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Click through for photos of Comcast Spotlight bringing the Stanley Cup to Chicago clients, Starz's first Investor Day and more events for the week of Dec. 2.
Through the Wire
Cable Nets Head to TCA Tour
The TV writers' strike
putting a cloud of uncertainty over the Television Critics Association tour next month, which can be an important time for broadcast and cable networks to get coverage of their upcoming shows. But as of press time Friday, cable planned to proceed anyway with a four-day schedule of show and tell before TV critics.
The final schedule for the cable TCA Tour was a work in progress even late last week. That's because some cable programmers were saying privately that they were waiting to see if the strike was settled before making a final decision on whether to present at the tour in Universal City, Calif., Jan. 8 to 11.
Several cable programmers have already pulled out of the winter TCA. Turner Broadcasting System ŌĆö parent of CNN, TNT, TBS and Court TV, among others ŌĆö will not be part of the tour. Turner's decision not to participate was based on a combination of the strike and the entertainment networks not having any major new scripted shows until the summer.
Disney Channel has opted out of the January TCA, as well. But that decision was based on a scheduling conflict with talent. The musical group the Jonas Brothers would not be able to attend, and Disney had wanted to showcase the new show that they star in, J.O.N.A.S.
Showtime is now scheduled to be part of parent CBS's TCA day, Jan. 18.
At one point, there was talk about trimming the cable portion of the TCA tour to three days, but now it's back to four days.
Early last week CTAM issued a tentative ŌĆö with the emphasis on tentative ŌĆö TCA cable schedule, with some new faces [Retirement Living TV, Reelz] in the mix and along with old faithfuls like HBO, which is now down for a three-hour presentation.
On the tentative lineup, NBC Universal Cable was set to kick off the tour Jan. 8, followed that day by GSN, HDNet, BET and Hallmark Channel, with The Travel Channel hosting an evening event.
Cable's tentative TCA lineup also includes FX, National Geographic Channel, Starz, Discovery Networks, MTV Networks, AMC/WE TV, BBC America, A&E Network, Sundance Channel, TV One and Lifetime. Food Network was slated to end the cable portion with an evening event.
And Comcast Networks ŌĆö including E! and Style ŌĆö are said to have scrapped a planned evening event.
Roaring Week For Speed Chief
Cable companies in September endure ŌĆ£Hell WeekŌĆØ ŌĆö a very unofficial but lingering description of the packed schedules surrounding the Walter Kaitz Foundation dinner in New York City. Well, auto racers, of all people, have something similar in the Big Apple in late November. It's called ŌĆ£Champions Week.ŌĆØ And as Speed Channel president Hunter Nickell told The Wire last week, it's exhausting.
ŌĆ£It's crazy, but it's cool,ŌĆØ he said.
The NASCAR season is all about endurance: it basically runs for 40-plus weeks, between Daytona in February and Homestead, Fla., in November. ŌĆ£Some weekends it hailed. We had tornadoes,ŌĆØ Nickell said. ŌĆ£We had blistering 100-plus heat on some weekendsŌĆØ and others were frosty.
The weather in New York, fortunately, was delightful, suited to events like the ŌĆ£Victory LapŌĆØ of NASCAR Nextel Cup top 10 racers through Times Square on Wednesday. The week wraps with an awards banquet Friday night at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Nickell had to leave before then, but gave a thumbs up to 2007's Champions Week. ŌĆ£I think it was the best so far,ŌĆØ he said.
See you next year, Hunter.
Return to '1968' For Online Fun
Confession time: The Wire's new favorite time-waster is the set of promotional microsites developed by The History Channel for its upcoming 1968 With Tom Brokaw
The multiple sites, targeted to consumers, affiliates and ad sales clients, have content that mirrors one another.
The sites feature a 1960's photo upload area (embarrass your friends in those cat's-eye glasses and fringe!). There's a music widget (what, no ŌĆ£BudweiserŌĆØ song? We guess that came later). And there's an opportunity to dig into a virtual closet and dress your photo in '60s clothes.
Bonus for anyone who can guess which ID on the leader board of the You Don't Know Jack-style '60s trivia game belongs to The Wire.
The site is live now at www.powerof68.com, www.powerof68.com/affiliate and www.powerof68.com/adsales.
WE Drives Vote With Celeb Power
WE TV last Wednesday kicked off its ŌĆ£WE Vote '08ŌĆØ voter-registration drive with help from Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice presidential nominee on a major-party ticket. She described the upcoming election as one of the most important of her lifetime, one that will affect generations to come.
Kim Martin ŌĆö her voice restored after the cold that cramped her style at another kickoff event, the Women in Cable Telecommunications gala in Washington, D.C., a couple weeks ago ŌĆö made her pitch to get 1 million women to register to vote.
Actress Kerry Washington (The Last King of Scotland), a celebrity spokeswoman for the campaign, also pitched in, and public service announcements featuring herself, Kelly Ripa and LeAnn Rimes were screened. The red carpet also drew Ally Sheedy, Christopher Knight (Peter of The Brady Bunch) and Susan Sarandon.


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The son of an immigrant Russian tailor,
Aaron Spelling
grew up in the Jewish ghetto of Dallas. Traumatized by constant bullying from his WASP schoolmates,
psychosomatically lost the use of his legs at age eight and was confined to bed for a year. He spent his solitude with the written works of
Mark Twain
O. Henry
, and other masters, developing his own storytelling skills in the process. After wartime service with the Army Air Force,
attended Southern Methodist University, then headed to New York, hoping to find work as an actor and writer. No one was interested in his writing, though he did eventually secure a few good film and TV roles (he was the squirrelly murderer in
, the 1952 remake of 1941's
I Wake Up Screaming
). He then moved to California in the company of his wife, actress
Carolyn Jones
. While her career flourished, his dreams of becoming a great writer dwindled, and he reluctantly returned to acting.
