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Government has issued only 4 000 permits to A1 farmers who number more than 200 000, as the process is being hampered by under-staffing within the Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement. Lands and Rural Resettlement Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora yesterday said the ministry was struggling with limited staff to process the A1 permits. "We have issued out 4 000 permits to farmers in Mashonaland West, Matabeleland South and Midlands," he said. "We could have issued more than that, but our ministry is understaffed and this is affecting us. We have 2 600 establishments, but we only have about 500 people on the job.
"Our major challenge is human resources. We need staff to go into the farming areas and carry out farm inspections before the farms can be verified and issued out with permits. We are doing our best and every A1 farmer should get the permit."
Dr Mombeshora said most A1 farmers will get the permits as they meet Government requirements.
He said A1 farmers had established homesteads, were utilising the land and were staying on the properties.
"Most A1 farmers are working hard and meet the requirements," said Dr Mombeshora. "We do not have problems with the A1 farmers."
Dr Mombeshora has on several occasions applauded A1 farmers for their contribution towards food security, saying they were more productive compared to their commercial A2 counterparts.
The A1 permit ensures the farmer assumes full ownership of land and can make long term plans.
Before the introduction of the permits, A1 farmers used to rely on offer letters that were issued out at district level and this caused challenges as there were cases of dual land allocation.
A1 permit beneficiaries have the right to use land for agriculture, pastoral and residential purposes.
The permit guarantees land rights for an indefinite period, and is subject to Zimbabwe's laws of inheritance.
Government can cancel the permit if the holder is leasing the land.


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2000 Dodge Intrepid 6 cyl Front Wheel Drive Automatic 193000 miles
I have a 2000 Intrepid w/2.7, the R/H Passenger side CV shaft going into the tranny is very loose. Now I see there is a cover plate around the opening with a locking tab. I am wondering if you can pull the shaft and replace the bearing and or seal all from the outside. My Haynes manual does not go that deep. The CV joint is ok it is the tranny bearing I am concearned with.
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I disagree, while Liza is indeed tired, you have to consider Tukt competed a longer season from Japan Open to Youth Olympics
and won 2 GP events and YOG. Sotnikova had a lukewarm season but not totally a disaster, I think what Adelina is trying to prove is she can bounce back.
Sotnikova is struggling from physical ( 2nd growth spurt ) and mental ( confidence) issues this season but she has proven she can bounce back like at the 2012 nationals. this will be another test for her on how to handle huge pressure and this will do more good for her than damage her.
so what if Adelina doesn't win ? she doesn't have anything to lose now, atm


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Will Lower Commissions Become Standard in Real Estate?Monday, April 25th, 2016
For years the idea of lowering real estate commissions has been the topic of conversation amongst many in the real estate industry. Since the discount brokerages came onto the scene in full force back in the early 2000s, many home sellers have sought out agents who will cut commissions to save sellers money. Could lower commissions eventually become the norm?
A recent study by Realtor Magazine indicated that 62% of buyers and sellers want lower fees in real estate transactions, yet of those 22% still want to receive quality service and worry that low fees do not go hand in hand with that type of service. So while sellers want to pay Wal-Mart fees, they obviously still want Nordstrom service.
I have written many blogs over the years about the benefit of working with agents who provide stellar service – not just in marketing a property or knowing a neighborhood, but with respect to the very important legalities of real estate transactions – negotiations (by the way, 89% of sellers in a recent study indicated that negotiation was the number 1 skill they desired of their real estate agents), paperwork, disclosures and other potential liabilities.
Many sellers for years have complained that it is not right that an agent can be paid 2 1/2-3% of the purchase price for a million dollar home and the same for a $300,000 home. The real question is how much work is that agent doing? I personally know of listing agents who "list and pray," doing virtually no or little work to market a home and bring a buyer without spending time or money out of pocket. Also, what about the buyer's agent who has been working for months with her buyers, showing them 20, 30+ homes, driving the around to show them areas and being there on hours of phone calls, writing offers…that agent gets nothing until she actually closes a sale, which may or may not happen.
If you wonder what agents actually do, here is a list of some of the things your agent should be doing…so do not be afraid to ask your agent what he or she is doing for you.
1. Marketing – this varies vastly so make sure you understand the marketing plan that is proposed
2. Open houses – if desired
3. Broker caravan
4. Professional photography
5. Creating custom flyers and other marketing pieces (mailers, ads, emails, etc.)
6. Showing advice/preparation and staging, if necessary
7. Handling all paperwork and explaining it all to you
8. Showing the property (being available to do so – you'd be surprised how many agents are not)
9. Negotiations with the other party/agent – this does not stop after a contract is signed, as it is still often necessary for repairs/credits.
10. Providing a list of repair people if needed
11. Constant communications with all parties involved – agents, lender, escrow, title, and of course, you
12. Making sure you have copies of your entire file at the close of escrow, and helping with other things like finding agents out of the area if you are moving somewhere else, or helping you synchronize closings of current and new homes. I have even helped clients move out and clean up after everything is taken from a home.
Of course each listing may require a different plan, and some may need more pre-listing work or more marketing than others, which of course means more money. So, will lower real estate commissions eventually become standardized? That remains to be seen but hopefully if they do, quality service won't go down with them.


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A few more things became obvious during the second day of Raiders minicamp, with one more practice later today.
Porter rocks: Happy-again Jerry Porter clearly looks like the best wide receiver on the team.
He ran routes over the middle and down the sideline, using his size to separate from cornerbacks and speed to pull away. He's everything you remember him being two years ago when he led the team with 76 catches.
Attitude wise, he's nothing like the player who wore a shirt showing a raised middle finger much of last season while he rode the bench. His renaissance comes just in time, now that Randy Moss is gone and the Raiders' offense needs to establish a go-to receiver.
McCown can throw: Veteran quarterback Josh McCown was brought in last week to create competition at a very young position.
He's doing that, and more. He doesn't have the rocket arm of No. 1 draft pick JaMarcus Russell — who does? — but McCown looks comfortable on his feet and hits downfield receivers in stride.
On consecutive plays, McCown found Alvis Whitted streaking down the left sideline, then caught Chris McFoy racing down the right side. Neither receiver had to slow down to catch the 35-yard passes.
They're huffing: New Raiders coach Lane Kiffin runs a full-speed practice where players have to run to the huddle and they get chased around by assistant coaches at the end of plays.
What a stark difference from the Art Shell regime, where an entire minute-plus would lapse between plays at practice and water breaks were the norm.
For two days in a row, four jugs of water sat untouched on a shaded sideline. The team didn't take a water break during a two-hour practice Saturday morning.
Defensive trend: There is no depth chart at this point, but a certain 4-3 defensive unit looks a lot like last year's first teamers. By the way, these guys took the field when defensive coordinator Rob Ryan called out for the "first 4-3."
With no promise this will hold, here's what looks like the first-team defense — defensive ends Derrick Burgess and Kevin Huntley; defensive tackles Warren Sapp and a mixture of Terdell Sands and Tommy Kelly; outside linebackers Thomas Howard and Sam Williams with middle linebacker Kirk Morrison; cornerbacks Nnamdi Asomugha and Fabian Washington; strong safety Michael Huff and free safety Stuart Schweigert.
The offense had little recongizable consistency in its rotations. Robert Gallery and Barry Sims alternated between right and left tackle, as expected.


