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Were the Beatles off piste?
Q: An absolutely new one on me: "piste." It was used by Sir Paul McCartney during a BBC interview cited in The Guardian. Is it a word that's stayed on that side of the pond, or does it have a track record in the Colonies, too?
A: The Nov. 16, 2008, article in The Guardian quotes Sir Paul on the subject of a 14-minute track called "Carnival of Light," recorded by the Beatles in 1967 and never released.
McCartney, it turns out, still has a master tape of the improvisatory session, which he plans to share with the world. "I like it because it's the Beatles free, going off piste," he says.
I'm glad the interviewer correctly transcribed that sentence!
Sir Paul's use of the word "piste" is right on track – in the states as well as the mother country.
A "piste," according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is (1) a trail, especially one beaten by a horse or mule; (2) a marked-out area for the sport of fencing; and (3) a ski trail of compacted snow.
Both The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.) and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) define it as a ski trial.
There are similar words in French, Italian, and Spanish, all ultimately derived from a post-classical Latin word, pistare, meaning to pound.
In modern English usage, "piste" appears most often in reference to skiing, to fencing, and to tracks (like those in riding rings or well-used trails). Here are some recent examples from the OED:
2002, from Tricolor Over the Sahara: The Desert Battles of the Free French, 1940-1942, by Edward L. Bimberg: "Camel mounted soldiers who also served as escorts for the civilian caravans that regularly transported goods along the desert pistes."
2002, from By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers and Olympic Champions, by a fencing expert, Richard Cohen: "We had two judges watching us, one on either side of the piste."
2001, from Ski magazine: "I spent a week skiing Switzerland, on St. Moritz's extraordinary open pistes of Corviglia and Corvatsch."
So McCartney meant that the improvisatory session by the Beatles was, to use a similar expression, off the beaten track.
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Dundalk man McDonnell parts company as manager of Warrenpoint
Caoimhín Reilly
caoimhin.reilly@dundalkdemocrat.ie
Dundalk native Stephen McDonnell has parted company as manager of Warrenpoint Town.
McDonnell, a former Dundalk FC midfielder, leaves the County Down club at the foot of the Danske Bank Premiership after a difficult start to the season.
However, at just 28, he enjoyed a successful time at the helm of the Milltown men, guiding the club to safety in each of the last two campaigns, as well as reaching last year's Irish Cup semi-final.
In a statement, Town director Connaire McGreevy wished to thank McDonnell for his time in charge.
There remains a hugely distinct local flavour to Warrenpoint's first-team, with Anton Reilly, Emmet Hughes, Ciarán O'Connor, Mark Byrne, Deane Watters and James Prendergast among the panel.

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Indapur è una città dell'India di 21.584 abitanti, situata nel distretto di Pune, nello stato federato del Maharashtra. In base al numero di abitanti la città rientra nella classe III (da 20.000 a 49.999 persone).

Geografia fisica
La città è situata a 18° 08' 27 N e 75° 01' 57 E.

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Al censimento del 2001 la popolazione di Indapur assommava a 21.584 persone, delle quali 11.233 maschi e 10.351 femmine. I bambini di età inferiore o uguale ai sei anni assommavano a 2.919, dei quali 1.560 maschi e 1.359 femmine. Infine, coloro che erano in grado di saper almeno leggere e scrivere erano 14.860, dei quali 8.420 maschi e 6.440 femmine.

Note

Centri abitati del Maharashtra

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Gwacheon
Municipal City in Sudogwon, South Korea
Korean transcription(s)
• Hangul
• Hanja
果川市
• Revised Romanization
Gwacheon-si
• McCune-Reischauer
Kwach'ŏn-si
Emblem of Gwacheon
Location in South Korea
Coordinates: 37°26′N 127°0′E / 37.433°N 127.000°E / 37.433; 127.000Coordinates: 37°26′N 127°0′E / 37.433°N 127.000°E / 37.433; 127.000
Sudogwon
6 dong
Yeo In-kook[1]
(2010 Jun)
2,010.3/km2 (5,207/sq mi)
• Dialect
Gwacheon City ‹See Tfd›(in English)
Gwacheon (Korean pronunciation: [kwa.tɕʰʌn]) is a city in Gyeonggi-do Province, South Korea. It lies close to Seoul in the heart of the Seoul National Capital Area, and also lies just east of Anyang. Seoul Subway Line 4 passes through the city.
Various attractions usually associated with Seoul, including Seoul Grand Park, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul Land, Gwacheon National Science Museum, and Seoul Race Park are actually located in Gwacheon or its immediate jurisdiction. It is also home to a major administrative center of the Korean government.
1.1 Early history
1.2 Administrative city
4 Festival
5 Home stay
7 Utility facilities
8 Symbol
9.1 Railroad
10 Sister cities
Early history[edit]
In 475 CE, the land that would one day become Gwacheon was a part of Yulmok-gun, a county of the Korean Peninsula's Goguryeo dynasty. Later, in 757, Unified Silla dubbed the area Yuljin-gun, a county of Hansan-ju, and the Goryeo dynasty renamed it Gwaju in 940. From 990 - 994, Gwaju was known by such nicknames as "Bulim" and "Buan." The year 1018 saw Goryeo christen the area Gwaju-hyeon, but the Joseon dynasty changed its name to Gwacheon-hyeon in 1413. Gwacheon-hyeon was a part of Gwangju-mok, Gyeonggi Province.[2] Much larger than today's Gwacheon-si, Gwacheon-hyeon included such territory as modern-day Gunpo.[3]
May 26, 1895 saw Gwacheon-hyeon become Gwacheon-gun, and on March 1, 1914, Gwacheon- and Ansan-gun were annexed to nearby Siheung-gun. The area containing present-day Gwacheon was deemed Gwacheon-myeon, a division of Siheung-gun.[2] Gwacheon-myeon was a large farming village just south of Seoul, as it had been for centuries, and its population had topped 6,000 by 1960.[4]
In the 1970s, the South Korean government was considering moving its capital south, to a location farther from the border with and artillery range of North Korea. A complete relocation of the capital proved financially impossible, but a compromise was reached[4] in 1975:[5] move key government agencies several kilometers south of Seoul's downtown, beyond the range of nearly all of North Korea's artillery capability. Gwacheon-myeon, south of both Seoul and the protective Gwanaksan mountain range, was chosen as the site of this new administrative city in 1978, and a groundbreaking ceremony in Gwacheon was held in 1979.[4]
Administrative city[edit]
Several government ministries were moved from Seoul to Gwacheon throughout the 1980s and 1990s,[5] and residential districts were constructed to house the employees and their families.[4] The nine million square meter Seoul Grand Park was opened in Gwacheon in 1984 as the new location of Seoul Zoo. Over the next four years, two amusement parks, a botanical garden, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art were also built on the property.[6] On January 1, 1986, Gwacheon was officially elevated to Gwacheon-si (city),[2] and three years later, Siheung-gun was completely disbanded when five other cities in the Seoul National Capital Area were created by the national government.[3]
When Seoul won the right to host the 1988 Summer Olympics, it placed the Korean Racing Association in charge of constructing an Olympic Equestrian Park. 280 acres of land in Gwacheon were thus secured by the KRA, and construction began in 1984. Seoul Equestrian Park hosted several Olympic events in 1988, and after the conclusion of the games, the park was renamed Seoul Racecourse Park and converted into a horse racing facility. Gwacheon accordingly replaced Seoul's Ttukseom area as the city's horse racing hub, and the first race at the new location occurred on September 1, 1989.[7]
Five stations on Seoul Metropolitan Subway's Line 4 opened in Gwacheon on April 1, 1994. The line runs southwest through the city from Seoul into Anyang and includes Seonbawi Station, Seoul Racecourse Park Station, Seoul Grand Park Station, Gwacheon Station, and Government Complex Gwacheon Station.