's writing skills finally came to the attention of actor/production executive
Dick Powell
, who hired
as a scripter and producer for
's Four Star Productions.
's strong suit during this period was the ability to woo TV-shy film actors into the Four Star fold by writing the sort of parts they'd
to play, but had never been permitted to by the Hollywood typecasting system. After
Dick Powell
became aligned with comedian/TV mogul
Danny Thomas
, for whom
produced the hit series
The Mod Squad
in 1968. His new-found industry clout permitted
to produce one TV hit after another:
The Rookies
Starsky & Hutch
Charlie's Angels
, among others. Whenever accused of merely turning out "schlock,"
could point with pride to his highly regarded weekly drama
, and, much later, to his Emmy win for
Day One
, a 1989 TV movie about the wartime Manhattan Project. After several years of indifferent projects,
Aaron Spelling
once more became the king of youth-oriented television with his 1990 series
Beverly Hills 90210
(which co-starred his daughter,
) and the equally popular follow-up,
Melrose Place
's name continued to grace the credits of numerous youth-oriented soaps on the fledgling WB and UPN networks right up until his death in June of 2006. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The title of this ABC cop series referred to the patrol-car code used to indicate that said car was "in service." The central character was Rico Amonte (Danny Nucci), a former Brooklyn street punk who after relocating to Los Angeles opted to work on the right side of the law. A deputy trainee with the LAPD robbery-homicide division, Rico was assigned to irascible, South Central-born Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes (Ernie Hudson). It perhaps goes without saying that there was little love lost between the no-nonsense Barnes and the wisecracking Rico, but this odd-couple duo managed to do their job well and get the best results. In the fine tradition of the old series The Rookies, several other trainees were placed under the tender care of Deputy Barnes: would-be Romeo Matt Jablonski (Scott William Winters) and his partner, ghetto-raised Gabriella Lopez (Mercedes Colon); and bookish, politically ambitious Chase Williams (Travis Schuldt) and his partner, tough cookie Anna Li (Christina Vidal). 10-8 premiered on September 28, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Titans [TV Series]
The dirty laundry of the wealthy and oversexed gets yet another airing in this prime-time soap opera from producer Aaron Spelling. Richard Williams (Perry King) is a tough-as-nails businessman who single-handedly built his aviation business into a powerful multinational conglomerate. Richard is engaged to marry Heather (Yasmine Bleeth), a manipulative woman who only recently had an affair with Chandler (Casper Van Dien), Richard's son. Chandler isn't sure what he should tell his father about Heather, especially when he learns Heather is pregnant. Elsewhere in the family, Peter (John Barrowman) oversees the Williams family's finances, Jenny (Elizabeth Bogush) tries to keep her drinking problem in check (with mixed results), Laurie (Josie Davis) operates a nightclub and keeps her poisoned pen sharpened at all times, and Richard's former wife Gwen (Victoria Principal) observes the action from her bungalow across the street from his Beverly Hills estate. In the midst of all this, Samantha (Lourdes Benedicto), daughter of the family's housekeeper, works for the Williams and keeps track of their many peccadilloes, while also carrying a torch for Chandler (and wishing Heather would dry up and blow away). Got all that? Titans first aired on the NBC television network on October 4, 2000. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Satan's School for Girls
A remake of the 1973 TV movie of the same name, Satan's School for Girls is set within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls. Hoping to learn the truth behind the "suicide" of her younger sister, Beth Hammersmith enrolls in Fallbridge under the assumed name of Karen Oxford. Our heroine soon learns that the school is in the clutches of a coven of witches called "The Five" -- and that she herself has the right satanic qualities to enable The Five to take over the world. Kate Jackson, who played the leading role of Roberta Lockhart in the original film, is here cast as college dean Olivia Burtis. The "new" Satan's School for Girls was telecast by ABC on March 13, 2000. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Police Capt. Adam Greer (Dennis Farina) needs some new cops who can go where other cops can't. Greer finds three young people on their way to jail: Lincoln Hayes (Omar Epps), the black one, is up for arson; Pete Cochrane (Giovanni Ribisi), the white one, is up for robbery; and Julie Barnes (Claire Danes), the blonde one, is up for assault. The three are given a choice: go to jail, or become a special undercover unit that will infiltrate L.A.'s underbelly and bring down the drug dealers and parasites that are preying on the young. Their only rules: no badges, no guns, and no turning in other kids. This "mod squad" encounters a major problem when a cache of drugs disappears from the police evidence locker. All clues point to dirty cops, while the cops want to close ranks and blame the new kids. With their first big case, the squad realize they'll receive no help from the L.A.P.D. and must solve it their own way. ~ Ron Wells, Rovi
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A single father tries to raise his three sons while working as a sheriff in a Florida community. Assisting him at home (a former motel) is his eccentric mother, a former magician's assistant. ~ Rhoda Charles, Rovi
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Life was anything but dull for the Halliwell sisters during the first season of WB's Charmed. No sooner had they been reunited in their ostentatious family home in San Francisco than the three ladies -- Prue (Shannen Doherty), Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), and Piper (Holly Marie Combs) -- discovered that they were the "Charmed Ones," good witches whose unique powers were ordained to benefit humankind and to vanquish evil. Using the ancient "Book of Shadows," the sisters quickly learned the ritual that would bring forth those powers: holding hands and chanting in unison, "The power of three will set us free." Unfortunately, the ladies' benevolent witchery wreaked a great deal of havoc on their private lives. Habitually unemployed, Phoebe (who had the gift of prophecy) was unable to hold a job due to the ofttimes terrible things that kept happening around her. Prue (who was telekinetic) did manage to find employment at the Buckland Auction House, only to discover that her boss, Rex Buckland (Neil Roberts), was a malevolent