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So am I a secret bloke after all? The thought occurs as I look back over the events of the last couple of days. My anger.
My "resistance". My going ballistic and, in the end, my having a good old-fashioned punch-up with a public organisation.
Or is it just a bit more complicated? You may find this hard to believe, but I hate confrontation. A few close friends will testify to that: how I'll reduce to tears before taking someone on in argument. On the rare occasions that I do, it makes me feel very out of sorts.
Its upsetting. Like, I can take someone on head first as long as that first flash of anger is there…but as soon as it dissipates, I start to worry about how I am making THEM feel.
One friend phones today to tell me how good I am at fighting: that she just doesn't know how to and doesn't know how I know how to. Another e-mails saying that for her, this connects very closely with difficulties she has over conflict…how, despite being an ardent feminist, she learnt very young how to please, to be a "good girl" and to do the right thing….and finds it dificult to break away from that habit.
Not sure. There are developments on the Charing Cross front, of which more later. They mean – to my great relief, that I can probably start to stand down the troops. I breathe a sigh of relief.
It started with a silly person forcing me to get cross. He didn't just make me cross. He made me cross at being cross. Then I wanted vindication – and that's easy. I'll fight organisations for you any day of the week.
Fighting organisations is about being polite – mostly (sorry, Linda!) – knowing your rights, knowing the levers to pull, knowing the law and knowing how to use the media. I guess a woman who has a public media profile and writes on a daily basis about the law fits that bill very well.
Is fighting, confronting a blokish thing to do? I don't think so. Some of my best friends are women who I would never want to cross…because I am sure that if crossed they would be absolutely ruthless.
I hate confrontation. But even more, I hate being belittled, put down or negated. A long time ago, in another life, I used to attend a very male management meeting once a week. The Company Chair used to tease me: ask why I didn't intervene more; make my presence felt.
His wife (my boss) teased back. "Don't be silly", she said. "Haven't you noticed? J doesn't say much…but (s)he always gets her way".
That's me. Bitch from hell when provoked. But otherwise, I really, really do my best to remain sweet.


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Check out this powerful post from Immigration Prof Blog about a U.S.-born African American citizen who has found himself slapped with the label of being undocumented.
I'm African-American and my family moved to California almost a hundred years ago after a lynching took place outside their hometown in Kentucky. I'm also undocumented, or in the current anti-immigrant vernacular,"illegal." I don't have the necessary documents to prove my identity.
Therefore, within four years, I won't be able to vote, have access to social services, or receive state identification to travel. Let's start from the beginning:
Click here for the full post.


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Today, we must determine how much nourishment we need, how much physical exercise we need, and how best to accomplish those ends. Calorie needs, nutritional needs, physical needs, and education about those needs now is information we should all understand, at least as it applies to our individual self. If you will visit your local doctor, library, or fitness center, there is massive amounts of information available to help educate and to help you make good health choices, no matter what the age group.
Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do. Our ability to provide the body with all the necessary food, vitamins, and minerals so that we continue to thrive in our daily life processes.
How do we determine that we are providing the essential nutritional needs? That knowledge comes by educating ourselves about what our individual needs are, the needs of our family, and then taking that knowledge and applying it to the foods we buy, that we prepare, and that our families consume.
Nutrition as it applies to our daily lives means that we take in what we need to maintain our bodys healthy state. Nutrition has become an important word thanks to the involvement of the USDA in our daily food requirements, and the FDAs involvement in determining what is and is not dangerous for us to consume.
But what is our responsibility in the nutrition game? Do we understand what our nutritional requirements are, how to fulfill those requirements, and how to look for real nutritional value in our foods? Im not sure that nutrition has been successfully addressed in its own right. We hear nutrition in relation to our vitamin intake, our fortified cereals and milk, and in the context that we need nutritional value from our food choices. But what really is nutrition when applied to our daily bodily functions?
Quite often, our vitamin and mineral needs outweigh our caloric needs. In those instances, we turn to manufactured vitamins and minerals to fill the gap. This is a part of our nutritional needs, also.
Nutrition is one of the most complex areas to gain useful knowledge about, because there are so many components, and because each person has their own individual needs. Women needs differ from those of men, and older womens needs differ from those of a young girl. As we age, our needs constantly change; therefore continual education about nutrition is a fact of life.
The nutritional needs of a cardiac patient are different than those of a healthy, middle-aged hiker. Can you see the complexity of the situation now? What we really need is to develop a scale that determines the nutritional needs of our bodies on a cellular level, so that as we age, as our physical condition changes, or our health changes, we can recalculate our needs, based on cellular changes and content in our body. Individuality is the key to understanding each persons nutritional needs, and then working to educate ourselves is the key to fulfilling those nutritional needs. Good nutrition should be the ultimate goal of every person alive.
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The secret to seducing a woman a look in the eye and a touch on the armJune 21st, 2008 - 5:08 pm ICT by ANI
London , June 21 (ANI): Forget those cheesy pick-up lines and expensive colognes to impress a woman. The winning formula to land a hot date requires nothing but a straight look into her eyes accompanied by a light touch on her arm, according to a new study.
The study, by scientists at Aberdeen University , has found that two-thirds of women gave a nod to dance with a man who requested for a dance by resting his hand on her arm for a second or two.
And those who did not comply with the trick and kept their hands by their side while asking the same question had a success rate of only fifty percent.
In fact, women also preferred to give their phone-number to a man who touched their arm as he approached them in the street.
Published in Focus Magazine, the study said that touching makes a man appear dominant, and henceforth more attractive to the opposite sex.
In fact, researcher Dr Ben Jones said that making eye contact also indicates interest in a woman, but only if it is genuine.
"Smiling can make you more attractive but it is worth bearing in mind that faking a smile is quite tricky," the Telegraph quoted Jones, as saying.
And those men, who find it hard to fake a smile, are advised by Jones to take extra care of their skin, or stay amidst other women to appear more appealing. (ANI)
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David Axelrod, chief strategist of President Obama's 2008 campaign, is coming to town as headliner for Sen. Patty Murray's 16th annual Golden Tennis Shoes Awards.
Axelrod was until January a senior counsel to the president, leaving to oversee Obama's 2012 reelection campaign. He is a longtime Chicago political consultant and veteran of the presidential campaigns of former Sen. John Edwards and the late Illinois Sen. Paul Simon.
Axelrod was part of a trio nicknamed "The Suits" — along with campaign manager David Plouffe and spokesman Robert Gibbs — who engineered Obama's victories over Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
The Golden Tennis Shoe Awards honor ordinary citizens "who have done extraordinary things" but also fill Sen. Murray's campaign coffers. Although reelected to a fourth term last November, Murray has continued to raise money.
The tab is $1,250 to be a "co-chair" of the June 1 luncheon. "Gold Level" seating at the Seattle Convention and Trade Center goes for $250, while "Silver Level" seating is $125.
Previous Golden Tennis Shoe headliners have included then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, comedian (now Sen.) Al Franken, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Vicki Kennedy, widow of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
The event takes its title from an oft-told story. Murray was a Shoreline pre-school teacher, lobbying in Olympia to save school money. A senior legislator, his identity never disclosed, told her she was a "mom in tennis shoes" with no influence.
Today, Murray is a senior member and subcommittee chair on the Senate Appropriations Committee. She chairs the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. She is chair of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, and a member of the Senate Democratic leadership.


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A world in which you sleep in on a long weekend and wake up to a robot making you pancakes is closer than you might think.
Meet PancakeBot, a 3D printer that creates pancakes in different shapes and sizes. Miguel Valenzuela is the man behind the invention. Valenzuela thought of the idea in 2010 after reading an article about a pancake-stamping machine made of Legos pieces. When the Norway resident shared the idea with his daughters, they became very excited. Valenzuela spent the next six months perfecting the first version of PancakeBot. A number of media outlets covered the device after he posted a video on YouTube.
In 2012, the PancakeBot came to the U.S., appearing at the World Maker Faire in New York. A year later, Valenzuela began working on a non-Legos version. This rendition of the PancakeBot is made of acrylic and features two motors, a microcontroller board, and a vacuum pump for batter control. The new take on his invention debuted last weekend at the Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif.
A demo video on YouTube shows the latest version of the PancakeBot in action. While we have not tasted anything made by the machine, the Eiffel Tower drawn in pancake batter shows that PancakeBot can create incredible detail in its creations.
And in a world in which there are many types of kitchen appliances, there is also room for two versions of PancakeBot. The acrylic model will be marketed for kitchen use, while Valenzuela hopes to teach children about engineering with the machine built from Lego pieces.


