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I want to wish everyone around the world a Merry Christmas. If you don't celebrate this holiday, have a merry whatever you celebrate.
While similar in concept and theme to the original attraction in Florida, the version of this attraction at Disney California Adventure Park has some differences. This version of the ride opened in 2004, 10 years after the opening of the original Tower of Terror at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
New ride operation system
In order to conserve space and money, Imagineers redesigned the entire ride system for the attraction at Disney's California Adventure and made some general changes to the show scenes. The attraction features three elevator shafts. Each shaft, in theory, is its own separate ride with its own separate operating system. This makes it easier to repair individual areas of the attraction without causing the entire attraction to go down. Each shaft has two vehicles and two load levels. It is designed so that the lower vehicle can be in its ride profile while the upper vehicle is loading, giving the attraction the ability to move its line much faster. Since each vehicle loads and unloads from the same point, it ended up saving space. Due to the smaller budget and fewer breakdowns, Disney decided to use this ride system again for Walt Disney Studios Park's version of the ride and for Tokyo DisneySea's Hotel Hightower (Tokyo's version of the Tower of Terror).
Disney California Adventure opened Tower of Terror in 2004 to better lure crowds into the struggling theme park, while bringing the Tower of Terror to the west Coast as well.
As the elevator doors close, the lights of the service elevator flicker out. The re-designed, multi-level boarding ride system for the Californian version of the tower requires that one elevator loads while another is in the drop shaft progressing through the ride cycle. As such, the first movement guests experience is horizontal, as the elevator itself is pulled back from the service doors and into the shaft. This effect is meant to be unsettling, as guests become immediately aware that their "elevator" is capable of performing movements that are unexpected of a traditional elevator.
Rod Serling's voice is heard as the elevator is pulled back from the doors. "You are the passengers on a most uncommon elevator..." with a flash of lightning, the walls of the basement disappear altogether, leaving only a star-field and the floating service doors with a rotating purple spiral "...about to take the strangest journey of your lives. Your destination? Unknown. But this much is clear: a reservation has been made in your name for an extended stay." The elevator rises quickly to the fifth floor. Because the dark ride portion of California's tower takes place in the drop shaft, the physical vertical vehicle conveyance system can move much more quickly and nimbly than Florida's (in which the first tower functions only as a dark ride and is not built for the quick movements that the drop portion requires). As such, visitors feel a pop of weightlessness as the elevator quickly ascends and then stops on the fifth floor.
When the doors part, an ornate, wood-framed mirror stands in a brightly lit hallway of the hotel and riders see their reflection in its glass. "Wave goodbye to the real world." At once, lightning strikes the hotel and the lights of the hallway and elevator flicker out at once. A ghostly wind blows through a window and the reflection of riders in the elevator becomes distorted, with elongated, electrified echoes of movement. With another blast, the elevator rumbles and shakes and the electrified reflection disappears, leaving only the image of the empty elevator in the mirror as the doors close. "For you have just entered The Twilight Zone."
The elevator descends quickly and opens to reveal the "hallway" scene with an image of an elevator, unlike Florida's version with a window. (which functions as the first scene in the Floridian and Japanese version of the attraction). "One stormy night long ago, five people stepped through the door of an elevator and into a nightmare." The five missing guests appear in the hallway, crackling with electricity and beckon riders to follow them. They disappear, and the walls of the hotel become a star-field. The doors open to reveal the lost passengers inside as both elevators appear to float through space. "That door is opening once again, but this time it's opening for you." The distant elevator falls, followed quickly by the ride elevator.
California's Tower of Terror does not have a randomized drop sequence. The ride experience is identical in every drop shaft and regardless of which floor passengers board on. Two small drops occur in pitch black darkness, followed by a rise to the top of the tower as in-cabin lights flicker. The doors then open out to reveal the view from the top floor before the ride plummets to the basement. A series of quick rises and drops occurs, then another near-complete drop to the area in between the two loading floors (to assure each ride is identical) before the elevator returns to its load level and is horizontally pushed back into place at the boiler room service doors.
