Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Terry The Time Travelling Tortoise by Mr. Wolf Casey Junior. Casey is a 2-4-0 American steam tender locomotive with a small, four-wheeled tender full of coal at the back, a big, tall smokestack, a small headlamp in a baseball cap-shaped casing, a tall steam dome with a whistle on top, and a small cowcatcher on his front. The latter has a vague shape of a face, with two headlights in place of eyes and a cylinder-shaped structure protruding forward functioning as his nose. His wheel pistons are often used as "arms", like when he has to climb up a difficult mountain. Appearances. Dumbo. Casey is a 2-4-0 American steam tender locomotive hauling the WDP Circus train, and he even has his own theme song. He appears frequently throughout the film and is shown to be somewhat sapient. For example, when the Ringmaster calls, "All aboard! All aboard!", his whistle can be heard calling, "All aboard! Let's go!" As is the case with most of Disney's early cartoon vehicles, Casey has the ability to move more fluidly than real-life locomotives, and his boiler is often seen bending and twisting like rubber when in motion. In addition, he can twist and flex his metal body to express motion. He uses his steam cylinders like limbs, giving him the ability to shrug, point and make other gestures. While the sound of the voice resembles that of one processed through a vocoder, it was actually done with a more primitive device, a Sonovox, which uses one or two small loudspeakers in contact with the throat, which allowed Wright to "speak" by modulating an artificially produced sound with her mouth. Throughout the film, the circus workers get various animals ready on Casey's coaches, including Mrs. Jumbo. After all the animals successfully board the coaches, the Ringmaster then shouts "All aboard" so that Casey can get ready to travel to the spot where the circus will perform. Casey travels very far from the Winter Headquarters. Mr. Stork meanwhile arrives late and flies towards Casey Junior where Mrs. Jumbo is at as he delivers her a newborn baby elephant named "Jumbo Junior" by his mother, whom the elephants call him "Dumbo". Casey stops at the spot where the circus will be built at to which the next day, the workers have finished setting up the circus tent. Later after the act where Dumbo is to reach the top of the elephants unsuccessful due to the tent collapsing, Casey travels sadly throughout a rainy night as the elephants exclude Dumbo from their act and Dumbo is put into the clown act. At the end of the film where Dumbo becomes a circus star, a happy Casey is seen wearing a wreath of flowers around him, smiling in joy. He is also pulling another car, a private car for Dumbo. While the Crows and Elephants are singing a reprise of "When I See an Elephant Fly", steam whistles are heard, presumably made by Casey Junior, adding to the harmonization of the song. Dumbo happily reunites with his mother and as Casey happily travels to the next destination, the crows bid a farewell to Dumbo, wishing him good luck. The Reluctant Dragon. In this live-action/animated tour of the Walt Disney Studios in 1941, a work-in-progress scene of Casey is used to demonstrate the creation of sound effects for animation as well as the vocoder device used to create his voice. This demonstration takes the form of an extended train journey, though it is hard to say whether this was truly a deleted scene from an early version of Dumbo or simply new animation created for the purposes of the demonstration. In this scene, Casey was, in fact, pulling a passenger train to Cleveland, Ohio. At one point during the excursion, he gets into conflict with a steamboat over the right of way on a drawbridge that spans the river, before overcoming him and causing the drawbridge to close on and push down on the steamboat into the water. Later on, Casey encounters a streamlined train charging towards him and closing in fast, at which he desperately called for a nearby railroad switch lever to wake up and change the track, which it did. He thereafter crashes after an effort to jump the chasm left by a broken bridge in a storm. Casey's design in this film differs from his prior appearance in Dumbo and thus features many changes. For starters, coupling rods were connected to his foremost driving axle. He also had a roof-mounted bell and was not as stubby. When he was hired for the circus train, he had a few changes: his coupling rods were extended and moved to his rear driving wheels, his bell was removed, and he became stubbier. This implies that he was overhauled after the accident and bought by a railroad based in Florida that served the southeastern United States. Other appearances. Casey makes a cameo in the Donald Duck cartoon Spare the Rod as a silhouetted train crossing a bridge. Case makes a brief cameo in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit . He is spotted during the final scene. In Kronk's New Groove , the sequel to The Emperor's New Groove , Kronk has a miniature model