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1953 East Coast floods: Touching tribute to think of victims
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A MINUTE'S silence to remember those who lost lives during the East Coast floods was held in Cleethorpes.
People paused during a traditional Sunday service at St Peter's Church, St Peter's Avenue, to pay their respects to those who lost their lives in the tragedy 60 years ago.
To this day, the floods are hailed the worst natural disaster the East Coast has ever seen – and many still have vivid memories of that fatal day in 1953.
To share these memories with the rest of North East Lincolnshire, the Grimsby Telegraph has extensively reported on people's recollections of the floods, with more stories to be published as the week goes on.
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During the church service led by the Reverend Paul Hunter, a minute's silence was held before the congregation burst into song with the hymn For Those In Peril On The Sea.
Mr Hunter, said: "More than 40 people across Lincolnshire lost their lives during the floods on January 31, 1953, and we remember them today.
"Thankfully, no one in Cleethorpes was killed, but there were men from the resort who were lost at sea when their trawler sank.
"But the worst in nature brought out the best in people and people helped each other out."
After these words of tribute, the Sunday service resumed as normal, but people still kept in mind the flood victims.
Heather Hammond, of Cleethorpes, was about ten years old when the floods happened and she can recall how terrified her mother was.
She said: "Mum packed suitcases and was ready to leave, as we lived in a flat in Victoria Terrence, Cleethorpes, at the time.
"As a ten-year-old I found it all quite exciting, but it did cause a lot of devastation.
"I think it is important we pay our respects to that day, as many people who lived through it still talk about what went on."
Rosemary Brown, of Cleethorpes, recalls waking up in the middle of the night to find her brother, his wife and two children had arrived in the resort on the back of a lorry, as their home near the River Humber had flooded.
She said: "I can remember it so clearly. They were very frightened and stayed with me in Cleethorpes for several weeks until their home was sorted.
"I am glad the Sunday service paused to reflect upon that day."
Mr Hunter added: "It was the community who asked me to remember the floods during the service.
"I was more than happy to do so, as I know it touched so many people in various ways."


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Sean Penn avoided a sentence of three years in jail when he pleaded no contest Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of vandalism, for a 2009 incident involving a scuffle with a paparazzi photographer. The actor, 49, was ordered to complete three years of probation, 300 hours of community service and take an anger-management class, after prosecutors dropped the battery count that the Oscar winner originally faced for allegedly beating up Jordan Dawes.
Back in October 2009, Dawes alleged that Penn began shouting obscenities him and other photogs who were trying get a shot of him -- then, Dawes said, Penn just lost it.
"He beelined it for me and started kicking me in the legs," the pap said after the incident. "As I was backing away, I was still shooting. Then he got me to the other side of the street and punched me in the arm and in my camera."
Penn allegedly threatened to "put him in a box" and told Dawes he would remember his face.
In court Wednesday, the actor was ordered to say away from the photographer, and the judge will rule on July 8 on how much Penn must pay in restitution to the victim. Dawes still has a personal lawsuit pending against the actor, as well. The next hearing in that case is May 27.
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Governor Cuomo has outlined transportation projects in the works across the state. In the Hudson Valley, the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge is slated to receive $106 million for repairs. YNN's Elaina Athans has more.
NEWBURGH, N.Y. -- The Newburgh-Beacon Bridge is getting the most amount of money in the Hudson Valley for a fix-up. It's part of Governor Andrew Cuomo's accelerated capital projects.
"This governor goes to bed saying infrastructure. He wakes up saying infrastructure," said New York State Bridge Authority Executive Director Joseph Ruggerio.
Millions upon millions of dollars are being funneled into the Newburgh-Beacon - a total of $106 million.
"The Newburgh-Beacon redecking project was born 30 years, and we knew 30 years ago it needed to be replaced. That time has come," said Ruggerio.
The money will be used to repaint and redeck the bridge for the 70,000 drivers who cross over it daily.
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"That's just a lot of money. It doesn't need to be repaired that badly," said Walden resident Jackie Joy.
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Here's a good way to sum it up, when I saw Toy Story 18 years ago I was like 'wow, toys that are alive and how funny, small things to us are big to them and uh-oh they are out of their environment, have to get Buzz and get home. Wow, along the way his priorities and goals changed.' And then I saw Wreck it Ralph last year and I was like 'wow, video games that are alive and how funny, small things to us are big to them and uh-oh they are out of their environment, have to get the medal and get home. Wow, along the way his priorities and goals changed.'
These are still fun stories and they tell them better than anyone else (I had to hold back tears in Wreck it Ralph) but I just want to see more movies coming out of Pixar with more diversity. Brave was a great break from what seems like the never ending boy's club movie parade. Brave is by far my DD's favorite movie.
And I could be totally wrong and Pixar could be coming out with a fresh wave of movies in the coming years with new stories and characters like we've never seen before but based on what Lasseter recently said about The Good Dinosaur, I don't think so -- "Its a very funny story about a certain way of life that a young dinosaur has trouble fitting into and he ends up going on this quest." - Lasseter
I'm sure this funny little dinosaur will learn a lot along the way!
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The only thing I can imagine: Creating the Infrastructure on that property. Water, Sewage, Power etc.
So, back to one of your original points: Have they squandered land? Yeah - I think they have - big time!
I read where one of Iger's first agenda items (when he took over) was a 3 day sit-down with WDW Management on their goals, and, more importantly: A long-term land use plan.
They then sold off some of the Western property to the Orange Timeshare and started in on contracts on the new Development (name escapes me) north of Port Orleans. You can't grow more land - that is for certain!
Their decision on the site for the new "Kennel" across from Port Orleans never made sense to me?
The decision making over the years seems extremely arbitrary. Maybe that is why Iger forced the meeting. But, what do I know?
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OK! To continue with bom_noite most eloquent post
But in the mean time (the time I had to take to write my response), bom_noite made several other statements. All of which lead me to believe that he is much more on my page than I earlier thought!! SO... Since I already had this ready to go, I'll post it anyway, because others may not agree and if nothing else it may cause some people to think. Just because it has a Disney trademark doesn't automatically make it 'magic'.
You dont say if you visited E.P.C.O.T. before it became Epcot Center. Before the 3 minute spinner became the norm. Before that giant wand blighted that wonderful geosphere. Before EVERY eatery was farmed out to vendors. Before Innovations became a video game haven. But I was there when it opened, way back in 81. And I can tell you it was WONDERFUL! And not only in what was there, but in the potential for the future!
Did you know, for instance, since were talking about potential, that another pavilion was planned for E.P.C.O.T.? Several were on the drawing boards. But one in particular was truly fascinating. It was going to be HUGE. All within a single (maybe more in the future) gigantic pavilion. It was going to tell the story of Hollywood. Of the movies.