Seasonal enhancements during Halloween Time
Started in 2006 for Disney's Halloween Time, the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney's California Adventure receives special sound and lighting effects for the exterior and themed Halloween decor for the surrounding area and in the lobby. The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is the starting point of Disney's "Happiest Haunts on Earth" tour. The Halloween decor was not put up in 2008, but lights projected spinning spider webs upon the exterior of the hotel. As of the beginning of the Buena Vista Street construction project, the special Halloween decor and lighting effects have not been used.
This is where the orginal muscle beach used to be.....now a playground for kids and gymnasts...the new muscle beach is further along...you can see the pacific ocean in the distance
A stunning vista from the highest point on the tranquil isle of Provodenciales, Turks and Caicos.
This house is for rent, a beautiful retreat from the modern world, with this amzing view.
TOTW - Gratitude...
This time about:
1. Getting numerous projects this week one or maybe two of them at the beach!!
2. My friend and partner Shelby who always has her camera with her... so I don't need to worry later about my 365 shot....
3. but I'm mostly grateful about the fact that besides working together we are close friends ... we laugh , we cry, we care about each other... and today we jumped!!!
Driving carefully by intersection under freeway might just result in a "porthole foto" like this as if our transport's small window limited the view as aliens took their next load of happy campers to on board experiments like so often seen in the "B" movies or on the Science-Fiction channel about spaceship abductions of our fellow humans. But please do not let the AIR FORCE or military know, for they will shut us down and quicklky send the MIB (men in black) to waive that little flash wand and wipe all our minds clear. I want to remember. Do you also want to remember this trip on that alien ship as we together journey to ....?
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Wind Farm
“Driving to my grandmother’s funeral, we passed
a wind farm. It was dusk. The road ran straight
over the land, a smooth path between shorn blue fields
and fields still standing with bleached-out stalks of corn
waiting for the night combine with its headlights,
farmers taking the ears at their peak moisture
content—so delicate that even one more dew
will change it. My grandmother died in her sleep
unexpectedly and was found the next morning
when she missed bingo. From the back seat my mother
said: “Look,” and the windmills appeared; one, two,
two hundred craning sleek and white out of the gloom,
wheeling with avian patience, as if all there was
was this task—to pull power from the sky and release it.”
Found in “Floating City” (2007 Louisiana State University Press
www.lsu.edu/lsupress), a book of poems by
Anne Pierson Wiese,
the recipient of the 2006 Walt Whitman Award
from the Academy of American Poets
academy@poets.org
A diesel railcar heads through the desert in Northern Morocco passing a Camel Train heading he same way.
009 narrow gauge layout to 4mm scale of a Moroccan town - Souk El Khamis.
The period is 1938 with the stock mostly secondhand European.
A very different model railway, nicely modelled and run.
Seen at Brighton Model Railway Exhibition 2016.
Grenada is a small island country (344 sq km / 133 sq mi — 206th largest country in the world by land area) northeast of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea. Grenada's capital is St. George's and the island has an estimated population of 110,000 (190th largest country in the world by population).
The island should not be confused with the cities of Grenada in California or Mississippi. Furthermore, it should not be confused with one of the many, many places called Granada.
This photos is part of my HDR Tour of Grenada.
While similar in concept and theme to the original attraction in Florida, the version of this attraction at Disney California Adventure Park has some differences. This version of the ride opened in 2004, 10 years after the opening of the original Tower of Terror at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
New ride operation system
In order to conserve space and money, Imagineers redesigned the entire ride system for the attraction at Disney's California Adventure and made some general changes to the show scenes. The attraction features three elevator shafts. Each shaft, in theory, is its own separate ride with its own separate operating system. This makes it easier to repair individual areas of the attraction without causing the entire attraction to go down. Each shaft has two vehicles and two load levels. It is designed so that the lower vehicle can be in its ride profile while the upper vehicle is loading, giving the attraction the ability to move its line much faster. Since each vehicle loads and unloads from the same point, it ended up saving space. Due to the smaller budget and fewer breakdowns, Disney decided to use this ride system again for Walt Disney Studios Park's version of the ride and for Tokyo DisneySea's Hotel Hightower (Tokyo's version of the Tower of Terror).
