Works in which science and technology are a dominant theme, but based on current reality, may be considered mainstream fiction.

An instrumental section of " Party Fears Two " was used as the theme music for the BBC Radio 4 satirical current affairs series Week Ending.

Blocos are generally small informal groups also with a definite theme in their samba, usually satirical of the current political situation.

" The pre-empted shows were parodies of current TV shows ( e. g. The A-Team Makes One Cup of Coffee Last Five Hours, " Hanging Out " or " Malls ", 1984 ), movies ( e. g. Top Gun Gets Put on Latrine-Cleaning Duty, " Discipline ", 1986 ), or other pop culture icons ( e. g. Boy George Without Make-up, " Halloween ", 1984 ), and were often relevant to the theme of the current episode ( e. g. the pre-empted show for " Safety " ( 1981 ) was Hit and Run on Sesame Street ).

There have been various prospects and proposals raised for even more theme parks than the current five.

Challenges consist of endurance, strength, agility, problem solving, teamwork, dexterity, and / or willpower, and are usually designed to fit the theme of the current season.

The common theme was of an average man ( played by Michael Palin in the original television version, but in later live versions by Eric Idle ) who expresses dissatisfaction with his current job ( as a barber, weatherman, pet shop owner, etc.

The park faced more financial problems, and in 2008, the park was sold again, this time to Adrenaline Family Entertainment, an Oklahoma-based theme park company, and the current owner, General Attractions LLC.

The current theme music was composed by Annie Roboff, who also co-wrote Faith Hill's 1998 hit " This Kiss ".

Max, Robe, and Megan concoct methods of revenge including terrifing Troy by playing a main theme song from the fictional children's television show, MacGoogle the Highlander Frog, and later severely traumatizing him by trapping him in the gym with MacGoogle, instigating a fight between Dobbs and the Evil Ice Cream Man by stealing a coolant coil for his ice cream truck and his handheld device, and lastly to ruin Jindrake's chances of becoming superintendent to replace the current superintendent, Crazy Legs ( Clifton Davis ), by planting animal pheronomes within his breath spray, instigating a food fight, and later by sabotaging his announcements by placing a cardboard cutout of Max pointing at Jindrake claiming that the latter was wearing a thong.

In a third example of the current ( third ) paradigm, since Roman Jakobson's student, Michael Silverstein opened the way, there has been an efflorescence of work done by linguistic anthropologists on the major anthropological theme of ideologies — in this case " language ideologies ", sometimes defined as " shared bodies of commonsense notions about the nature of language in the world.

Besides writing songs for films, he also writes songs for television series such as the Emmy-Award winning current theme song of Monk, " It's a Jungle out There ".

Its current theme music was composed by John Williams.

The song " Aujourd ' hui C ' est Toi " is used as the theme for the BBC's Panorama current affairs program, plus Rede Globo's Jornal Hoje midday newscast, and YLE's Ajankohtainen kakkonen weekly current affairs television program in Finland on TV2.

" for its current Six Flags theme parks.

On August 30, 2012, Six Flags announced that the Great Adventure entertainment complex will become the world ’ s largest theme park for the 2013 season when the current 160-acre theme park and 350-acre Wild Safari animal park unite as one 510 acre property.

The current show is the comedy Pirates !, as offered in other theme parks around the world.

After the theme song is played ( Giorgio Moroder's " Chase " from Midnight Express ), the broadcast is typically kicked off with a reading of current events or news stories by the host, usually with at least one bizarre or peculiar story.

Its theme is closely related with the current band members and the Sitra Ahra album.

* In 2008, another new orchestral arrangement of " When You Wish Upon a Star " ( the theme from the current Walt Disney Pictures logo, orchestrated by Mark Mancina ) and a brand-new opening title sequence ( depicting a montage of the company's work ) were shown.

The current, eighth series of banknotes was designed by Jörg Zintzmeyer around the theme of the arts and released starting in 1995.

The most commonly used grading systems are the Fontainebleau system which ranges from 1 to 8c +, and the John Sherman V-grade system, beginning at V0 and increasing by integers to a current top grade of proposed V16 ( The Wheel of Life by Dai Koyamada in the Grampians, Australia ; The Game, by Daniel Woods, Boulder Canyon, CO ; Lucid Dreaming, by Paul Robinson.

