Twist TV is a reality channel aimed primarily at women with programming featuring what the channel calls " people facing extraordinary situations ", meaning the channel primarily features situational and documentary style reality programs as opposed to competition-based reality programs.

Popular variants of the competition-based format include the following:

In addition to competition-based or physical weed suppression, certain cover crops are known to suppress weeds through allelopathy ( Creamer et al.

Science Bowl is a competition-based club at MSMS with two teams of five competing and practicing for the state and national science bowl each year.

In 2012 Tiegs appeared on NBC's reality TV competition-based program The Celebrity Apprentice.

The six, and final levels are ' competition-based ' levels, where the player is judged on their performance in a number of timed runs.

Many such loans have been made to establish small concerns or to aid in their growth, thereby contributing substantially to community development programs.

Thus, we might provide limited assistance in such fields as education, essential transport, communications, and agricultural improvement despite the absence of acceptable country programs.

The extent to which participating bodies such as U. S. voluntary agencies, universities, international organizations, and the host country or institutions in the host country can and should share the cost of the Peace Corps programs must be fully explored.

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.

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

In total, these increases in operating costs outweigh the savings that result from declining programs and from economy measures, such as reduced numbers of units and installations, smaller inventories of major equipment, and improvements in the supply and distribution systems of the Armed Forces.

The Government of India further agrees in cooperation with the Government of the United States, to coordinate the use of grant and loan funds provided for in paragraphs 1 ( B ) and 1 ( C ) of Article 2, with such direct dollar assistance as may be made available by the Government of the United States of America, so that both sources of financing may be channeled to specific and clearly identifiable economic development programs and projects.

for such programs raise hopes of assistance toward achieving excellence in scholarship and the arts which are dashed when the programs are discontinued ; ;

It should be American policy not only to encourage effective land reform programs but also to underline the relation of such reforms to the economic growth and modernization of the society.

A very casual, pleasant program -- one of those easy-going things that make Newport's afternoon programs such a relaxing delight -- was held again under sunny skies, hot sun, and a fresh breeze for an audience of at least a couple of thousands who came to Newport to hear music rather than go to the beach.

Many computer programs contain algorithms that detail the specific instructions a computer should perform ( in a specific order ) to carry out a specified task, such as calculating employees ' paychecks or printing students ' report cards.

Examples of this type of communication include radio and traditional television programs such as the news.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

The input ( programs and data ) was to be provided to the machine via punched cards, a method being used at the time to direct mechanical looms such as the Jacquard loom.

Some programs ( such as Lexpert ) restrict to one-word answers.

Clearly there is always at least one such string for any n, as otherwise all possible strings ( infinitely many ) could be generated by the ( finitely many ) programs with lower complexity, so GenerateComplexString must always return.

There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.

A keyboard was developed, and the keyboard had an expansion port ( which was the SIO port from Atari's 8-bit computer line, though the 7800 could not run Atari computer programs ) allowed for the addition of peripherals such as disk drives and printers.

His half-brother was Charles Einstein ( 1926 – 2007 ), a writer for such television programs as Playhouse 90 and Lou Grant.

Without such precautions, most programs may compile only on a certain platform or with a particular compiler, due, for example, to the use of non-standard libraries, such as GUI libraries, or to the reliance on compiler-or platform-specific attributes such as the exact size of certain data types and byte endianness.

The show paved the way for later culture-conflict programs such as McCloud, The Nanny, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Doc.

There were many successful commercial BBS programs developed for DOS, such as PCBoard BBS, RemoteAccess BBS, and Wildcat!

In 2011, media analyst and political activist Mark Dice published a non-fiction book titled Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True which analyses the parallels between elements of the storyline in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and current government programs, technology, and cultural trends.

Numerous commercial and public-domain programs for this purpose became available, the best-known being SOGWAP's " Big Blue Reader ".

Several banks also have rewards programs, including three of the Big Four banks of the United States -- Wells Fargo being the lone exception, CapitalOne, and Citizens Financial Group.

" The Big Three provide a significant amount of television programs to each of their affiliates, including newscasts, prime-time, daytime television and sports television, but still have periods each day when each affiliate can air local programming, such as local news or syndicated programmes.

In Britain, Jade Goody became famous after appearing on Big Brother 3 in 2002 ; she later appeared on other reality programs, wrote a bestselling autobiography and launched a top-selling perfume line.

Unlike the Big Three, Fox does not currently air national morning or evening news programs, choosing to focus solely on their primetime schedule.