Unfortunately, the guy in charge at the time never understood E.P.C.O.T. He never quite grasped the concept. Come to think of it he really didnt understand Disney, or the way Walt created his special brand of magic. So he took this wonderful, jammed packed, Hollywood concept out of E.P.C.O.T. and created a quickly thrown together rip-off of Universal Studios!! He filled it out with fluff and sold it as a third gate!!
When E.P.C.O.T. first opened you needed more than one day to see it all. When MGM opened you were done with the place by a little after lunch!! Congratulations Ei$ner!! You successfully created the first ½ day park! And at the same time you ripped the potential out of E.P.C.O.T.
First, I have to thank you for being the first one to even mention what I wanted to talk about in this thread. The growth of WDW and if that growth was in keeping with what we should expect from Disney. As mentioned above during that Disney Decade he chopped the ba... Ah Lets say he stopped the potential of E.P.C.O.T and turned it into a haven for cheap amusement park spinners, rip-off outsourced restaurants and empty, dark shuttered buildings that once housed brilliant Disney concepts and ideas. He invented the concept of a half-day park. And he built hotels, which brings us to your last quote and my disagreement with the term wonderful.
Now I will concede that every deluxe resort on the property is nice in and of itself. Taken alone each of these hotels are very nice and some are even wonderful. I have pause here to make the distinction between Deluxe, Moderate and Value. I dont think many, maybe yourself included, would classify Pop Century or any of that ilk as wonderful!
So, the question is twofold then and only in consideration of the deluxe resorts. Is it a Disney resort and is it well designed in the overall concept of WDW? For arguments sake let stipulate that they are Disney in that they are themed. I personally think it takes a lot more to be a true Disney resort, but well let that go for a moment. Where does that leave us? The question of GRAND concept comes to mind.
So lets name them. We have the two original resorts and the campgrounds. Many might be surprised to see me mention the campgrounds in the same sentence with the Poly and Contemporary. You shouldnt be. Fort Wilderness was and to some extent still is a Deluxe campground. If nothing else it simply reeked of Disney way back in 1972!! And Ei$ners hand didnt not stain them.
And we have The Disney Decade hotels. Boardwalk, Beach and Yacht Club, Grand Floridian, Wilderness Lodge, Animal Kingdom Lodge and for this exercise, just because it totally stacks the deck, well include the moderates, Port Orleans (Riverside and French Quarter), Coronado Springs and The Caribbean Beach. WOW! 10 resorts!! And just because I cant help it lets included the two DVC Resorts, Old Key West and Saratoga Springs. And that makes 12.
Look at the list. Are they, in total, the best they can be? In the overall concept of WDW are they individually the best choice that could have been? I dont think so. I see two problems right off the bat. Every single one of them, with the exception of AKL is a northern hemisphere, western hemisphere location. And even worse, four out the twelve are from Ei$ners stomping ground of the east side of the good old USA. Where is the exotic? Where is the foreign and unfamiliar Disney magic? Where is that experience you could only get in Disney? Why do we need a third of these structures copied from the east coast of America?
Now I will grant you that it is very hard to make this argument when you take these resorts individually. Boardwalk is WONDERFUL. Beach and Yacht Club are WONDERFUL. But do we really need the both of them? Wouldnt a wonderfully themed Mediterranean or Persian have been a cut above? How about a Venetian instead of a Caribbean or Saratoga? Or what about a movie themed resort next to The Studios? Exotic is the only saving grace for AKL. And we are sorely missing exotic from the rest of them.
But AKL bring up another ugly problem I have with Ei$ner style resorts. It is the issue of cookie cutter resorts. Wilderness is wonderful. ALK is wonderful. (We can also mention the Grand Californian, which is also wonderful). BUT!! They are all the same!! Sure the bathrooms are on the right in Wilderness and on the left in AKL. And there are decorating differences of course, but basically they are the same!! WHY!!?? And I contend that this takes away from the wonderfulness when viewed in it total concept of WDW.
And we havent even gotten into the Disney concept. We stipulated earlier (or at least I did) that the resorts are in fact Disney. But are they? Being a Disney Resort does not necessarily mean standard deluxe accommodations currently used throughout the industry. NO!! It means an extension of the theme park experience!! We got that in The Poly. We got that in the Contemporary. We even got that in Fort Wilderness. But do we have that in the Disney Decade resorts? Are they an extension of the theme park experience?
And now, sadly, its too late. The ground has been filled up, or worse, sold off to Ei$ners cronies or (YIKES!) his wife!!! So now, if someone did come to the Disney Helm who GOT IT and decided to carry the theme park experience to a resort hes got no room to do it. He comes in and understands what E.P.C.O.T is and wants to extend that concept to a resort. He wants a resort fashioned after Venice. Complete with canals. And instead of taking the guest to their room via golf cart they are whisked away, within the first few minutes of their stay, in a gondola complete with a singing guy in a stripped outfit wielding a pole!! Now that could be MAGICAL!!
But instead we have mostly USA styles resorts that have almost no connection with the theme parks and very little Disney Magic about them. Again, individually some are very, very nice. But overall I find it lacking. Dont you agree?
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"Give the people everything you can give them."
"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."
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As you said, Walt Disney World is not Walmart. There is an emotional attachment with the place! In fact, while Universal does a great job, there is not that same bond? I could be wrong.
I think you are also a DVC Owner? That gives us both the God Given Right, or so we think, to play Arm-Chair QB. We have not only the emotional link - we backed it up with an investment!
But, DVC or not, any Disney Geek that makes the yearly or bi-yearly Pilgrimage to the world has a right to express his/her opinions regarding their thoughts on the place and document their "World of the World" address. Their very Green Money earned them that right! Thanks to many sites we have that ability! Sadly, not sure our friends in LBV seem "above" our rantings and have never done a good job of listening all the time!
I have, at times, made enemies here. I don't mean to - is just my nature to lack certain civil caveats at times! I think the group here, and, on other sites serve a huge service! We may not all agree - but - we all care deeply! Simply put: I am a fan of the Disboards, many other sites, and anybody who has that Magical Bond like we all do! We care in a way that I am not sure WDW Employee's will ever understand nor grasp.
As great a job the folks at Universal have done - they have not, and may never, create that Unique Customer / Business Bond!
Am 50 now - the kids are 22 and 19. We go down there once / maybe twice a year and I find myself backing out of the Park visits and wandering around Resorts.
