then Alservorstadt (suburb); today, in this part Josefstadt. The plans of architect Johann Fischer were approved in 1831, and in 1832 was began with the construction, which was completed in 1839. On 14 May 1839 was held the first meeting of the Council.
Provincial Court at the Landesgerichtsstraße between November 1901 and 1906
Johann Fischer fell back in his plans to Tuscan early Renaissance palaces as the Pitti Palace or Palazzo Pandolfini in Florence. The building was erected on a 21,872 m² plot with a length of 223 meters. It had two respectively three floors (upper floors), the courtyard was divided into three wings, in which the prisoner's house stood. In addition, a special department for the prison hospital (Inquisitenspital ) and a chapel were built.
The Criminal Court of Vienna was from 1839 to 1850 a city court which is why the Vice Mayor of Vienna was president of the criminal courts in civil and criminal matters at the same time. In 1850 followed the abolition of municipal courts. The state administration took over the Criminal Court on 1 Juli 1850. From now on, it had the title "K.K. Country's criminal court in Vienna".
1851, juries were introduced. Those met in the large meeting hall, then as now, was on the second floor of the office wing. The room presented a double height space (two floors). 1890/1891 followed a horizontal subdivision. Initially, the building stood all alone there. Only with the 1858 in the wake of the demolition of the city walls started urban expansion it was surrounded by other buildings.
From 1870 to 1878, the Court experienced numerous conversions. Particular attention was paid to the tract that connects directly to the Alserstraße. On previously building ground a three-storey arrest tract and the Jury Court tract were built. New supervened the "Neutrakt", which presented a real extension and was built three respectively four storied. From 1873 on, executions were not executed publicly anymore but only in the prison house. The first execution took place on 16 December 1876 in the "Galgenhof" (gallow courtyard), the accused were hanged there on the Würgegalgen (choke gallow).
By 1900 the prisoners house was extended. In courtyard II of the prison house kitchen, laundry and workshop buildings and a bathing facility for the prisoners were created. 1906/1907 the office building was enlarged. The two-storied wing tract got a third and three-storied central section a fourth floor fitted.
1918-1938
In the early years of the First Republic took place changes of the court organization. Due to the poor economy and the rapid inflation, the number of cases and the number of inmates rose sharply. Therefore, it was in Vienna on 1 October 1920 established a second Provincial Court, the Regional Court of Criminal Matters II Vienna, as well as an Expositur of the prisoner house at Garnisongasse.
One of the most important trials of the interwar period was the shadow village-process (Schattendorfprozess - nomen est omen!), in which on 14th July 1927, the three defendants were acquitted. In January 1927 front fighters had shot into a meeting of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, killing two people. The outrage over the acquittal was great. At a mass demonstration in front of the Palace of Justice on 15th July 1927, which mainly took place in peaceful manner, invaded radical elements in the Palace of Justice and set fire ( Fire of the Palace Justice), after which the overstrained police preyed upon peaceful protesters fleeing from the scene and caused many deaths.
The 1933/1934 started corporate state dictatorship had led sensational processes against their opponents: examples are the National Socialists processes 1934 and the Socialists process in 1936 against 28 "illegal" socialists and two Communists, in which among others the later leaders Bruno Kreisky and Franz Jonas sat on the dock.
Also in 1934 in the wake of the February Fights and the July Coup a series of processes were carried out by summary courts and military courts. Several ended with death sentences that were carried out by hanging in "Galgenhof" of the district court .
1938-1945
The first measures the Nazis at the Regional Criminal Court after the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich in 1938 had carried out, consisted of the erection of a monument to ten Nazis, during the processes of the events in July 1934 executed, and of the creation of an execution space (then space 47 C, today consecration space where 650 names of resistance fighters are shown) with a guillotine supplied from Berlin (then called device F, F (stands for Fallbeil) like guillotine).