Fox affiliates that have their newscasts produced by another area station tend to have fewer hours devoted to news than their Big Three counterparts ( generally limited to one evening newscast and a one-or two-hour weekday morning newscast ) with little to no expansion into other timeslots due to the contracting station choosing to not carry newscasts on the Fox station in timeslots that compete with their own ( which differs from outsourcing agreements between two stations affiliated with either of the three pre-1986 broadcast networks where both stations may simulcast local news programs in the same timeslots ).

Rodney Stephen " Rod " Steiger ( April 14, 1925July 9, 2002 ) was an Academy Award-winning American actor known for his performances in such films as On the Waterfront, The Big Knife, Oklahoma !, The Harder They Fall, Across the Bridge, The Pawnbroker, Doctor Zhivago, In the Heat of the Night, and Waterloo as well as the television programs Marty and Jesus of Nazareth.

Three members have football programs but are not Big East football schools: Georgetown and Villanova compete in the Football Championship Subdivision and Notre Dame plays as an FBS independent.

The Craftsbury sculling center is one of the most renowned sculling programs in the United States, based on Little and Big Hosmer lake.

In 2007, Nickelodeon began a four-year development deal with Sony Music to produce music-themed series for the channel, help fund and launch albums in conjunction with the label tied to Nickelodeon shows and produce original songs for the programs to be released as singles as result ; the only series produced under the partnership that was greenlit as a series, Victorious debuted in 2010, though a similar hit music-themed sitcom, Big Time Rush that debuted the same year features a similar partnership with Columbia Records, though with Columbia only being involved with the show's music, Sony Music became involved with that show's production midway through its first season.

SpongeBob, iCarly, Victorious and Big Time Rush are the most frequently aired programs on Nickelodeon, with SpongeBob in particular typically airing about 9 – 11 times each day on average.

Nickelodeon also advertises hour-long episodes of its original series, such as iCarly, True Jackson, VP, Big Time Rush, Victorious and House of Anubis as movies ; though these technically do not qualify as such as the " TV movie " versions of Nickelodeon's original series are shorter than the standard length of a television movie ( approximately 45 minutes without commercials, compared to the typical 75 – 100 minutes for television movies ), the hour-long episodes of the channel's multi-camera comedies are shot using that camera setup ( whereas feature films and television movies are standardly shot in a single-camera setup ), laugh tracks are used and the programs are shot on videotape instead of film ( though the video frame rate of its multi-camera comedies are reduced to the 24p film frame rate, using the filmizing process ).

, Friday nights feature primarily reruns of various original series, the Saturday night schedule ( historically known as SNICK, in modern times sometimes called " A Night of Premieres ", when new episodes of three or four of its original programs are scheduled to air ) features episode premieres or repeats of iCarly, Big Time Rush and Victorious, along with periodic episode premieres of Supah Ninjas ( all first-run episodes are cycled on the schedule, giving a variable schedule ) and occasional original movie premieres, while Sunday nights feature first-run episodes of Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures and bi-monthly episode premieres of Nick News ( the latter of which after Nickelodeon gave the Sunday 8 p. m.

On 24 November 2011, the Nine Network announced line-up for 2012, with a focus on reality programs including an Australian version of The Voice, the return of Big Brother, Excess Baggage and The Celebrity Apprentice Australia.

) – these programs include Dora the Explorer, Pinky Dinky Doo, Invader Zim, The Hills, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, Behind the Music, Big Time Rush, iCarly and Victorious.

* Locally produced programs featuring a franchise title on affiliates of Fox, The CW, MyNetworkTV, independent stations and associated Big Three television networks ( ABC, CBS and NBC )

* Much of the James Patterson thriller, The Big Bad Wolf, is set at the FBI Academy at Quantico where the novel's protagonist, Alex Cross, attends numerous courses and training programs.

* Philadelphia Big 5, an association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia

All teams participate in the NCAA's Division I and in the Big East Conference, except for the men's and women's ice hockey programs, which compete in Hockey East and the women's volleyball program, which competes in the America East Conference.

Slesinger then embarked on a successful campaign of merchandising and licensing with a seemingly endless parade of comic books, Big Little Books, novels, serial chapters, radio programs, events, rodeos, powwows, commercial tie-ins and licensed products such as the Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun, which remains the longest continuous license in the history of the global licensing industry.

And Big Orbit has an art gallery and programs in the fields of experimental theater, literary performance, new music and sound art.

Van Dam made speeches about how he was too good for ECW and deserved to be in one of the " Big Two " ( WWF or WCW ) on one of their Monday Night programs ( Monday Night Raw or Monday Nitro ).

Over the last few years, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has played numerous Pops programs of American symphony orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.