In '87 I proposed to my wife in the Bar at the Poly. When we bought in to DVC in '97 we could not afford weekly / yearly passes - we would take the kids on a Resort / Pool Hopping adventure. We let the kids call the shots and determine the day. The only rule: Only one hour per pool (which we always overlooked if they were having a great time!).
Some of my favorite places in the World (the entire World):
Many co-workers question my silly infatuation and ask: "Don't you ever get bored?"
I have traveled 4 Million miles over the last 25 years to 100 different countries. I don't need to go to Europe to be Happy! I am in Europe 5 times a year!
At WDW, if I get tired of the view, I simply change the atmosphere!
While I am not often to defend Eisner - I think he created this wonderful assortment of places. I am not 100% sure it was done before he did what he did at WDW! I give him a passing grade in that respect. If the D & S were Refrigerators, I would be with you with in wanting to exile them! How cool would be the never built Asian/Persian site on those grounds? Eatern Hospitality and Conventions go together seamlessly! Tishman would be a Quadrillionaire! Instead, they sell those rooms under market value Eisner certainly got the last laugh!
I think the Universal folks would love to have had the land Disney had and create these resorts. I really believe the resorts create the Bond and are a centerpiece of the Magic.
You are a smart guy - and I will always listen to your opinions! Still Friends?
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Well, I really dont know what to make of your last post, other than that we are kindred spirits of a sort. You really didnt answer any of my points, so I am left with two choices. You either consider my ramblings utter nonsense and not worth response, or you are in complete agreement! Somehow both answers dont seem to fit what youve written before. Maybe its all wrapped up in this:
That is my point. Dont get me wrong. I LOVE OKW. I wouldnt trade it in for anything. BUT Wait!! Maybe I would
Does it have to be a western hemisphere/northern hemisphere theme? Wouldnt an extension of an EPCOT theme been a little better? Say a Japanese, Moroccan, Chinese or German villas? Perhaps that Venice canal thing I mentioned before, snaking through the already existing golf course!!
Or keep it OKW and lay out Saratoga differently. Or keep both of them and re-imagine The Beach Club as an alpine mountain retreat, complete with chalets and ski lifts!! Something other than USA!! Something other than what I can get for real within a two and a half hour plane ride. How about a Lunar Outpost! Or an old west boom town. Or maybe ancient Rome, Greece or Egypt!! Just think of the immersive theme it would take to pull that off!! All lost potential because Ei$ner filled up (or sold off) every square inch of land with rather mundane hotels, when viewed in the grand scheme of things.
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Regardless, I am 100% all over your very creative thoughts: Alp's, Germany, Venice, Greece! How about the Outback? Forget Morocco and China - been there a few dozen times - bad memories!
In fact, why did All Stars have to be All Stars and not be an expansive but Quaint Austrian Villiage and then tied in to a slightly different theme at Blizzard Beach?
Why could POP not have been a Venetian Villiage with a Venetian styled Water park?
Why / who picked the Saratoga Theme? Regardless, if you ask me kindly I will tell you a cheap way to tie it in and make it 100% better!
Nope, am starting to drink the Coolaid!
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This! 100X this! LandBaron has done an amazing job of laying out the alternatives and his reasoning behind why he thinks the WDW property could have been better utilized.
This is where I am at on it all, as a young Disney fanatic. To be completely honest I am happy with how the Value resorts have turned out. Sure they could be better and the execution and theme leaves a little to be desired. But considering it's where I have to stay when I visit since I'm on a budget I think I get my money's worth and I enjoy them when I stay there.
Overall though, I think there is a lot of repetition in the theme of the Value resorts which follows right along with what LandBaron said about the repetition of the Deluxe and Moderate resorts. I never really sat down and thought about the whole repetition of the style of resorts because to me each of them has their own character and so I see them all differently even though they may all come from the same area of the Eastern USA.
I've definitely had an education through this thread.
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Hi golf4miami. Welcome.
You said two things that caught my eye right away.
But wait!! Hold the Phone!! Stop the Presses!! (and any other trite cliché you can think of.) Thats only half of the paragraph!! You also say
The values!! Those sad UNDISNEY buildings scattered around the WDW property. Dont get me started on The Values!!
OOOOOOPS!!!! To Late!! The sequence already started!! Sit back!! I have a tale to tell!! Here we go!!!!!
Once upon a time In a Central Florida location near you a man walked on some recently acquired property. He envisioned a city. A brilliant, vivacious community of tomorrow
STOP!! Thats the syllabus for E.P.C.O.T. Start again
Once upon a time there were only two resorts in all of WDW. (Not quite true, but well leave Hotel Plaza for later in this talk. It plays an important part in the story.)
Anyway, only two resorts. And these two resorts were unlike any resort in the country. They were NOT five star resorts. They were NOT cheap motels. They were not even on a par with industry standards. It wasnt that they were less in quality (although in some respects they were) and it wasnt as though they were extravagant like the most ritzy hotel out there (although at times they were). What they were was unique! One of a kind. And what made them that way? In a word: THEME. In two words: DISNEY THEME!
For the first time in hospitality history a resort was themed. And it wasnt just a random theme. NO!! It was an extension of the theme that Walt took so much time perfecting in DL. Now, for the first time ever (it would take Vegas many years to catch up) a guest visiting a theme park could take that experience back to the room with him and enjoy it 24/7 for the entire length of his stay!! WHAT A CONCEPT!!!
And hold on to your hat, but here comes the really magical part (as if that isnt enough), it was priced within what the industry standard considered a moderate!! Say a Marriott or Hyatt. It was certainly NOT priced the same as some downtown New York hotel!! No!! It was way the heck cheaper!! Really only five or ten bucks more than your average Howard Johnson or Holiday Inn!!
Now some say that price doesnt matter in the creation of magic. But as a young married person, with a growing family, I can tell you IT WAS MAGIC!!! And you know what else that made it? Yep! You guessed it!! A VALUE!!
So where does that leave us in this discussion. Well, all I can think is that Walt, and the What Would Walt Do crowd, thought that this experience (the Poly and the Contemporary) should be priced to hold the most amount of value as possible. Evidently Ei$ner disagreed. Within two years (it could have been three, my memory fails me at times, suffice to say a relatively short time period) the cost of the Poly DOUBLED!! Several years after that (again, hazy memory) it tripled!!! For me that didnt diminish the magic at all! It absolutely KILLED it!
But wait!! Just in the nick of time what do you think happened? Yep! The Caribbean Beach opened and slipped right into the same price point that the Poly used to own. How convenient!! How nice of Disney not to let me stay outside the Magic!