Disney California Adventure opened Tower of Terror in 2004 to better lure crowds into the struggling theme park, while bringing the Tower of Terror to the west Coast as well.
As the elevator doors close, the lights of the service elevator flicker out. The re-designed, multi-level boarding ride system for the Californian version of the tower requires that one elevator loads while another is in the drop shaft progressing through the ride cycle. As such, the first movement guests experience is horizontal, as the elevator itself is pulled back from the service doors and into the shaft. This effect is meant to be unsettling, as guests become immediately aware that their "elevator" is capable of performing movements that are unexpected of a traditional elevator.
Rod Serling's voice is heard as the elevator is pulled back from the doors. "You are the passengers on a most uncommon elevator..." with a flash of lightning, the walls of the basement disappear altogether, leaving only a star-field and the floating service doors with a rotating purple spiral "...about to take the strangest journey of your lives. Your destination? Unknown. But this much is clear: a reservation has been made in your name for an extended stay." The elevator rises quickly to the fifth floor. Because the dark ride portion of California's tower takes place in the drop shaft, the physical vertical vehicle conveyance system can move much more quickly and nimbly than Florida's (in which the first tower functions only as a dark ride and is not built for the quick movements that the drop portion requires). As such, visitors feel a pop of weightlessness as the elevator quickly ascends and then stops on the fifth floor.
When the doors part, an ornate, wood-framed mirror stands in a brightly lit hallway of the hotel and riders see their reflection in its glass. "Wave goodbye to the real world." At once, lightning strikes the hotel and the lights of the hallway and elevator flicker out at once. A ghostly wind blows through a window and the reflection of riders in the elevator becomes distorted, with elongated, electrified echoes of movement. With another blast, the elevator rumbles and shakes and the electrified reflection disappears, leaving only the image of the empty elevator in the mirror as the doors close. "For you have just entered The Twilight Zone."
The elevator descends quickly and opens to reveal the "hallway" scene with an image of an elevator, unlike Florida's version with a window. (which functions as the first scene in the Floridian and Japanese version of the attraction). "One stormy night long ago, five people stepped through the door of an elevator and into a nightmare." The five missing guests appear in the hallway, crackling with electricity and beckon riders to follow them. They disappear, and the walls of the hotel become a star-field. The doors open to reveal the lost passengers inside as both elevators appear to float through space. "That door is opening once again, but this time it's opening for you." The distant elevator falls, followed quickly by the ride elevator.
California's Tower of Terror does not have a randomized drop sequence. The ride experience is identical in every drop shaft and regardless of which floor passengers board on. Two small drops occur in pitch black darkness, followed by a rise to the top of the tower as in-cabin lights flicker. The doors then open out to reveal the view from the top floor before the ride plummets to the basement. A series of quick rises and drops occurs, then another near-complete drop to the area in between the two loading floors (to assure each ride is identical) before the elevator returns to its load level and is horizontally pushed back into place at the boiler room service doors.
Seasonal enhancements during Halloween Time
Started in 2006 for Disney's Halloween Time, the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney's California Adventure receives special sound and lighting effects for the exterior and themed Halloween decor for the surrounding area and in the lobby. The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is the starting point of Disney's "Happiest Haunts on Earth" tour. The Halloween decor was not put up in 2008, but lights projected spinning spider webs upon the exterior of the hotel. As of the beginning of the Buena Vista Street construction project, the special Halloween decor and lighting effects have not been used.
Given proper care and growing conditions coconut palms produce their first fruit in six to ten years, it takes 15 – 20 years to reach peak production
Nadja is so very different from Niko always wants to be in control and if she is in a boat, kakay or car she will not settle down, she is on the edge always altert. Here she is watching Niko in my hubby's kayak
Leblon #Cachaça bottles
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The #Leblon #Caipirinha
2 oz. Leblon Cachaça
2 tsp. superfine sugar or 1 oz. simple syrup
1/2 lime, cut into wedges
Muddle the lime and sugar in a shaker. Fill the shaker with ice and add Leblon Cachaça.
Shake vigorously and serve in a rocks glass.
Garnish with a lime wheel.