train set of Casey in his new home, complete with scaled-down models of the carriages featured in Dumbo . Casey makes two cameo appearances in the Mickey Mouse TV shorts. In the episode Tokyo Go , he appears at the end of the episode as a miniature train piloted by Mickey Mouse as a children's attraction, in reference to Walt Disney's backyard Carolwood Pacific Railroad, complete with Walt's barn (a photo of Walt in the cab of Disneyland Railroad locomotive E. P. Ripley also appears in the scene). Casey also appears in the episode "New Shoes", with his namesake, Casey Jones, engineering, riding with Dumbo, Timothy Q. Mouse, and the Crows. Casey makes a cameo at the beginning of the 2016 live-action remake of The Jungle Book during its opening Disney logo (recreated using traditional animation instead of CGI, thus replacing the realistic train from the original version of the current logo), where he is seen as a silhouetted train crossing a trestle over a river behind an amusement park just right before the castle is shown. This is the same logo used for the 2019 remake of The Lion King ; however, unlike in The Jungle Book , the logo does not back into a jungle and instead fades away. Coincidentally, both films are live-action remakes directed by Jon Favreau. A non-anthropomorphic Casey also appeared in the 2019 live-action remake of Dumbo . Video games. Casey appears in the video game Mickey's Racing Adventure as the train which brings the characters to their racing grounds. In the game, Casey is not anthropomorphic but he maintains the same name and appearance he had in Dumbo . Casey makes a brief cameo in Where's My Mickey? . Disney Parks. A Disneyland attraction named the Casey Jr. Circus Train is based on Casey, with an updated version running at Disneyland Paris. Casey Jr. Splash & Soak Station, a water play area themed around him, was added to the Magic Kingdom in 2012 in the Storybook Circus section of the park's new Fantasyland. Casey is the second float in the Main Street Electrical Parade and its versions. He, driven by Goofy, pulls a drum with the parade logo, along with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. When the parade returned to Disneyland in 2017, he was made the lead float. Terry: The Time Travelling Tortoise by Mr. Wolf. VOO-SHWIPOP! Like it or not, Terry the tortoise was no longer in his quiet English garden, drinking tea and eating buttered crumpets. Now he was tumbling through time and space, and meeting a very odd assortment of characters along the way; such as the pirates Bee Beard and Broccoli Beard, strange creatures called cogs and dats, a depressed William Shakespeare and a humpless camel. And when Queen Victoria mistakes Terry for a teapot, it begins to look like he might never get back home again! Join Terry on this fantastical voyage of silly adventures, and confront conundrums of the space-time continuum face on! By the year 2376, this book has won numerous (as yet un-invented) prizes, such as The Wurlitzer Sausage Award for Twenty First Century Classics. Suitable for children and adults of ages 7+ What I says: This book is bloody brilliant, I am a big fan of fun time travel stories and Terry the time travelling tortoise ticks that box perfectly. This is a kids book that an adult will enjoy, I waited until my daughter was 8 before reading it to her because the rules and paradoxes of time travel can be a tab confusing, Mr Wolf puts in a valiant effort of explaining things as simply as possible. The story is witty, the characters are bizarre, a woman with curly wurly arms? Sounds tasty! But for me the highlight is the illustrations, every few pages you get a little drawing of the characters and they are really well done, Mr Wolf has obviously spent a lot of time with Time Travelling Tortoises to get the level detail just right. My daughter loved these too and has done her own drawing of Terry travelling to Stonehenge and knocking them over: If your kid has a good sense of humour and likes fun adventure stories then get them a copy of this great little book. Necropolis by Guy Portman. What da cover says: What is a sociopath to do? Dyson Devereux’s life appears to be on track. He has a way with the ladies, impeccable good taste, and as the recently promoted head of Burials and Cemeteries at Newton Borough Council, a job that demands respect. But Dyson is becoming annoyed with his drug-addled girlfriend’s decline, fed up with his banal work colleagues, and incensed by Newton New Cemetery’s gaudy memorial structures. When Dyson suspects someone of having a darker past than him, he has a chance for redemption. Will he seize it, or is his destiny to be a life of toil in Burials and Cemeteries? Brutal, bleak and darkly comical, Necropolis is a savage indictment of the politically correct, health and safety obsessed public sector. What I says: Very good story. I can really relate to Dyson, his hatred of Céline Dion had me laughing. I also learnt all about wolfing in this book a hobby I have yet to partake in. You can see the influence of American