7/14/2023 0 Comments Vimeo nudesWithin 6 months of arriving in London, she was appointed Editor at Large of the British magazine “Don’t Tell It”, and began shooting editorials for many magazines and clients in England, the US and Europe. Once she finished her degree, she went to London to pursue her interests in photography and journalism. ![]() While finishing a triple major in Art History, French Literature and Women’s Studies at Columbia University, she began shooting for a variety of top modeling agencies including Elite, Ford and Wilhelmina Models. By the time she graduated high school she had exhibited 4 one-woman shows of her photographic work. Touted as a “photographic child prodigy”, Indira Cesarine’s first solo exhibition was at the age of 16 at the Paul Mellon Arts Center. Additional screenings include the XXXX Voyeur Launch in NY at Studio Cesarine in Tribeca + Video installation at Provocateur at the Gansevoort Hotel, February 2011 and video installation at Matignon for XXXX Magazine's Fashion Week celebration in Paris, March 2011. ![]() Premiered at The Voyeur Exhibit, Art Basel Miami December 2010, celebrating XXXX Magazine's 3rd Issue, sponsored by American Friends of The Louvre, Miami Art Museum Contemporaries and Quintessentially. Editing by Anders Bramsen and Indira Cesarine, with hair by Craig Marsden and makeup by Carol Brown.ĭirected by Indira Cesarine for XXXX Magazine's Voyeur Issue A futuristic take on a voyeuristic reality through the eyes of the subject of the voyeur, looking back at her audience that watches her through surveillance… Featuring the hats of designer Zara Gorman, and music by B.N. Special Thanks to Blow PR, Sunbeam Studios, John Parkinson Agency, Carol Hayes Management, DWM Managementįuturists (5:36) directed by Indira Cesarine, is a video art / fashion film starring Victoria Zuban and Dominika Szijartoova. Hair By Craig Marsden Carol Hayes, London Starring Victoria Zuban Profile Models and Dominika Szijartoova Premier ModelsĮdited by Anders Bramsen and Indira Cesarine ![]() Photo Assistants: TOM ROLLASON, MARCO SIGUENZA
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7/14/2023 0 Comments Corona photosphere chromosphere![]() Their sizes vary over a wide range, with a few having been measured to be 50,000 km in diameter. ![]() A given sunspot can have a lifetime ranging from a few hours to a few months. ![]() Sunspots are regions with temperatures about 1500 K cooler than the photosphere, making them appear darker than their surroundings. Sunspots are temporary "blemishes" that appear on the Sun they are darker than the surrounding regions and arise from intense magnetic activity. In addition, the photosphere is where sunspots form. Most of the Sun's radiation escapes from the photosphere and is detected as sunlight that we observe here on Earth. When we speak of the size of the Sun, we usually mean the size of the region surrounded by the photosphere. The Sun's atmosphere changes from transparent to opaque over just a few hundred kilometers, so the photosphere is about 500 kilometers thick. It's a little like watching someone walk into fog on a dreary morning - for a while they remain visible, but once they get deep enough into the fog, they disappear, and you can't see any deeper into the fog. The photosphere represents the depth at which we can see no deeper toward the core of the Sun. Instead, as you move from space toward the Sun's core, the gas gets denser and denser. Since the Sun is made up of hot gas, there isn't really a "surface" to it. The three parts of the atmosphere, from the surface of the Sun outward are the photosphere, chromosphere, and corona. Learn more about other parts of the Sun from the NASA's Solar System Exploration Divisionĭiagram showing the different parts of the Sun.These regions have substantially different properties from each other, with regions of gradual transition between them. The parts of the Sun that we can observe and measure directly are contained in the Sun's atmosphere: the photosphere, chromosphere and corona. On Earth, hydrogen barely makes the top 10 list of common elements, and helium is extremely rare. Compare that to Earth, where the most common elements are oxygen, magnesium, silicon, and iron. ![]() The Sun contains about 92% hydrogen and 8% helium, with just a tiny bit of the other common elements we find on Earth. The Sun contains the same basic elements that we find on Earth, but in vastly different quantities than what we see around us. One of the most powerful solar outbursts ever recorded occurred during this time period. Send us feedback about these examples.The Sun as viewed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) in ultraviolet light from October 17 through November 5, 2003. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'chromosphere.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2012 The telescope, which captured these first images of the Sun’s chromosphere, is operated by the National Solar Observatory. Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2012 Given the lower pressures in the chromosphere, these melting points would be appreciably lower inside the sun. 2021 The situation in the sun’s chromosphere would be orders of magnitude more difficult. 2022 Mysteriously, the corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere layers immediately below it. 2014 The telescope captured several new pictures of the Sun’s surface back in August, with the fiery chromosphere the main focus of them all. Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017 Many of these structures are visible in the chromosphere and corona, the outermost layers of the Sun's atmosphere. 2021 When viewed during a total solar eclipse, the red rim of the chromosphere is just visible to the naked eye. Recent Examples on the Web Rising within the chromosphere, the relative force of the superheated plasma lessens quickly, but the magnetic fields stay relatively strong. 7/14/2023 0 Comments Momentum habit tracker review![]() Now that 2020 has been and gone, I can say with the data in front of me that using a habit tracker has brought about significant positive change in my life. By November, I had a significantly improved sleeping habit. ![]() I fed the data back to the grateful hospital consultant. By October, I was using it to track a health issue I had. ![]() By July, I was drinking two liters a day for the first time in my life. A lot.īy May, I was closing the rings on my Apple Watch almost daily. I held it together – just – and asked her to pay it forward. One day I paid for the contents of a stranger’s shopping basket at the supermarket when her card declined. I was even doing random acts of kindness and not telling a soul. I was starting to establish a more consistent writing habit.īy the end of February, I had started reading fiction every night before sleep.I saw for the first time how bad this really was. I started thinking seriously about how little I slept.(When I was away with work in a hotel room, I plugged it in by the door and not by my bed.) This meant I go out of bed earlier and wasted less time scrolling online. Left my phone downstairs at bedtime every night.I am not prepared to give up artisan G & T for anyone.) Been alcohol-free for the whole month (This was a temporary detox, not a lifestyle change.I had more purpose and momentum.īy the end of the first month, I had achieved the following: I could feel myself putting one foot in front of the other. It gave me a sense of achievement and closure. It was super easy to fill out, and I found that I liked reviewing my day each evening. I was traveling with work, and my black book went everywhere with me. I completed every day of both the tracker and the one-line journal. I had made a sizeable dent in establishing the habit of having a habit tracker. However, I was prepared to stomach a sentence a day.Īfter my first month, I was pleasantly surprised. I write too academically and find it embarrassing to read afterward. I also decided to journal daily using the ‘one line per day’ template, which was also in the journal. List the habits on the left, circle the month at the top. It was easy to set up once I’d decided what I was going to track. In hindsight, this was probably too many. ![]() I went for nine health habits and four business habits. As a somewhat reformed workaholic, my health has often played second fiddle to my career. I decided to group my desired habits into health and business. Instead, focus on a few important things each month and track these. How the hell was I going to crowbar skiing at Whistler into the tiny white squares? Clear himself recommends not biting off more than you can chew. You can actually get a free copy of his habit tracker template HERE. However, written by James Clear himself, it ticked all the boxes. It wasn’t cheap, and I got stung for shipping and import taxes which made my eyes water a little. In the end, I opted for the Clear Habit Journal from Baron Fig. Plus, I’m a sucker for quality stationery (tell me a teacher that isn’t), and this gave me a good excuse to invest in a nice new journal with a heavyweight gsm. There is something about recording by hand that appeals to the creative in me. Set out like a retro school register, you can use an app or a paper version. Like training wheels on a bicycle, you aspire to the day when you don’t need to track them anymore. The end goal is that these actions will become normalized and automatic, like brushing your teeth. You choose the habits you want to build in the belief that they will improve some aspect of your life. A habit tracker is a simple way of recording if you did a habit. It’s pretty much what it says on the tin. Starting in January 2020, I figured that I’d know around March time if things were working out. And I figured I had nothing to lose.