BBC PARLIAMENT - THE FACTS

Advantages: Informative and relatively unique.
Disadvantages: Presentation gets a bit boring.

...Further to the purchase of my freeview digital box for my analogue TV another BBC channel. BBC PARLIAMENT a specialist channel by the beeb formally called the Parliamentary channel to quote the channels editor "BBC Parliament is the channel dedicated to detailed coverage of Parliament & Politics". Some of the information that follows is from the website by Wikipedia. Launched 23.September.1998 and owned by the BBC, it has a low audience rating of almost zero (May 2006). AVAILABILITY Terrestrial - Freeview channel 81. Satellite - Sky Digital channel 504. Cable - NTL channel 128/13. - Telewest channel 612. - Telewest channel 05 (analogue). Also shown on ABC News Radio (Australian parliamentary channel). C - SPAN (US). C PAC (Canadian). The Knesset channel (Israel). PRESENTATION WEBSITE The channel is...

JeffreyB 09.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of BBC Parliament - BBC Parliament

Palace of the Parliament (House of People)

Advantages: easy access
Disadvantages: lot to walk

...What is unquestionably Romania's most famous building, Palatul Parlamentului (known universally as Casa Poporului) was built during the darkest days of the Nicolae Ceausescu regime. Standing 84m above ground level on 12 floors, the building has long been shrouded in mystery, rumour and hyperbole. Originally designed to house almost all the organs of the communist state, it today plays host to the Romanian parliament and a modern, well equipped conference centre, as well as Romania's Museum of Contemporary Art. The vast majority of the building, however, remains unused. The public tour of the building is thoroughly recommended. You'll see plenty of grand staircases, marble-plated halls and conference rooms, while - depending on the modd of the guide - you may also have the chance to go on to the balcony, which offers the defining view...

sambadi 07.09.2005 · Read review
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Review of Palace of Parliament (Palatul Poporului), Bucharest

BBC BORING AKA PARLIAMENT

Advantages: Subtitling, FREE, Often LIVE
Disadvantages: Bordem, no presenters, Repeats repeats

...BBC Parliament (BBCP) is a free to air service available on digital, cable and satellite platforms. Its funded by all of us through the license-fee, now you know why it keeps going up every year having to pay for channels that normal people cant get! This channel also includes for hard of hearing people subtilting for the first 3 hours of the House of Commons LIVE, Monday-Friday. BBCP is ok for people who are into politics and like watching politions moan and shout at each in-directly calling them liers. Its ok for the Live programes because you can see new laws being approved. BBCP allows viewers to watch various programes which are as follows: Full live coverage of the House of Commons and there proceedings including PMQ's on Wednesdays, Recorded 'as live' coverage of the House of Lords and Westminster Hall which is...

davidfairweather 17.06.2002 · Read review
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Review of BBC Parliament - BBC Parliament

Home Of The Scottish Government

Advantages: interesting tour
Disadvantages: a bit boring if you dont like politics

...Holyrood has been home to the Scottish Government since 2004 and the building designed by Catalan architect Enric Miralles was the subject of much controversy because of the massive amounts of money spent on building it and many hated the modern design. I was invited to the parliament building as part of a group by my local MSP and after we had a meeting we were given a tour of the building by her researcher. My experience will be slightly different to most visitors as we visited on a day when the parliament was sitting, public tours normally only take place on non business days. Visit the Scottish government website for more details about what days and time tours take place. Holyrood is at the bottom of the Royal Mile near to Arthur's seat, it is a lovely walk through the lovely cobbled old streets from the city centre to...

wigglylittleworm 15.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Scottish Parliament Building

..And We All Ride Home In My Automobile

Advantages: A few big tunes
Disadvantages: A few let it down

...?Osmium? came out in 1970, and was the debut album from Parliament, the George Clinton-lead Funk and Psychedelic Soul band. In the group you have the original members of The Parliaments: Clinton, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas and Ray Davis (originally a Doo-Wop band), as well as Tiki Fulwood on drums, Billy Bass Nelson (bass), and Eddie Hazel (guitar). Many others participate in it, but these are the main members who went of to release further material with them, and then going to the super-group of Parliament-Funkadelic as they advanced. 1. ?I Call My Baby Pussycat? In order to kick the album off, you find them going straight for a funky one to wake the listeners up and get them in the mood for the thing. As this is a very complex album with lots of levels to it, I felt that the starter was suitable, as so much goes...