Psycho, it has the same bold character, the extreme violence and madness has been removed, instead you have a much more controlled character. This makes for a scarier sociopath. How Dyson has to try and fit in at work, dealing with lame-ass work colleagues was well written, it really gets you on his side. The plot is strong, lots of plot lines all tying in nicely for a great ending. A top blend of dark humour and satire. Looking forward to reading the sequel that has just come out. CHILDHOOD GAMES: WHAT’S THE TIME MR WOLF? What’s the time Mr Wolf? is a tag game that was very popular during my primary school years – more so at school, where we had a long lawn to run on, than in ordinary gardens that tended to lack such a generous space. Unless someone really wanted to be Mr Wolf, we would go through the ritual of counting games to decide who would be so. Mr Wolf then stood at one end of the school lawn while the other players lined up at the far end. As Mr Wolf turned his (or her) back the other players would creep forward chanting “What’s the time Mr Wolf?” At any time Mr Wolf would turn around and call out a time e.g. “Four o’clock!” The group would then advance that number of steps. Tension would mount as the players came closer, repeating this procedure, until Mr Wolf might call out “It’s dinner time!” It is at this point that Mr Wolf would roar and chase the players back to the starting point whilst trying to catch one of them, who would then help Mr Wolf in the next round of the game. The last child standing was declared the winner of the game. We also played it in Afrikaans, chanting “Wolf, wolf, hoe laat is dit?” The fact that we do not have wolves in this country was neither here nor there as we were all familiar with the wily wolf’s attempt to eat Little Red Ridinghood – a story narrated to us in both Afrikaans and English. As is the case with a number of the games we played during my primary school years, I see little evidence of this one enduring when I watch young children at play. My grandchildren have enjoyed the game though – with me being Mr Wolf! Some Big Investors Want to Be Landlords. Once known as Delano Village, the seven-building apartment complex in Harlem was built in the late 1950s as middle-income housing by the Axelrod family, which continued to own it for nearly five decades. This year, the family sold the complex to a partnership that included Apollo Real Estate Advisors, one of the developers of the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle, where condominiums sell for eight figures. The new landlords of Delano Village, which is between 139th and 142nd Streets and Fifth Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard, have renamed it Savoy Park, but they say they have no plans to convert it to condominiums. All 1,800 apartments are rent-regulated. Unlike the pending sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, a complex of 110 buildings along the East River, the sale of Delano Village attracted little notice. The Stuyvesant Town deal drew widespread attention because of its size (11,232 apartments) and price ($5.4 billion), as well as the excitement it created among investors and the fears it raised about the future of middle-class housing in New York. About 27 percent of the apartments already rent at the market rate. But for several years now, investment funds and other deep-pocketed investors have been quietly buying large apartment buildings like those in Stuyvesant Town and Delano Village, or portfolios of smaller buildings, with a substantial proportion of rent-regulated units — not just in Manhattan but also in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. Longtime owners who never previously contemplated selling are taking advantage of the high prices in a hot commercial real estate market, said Richard Baxter, an executive managing director at the Cushman & Wakefield brokerage firm. Last year, for example, Riverton Houses, a Harlem apartment complex with 1,250 units, sold for $130 million to Stellar Management, one of the more active buyers of apartment buildings. Riverton Houses was built in 1950 by Metropolitan Life Insurance to house black tenants who were excluded from Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. Last year, Stellar and a financial partner bought Parkmerced, a large residential complex built by MetLife in San Francisco, a city that also has rent regulation. In January, SG2, a company formed five years ago by Stephen Siegel, the chairman of worldwide operations for CB Richard Ellis, the giant brokerage company, expects to complete its $400 million purchase of 51 buildings with 4,000 apartments in the Bronx. Mr. Siegel’s financial backer is BlackRock Realty, an investment firm that is also the partner of Tishman Speyer in the successful $5.4 billion bid for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. Tishman Speyer, the owner of Rockefeller Center, has assured anxious tenants that no sudden or drastic changes are in store. “You’re going to see a much more active market