But wait!! While the Caribbean is nice, is it like the two originals? No. Not quite. Hmmmmm. How disappointing. But I guess by paying less than people staying in those two, I deserve, less magic. A lesser Disney experience. Its only fair. Pay more. Get more Magic. Pay less. Get less Magic. I guess the Disney experience is more like a commodity than a true experience. I used to think that a Disney experience had only one definition. I didnt realize that it could be portioned out depending on how much you are willing to pay.
And a few years later, what do you think happened. Thats right; prices kept going up WAY faster than inflation for both levels of accommodations. Ah! But benevolent Disney comes to the rescue!! What do they do for those poor unfortunate people that they just priced out of their rooms? They gave them the Value resorts!! Thanks the Disney gods that wonderful Mr. Ei$ner was looking out for them!!
But wait!! Theres even less magic here! Very much less! That Disney experience doesnt even exist here!! OH! No!! Im wrong. It does exist!! There are GIANT, Primary Colored Icons to remind me!! Wonderful decorations!! No theme at all, but HUGE decorations!! But what do you expect? Youre only paying a third of what people pay for at the Floridian! Youre lucky you have a place to stay at all! If it were not for the kindness of Disney© youd be out on International Drive, looking in!!
Never mind that accounting for inflation the price point of the Values are roughly the same as The Poly was in 1972 (or 75 memory fails). The Poly for the price of the Values (heck even the Moderates!) is indeed a VALUE!!! Pop Century at any price (even for free!!!!) is still not a Disney experience!!
Make sense?
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I'm not convinced we aren't seeing the past through rose colored glasses.
I used to stay in the Contemporary in the o,d days, and I just don't see how that was a better example of Disney story or vision than it's more recent cousins. It was a disjointed collection of themed spaces including musical theatre, Disney characters, sterile design, and a strange partial veneer of native America. I liked it well enough, but the magical story was hard to discern.
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~Thanks for providing further insight into the Eisner/Iger relationship. Honestly, they both seem like they're cut from the same cloth. Iger may be a little more personable and perhaps better for Disney as a whole, but allowing the theme parks to go neglected for so long, is just wrong. Eisner seemed to have a strong vision for Walt Disney World and that's what I appreciate most.
~I totally agree with you, that Eisner should not compare himself to Walt. And, I couldn't agree more that the old Disney was a "story telling maching" (love that!) but from my understanding, "the money did *not* follow." So, in a desperate act, Eisner was brought in to make Disney profitable again, in hopes of avoiding a hostile takeover.
~Eisner did exactly what was expected of him, along with redefining the Disney brand & theme park experience. Is it really fair to say Eisner was in this solely for "personal gain" -- I'm not sure I follow. Eisner was just doing his job, his contributions are a huge part of why Disney is "too big to fail." What more could he have done? Or, should he should have done less?
~I'm have mixed feelings. How could you overlook the fact that Disney was in serious jeopardy of being seized and sold off for parts by corporate vultures? My feeling is that Eisner did what was necessary to save Disney, maybe he became complacent after success, but I believe his intentions were noble. I think we agree for the most part, but the efforts to transform Disney into a profitable machine was indeed -- a necessary evil, to survive and weather the hostile corporate climate.
~I do agree that we are all poorer for it, but I can't blame this entirely on Eisner. I'm beginning to form the opinion, that Disney was forced to adapt to our ugly, greedy corporate culture or die. They brought in a guy that not only adapted Disney to that harsh reality but conquered it. The down side is -- I think Disney has out priced most working families -- a single day at MK will cost a family of four almost $400 dollars. But, do you really think Walt would disapprove of how profitable his company is today? Mixed blessing, I suppose. But, I would rather have big corporate Disney, than no Disney at all.
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First let me agree with MassJester on the rose colored glasses sentiment and also add that, to me at least, Disney 'magic' is somewhat what you make of it. I have found that I can have just as much 'magic' at a value resort as I could at a moderate or deluxe resort. I think this issue is beside the point though so I will return to the current discussion.
For me the problem of comparing the prices of the resorts from early WDW to current WDW is kind of hard to do. Of course the prices were going to be fairly low in the beginning years! They needed to build attendance and customer loyalty for the 'great experiment' that Walt himself wasn't even sure if it was going to work. Furthermore demand over the years has shot through the roof right along with those prices. It's easy to look at the prices and compare them to inflation and consider what they used to be and say 'well it's just too high!' and you know what? In some cases it is. But when you look at a supply and demand model and realize that the demand is there, then I can kind of see why it makes sense. There is a reason why these deluxe resorts, especially the ones on the monorail are in such high demand.
Returning to my 'make your own magic' point from above I think it really has to do with deciding what you're willing to pay and then making your vacation the best it can be no matter what property you're staying at. Some people choose to stay in a value simply because theme isn't all that important to them and they are willing to pay a little extra per night for the little perks of transportation, and EMH. I know you're going to say that they shouldn't have to sacrifice theme in order to get that and I somewhat agree with you. I just don't think the economy of it would work out correctly. In order to build theme, that costs $$$$$$ which has to be made back somehow.
I'm hoping you can see where I'm coming from and I'm sure you'll point out where I'm wrong :P I am enjoying this back and forth and look forward to your next installment
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Now I will say that the Contemporary isnt everyones cup of tea. (It isnt mine, but I can see the story and concept behind it.) It also hasnt held up terrible well. That is inherent in the basic concept, Im afraid. The supposed future or even contemporary-ness is very elusive and can be dated rather quickly. In fact, Id say that when it first opened, The Contemporary was WAY COOL!!!! Nothing else like it!! Sleek lines, concrete, steel and glass!! AND A MONORAIL, FOR PETES SAKE!!! WOW!!
Several years later it was already getting stale and 12 years later When you started Well, I can see what youre saying. It badly needed an update, which NEVER came!! Im still waiting!!
The Poly on the other hand or Fort Wilderness is the more perfect example of how rose colored glasses have nothing to do with how we remember our Disney past. I think youll agree with that.
But even as stale as the Contemporary became, there is no doubt that its theme was an extension of the theme park. In fact, it is really the only resort you can see from the Magic Kingdom. And from where? You got it!! Tomorrowland!! There was a time where all the resorts were to be tied to a theme park and not only the park, but to a specific land!! NOW THATS DETAIL!!
Instead we have Ei$ners version of theme. A fair copy of a California hotel (named after Florida?!?!?) and east coast memories of his childhood. No ties at all to any theme park under the sun! Yea! Ei$ner magic!! No rose colored glasses needed here!
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A Vision of Green Living
Tim Beatley, the Teresa Heinz Professor in Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture, has written extensively about building sustainable cities in Europe and the United States. He wants to see healthy cities in a healthy world. Healthy means different things in different places. In Copenhagen, it means encouraging people to commute to work by bicycle and public transportation. In Culemborg, Netherlands, it means constructing a housing complex that taps solar energy and builds community through shared green space.