In 2012, government offices in Gwacheon began relocating to Sejong City, a new administrative capital created by the Korean government in the middle of the country, around 150 kilometers south of Seoul.[8] The move had adverse effects on Gwacheon's local economy, with business such as restaurants and cafes losing considerable portions of their customer base. Fifty-four shops shut down at the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013, while others could no longer turn a profit and were forced to lay off employees. The national government hoped to counter the city's economic crisis by moving fourteen new government agencies to Gwacheon.[9]
Gwacheon intended to have a large importance on governmental construction. There is No.2 government building. So it keeps the position of planned city concerning politics in South Korea. It has been serving as a second center of governmental complex which consists of city hall, welfare management offices, health care department, and many other sub departments of politics.
Seoul Grand Park and Gwanaksan occupy a large portion of the city. The presence of mountains and forests accentuate the status of Gwacheon as a popular destination for Korean nature lovers. In addition, the Seoul Race Park is also located in the city. Gwacheon has few historically preserved sites as well. Gwacheon Hyanggyo (Korean Confucianism institution built in 1389), YeonJudae (YeonJu Temple which is located at the end of cliff), three stepped pagoda of YeonJuAhm, and Portrait of HyoRyung Janggun (general HyoRyung) are listed as treasure of Gyeonggi-do (Gyeonggi Province) and map of Joseon (Old Korean Kingdom) located in History Ministry inside the governmental complex is listed as one of Korean national treasure. In history of Korea, Gwacheon has not only been known as beautiful landscape but also as important center of education and religious practices by Kings.
The first foreign-language high school established in Gyeonggi-do, Gwacheon Foreign Language High School is located in Jongang-dong. Gwacheon has the Science and Technology Center and one of the biggest public libraries of Gyeonggi-do.
Residents[edit]
Noted graphic artist Dennis Hwang spent much of his childhood in Gwacheon. Kim Seok-jin of the K-pop group BTS was also born in Gwacheon.
Festival[edit]
Gwacheon Festival was one of the leading street arts festivals in Korea starting from 1997. The festival took place in late September, presenting theater, dance, visual art, music in public space and Korean traditional outdoor theater, etc. The name of the festival has been changed recently from "Gwacheon Hanmadang Festival" to "Gwacheon Festival". The festival aimed at the contribution to the development of street arts and introducing various street arts to Korean audience. The festival also contributed to international cultural exchange and encouraged collaboration between Korean and international artists. Every year, the festival had around 20 Korean companies, 10 from overseas, and more than 100,000 audiences. In March 2015 the festival changed from street theater to horse attraction, based on a decision of the festival council and on advice of the new mayor of Gwacheon, a woman elected the previous year. The artistic director of the festival, YIM su-taek, therefore left the festival, trying to find a new challenge. He started as artistic director of the Chuncheon puppet festival.[10]
Home stay[edit]
Gwacheon city operates a home stay program for foreigners. The city sponsors this program and residents of the city host foreigners living in Korea who want to spend a night in a traditional Korean home. The program helps foreigners understand Korean culture and lifestyle.[11]
Government[edit]
The headquarters of the Ministry of Justice is in Building #1 of the Gwacheon Government Complex in Gwacheon.[12] The Korea Correctional Service, an agency of the MOJ, is in this building.[13]
The headquarters of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning are in Building #4 of the Gwacheon Government Complex.[14]
Several government ministries and agencies formerly residing in Gwacheon are now located in Sejong City. The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM, now the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport or MOLIT) was previously headquartered in the 4th building of the Gwacheon Government Complex,[15] in Gwacheon.[16] Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (now succeeded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs) also formerly had its headquarters in the Gwacheon Government Complex.[17] Previously the Ministry of Environment had its headquarters in Gwacheon.[18] The Ministry of Strategy and Finance previously had its headquarters in Government Complex II.[19] The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE), previously known as the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE) and the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE), was previously located in the government complex in Gwacheon.[20] The Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL), previously the Ministry of Labor, was located in Buildings 1 and 3 of the Government Complex II.[21]
Utility facilities[edit]
Gwacheon City Facilities Management Corporation[22]
Gwacheon Public Library of Information & Science[23]
The Gyeonggi Gwacheon Library of Education[24]
Munwon Library[25]
Gwacheon City Youth Center[26]
Gwanmun Sports Park
Munwon Sports Park
Symbol[edit]
Tree: chestnut
Flower: royal azalea
Bird: dove
Animal: horse
Railroad[edit]
Seoul Subway Line 4
(Seocho-gu, Seoul) ← Seonbawi — Racecourse Park — Seoul Grand Park — Gwacheon — Government Complex Gwacheon → (Anyang)
Sister cities[edit]
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^ a b "About Gunpo: History". Gunpo City. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
^ a b c d Andrew Lankov (March 15, 2012). "Gwacheon Complex". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
^ a b "Government Complex Gwacheon: History". Government Buildings Management Service. Archived from the original on 2014-07-26. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
^ "Purpose and History". Seoul Zoo. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
^ "History of Korean Horse Racing". Korean Racing Association. Archived from the original on 2010-08-16. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
^ "Government Complex Begins Move to Sejong City". Arirang News. November 25, 2012. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
^ Choi Mo-ran, Kwon Sang-soo (February 7, 2013). "Gwacheon hit by Sejong City move". Korea Joongang Daily. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
^ Welcome to Gwacheon City Archived 2011-05-18 at the Wayback Machine
^ http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_6.jsp?cid=257603
^ "Location Archived 2014-01-01 at Archive.today." (Archive) Ministry of Justice (Republic of Korea). Retrieved on January 1, 2014. "Building #1, Gwacheon Government Complex, Jungang-dong1, Gwacheon-si, Kyunggi-do."
^ Home page (Archive). Korea Correctional Service. Retrieved on December 23, 2015. "Building #1, Government Complex-Gwacheon, 47, Gwanmun-ro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 427-700 Republic of Korea." - Korean address: "[427-700] 경기도 과천시 관문로 47 정부과천청사 5동 법무부 교정본부"
^ "Location Map Archived 2014-01-01 at Archive.today." (Archive) Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. Retrieved on January 1, 2014. "Government Complex-Gwacheon, 47, Gwanmun-ro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do 427-700, KOREA"
^ "img_0104.gif Archived 2013-12-31 at Archive.today." (Archive) Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs. Retrieved on May 11, 2011.
