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  Setting - The TV IV
For some shows the setting is so key to the premise it's right in the title of the show such as with Rome, Deadwood, Las Vegas, or Miami Vice.
In the case of science fiction shows set in the future, the change in time is often done to allow certain types of stories that are too controversial to portray in a more realistic setting such as the original Star Trek.
Many other shows set elsewhere are still filmed in New York or LA including the show Las Vegas which is filmed in LA. This can lead to unrealistic portrayals of the settings such as a much less dry Las Vegas.
tviv.org /Setting   (1173 words)

  
 cars - Archive of fictional things
List of television shows set in New York City
List of television shows set in San Francisco
List of television shows set in Washington, D.C. See also: Lists of television shows by city setting; and List of movies for a list of movies set in specific locations.
www.carluvers.com /cars/Archive_of_fictional_things   (401 words)

  
 U. A. Sanabria
The television images were in silhouette and blurred and it was barely possible to distinguish between the image of a person's hand with outstretched fingers and that of a wrench.
My next contact with Chicago television came in the Spring of 1928, when a quick trip was made to Sanabria's laboratory to borrow a pair of synchronous motors for use in the demonstration of television at the University of Illinois biannual Electrical Engineering Show.
The educational aspect of television was further emphasized in a talk before a group of Broadcast executives at Ohio State University in the spring of 1931.
www.televisionexperimenters.com /sanabria.html   (7626 words)

  
 TV/Video Preservation Study: Volume 1: Report - National Film Preservation Board (Library of Congress)
Public archives are obliged to preserve television materials because of the popularity of television in American society and because of educational interests that focus on television's interactive role in numerous social and political processes.
The television and video heritage represents an important part of the collective experience and memory of the American people, yet much of the public record--as it were--is retained in the custody of private corporations whose policies are subject to the ebb and flow of the market place.
Television advertisers, who basically pay the networks for programs through the purchase of air time for their ads, cannot be taken for granted; there are more outlets than ever fiercely competing for their ad accounts.
www.loc.gov /film/tvstudy.html   (15944 words)

  
 NCADI: SUBSTANCE USE IN POPULAR MUSIC AND FILM
Rank-ordered lists of the Nielsen ratings for the period during which shows were taped identified the most popular shows for each audience segment.
Cable show were not included because no comedy or drama programs on cable drew a teen audience as large as or larger than the teen audiences of broadcast shows.
In addition, because television messages are transmitted over public airwaves, they are subject to a variety of FCC regulations that do not apply to movies or popular recordings (except, of course, when they are transmitted on public airwaves).
ncadi.samhsa.gov /govstudy/tvmediastudy   (8121 words)

  
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Rather than partying, the city's police will be stationed at more than 120 locations across the city, working 12-hour shifts, to take walk-in requests for emergency services.
As the Washington Post reports: Of the city's 73 agencies, 19 -- including key departments such as Health, Housing and Community Development; Tax and Revenue; Child and Family Services; and Public Works -- are not even halfway done with their year Y2K repairs and planning.
City officials are also urging residents to prepare for the new year by stocking up on food, fuel, bottled water and other supplies as they would for a winter storm.
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/roc/archive/v02.n254   (4896 words)

  
 sony.html
The separate tuner in the Betamax enables it to record a broadcast off one station while the television set is tuned to another channel, permitting the viewer, for example, to watch two simultaneous news broadcasts by watching one "live" and recording the other for later viewing.
The traditional method by which copyright owners capitalize upon the television medium--commercially sponsored free public broadcast over the public airwaves--is predicated upon the assumption that compensation for the value of displaying the works will be received in the form of advertising revenues.
Although a television broadcast may be free to the viewer, this fact is equally irrelevant; a book borrowed from the public library may not be copied any more freely than a book that is purchased.
cyber.law.harvard.edu /metaschool/fisher/integrity/Links/Cases/sony.html   (18096 words)

  
 83.03.09: Elements of the Short Story
List one of the characters from “All the Years of Her Life” on the board.
Setting or the time and place of the action in a short story has a definite impact on the character development and plot.
We believe that the study of setting in the short story not only enables the students to analyze the importance of this element to the whole but will allow them to reflect upon the importance of time and place in their own life and understand how it contributes to their own character development and conflicts.
www.cis.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.09.x.html   (6906 words)

  
 What happened to the really big shows?
In fact, once again, the list is led by "Everybody Hates Chris" - unless you count the struggles of the rich family on "Brothers & Sisters" to stay rich, and I don't.
But the example to emulate is "The Wire," a show that spent the entire fall examining the cost poverty and neglect exact on children left behind in the inner city.
As long as PBS has to beg, it will continue to focus on shows that make people open their wallets, an erratic mission that is hardly in the larger public's interest.
www.azcentral.com /ent/tv/articles/1222bigshows.html   (1989 words)

  
 The Firing Range » Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
You have a show of a caliber which is rarer and rarer these days, especially on network television.
A big part of me wants to say that this is a show that’s not long for this world, but CBS has a tendency to pull off shows that no other network could get away with.
For me, both shows leave something to be desired, but Fox more so in their sensationalistic portrayal of both families, highlighting the weirder aspects of at least one family (usually the non-mainstream one).
www.fyregoddess.com /popblog/category/television   (5057 words)