In 1838, Michael Faraday passed a current through a rarefied air filled glass tube and noticed a strange light arc with its beginning at the cathode ( negative electrode ) and its end almost at the anode ( positive electrode ).

The exact choice of quiescent current, the standing current through both devices when there is no signal, makes a large difference to the level of distortion ( and to the risk of thermal runaway, that may damage the devices ); often the bias voltage applied to set this quiescent current has to be adjusted with the temperature of the output transistors ( for example in the circuit at the beginning of the article the diodes would be mounted physically close to the output transistors, and chosen to have a matched temperature coefficient ).

In 1976 the IAU resolved that the theoretical basis for its current ( 1952 ) standard of Ephemeris Time was non-relativistic, and that therefore, beginning in 1984, Ephemeris Time would be replaced by two relativistic timescales intended to constitute dynamical timescales: Terrestrial Dynamical Time ( TDT ) and Barycentric Dynamical Time ( TDB ).

At that time it had lost the first page, but the second ( the current beginning of the Ynglinga Saga ) starts Kringla heimsins, " the Earth's circle " of the Laing translation.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

Q1 is firmly saturated in the beginning by the " forcing " C2 charging current added to R3 current ; in the end, only R3 provides the needed input base current.

An emphasis on industrial organisation was a distinguishing feature of syndicalism when it began to be identified as a distinct current at the beginning of the 20th century.

The fixing of the feast of All Saints on its current date of 1 November is attributed to Pope Gregory III ( 731 – 741 ), but from the testimony of Pseudo-Bede it is known that 1 November was already associated with All Saints in Great Britain by the beginning of the 8th century.

Originally established as the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası ) in 1866, and reorganized to its current structure at the beginning of 1986, the Istanbul Stock Exchange ( ISE ) is the sole securities market of Turkey.

The current millennium is perhaps more popularly ( albeit inaccurately ) thought of as beginning and ending a year earlier, thus starting at the beginning of 1000 and finishing at the end of 1999.

In 1977 the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory ( PMEL ) deployed the first successful moored equatorial current meter – the beginning of the Tropical Atmosphere / Ocean ( TAO ) array.

The area of current day Angola was inhabited during the paleolithic and neolithic eras, as attested by remains found in Luanda, Congo and the Namibe desert, eventually, at the beginning of recorded history other cultures and people also arrived.

Although some political pundits predicted a close race, Roosevelt went on to win the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the current two-party system in the 1850s, carrying all but 8 electoral votes.

Like all intermediate filaments, keratin proteins form filamentous polymers in a series of assembly steps beginning with dimerization ; dimers assemble into tetramers and octamers and eventually, the current hypothesis holds, into unit-length-filaments ( ULF ) capable of annealing end-to-end into long filaments.

The folkesocialisme or people's socialism that emerged as a vital current of the left in Scandinavia beginning in the 1950s could be characterized as a democratic socialism in the same vein.

According to the descriptions of Strabo, Dio Cassius and other Graeco-Roman geographers, the lands of Asturias were inhabited in the beginning of the Christian era by several peoples, amongst whom the more important were: From the Cantabrians, the Vadinienses, who inhabited the Picos de Europa region and whose settlement gradually expanded southward during the first centuries of the modern era ; the Orgenomesci, who dwelled along the Asturian eastern coast ; and from the Astures, the Saelini, whose settlement extended through the Sella valley ; the Luggones, who had their capital in Lucus Asturum and whose territories stretched between the rivers Sella and Nalón ; the Astures ( in the strictest sense ), who dwelled in inner Asturias, between the current councils of Piloña and Cangas del Narcea ; and the Paesici, who had settled along the coast of Western Asturias, between the mouth of the Navia river and the modern city of Gijón.

Iron appeared at the beginning of the current era in such cultures as the Niaosung Culture.

HFS is still supported by current versions of Mac OS, but starting with OS X, an HFS volume cannot be used for booting, and beginning with OS X 10. 6 ( Snow Leopard ), HFS volumes are read-only and cannot be created or updated.

The beginning of Langmuir probe theory is the I-V characteristic of the Debye sheath, that is, the current density flowing to a surface in a plasma as a function of the voltage drop across the sheath.