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The Secretary of State's office is primarily a filing office that records and files documents from Arizona agencies, businesses and public officers.
The Secretary of State:
Serves as acting governor when the governor is absent from the state; the secretary of state, if holding office by election, is first in line to succeed the governor in the event of death, resignation, removal from office, or permanent disability to discharge the duties of the office.
Is the custodian of the great seal of the state of Arizona (A.R.S. § 41-121); part of the duty of being the keeper of the great seal of the state of Arizona is to grant or deny its use (A.R.S. § 41-130); affixes the great seal on all official documents; attests to the governor's signature on official documents and affixes the great seal of Arizona.
Is the chief elections officer for the state: certifies the names of state candidates and initiative and referendum measures to the ballot; tests the voting equipment in each county before each election; conducts recounts; prepares the official canvass for both the primary and the general elections; and certifies recognition of new political parties.
Registers charitable organizations, contracted fund raisers for the charitable organizations, and telemarketers.
Commissions notaries public.
Registers lobbyists.
Distributes copies of chapter bills, memorials and resolutions and governor vetoes.
Files, compiles and publishes the state's administrative rules (Administrative Code and Register).
Issues certificates of trademarks and trade names.
Files all secured financial transactions under the Uniform Commercial Code.
Files limited partnerships,intergovernmental agreements, and notices of appointments of officials and members of boards and commissions made by the governor, and files contribution and expense reports for all state and federal candidates and political organizations.
Issues apostilles: certifies witnessing officer on documents going to foreign countries according to the 1961 Hague Convention (apostille).
Files oaths of office for supreme court justices and court of appeals and superior court judges.
The Arizona Department of State added the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records as a division on Oct. 1, 2009, with the passing of Senate Bill 1091. The bill moved LAPR from the legislative branch to the executive branch under the Office of Secretary of State.
Secretaries Since Statehood
Previous printed Blue Books listed Callaghan as a Republican. The General Canvass from 1928 confirms that he was a Democrat.
Served: 1939 – Nov. 20, 1942
Born: November 16, 1895, Peoria, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory
Died: November 20, 1942, Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz.
Buried: November 25, 1942, Glendale, Maricopa County, Ariz.
Arizona State Treasurer, Harry M. Moore, was elected Arizona Secretary of State in the general election on Nov. 1, 1938 and was sworn in January 2, 1939. He was elected to a second term as Secretary of State in 1940. ("Harry M. Moore Ariz. Secretary of State, Dead." Yuma Daily Sun, Nov. 21, 1942, p. 1)
Seventeen days after Moore was elected to a third term in the general election on Nov. 3, 1942, he died of coronary thrombosis on Nov. 20, 1942 "following an emergency operation for acute appendicitis. He was 47 years old.
Served: Nov. 27, 1942 – May 25, 1948
Born: June 19, 1886, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi
Died: Feb. 5, 1974, St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz.
Buried: Tucson, Pima County, Ariz.
After Arizona Secretary of State, Harry M. Moore, died on Nov. 20, 1942, Gov. Sidney P. Osborn named assistant Secretary of State, Dan E. Garvey, to the office on Nov. 27, 1942. Secretary of State Garvey was subsequently elected to the office in the November 1944 and 1946 general elections.
1. Garvey was the first secretary of state to move up to the governor's office on Nov. 22, 1948, upon death of Gov. Sidney P. Osborn. He was considered "acting governor" upon examination of the Arizona Constitution, and there was an uncertainty about how his vacancy in the Office of Secretary of State would be filled.
Served: Nov. 22, 1948 – Jan. 3, 1949
Born: October 10, 1896, Hatchechubbee, Russell County, Alabama
Died: June 8, 1969, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz.
Buried: June 11, 1969, Greenwood Memorial Gardens, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz.
Williams was appointed secretary of state in November of 1948 to fill the unexpired term of Sec. Dan E. Garvey who became governor.
Served: 1949 – Oct. 20, 1977
Born: July 1, 1909, Butler, Missouri
Died: March 4, 1978, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz.
Bolin was elected to the office in the Nov. 2, 1948, General Election and continued to be re-elected for 13 consecutive terms, a total of 29 years. He was the first secretary of state to serve four-year term from 1971 to 1975.
2. Bolin succeeded from the office of Arizona Secretary of State to the governorship on Oct. 20, 1977, due to the resignation of Gov. Raul Hector Castro who had been appointed U. S. Ambassador to Argentina by President Carter.
Served: Oct. 20, 1977 – April 5, 1988
Born: June 10, 1922, Globe, Gila County, Ariz.
Mofford was appointed on Oct. 20, 1977, to the office of Arizona Secretary of State by Gov. Wesley Bolin who succeeded to the governorship upon the resignation of Gov. Raul Castro who had been appointed U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. Secretary Mofford was elected to the office in the Nov. 7, 1978, General Election and was re-elected in 1982 and 1986.
3. Mofford was was the first woman elected as secretary of state. Rose Mofford succeeded to the governorship upon the impeachment and Arizona State Senate conviction of Gov. Evan Mecham on April 5, 1988.
Served: 1991 – 1994
Born: May 28, 1951, St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz.
Mahoney holds an A.B. in history (magna cum laude) from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University School of International Studies along with a J.D. Arizona State University.
As an international business consultant; lectured as a visiting professor at Templeton College (Oxford University), the JFK School of Government (Harvard University), the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, and the Universidad del Pacifico (Quito, Ecuador). He is professor emeritus at Thunderbird (The American Graduate School of International Management) and an author of two books on the Kennedy administration as well as numerous articles and monographs on presidential history, foreign policy, international trade, and political risk.
Served: Jan. 3, 1995 – Sept. 5, 1997
Born: Aug. 8, 1935, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Hull was elected to the office of Arizona Secretary of State in the Nov. 8, 1994, General Election and took the oath of office on Jan. 3, 1995. She succeeded to the governorship on Sept. 5, 1997, at 5 p.m. due to the resignation of Gov. John Fife Symington, III.
Before becoming secretary, she was the first woman elected speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives. After succeding to the governor's office, she successfuly ran and won the post and was the was first woman elected governor of Arizona (Gov. Rose Mofford never ran for the office).
Served: Sept. 11, 1997 – 2002
Born: Jan. 10, 1944, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz.
Bayless was appointed as secretary by Gov. Jane Dee Hull who had succeeded to the governorship. She was later elected by voters to the office on Nov. 3, 1998, and took the oath of office Jan. 4, 1999.
Bayless speaks Spanish and earned her Bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies and Spanish from the University of Arizona
Served: 2003 – January 20, 2009
Born: Sept. 26, 1944, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, Calif.