  
 Movies and Television Shows with Belly Dancers or Middle Eastern Touches
Her costume is an attractive bra/belt set with a 3-panel circle skirt that has slits on either side of the front panel, exposing her legs all the way up to the belt.
In the first two dance scenes which are 5 minutes and 3 minutes respectively, she performs as the star of the show at a moulid (saint's day carnival), which offers us a glimpse into what one of the environments for public belly dancing was like before the nightclub industry arose in Egypt.
This is also the episode of Sex and the City that Dolphina refers to in her marketing materials when she talks about how one of her belly dance students at Crunch wrote her class into an episode.
www.shira.net /onscreen.htm   (3103 words)

  
 Sociology and Philosophy Essays: TV & Violence
Because we are protective of our children, and because it is children who watch the most television and (presumably) the most of the violent cartoons, these studies have focused on children.
Not only because television violence is a reality, and aggression is a fact of life, but because an effective social psychology understanding of the relationship between television and behavior may help to not only reduce socially unacceptable aggression, but may actually enable us to increase socially desirable effects.
In listing famous people who reacted creatively to the death of a sibling, Pollock suggests that "in the case of Lenin, I found a partial identification with his [political assassin] executed [by the Czar] brother set the adolescent on a path that had a powerful impact on the history of man" [Pollock, p.32].
www.magicdragon.com /EmeraldCity/Nonfiction/socphil.html   (8768 words)

  
 The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Dylan topped many best-of lists in 2001 with his gnomic blues-rock album “Love and Theft.” U2 is enjoying positive reviews for “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb,” which sounds like one vigorous, catchy single—“Vertigo”—surrounded by a lot of well-meaning, ambient warmth.
In 2004, many of the best shows came from older groups who—perhaps owing to experience, new sobriety, humility, or all three—improved their repertory through performance, in ways that their juniors can’t.
Their set list draws exclusively from five recorded albums, which is just as fans would have it.
www.newyorker.com /critics/music?050117crmu_music   (1372 words)

  
 weather.com - Blog: The Weather Channel on weather news, hurricanes, tornadoes & meteorology
The city of Hong Kong is surrounded by the South China Sea and the mountains.
One of the city's first forays into keeping the warmth at bay and to improve the air quality was to regulate the type of gas used in the tens of thousands of taxis and buses that zoom around town daily.
Signal number 1 alerts the city that a typhoon is within a 497 mile radius of the city and as the severity and proximity escalates so the signal number.
www.weather.com /blog/weather/?from=footer2&from=footer   (7206 words)

  
 Bass Club Digest
Other show attractions are a trout pond for kids, a NASCAR simulator, the MDC fish tank and simulated archery and pheasant hunting.
Club members help clean up the building and set up the booth spaces on the Friday night before the Saturday show and then are on hand for clean-up duty again after the show on Sunday.
Although the club would like to have a larger facility for its show, Hengstl said the only alternatives seem to be locations in Kansas City or St. Louis and the club has no desire to contend with the sports shows in those cities.
bassclubdigest.org /postspawn06/beyond/GarageSales_BoatsShows.htm   (1998 words)

  
 Television Without Pity The Real World Las Vegas Reunion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hilarie opens up the questioning by saying something about "Sin City" and then asking if the roommates think that this was the "raciest" season ever.
Brynn finally breaks in and says that she does, because she realized at one point that she had kissed all of her roommates.
Hilarie asks if the Vegas setting made the show "spicy." Steven says it was, but also the fact that his roommates were so beautiful.
www.televisionwithoutpity.com /story.cgi?show=41&story=4990&limit=&sort=   (448 words)

  
 The Five: Game shows I would rock - TV Squad
There are many game shows (several of which are now defunct but still have a precious spot in my childhood memories) that I would love to participate in, simply because I know I would totally dominate.
After repeated viewings, carefully studying strategies, and setting up make-shift labyrinths of pillows and cushions in my living room to practice, I have no doubt I would emerge the winner in absolutely all of these game shows, given the chance to play.
This might have been due to the fact the show was the first to regularly mix live action and animation with a blue screen.
www.tvsquad.com /2006/06/21/the-five-game-shows-i-would-rock   (2288 words)

  
 Media Coverage of Junkbusters
Junkbusters Corp. is setting out to do just what its name says: Help consumers get rid of all the "junk" pitches they want to avoid regardless of the distribution method.
The W3 Consortium list us as one of two privacy companies in their list of Web privacy resources (the other is PGP).
ISP Novagate were one of the first to link to us, in their list of consumer privacy resources.
www.junkbusters.com /say.html   (3922 words)