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|Women and the Sangha: The Abbess of Samding and Ani Lochen
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|Divisional Issues: Do All Being Have the Buddha-Nature?
|Regulation and Reform: An Apocryphal Monastic Code
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|A Guide to the Transliteration and Pronunciation of Buddhist Terms
|Bibliography of Works Cited
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Funkmaster Flex has found himself caught up in yet another hip hop beef.
The Hot 97 DJ hit instagram over the weekend with a few jokes that Suge Knight, Jr. didn't appreciate. If you'll recall, the former Death Row Records CEO was charged with murder back in February 2015 in a hit-and-run that killed one and injured another.
On Saturday, Flex posted a video of Suge in court. His caption is what caught Knight, Jr.'s attention See below.
Hahaha! Bet he wanna turn back that clock and dance in them videos!!!! He humble pie! Lotta yes sir/no sir !!! UPDATED! Niggas worried about my post… Defend that honor to the barber with the quick hands or them "homies" doing interviews.. @sugejknight Hahaha!!!!!!! I respect your opinion… respect mine! Been talking that talk on and off the radio!
Soon after, Knight, Jr. caught wind of the joke and had a few thoughts of his own, aimed at Flex, who he says is a "low life."
@funkflex Whoa Flex now you crossing the line. You're a lowlife and only a punk to even say this while my pops is locked up unjustly. You're way too old to be keeping up this division between us black men and you also show how much you lack being a man. Whatever you're mad about 20 years ago you should've pressed the issue 20 years ago. You're a lame OG and you will never be an OG because you still move like a little bitch. Bad representation of the east & Thats why you're a female bro. You was just crying not too long ago… All I'm going to say is leave my family alone dude because we not worried about you, but you really asking for it and you not worth it. Plus if we check you, then we are the bullies all because a punk like you wanted some attention. #FreeSuge #LetThatHurtGo #BeRoleModelNotABitch
Flex has since responded by updating his original caption. "UPDATED! N*ggas worried about my post… Defend that honor to the barber with the quick hands or them "homies" doing interviews.. @sugejknight Hahaha!!!!!!! I respect your opinion… respect mine! Been talking that talk on and off the radio!" Flex wrote.
Flex also posted his full explanation on why he had jokes. Read below:
My brother I hear your point… and I'm going to break it down… I watched your father (in person) mid nineties get on that Source Award stage and display such bad energy towards People that looked up to him I couldn't believe it! He forever divided people with negativity because a new team was coming along shining bright! But what Suge didn't know is that no matter what coast u was from…. SUGE had an amazing blue print with DeathRow that every new comer to the Buisness wanted to copy… He helped artist that couldn't help themselves… which in the music Buisness gets the utmost respect! But you are young and u aren't dumb! Your father helped fuel that beef on every level… and that I did witness first hand… u yourself started our encounter with "tuff" talk because u know what your father means to "some people" so if your going to be @sugejknight u should know what comes with that energy! I know it's hard because u are born into a "situation" ! Your dad helped Many people and he hurt many people also… he created an energy that hurt lives…. and he has never acknowledged his wrong doings! I hope the system doesn't take advantage of him but I hope if he gets a second chance at life he does things differently! Been very hard to let it go my brother but I will try.
But Knight, Jr. isn't here for any of it:
Tweet us your thoughts. Does Flex make a good point?


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Local sports for Tuesday, Sept. 27
Published 6:45 pm, Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Henry earns ASC honor
McMurry University freshman and Midland High grad Stephanie Henry earned American Southwest Conference Player of the Week for her performance last week.
Henry tallied 27 kills in sweeps of Oklahoma Panhandle State, Texas Lutheran and Schreiner, and she hit .434 during those same three matches. Henry has 88 kills and a .284 hitting percentage this season for the War Hawks.
Jacks add to roster
ODESSA -- The Odessa Jackalopes announced on Monday that they have acquired defensemen Jared Docken and Tyller Robert. Docken played with Dubuque of the USHL and is an original Jacks NAHL tender.
Robert was acquired as part of a trade with Wenatchee for one 2012 tender.
Odessa will play its home opener on Friday at 7:05 p.m. against Corpus Christi.


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Maybe you've heard it's Pi Day today: March 14. (That's 3.14. Get it?)
And maybe you've also heard that pie — yes, that's pie with an "E" — is the new cupcake. (Why, why, why can't we all agree to rally behind the doughnut?)
If you're looking for a place to celebrate Pi Day with pie in Seattle, you have a few options. Pie in Fremont is offering a 3.14 hours special from noon to 3:14 pm when all hand pies are $3.14 and all mini pies are three for $3.14.
And High 5 Pie on Capitol Hill is selling flipsides for $3.14.
Know of another Pi Day deal? (Preferably one that involves fruit filling?) Leave it in the comments below.
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Gamecocks v2.0
I was amazed that after beating tennessee the crowd was very non plussed by the victory. I am thinking that even 2 years ago that win would have people rushing the field. Have expectations risen that much that we think beating a traditional power is common?
I would hate to think we would under appreciate what was still a big win in the sec.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
OK... there is an app for this
It should be obvious by now that it did not work too well the way I was trying to post. I have found the app "blogger -droid" and it is working so we will see. I don't have the swype keyboard anymore but the one in froyo is pretty nice.
The g1 is still working well so we will probably wait until contract time to upgrade. I think even the battery trouble Susan was having has disappeared.
I swear I will try to update more even if the subject matter is a little thin.
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Few television series have garnered as much universally glowing press as HBO's urban drama, The Wire. When its fourth season debuted in 2006, Variety enthused that "when television history is written, little else will rival The Wire, a series of such extraordinary depth and ambition that it is, perhaps inevitably, savored only by an appreciative few." Steven Rea at the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that "The Wire could well be, as more than a few critics have opined, the best show in the history of American television."
But as The Wire plunges headlong into its fifth and final season, those layers of sloppy kiss print coverage have not been reciprocated by the show's creator, David Simon.
Quite the opposite, in fact. Much of The Wire's new season grapples with the American newspaper, a once-glorious enterprise ransacked by a dismal convergence of investors' heedless and rapacious pursuit of double-digit profit and a tectonic shift in media technology. It's a storyline rooted in Simon's experiences as a reporter at the Baltimore Sun from 1983-995 - and his unhappy departure from that paper during its precipitous decline in ambition and prestige.
It is surprising is that it has taken so long to create a snappy dramatisation of the decline of US newspapers. Television's last serious look at the business was CBS' Lou Grant - which aired from 1977-1982, an era when "stop the presses" still meant, literally, stop the machines that print the newspapers.
But what's completely predictable is that only a scant two hours into the show's last 10 hours, media types were already in full-on "cover your ass" mode: nitpicking story arcs and portraying Simon as "angry".
Over at Slate, Jeffrey Goldberg and David Plotz fussed over the "reality" of the newsroom after one episode. "I think I know a little bit about cops, being related to cops, and, more to the point, having written about cops," writes Goldberg, "and David Simon's cops generally pass the verisimilitude test, and this newsroom, so far at least, does not."
At his blog on the Atlantic, Matthew Yglesias feverishly worried the story arc. "Everything in the Sun plot is being marked out like a runway," he complained after two episodes. "Do you think the Unscrupulous Journalist and the Douchebag Editor are going to conspire to cause the Fall of American Journalism? I think they just might!"
But this is small beans compared to the suddenly dominant trope that Simon is too angry to dramatise the American newsroom.
In American journalism, "angry" is a serious charge. It is code language signalling that the object of the charge is unreasonable and not to be taken seriously, and should be marginalised.
Simon gave his critics an opening to it via his public flagellation of two of his former editors at the Sun, John Carroll and William Marimow, as the prime movers in that paper's decline. (He even named a repulsive police lieutenant in Season 4 "Marimow".) But both Carroll and Marimow are prominent journalists who have significant track records and a legion of defenders. (Marimow is now the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.)
It's a feud that's much too tangled to unravel in an op-ed piece. (The Columbia Journalism Review spent over 8,000 words untangling it in a recent article.) But Carroll and Marimow were largely silent on the issue until the unveiling of The Wire's final season.
Their counterpunch came in a profile of Simon in The New Yorker which kicked off the "angry" trope. Marimow insisted that Simon was obsessed with the Sun: "He is as monomaniacal as Captain Ahab pursuing the white whale." Carroll went deeper into the tin-pot psychoanalysis, suggesting that Simon's jealousy was at the root of his rage: "Bill Marimow won two Pulitzers as a police reporter; David won zero. One doesn't need a degree in psychology to understand why David is so enraged about both Bill and the Pulitzers."
The angry Simon motif was cemented in another profile by Mark Bowden in the Atlantic, titled The Angriest Man in Television. Bowden's article is a spirited defence of Marimow and Carroll (whom Bowden says are friends) and also incorporates Simon's angry response to Bowden's initial draft of the article. It also decries The Wire's essential bleakness and critiques Simon's passion in depicting it as lacking in "accuracy and evenhandedness".
Bowden's real agenda is spelled out in the article's subhead: "How David Simon's disappointment with an industry that let him down made The Wire the greatest show on television - and why his vision shouldn't be confused with reality."
News flash: The fact that The Wire is not a documentary (or even that it's not "evenhanded") doesn't diminish its power or its authority. As The Wire did in its brilliant depiction of Baltimore's dying docks in its second season, and in its bruising examination of public schools in its fourth season, the show's depiction of the American newsroom is etching the moral compromises made in that space and the plunder of the fourth estate by plutocrats vividly in the public imagination.
It is an ugly portrait because what's happened to America's newsrooms is ugly. Ugly enough to make anyone angry. And it's predictable that Simon's media critics would indulge in fits of self-justification and messenger-killing.
But if they really don't like his snapshot of America's depleted and dispirited newsrooms, maybe they should get angry enough to help change those newsrooms - and not the channel.