^ "Minister ." (Archive) Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs. Retrieved on May 11, 2011. "Company Address : 1 Jungang-dong, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea (427-760)"
^ "Location." (Archive) Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Retrieved on 31 December 2013. "3-108 Gwacheon Government Office Bldg, joongang 1, Gwacheon, Gyeonggi"
^ "Home" (English) (Archive). Ministry of Environment. July 16, 2011. Retrieved on December 31, 2013. "88 Gwanmoon-ro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 427-729, Republic of Korea"
^ "Location" (English) (Archive). Ministry of Strategy and Finance. April 9, 2011. Retrieved on December 31, 2013. "Ministry of Strategy and Finance, Government Complex II, 49 Gwanmoonro, Gwacheon City, Gyeonggi Province, 427-725, Korea"
^ "Location." (Archive) Ministry of Knowledge Economy. Retrieved on January 1, 2013. "Address Ministry of Knowledge Economy, 88, Gwanmoonro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea"
^ "Location." (Archive) Ministry of Employment and Labor. April 26, 2013. Retrieved on January 1, 2014. "Address 427-718 Ministry of Employment and Labor. Government Complex II, 47 Gwanmun-ro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea"
^ Gwacheon City Facilities Management Corporation
^ Gwacheon Public Library of Information & Science
^ The Gyeonggi Gwacheon Library of Education
^ Munwon Library
^ Gwacheon City Youth Center
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Ferris Bueller's further days off: 14-plus short-lived film-to-TV adaptations
Will Harris
1. Ferris Bueller (1990)
Hit movies, if they hit big enough, are rarely allowed just to be hit movies. They live on through sequels, spin-offs, ancillary products, and other means that generate income from familiar names. One option: Turn a movie into a TV show. That's a tricky business, though. For every M*A*S*H and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, there are many more film-to-TV adaptations that crash and burn, even some that sort of make sense, like the 1990 series Ferris Bueller. Why not turn the wily protagonist of the hit John Hughes movie into the hero of a weekly series? Those pranks and authority-flouting shenanigans might be just as entertaining on the small screen. And in fact, one show that debuted in the fall of 1990 did make a minor hit series from a bunch of Ferris Bueller-esque antics. Unfortunately for NBC, which put Ferris Bueller on the air, it was called Parker Lewis Can't Lose, and it aired on another network. As for the small-screen Bueller, it never took off, in spite of the presence of a young Jennifer Aniston. Maybe opening with a scene in which the hero talked trash about original Ferris Bueller Matthew Broderick wasn't such a good idea.
2. Diner (1983)
Barry Levinson's semi-autobiographical feature debut is remembered as the launching pad for a whole raft of gifted young movie actors, including Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, Daniel Stern, and Steve Guttenberg. This pilot for a proposed series wasn't a sloppy knockoff: Levinson wrote and directed it himself, and the cast included Michael Madsen in the Mickey Rourke role, James Spader as a stand-in for Kevin Bacon, Mike Binder in a pretty fair trade for the Gute, and Alison LaPlaca. (Paul Reiser repeated his movie role as Modell the moocher.) Unfortunately, most of them needed further seasoning before they were ready to become big names in their own right, and the same qualities that kept the movie from becoming a runaway hit when it first landed in theaters made the show seem suspiciously quiet and uncommercial to network executives, who used it to fill time one late-summer evening, and ordered no additional episodes. What might have been a continuation of the characters' stories instead an intriguing footnote to the movie.
3. Delta House (1979)
In an era where the proclivities and profanities of bad-boy premium-cable types like Kenny Powers, Hank Moody, and Ari Gold have met (and occasionally exceeded) the off-color antics of National Lampoon's Animal House, the brothers of Delta Tau Chi seem made to graduate to episodic adventures on HBO and Showtime. But they weren't ready for primetime when ABC opened the doors to its cleaned-up Delta House in 1979. It didn't help that Delta House was missing its own Not Ready For Prime Time Player: The series lacked a crucial agent of chaos in the absent John Belushi, succeeded by Josh Mostel as the brother of Belushi's Bluto, Jim "Blotto" Blutarsky. Standards and Practices hemmed in a talented writing staff—which included John Hughes and future Emmy-winning NYPD Blue and Deadwood scribe Ted Mann—which had to rely on sanitized, decreasingly outrageous plots about beauty-pageant sabotage and ultimatums from Dean Wormer (John Vernon, reprising his blustery, malapropism-prone administrator) to get the Deltas through a single, abbreviated 13-episode season. Nonetheless, Delta House proved the longest-lasting of the three campus comedies that sprang to life from a Petri dish of stale Schlitz, casual sexism, and Animal House's box-office receipts in the winter of '79: NBC's Brothers And Sisters was suspended a couple of weeks before Delta House, while CBS' Co-Ed Fever was expelled after a single, late-Sunday-night airing.
4. Bates Motel (1987)
After the relative success of sequels to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho in 1983 (Psycho II) and 1986 (Psycho III), NBC decided to take a stab at transforming the film franchise into a television series. Rather than bringing Norman Bates back, however, Bates Motel—no relation to the upcoming A&E series of the same name, except that it involves the Psycho mythos—eschewed Anthony Perkins in favor of Bud Cort as Alex West, one of Norman's buddies from the state asylum who, upon Norman's death, inherited the Bates Motel. Although it was envisioned as a weekly anthology series that would have focused on the various individuals stopping by the motel, the two-hour Bates Motel pilot aired in July 1987 to considerable ire from critics—including Perkins—and poor ratings, which doomed its chances of becoming a series. Perkins, meanwhile, went on to ignore the film's established continuity by starring in the 1990 made-for-Showtime film Psycho IV: The Beginning—a prequel to the original Psycho.
5. Coming To America (1989)
Aired as part of the series CBS Summer Playhouse, which was essentially an excuse to burn off rejected pilots when no one was watching, the single episode of Coming To America starred a pre-In Living Color Tommy Davidson as Prince Tariq, the African prince Eddie Murphy played in the 1988 film. To convert the film into a series, Coming To America made Tariq a boarder in a typical American household. Paul Bates reprised his role as Tariq's assistant, Oha. Other cast members might have guest-starred in time, but the show never went to series. It aired only once to summer viewers, at least some of whom must have been puzzled as to why a laugh track now accompanied their spells of déjà vu.