Īccording to a UCL study conducted in 2009, it can take anything from 18 to 254 days to form a new habit, although the median was 66 days. I was sure it wouldn’t be a drain on my time. I half-heartedly committed to giving it a whirl. However, I’ve got to admit that I was a little skeptical. Working down an inventory of new habits each day didn’t seem too much of a chore. Like most procrastinators, I was looking for a quick, easy win and a habit tracker seemed like something even I could commit to. The Edison quote about genius and perspiration is pinned to the monitor of my Mac. I’d read a few chapters of Atomic Habits by James Clear and had pondered many an entrepreneur’s success story. At the start of 2020, I decided to see if I could bring about some of the changes I wanted to see in my life. 7/14/2023 0 Comments Greenwich letterpress![]() PRODUCT SUBMISSIONS If you are a designer and interested in having your products sold at Greenwich Letterpress please email: and attach a catalog or link to your website/products. Beth’s Favorites: faux food, mini objects, giant objects, Taylor Ham & egg sandwiches, Pretzels the cat, pretzels the food, BH90210, Googling “sprinkles,” teen angst in movies & TV, Christmas decorations, Autumn, making something out of nothing at all… Amy’s Favorites: Pugs, Italian Subs, imitating the smell of a fireplace, Cape May (NJ), coffee, old Tumblr pages, martinis (olives! twists are for maniacs), Christmas Lights Up All Year, the movie Hackers, Iceland, taking photos with a camera (I’m old), Britpop… In the New York City? Stop by the shop and talk paper and pop-culture with us. All of our paper is either made from 100% tree-free post-consumer cotton or produced with a minimal ecological footprint. Launching our first designs of enamel lapel pins in 2009-when jean jackets were just denim-we’re excited to see how far they have come! Greenwich Letterpress is not only interested in creating and producing paper goodness and lust-worthy gifts, we also care about the environment. In addition, we offer our own collection of neighborhood key tags (fictional and NYC neighborhoods) and distinctive enamel pins. Now celebrating over 17 years of a women owned business! We specialize in custom letterpress weddings, announcements/invitations, and stationery, we also offer a uniquely curated shop of letterpress greeting cards, letter sets, notebooks, and gifts-featuring our own line and others just as distinct. Any amount you can contribute is greatly and sincerely appreciated.As sisters, New Jerseyans, and third-generation printers, we-Amy Salvini Swanson and Beth Salvini-quit our day jobs and opened the doors of Greenwich Letterpress in early 2005 bringing wit and pop-culture wisdom to the heart of New York City’s West Village. ![]() Our ability to stay in business means that we can continue to support our small independent vendors, provide jobs, and be that welcoming neighborhood place you can still count on. We simply want the chance to stay in business long enough to ride out this storm into 2021, when, hopefully, we will see a vaccine and an adaptation to a “new” normal. The money we are asking for will temporarily help us cover our overhead and allow us to hire employees back. ![]() We rely heavily on foot traffic, and with tourism on hold and many of our customers temporarily or permanently leaving the city, we see an uncertain road ahead. We are reopening our doors on Saturday, August 22nd, and while we remain hopeful, we fear that the months lost to lockdown will be too much for us to come back from. Once we realized in midsummer that the city was going to remain shuttered for longer than we had anticipated, we had to let our small staff go. Since March, we have paid our rent, and up until June, we kept all of our employees on our payroll. We don’t want to be another small-business casualty. Today, almost six months after Covid-19 swept through our country and the world, we find ourselves in the humbled position of asking for your help. Without small business, what would this city be?Įven before Covid-19 hit and temporarily shut us down in mid-March, our neighborhood had already been suffering from years of so-called high-rent blight, in which Mom & Pops were driven out of business by jacked-up rents, and formely vibrant storefronts stood empty and dormant. Being a small business in NYC is tough to begin with. ![]() When we opened our store on Christopher Street, fifteen years ago, our goal was to be like one of those shops: a throwback to the days when Mom & Pops ruled and every store was your little “shop around the corner.” To us, what makes New York City so amazing is the variety of independent businesses that color its landscape. We grew up in New Jersey, and on weekends we loved to come into the city and walk around the Village and admire the small boutiques and eccentric shops that lined the streets. Hi! We are Beth Salvini & Amy Swanson-sisters, third-generation letterpress printers, and the owners of Greenwich Letterpress in the West Village. 7/13/2023 0 Comments Fumy scrabble dictionary![]() ![]() 2022 But now many of us are starting to fume. Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 15, the lethargic and uninspired effort caused manager Bob Melvin to fume, as little as the even-handed veteran does that sort of thing. Verb Team continues to show signs of improved play after Melvin’s attitude ‘tweak’ When the Padres fell to the Diamondbacks 4-0 on Sept. Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023 So, if it’s been packed in a passenger compartment of an SUV, the fuel or fumes associated with it won’t be released. 2023 This February, Halsall and his colleagues found that pollutants in car exhaust fumes-known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons-also degraded faster in ice than in water. Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023 Last month, the lights of downtown sparkled through the floor-to-ceiling windows, and glitter and adhesive fumes filled the air as Thick Strip’s makeshift dressing room at the Ace trembled with thigh-slapping, stomach-shaking laughter. 2023 Drains aren’t the only way for fumes to enter a building. 2023 Because of the city’s reputation for harsh winters and its lore of producing hard-scrabble steelworkers toughened by mills that filled their lungs with asbestos and carcinogenic fumes, outsiders’ perception of Buffalo is usually framed by an admiration for its peoples’ resilience. 2023 Here's how fumes can enter your home. 2023 But protesters stuck inside the police bubble can’t escape tear gas fumes. Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 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I used many of these words in my latest essay for English class and my teacher was impressed. Reeana #12 Thank you so much you are a great help, I want to impress the teacher even though I am twelve and I couldn't find these words anywhere!!!!.Avery My brain elucidates my anger into danger as I spring towards her. ![]() I intended to say four and one half stars ! not one, (out of five, due to my belief that word one, myriad, is an adjective, rather than a noun, as labeled. Sandra I didn't understand how the star rating system worked.To explain the history and to elucidate the character of this composite people great tomes have been written. "The Blue Pavilions" by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch My business is simple, but may require some elucidation. Surely, the voice-part in these classics is not without its need of elucidation.Īt all events she would throw the burden of an elucidation upon him. "Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853" by Various "The Reign of Mary Tudor" by James Anthony Froude The characters of the persons who were concerned in this new plot against Mary's throne will not require much further elucidation. Various plans for the elucidation of the mystery were discussed between Northcliffe and the staff.īut there are many other points needing elucidation. Let the Baron at breakfast elucidate the mystery. Time will elucidate this, as well as other matters. Recent research on elucidating the structure and sequence of proteins involves examining the effect of microgravity on protein crystallization and a computational model for protein elucidation. We have already once elucidated the joys of mixing wine. ![]() The greatest textbooks challenge, elucidate, and inspire. In winebiz talk, the affable chairman of Beaulieu Vineyards elucidated, an official wine depletion comes after, and only after, a wine is opened and consumed and when the toilet is flushed. These key terms to help elucidate the National Information Exchange Model and semantics. Investigators Elucidate Genetic Differences in Those Who Develop Meningitis. Key terms elucidate the National Information Exchange Model and semantics. In last night's debate, GOP candidates did little to elucidate their foreign policy positions. The purpose of the Task Force was to elucidate some of the controversial issues surrounding the applications of statistics including significance testing and its alternatives. įrom Obama's professorial elucidation, those two recurring words - "trust" and "family" - insistently rang out. Īfter the genome was elucidated, the first wave of research focused on proteomes-all the proteins expressed by a genome, cell, tissue or organism. Ĭan magnetic resonance imaging help elucidate natural history of breast cancer multicentricity. ![]() In New Haven attention is being twice paid to the artistic forces that establish a theater's identity and elucidate its purpose. įor instance, our approach elucidated the robustness of a DVF visualization in the presence of data-altering filters, such as resampling. Methods for Structure Elucidation by High-Resolution NMR. 7/13/2023 0 Comments Cloudmounter itunes![]() ![]() At the time of renewal your account will be charged for the amount of your current subscription within a 24-hour time frame before the beginning of the new period. Subscription will be automatically renewed unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours prior to the end of current period. The cancellation of the current subscription is not possible during active subscription period. ** Subscriptions are auto-renewable unless canceled. Try it now and enjoy the benefits of an all-in-one cloud solution. All passwords for FTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3 accounts are securely kept in macOS Keychain.