During the period of National Socialism were in Vienna Regional Court of 6 December 1938 to 4th April 1945 1.184 persons executed. Of those, 537 were political death sentences against civilians, 67 beheadings of soldiers, 49 war-related offenses, 31 criminal cases. Among those executed were 93 women in all age groups, including a 16-year-old girl and a 72-year-old woman who had both been executed for political reasons.
On 30 June 1942 were beheaded ten railwaymen from Styria and Carinthia, who were active in the resistance. On 31 July 1943, 31 people were beheaded in an hour, a day later, 30. The bodies were later handed over to the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Vienna and remaining body parts buried later without a stir at Vienna's Central Cemetery in shaft graves. To thein the Nazi era executed, which were called "Justifizierte" , belonged the nun Maria Restituta Kafka and the theology student Hannsgeorg Heintschel-Heinegg.
The court at that time was directly subordinated to the Ministry of Justice in Berlin.
1945-present
The A-tract (Inquisitentrakt), which was destroyed during a bombing raid in 1944 was built in the Second Republic again. This was also necessary because of the prohibition law of 8 May 1945 and the Criminal Law of 26 June 1945 courts and prisons had to fight with an overcrowding of unprecedented proportions.
On 24 March 1950, the last execution took place in the Grey House. Women murderer Johann Trnka had two women attacked in his home and brutally murdered, he had to bow before this punishment. On 1 July 1950 the death penalty was abolished in the ordinary procedure by Parliament. Overall, occured in the Regionl Court of Criminal Matters 1248 executions. In 1967, the execution site was converted into a memorial.
In the early 1980s, the building complex was revitalized and expanded. The building in the Florianigasse 8, which previously had been renovated, served during this time as an emergency shelter for some of the departments. In 1994, the last reconstruction, actually the annex of the courtroom tract, was completed. In 2003, the Vienna Juvenile Court was dissolved as an independent court, iIts agendas were integrated in the country's criminal court.
Prominent processes since 1945, for example, the Krauland process in which a ÖVP (Österreichische Volkspartei - Austrian People's Party) minister was accused of offenses against properties, the affair of the former SPÖ (Sozialistische Partei Österreichs - Austrian Socialist Party) Minister and Trade Unions president Franz Olah, whose unauthorized financial assistance resulted in a newspaper establishment led to conviction, the murder affairs Sassak and the of the Lainzer nurses (as a matter of fact, auxiliary nurses), the consumption (Konsum - consumer cooporatives) process, concerning the responsibility of the consumer Manager for the bankruptcy of the company, the Lucona proceedings against Udo Proksch, a politically and socially very well- networked man, who was involved in an attempted insurance fraud, several people losing their lives, the trial of the Nazi Holocaust denier David Irving for Wiederbetätigung (re-engagement in National Socialist activities) and the BAWAG affair in which it comes to breaches of duty by bank managers and vanished money.
Presidents of the Regional Court for Criminal Matters in Vienna since 1839 [edit ]
Josef Hollan (1839-1844)
Florian Philipp (1844-1849)
Eduard Ritter von Wittek (1850-1859)
Franz Ritter von Scharschmied (1859-1864)
Franz Ritter von Boschan (1864-1872)
Franz Josef Babitsch (1873-1874)
Joseph Ritter von Weitenhiller (1874-1881)
Franz Schwaiger (1881-1889)
Eduard Graf Lamezan -Salins (1889-1895)
Julius von Soos (1895-1903)
Paul von Vittorelli (1903-1909)
Johann Feigl (1909-1918)
Karl Heidt (1918-1919)
Ludwig Altmann (1920-1929)
Emil Tursky (1929-1936)
Philipp Charwath (1936-1938)
Otto Nahrhaft (1945-1950)
Rudolf Naumann (1951-1954)
Wilhelm Malaniu (1955-1963)
Johann Schuster (1963-1971)
Konrad Wymetal (1972-1976)
August Matouschek (1977-1989)
Günter Woratsch (1990-2004)
Ulrike Psenner (2004-2009)
Friedrich Forsthuber (since 2010)
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For my coming Jabba's palace I've built some technical device. I've made an instruction to see how I used some SNOT-techniques.