6. Down And Out In Beverly Hills (1987)
This series version of the Paul Mazursky hit of the previous year (which was in turn based on Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved From Drowning) has the distinction of being one of the first shows on the fledgling Fox network. It also has the distinction of being the first Fox show to be canceled, and probably would have disappeared even sooner if the network hadn't suffered from a severe lack of anything else to fill airtime. The roles created by Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss, and Bette Midler were assigned to, respectively, standup comic turned C-list action star Tim Thomerson, Garry Marshall mainstay Hector Elizando, and the late Broadway musical diva Anita Morris, who had co-starred with Midler in Ruthless People. The cast also included Evan Richards as the Whitemans' son, a role he also played in the movie.
7. Walking Tall (1981)
The 1973 film Walking Tall made a folk hero of real-life lawman Buford Pusser by offering a fictionalized account of his war against crime in rural Tennessee. As played by Joe Don Baker in the first film and Bo Svenson in two sequels, the towering Pusser made good use of a hickory stick in his crimefighting. When Svenson reprised the role in a 1981 TV series—even though he appeared in 1977's Walking Tall: Final Chapter, which killed the hero off—the hickory stick practically deserved a co-starring credit, so prominently was it featured in the show's credits and promos. But even with the presence of that signature hand-carved deadly weapon, the series only lasted seven episodes.
8. Black Bart (1975)
Blazing Saddles' success inspired a number of comedies to leech onto Mel Brooks' 1974 Western parody in their advertising and titles. (See: Blazing Stewardesses.) But when CBS ordered a pilot for a series based on the R-rated, proudly vulgar film, somebody must have gotten cold feet, because it aired as Black Bart, one of the many titles considered for the film before Brooks settled on Blazing Saddles. Louis Gossett Jr. played the sheriff, and Steve Landesberg, who later played Detective Dietrich on Barney Miller, stepped into the Gene Wilder role of the droll, quick-on-the-draw sidekick, renamed "Reb." But there was no way a network sitcom in 1975 could attempt the kind of humor that made the movie a cultural touchstone, and the crew that worked on the pilot never figured out another way to make the premise work. (For the curious, the pilot is included as a bonus feature on the Blazing Saddles 30th-anniversary DVD.)
9. Paper Moon (1974)
When a recent movie is adapted into a TV series, the TV version almost always features lesser names than those who starred in the movie. Time can play funny tricks, though, and today, this short-lived version of Peter Bogdanovich's hit movie of the previous year is notable for starring the 11-year-old Jodie Foster, two years before she appeared in Taxi Driver and began to eclipse Tatum O'Neal, whose debut performance in the film Paper Moon made her the youngest-ever winner of a non-ceremonial Academy Award. Like the movie, the series is a Depression-era comic drama about a con man whose traveling companion and partner in crime is an orphaned little girl who may or may not be his daughter. In the movie, Tatum's father, Ryan O'Neal, played the con man. The series paired Foster with Christopher Connelly, who, like O'Neal, made his name on the prime-time TV soap Peyton Place. What with the cute little girl and her possible father running a Bible-based scam to hustle the rubes, ABC seemed unsure whether this was a family show or something edgier, and after burying it in a kamikaze time slot against The Waltons, the network let it die, leaving Jodie Foster free to pursue other things.
10. Party Girl (1996)
In spite of the heat Daisy von Scherler Mayer's feature-length directorial debut Party Girl generated at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, the subsequent TV version seemingly ached to sell itself on the merits of other films. Promos for the show touted the minor splash Parker Posey surrogate Christine Taylor made in The Brady Bunch Movie, while the series' intro sequence dolled up its librarian-by-day, downtown-scenester-by-night protagonist in Holly Golightly drag. Given the way the series busied itself with providing a social life for Taylor's mother-figure/boss (Swoosie Kurtz, replacing Sasha von Scherler) and whittled the movie's cast of colorful cool kids down to man-eater Derrick (a pre-Hedwig And The Angry Inch John Cameron Mitchell), the small-screen Party Girl is an extension of Mayer's film in name and premise only.
11. Revenge Of The Nerds (1991)
The second Revenge Of The Nerds film only pulled in half the theatrical gross of its predecessor, but rather than let a perfectly good franchise go to waste, 20th Century Fox decided the time was right to bring Lewis, Gilbert, and the rest of the gang to TV. Rather than picking up where Nerds In Paradise left off, the pilot for Revenge Of The Nerds effectively rebooted the nerds' story, introducing viewers to Lewis (Rob Stone) and Gilbert (Lightfield Lewis) on their first day at Adams College, where they meet child prodigy Harold (Grant Gelt) and a neutered version of Booger (now played by Robbie Rist) and get thrown out of their dorm room by the Alpha Betas. Although the pilot—which can be found on the "Panty-Raid Edition" DVD of the original film—never made it to series, Fox still refused to let Nerds die, instead giving the green light to two made-for-TV sequels, Revenge Of The Nerds III: The Next Generation, and Revenge Of The Nerds IV: Nerds In Love.
12. Fast Times (1986)
Adapting the sensibilities of Fast Times At Ridgemont High—a film that inextricably linked The Cars' "Moving In Stereo" with masturbation—to broadcast network standards was never going to be an easy process. But Fast Times seemed to have a real shot at defying the odds, given that the half-hour series was produced by the film's director, Amy Heckerling, and featured original screenwriter Cameron Crowe as a creative consultant, with Moon Unit Zappa reportedly researching the most current slang for the show's teenage characters. Although none of the "teens" from the film reprised their roles, Vincent Schiavelli and Ray Walston returned as Mr. Vargas and Mr. Hand, respectively. Throw in a theme song by Oingo Boingo, and Fast Times seemed like a solid proposition. But the toned-down, profanity-free series was dismissed after a mere seven episodes.
13. Dirty Dancing (1988-1989)
Dirty Dancing was a surprise hit in 1987, but its success didn't stop at the box office. The coming-of-age story spun off hit records, a touring show, and other offshoots of the Dirty Dancing empire, including a belated prequel in 2004, and a possible remake in the near future. Dirty Dancing's self-contained story didn't lend itself to a TV adaptation, but one followed anyway in fall 1988, dropping future Office love-interest Melora Hardin in the Jennifer Grey role, roping in Patrick Cassidy (from the family that brought you Shaun and David Cassidy) for the Patrick Swayze part, and replacing Jerry Orbach with McLean Stevenson, because why not? (Also on hand: future Freaks And Geeks creator Paul Feig.) Rather than trying to continue the story of the film, the series opted to retell it, but audiences didn't bite, perhaps sensing they'd already had the time of their life, so why try to relive it 30 minutes at a time on a weekly basis?
14-plus. Casablanca (1955 & 1983) / The African Queen (1962 & 1977)
Humphrey Bogart has become so iconic that it's hard to imagine anyone attempting to fill his shoes, which is perhaps why efforts to transform his films into television series have proven so difficult. To date, there have been two attempts at TV prequels to Casablanca, first in 1955, with Charles McGraw (Spartacus, The Birds) as Rick Blaine, then again in 1983, with David Soul playing the part alongside a cast featuring Hector Elizondo as Captain Louis Renault, Ray Liotta as Sascha, and Scatman Crothers as Sam. Although both efforts proved short-lived—the former survived for 10 episodes, the latter only five—at least they made it to series, unlike The African Queen, which tried and failed to get off the ground on two separate occasions. In a 1962 episode of the NBC anthology series The Dick Powell Theater titled "Safari," James Coburn took a stab at playing scruffy boat captain Charlie Allnut, teamed with Glynis Johns as missionary Rose Sayer, but while intended as a pilot, it proved to be a one-off adventure. Similarly, Warren Oates and Mariette Hartley starred in an hourlong pilot for CBS, this time actually bearing the same name as the film. But although The African Queen received a one-off airing in March 1977, it failed to inspire sufficient ratings to earn a series pick-up.