Brewer was elected as secretary in the Nov. 5, 2002, General Election and took the oath of office on Jan. 6, 2003. She was re-elected in the Nov. 7, 2006, General Election.
4. On Jan. 20, 2009, Gov. Janet Napolitano was confirmed as Homeland Security director to President Obama and resigned as governor. Brewer succeeded to the governorship from the office of Arizona Secretary of State and was sworn in Jan. 21, 2009, upon the resignation of Gov. Janet Napolitano.
Served: Jan. 26, 2009 –
Born: Aug. 1, 1959, Tucson, Pima County, Ariz.
Ken Bennett was appointed by Gov. Jan Brewer to replace her as secretary of state, and took the oath of office on Jan. 26, 2009.
Bennett was subsequently elected by the voters to the office on Nov. 2, 2010.
Prior to becoming secretary, Bennett had served as Arizona State Senate President.


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Drape Sleeve Embellished Neck Top
Fluttering sleeves and sides drape over this embellished neck top with laidback luxe style. Slight lurex shimmers throughout this knit along with silvertone heatset studs in fanned out lines.
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Complete list of border tunnels
This is a list of tunnels found along the southwestern United States border since 1990 compiled from news reports, press releases and other unclassified sources. Since 1990, law enforcement officials have discovered more than 170 tunnels, most along the Arizona and California border with Mexico.
Nogales, Ariz. Aug. 7 2014. Border Patrol agents seized nearly 235 pounds of marijuana and arrested one suspect after discovering a smuggling tunnel west of the DeConcini Port of Entry. The incomplete water-filled passageway was approximately 2 1/2 feet wide by 3 feet tall and extended about 42 feet into the United States.
Otay Mesa, Calif. April 1 and 3, 2014. Federal authorities discovered two smuggling tunnels equipped with lighting and rail systems, connecting warehouses in industrial areas in Otay Mesa with two separate entry points in warehouses in Tijuana.
Nogales, Ariz. Feburary 10, 2014. Federal authorities shut down a 481-foot illicit drug tunnel in Nogales, the longest ever discovered in the border city.
Nogales, Mexico. January 8, 2014. An incomplete tunnel more than 100-feet-long was found in Nogales by federal authorities.
Nogales, Mexico. December 19, 2013. Federal authorities shut down a smuggling tunnel with an exit in a Nogales backyard shed and found heroin and marijuana in a house nearby. The hand-dug tunnel was about 52 feet long and roughly two feet wide by three feet tall, with some wood shoring.
Otay Mesa, Calif. October 30, 2013. San Diego Drug Tunnel Task Force members found a tunnel linking warehouses on both sides of the border.
Nogales, Mexico. June 25, 2013. A routine bi-national inspection of Nogales' main storm drain system revealed an incomplete 160-foot tunnel.
Nogales, Mexico. February 22, 2013. Mexican authorities arrested a man digging a tunnel west of the DeConcini port of entry.
Nogales, Ariz. February 13, 2013. Federal authorities shut down crude, hand-dug tunnel approximately 68-feet-long and seized more than 1,200 pounds of marijuana.
Mexicali, Mexico. January 5, 2013. Mexican authorities found a partially completed tunnel 33 feet underground that included ventilation and lighting systems.
Nogales, Mexico. December 27, 2012. Mexican authorities discovered an incomplete 360-foot-long tunnel equipped with electricity and ventilation.
San Luis, Ariz. July 2012. A tunnel equipped with electricity and a ventilation system was found linking an empty business in San Luis, Ariz., with an ice plant in Mexico.
Tijuana, Mexico. July 11-12, 2012. Two incomplete underground passageways were found under construction in Tijuana. The second extended about 1,150 feet near the border fence in Otay Mesa and held 50 tons of marijuana.
Nogales, Mexico. March 1, 2012. Federal agents discovered about 550 pounds of bundled marijuana inside a 110-foot drug smuggling tunnel.
Nogales, Mexico. Dec. 10, 2011. The Mexican army announced the discovery of a 50-yard long tunnel.
Otay Mesa, Calif. Nov. 29, 2011. U.S. authorities found a cross-border drug tunnel inside an Otay Mesa warehouse complete with a small elevator, ventilation and an electric rail system.
Nogales, Ariz. Nov. 21, 2011. Border Patrol agents discovered 430 pounds of marijuana in a tunnel that stretched 319 feet from Mexico into the United States, and had been chiseled through rock 20 feet underground.


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This ingenious lampshade created by Dutch designer Richard Hutten for office-furnishings company Gispen is laser-cut from a single piece of material, resulting in no waste. The lampshade was part of a collection of furniture, lighting, and accessories on display at the 2012 London Design Festival's Super Brands exhibition, which focused on interior design.
Richard Hutten is art director for Gispen's new NgispeN design collection targeted at the home furnishings market. His work has been sold and exhibited around the world and can be found in the permanent collections of several design and art museums. One of the most internationally influential Dutch designers, Hutten was an early advocate and member of design firm Droog Design. "Droog" is a Dutch word meaning "dry," a reference to the simplicity and dry humor of the movement's designs.
In an interview, Hutten describes his work at Gispen as "playing with tradition." One project Hutten is working on is the redesign of the President, a classic Gispen desk from the 1950s. The project will turn the design process on its head, so to speak, involving a complete re-think of the original product. Hutten says, "Usually you start with an idea that ultimately leads to a product or object; in this case the existing product is the idea, the end result is a renewed product that has passed through the entire design process."
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Yet, I'm a fan of them. Good ones of course. Why?
- They act as a base to make eyeshadows more vibrant
- When blended properly, it creates a smooth gradation with just one product
- Good ones stay put the entire day
Read on for my thoughts on the Urban Decay 24/7 Shadow Pencils.
I've been eyeing these pencils for awhile but I was a little hesitant to buy them individually. So, when the Urban Decay 24/7 Shadow Pencil Stash came out for Christmas, I caved and bought them. In the set there were 5 shades, 4 of which are available in full sizes:
Delinquent: A rich and vibrant purple with splashes of shimmer. It's a very beautiful color and a great base for powder eyeshadows. I used this in my 2012 V-day look.
Rehab: A slightly frosty finish medium-deep neutral brown. I was looking for a neutral cream shadow that I can use all over for my daily work makeup and Rehab was supposed to be it. Compared to my very frequently-used Paul & Joe Eye Gloss, Rehab appears a bit flat on the lids without much dimension. It's not a bad color and I use it often but I just wanted a whole lot more from it.