Block 1:
Inset = 3 play-starter accessory sets ($1 each at Dollar Tree)
A. Skipper Babysitters Inc. - 2018 - Mattel #FHY80
B. Breakfast playset - 2018 - Mattel #FXG28
C. Pet Puppy playset - 2018 - Mattel #FHY70
January Birthstone Mini-Teddybear by Russ Berrie
(reference: www.treasurebears.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&am...)
*one of the Barbies has already talked him out of his tiny "garnet" necklace. ;-)
Lisette - 2004 Barbie - Hallmark Ornament
Fashion Model Collection
Pristine in original box, complete with stand
Block 2:
Disney Store Princess Cinderella
2018 - Disney Classic Princess Collection
(reference: www.ebay.com/itm/DISNEY-STORE-PRINCESS-CINDERELLA-W-RING-...)
*I don't know why her previous "mommy" chopped off her bangs :-/
**Thanks to wherespjbeen (and Rachel) for this ID**
White gown = Heavenly Holidays
(originally a 7-piece Barbie fashion ensemble)
1982 - Mattel #4277
(the red ribbon detail in my pic is NOT original)
** note ** a few weeks later, I came upon the red velvet over-skirt to go with this - so lucky!
The Super Models Keep Fit Musical Exercise Bike
with Articulated Doll
Vtg 1998/1999 - Toy Concepts #8716
**Thanks to Hunter Tomlin for help with the vintage**
In box, with original accessories
Musical & Mechanical peddling device still functional
(she looks like a clone of "Betty Teen Gloria Doll by Tong")
Block 3:
MHS Dress =
2009 - Frankie Stein / Dawn of the Dance
Bodysuit = Ken Ice / Capades
1989-90 - Mattel #7375
*I have temporarily pinned this up for a better "Barbie fit" -
not sure if I will alter it permanently
Nikki - Surf's Up Beach
2008 - Mattel #L9547
** 1990 Asha sculpt
Her previous mommy really mangled her hair with a WILD chop job - I have it styled into a comb-over for now.
"Fur" Coat =
1980 Golden Dream Barbie #3533
Special issue W/Fur Coat
(reference: www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vtg-1980-golden-dream-barb...)
Holiday Sparkle Barbie
2011 - Mattel #V4415
(dressed in a clone gown)
** 1998 CEO / Generation Girl sculpt
A sculpture of a man with an ankle chain which has a mobile phone shaped block attached to it (not visible in this image). The artist's brief: The price of always being connected is -always being connected. All pervasive mobile communication has blurred the boundaries of our work and personal lives; maintaining an online presence cuts into the time we have for people in the real world; and privacy is almost a thing of the past. In the guise of making our lives easier, communications technology has come to control and define our every waking moment and ironically social networking has been shown to make users feel more alienated than ever. Be careful what you wish for!.
David McGuinness
Mixed media, paint, perspex, solar lights. Swell Sculpture festival
So I got my hands on the prototype Portal gun at the New York Toy Fair this morning. I was told it would be closer to $150, not $120, and it’ll be ready mid to late this year. They’re not sure yet where it will be sold, but Toys R Us was mentioned as a possibility. It’s satisfyingly large, the handle feels good and the thumb toggle to change from orange to blue and back is intuitive, the trigger is a trigger… nothing to get excited or upset over. It feels cheap. It looks cheap. But it also looks easy to dismantle for bulking up and repainting to improve. Honestly, I sort of feel that for the price that shouldn’t be needed, but I can deal with it. This one is not the finished product though, they will at least paint that inner core bit that should be black. Also the orange will be as bright as the blue and the sound effects which were weak should be louder and clearer. I wouldn’t say I’m disappointed, as I expected such flaws, so I’ll still be picking one up. But I can see a lot of unhappy fans that want perfection. Then again, considering the other game replica weapons I’ve seen, and for something this size with lights and sounds, the price is not bad and the cheapness is tolerable to make the price slightly more reasonable.