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BRIGGS WALTER OWEN III 77, loving husband, father and brother passed away peacefully Saturday, November 24 in the company of his wife and children. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Gwen Briggs; his eight children and their spouses, Walter IV (Andrea), Lois (Terry Swartzell), Laura (Jon Knowles), Harvey (Lisa), Grace, Charles (Lynn), Christopher (Carlin) and Philip (Heide); 22 grandchildren and his brothers Basil M. "Mickey" Briggs and James R. Briggs. Services at St. Paul's on the Green Episcopal Church, Norwalk, 1 p.m., December 8. Donations may be made to Seabury Academy of Music & the Arts, 60 East Ave, Norwalk, CT 06851 or Child Guidance Center of Mid-Fairfield County (childguidancemfct.org). Share a memory: hoytcognettafuneralhome.com.
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Walter was a great man, father, father-in-law to my sister Andrea, and grandfather to many children in the Briggs family. He will be greatly missed by all. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Briggs family at this difficult time.
I especally enjoyed your Dad when I visited Connecticut four years on Thanksgiving with Walter and Andrea. I got a chance to know him better.
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Where Did Life First Evolve?
Question: Describe the evidence that suggests that life first evolved on the sea floor near deep-sea vents.
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Dartalon Rix
Count, Vicount, Baron, Duke Sir Dartalon Rix to be exact.
Saved from a near terminal heart attack by Kaolin in the early eelship days, duke Sir Rix turned out later to be a cinfidant of the Imperator of GreatSpace. After our heroes saved him again in a phlogiston engagement against the scro they earned the friendship of the Royal Family of Shambrath.
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Why can't I contact an actual person? I'm trying to request that someone transfer my email subscribers since I have moved my wordpress.com blog to a wordpress.org blog on an external host. I'm moving in circles; every time I try to contact support I get sent here.
The blog I need help with is warpweftandway.com.


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The second shunt series done on 6/5/12 shows widening of coronal and sagittal sutures.
Diagnosis: Shunt Malfunction with Sutural Diastasis
The follow up CT showed increased size of the ventricles and patient underwent shunt revision.
Complications of VP shunts:
50% fail in first 2 years and 80% fail by 10 years.
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Fluid tracking along shunt may be only sign of obstruction, even if normal or unchanged ventricles.
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Bollywood's tax complaints are bringing out… the snark in comment sections.
he doesn't want to pay tax within his line of work but the auto-rickshaw driver, and the bhel and pani puri wala should. sounds good to me. what a genius this man is!
Oh, SNAP!
Not everybody is looking forward to Vancouver hosting the IIFA awards.
Catch up with Abhishek Kapoor.
We have been thinking about creating a category called the 'art house mainstream'…
Something like that. It would be great if someone could give it a name, that this is what the future should be, and define it. That you make money, you make better films, something that will work with the masses, with the classes, with the youth.
Pinkvilla posts some of Varun Dhawan's Facebook snapshots.
Ranbir Kapoor did a talk over at Anupam Kher's acting school. I think we'll see quotes from it trickling out over the next week or so.
"(While shooting) I can just sit and the camera moves towards me and there is a sad music playing, that can portray so many emotions, and the audience thinks, 'Wow what a performance he has given'. But at the same time you have that same shot with some happy music playing and audience will say he is internalising his happiness," he said.
Sona hates exercise. (SO DO I!)
"There is a certain way I have been accepted in the industry. And there is no lack of work coming my way because of the two extra inches on my waist."
Here's the lovely lass filming her Himmatwala item.
Vindu Vinod Chopra has been shooting a Hollywood film out in LA with that kid from Star Trek and some other guy who was in Fanboys.


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|UBS AG (UBSN) and Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN), Switzerland's biggest banks, are adjusting precious-metals charges for financial institutions. UBS revised fees for unallocated accounts and offers an alternative physical account that has "a lower fee structure," it said in an e-mailed statement. Both banks didn't give specific details. The Financial Times reported earlier that the banks are trying to encourage holding metal through allocated accounts, where they would act as custodian and wouldn't need to increase capital reserves. That's instead of holding metal through unallocated accounts, which show up on balance sheets...............................................Full Article: Source


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The GBI has identified the Monroe County officer who shot and wounded a suspect Friday.
According to GBI Special Agent in charge Joe Wooten, Sgt. Lawson Bittick is the department's Public Information Officer and the son of Monroe County Sheriff Cary Bittick.
Claire Davis spoke with a neighbor who lives about a block from where the shooting happened.
George Sands lives on a quiet street in Monroe County.
"We hadn't had no high crime rate in this area. My kids play all the time. We don't have no crime rate out here," said Sands.
But around 3:00 p.m. Friday, Monroe County Sheriff's deputies responded to a home on Johnstonville Road.
"I noticed that the road was blocked off and they were not letting anybody down through there. I kept hearing the sirens," said Sands.
GBI Special Agent in Charge Joe Wooten says Richard Treadwell came out of his home with a pellet-gun style air pistol, which looks like a large revolver.
The GBI says he pointed it at deputies and that's when Bittick shot him.
"Such unexpected behavior for a real small town. Normally stuff like that doesn't happen here. You come outside and aim a weapon at this cop. Come on now. He has to defend himself I mean he has to go home also," said Sands.
Wooten says Bittick is on administrative leave while the GBI investigates the shooting, he says that is normal protocol. Two other officers were on the scene.
"Dangerous job every day. Those guys have family and stuff that they have to come home to their kids also," said Sands.
Now, the shooting has Sands thinking twice about those around him.
"Watch out for our surroundings around the people that we live around and the way the world coming up. I mean treat everybody with kindness and respect and kindness will surely come back to you," he said. "If we're going to live out here in this community let's all do the right thing. If they're doing the right thing, and we're doing the right thing everybody should go home safely."
Treadwell remains in the hospital. Wooten says he'll be charged with aggravated assault on law enforcement officers.