Juju: A lighter version of Rehab. The color is very similar to my skin color when applied. Again, it lacked dimension. I sometimes use it in the crease to blend out Rehab. As I know, Juju is not available in full size.
Sin: A frosty pinkish champagne. When swatched, Sin seems to make a good highlight shade but it sheers out a lot when blended. Out of all the colors, Sin had the least even coverage when blended.
Clash: A bright metallic teal with shimmer. Another reason why I bought this set was because I wanted to find a replacement for my beloved Rollickin' MAC Paint Pot (C'mon, it's been 4 years! Repromote!). I was counting on Clash to fill that gap but it doesn't come close at all. It's just a very different color. In terms of finish and opacity, Clash is similar to Delinquent and also makes a great base.
Urban Decay claims the product to be smudgeproof and waterproof, which I completely agree, but they're not crease-proof. While it did stay put the entire day, I got some creasing which can't be blended out. That didn't look too pretty, of course. Still, the pencils have above average staying power compared to most cream eyeshadows I've used.
Overall, the Urban Decay 24/7 Shadow Pencils are decent but they're not great. In other words, I wouldn't buy them individually.
The Stash was undeniably good value because I got 5 x 2.5g pencils for RM126 when a full-sized one of 2.8g is retailing at RM70-something. I doubt they still carry the Stash in Malaysia's Sephora, though. Yes, my bad for being late to inform!
If you're in the US, you can check the Stash out from the Urban Decay website. They're on sale now for only $12 (marked down from $34) making the Stash an even better deal!


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Don't be buffaloed; go after these scholarships
BY LISA DENEAL email@example.com April 9, 2014 3:06PM
Updated: June 9, 2014 3:19AM
If you are a high school senior still seeking scholarship money for college, here are two chances provided by a local group and a hip-hop icon.
Entries for the Indiana Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club's 2014 scholarship are being accepted until Tuesday.
Club member Pamela May said the club will award a senior with a grade-point average of 2.5 or higher a scholarship worth up to $1,000 if he or she wins their essay contest.
Along with filling out an application that is available in the guidance counselor's office in your high school, you will be asked to write an essay on the legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary.
The essay topic reads: "Part of the Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club's mission is to never let the legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary (during the Indian Wars and the settlement of the West) and the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II be forgotten. These great and honorable individuals had to endure racism, hardships and sacrificed their lives to help make this country what it is today."
Students are then asked to attach a cover sheet and write in 1,000 words or less, answers to the following questions: In what ways does the Buffalo Soldier legacy inspire me? What are your dreams, hopes and aspirations or your intentions upon graduating from college? How do your dreams, hopes and aspirations reflect those of the Buffalo Soldiers?
Entries should be submitted no later than Tuesday. Again, you can get an application from your guidance counselor or contact May at (219) 746-5217.
You have until April 30 to apply for a Jay-Z scholarship through the Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter Foundation that will award high school senior students and college undergraduates up to age 25 a scholarship from $1,500 to $2,500.
The minimum GPA is 2.0, and students must have a strong desire to go to college and earn their degree. The student must also have a desire to give back to their communities. Visit www.shawncartersf.com for more information.
Eddie Melton believes in the power of mentoring the youth so they will develop into empowering individuals.
As part of The Mentoring Trust, a network of mentoring organizations that focuses on using mentorship to impact the youth, Melton is inviting the public to "The Mentoring Trust Launch," from 6 to 9 p.m. April 17 at Marquette Park Pavilion in Gary's Miller Beach community.
The Mentoring Trust is partnering with the Urban League of Northwest Indiana and the city of Gary to create 100 Mentors in 100 Days.
Visit www.GaryMentoringTrust.EventBrite.com to RSVP for this free event.


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'The Red Shoes' dances on in a newly restored print
An interview with film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who helped restore the 1948 classic, "The Red Shoes," written and directed by the legendary filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The movie, starring Moira Shearer, plays in Seattle Feb. 10-18.
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"The Red Shoes" screens, in a newly restored 35-mm print, at Seattle Art Museum's Plestcheeff Auditorium, 1300 First Ave., Seattle, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Thelma Schoonmaker, Academy-Award winning film editor and wife of the late filmmaker Michael Powell, will introduce the film and discuss the restoration. The previous evening, Feb. 9, Schoonmaker will host a screening of the 1945 Powell/Emeric Pressburger film "I Know Where I'm Going!" Tickets are $10 per film ($7 SAM or NWFF members) and can be purchased through the SAM box office at 206-654-3121 or at the door (cash only).
The newly restored version of "The Red Shoes" will also screen at Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, nightly at 7 p.m. Friday through Feb. 18. Tickets are $9 ($6.50 seniors/children, $6 NWFF or SAM members) and available through www.nwfilmforum.org or at the door.
Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?
Vicky: Why do you want to live?
Lermontov: Well, I don't know exactly why, but I must.
Vicky: That's my answer too.
Do artists really talk this way? Does it matter? In "The Red Shoes," that glorious 1948 ode to art, love and color, a young ballerina seems to whirl off the screen into our hearts. She must dance — particularly when she dons a pair of magical red ballet shoes for a fairy-tale ballet that seems to be mirroring her life — and yet, when she finds a connection with a talented young composer, she also must love.
Written and directed by the legendary filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, "The Red Shoes" is one of the most beautiful films ever made — and one that nearly disappeared from view, twice. Starring the enchanting Moira Shearer, whose blue eyes and flame-red hair were made for Technicolor, the film is both exquisite melodrama (will she choose love, or art?) and vibrant visual poem, in which every frame finds beauty. From its opening shot — an ominous, shadowy figure of a theater manager on a stairway — to its final haunting images of a crazed impresario's terrifyingly blank stare and, on a stage, a pair of empty pointe shoes, "The Red Shoes" never stops dancing.
Film buffs love the movie for its pioneering techniques with color and camera: a famous, dizzying shot of Shearer racing down a spiral staircase; the innovative way that the camera becomes a dancer. Dance fans revel in the glorious ballet sequences, particularly the 15-minute "Red Shoes" movie-within-the-movie, choreographed by Robert Helpmann (though Jack Cardiff's cinematography and Reginald Mills' editing deserve co-choreography credits). Creative souls connect to the film's message of art as a guiding principle in life. And everyone who's ever seen Shearer, in a dress the color of bluebells, ascending a seemingly magical Monte Carlo staircase (weeds peer through the cracked cement steps, as if nobody's set foot there in a very long time) like a princess in pursuit of some unknown fairy tale, knows that they've seen something very special.
This week, every sort of "Red Shoes" fan can see the film as it should be seen: on the big screen, at Seattle Art Museum and Northwest Film Forum. (See box for details.) It's the Seattle premiere of the film in its new restoration, presented at the Cannes Film Festival last May.
The Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker ("Raging Bull," "The Aviator," "The Departed"), who is Powell's widow, will be in Seattle to introduce the film at its SAM screening Wednesday. In a telephone interview from her New York editing suite last month, she said that "The Red Shoes" disappeared from British theaters quickly at its original 1948 release — distributor J. Arthur Rank hated the film — and was saved from becoming just a postscript in film history by two Americans from United Artists, who had previously had success with a U.S. release of Powell/Pressburger's "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp."
"They saw 'The Red Shoes' and they said, let's take a chance," Schoonmaker said. "So they converted a legit theater here in New York to a movie house, and it ran for two years solid."
And then, decades later, "The Red Shoes" almost died again — because its original film negatives were being eaten away by mold. "The storage of them had not been terrific," said Schoonmaker of the negatives, which were made in the three-strip Technicolor process — each recording a different color. Not only were the strips mold-encrusted and dirty, but "they had shrunk at different rates — you couldn't get the three images to line up on each other."
A major digital restoration began in 2006, with support from the Film Foundation (a nonprofit founded in 1990 by Martin Scorsese, Schoonmaker's longtime collaborator and a devout "Red Shoes" fan), the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, and many individuals who donated their time and expertise. Robert Gitt of the UCLA Film & Television Archives supervised the project, with Scorsese and Schoonmaker as restoration consultants.
Schoonmaker described what seemed to be an insurmountable task: to restore more than half a million frames of film. Each one had to be painstakingly attended to, said Schoonmaker, to have mold, scratches or dirt removed. Color had to be meticulously checked, frame by frame.
The final step was that of conversion back to 35-mm film. "In the restoration process," wrote Gitt, in an essay describing the project, "the entire film was turned into ones and zeros, repaired, and then converted back into a motion picture again."
The new print was unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival last spring, with many family members of the original "Red Shoes" cast and crew on hand. It was, Schoonmaker remembered, a sensation. "Many people said it was the best thing at Cannes this year. The audience went nuts and started applauding after the Red Shoes ballet — I've never heard that happen. At the end, they just wouldn't stop. I turned to look at Marty, and he had a look on his face of such happiness, I can't tell you. Just a thrilling evening."
It's appropriate that a film ultimately about artistic collaboration took such a village to be brought back to the screen. "The Red Shoes" revels in the details of creating collaborative art, from the sweat on a ballerina's brow to the scribbled, smudged pages of a musical score to, ultimately, the fluttering nerves of opening night and the low-key return to daily class the next morning. Dance, here, is a force that must go on, in the worn pointe shoes of a low-level company member hoping to be noticed at the barre, or the blood-red slippers of a mythical girl who has danced her last, giving her life for her art.
Schoonmaker said that Powell, who died in 1990, would have been thrilled by the attention given to a film so close to his heart. "I think for him it was like almost the pinnacle of what he was able to do as a filmmaker and an artist, and to show the powerful attraction of art and yet the danger of it to your personal life, which all of us suffer from. You have to do it, as Marty says — it's not that you want to do it, you have to do it. That's what [Powell] wanted to lay down, and God knows he did it."
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Information in this article, originally published February 6, 2010, was corrected February 19, 2010. A previous version of the photo caption inadvertently gave the name of the actor's character, Grischa Ljubov, instead of his real name. He is Leonide Massine.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (release) -- No. 8 Tennessee scored five in the fifth and Ellen Renfroe struck out eight over seven strong innings as the Lady Vols took a 9-2 comeback win over No. 9 Kentucky on Sunday to take the season series.
Tennessee (39-9, 14-7 SEC) scored one in the second inning, five in the fifth, one in the sixth and two in the seventh. Kentucky (40-11, 13-8 SEC) scored both of its runs in the first inning.
With eight strikeouts in the complete-game win, Renfroe (25-5) now has 207 on the season. She is just the second Lady Vol to throw 200 strikeouts in each of her four seasons. The only other UT pitcher to accomplish the feat was legend Monica Abbott (2004-07).
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says ... on Sunday, Dec 15 at 10:22 PM
Yes please call nasa... It was a hot tar tanker that flashed... Roofing company lol
says ... on Wednesday, Feb 20 at 6:48 AM
My kids saw this in the sky around 620 in Louisiana and then came home all excited saying they saw something black in the sky and they thought it to be Aliens! Lol, smoke ring? Idk but its being seen across the world so ima watch news and see WTH!!
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I saw this this morning, around 10AM over NW Portland, near downtown. I looked at it with binoculars. Definitely not a flock of birds, or anything alive. Thought it might be a kite of some sort, but it was so high up, I'm not sure it could be.
says ... on Sunday, Apr 1 at 12:35 PM
i saw this from the freeway when it happend. it is a smoke ring from a diesel front loader. it happend in fairview. there is some work going on and when they started it up it blew a smoke ring. not a flock of birds or bees or any ufo bs.
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We at Oregon MUFON would like to talk to anyone who saw or took photos or video of this "smoke ring" in the Gresham sky. You can contact us at oregonmufon (dot) com. Or email me at oregonmufon (at) mac (dot) com.
says ... on Tuesday, Mar 27 at 2:32 AM
Military were doing many evolutions on Monday and their flight path is right in that area for both take off and aproach to PDX.
says ... on Monday, Mar 26 at 5:40 PM
I got some pictures of that this morning too. I was on Sand Blvd. just West of Fairview Parkway when I saw it at about 7:40. It was a lot lower than your picture and rising. I'm trying to figure out how to post my shots linked to yours...
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This is a flock of birds. Saw lots of different flocks in formation yesterday heading back to Eugene from Portland area.
says ... on Monday, Mar 26 at 3:32 PM
I have a pic on my cell too. It was round as I approached it and it dissipated as I drove under. It just zipped into nothingness from the lower left edge up to the upper right in seconds. At first, it did look like birds but there was nothing.
says ... on Monday, Mar 26 at 3:14 PM
it looks like a swarm of bees
says ... on Monday, Mar 26 at 2:33 PM
someone starting their burn pile.. HELLO
says ... on Monday, Mar 26 at 2:30 PM
Very likely a flock of Starlings flying.
says ... on Monday, Mar 26 at 1:52 PM
Lots of weird stuff goin on in the sky today .. and lots of military air craft in the skies. Chemtrails .. google it. =)
says ... on Monday, Mar 26 at 1:43 PM
looks like space debri re-entry you might have a rare photo there. call NASA for real.
says ... on Monday, Mar 26 at 12:58 PM
Did you hear a clicking sound similar to a receipt printer? If so, I'm betting it was the smoke monster from Lost.


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