warlock. As for Piper (who had the ability to make time stand still), she was forever falling in love with the wrong guy -- and when the right guy, namely handyman Leo Wyatt (Brian Krause), finally came along, he turned out to be a "Whitelighter," a guardian angel assigned to protect the Halliwells and all other good witches...and thus "off limits" for poor Piper. Prue likewise had problems with her love life, especially after informing her off-and-on boyfriend, police inspector Andy Trudeau (T.W. King), that she was not your normal, average girl. By the end of season one, the management of the Buckland Auction House had passed into the hands of no-nonsense Clair Price (Cristine Rose), who may not have been the most pleasant person on earth, but at least wasn't a warlock; Piper had found work as a caterer, which brought her into contact with such nasty characters as the Demon goddess Hecate (Sarah Peterson); and Andy Trudeau had been suspended because he refused to investigate the paranormal activities that seemed to dog the Halliwell sisters wherever they went. Far worse was in store for Andy as the season drew to a close, but there was good news for the fans of Charmed, which, though not exactly a world-beater in the ratings, was one of WB's most-watched (and most talked about) series. ~ Rovi
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In this TV drama-comedy, Julie Barber (Allison Smith) hires detective wannabe Bob Jones (Frank Whaley) to track down the legendary private eye Buddy Faro (Dennis Farina), who was once such a name that he was portrayed by an actor (George Hamilton) in a TV series. Now nearly forgotten, Faro has inherited a small fortune, but no one knows where he went. Traveling to the dusty streets of a little town in Mexico, Jones manages to find the booze-soaked Faro lying in the gutter. Rescued by Jones and Julie, Faro returns to Hollywood, where he made his mark 20 years earlier. Things have changed, but the stylish Faro is soon back in business in a big way, confronting criminals in his ultra-cool style, while the Joel McNeely soundtrack provides a jazzy accompaniment. Premiered September 25, 1998 on CBS. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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The Love Boat: The Next Wave [TV Series]
Loosely following the format of ABC's 1969-74 comedy anthology series Love, American Style, Aaron Spelling's first Love Boat set sail September 24, 1977 with the series' intertwining stories all taking place aboard the cruise ship Pacific Princess, captained by Gavin MacLeod. Spelling Television updated the concept in this 1998 romantic comedy series with Captain Jim Kennedy III (Robert Urich) retired from the Navy and now at the helm of the luxury liner Sun Princess. There's a full crew of regulars on board, and Kennedy's 15-year-old mischievous son Danny (Kyle Howard) roams the ship while it cruises about in search of love, Caribbean style. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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Charmed [TV Series]
Three of the most gorgeous TV witches since the days of Elizabeth Montgomery were the heroines of the hour-long WB fantasy series Charmed, which first materialized on October 7, 1998. Reunited in their ancestral San Francisco mansion, the Halliwell sisters -- Prudence (aka Prue, played by Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs), and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), and came upon a dusty tome titled the "Book of Shadows," which by and by revealed a secret that had long been withheld from them: the sisters were witches known as the "Charmed Ones," blessed with extraordinary powers which they were expected to use in the never-ending fight of good against evil. Prue, the oldest, had the gift of telekinesis, enabling her to move objects at will; middle child Piper was able to stop time; and Phoebe, the baby of the family, was able to see the future. The ritual enabling them to combine their powers involved the linking of hands and chanting in unison, "The power of three will set us free." Of course, now that the girls knew they were witches, they were immediately targeted for destruction by all manner of warlocks, sorceresses, and malevolent spirits, many of these hoping to steal the Halliwells' powers for themselves. Also, in their efforts to lead "normal" lives and not give away their secrets, the ladies encountered a great deal of difficulty in the romance department -- not to mention the holding and maintaining of regular employment.
During season one, Prue worked for the Buckland Auction House, whose owner turned out to be a warlock; she also lost her policeman boyfriend, Andy Trudeau (T.W. King), who was killed in an effort to save the Halliwells from a demon. Phoebe's private life was not quite so tempestuous, though she had a bad habit of losing jobs due to the bad things happening around her. The impressionable Piper, who managed to find work as a caterer and later as the owner of the "P3 Club" nightspot, thought she had found true love in the form of hunky handyman Leo Wyatt (Brian Krause), until learning that Leo was a "Whitelighter," a guardian angel fated to protect all good witches from harm -- and as such, was off limits. In later seasons, however, Leo was demoted to "mortality" and was able to marry Piper, with whom he had a "bewitched" son named Wyatt. By the time Leo's powers were back to full steam in season five, he'd been appointed an "Elder" Whitelighter; his former job of protecting the sisters was taken over by another Whitelighter named Chris Perry (Drew Fuller), who turned out to have a hidden agenda.
Season three saw quite a few upheavals in the lives of the sisters, with Phoebe falling for Assistant DA Cole Turner (Julian McMahon) -- who turned out to be the demon Belthazor, and whose mission was to kill the sisters. Cole managed to purge himself of evil, only to revert to wickedness -- a cycle that continued to repeat itself until, in season four, the "bad" Cole married and impregnated Phoebe with his evil seed. Eventually the baby was stolen by a demon called The Seer (Debbi Morgan), and poor, mixed-up Cole wound up trapped in another dimension before being "vanquished" permanently. (At least Phoebe landed a permanent job as a newspaper advice columnist once the dust had settled!) As for Prue, season three of Charmed turned out to be her last when she was killed during a "demon assault." Her place in the Halliwell household was taken in season four by the girls' half sister, Paige Matthews (Rose McGowan), who like the late Prue possessed telekinetic powers. Paige would eventually find "civilian" employment as a social worker, enabling her to emulate the other girls by applying her powers for the forces of good on a full-time basis.