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In Search of Lost Time
By Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
Published: December 5, 2004
A few months ago, as I trudged down the stairs of my office building, deep in my thoughts, I noticed a dark-haired woman waving to me from the window of her car. She looked vaguely familiar, but I couldn't place her. Like quite a few others, she had slipped out of my mental Rolodex. In my brain, the synaptic traces that connected us had frayed. Yet again, I had misplaced an entire human being.
''So wonderful to see you,'' she said, inquiring by name after every member of my family, including the two dogs. Apparently she was not a casual acquaintance. Fending off panic, I proceeded through a mental list: Work? School? Synagogue? I couldn't visualize her in these places. I was about to cut and run with a quick ''nice to see you, too'' when the rear window slid down, revealing a toothy grin.
''We've been to the orthodontist,'' she said. The minute I saw Sam's freckled face, the mystery was solved. Our sons were best pals in nursery school and kindergarten. I had sat in her kitchen, discussing birthday parties. I remembered her backyard dotted with Little Tikes plastic play furniture. I knew what she did for work, and the name of her Portuguese nanny.
''Lisa,'' I said, as if her identity had never eluded me, ''it's terrific to see you.''
Why, as I edge toward the end of my 40's, has so much of what I know become impossible to access on demand? Where are the thoughts that spring forth in the shower but evanesce before they can be recorded, the mental lists that shed items on the way to the supermarket? The names of books and movies, actors and authors, le mot juste, the memory of social plans agreed upon in some calendarless situation -- what have become of these?
I take some comfort in the fact that I am not alone. In the space of one week, a psychologist remarked that she had turned over all social scheduling to her husband, at his insistence, because the couple had appeared at yet another dinner party on the wrong night. A woman who publishes a local magazine noted that she'd just come from the bank, where she'd spent 10 minutes searching through her purse, briefcase and pockets for a check that she'd never written. A freelance illustrator disclosed that he'd gone to work on Friday, completed a drawing for an editor and mailed it off, only to return on Monday to re-execute the identical assignment without any sense of d? vu.
The feelings of embarrassment, frustration and anger that surround such middle-aged lapses serve to disguise a more primitive emotion. At the heart of it, there is fear -- cold, implacable anxiety, emerging from the suspicion that this is just the beginning. Memory, the instrument we trusted to guide us, has instead betrayed us, making us deeply uncertain about our cognitive futures. We worry about decades of dependence, of life with a diminished mind trapped in a still vigorous body.
To the person who has misplaced his keys three times in two days or just called a colleague by the wrong name, forgetfulness in middle age can feel like incipient Alzheimer's disease. But for most of us, the memory deficits we encounter in midlife reflect a common pattern of brain aging and are not thought to be predictive of the progressive degeneration that leads to dementia. Neuropsychological tests can help tease out the difference between normal aging and pathology. Individuals, even in the early stages of Alzheimer's, show a marked inability to remember a list of several words after a 20-minute delay. When they are reminded that, for instance, one of the words is a type of fruit, they still lack the ''aha!'' experience that allows the average person to say, ''Oh, yes, it was an orange.''
''We are hyper-alert about Alzheimer's disease,'' said Dr. Oliver Sacks, the author and neurologist, when I asked him why we find cognitive lapses so worrisome. ''Even momentary forgetting, quite benign, can be unduly upsetting, because there is general alarm around us. But that is only one part of it: For people who have always been very competent, forgetting brings a disturbing sense of the loss of control and mastery.''
So much that is fundamental is bound up in the ease and accuracy of recollection. Foremost, there is trust: On the afternoon when you forget that it is your turn to carpool and leave three kids and a disgruntled coach standing on a soccer field in the teeming rain, your belief (and theirs) that you are a reliable person is severely tested. There is self-knowledge: at the holiday table, when your brother recounts your role in setting the garage on fire some 30 years earlier and you can't recall the event, your historical perspective is altered forever. There is self-esteem: when you open your mouth to ask a question at a professional meeting, certain that you have the facts at your fingertips, but the words elude you, you feel witless and weak.
''In an information age,'' writes Charles Baxter in a collection of essays called ''The Business of Memory,'' ''forgetfulness is a sign of debility and incompetence. It is taken as weakness, an emblem of losing one's grip. For anyone who works with quantities of data, a single note of forgetfulness can sound like a death knell. To remember is to triumph over loss and death; to forget is to form a partnership with oblivion.''


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According to a recently released article published in the Medical Journal of Australia, the number of Indigenous 'heavy' smokers has fallen significantly.
Results from Changes in smoking intensity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, 1994-2008, authored by Associate Professor David Thomas from Menzies School of Health Research, indicate that while the number of 'heavy' smokers has gone down, the number of 'light' smokers has risen.
The results come from analysis of the data from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey and the 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey. 'Heavy' smokers were recorded as having more than 20 cigarettes a day, while 'light' smokers had 1-10 cigarettes a day.
The number of heavy Indigenous smokers declined from 17.3% in 1994 to 9.4% in 2008 - a relative 45% reduction. Assoc. Prof Thomas said the findings would encourage those working on national tobacco control programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
'Indigenous tobacco control programs should make sure they include activities that focus on second-hand smoke and smoke-free policies which are likely to be effective with light smokers who may not even think of themselves as smokers,' he said.
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The Phoenix Suns Might Not Make All The Changes We All Think They ShouldMay 6, 2009
Steve Kerr wants Steve Nash to stay, Shaq is working on losing weight so he can help defend the pick and roll, Alvin Gentry loves Amar'e Stoudemire and says his perfect for the run and gun game.
Will there be any major changes?
The Suns had one of the must impressive rosters in NBA history, and even with the amazing roster, the Suns couldn't make the payoffs.
Must critics talked about the Suns age, having three players that are over 35, but the fact is that two of the player had their best season in years. I am talking about Grant Hill and Shaquille O'Neal.
Hill was the best player on the Suns roster. He played the best defense on the team and took the money shots when needed.
Shaq was a sure thing inside and dominated on offense. He also improved the free throw percentage which helped a lot. Shaq finished the season with the best field goal percentage. Of course the main problem was his defense.
Steve Nash has not be able to find himself since Shaq joined the Suns. Nash was the leader—the go to guy. Suddenly he had a four time champion on his team and one of the must dominate centers in the history of the game. Nash could not find his way to the hoop. He took less shots and his assist when down.
Of course we can't just blame Nash. Terry Porters system failed and he did not use Nash the right way. After Gentry took over, we started to see Nash play better and take control the game again. Nash still has game, and there is no doubt that he is still the best playmaker in the game today.
Think about it, if only Shaq and Stoudemire would player tougher defense, get out on the pick and roll, and grab more rebounds, were would we be?
This is the main issue the Suns need to work on—getting the inside to work better on defense. With Stoudemire athletic abilities, he should be a much better rebounder and should be able to help much more on the pick and roll.
Shaq, one of the biggest men to play should be a much better rebounder and shot blocker. Now, Shaq has been around and you're not going to teach this "old dog" new tricks.
Stoudemire is a different thing. He wants to be known as the best of the best, and if he wants that he HAS to work on his defense.
I think the two big guys can work together, but the Suns will have to get some help on defense from the SG and SF.
Like I wrote, Hill had a great season and I would love to see him stay one more year with the team, but the Suns need one more athletic SF to help. A trade that I wouldn't mind seeing is Jason Richardson or Richard Jefferson. Jefferson is bigger, he can play SG and SF, and he is a better defender and can also create his own shot. This will also help the Suns in the future. Jefferson will be 29 in June, he is 6'7'' and he played college ball in Arizona.
Their averages and age are very much alike, but Jefferson can help more on defense.
If Robert Sarver and Steve Kerr want the Suns to try and take a championship then they maybe don't need to make any big trades, and if they do, get what you are giving. For example, Stoudemire for Bosh, Stoudemire for Al Green plus or David Lee plus. Trade Shaq for a top defensive center like Ben Wallace or Marcus Camby, Steve Nash for Chris Paul, Mike Bibby…etc
Maybe it will be best not to make big changes and this time. Because last time Kerr made big changes, from being one of the best and must exacting teams in the NBA we became an average team that didn't even make the playoffs (and all this in one year.)
Think about it. We have the offensive. There is no reason why we can't have defense too.