Full film: youtu.be/xP9oPMLnZ0o
archive.org/details/lost_city1
A scientist (Kane Richmond) tries to figure out what is causing a rash of unexplained natural disasters around the globe and deduces that the epicenter of the incidents is coming from the unexplored jungles of Africa. There, William "Stage" Boyd is using his high-tech "brain destroyer" to turn the natives into mindless brutes. Considered one of the more bizarre serials of the 1930s,
synopsis
The legendary so-bad-it's-good serial The Lost City manages to keep the audience on its toes for 12 full chapters. It all begins when Hero Bruce Gordon (Kane Richmond) invents a device to track the mysterious electrical disturbances which are causing turmoil all over the world. The invention leads Gordon to Central Africa, where he comes upon a gigantic "Magnetic Mountain" which shelters the lost city of Liguria. This art-deco dominion is ruled by mad scientist Zolok (played by William "Stage" Boyd with what one historian described as "alcoholic intensity"), who gleefully monitors the activities of his minions via television and who fiendish plans to create an army of zombie giants with which to rule the world. Zolok's reluctant assistant is the brilliant Dr. Manyus (Josef Swickard), who is being forced to cooperate lest harm befall his beautiful daughter Natcha (Claudia Dell). Manyus' chief claim to fame is a machine that will turn black people white -- prompting the sensitivity-challenged Gordon to exclaim "That's wonderful!" The story careens wildly from one incredible peril to the next, suggesting that the writers were making it all up as they went along. The film's most enjoyable character is renegade trader Butterfield (George "Gabby" Hayes), who goes from good guy to villain to good guy again, depending on the dictates of the script. Cheap, silly and overacted, Lost City is also a lot of good campy fun. The serial is also available in two separate feature versions, one of which is titled City of Lost Men.
THE LOST CITY (1935)Wow. Where do I even start with this one? THE LOST CITY is a completely outrageous serial that packs in more surrealistic situations and screwball characters than most comedies of that era. It's entertaining enough – I sometimes had the sensation of a bad acid flashback from the 1970s while watching it – but it sure is strange.
We start with the Earth being threatened by powerful electrical storms that are causing floods and earthquakes, with lightning bolts blowing up ships at sea and smashing apart buildings. Things look bad as stock footage rampages. But Bruce Gordon (Kane Richmond, SPY SMASHER himself) is on the job. This studly young electrical engineer is slaving over devices of his own invention, pinpointing the source of the storms on a small globe he has sitting in front of him.
Somehow, the disasters are all being caused by some force in the center of Africa. It's unexplored territory where no expedition had dared venture, but Gordon scoffs at the danger. Backed by wealthy citizens and the military, our hero sets out to save the world, dragging along his unenthusiastic assistant Jerry (Eddie Fetherstone). Their goal is the legendary Magnetic Mountain, a huge mass of iron.
As it happens, the real spanner in the works is a genuine Mad Scientist. In an hidden (and almost deserted) city of advanced design lurks the last surviving member of the race of Ligurians. This is Zolok (William "Stage" Boyd), a ranting laughing madman in a rather snappy Flash Gordon-type outfit. (Lightning bolts are a popular feature on Ligurian fashion.) Zolok is causing the disasters as part of his experiments, and if there's great loss of life and property destruction, well that's too bad. He's planning on world conquest anyway, so everyone should get used to catastrophes.
