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In addition, a lookout is added to the treehouse.In the front of the tree house, there are benches that look out to the outside deck of the tree house. In the back of the tree house, there is a huge round table and a ship wheel. The fences have also changed to green rail fences. The playground gets more plants, and a red bench surrounds a tree.Unlike previous seasons, the classroom is no longer arranged by "centers".The school doors change from orange to green the windows have a green trim rather than white and it now has a wheelchair ramp.The school, playground, and treehouse all get updated: Initially scheduled to debut in September 1997, this season was announced in September 1996, and production for this season ran from April to August 1997. Promotional shot of Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, Scooter McNutty, and Miss Etta Kette on set This is the final season in which Sheryl Leach, the creator of the series and franchise, served as an executive producer. ![]() This became the first season to not feature any children from the series predecessor, Barney & The Backyard Gang, as well as the first three seasons. New kid characters were also added in this season, including: Danny, Curtis, and Jeff. Also joining the cast from the two previous videos are: Hannah, Chip, Keesha, and Robert. Those include the characters are: Ashley, Alissa, Stephen, Kristen, Kim, and Maria. The main cast of kids from the previous three seasons have entirely been replaced by a new cast of children, with some extras from the previous season and videos now becoming regular cast members. This season adds the two puppet characters: Scooter McNutty, a squirrel who lacks foresight, and Miss Etta Kette, a bird with great manners. This season continues to display Barney coming to life through a child's imagination, whenever he is needed for something, helping his friends, through educational themes tailored for toddlers, which is the viewing audience.Ĭontinuing to be filmed at Las Colinas in Irving, Texas, and still taking place at a school, playground, and treehouse, the entire set becomes updated. For the music variants, see above.The fourth season of Barney & Friends premiered on PBS from November 3 to Novemand consisted of twenty episodes. The logo, however, was silent until Let's Pretend With Barney. In Barney's Stu-u-u-upendous Puzzle Fun!, similar to Barney's Magical Musical Adventure, the opening silhouette was replaced the current home video logo in the intro sequence and it fades into the opening shot of Barney coming to life and greeting the kids.Ī short version of the Barney and the Backyard Gang/Barney and Friends theme song.Beginning in 1996, Barney tapes that are part of the "Classic Collection" (such as Barney's Talent Show and the 1996 re-prints of the Barney and the Backyard Gang videos), have a special variant in which "CLASSIC COLLECTION" wipes in underneath "HOME VIDEO", turning it gold instead of grey.Barney's eye "winks" once, exactly much like the 1st logo. The word " Barney", in a blue 3D stylized, Barney corporate logo font, flies up at the top of the screen, below the logo is the words "HOME VIDEO" wiping in via an effect. We start with a yellow background, but suddenly the background folds into a CGI star on a blue Magna Doodle-like tube, revealing a cartoon version of Barney on a black background. ![]()
In Enemies of the Heart, Andy offers practical, biblical direction to help you fight back, to take charge of those feelings that mysteriously control you, and to restore your broken relationships. He says that, left unchallenged they have the power to destroy your home, your career, and your friendships. Andy Stanley explores each of these destructive forces-guilt, anger, greed, and jealousy-and how they infiltrate your life and damage your relationships. The difficult circumstances you are dealing with today are likely being fed by one of four emotional forces that compels you to act in undesirable ways, sometimes even against your will. “Andy Stanley touches the right nerve at the right time.”-Shaunti Feldhahn, bestselling author of For Women Only and For Men Only Divorce.