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The Alaska Legislature may grant more money to the state's schools this year, but without a long-term fix, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will be back in the red by fiscal year 2006.
That's the message Melody Douglas, the district's chief financial officer brought to the school board Monday afternoon during a budget work session.
The work session was designed to allow board members time to discuss possible "add-backs" to the budget programs or funds that may be reinstated if education funding currently being discussed in the House and Senate is approved.
However, while add-backs would be nice this year, especially in light of severe cuts approved by the board earlier this month, they likely won't last in the long run, Douglas said.
Admitting the future budget projections are a matter of guess and assumption, Douglas presented a sketch of anticipated revenue and funding over the next several years. If this year's proposed funding increase which adds about $400 per pupil to the state's education funding formula passes but isn't repeated, the school district still can expect to come up several million shy in the coming years. That's because expenses particularly employer contribution rates to the Public Employees Retirement System and Teachers' Retirement System and emplo-yee salaries and benefits increase each year. In addition, the district's enrollment continues to decline, meaning even less money from the state.
Based on Douglas' preliminary numbers, when the board begins working on the fiscal year 2006 budget next fall, it will face another $6 million deficit, similar to that faced this year. By 2010, the deficit cold be as high as $18 million.
Douglas said she prepared the numbers to help board members and the general public understand that the state funding increases under discussion, while necessary and appreciated, aren't the end of the story.
"Folks are not going to understand why it's not making a bigger impact," she said.
While the long-term forecast is dim, the approximately $4 million the district stands to gain under the current proposal would help with next year's budget.
The board, working under deadlines mandated by state law, approved a balanced budget earlier this month. That budget cut Quest, the district's talented and gifted program, the entire cocurricular activities budget and a number of other funds, including supplies and curriculum adoption.
If the extra $4 million comes through, the board will be able to add some cut programs back to the budget. But just what those add-backs will be remains to be seen.
At the top of the board's discussions Monday was the cocurricular activities program. Though some board members said earlier this year they wouldn't add back cocurricular if Proposition 1 asking voters to support borough funding for activities outside the district"s general fund didn't pass, the close outcome of that vote has changed some minds. The proposition failed by only 68 votes.
Board member Nels Anderson, for example, admitted he warned the programs wouldn't be reinstated without voter support. However, he said Monday he would favor adding the programs back for the 2004-05 school year while having an in-depth discussion of different ways to run the programs in the future. He noted that sports schedules for next year already are made and that cutting the programs now leaves schools and community members little time to find alternatives.
Board President Deb Germano said she wants to review how the $1.3 million the district pays for activities is used, particularly the formula by which schools are given stipend money and how schools choose to use those stipends.
Another hot topic for the board was the Quest program, which was cut by several teachers in the trimmed-down budget. A task force began examining the program in more depth Tuesday to look for better ways to serve the needs of gifted and talented students in the district.
But board member Margaret Gilman said she believes it is important to put money back into the program, especially if the task force deems changes are necessary.
Other board members said they would prefer to wait and see what the outcome of the task force meeting is before making a determination about the program"s financial needs.
Other topics of discussion included ways to use the potential money to lower the pupil-teacher ratio either for lower elementary grades or for high schools
PTR for kindergarten through third-grade classes has been one of the board"s top priorities this year, but board members noted that recent cuts have dramatically impacted high school classes, as well.
At the high school level, PTR affects not only class sizes but also the number of teachers and therefore, programs available to students.
Another concern for Douglas was the anticipated increases to PERS and TRS contribution rates and utilities. She noted these expenses are expected to continue rising and the district will have to pay the price, either sooner or later.
Despite nearly two hours of conversation, though, it was clear by the end of the work session that board members were not ready to make a decision regarding add-backs. Nor were they expected to, as no action can reasonably be taken before the legislative session ends in May and the governor signs off on education funding.
That, Germano said, is another point she wishes the public understood better. While board members welcome comments from parents and constituents, they also said the worry about the perception that decisions already have been made.
"I"m frustrated with the e-mails that say we've made a decision," Germano said. "These (people) are getting that information from somewhere."
In reality, the board will not take action on any budget add-backs if they even occur until at least June. More dialogue on the matter is expected to take place at board meetings until that point.
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The Lost Boys
"The Lost Boys" and "Star" [Gertz] on the boardwalk at Santa Carla
Trivia, fun facts and more for the 1987
Horror / Occult
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Contributed by: Ruth Werner
Ruth Werner kindly wrote in to tell us that the girl with the rat kissing her in the beginning is a genuine local character in Santa Cruz, a friend of a friend and the rat is (was) named "Rat-Rat". Dan Carley adds that "her name is Carrie Stevens. She originally started showing up in the punk scene in the mid 80's around the San Jose area, at least that's where I knew her from. A nice enough gal, but you wouldn't want to be on her bad side!!! Carrie and her best friend, local punk Beth Godwin, introduced rats to the Bay Area punk scene long before Lost Boys was filmed. So frenchen out with one was no biggy to us."
Contributed by: Jillian Ronsonet
Billy Wirth's character "Dwayne" is never actually mentioned by his name.
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Warner Bros. and
Joel Schumacher
are hoping to launch a new film franchise with a follow-up to the Directors 1987 vampire flick. The plan is to create a female variation of the first films story which is tentatively to be called The Lost Girls. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Schumacher will be involved in the project in only a producer capacity, though he came up with the sequel and potential franchise idea. The film is currently in development through Village Roadshow for Warner Bros. Word has it that the films producers have also put out word to writers or a writer-director to come on to the project and get it rolling to the next step. At this point, the second films story will pretty much follow that of the first focusing on another family that has moved into the town that has a vampire problem. The twist, of course, is that they soon discover that the "local babes" are creatures of the night with an appetite for blood.
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Gertz has her publicist to thank for her family. She and her husband, financier Tony Ressler, have been married for seven and a half years and have two sons, Oliver and Nicky. Gertz recalls: "I was dating someone my publicist didn't like. She met Tony and thought we'd be great and fixed us up. She brought me to a park and we met... I fell in love instantly. At my wedding I sat her next to the man she later married and they have two babies now. So I paid her back."
Contributed by: Jillian Ronsonet
If you look closely in the scene where Lucy and Max meet in the video store, behind Max is a poster for the fellow vampire/comedy flick "
Once Bitten
" starring Lauren Hutton and Jim Carrey.
Contributed by: Graeme
There used to be a hardcore/punk band in America called "Death by Stereo", taking their name from the classic line in the film and they use a sample from the film on their first album "If looks could kill, I'd watch you die".
But their web site is sadly no longer.
Contributed by: Kris Morgan
The film was sampled for a British hardcore dance tune called 'Death By Stereo' by DJ Dance including 'You drank someone's blood-are you crazy' & 'No he's my brother', the original was only released on a promo white label & is very rare.
Contributed by: Mj12
In the scene with the "nazi" characters dancing on the beach that end up getting killed, it's actually a nod to an earlier movie, "Surf Nazis Must Die."
Contributed by: Olivier
If you look carefully, you can spot
Kelly Jo Minter
in Max's videoshop.
Contributed by: Jeff Knobloch
Jason Patric is the grandson of the legendary actor Jackie Gleason and he owns a 90 pound vietnamese potbellied pig named "Fergus".
Contributed by: David Lauritzen
Jason Patric is also the son of the late Jason Miller who won the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for writing "That Champion Season" and who played Father Damien Karras in "The Exorcist".
Contributed by: Brianne Messman
In the movie "
Dream a little Dream
" (that Corey Feldman and Corey Haim also star in together), Corey Feldman has a Lost Boys poster in his room. It's very noticeable after he first finds out that he is "coleman"... He is looking in the mirror in his bedroom and you can see the poster on the wall in the backround.
Contributed by: Jeff Knobloch
Corey Feldman
, who plays Edgar Frog, and
Barnard Hughes
, who plays Grandpa, share the same birthday, July 16th.
Contributed by: Gemma C
Kiefer Sutherland is Donald Sutherland's son. Donald Sutherland also starred in a vampire movie in the 90's called "Buffy the vampire slayer".
Contributed by: BRANDY
Joshua Miller, Jason Patric's kid brother, was also in a vampire movie released in 1987. It was "
Near Dark
' starring Lance Henrikson and Bill Paxton. It was supposedly overshadowed by the success of 'The Lost Boys'.
Contributed by: Daniel Torrez