  
 SoulCast - THE FREE Encyclopedia : Lists of lists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Tags: list of lists, free encyclopedia, albums, video, games
Comment on "THE FREE Encyclopedia : Lists of lists"
list of lists free encyclopedia albums video games (Click to add tags below)
www.soulcast.com /post/show/11621/THE-FREE-Encyclopedia-:-Lists-of-lists   (50 words)

  
 cityofsound: Tom Moran on Everyday Adaptive Design (long)
Moran lists various customization techniques (scripting languages and macros, rules, features, parameters, skins and rearrangement, and so on).
Moran concluded with an excellent list of research material (check the last pages of the ppt), directly relevant to the examples of Adaptive Design he'd mentioned.
I try to focus this weblog on what information designers and information architects could learn from the way cities and buildings work, with particular reference points around adaptive design, architecture, interaction design, the user experiences around music and radio, emergence, new media colliding with old media, e-government - that sort of thing.
www.cityofsound.com /blog/2002/08/tom_moran_on_ev.html   (3184 words)

  
 Television Without Pity The Girl Who Is A Visual Orgasm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Inside and upstairs, we discover Catie jumping on a couch that Sara is lying on because, I guess, the couch told her that her haircut made her look like a little boy and she decided to exact her cumulative sixty-seven pounds of revenge on it.
But fl women in a show are far and few between." Well, wherever they are, they're not in the back, memorizing their idioms.
First of all, it's "few and far between." And, second, no one's asked you to be the token anything on a runway yet, so don't go counting your hatch before they chickens.
www.televisionwithoutpity.com /story.cgi?show=126&story=6198   (438 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - We've got to ask: What were they thinking?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Skin was a good show, but in a commercial medium, making a good show no one wants to watch has never been a good idea.
A formless bore, K Street assumed there was mass-audience interest in watching real politicians and their consultants compete to see who could improvise their way into the most airtime.
But keep showing 20 Law episodes a week, and the day will come when viewers suddenly get the feeling that they've seen them all before.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2003-12-16-bad-tv-ideas_x.htm   (866 words)

  
 Exit poll shows Arroyo leading | The San Diego Union-Tribune
ABS-CBN, the nation's largest television network, said its unofficial count of almost 1.6 million votes showed Arroyo leading with 36.5 percent to Poe's 34.9 percent.
Election-related fraud and violence are common in the Philippines, which also was choosing a vice president, Senate and House members and local officials.
Many people complained that they were turned away yesterday because their names were not on voter lists.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040511/news_1n11filip.html   (441 words)

  
 Pediatrics: Commercialism in Classrooms
More and more companies are willing to provide a perceived need of the school in return for time to advertise their products to children in a respected school setting.
The school receives 2 VCRs, a 13-inch preview monitor, a fixed satellite dish, and a 19-inch television set for every classroom (the contract describes the classroom as a minimum of 23 students).
Curriculum The local, city, county, and state school boards abdicate their responsibility for determining curriculum for 1 full instructional week a year.
lists.essential.org /pipermail/commercial-alert/2001/000070.html   (1554 words)

  
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And he cites a recent poll showing that the Vietnamese are the most satisfied with the prospects for their children.
City by city sieges have now become a real possibility, and the longer this war goes, the sharper will be the reaction throughout the region.
Their command is c onfident that the situation in the city can be destabilized and lack of food, electricity and water will prompt the local population to cause the surrender of the defending forces.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2003-March.txt   (20773 words)

  
 Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: October 03, 2004 - October 09, 2004 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It's obvious to pretty much everyone watching these final weeks of the campaign that in response to the setback of the first debate the president's advisors decided that he would only be able to win by moving from harsh attacks and distortions of his opponent's record to straight out lies.
The lists, parts of which had been published previously, were compiled from 13 secret files maintained by former Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan and the former oil minister, Amir Rashid.
Several U.S. firms were on the list but their names were not released because of privacy laws.
www.talkingpointsmemo.com /archives/week_2004_10_03.php   (12398 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "television chefs": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
setting up an opposition between this authentic encounter and the inauthenticity offered by the `frontstage' world of restaurant dining and television chefs (Bourdain, 2000: 5).
Most significant is the already noted 'through media' nature of their work; television is,...
THE 81088A PH Y ideas about some of our best-known television chefs and he was not prepared simply to take the money and allow...
www.amazon.com /phrase/television-chefs   (598 words)

  
 The Presurfer - Your Daily Dose of Diversion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The software listed is commonly referred to as 'Pricelessware,' a term given with great respect and thanks to the authors of these programs for giving us such wonderful quality freeware programs.
It captures and presents sets of related stories that describe interesting events from multiple perspectives, allowing groups of people to recount their shared history in the form of interlinked anecdotes.
Liquid Gold shows how urine is used worldwide to grow food and landscapes, while protecting the environment, saving its users the cost of fertilizer, and reconnecting people to the land and the nutrient cycles that sustain them.
presurfer.meepzorp.com /archive/2005_01_01_archive.html   (5337 words)

  
 Archive of fictional things   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This is a (theoretically) all-encompassing list of fictional things created in the media.
List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in fiction and myth
List of television shows set in Washington, D.C. See also: Lists of television shows by city setting; and List of movies for a list of movies set in specific locations.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Archive-of-fictional-things.htm   (445 words)

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