Star 2: Head up the cliffs past the piranha plants and shifting blocks. Star 1: As soon as you enter, climb up the tree on your left. World 1-3: Mount Beanpole (3 Stars, 1 Stamp) Star 1: Ground pound on both Chargin' Chuck enemies within the time limit to defeat them and get a Star. World 1-A: Chargin' Chuck Blockade (1 Star, 0 Stamps) If you don't want to get the Yellow Star, you can also attack them using a powerup. The best way to get rid of them is to get on the platform to the left and hit the ? Block to get a Yellow Star. Star 3: Just to the right of where you'll find the stamp, there is a stack of Goombas with a Green Star in the middle of them. ![]() ![]() Jump into the clear pipe on the wall and it will take you to a hidden room with the Stamp. ![]() Now get on it and jump again to reveal a second hidden block. Stamp: When you come to the area with a long question Mark Box and two clear pipes on either side, jump on top of the block to the right to reveal a hidden block. Defeat the two Koopas within 10 seconds to win this Star. Star 2: Shortly after you've hit the checkpoint flag, jump up the purple blocks and enter the Mystery Box. Jump between the two to snatch a Green Star. Star 1: Make your way right through the cave until you come to an area where a set of cloud platforms is going up and another set right next to it is going down. World 1-2: Koopa Troopa Cave (3 Stars, 1 Stamp) When you see the giant Brick Blocks, do a ground pound to break them up. Now that you're huge, quickly drop back down to the bottom level and continue right across the bridge. Run up the tree next to the Stamp pipe and you'll see a large bunny at the top of the cliff. Star 3: You'll need a Mega Mushroom to get this one. Green Star 3: At the end of the third area, behind a Big Boo, and on top of constant moving and falling platforms.Stamp: Just after the pond with the rabbit, there's a pipe in a cliff.Green Star 2: Just past a blank painting in the first area, if the player jumps on the couch, the couch will begin to float and move to the right, to some clouds that contain the second Green Star.Green Star 1: To the left of the start of the level, behind the Big Boo.Going over the railing in the bottom left corner leads them to some invisible clouds and a Warp Box that takes them to a similar balcony layout, where the real Goal Pole is found at the end. Unlike in the original level, the correct path is hidden the player needs to go past the first drop-off where the second fake Goal Pole was encountered. After a drop-off, the player sees another fake Goal Pole yet another drop-off past that, a Warp Box can be found, and it takes the player to the beginning of the balcony again. Afterwards, the player can enter another balcony with more Big Boos and some Peepas. The path goes left and contains more conveyor-carpets, with some of them going slightly upwards and downwards. Outside, the player finds a fake Goal Pole, which, if touched or approached, spawns three Big Boos.Īfter entering the door at the end of the balcony, the player moves to another hallway with another Big Boo chasing them. The former takes the player to a dead end with a bunch of Boos and another Big Boo the latter takes the player to a balcony, with a few conveyor-carpets and another Big Boo. ![]() After the hallway, there are two sets of stairs, one going downwards and one upwards. The level starts in a hallway with a Big Boo chasing the player. As the name suggests, the course is a more difficult version of Shifty Boo Mansion, in a 1940s black-and-white TV aspect. Both defenses would shut down opposing power plays in that stretch. Cal answered a minute later to make it a 10-4 margin, and neither team would break through in the last 5:30 of the frame. In a more defensive third period, USC struck first on a searing 6-on-5 shot from Di Martire. The Bears rattled in three straight goals to end then half ahead 9-3. In the third, the Trojans found two fiery goals from Massimo Di Martire and Luka Brnetic, although those back-to-back USC blasts were bookended by Cal scoring attacks. An even strike sent the Bears back up by two, and then Cal converted on a 6-on-4 opportunity to go ahead 4-1 by the close of the first. Two early power plays helped Cal knock out a 2-0 lead before USC broke ground on the offensive end with a fake-and-fire from Reed Stemler. USC came up against a sharp-shooting Cal team, as the defending NCAA champions built a strong first-half lead on the Trojans to had USC its first loss of the year. 8 UC Irvine 12-10 in a nonconference victory to improve to 5-1 overall on the year. ![]() The next day, USC went on the road and came back to beat No. 1 Cal in a rematch of the 2022 NCAA final. USC came up with a split last week, falling in its MPSF and home opener with a 12-5 loss to No. 3 in the nation as of the latest set of national rankings (released Sept. 2 in the national preseason poll and tied at No. ![]() before an exhibition clash against Golden West at 2:30 p.m. This weekend, the Trojans have a doubleheader on tap for Saturday (Sept. 3 USC splashes back down at Uytengsu Aquatics Center to kick off a stretch of seven straight games in home waters. 16 | 2:30 p.m. | Uytengsu Aquatics Center ![]() ![]() This won't be a problem for sites that don't need to have a public facing wysiwyg editor. Having access to a editor profile seems to result in every needing javascript and css file to be included in head.It feels good to write in this editor! No Editor is PerfectĪlas, there were a few things I didn't like: Lists, and headers work better than any other editor I've used. Hitting return creates a simple break tag. This editor doesn't guess what a paragraph is, instead it takes a different approach: hitting return twice, creates a blank line that becomes a paragraph. ![]() If enabled, this even works out of the box! Intuitve, and Rock Solid Editor Behavior textarea IDs, user roles, and paths to apply the profileīravo! Image Uploading/Insertion works out of the box!.Show a code view button? or a plain text button?.I had control over everything that I cared about, and I don't care about much: When I looked over the other profile settings, I was flabbergasted. You just drag and drop the buttons into enable or disable blocks, hit save and done. 