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Visavadar is located at [1]. It has an average elevation of 91 metres (298 feet).
India census[2], Visavadar had a population of 18,048. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Visavadar has an average literacy rate of 71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 77%, and female literacy is 65%. In Visavadar, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Visavadar MLA is Kanubhai Bhalala, elected in assembly election 2008. Visavadar is Taluka (Tahesil) Place.
Satadhar is the very holy place of the Gujarat. It is the place of AapaGiga who is the famous Sent of Visavadar. TulsiShyam, a famous 'Garam Pani no Zro' is near Visavadar. It is very holy place. The people came to see it.
In Visavadar there are many primary schools like Navyug Vidyalaya, Vivekanand Primary School, Nobel School, Bharmal School.
There are many high schools like N.C. Parmar Girls High School, Swaminarayana Gurukul, Boys school.
There is a collage in Visavadar which is named Devmani Arts and Commerce College.
There is a public library in Visavadar.
The fort of Bava Wala is in Visavadar. Satadhar temple is also only 5km away from Visavadar.
There are the Sasan Gir forest is very nearly from the Visavadar.
There is one Umeed Centre in Municipal Garden community hall behind Bus Station at Visavadar administrating by Purusharth Education & charitable Trust Somnath (Prabhas Patan)
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Heard it last week (Dec 6-12) simulcasting WDMJ with a News Talk format.
I'll be in UP Tuesday (12-15) and will check it out.
Did check 1240, but too much ignition noise. Will check. Haven't forgotten.
Called station this morning. Receptionist knew radio! 1240 WIAN is off! Waiting for transmitter part and will get station up and running ASAP! Many people calling concerning this, so AM isn't dead yet!
++++ wrote: Called station this morning. Receptionist knew radio! 1240 WIAN is off! Waiting for transmitter part and will get station up and running ASAP! Many people calling concerning this, so AM isn't dead yet!
I am surprised at this point that they haven't tried to go FM, or at least consolidate 1240 and 1320 into a stronger station.
Noted back on December 20. All is well!


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at the same time there is a sense of social justice. People in Galway aren afraid to make money but there is also a city concerned by social causes and an awareness of what is happening in the wider world.
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me the Christian faith was something personal that none of the other boys could touch. It was very important to have this and guard it and that faith developed throughout my life.
I join? I not sure. The Greens maybe as I have a considerable interest in ecological issues and I would be more conformable with a party that is less established. will miss being Rector of St Nicholas terribly but yet retirement will also be an exciting time for Rev Towers as it will give him the opportunity of doing new things.
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Rev Towers was born in 1943 in Queen Charlotte Hospital, West Hammersmith, London. amazing how many Galway people have told me they were born in Queen Charlotte, he tells me as we sit for the interview on a Wednesday morning. not surprising though as the area is home to a large Irish community. being born in West Ham, Rev Towers does not follow West Ham Utd. I follow Spurs, he says, although I actually live near the area I could never bear to follow Chelsea. Towers is an extrovert, an optimist, and has a dynamism and flamboyance that has seen many warm to him, but his early life had hardships and disappointments.
is a great place, he says. got a creative energy that is slightly subversive. I like that subversive beat as it creates an entrepreneurial culture from the bottom to the top from the busker to the Volvo Ocean Race. People feel they can do things. There is a dynamism here that is very attractive.
Many will be sad to see him go as he is one of the city great characters and entertainers, but also a profound and challenging advocate for Christianity and a positive affirmation of that which is noble, intelligent, and compelling about the Christian faith.
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and parishioners have played a key role making this a reality. The consequence is that St Nicholas is seen by all Galwegians regardless of the religion as the church of the city, a place that belongs to all of us.
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Rochelle P. Walensky, the Director of The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), assumed her position on Jan. 20, 2021, under the Biden Administration. With an impressive resume, she is also the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR, part of the NIH). From 2017 to 2020, Walensky was the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2012-2020. Having served as the past chair of the National Insitute of Health (NIH) Office of Aids Research and Advisory Council, her connection with infectious diseases and scientific research on HIV/Aids policy spans decades. According to an article in The Lancet, one of her first priorities as CDC Director will be to ensure her staff "will feel unmuzzled, and feel like science is leading the way again."
However, in a Senate hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill, many lawmakers, including Republican Senators Susan Collins and Bill Cassidy, concluded Dr. Walensky—who defended her agency's guidance on masks and restrictions—and the CDC's current 'unmuzzled' scientific COVID-19 guidance, with its strict and conflicting directives, is undermining the public's confidence. At one point in the hearing, a frustrated Cassidy suggested the American people "are beginning to disregard what you say is true," telling Walensky:
"The American people have just lost — just lost patience with us, with you guys. I would ask you to be aware of their frustrations and get a little real-time into updating these things. I am sorry to be so frustrated."
Senator Collins gave Dr. Walensky (who has authored over 300 scientific publications) three examples of her agency's conflicting and confusing guidance, which Collins stated has been at odds with or slow to catch up with the science and has "undermined public confidence and contradicts the scientific guidance of many experts." In a press release following the hearing, Sen. Collins referenced the following examples of the CDC not following proper procedures in issuing COVID-19 guidance:
Earlier this month, the New York Post reported that the American Federation of Teachers, a powerful teachers union, successfully secured changes verbatim in draft guidance on school reopenings.
This morning, a New York Times article indicated that the CDC's announcement that "less than 10 percent" of COVID-19 transmissions occurred outdoors was highly inflated, and the actual number could be below 0.1 percent.
Last month, the CDC issued strict guidance for summer camps that was labeled "unfairly draconian" by the editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics.
So much attention to the 90-95% reported efficacy of Pfizer/Moderna vaccine candidates. It's great news! But it'll only be as good as our ability to get vaccines administered quickly and widely, and for the pandemic not to be raging out of control when vaccination begins. (2/5)
— Jason L. Schwartz (@jasonlschwartz) November 19, 2020
Before joining the CDC, in a Nov. 19, 2020, research article for Project HOPE's Health Affairs, titled "Clinical Outcomes Of A COVID-19 Vaccine: Implementation Over Efficacy," Dr. Walensky determined—using a mathematical simulation of vaccination—that factors related to the implementation of a COVID-19 vaccination program will contribute more to the program's success than the efficacy of the vaccine as defined in clinical trials.