There were scores of additional plot complications and story arcs occurring in and out of the "real world" and back and forth in time (at one point, for example, the heroines were converted into Greek goddesses). "Charmed" though the Halliwell girls may have been, it didn't mean that they exactly led charmed lives. Perhaps it was the unstable nature of the world in which our heroines dwelled that made Charmed one of the WB's most successful offerings; viewers literally never knew what to expect from one week to the next! ~ Rovi
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7th Heaven [TV Series]
One of the most atypical weekly series to emerge from the Aaron Spelling TV factory, 7th Heaven, created by Spelling and Brenda Hampton, has eschewed the sex-and-sin shenanigans of such series as Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place in favor of honest, three-dimensional family values, with generous doses of warmth, heart, humor, and pathos. There can be no doubt that this fundamentally wholesome program has struck a universal chord. The series has not only been lavishly praised by critics, honored by such organizations as the Parents Television Council, the Academy of Religious Broadcasting, and the Anti-Defamation League, and given innumerable industry awards, but it is also one of the most successful offerings of the WB network; indeed, it was the first WB series to run more than seven seasons, and during four of those seasons, it was the network's highest-rated show. Set in the suburban L.A. community of Glen Oak, the series revolves around the Camden family, headed by Eric Camden (Stephen Collins), pastor of the town's Community Church, and Eric's homemaker wife, Annie (Catherine Hicks). In the tradition of The Waltons, loyal 7th Heaven viewers have enjoyed the rare privilege of watching the Camden children grow up before their very eyes. When the series debuted on August 26, 1996, handsome and personable Matt Camden (Barry Watson) was 17 years old; basketball-playing Mary Camden (Jessica Biel) was 13 going on 14; intellectual, inquisitive Lucy Camden (Beverley Mitchell) was 12; happy-go-lucky Simon Camden (David Gallagher) was ten; and precocious Ruthie Camden (Mackenzie Rosman) was five. By the time the series entered its eighth season, the three oldest Camden kids were married and pursuing careers, while the two youngest were seasoned veterans of the school dating scene. (Two more Camden youngsters, twin boys Sam and David, were born halfway through the 1998-1999 season). All of the Camdens, parents included, have had more than their share of setbacks and tragedies (some of them absolutely devastating) as the series has rolled forward, but somehow all of the members of the clan, from patriarch Eric on down, have been able to recover, rally, and persevere with the help and support of their family and friends -- not to mention their inner faith. And unlike so many other TV series which traffic in personal interrelationships, the characters in 7th Heaven are very much a part of the "real" world. During its lengthy WB run, the series has exposed its principals to a wide variety of contemporary issues: teen suicide, racial prejudice, substance abuse, drunken driving, homelessness, negative peer pressure, teen pregnancy, Alzheimer's disease, the Holocaust, the war in Iraq, and the crisis in the Sudan. Eminently suitable for viewers of all ages, but never a mere sop to the "kiddie" trade nor a placebo for the clean-up-TV brigades, 7th Heaven has been and will likely always remain the jewel in the WB crown. ~ Rovi
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The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and with marked hostility toward one another, an American and a French research team manage to identify and name the dreaded HIV virus. The long-range effects of AIDS is experienced through the first- and secondhand experiences of several unfortunates, including a choreographer (Richard Gere) whose character is said to be based on Michael Bennett. The all-star cast (most of whom eschewed their usual high salaries) includes Lily Tomlin as San Francisco health official Selma Dritz, Matthew Modine as Centers for Disease Control researcher Don Francis, Alan Alda as NIH official Robert Gallo (who emerges as the villain of the piece), Ian McKellan as gay activist Bill Kraus, and Glenne Headley, Steve Martin and Anjelica Huston in cameo roles. And the Band Played On debuted September 11, 1993, on HBO. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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In the comedic farce Soapdish, the behind-the-scenes lives of several soap opera actors are just as melodramatic as those of their television counterparts. Sally Field stars as Celeste Talbert, the star of a declining TV show. To make matters worse, Talbert's career is thrown into turmoil when her rival, Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty), tries to persuade producer David Barnes (Robert Downey Jr.) to write Talbert off the show. Smitten by Moorehead, Barnes comes up with a scheme to get Talbert off the show by hiring her niece Lori (Elisabeth Shue) and then Jeffrey (Kevin Kline), an old flame and cast member who was written out of the show 20 years prior. Soon, mayhem rules on the set as the cast and crew tangle, culminating in a special episode, broadcast live. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
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The made-for-TV Jailbirds is a distaff comedy variation on The Defiant Ones. Phylicia Rashad plays an important LA business executive, while Dyan Cannon portrays a trailer-trash babe from Louisiana. Both Rashad and Cannon are thrown into a dank Southern jail for crimes they didn't commit. While manacled together, the ladies escape, driving each other cuckoo as they elude their captors. Apparently, CBS had so little faith in Jailbirds that the network hardly bothered to advertise the film went it premiered May 16, 1991. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Loose Cannons may be a wacky buddy-cop comedy, but it starts with a chilling premise. It seems that a film is discovered that depicts the final moments of Adolf Hitler's life. The climax features young German officer Von Metz, who is seen putting Hitler to death. Von Metz (Robert Prosky) is now running for chancellor of West Germany. If this film gets out, his political career is finished, so Von Metz has arranged for the murder of anyone who has seen the film. The killings have taken place in the Washington area and Mac (Gene Hackman) and Ellis (Dan Aykroyd) are sent to investigate the crimes. Mac is a middle-aged veteran of the force, a professional who gets things done. But Ellis is a different ball of wax. Suffering from a multiple personality disorder, he has spent two years in a Benedictine monastery to recover from his problems. But he is far from cured -- as Mac discovers, whenever Ellis is confronted by violence, he blacks out and begins to assume the characters of popular culture icons like Popeye, Captain Kirk, and the Road Runner. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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This WW II-set drama follows the creation of the first atomic bomb. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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TV's sitcom teen (Family Ties) Justine Bateman is cast as the leader of a four-girl/one-guy rock band who's first real gig is an all-summer job playing at a resort club. The gig includes living accommodations--one room--which the entire band shares for the summer. That memorable summer, with all its emotions, plans and pains, provides the substance of the film. ~ Rovi
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Q: What is the Forum Series?A: The Rockford University Forum Series presents speakers from a variety of disciplines and performers of stature in the arts. The series is designed to provide a shared experience for students while broadening their education at the University. The Forum Committee, comprised of faculty and student representatives, selects the events.