In addition to his electrical projects, Zolok is also fooling around with making brain-dead giant zombies out of the local natives. Evidently, the studio rounded up the tallest Black guys they could find and matched them with rather short men for contrast. It actually works pretty well. The scene where we watch four Giants carry struggling screaming natives down stairs and throw them in a cell is unsettling. The Giants walk with a strange lurch, too, shoulders thrown back and arms tensed out to the sides. Add some enormous bushy explosions of hair, dubbed-in panther snarls, and you've got an impressive army of henchmen. (I notice even the serial's hero has no luck slugging it out with the Giants; several times he is seized and throttled, unable to do much against them.) Sam Baker as Hugo is a particularly imposing Giant African killer zombie with a leopard shriek.
There are more complications to the situation than this. Even though he's the sole survivor of a race of geniuses, Zolok is relying on the expertise of his captive Dr Manyus for his gadgets. The doc is only co-operating to prevent harm to his daughter, who is also being held. (She is the least helpful of any serial heroine I've seen, who are usually a feisty and resourceful bunch of gals. Mostly she flutters her hands and screams.) Adding to the group dynamics are Zolok's two lieutenants. There's Appolyn, who had obviously been spending an hour a day with the barbells and wants to show the results in his little silver shorts and harness. Then we have Gorzo (William Bletcher in a five-pound wig), a hunchbacked dwarf with a deep and impressive voice that could have gotten him a good job in radio.
Still not enough characters in the cast. Going along with Bruce Gordon and Jerry are two assistant engineers, Colton and Reynolds. Add a shady trader named Butterfield (George Hayes, later "Gabby") and a broken-down beachcomber without a beach, the eyepatched Andrews. Now you've got a good assortment to be captured and have to be rescued, to betray each other or to be unexpectedly killed to show just how dangerous the situation is. Wait, add two more villains.There's an Arab slave trader Ben Ali, who thinks being able to produce enormous hulking zombies would be great for business (he contributes a desultory swordfight with Gordon). And finally, there's merciless Queen Rama (who knows where she came from, maybe one of the isolated pockets of ancient white civilization that Tarzan used to stumbled upon). She's a lustful scheming sort of sovereign, and it's too bad the actress wasn't a bit prettier, as it kind of takes away from the character's impact.
Wait, wait. One more ingredient for the stew. Zolok has for some reason transmogrified a group of natives into white-skinned dwarves, the "Spider Men" who trap victims in nets and jab at them with spears. Creepy little guys, alright. I generally dislike the use of midgets or dwarves to represent aliens or mythical beings in films, although I can see how convenient it must be for the filmmakers. The idea that Zolok can switch peoples' skin color back and forth is novel, though. Talk about a perfect secret identity for a crime-fighter or criminal mastermind!
Well, now we can settle back and watch this large assortment of oddballs interact with each other for twelve chapters. There's certainly enough going on to keep any cliffhanger fan entertained. The one area where THE LOST CITY is lacking, though, is stunts. I didn't see any spectacular dives or tackles or slugfests. (Bruce Gordon does have a cute two-inch punch that Bruce Lee would have envied; he hardly draws back his arm at all.)
And for a serial set in Africa, the expected attacks by lions, hippos, giant snakes, velociraptors and gorillas are mostly absent. But that's probably just as well as we've already seen all the available footage elsewhere.
The sets are terrific, plenty of sparking and crackling apparatus that looks like it should be doing something useful (donated by the inimitable Kenneth Strickfaden, who else?), futuristic hallways and rooms with numerous gadgets on the walls. a remote viewing television screen, a death ray that eats through metal and threatens the strapped-down Gordon almost exactly like Goldfinger's laser burning toward James Bond's crotch, that sort of thing.
I think I should mention the acting. It's way over the top. Most of the characters gesture and bluster and cower like they're in a silent film from ten years earlier, or on a stage playing to nearsighted audiences. Boyd as Zolok in particular really lays it on with a leaden hand. I've read in a few places he was known as a heavy drinker, and his performance does nothing to disprove that. In his final scene, as his world is crashing around him and he decides to blow the whole city up, Zolok seems genuinely befuddled and confused. It's oddly touching, though, as if he's in shock over how badly things have gone wrong.
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