The study, which was shared in a press release by Walensky's MGH, concluded that the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines would be "heavily influenced by infrastructure, as well as public attitudes and behaviors," emphasizing that more must be done to advance the public's confidence in vaccines and willingness to continue practices that slow the spread of the virus. The statement continued, adding that:
"The proportion of infections a vaccine is able to avert is directly related to the public's willingness to engage in mitigation behaviors. Moreover, powerful public messages and on-the-ground implementation strategies at the local level are also necessary to help overcome skepticism about vaccines, especially in underserved populations."
Reiterating the consequence of the public's role in keeping the infection rate low by wearing masks and social distancing, critical factors of Walensky's study are the public's trust in immunization, its continued adherence to practices that slow the spread of COVID-19, as well as its willingness to be immunized. Walensky commented:
"If I have a cup of water, I can put out a stove fire. But I can't put out a forest fire, even if that water is 100% potent. We'll get out of this faster if you give the vaccine less work to do."
Funding for the group's modeling study on COVID-19 vaccinations was provided through a grant from the NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse. Remarkably, since 2008, the federally funded Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Program has given almost $12 billion in assistance to grant recipients. Study co-author A. David Paltiel reported that additional funding and compensation for the research study came from the NIH, CDC, and Brigham and Woman's Hospital. Walensky also reported additional research funding from the NIH, CNN (a branch of the NIH), and an MGH Research Scholars Award.
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— In the Bubble (@inthebubblepod) January 13, 2021
According to its website, the peer-reviewed journal Health Affairs—whose stated audience includes government and health leaders and policymakers in the U.S. and worldwide—is the leading journal of health policy thought and research. The website boasts that "U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts cited the journal in his decision regarding the Affordable Care Act. In addition, Health Affairs is frequently cited by national media, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, network television and radio, and NPR."
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On Mar. 29, with COVID-19 deaths allegedly inching upwards, Dr. Walensky made headlines when, according to a MedPage Today summary of her CDC briefing, the Director "began her usual COVID-19 status update, looking bored, even annoyed as she repeated her oft-used phrase, 'concerning trends in the data.'" Walenksy urged elected officials, faith-based, community leaders, and "other influencers" to "sound the alarm," noting that inaction regarding combating the virus isn't an option. With worry in her voice, Walensky continued:
"I'm going to lose the script and I'm going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom. We have so much to look forward to, so much promise and potential of where we are, and so much reason for hope. But right now, I'm scared."
Summarizing Walensky's briefing, MedPage Today continued illustrating Walensky's sympathy towards those "wanting to be done" with the pandemic. While looking directly into the camera, Walensky, a regular contributor to CNN, told the American public she was speaking "not only as your CDC Director but as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, to ask you to just please hold on a little while longer. We are just almost there, but not quite yet. And so I'm asking you to just hold on a little longer, to get vaccinated when you can. So that all of those people that we all love will still be here when this pandemic ends."
An advisor to the World Health Organization and UNAIDS (a partner to both the NIH and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Walensky then reminded Americans that, to prevent a fourth surge, we must unite together for our nation's health. Stressing again the importance of getting vaccinated, she declared "we are not powerless" and can change the virus trajectory:
"But it will take all of us recommitting to following the public health prevention strategies consistently while we work to get the American public vaccinated."
I am happy to join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today for a discussion on the importance of #globalhealthsecurity. Thank you @gatesfoundation for your vision, support, and interest in keeping the world safe.
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On December 12, 2014, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) issued a request for qualifications that offered-up more than 180 vacant city parcels to affordable housing developers. It turned out, however, that 20 weren't really vacant - they were community gardens, 18 of which were actively growing food.
But these conflicts over the city's gardens arise over and over, pointing not to a slip-up by a particular agency but rather to a more fundamental governance problem: there is no citywide policy that makes urban agriculture a permanent feature of the cityscape, and no physical plan identifying where future agricultural development should go. Nor is there an overall budget for the urban agriculture system, with dollars instead coming from different sources and little coordination of spending. Urban agriculture remains a patchwork of city programs, making it easy for any individual agency to treat as expendable.
Parks often takes the lead because its GreenThumb program supports more than 600 gardens. But the Housing Authority manages an even larger program, with 670 gardens on NYCHA properties, including an 8,000 square foot rooftop hydroponic farm in the South Bronx, a one-acre farm in Red Hook, and several new large-scale farms planned in East Harlem, Brownsville, Canarsie, the South Bronx, and Staten Island. Some 300 public schools also have gardens, from vegetable patches to high-tech greenhouses. HPD's flagship affordable housing project, Via Verde, features a community garden and the city's first and only rooftop apple orchard. And the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) invested nearly $600,000 ($150,000 more than GreenThumb's entire 2015 operating budget) in a one-acre rooftop farm and another $770,000 in smaller farms and gardens, all to prevent stormwater from inundating the sewers. An alphabet soup of other agencies provides material, land, and technical assistance.
Some argue that this administrative mish-mash encourages innovation and entrepreneurship, but that reflects an overly romantic view of the "guerilla gardening" movement of the 1970s, when urban agriculture blossomed from the grassroots. In those days, in the wake of the city's fiscal crisis and decades of private disinvestment, community activists, particularly in low-income communities of color, turned rubble-strewn lots into safe, green spaces providing healthy produce, and City Hall was happy to oblige with supplies and technical assistance. But over the past 40 years, urban agriculture has grown from guerilla to mainstream, requiring much more coordination, support, and permanence.
Perhaps the best opportunity to start the urban agriculture planning process is with the very program that led to this yearlong garden controversy: the mayor's signature affordable housing plan. HPD, City Planning, and other agencies have begun community planning and rezoning in neighborhoods targeted for new affordable housing. These plans and rezoning proposals are a unique opportunity to proactively integrate urban agriculture, along with other strategies to increase access to healthy food, like space for neighborhood grocers, food cooperatives, farm stands and public markets, into the communities being transformed.


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by Heather Hust Rivera, Vice President, Consumer Products
Tonight is the first night of ElecTRONica at Disney California Adventure park, and to get you ready to "rez in," we're sharing some photos and video from last night's preview for cast members.
We've received a lot of questions on Facebook and Twitter about this weekend's line-up, so hopefully these details help.
The fun starts in Sunshine Plaza at 6 p.m. when music, video, projections and a dance party welcome guests (a.k.a. Programs) and prepare them to enter the world of "TRON: Legacy."
The second performance in Sunshine Plaza starts at 6:45 p.m., and following that, the portal will officially open and all aspects of ElecTRONica will be available, including Flynn's Arcade, TRON: Legacy Exclusive 3-D Sneak Peek, End of Line club, face painting and the TRON: Evolution video game area.
There's a great line-up of DJs this weekend. DJ GiangStar will be spinning tonight; DJ Michael Paul will change things up Saturday night, and DJ Derek Dunbar will be heating things up on Sunday evening.
This weekend you can see Laserman at 7:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For future dates, check the show guide for the schedule.