ĬloudMounter is your must-have tool if you use several cloud accounts or if your Mac SSD drive has an extremely low capacity. browser or native client) will show nothing but nonsense.īesides encryption of your online data, all connections are performed through the native API of cloud services, which means that all your login credentials are not used by the app for anything else except for logging in appropriate accounts and of course are not shared with any third parties. Viewing the storage from any other point of access (i.e. It allows to encrypt your personal data on the cloud servers, so that only CloudMounter user with a master password can see it. Keep in mind that a temporary copy of the file is still saved to a computer only to be removed after the transfer is completed.ĬloudMounter is a safe and secure utility. 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Once you open the app an AeroWeather icon will appear in the menu bar (as shown on screenshots).Ī simple and clean METAR/TAF viewer as known from AeroWeather for iOS. Available in Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, SwedishĪeroWeather Menu Bar Developer Description: NOTE: this a is menu bar app. Import/export of user data from/to AeroWeather for iOS Sharing of METAR/TAF via E-Mail, Messages, etc. AWOS data for US airports (where available) with phone support (either via Skype or connected iPhone) Calculates pressure altitude, density altitude, and wind chill or heat index Read out of METAR similar to ATIS by swiping a station in the list to the right (English voice only) Detail view with METAR, TAF (raw or decoded) and station information Sortable list (by user-defined, name, ICAO, IATA, country) of airports in well-known AeroWeather layout (with raw or decoded METAR) Today Widget (available for pre macOS Big Sur only) Menu bar display optionally rotates through list Customizable menu bar (airport with flight rule, temperature, or wind) ![]() Menu bar application for quick access (Menulet) 7/13/2023 0 Comments Singly linked list![]() ![]() the empty list, represented by None, orĪ node that contains a cargo object and a reference to a linked list.Thomas Watnedal suggested a good educational resource How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Chapter 17: Linked lists: I've never used a singly linked list in Python for any problem except educational. Length = lambda lst, count=0: length(cdr(lst), count 1) if lst else countĭisplay = lambda lst: begin(w("%s " % car(lst)), display(cdr(lst))) if lst else w("nil\n")Īlthough doubly linked lists are famously used in Raymond Hettinger's ordered set recipe, singly linked lists have no practical value in Python. ![]() Nth = lambda n, lst: nth(n-1, cdr(lst)) if n > 0 else car(lst) Mklist = lambda *args: reduce(lambda lst, el: cons(el, lst), reversed(args), None) Löwis's representation: cons = lambda el, lst: (el, lst) The if-else condition statements check whether the insert position is at the beginning or not.Here is some list functions based on Martin v. The insert_node()method given below implements the above logic. This operation is demonstrated by the following figure. This ensures that the previous element points to the new node and the new node points to the next element thus maintaining the chain in the linked list. First, the next element of the new_node is made to point to temp’s next element, following which temp points to the new_node. This pointer traverses n-1 nodes until it reaches the node whose next element should be the new_node. For this, a traversal of the linked list is required and a temp pointer is created which initially points to the head of the linked list. However, a node can also be inserted at any other position, for example, position n. The head element must also be updated as now the new_nodeis the head of the linked list. If the node has to be inserted at the beginning of the linked list (position 0), the next element of the new_nodeshould point to the head of the linked list. at position 0, is unlike inserting a node at some other position. Next, it is important to note that inserting a node at the beginning of a linked list i.e. First, a pointer to the new_nodeis created using the NODE structure and its data element is assigned the value as given by the user. To insert a node into a linked list two essential parameters are needed: the data element of the new node and its position in the linked list. This indicates that when an object of the LinkedList class is created, the first element, pointed to by head is a NULL element by default. The constructor instantiates the head pointer to NULL. The above code declares a head pointer of the NODE structure as a private data member. To create a linked list the first element points to the next element, the second to the third and so on, until the last element which points to NULL, indicating the end of the linked list. A node structure contains a data element of an integer type and a pointer element to the next node structure. Structures are used to create user-defined data types in C . To use such a node in our linked list, a node structure is created. This post will implement the singly linked list data structure using C .