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Anti-Britney: The New Look
Designers make modest clothing for women who don't want to show so much
The idea came to Chelsea Rippy when she found herself surrounded by low-rise jeans and short shirts. Nicole Thomas thought of it when she was shopping for a wedding dress and found two options: strapless or frumpy. Tedd Doucette got the idea when he and his wife couldn't find any clothes they considered appropriate for their five daughters.
Rippy, Thomas, and Doucette each founded companies specializing in modest clothing after noticing a dearth of options for stylish, yet discreet, young women. They are part of a growing number of niche retailers that cater to women who want more coverage than the typical mall outfit provides-for religious reasons, comfort, or a simple desire to look classy. Large retailers are starting to pay attention, too: This spring, Macy's will feature full-coverage dresses from Rippy's collection at stores in Utah, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. "The customer is starving for a fashionable, covered product. There's a real market out there," says Jeff Gennette, CEO of Macy's Northwest region.
Soaring sales. Rippy noticed the need several years ago. At the time, she says, "fashion took a sharp turn for the worse. Pants were crazy low, and shirts were crazy short. Modesty aside, I didn't feel cute in anything." In 2004, Rippy, 32, founded Shade Clothing and started selling undershirts that could be worn under cropped tops to cover midriffs. Today, the company sells dozens of shirt styles and has launched new swimwear and semiformal dress lines. In 2006, Shade sales were just under $9 million, nearly double the 2005 figures.
When Thomas, owner of LatterDayBride, a bridal store based in Salt Lake City, was looking for wedding dresses in 1997, she couldn't find anything fashionable with the coverage she wanted. "Anything that was modest was really ugly, like Molly Mormon," she says, referring to a local term for homeliness. She now sells over 1,000 dresses a year through her website and recently expanded into prom dresses. "Just because you're modest doesn't mean you can't have style," she says.
Doucette launched Hannah Lise, an online retailer based near Tampa, in 2002 after his wife began sewing clothes for herself and their daughters because they couldn't find clothes in stores that met their preferences. He says his sales, which approach $3 million a year, have more than doubled over the past two years.
Part of the sudden interest in modesty is a reaction to the extreme immodesty of recent fashions, says Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst for the NPD Group, a market research company. "The consumer rebelled," he says. "More than half the market is over 35. They don't want to look like they're 16 and doing a music video." He adds that retailers listened to customers who were saying, "We don't want to walk around like Britney Spears."
Wendy Shalit, author of the forthcoming Girls Gone Mild and founder of a group blog about modesty (http://blogs.modestlyyours.net), says women are "tired of the expectation that they present themselves in a sexual way. ... Girls are discovering that showing their belly button to strangers is not as empowering as they have been led to expect."


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CS270 Blog
This is the brief PowerPoint presentation I gave during my Python Language Presentation.
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This blog is devoted to my CS270 course this semester.
My initial posts was about a program bug I encountered in Java.
I also make posts about a projects I built using the Python Programming Language.
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That was the idea, however I rarely saw the turbine actually spinning, and it never caught and converted enough energy during its few months of operation before winter to produce any noticeable amount of hydrogen in the collector.
To make the turbine, I cut a large plastic jar in half using a razor blade and my Dremel rotary tool. The two halves were offset to create a sort of "S" shape to catch wind from all directions and bolted to a piece of plastic cut from the housing of a salvaged non-working computer scanner. A small piece of polypropylene tube was used to connect the piece of plastic at the bottom of the turbine to a small gear usinjg JB Weld. The small gear slid perfectly onto a small DC motor salvaged from the same computer scanner as the piece of plastic. The DC motor was screwed to the lid of an applesauce jar with hot glue placed over to screws to help prevent moisture from getting inside the jar. A long wire salvaged from a broken vacuum cleaner was attached to the leads of the DC motor and connected to the electrolysis apparatus.
The electrolysis apparatus consisted of two thin stainless steel sheets spaced apart roughly 1/16 of an inch. One sheet was connected to one lead coming from the DC motor, and the other sheet was connected to the other lead. This way, when the wind blows, the turbine would spin, creating electricity through the DC motor, which would pass through the water, breaking it into hydrogen and oxygen. The gases were collected in an inverted water-filled bottle.
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I may revisist this project in the future, but in my suburban area and a mother that doesn't want anything on the roof, wind power is hard to harness. It was a fun project, and one that may have potential in the future. Thanks for reading!!
I would concentrare on finding a suitable tank , if one exists yet , which guarantee a safe use of the hydrogen.
Wouldn't it be safer to look into flywheels (made of concrete for example-cheaper) for energy storage (from a wind turbine) ?
Flywheels would certainly be safer than hydrogen, however those would require more moving parts than this project uses. Also, the flywheel energy would have to be converted to electrical or another sort of usable energy at some point.
Really, there's a myriad of different ways to store wind and solar energy, and hydrogen was the way I chose because I think it's awesome, and I thought it could be implemented on a small scale. Batteries, compressed air, elevated water, and molten salt are all other methods being looked into now to try to store the energy.
Thanks for the comment!!
A larger-scale test is definitely recommended.
Thanks for the comment!!