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This is stupid but it’s also mostly entertaining, thanks to Johnson and a plot that moves fast enough to retain our attention yet without enough, ahem, the originality to ensure it lingers in our minds once the fire has been extinguished.Born in 1972, Dwayne Johnson grew up with a view of performance and theatrics. ![]() ![]() But appearances can be deceiving because, as the film rattles toward its finale, the Asian characters don’t really have much of an impact on the plot, and the heroics in the final act are left entirely to the westerners.Īt one point Johnson’s character remarks, “This is stupid,” a line that led to knowing laughter from the audience. Set in China (yet filmed in Vancouver), with a sizable Asian cast, on paper Skyscraper seems to be one of the rare western blockbusters to actually use its location and actors as integral elements, unlike so many other big-budget films that have crowbarred them in to make a quick buck overseas. Yet there’s a lack of snappy one-liners, the kind that usually steer a film like this into some sort of trash classic territory, and we’re stuck with a lumbering, substandard Euro-villain devoid of Alan Rickman’s flair in Die Hard (he’s stuck with dim-witted lines such as “Clever boys like you always think they can be clever”) and an insanely convoluted motivation that I couldn’t explain to you if my family were also being held at gunpoint. Logic and anything resembling real-world physics are not elements one should expect but there’s a tonal awareness during these set pieces that suggests the film-makers don’t care, with the film rarely being presented as anything but escapism. It’s as silly as one would expect but it’s also an undeniably giddy pleasure and, coupled with another heart-pumping, vertigo-inducing action sequence, this is where the film works best. Which brings us to the much-memed crane jump. But this is soon forgotten and the shift to all-out action figure stunting is all too sudden, Sawyer’s anxiety fading instantly despite being faced with a series of genuinely impossible missions. He’s nervous, vulnerable and, when he’s initially thrown into action, unsure on his feet. While his heroic physique is hard to downplay, Johnson does a solid job in the initial scenes of convincing us that he’s not the day-saver we would expect. Neve Campbell and Dwayne Johnson: ‘Right from the opening scene, we’re locked into familiar, box-ticking territory.’ Photograph: Kimberley French/AP Every detail in the first act is a clumsily dropped breadcrumb to be used later on: a joke about Campbell’s character being terrible with technology, a kid’s asthma, a hi-tech tourist attraction high in the building … it’s all screenwriting 101. While it’s a far cry from actual representation for amputees on-screen (Johnson is able-bodied, after all), it’s a small step in the right direction.Įlsewhere, the script fails to make any real inroads towards that much-touted originality. The film kicks off with our hero experiencing some standard character-building trauma (as seen in Cliffhanger, Hostage, Along Came a Spider, etc), though in a somewhat unique touch it leaves our hero without a leg. Right from the opening scene, we’re locked into familiar, box-ticking territory. ![]() Even Universal has referenced this in the marketing, with posters mimicking both Die Hard and The Towering Inferno. But using the word original in the same sentence as Skyscraper feels ill-fitting, given that it’s such a shameless regurgitation of so many other films. Even Johnson himself sub-tweeted this, selling it as some sort of scrappy underdog. Early tracking has suggested that Skyscraper will become the year’s biggest original hit, given that it’s a rare film with a $100m-plus budget that isn’t a sequel, a reboot, a remake or based on a TV show, a comic, a video game, a tweet or a discarded piece of food. ![]() Crusoe saw a painted clay model on May 18, 1953, which corresponded closely to the final car he gave the car the go-ahead in September after comparing it with current European trends. The concept was for a two-passenger open car, with a target weight of 2,525 lb (1,145 kg), a 252 cu in (4.1 L) Ford Y-block Interceptor V8 based on the forthcoming overhead-valve Ford engine slated for 1954 model year introduction, and a top speed over 100 mph (161 km/h). Hershey took the idea and began working on the vehicle. Walker promptly telephoned Ford's HQ in Dearborn and told designer Frank Hershey about the conversation with Crusoe. although if anything existed at the time beyond casual dream-car sketches by members of the design staff, records of it have never come to light. Walking in the Grand Palais in Paris, Crusoe pointed at a sports car and asked Walker, "Why can't we have something like that?" Some versions of the story claim that Walker replied by telling Crusoe, "Oh, we're working on it". Crusoe and Walker met in France in October 1951. ![]() Hershey's participation in the creation of the Thunderbird was more administrative than artistic. Boyer was the lead stylist on the original 1955 two-seater Thunderbird and also had input in the following series of Thunderbirds that included the 30th Anniversary Edition. The Thunderbird was similar in concept but was more American in style, more luxurious, and less sport-oriented.