Mr. Fleiss noted that the show had developed a kind of "ongoing thread" beginning with "Bachelor" 11, when a bar owner, Brad Womack, violated the rules by winnowing the field to the final two contestants ("F2" in fan parlance) — and then rejecting both.
Having known several different historic moments in different geographic locations, within different social and political contexts, I have a sense of fragmentation, yet there is an ongoing, uninterrupted thread that characterizes my life and links it to the wider human experience.
And all the while, the ongoing thread of sorcery-as-civil-rights-issue has been sensibly, but knowingly underplayed.
Did I forget the ongoing thread about the dangers of gentrification and the first wave of gentrifiers who are being pushed out moaning about progress?
"The ongoing thread in infotainment development has been that drivers have always wanted to bring into their cars the things they use at home for entertainment and information," said Peter Patrone, who helped direct the development of telematics in his 30-year career at Mercedes-Benz USA and is now an independent auto industry consultant.
But Marcus tells me Facebook wants to push the idea that those multimedia options are always at the ready as part of the ongoing thread.
One ongoing thread of research in our field is to better understand how certain wheelchair features and tasks can lead to disabling secondary conditions such as pressure ulcers and upper limb pain.
In the blog post announcing the hire, the startup says Thau is actually becoming the Director of Mobile Business Development, but later in the post actively working on their mobile business strategy is listed as an 'also', next to "assessing all opportunities" and "picking up ongoing threads" from the "crushing amount of partnership opportunities" Twitter receives on a daily basis.
In the beginning, 1 there was Usenet, and it was good: online conversations ordered by topic, built around ongoing threads rather than individual posts, so that they could and often did last for months.
In its notifications section, it alerts you to a wide range of updates – including not only who liked or commented on your own posts, but also updates on ongoing threads you participated in, friends' birthdays, posts from select friends and Pages, events, and much more.
Users are able to post messages, photos and files and respond in stream to threads, keeping their conversations organized in an ongoing discussion.
