| GSN Orders New Game Show from Buena Vista Productions
SANTA MONICA, March 29: GSN, the network for games, has ordered 40 half-hour episodes of Camouflage, a new hidden word puzzle and trivia game show, from Disney's Buena Vista Productions. Camouflage marks the first collaboration between Buena Vista Productions and GSN. The series is set to begin production the last week of May, and will be executive produced by Terrence McDonnell and Jonathan Barry. Producers are currently casting the role of the host. Taping in Hollywood, Camouflage is a fast-paced game show of hidden word puzzles with crossword type clues ranging from general knowledge to pop culture. Contestants are shown letter puzzles and they must find the correct words hidden among the puzzle's decoy letters. Jamie Roberts, GSN's SVP of programming, commented: "I couldn't be more thrilled than to be in business with Buena Vista Productions on this smart, playful, first-class game show.
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Kenya: African Examples
He was the first African prelate to be elected General Secretary of the World Council of Churches in 2003. Locally, he is remembered as one of the many voices that called for change at the height of the clamour for multi-partyism in the 1990s. He is a prelate, an administrator, served as chair to Kenya's Election Monitoring Unit, helped broker peace among warring factions in Sudan and has several book titles to his name. .
Bobby Valentine baseball icon in Japan
After Chiba Lotte Marines' star shortstop Tsuyoshi Nishioka slapped a two-run double in the fourth inning of a recent game against the Seibu Lions, several thousand fans in the bleacher section bounced up and down like whack-a-moles, chanting "Bo-bby, Bo-bby." Such songs are an honor that fans of other Japanese teams reserve only for the actual players on the field. But in Chiba Marine Stadium, the boosters, many wearing jerseys with Bobby Valentine's number 2 emblazoned on the back, are cheering their manager. A few hours earlier, Valentine held court at Chiba Marine Stadium for a photo op with popular singer Leah Dizon, the new model for Lotte Chocolates, parent company of the Marines. If it had been the Yomiuri Giants or Hanshin Tigers, the laurel would be reserved for a star slugger.
The Problem With Letting The Government Provide Private-Sector ...
There are many in this country who love the idea of government providing us with certain services that are now provided by the private sector. Health care is a big one, and lately free wi-fi internet access has become another one. Some cities have spent citizens' tax dollars to erect wi-fi systems which blankets the municipality in question with "free" internet. Many (including the writers at the popular technology blog Gizmodo) have cheered the creation of these tax-funded public internet systems, but now that cheering has died off as one of the "free" internet systems in Boston has come up against the problem with all government-managed services: They're run by stupid politicians. Apparently the bureaucrats in Boston have decided that the popular technology/politics/pop culture/cool-stuff-in-general blog Boing Boing isn't fit for public consumption and have decided to block it from being accessed through the city's internet system. Why? Because the blog used a "banned combination phrase." Whatever the hell that rather Orweillian-sounding term means. And if Boston can ban Boing Boing for disallowed "combination phrases" how long until they're banning political sites for, say, "hate speech" (PC-speech for criticism) against Islam? Or criticism against a politician who just happens to be in a position to ban websites on the public system? The point here is that the politicians in Boston have created a public internet system, and now are starting to decide what sort of content the public can access on it. Which might not sound like that big of a deal given that not everybody uses the public system, but when combined with the impact a tax-funded internet system has on the marketplace of internet service providers in general it becomes a huge deal.
The Role of the US Govt. in Art Restitution
Thank you, Professor Schoeps, for the opportunity to speak at this conference and to meet with people who have been and remain deeply engaged in the field of art restitution. This is a subject that has drawn increasing public attention in the last few years as prominent cases have been resolved or have reached the stage where they have become newsworthy. The vibrant and active art market of today has added a new dimension to the subject of looted art. .
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