Ĭredit for the development of the original Thunderbird is given to Lewis Crusoe, a former GM executive lured out of retirement by Henry Ford II George Walker, chief stylist and a Ford vice president Frank Hershey, chief stylist for the Ford Division Bill Boyer, designer for the Body Development Studio, who became the manager of the Thunderbird Studio in the spring of 1955 and Bill Burnett, chief engineer. The completed one-off generated interest at the time, but had meager power, European looks, and a correspondingly high cost, so it never proceeded to production. Development Ī smaller two-seater sports roadster was developed at the behest of Henry Ford II in 1953 called the Vega. Thunderbird production ended in 1997, then briefly resumed as a two-passenger, marketed from 2002 to 2005.įrom its introduction in 1955 to its final phaseout in 2005, Ford produced over 4.4 million Thunderbirds. Sales were good until the 1990s when large two-door coupes became unpopular. Succeeding generations became larger until the line was downsized in 1977, again in 1980, and once again in 1983. For 1958, the Thunderbird was redesigned with a second row of seats. Ford positioned the Thunderbird as an upscale model and it is credited in developing a new market segment, the personal luxury car. Unlike the Chevrolet Corvette, it was not marketed as a sports car. The Thunderbird entered production for the 1955 model year as a sporty two-seat convertible. Introduced as a two-seat convertible, the Thunderbird was offered variously as a four-seat hardtop coupe, four-seat convertible, five-seat convertible and hardtop, four-door pillared hardtop sedan, six-passenger hardtop coupe, and five-passenger pillared coupe, with the final generation designed again as a two-seat convertible.įord targeted the two-seat Thunderbird as an upscale model, but the 1958 model year design introduced a rear seat and arguably marked the expansion of a market segment eventually known as personal luxury cars, positioned to emphasize comfort and convenience over handling and high-speed performance. The Ford Thunderbird (colloquially called the T-Bird) is a personal luxury car manufactured and marketed by Ford from model years 1955-2005 (with a 1997-2002 hiatus), across 11 generations. Sports car (first and eleventh generations). ![]() Alicia Vikander, who put on 12 pounds of muscle for the role, lends the concise script an invaluable humanity. This film is effectively a second draft, ironing out the flaws without risking the intensity.Īs far as Lara Croft goes, Tomb Raider has a not-so-secret weapon, positioning it uniquely in the game-to-movie canon: one of the best actors working today. ![]() The 2013 game proved to be a strong source, despite instances where the needs of the gameplay clashed with the story. Gone is the sassy, busty Lara Croft – which would seem to do away with the other asset – but in her place was a sympathetic survivor. ![]() The film is actually adapted from the 2013 reboot, which explored Lara’s origin with a grounded approach inspired by horror films like The Descent. Take away the gameplay, and it’s a warmed-over Indiana Jones plot. The novelty of the game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was twofold: interactivity, and the titular heroine’s popular polygonal makeup. The 2018 Tomb Raider is a textbook adaptation. Doom is instead a borderline horror movie, but it’s a fun one and makes more sense alongside B-movies like Dog Soldiers and Predators. This film represents the ultimately scrapped direction the franchise was headed before the reboot series, which turned Doomguy into the Doom Slayer, and recaptured the winking heavy metal of the originals. John “Reaper” may be the Doomguy, but only insofar as he’s a guy in Doom. Though the demon-infested world of Doom 3 was brought to spectacular life by Stan Winston Studios, it’s true that the game was hardly quintessential. It also benefits from “ The Rock” playing against type, which culminates in a superpowered WWE brawl with Urban. It’s a simple and satisfying formula, executed with the eye of an action veteran, Andrzej Bartkowiak (who may or may not have directed Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-li. Where the game began life as an adaptation of the film Aliens, we’ve closed the loop with this tale of space marines running down hallways and shooting at monsters. Come on!īefore Karl Urban was a household name, his name was John "Reaper" Grimm in the 2005 Doom movie. Chun-li? Hello? The strongest woman in the world spends half the movie in the hospital, after a fight where she’s both underdressed and too evenly matched with Vega. This gets to the heart of it: “Is my main treated with respect?” A fighting game adaptation plays by a different set of rules and expectations, but for those curious, the answer is no. However, enough of the fan favorites get their due, and the fast, brutal fight scenes show off unique styles and powers. The movie actually feels like an extended first act, as if everyone’s being gathered for the island tournament that never comes. DJ cuts a figure uncannily reminiscent of Rob Liefeld’s Captain America.Īnd yet, there isn’t a hint of irony, just famous characters rendered with no concern for their absurd costumes, fighting one another in a gauntlet with very little plot. Half-naked bodies loom large in ample frames, each guy bigger than the last. That was the style of the time, and Street Fighter II is positively fixated on the male physique. It even has those accidental qualities, like the gay subtext of Ken and Ryu’s manly friendship. Consequently, the movie features a surprising amount of blood in addition to the nudity of Chun-li’s infamous shower scene. The opening scene more closely resembles Fist of the North Star than any later live-action interpretation of the long-running fighting game series. For a certain anime fan, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (or just Street Fighter II: Movie, as the title card says) is canonized alongside OVAs and movies of the ‘80s and ‘90s, from Akira and Ninja Scroll to Lily C.A.T. |
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