Curious to know what ElecTRONica looks like in action? Take a look at this video shot last night and hear what our cast members had to say.
Still want more details? Robin Trowbridge has been sharing a lot of information here on the Blog. Did you read these posts: First Look, Laserman, TRON: Legacy Exclusive 3-D Sneak Peek and Flynn's Arcade?
What are you most looking forward to at ElecTRONica? Let us know if you're entering the Grid tonight!
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I was at ElecTRONica last night and loved it! My only issue – I wish the DJs played more Top 40 music. It would also be cool if there was a way to request songs, perhaps via text message. Was this considered?
Bob on October 16, 2010 at 4:58 pm
So, is there a way we can win the Tron Information Discs? Or are they only available at the Disney Stores?
Mark on October 16, 2010 at 2:42 pm
"Yep, ElecTRONica will be here in November. It's scheduled through early Spring."
I checked the schedule for the entire month of November and it seems that either the schedule hasn't been updated on the site or that ElecTRONica does NOT in fact run in November. My wife and I will be visiting in early November and as a long time Tron fan I was very much looking forward to this.
I'm crossing my fingers that the calendar on the website is wrong.
Mike on October 15, 2010 at 2:46 am
I was there with my husband on Friday the 8th and Saturday the 9th. It is amazing!. I was so bummed when I never got to Glowfest each time we came this summer, but this is the best thing you have done foe DCA! Please keep Flynn's after elecTRONica closed in April! IT'S AWESOME!
Jessica on October 10, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Electronica was AMAZING! You guys did a GREAT job! Ten times better then glowfest! From the projection on the main street of Hollywood Pictures Backlot, to the Dancing! From the cool preview of Tron Legacy to the 80s Arcade games! Great Job Disney! ElecTRONica was a hit!
I Don't know if it was due to the Halloween Party at Disneyland or that Paradise Pier was closed for World of Color but I've never seen DCA more crowded!
Can we request specific songs for the DJs to play? I have a song, with samples from the original TRON movie, I would like to played at the End of Line Club when I go to ElecTRONica on the 17th.
Annette on October 10, 2010 at 1:54 am
Too bad they couldn't have ElecTRONica here too in Florida at Downtown Disney. It not like the Pleasure Island side really being used anyway.
Tremayne on October 9, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Who does the DJ booking Or how does a dj about getting booked ?
Anonymous on October 9, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Looking forward to Flynn's Arcade. I saw the original in theatres 33 times when I was about 8, so this is the culmination of a lifelong dream!
ElecTRONica was a blast last night! Saw the Sneak Preview in 3D, AWESOME! Flynn's Arcade was very cool! Laserman was Amazing. The music was pumping. The estimate was that this was the largest crowd California Adventure has had since it opened! It was packed! Glowfest was cool, ElecTRONica blows it away!
I understand it will be there until the movie releases on December 17th. ElecTRONIica is free, with your DCA ticket.
Thomas on October 9, 2010 at 11:21 am
I was just there opening night. It was awesome. I was part of the first group to see the sneek peek at the new Tron. I can't wait till it comes out. They had great drinks there too. I got the Digitini.
Kelly on October 9, 2010 at 10:41 am
How long will elecTRONica be at DCA? I won't be there until Nov 10-14. Will it still be going on then? I hope so!
Tony on October 9, 2010 at 12:04 am
Heather on October 11, 2010 at 2:07 pm
I would like to go…
How much is it??
Do you have to purchase tix for the theme park?
Ward on October 8, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Access to ElecTRONica is included with your tickets to Disney California Adventure park.
You guys are making it really easy to regret not having a pass anymore.
eric on October 8, 2010 at 8:58 pm
As a lifelong Tron fan (I still remember the theater I saw this in back in 1982) I'm thrilled at the great job Disney is doing for it's sequel. I won't be out there again until November, will this still be going on? If not is there a place I can find the schedule and hours to see if we can make a quick trip from Vegas to DCA? Thanks!
Evan on October 8, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Ooh, Heather, this looks totally awesome (trying to get into the 80's groove)!
Any word on what cocktails and food will be served? I was fond of the Glowjitos at Glow Fest this past summer, and I REALLY MISS the amazing Louks catering truck with the gyros and the fabulous Nutella pastries. What kind of food and drinks are on offer at elecTRONica?
Thor on October 8, 2010 at 7:36 pm
How late is it open tonight? I don't get out of work till almost 9PM tonight.
Jen on October 8, 2010 at 7:25 pm
For future reference, ElecTRONica will run until Disney California Adventure park closes. You can check disneyland.com for park hours.
How late is it open tonight?
i wanted to be a dancer for this show. but no one ever told how. wooooo im going to this soon.
aramis on October 8, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Chris–i've had the same issues. i'm in a section of my house where my wireless connection is "very good" and yet i still have issues. even when i downloaded the video, i still had the same issue.
if it makes a difference, the video i downloaded to see if it would make a difference was the one with the jack skellington pumpkin decorations.
Janine on October 8, 2010 at 6:31 pm
It is your computer it's been fine for me. Very smooth and good speed(in sync etc). What browser are you using? IE is better than FF these days (latest version). Use ccleaner to clean up caches.
Jason on October 8, 2010 at 5:35 pm
I do not know where to post this question, so I'll do it right here. As an avid Disney fan, i have been following this blog since it practically started! Up until May-ish, I could watch the videos on this blog just fine with no trouble. Nowadays, since then, the video is never in sync with the audio, and skips a lot of the footage. I also noticed that you guys posted a video from YouTube the other day (which sparked my thought of this entry). Is there any way you could post the videos on YouTube so that it is easier to view? Just curious, and it might be just my computer :/
Chris on October 8, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Thanks, Chris. I'll look into it.
Heather on October 8, 2010 at 5:54 pm
WOW! this looks awesome! i'm wondering, however, about halloween weekend. i'd like to go in an outfit that i would wear to a club, but i wouldn't want anyone to think that i was "in costume" and therefore not allowed into the park. will there be some leniency when it comes to the clothes that are allowed? the clothes that i would wear would be in good taste, of course, nothing revealing or too short, but i'd like to enjoy myself while i'm there.
OH and how long is this going to be happening? is there an end date?
Here's what I found on the frequently asked questions on disneyland.com regarding clothing and costumes: http://disneyland.disney.go.com/faq/general/#/general-q15
I'll be going on Saturday.
Fred on October 8, 2010 at 5:04 pm
We'll be there tomorrow. Hoping it lives up to GlowFest!
D on October 8, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Is this a family event?
Lisa on October 8, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Yes, this is a family event. Some of the family activities include face painting, dancing, and a whole gaming element in the TRON: Evolution game area that features a Wii Tournament.
Glow Fest was amazing, and ElecTRONica looks to be just wonderful! Disney California Adventure needs a yearly dance party event!
Looks awesome. We'll be entering the grid next weekend. Love the live DJs, love all the video and lighting effects. Can't wait to play some games at Flynn's!