The comic book store where Corey (Haim) meets the Frog brothers was an actual store in Santa Cruz for many years (not sure how many). It was called Atlantis Fantasy World and the owners can be seen playing the pinball machine in the background.
There was a set built in front to make it "appear" as though it was on the boardwalk but it was actually downtown. I bought my first Star Wars figures at that store!
Contributed by: Mg Loco
In Sam's (Corey Haim) room there is a poster of Molly Ringwald from the "Sixteen Candles." And what's with that sexy poster of Rob Lowe on his closet door?
Contributed by: Ray Mendoza
The scene in which David and the rest of the Lost Boys wake up and fly out of the cave towards Sam and Micheal's house is actually footage played in reverse. It's the same footage used for when the scene after Michael and Star make love, the cloud scene into the cave. Watch the scene of them flying out and notice the tides.
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Billy Wirth
, who plays Dwayne, appears to have just three lines in the whole movie... When the boys take Michael to the bluff, Dwayne tells Laddie "We're going for a ride". At the railroad tracks, he says "Michael wants to know". Then at the very end of the movie, when Sam misses the arrow, he said "You missed sucker"...
It is often said that, in fact, he has just two... Because Billy Wirth did not actually say the line "You missed sucka!" Legend has it that it was actually said by his stunt double. However Billy Wirth does in fact say the line. On The Lost Boys 2 disc DVD, Corey Haim confirms this. Dwayne says the line "you missed sucker!" Sam fires the arrow and Dwayne laughs, then it cuts to him flying backwards into the stereo system. It shows a close-up of Dwayne screaming as he is being burned, which at that point Corey Haim on the commentary says, "see that's not Billy." So that part was the stuntman, not when he says "you missed sucker!"
It could be easy to think it wasn't Billy Wirth saying the line, but if you listen carefully to Corey Haim, he definitely says it's the stuntman after "you missed sucker!" and not when he says it. Also, the facial features definitely match the ones of Billy Wirth, whereas when he is being electrocuted, his face and nose have a different shape.
Contributed by: Charles Davenport
Jason Patric and Jami Gertz also worked together in the 1986 film Solarbabies.
Contributed by: Ashton
The comic store in the Lost Boys called Atlantic Fantasy World is still going today. However, the original location was destroyed during the '89 earthquake. The comic store is now on Cedar St. in Santa Cruz.
The owner, Joe (the one in the background in the black shirt) has a photo of Haim, Feldman, and Newlander up in the store, along with one of the rare copies of "Vampires Everywhere"--the fake vampire comic. He has a photobook of pictures he took during the set building near his shop.
Also, a whole hour of production was stopped when the owner, Joe, realized that when Haim was discussing the Batman comic books, he was incorrect, because there are no such things as volumes. So, the production was stopped for an hour to change the script.
Contributed by: Richard Wright
I have it on good authority that Timmy Cappello who is like "6 foot tall and full of muscle" to quote 'Men at Work' used to carry around a monkey doll called "Monkey" on tour and introduce it to people.
Contributed by: Laurie
Billy Wirth who played the long haired vampire was also a contestant on the television show The American Gladiators in the late 1980's.
Contributed by: Sue Kuczynski
The poster that hangs on Sam's wall in the scene after Michael tries to "get" him - is "
Reform School Girls
" with the baddest girl herself
Wendy O. Williams
Contributed by: Jade Senger
Before the film had started, Corey Feldman and
Corey Haim
had never met. Despite the fact that they'd both been annoyed before meeting by constant references to the other "Corey", they became best friends during the production.
Contributed by: Steven Murray
Alex Winter
(Marko) is now a Director and has given up acting.
Contributed by: Anoe
Edgar Frog (Corey Feldman) was of course also in "
Stand by Me
" with David (
Kiefer Sutherland
Contributed by: Anonymous
Billy Wirth also plays "Dr. Viagra" in an episode of Sex and the City. He briefly dates Samantha (Kim Catrall).
Contributed by: Kelzie
These days you can see
Edward Herrmann
(Max) in Gilmore Girls playing Lorelais' dad Richard.
Contributed by: Kelzie
The Lost Boys was Jamison Newlander's (Alan Frog) first major acting role and apart from making a cameo in 1988's "
The Blob
, his acting career never really took off. It was suggested there would be a spin off movie from The Lost Boys, just about the Frog Brothers but it obviously never happened.
Contributed by: John Taylor And Matthew Ash
Alex Winter can be seen as one of the vampires of the gang, called 'Marko', he is also Bill S Preston Esq. in the Bill and Ted Films.
Contributed by: Kori Harris
I had to laugh while watching Jami Gertz' new sit-com, 'Still Standing'. In a Halloween scene, at an 80's party, she showed up wearing the "white dress" (and all the accessories that went with it) that she wore when Jason Patric first sees her at the boardwalk.
Contributed by: Joe
INXS, who provided part of the Lost Boys soundtrack, filmed the video for their hit single 'Devil Inside' on the Lost Boys set. The video was directed by Joel Schumacher.
Contributed by: David
Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland shared the spotlight in the movie and afterwards even became best friends in real life. However, they both ended up sharing something else, Julia Roberts. Kiefer and Julia began seeing each other after co-starring in "Flatliners" and set their date to be married as June 14, 1991. However, weeks before the wedding - Julia Roberts and Jason Patric ran off together to Ireland and began a highly publicized relationship instead. The relationship eventually failed, as did Jason and Kiefer's friendship.
Contributed by: Kerri
One of the "Lost Boys" (Marko) is, of course, Alex Winter of "
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Contributed by: Jillian Ronsonet
In the scene where all the boys are in the cave, when David asks Marko to get the wine, as he walks past Star you can see a poster from the movie "Munster, Go Home."
Contributed by: Britton
The Heavy Metal band Lizzy Borden had a song off their "Master Of Disguise" album called "Be One Of Us" that was totally inspired by The Lost Boys.
Contributed by: James
In the first episode of "24"'s sixth season, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) kills a terrorist by biting his neck.
Contributed by: Jillian Ronsonet
The movie is also the inspiration for Finnish-metal band '69 Eyes' music video directed by Bam Margera, 'Lost Boys'. Some scenes in the music video are taken from the movie such as inside the cave and racing motorbikes on the beach by the boardwalk.
Contributed by: Dreamer012778
Billy Wirth is also the baseball player Zoo Knudsen in the 80's film "Seven Minutes in Heaven".
Contributed by: Dreamer012778
Alex Winter (Marko) also played in a 90's comedy movie entitled freaked.
Contributed by: Anonymous
Do you remember the security guard who get's snatched by the vampires in the deserted parking lot? His name is 'Vernon Beesley' as there is a glimpse of his photo on a missing person poster on a notice board later in the film.
Contributed by: intothesea13
The Rob Lowe poster seen on Sam's closet door may be a throwback to Joel Shumacher having just directed Lowe in St. Elmo's Fire.
Contributed by: MichelleLR
Billy Worth has a role in the movie "Boys on the Side" starring Drew Barrymore, Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker (he's Drews drug dealer boyfriend).
Contributed by: Anonymous
The guy who played the vampire killed in the bathtub was on the soap opera Guiding Light. He played Dylan Lewis.
Contributed by: chimpanshane
In Michael's room, you will see a poster of Echo and the Bunnymen. The band also contributed one of the soundtrack songs.
Contributed by: Olivier
There is a beautiful reference to a famous horror author. Edgar and Alan Frog! Those names are a mix between Edgar Allan Poe and "Hop Frog", the title of one of Poe's short stories. Coincidence?
Contributed by: Lorin
Brooke McCarter
(paul) is also in a film called
where he stars alongside Josh Brolin who is in
The Goonies
With Corey Feldman (Edgar Frog).
Contributed by: Lisa
In the scene after the Frog Brothers and Sam stake Marco when they are getting into the car to "burn rubber!" you can see the 'vampire blood' on them sparkling... And about 20 years later there is now 'Twilight' the sparkling vampires! but 'Lost Boys' still kicks butt!
Contributed by: Diane
The poster of Molly Ringwold in Sam's room is a scene from "Sixteen Candles". The end credits say it's from "The Breakfast Club".
Contributed by: Olivier
Alex Chapman Plays the surf nazi killed in the car. He also appears in Predator 2 during the subway fight scene. He 's got the same look in both movies.
Funny fact : IMDb did not made a link between the two through Chapman's page.
Contributed by: Anonymous
Billy Wirth (Dwayne) appeared in season 1 of "Charmed" as Matthew Tate, a powerful warlock and antagonist (Episode 9, The Witch Is Back)
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Billy Wirth actually has another line. In the scene where Star gets on the bike with David, Laddie gets on the back of Dwyane's bike & Dwayne says something like "You ready?". Not sure of the exact words, but he does say another 3 little words :) Just wanted to point that out.
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RUFC - Robins Pre Leeds
Rotherham United entertain Leeds United this evening in the second round of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. And, Millers Manager, Mark Robins, won't be wanting to go out, like they did last season at this stage, of the competition.
Speaking to The Star, Robins said, 'It would be nice to go further this year than last and we are going into this game with a load of confidence.'
On Saturday, the Millers finally got into plus points in the League, after their 4-1 win at home to Grimsby and Robins said, 'We've done exceptionally well to overcome the seventeen points deficit. It's a good achievement but we've still a long way to go. Our first aim is to avoid relegation but, if we get to a stage where we are safe then we would have to re-assess our aims.
'Leeds are a big club with an amazing history but tonight it's not about Leeds, it's about us and how we can put them under pressure. There's no substitute for hard work and tonight is another opportunity to test ourselves.'
Tonights game is ALL TICKET. There will be no pay-on-the-day facilities. Millers fans have until 3.00pm to get tickets from the Barbot Hall office.