Overall, this is an interesting method of energy storage. Keep up the good work.
RE:"Make sure you have some type of electrolyte, table salt works well (a level teaspoon would suffice)."
I would tend not to use table salt as an electrolyte because of other discharge gases during electrolysis, try a weak solution of Potassium Hydroxide from your Garden Center. I think it's known as "PotAsh" ? Add the Potassium Hydroxide slowly to your warn electrolyte water and note the current drawn from your power source. Too much current will only heat the solution up and even boil it away. Granted, more current will produce more "HydrOxy" gas but careful balancing is the name of the game for good efficiency.
It's also worth noting that combined "Hydrogen-Oxygen" electrolized gas mix (HydrOxy) implodes very loudly upon ignition........... TAKE CARE
Above is offered in good faith and without predjudice.
Some have questioned why this would work better than a blade turbine, look at the overall surface area of the wind collector. this type unit will produce a higher output with a lower required air speed, and may even need to be restricted to prevent it from going too fast.
I've seen units similar in design, that were impossible to stop manually and had to have a disc brake system installed to stop it, even with just a slight breeze blowing.
My Solar Design Prof at USM built the one that couldn't be stopped. He used a different design, but the same principle. A student tried to stop it when there was just a slight breeze, using a huge pipe wrench, and the power of the thing broke both of his arms. Next they tried a big chain the was covered with radiator hose and it snapped the chain. So, we built a brake assembly using disk brake pads, mounted to a frame near the drive pipe, and finally stopped it by compressing the pads against the pipe. The pads were about work out when it finally stopped. Before we set it free again, we installed a heavy duty hydraulic brake assembly on the pipe with a push pedal that worked fine, but still had to work stopping it.
We did some really off the wall building in that program. For my final project I designed a house that could be heated to 70 degrees with it -30 outside, and all it used was the same amount of heat as what a book of matches produces per hour. The Prof said it couldn't be done, and I'm one of those people who can make anything work. My nickname in the military was The Wizard, so that should tell you how I am.
Also, I would be really interested to learn how your house heating worked? Was it thermal mass and south facing windows, for passive solar or more advanced than that?
As I said before, the other walls had dirt against them that was even with the roof. I put a roof on the house, but built on the roof was was an area that some people call a captains deck. It is a fenced in area in the center of the roof, where you gain access to it from a stairway inside the house. What it does is gives you an area where during the summer you can go up there to relax. The other advantage is that because of the walls being bermed, and because the frost line will only be three feet down, the ramainder of the wall will be exposed to dirt that will stay at 50deg all year. So when it comes to heating, you only need to raise the inside temp 20deg, and during the summer you will still need to draw warm air in to bring the temp up where it is comfortable.
One of the drawbacks is that a dehumidifier would be needed year round as it would be a perfect breeding ground for mold. I was also going to use a solar water heater to heat the water and pv panels for the electricity. It was a really simple design, but I still had to put in a sizable amount of insulation to help with keeping a barrier between the house and the cold dirt.
The wind unit is pretty hard to describe, so give me a couple of days and I'll scetch it out for you and will send it that way.
Do you happen to remember the design or an specifics to the shape of the blades for the turbine that wouldn't stop? That sounds like a perfect companion to an earth home.
There are tons of pros to this design.
There are tons of pros to this design.


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Thursday, 16 September 2010
Moving on
We have moved house again, seriously... I have become a turtle and very slowly I hulk everything from one place to another with us.
In the past 24 months we moved house four times.
4 times!
A few times were of my choice, and a few others had to do with 'situation'.
I am completely sick of moving and never want to move house again, it costs a lot of money, it's quite messy, and I seem to have lost all my essential belongings in the process. Money included.
I lost the:
My fancy cereal bowls
All cutlery
A few mugs
And every single love affair and romance I ever had; which was rare for me because I hung onto old flames like trusty Clarks shoes. I think I dropped them all inside the M25 never to be found again.
Then we moved into our new house and I held an unpacking party, there were lots of items missing and in some ways it was like we had half a home.
Salt: no
Pepper: no
Spoons: no
Wine glasses: no
Soap: no
Toothpaste: no
Mummy friend: no
Also missing at our unpacking party was one of our mummy friends.
Of all the things we lost during our move, what I miss the most is our mummy friend. I was so looking forward to spending more time with her once we lived closer again. Cups of tea. Chats about whether the kids should have yet another games-type-console-thingy. Exams, school places, attitudes.
It takes a long time to make good mummy friends; we're talking all the years of infants and juniors standing in the cold in the playground.
Our mummy friend went into hospital, and the following week she didn't come out.
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You're right, moving is not fun, it's downright exhausting.
Especially when it's within a short period of your last move, and the one before that, and the one before that.
But it's new, and new is often fun.
New air, new space, new ways of doing everyday things.
And new NEIGHBOURS which, if you're lucky, can open up a whole world of new found fun and friendship.
I'm sorry about your mummy friend. - 17 September 2010 05:20
- belle said...
That must hurt. A lot. I'm sorry xxx
- 17 September 2010 08:24
- Theodora said...
It's funny the way mummy friends become real friends, isn't it? A long, slow process. So sorry to hear you lost yours.
- 17 September 2010 11:16
- Single Mother on the Verge said...
I'm sorry about our mummy friend too. I miss her, but iI can't imagine it compares to how her family miss her.
Little sigh. but thanks x xx - 17 September 2010 12:14
- Dan.Eliot said...
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Brian Ross's ridiculous attempted to link the shooter to the Tea Party was too good for frequent media critic Jon Stewart to pass up.
"Brian, I thought you had something significant…" Stewart said, after playing a highlight clip of his report.
Stewart then suggested that Ross probably probably typed the shooter's name into a search engine and hit the "I'm feeling lazy button."
