With the exception of occasional specials, daytime soap operas are notable by their absence from DVD release schedules ( an exception being the 1960s-70s supernatural soap opera, Dark Shadows, which did receive an almost complete release on both VHS and DVD ).

None of the segments used in the 1970s were used in the revival ( with the exception of new versions of the soft-shoe silhouettes and an occasional appearance of Paul the Gorilla, although these were infrequent ), nor were any of the original actors ( although June Angela has a cameo as a woman on the street ).

An occasional exception to this comes with some criticism in relation to the large landowners, who controlled most of the rural areas of the Baltics, and the ethnic Estonians and Latvians, until 1918.

No government money is involved, with the exception of an occasional federal grant given to visiting scientists, for study.

It has been argued that the suppression of the English monasteries and nunneries contributed as well to the spreading decline of that contemplative spirituality which once thrived in Europe, with the occasional exception found only in groups such as the Society of Friends (" Quakers ").

Prior to 1782, with the exception of occasional failed colonization schemes, the Europeans ignored the vast Ouachita Valley, which extended from the area around Hot Springs, Arkansas southward towards the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

Davis observed that at Casa Colorada his party “ struck a young desert, an excellent pocket edition of the great African Zahara, over which we journeyed for about four miles .” Through the area north of “ La Hoya ” the sand made travel difficult and the land barren with the exception of “ occasional small patches in some of the valleys close to the river ” ( Davis 1938: 200 ).

The solution was to incorporate an ' event handler ' for the hardware detected condition (' data exception )' that would intercept the occasional errant data field and either ' report, correct and continue ' or, more usually, abort the run with a core dump to try to determine the reason for the bad data.

It is striking that they are virtually never accompanied by any grave offerings, with the exception of occasional pots or sprays of flowers.

One occasional exception is the television program Law & Order, which sometimes shows the main characters researching at a computer late into the night ( always using Westlaw, due to a contract between Westlaw and the show's producers ).

Romantic storylines, which would have bored his younger readers and embarrassed the older ones were also omitted, with only the very occasional exception, such as in Biggles Looks Back, where he and Von Stalhein rescue Marie Janis ( with whom Biggles was briefly in love in an earlier story ) from her prison in Bohemia.

After the commercial break, the outcomes of the various choices were shown before Dirk acts on the correct idea ( with the occasional exception ) to save the day.

Structurally, syllable counts are not bound by tradition, even very long lines are not divided into hemistichs, and the verse exhibits none of the markers usually found in other syllabic meters ( with the occasional exception of end-rhyme ), relying for their measure solely on total count of syllables in the line.

Over the course of the next two years, with the exception of occasional interventions by the Shogun, Azai Nagamasa was under constant threat of Nobunaga aggression into Omi.

With the exception of the first season finale and second season premiere episodes, which are linked, most other Corner Gas episodes are stand-alone storylines that can be viewed in virtually any order, though occasional incidental references to previous episodes can be found.

With the exception of occasional frost, games at Gayfield never used to be postponed due to the free draining sandy soil and salt air – it was effectively all-weather.

With the exception of an occasional Bedouin, the desert is essentially empty.

However, laws against jaywalking are rarely enforced, with the exception of the occasional police " blitz " on jaywalking for a week or so at a time, when the laws are enforced more stringently.

The majority are free and open to the public, with the exception of occasional evening auctions that require tickets.

In 1960, compelled by his ear, he began writing microtonal music, and has continued to do so ever since, with the occasional exception being taped music for dancers.

The time shifted channel does not use any special branding, with the occasional exception of a change in Digital on-screen graphic ( DOG ).

The channel broadcasts the Yesterday schedule one hour later than the main channel, but contains no special programming or branding, with the occasional exception of a different DOG.

Most locals take their shoes off before entering a home, with haole ( caucasian ) residents being the occasional exception.

According to the logic of the script, Hooterville may be fairly close to New York City, as characters such as Oliver Wendell Douglas, a former New York City lawyer, and his wife Lisa's mother make trips to and from New York on an occasional basis and appear to make a round trip in a day's time.

Livingstone's honest, wisecracking style proved a perfect lancing of Benny's on-air persona as a vain skinflint, but she was still prone to occasional flubbed lines on the show, and many became as legendary as the deliberately crafted " illogical logic " of Gracie Allen or the cleverly scripted malapropisms of Jane Ace, or Gertrude Berg as Molly in The Goldbergs.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

One consequence is the occurrence of occasional conflicts because private owners of some inholdings object to public programs of use on neighboring National Forest or other Federal land, or because such ownerships are developed for uses that are not compatible with use for the public of neighboring National Forest land.

Now good definition is one thing that all of us can acquire with occasional high-set, high-rep, light-weight workouts.

Thus, in the aggregate, the odd-lot trader is one who buys at the tops and sells at the bottoms, notwithstanding occasional individual exceptions.

The deep ocean floor is thought to be fairly flat with occasional deeps, abyssal plains, trenches, seamounts, basins, plateaus, canyons, and some guyots.

Canberra is notorious for hot, dry summers, and cold winters with occasional fog and frequent frosts.

The intense vomiting and occasional diarrhea it induces can clear the body of worms and other tropical parasites, and harmala alkaloids themselves have been shown to be anthelmintic Thus, this action is twofold ; a direct action on the parasites by these harmala alkaloids ( particularly harmine in ayahuasca ) works to kill the parasites, and parasites are expelled through the increased intestinal motility that is caused by these alkaloids.

Caution is exercised in this situation due to the occasional occurrence of respiratory depression, and it is recommended that benzodiazepine overdose treatment facilities should be available.

Atmospheric conditions block the flow of moisture in summer, which is generally dry except for occasional thunderstorms in the interior.

( It may require occasional maintenance, but that is beyond the scope of the first cause argument.

Today the building is an historical landmark and an all-ages venue with occasional musical performances.

David Keith Lynch ( born January 20, 1946 ) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor.

The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats ( typically between 160 – 180 bpm, occasional variation is noted in older compositions ), with heavy bass and sub-bass lines.

The player is kept on guard by the grunts and growls of monsters, and receives occasional clues to finding secret areas in the form of sounds of hidden doors opening remotely.

In jazz, pizzicato is the norm, except for some solos and also occasional written parts in modern jazz that call for bowing.

Terrain here is rolling, with occasional escarpments, lava fields, and geysers.

The Usher Hall is Edinburgh's premier venue for classical music, as well as the occasional prestige popular music gig.

This process of gradual build-up of strain and stress punctuated by occasional sudden earthquake failure is referred to as the elastic-rebound theory.

Ebor is at fairly high altitude, about 1, 300 metres and by Australian standards, has cold winters with overnight frost and occasional light snow falls.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

There have been no open splits within the older generation of Fatah politicians since the 1980s, though there is occasional friction between members of the top leadership.