Flynn Lives!
Adam on October 8, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Definitely will be there! – GeekFilter
I cant wait to check this out on Sunday!
Paul on October 8, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Is there a full list of arcade games that will be at Flynn's Arcade?
Kevin on October 8, 2010 at 4:13 pm
I don't have a full list of games. Is there a game in particular you're looking for?
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Life and Debt
Tamara Straus
In the early '90s documentary filmmaker Stephanie Black found herself in a quandary. She had been visiting Jamaica for several years, and every time she stepped off the plane she was struck by three things: 1) the increasing Americanization of the place; 2) the intractable poverty; and 3) the continual stream of stories in the Jamaican press about the International Monetary Fund's influence on economic policy.
Black didn't know much about the IMF or its sister lending institution, the World Bank. "I thought they were something like the Red Cross," said Black, a New Yorker who talks and gestures with the energy of three people. But after she finished making "H2-Worker," a 1990 documentary about Caribbean sugar cane laborers in Florida, she decided to set aside some time for research.
Thus began Black's unsentimental education into the policies of the two major postwar lending institutions and their effect on developing countries like Jamaica. The result, a feature-length documentary called "Life and Debt," has been racking up festival awards and will have theatrical releases across the country through March 24 (for listings see LifeandDebt.org).
The film is earning raves from critics, for it achieves the near impossible: It turns the stale subject of structural adjustment policies and debates about export markets and free trade into a riveting narrative. Black does not shape her film around droning talking heads. Rather "Life and Debt" is told as a journey. The "eye" of the film is a typical American -- a person much like Black, who comes to Jamaica as a tourist and at first sees only swaying palm trees and natives splashing in warm turquoise water.
Black says many have criticized her for ridiculing the tourists she films. They are seen gloating over the worth of the dollar, getting hammered on tropical drinks, dancing like buffoons to reggae and taking "real life" excursions through Jamaican ghettoes in a ridiculous zebra-striped jeep. These images are cross-cut with conversations with Jamaican farmers, workers and politicians about their inability to achieve economic independence after 400 years of colonialism.
"The use of the tourist goes back to the initial way I tell this story," said Black. "I'm not making fun of them. The tourists are me, too. They are really a metaphor for all Americans and people from rich countries, who may not know about life outside their hotel gates."
In "Life and Debt," Black constantly moves the viewer in and out of those gates -- from plush hotel rooms to filthy factory floors, from pool parties to street protests -- to draw attention to the metaphorical gate that exists between those in the developed and undeveloped sides of the world.
Once this torn curtain is established, Black goes to the jugular with her analysis of the IMF. She introduces former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, who was elected on a non-IMF platform in 1976. In a powerful interview, Manley explains how he was forced to sign Jamaica's first loan agreement with the IMF in 1977 because he lacked viable alternatives -- something he emphasizes is a global pattern in the Third World.
"Going to the IMF and signing that agreement was one of the more bitter, traumatic experiences of my life," says Manley. "[There is not one] IMF country that has a good educational system, a good agricultural system, a good public health system ... All of them are caught in the old colonial chains."
Among Manley's many points is that the IMF and World Bank were created without the cooperation or interests of developing countries. Intentionally or not, he argues, the bankers and bureaucrats who have required Jamaica to tighten its fiscal belt, resulting in slashes in social spending, or open its markets to exports, resulting in the crippling of its agricultural economy, have benefited from Jamaican instability and poverty.
These points are then illustrated in Black's film, and not subtlely. In a series of segments, Black takes the viewer inside the Jamaican economy, to examine the circumstances of the textile, banana, milk, potato and poultry industries. Most disturbing is the part on Kingston's Free Economic Zones, where workers sew clothes for American corporations like Tommy Hilfiger and Brooks Brothers for $5 a day on large swaths of "nationless" land ringed by barbed wire.
The Zones, the film underscores, were meant to provide low-income jobs and help integrate Jamaica into the global economy. But after witnessing interviews with poor workers, who describe the Zones' working conditions as a "slave boat," and with corporate representatives, who admit the main attraction for Tommy Hilfiger is freedom from taxes and cheap labor, it is hard to feel good about the progress of economic globalization.
The segments on Jamaica's ravaged agricultural economy leave the same impression. Black presents interview after interview with farmers, who speak with frightening acumen about the repercussions of loan agreements and the workings of entities like the Inter-American Development Bank. "When you open up the marketplace to those in a better position than yourself, who do you 'tink is going to win?" said one onion farmer, who cannot compete against the large and cheap quantities of U.S. onions flooding the Jamaican markets.
One segment ends with tons of fresh milk being dumped on the ground, because its producers simply cannot sell it. "This new world order means there will be no more regulation in the trading of commodities," said the milk producer. His company has gone from producing several million to 600 liters of milk a day, because the IMF directed Jamaica to abandon its subsidies to milk farmers and abandon control of milk imports. Stanley Fischer, former deputy director of the IMF, is then shown explaining that if such directives are not followed the IMF cuts off economic aid.
If you are American or have ever visited a country like Jamaica for a carefree beach holiday, it is hard not to feel culpable after watching "Life and Debt." You might say it's an educational guilt trip. This feeling is only strengthened by the voice-over narrative, adapted from Jamaica Kincaid's blistering essay on third world tourism, "In a Small Place."
"I wanted Jamaica Kincaid's text because it captured the anger and militancy I was feeling," said Black. "I always felt sick in Jamaica. Every time I went there, I had to go deeper into the countryside not to feel the Americanization and imperialization that is everywhere. What doesn't make sense to me is that, according to the IMF, countries like Jamaica are supposed to be able to compete after centuries of enslavement and economic exploitation."
I asked Black whether she thinks Americans should feel responsible for the impact of the IMF policies on Jamaica. "Well, that is the point of the film," she responded. "The question I was asking myself when I made the film was, What is my role in this? Am I responsible in any way, if my country has the greatest influence on this economy?"
Tamara Straus is senior editor of AlterNet.org.


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Phlebitis - what is it?
Phlebitis means inflammation of the veins and this usually occurs in the leg veins. It occurs in two forms; a superficial form that occurs in the superficial veins on the surface of the leg and a deep form that occurs in the deep veins in the calf of the leg. Phlebitis in the superficial veins is also known as superficial thrombophlebitis. The affected vein looks inflamed and can be very tender to the touch. It usually feels like a cord under the skin if the fingers are gently rubbed across the skin. It can be quite painful and often feels very itchy. Phlebitis in the deep veins can result in thrombosis or clot formation, which we refer to as D.V.T (deep venous thrombosis). This is a potentially serious development because fragments of clot can break off resulting in pulmonary embolism. In other words a fragment of the clot can travel to the lungs resulting in potentially serious and sometimes life threatening consequences. This is the pathological mechanism that gives rise to the so-called "economy class syndrome" that we associate with long-haul air travel. The risk of pulmonary embolism only arises in the case of deep vein thrombosis and does not arise in the superficial form of phlebitis.