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If you were wondering what happens when a C-class Benz takes steroids, take a look at the 2012 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black Series. The fourth Mercedes to tout the "Black Series" label since 2006, this 6.3 liter 517 hp V8 C63 Coupe has noticeably taken some injections that the standard C63 has not. Wider front and rear axles are shrouded by aerodynamic splitters and diffusers, giving this Benz an intimidating grin – and many of it's high-end components are borrowed from the gull-winged SLS AMG. So what does all that add up to? A C-class coupe that does 0-62 mph in 4.2 seconds and costs 115k Euros (approx $165k) – which we should mention is about $130k more than the starting price for a C-class.
Mercedes SL63 AMG
With two comfortable leather seats sitting behind a 518hp 6.3 Liter V8 engine, the Mercedes SL63 AMG is sure to offer both luxury and thrills to you and a lucky passenger. The car has a retractable hardtop which quickly converts your ride from coupe to roofless roadster. Inside you'll be treated to all the creature comforts you'd expect in a $140k Mercedes Benz making this a car a brilliant blend of sport, fun, and luxury. There's even an "AIRSCARF" option for the seats, which blows hot air out of the head rests so you can still drive topless in chilly weather. The 465 ft-lb of torque gives the SL63 AMG the legs to sprint from 0-60 in 4.5 seconds. If that's all not enough for you, check out the $200k SL65 AMG model with a twin-turbo V12 and 604hp.
Mercedes SLS AMG
If you walk into a Mercedes showroom, everything is nice, but if you're lucky enough to see a SLS AMG – you'll quickly notice it is special. First, look at those gullwing doors! It appears that if you leave them open and gun it, you might actually lift off. When you hear that the car is housing a 563 hp hand-built v8, flight starts to sound reasonable. The interior is complete with all the luxuries you'd expect in a $183k Benz, but this one will hit 0-60 mph in 3.7 seconds. In good condition, the '50′s version of the car (300 SL) is worth around half a million bucks. Hmm, maybe the SLS AMG is an investment.


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A "cloud on the horizon" means that something bad is about to happen. Meanwhile, someone with their "head in the clouds" is thoroughly out to lunch. As Gavin Pretor-Pinney points out in today's talk, clouds get a bad rep when it comes to language.
"But I think they're beautiful, don't you?" he says. "It's just that their beauty is missed because they're so omnipresent, so commonplace that people don't notice them … unless they get in the way of the sun."
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Murat Binark has been at Garanti Koza since 1981. He began as a civil engineer and worked on various significant projects, including a ring road and three airports in Saudi Arabia, as well as the Atatürk Dam in Turkey. He later held various positions including Project Manager, Group Manager for Logistics, and Assistant General Manager, before becoming General Manager of the company.
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TBY talks to Dr. Murat Binark, General Manager of Garanti Koza, on the company's operations, its activities abroad, and the state of the sector.
TBY How has the company gained expertise over the years in various areas of construction?
MURAT BİNARK We gained expertise by learning from our mistakes. A lot of the buildings you see around Turkey were built by Garanti Koza, starting with the Turkish Parliament, to Bağdat Caddesi on the Asian side of Istanbul, to all the developments of the Etiler area on the European side of Istanbul. We have built more than 20,000 houses, and more than 3 million square meters of industrial plants.
How many of the contracts you are currently winning coming from the state and private sector?
From the early years until the 1990s our major client was the government. Since then it has been becoming less and less significant, until almost nothing. Our focus now is private developments.
One of your current projects is the Akkoza development, aimed at turning the Esenler region of Istanbul into the new Etiler. How is this project progressing?
It is a large mixed-use development project that will contain around 5,000 apartments, a shopping mall, schools, a hospital, a club, and all related facilities. With this integration you build value. If you build everything separately then the necessary synergy is not attained. People usually think that the value is in the land, yet it is on the development side. Out of nothing, value can be created. If Dubai hadn't happened, it would still be a piece of desert, and so the value of Dubai does not lie in the value of the sand that is there. A group of people with an idea transformed the area into a booming city. When our Akkoza project is finished, Esenler will be far better known than it is now.
You have worked with the Design Development Group on the Akkoza and Kozaşehir projects. How has this relationship developed?
Before we started the projects, we had to choose an architect group. We chose five or six big internationally known companies and they all made designs for us. We paid them for these designs—without paying them they will do half-hearted work. From these six we chose the design that we believed was the most beautiful and functional. We like to work closely with our architects on every stage of development. Working with the same group also allows us to develop a closer, more trusting work environment.
Garanti Koza has completed projects ranging from dams, to high rises and multi-purpose complexes. Are there any areas where Garanti Koza is still trying to gain more expertise?
We try to follow the market. When the Turkish government was building dams one after the other, we followed that market. Right now, no dams are being constructed. We go wherever the market takes us. Right now the market is moving more toward the private sector and the government is not tendering anything.
What international projects and plans do you have?
We are focusing on countries in the region, such as Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Previously, our focus was on the Russian market, but it is saturated. There are also no big projects in Europe. We are concentrated in countries that are close to us, and that have large demand for all types of construction, and where this type of service is not well supplied. One-third of the contracts that we take on are in foreign countries.
Construction companies were some of the first Turkish companies to go abroad. What has made them so successful?
The key quality we brought was multi-tasking. When we went to Saudi Arabia in 1983 for a five-star hotel project, on our delegation were two or three guys. On the other side of the table was the Bechtel Corporation with maybe 25 people. This is something we have gotten used to.
I understand insurance, as well as the intricacies of concrete. I can talk with truck drivers, and also with bankers. These are the specialties of Turkish contractors that make them so successful. Turkish managers are also very sought after in the international business community. There are many Turkish CEOs all over the world. We can work under stressful conditions and are good at crisis management. We have a "never give up" attitude.