XICripZ 04.05.2009 (05.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of Osmium - Parliament

A fabulous building along the Danube

Advantages: Beautiful experience
Disadvantages: A lot of visitors all the time

...I studied, worked and lived in Budapest (capital city of Hungary) for years. I have written a review about Budapest recently. As I don't like the crowd I didn't mentioned the Parliament among my favourite places, but I admire this wonderful building. It is beautiful from Buda, from a ship on the Danube, from Kossuth Square, in the daylight and in the evening as well. If you have time, go and visit it. ¤¤¤ Historical Background ¤¤¤ The Hungarian nation did not have a House of Parliament until the end of the 19th century. The tender for the Plan of the House of Parliament was announced in 1882. The best plan was made by Imre Steindl, professor of the Technical University. The construction of the Parliament began in 1885 and lasted for seventeen years. On average about 1 thousand people worked on it day by day. They used wherever it...

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Review of Parliament (Orszaghaz), Budapest

Scottish Devolution At It's Highest Form

Advantages: Very interesting and an Iconic symbol to Scotland
Disadvantages: The price of the building £460 million to build!!!

...**What Is It?** The Scottish Parliament of Scotland is the central place of Scottish Politics. The parliament has 129 members called MSP's (Members of the Scottish Parliament) This is where they do some of there work, debating certain issues and representing their constiuency and/or region. They have been working in the Scottish Parliament since October 2004. **Why I Went** My mum actaully works for the one of the Ministers so i'm in and out all the time and have been there at least 50 times! So i'm seeing writing my first impressions and what it would be like to a tourist. I've been with the school so i'll also write about that! Enjoy... **It's History** In 1707 the act of Union took place. This meant Scotland was to be ruled by England and have the same laws etc. Then 292 years later Scotland decided "Hey, we want our own...

scotlandizdabest 25.08.2007 (01.01.2008) · Read review
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Review of The Scottish Parliament Building

Alright Everybody... On The One!

Advantages: Lots of bangers
Disadvantages: Two tracks hold things back

...Released in 1975 in the same month that the band (who for that album going by the name of Funkadelic) dropped an album in, Parliament brought out ?Chocolate City? and found that with this same ?classic? line-up that included George Clinton leading the way as the producer and then the likes of Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell and Eddie Hazel all added into the mix that was seen in Funkadelic too. These Funk pioneers brought what is considered to be a classic from them as they moved things on with progressive, and more lively material than in the past. 1. ?Chocolate City? The album begins with a heavy tuned and one that finds them clearly moving on signifincantly from where they were on the last album (that hadn?t even come more than a month before this one) and you see that with the inclusion of more electronic instruments to the mix as...

XICripZ 14.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Chocolate City - Parliament

Tear The Roof Off This Mother!

Advantages: Straight classic
Disadvantages: None whatsoever

...?Mothership Connection? dropped as the first 1976 album of 2 for Parliament (of which its band members also released 3 albums as Funkadelic). It was the fourth by the act under this name as George Clinton leads the likes of Bootsy Collins, Fuzzy Haskins and Gary Shider, as well as the then-new additions fresh from James Browns backing band The J.Bs; Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley as the band go t into what would be their peak period with their Funk and Soul material found to have a clear direction after lots of experimentation and the band moving out towards some spacey themes which would creation the 'P-Funk mythology' that the group are known for. 1.?P-Funk? Inspiring the G-Funk movement (will be clear when you compare this joint to the overall ?Chronic? and ?Doggystyle? albums from Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg respectively), this one...

XICripZ 07.01.2010 · Read review
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Review of Mothership Connection [Remastered] - Parliament

Get Up To Get Down

Advantages: Lots of big tunes
Disadvantages: One average track

...?Up For The Down Stroke? came in 1974 as a return album for the Funk band Parliament as after their debut in 1970, George Clinton and his crew hadn?t performed under this name until this point, where they decided to go back to their more soulful days (which began from their days as a Doo-Wop group going by the name of The Parliaments ? and in opposition to the Funkadelic band which has them doing things in a Rock-based style). Here you get a strong line-up as the likes of Eddie Hazel, Bernie Worrell and, most significantly, Bootsy Collins (who had been missing for a couple of years) all appear as part the unit. 1. ?Up For The Down Stroke? They kick off this fresh Parliament release with a titular track and one that appears to take on the sort of structure that was seen on the titular track to ?Standing On The Verge Of Getting it...

XICripZ 19.10.2009 · Read review
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