for these properties in the next few years,” said Jeffrey A. Barclay, a managing director of the investment firm ING Clarion, which teamed up with Apollo and the Dermot Company to bid for Stuyvesant Town. “There is a recognition that not much of this is being built, and there’s very strong demand for it.” Investors’ appetite for apartment buildings is growing just as condominium sales are slowing, rents are rising and vacancies are tightening in New York and elsewhere. The spread in sale price between conventional apartment buildings and those that can be converted into condominiums has narrowed or disappeared, even in cities with rent regulation, said Hessam Nadji, managing director of research services for Marcus & Millichap, an investment brokerage company in Encino, Calif. Buyers of regulated apartments are often backed by pension funds and other long-term investors that are prepared to wait for rents to swell as apartments become vacant. Mr. Barclay said his team had projected a 10 percent return from Stuyvesant Town over 10 to 15 years. The new owners of some of the recently traded properties said they could reap more profit from the buildings by managing them more professionally than their previous landlords. They are also likely to be more motivated to weed out tenants who violate rent regulations by maintaining a primary residence elsewhere. “They may have a staff that just does this,” said Martin Ezratty, a director of Eastern Consolidated, a brokerage firm. “A new person, when paying top price, will want to be able to get whatever return they’re entitled to.” Investors in buildings in prime Manhattan neighborhoods can accelerate the pace of deregulating apartments. Landlords are allowed to pass along 2.5 percent of the amount they spend on improvements like new kitchens, which can quickly push rents above $2,000, the critical point for deregulating a vacant apartment. This is likely to take much longer in ungentrified areas of the city, where the rents are far lower than $2,000 (for an occupied apartment to be deregulated, the monthly rent must reach $2,000 and the household income must exceed $175,000 for two consecutive years.) The average rent for Mr. Siegel’s properties is $800 a month, he said, making it unlikely they will be deregulated for years, unless the rent laws change. “You make money slowly, by improving the apartments when someone moves out,” he said. “It’s kind of like the tortoise and the hare. This is the tortoise.” At Savoy Park, a regulated one-bedroom apartment rents for $700 a month. But one new owner, Neil L. Rubler, the president of Vantage Properties, said upgraded apartments go for $1,500 a month and are intended for “schoolteachers, administrators and clerical employees.” Vantage and Apollo also recently bought a portfolio of 2,200 apartments in Queens, Mr. Rubler said. “What we’re focused on — what we think we can really do — is create a very, very high-quality product for the middle-income consumer,” Mr. Rubler said. “It’s not about getting up to $2,000.” He said the buildings would remain rentals. But Mr. Baxter, a broker in the sale of Delano Village and Riverton House, said an eventual conversion could not be ruled out. “Just about everyone underwriting these transactions has an exit strategy that includes converting,” he said. “Ten years from now, the tenancy will have changed.” Although only 15 percent of the tenants in a given building need to be willing to buy before a condominium conversion plan can be filed, landlords in buildings with many rent-stabilized tenants generally wait until at least half of the units are deregulated, said Stuart M. Saft, a partner at Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, who advised different bidders in each round of the Stuyvesant Town auction. The first buyers are likely to be limited to the tenants paying market rates, leaving the landlord with only rent-stabilized tenants and less income than needed to cover the operating costs, he said. But in today’s market, many landlords are likely to prefer collecting rent, even when more than half the apartments are no longer regulated. BlackRock, as the adviser to the California State Teachers Retirement System, and Mann Realty recently acquired two Upper East Side apartment buildings: 165 East 66th Street, with 152 units, and 200 East 62nd Street, with 115 units. The buildings are 55 percent and 63 percent market rate, respectively, said William M. Shanahan, a vice chairman of CB Richard Ellis, which represented the sellers. “For the time being, they are going to stay rentals,” said Arthur Fenton, a senior vice president at Prudential Douglas Elliman, who has listings in both buildings. When an apartment becomes vacant, the new owners are providing the type of finishes — white oak floors, stainless steel appliances — normally found only in condos, he said. One 2,300-square-foot apartment Mr. Fenton is marketing has a wraparound terrace and a working fireplace — and a monthly rent of $16,500. “There is more demand than there is supply,” he said.