5 Modern Products That Were Built A Long Time Ago
When you look around your house, you will find a lot of useful items that you take for granted. Most of them we consider something that was not available to our parents or grandparents, but you'd be surprised how long they have been around. While all of them are currently run with electricity, this wasn't always the case. There were different mechanical means of making things work before you could just plug it into a home outlet. You might be amazed at just how old some things actually are! Take a look below... Read more...
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My Five Best TV Shows of 2006
1. The Wire (HBO)
The Wire focuses on a different facet of the city of Baltimore. They are, in order: the drug trade, the port, the city government and bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media. The large cast consists mainly of character actors who are little known for their other roles. Despite its presentation as a crime drama, the show is really about the American city, and about how we live together. It's about how institutions have an effect on individuals, and how whether you're a cop, a longshoreman, a drug dealer, a politician, a judge orlawyer, you are ultimately compromised and must contend with whatever institution you've committed to.
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2. Heroes (NBC)
Heroes begins by telling the stories of apparently ordinary individuals from around the world who mysteriously develop superhuman abilities, and who then seek to use them to prevent the end of the world as foreseen in images produced by a precognitive painter. The series emulates the aesthetic style and storytelling of American comic books, using short, multi-episode story arcs that build upon a larger, more encompassing storyline.
3. The Nine (ABC)
Nine people, mostly strangers to each other, are linked together when they are held hostage in a bank robbery gone wrong. In each episode, viewers learn new details of the 52-hour standoff, of which only brief snippets are seen.
Some time after the end of the standoff, the former hostages arrange a meeting with one another in an effort to stay in touch and help each other. Various characters also form relationships apart from the group and maintain regular contact with each other during the week, while others are connected through relationships that predate the events in the bank.
4. Friday Night Lights (NBC)
This series follows the Dillon Panthers, a high school football team based in fictional Dillon, Texas, with particular focus given to the team's coach, Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) and his family. The show uses this small-town backdrop to address many issues facing contemporary Middle America.
5. Ugly Betty (ABC)
Ugly Betty is the story of Betty Suarez, a good-hearted girl from Queens, New York, brave but sorely lacking in fashion sense and aesthetic polish. Betty is suddenly thrust into a different world when she is hired as a personal assistant at Mode, a trendy fashion magazine based in Manhattan and part of the publishing empire of the wealthy Bradford Meade and his family. Meade hires Betty, despite being a fish out of water, to look after (and keep out of trouble from womanizing) his son, newly-installed Mode editor-in-chief Daniel Meade. In truth, Betty was hired because she is not as aesthetically pleasing like all of Daniel's other assistants, which has continued to get him in trouble. As time goes by, Betty and Daniel learn to trust one another and ultimately become friends and allies in a world sometimes beautiful and sometimes maddeningly chaotic.
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My Five Best TV Shows of 2007
1. Dexter (Showtime)
Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a serial killer governed by a strict moral code who works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a blood spatter analyst. Dexter struggles between his need to uphold justice and his need to kill.
It is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr.
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2. House (Fox)
House is based around Dr. Gregory House (British actor Hugh Laurie), an unconventional medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey. The character has similarities to Sherlock Holmes: both are forensic geniuses, musicians, drug users, aloof, and largely friendless.
3. 30 Rock (NBC)
The series takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy series depicted as airing on NBC; the name "30 Rock" refers to the address of the GE Building where NBC Studios is located, 30 Rockefeller Plaza.[1] The series has an ensemble cast that currently consists of 10 regular cast members, including Fey, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit, Judah Friedlander and Alec Baldwin.
4. Rescue Me (FX)
Rescue me is a firefighter drama that follows the character Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary) and his ever troublesome family as they deal with real life issues, either with post 9/11 trauma or domestic problems. Tommy has to struggle with the loss of his cousin and best friend Jimmy Keefe, who died on September 11, 2001, and frequently visits Tommy in visions.
5. How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
This show is about a group of friends and the narration of Ted Mosby, in the year 2030, as he recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting their mother. They keep the mother as a mystery as Ted goes through life with his best friends Marshall (Jason Segal), Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), Lily (Alysson Hannigan), and Robin (Cobie Smulders).
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