Garanti Koza is also involved in the turnkey construction of luxury villas. What potential do you see in this sector in Turkey?
Turkey is getting richer and richer, and Istanbul is getting richer and richer. As such, there is a certain demand for luxury villas. We should not over exaggerate it, as when a country gets richer everyone tries to move one step higher. People living in lower quality housing want medium quality housing, and those in medium quality housing want high quality housing, and then in a better location with a garden and the like. Everyone is moving upwards together. The top guys already own their houses. The market, therefore, is not massive. Perhaps the daughter of a family will marry and will also need a villa. It is a niche market, not a very large portion of the market.
How can we assess the construction industry's performance during the recent economic downturn?
We were relatively unaffected. We saw no issues in relation to financing. Profit margins were reduced slightly, but the amount of contracts we took on remained the same. Data over the last 10 years has shown the construction industry is steady in terms of profits.
You are also involved in restoration projects. How much experience has Garanti Koza gained in this industry?
We have gained a lot of experience in the restoration business. If you take a 1,000 year old building, and you are restoring its stone walls, you do not go there and patch it with concrete. Our experts carefully chisel the original stones out, turn them around, and put them back in. It is a meticulous task. We are currently not working on any restoration projects as there is no systematic market for such projects. When an opportunity presents itself, we are ready to provide our services.
Another aspect of Garanti Koza is its facility management arm, how has this developed in a market that is relatively unfamiliar with the concept?
The value of our products depends on good facility management. With bad management comes a bad atmosphere in a building. This can lower the value of a building indirectly. We started to provide such services to our completed building projects. Later, we began to provide these services to other clients too.
How do you see Turkey developing over the next 10 years in terms of construction?
Turkey is developing very quickly. However, there is still a lot to do. Old buildings will be torn down and built anew. Urban renewal is the name of the game. We will continue doing what we do. Istanbul is an interesting city and the differences we see compared to 10 years ago are tremendous. The visual appeal of Istanbul will continue improving. Foreigners will begin to want to live here as more and more foreign companies set up operations. This is an important signal for the future.
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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:It'll take more than one man's love to tame her wild heart. The Onic Empire, Book 4 Bithia, newly crowned empress of Diola, indulges herself with as many men as it takes to satisfy her voracious passion. Now that it's time to continue the family line, though, her advisors expect the unthinkable: for her to submit to one man from a sexually primitive planet. Drahka disobeyed his tribe's strict sexual rules once. The shame still haunts him. He longs for a fresh start, but breaking one cardinal rule—a man gives, a woman takes—is not an option. His struggle to learn local customs is complicated by a mentor whose eyes hunger for the empress…and for him. Viltori is exhausted. He's tried to teach Drakha that there are many ways to find pleasure, only to be met with anger, even violence. Touching the handsome primitive only sharpens his unbearable lust for Bithia, making him wonder if execution for failure wouldn't be a blessing. When Bithia witnesses the results of Viltori's training, she realizes only these two men can fill her empty heart, inspiring her to take command of the throne at last. Except those who've held the reins thus far have a sinister reason for keeping Bithia—and her new consorts—in their place. Warning: This erotic romance contains a lusty empress, a primitive alpha male, a dedicated acolyte with domineering tendencies, copious amounts of hot m/m and m/f/m sex, secret torments, burning desires clashing with duty, and a little bit of meddling by future gods. Synopsis:When newly crowned empress Bithia's consort has problems adjusting to her sexual demands, she blames his teacher, the domineering Viltori. She orders him to teach Drahka of her needs, or else. Instructing the primitive Drahka to pleasure Bithia seems like a dream come true, until recently celibate Viltori is drawn too deeply into their relationship. The three of them find an alliance in their erotic entanglements, but old hurts and tormenting secrets could destroy not only their chance at happiness, but the struggling Onic Empire. About the AuthorAnitra Lynn McLeod has been writing since she was twelve. Creating unique worlds is her forte, combining unlikely genres such as historical, fantasy, futuristic and erotic into a steampunky—and steamy—brew. Reading, writing, and white-water rafting are the three things she enjoys the most. Wicked Empress is her fifth published title. Visit her at www.AnitraMcLeod.com What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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A loggerhead turtle, along with its fellow sharks, eels, alligator, fish and other thousands of other animals are preparing to move out of downtown Washington, DC.
The National Aquarium, a long-time family favorite of metro area residents and visitors, shut down Monday due to renovations at the Department of Commerce building where it's housed.
The General Services Administration requires that the National Aquarium vacate its current space at 1401 Constitution Ave., NW by March 2014.
The collection of more than 2,500 animals is being moved to the National Aquarium in Baltimore or other accredited institutions, according to a statement on the National Aquarium's website.
The National Aquarium has been housed at the Commerce Department building since 1932.
The National Aquarium is currently considering plans to return to Washington, DC in some form and has enlisted partners Studio Gang Architects and IMPACTS Research & Development to help it along the way.
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On a recent fishing trip, I watched in horror as $1,200 worth of fly rod and reel flipped over the side and sank. It was then that I realized my fly-fishing habit was growing much too expensive. So I searched for the best value fly rod and reel that would get me back on the water for under $400, which-in the sticker-shock world of fly-fishing-qualifies as a steal. Here's a rod and reel combo that's worked well for me.
Temple Fork's TiCr four-piece 8-weight ($209; 800/638-9052, www.templeforkflyrods.com) is designed by the legendary Lefty Kreh. It offers an excellent balance of stiffness and smoothness, with the firepower to punch through the wind and enough sensitivity to feel light takes. Tangling with brutes like jacks and snook, it holds its own in the fight. TiCr stands for titanium-chromium, the materials used to give this rod stiffness and strength while maintaining light weight and casting ability. I've played with $500 rods that don't perform as well.
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