Īs mentioned, a linked list consists of discrete elements that are nodes. This is best demonstrated by the figure above. A singly linked list consists of a chain of nodes, where each node has a data element and a pointer to the memory location of the next node. There are three main types of linked lists – singly linked list, doubly linked list, and circular linked lists. Linked lists can be used to implement the queue data structure. A linked list is a data structure that implements the storage of data elements in a consecutive manner. 7/13/2023 0 Comments Around the world in 80 days 2020![]() And Passepartout, despite being multilingual, intelligent, and possessing various talents that prove useful on their travels, still has to navigate the 18th century as a Black man, and all that entails. Fix is a woman navigating a man’s world, a journalist with a father who prefers she be married with children. ![]() ![]() His manhood is challenged, and he’s repeatedly prompted with questions about whether he can actually complete the journey. And off they go, rising above the violence on the ground.Īlong the way, they encounter a variety of obstacles while wrestling with personal demons. It all may have been as easy to forget as the series discards it, if Ashley Pharoah and Caleb Ranson, who developed “Around the World,” didn’t invest an inordinate amount of time into that catastrophic event, likely in a bid to suck in viewers in with cheap emotionality.īut it’s all tossed overboard, and by the episode’s final moments, the trio stumbles upon Fogg’s “magnificent flying device,” aka a hot air balloon. “They don’t behead rich people anymore,” he teases a flummoxed Fogg, during a series of events that ends with Passepartout witnessing Gerard, and his fellow insurrectionists, killed in what amounts to a blaze of glory. Flyers that read “Freedom! The day of glory has arrived!” flutter about, as mass protests, which Passepartout’s idealistic brother Gerard (Loic Djani) is part of, consume the city. It’s the first episode and France is the backdrop, amid the discontent of a growing working class, years after Jean Valjean was swept into the 1832 Paris Uprising. And while PBS’ iteration foregrounds class warfare in an early setpiece, it does absolutely nothing with the prompt afterward. The Michael Anderson-directed 1956 film starring David Niven and Cantinflas - the most accomplished of all the novel’s adaptations, winning five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, even if its legacy has faded over time - at least attempted to satirize the rich, despite its reliance on stereotypes. Yet this adaptation fails to reassess themes ripe for reimagining, nor is it structurally or stylistically original. The rules are esoteric, and indeed, it’s a game that’s historically been great story fodder, and how the winner is decided is usually more interesting than who wins. Sometimes, the consequences are wide-reaching, even if coincidental, and may or may not benefit the greater good. It’s an adventure prompted by a timeless theme: men and the quintessential sources of many pissing contests - ego and money. He sets out with his French manservant Jean Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma) and Fortescue’s daughter, Abigail “Fix” Fortescue (Leonie Benesch), to win the wager. It’s England in the late-1800s, and the three men are Bernard Fortescue (Jason Watkins), Nyle Bellamy (Peter Sullivan), and Phileas Fogg ( David Tennant), the story’s main protagonist, who makes a wager of £20,000 ($3 million today) that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days or less. ‘American Born Chinese’ Review: A Sweet Teen Odyssey with Killer Moves It’s not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and the new space race, but can you spy the subtle parallels? PBS’ version opens with three Englishmen of obvious privilege in conversation around a table in a members-only men’s club, wagering whether the pre-passenger-flight-era feat of human ambition and technological marvel implied in the title is achievable. Any new take on Vernes’ classic, even after taking into account that 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of its original publishing, ought to be as adventurous and inventive as the story that inspired it. ![]() Under those terms, given the eight-episode end product that premieres tonight on PBS, there’s little explanation for this new adaptation of “ Around the World in 80 Days,” Jules Vernes’ most adapted work (across television, film, theatre, gaming, and radio). If any new trends catch on in 2022, one should insist on every film or television series justifying its existence beyond its potential to make a profit - especially when it comes to adaptations of IP previously adapted in multitudes. |