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"DRM only protects against non-existent threats, because those are easier to defend against."
I disagree.
DRM protects agains the very real threat to the media distributers profits due to "fair use".
In your own example, "fair use" (making backups of CD's) is reducing the profits of the distributer (as you don't have to keep buying the same CD).
I've just had to buy a second copy of a game 'cos the backup didn't work and the original snapped in 2 when my daughter tried to remove it from the cover.]]>
DreamWorks had to restate a quarter's profits as a loss. Why? Because millions of plastic DVDs were returned un-sold to their warehouse by retailers. What if those DVDs had not existed? What if they were not needed? What if "you pay for it, now you download it, and it's yours?" Every sale that actually occurred would be pure-profit, and every sale that didn't occur would cost nothing. There would be NO "inventory."
=This= is the direction that this industry =is= going, and the record label's refusal to acknowledge this simply shows that they are still clueless. (But these same folks ALSO objected to ... cassette tapes, playing songs on the radio, digital tape, the iPod ...)
I do not believe, not for a second, that the world has suddenly become filled with thieves. Rather, it was filled with people who wanted things to be different, changed the picture, and did not stop and wait for the record labels to bless what they were doing. As a result, Apple's on-line music store is now the second busiest commerce site on the Internet, right behind Amazon. I rest my case.]]>
I have small children, and whenever I buy a CD, I immediately make a backup copy and only let them use the copy. That way, when they (inevitably in a few weeks) destroy it, I just repeat the process. With DVD movies, it's too much of a pain becuase of the copy protection, so I don't do it. So I'm going to have to go buy another copy of anything I still want. But the pirates have no trouble: Look on any of a number of legitimate websites, and there are tons of obviously pirated DVD copies advertised for sale.
The "kiddie" pirates who rip the music / video / whatever and post it have more patience than I and go ahead an defeat the copy protection. As usual, DRM only protects against non-existent threats, because those are easier to defend against.]]>
So aren't they or the agents on the phone going to be charged by the RIAA for the DMCA violation. The act makes no mention that I could see of the owner being exempt.
| The recording industry, and to a lesser extent
| the movie industry, is not pushing DRM to
| protect the sanctity of an individual recording,
| they're pushing DRM to protect their distribution model.
More accurately, they're pushing DRM to protect their revenue. Its all about the money.
They know their distribution model is dated. They know that digital distribution is the future. They just haven't figured out how to keep themselves as critical part of the process, while they're growing tired of Steve Jobs and his whole "not raising prices" crap.
Like Ahnold said, "you must have been very proud of yourself." Yeah, i kinda was.
And honest to god I deleted the files I ripped. It was some Dave Matthews CD and I just can't stand his music (sorry Dave, no offense, you prolly wouldn't like mine either)]]>
Don't you mean that it doesn't work on a Mac because Apple has chosen not to support it (yet), not to mention Sony-BMG are anti-Apple DRM (because Fairplay is closed to them) so some Sony-BMG CDs might not work on Macs?
(I still don't buy "CDs" using this technology, though I've compromised my principles a bit and will buy DVDs that come with a "bonus audio disc" that uses Sunncomm's DRM.)]]>
As I understand the story, the music studios have always been a "rainmaker racket", which initially branched out from the similar rackets which already managed live performances.
The original "deal" was "well, if you don't want to sign an *exclusive* contract with us, why should we let you use *our* studio facilities?" Over time, the "studios" gained a stranglehold on distribution, through both records and radio, until they could dictate their own terms to aspiring artists. Of course, some acts managed to gain enough renown and accumulate enough money to keep the studios from declaring them "out of fashion" when they demanded a fair share of the profits.
There weren't too many of those... at first. But they accumulated over time, and the technology to compete with the "official" studios kept getting cheaper.... And since the studios had been screwing the artists so badly, some of the successful groups started sponsoring their own production paths, which they then shared with new artists. After a while, the studios couldn't really keep a lid on the "independents" anymore.
Now they're stil trying to keep that old "rainmaker" business going, but the situation has changed too much -- it's just too easy now for people to get their music out on their own, and even get paid for it without going through the studios. The whole DRM push represents their attempt to regain control over the situation, but I'm pretty sure it's just too late for that -- largely because they've so alienated the folks who are actually *creating* stuff, that many of those artists have gone over to open revolt. The agenda of the artists no longer matches that of the studios, and no amount of technological bullying is going to change that.]]>
It used to be very difficult to produce and distribute the recorded media, which gave a significant competitive advantage to the industry in question -> if you wanted to hear a performer, you either had to see the performer live, or you had to buy into not only the recording industry's individual product (the phonographic record), but also in a sense into the entire distribution model the industry used to produce and sell records.
Technologically speaking, this is no longer the case -> the entire distribution model is completely broken by the ability of an end-consumer to copy and distribute recorded works.
I find it interesting, from a business analysis standpoint, that the recording/movie industry is relying upon a legal avenue to secure their monopoly *over a distribution model* rather than attempting to remove the distribution model from their profit center entirely. In the long run, this *will* fail - you can't halt this sort of technology with a court order.
I'm not attempting to justify illegal music/movie downloading (I have purchased, at great cost, all of the music that I enjoy), I'm simply stating the reality of human nature.
On a tangent, very few people point out that the recording industry itself uses elaborate justifications to protect its "intellectual property"... which only exists due to a specific version of the technology in question.
The recording industry did not exist prior to the invention of the phonograph. Artists who wanted to make music for a living either toured or found a patron, depending upon the contemporary sociological environment. It was a harsh environment to be a musician, or a theatrical performer.
Prior to the invention of the phonograph, "ownership" of music consisted entirely of whatever version of copyright existed for the music itself (again, taken in historical context - we're talking about a long stretch of time before the phonograph), not for an individual performance.
Suddenly, however, with the existence of a recording technology, a musician has magically gained "ownership" over a recording of his/her performance. I'm not arguing that this should not be the case, I'm simply saying that people seem to *assume* this is true.
It can certainly be argued that in fact the musician has *no* right to the performance at all. Why should they? They had nothing to do with the invention of the recording device. I don't believe that a percentage of the music sales are garnished by the original inventor of the compact disc. I have yet to see a compelling argument that supports this underlying presumption.
Sure, I agree that artisitic expression in and of itself is a "good". I agree that those who are gifted artists (whatever their media) should be encouraged to perform, and should be compensated for their work in the same way that any artisan should be able to make a living doing what they love and producing something that is beneficial to society. However, I also don't believe that an entire industry should be able to legally protect its monopoly over an outdated technology in order to protect its primary revenue stream.
The recording industry, and to a lesser extent the movie industry, is not pushing DRM to protect the sanctity of an individual recording, they're pushing DRM to protect their distribution model.]]>
"How do the musicians make money? They practice their art and perform! How is this surprising to anyone?"
Um... it's surprising to me that you ignore so much of the industry. I'm a recording engineer and producer. I'm a musician, but my art is in making a recording. You simply cannot generalize (see my post above).
When I have performed as a musician, my tours generally lost money - they were merely a part of the publicity machine. Sure mega acts make money touring, but those of us on the indie scale are playing for gas money and would make more cash working at the 7-11 (and some of us have more lucrative IT careers that we skip pay on - which makes us lucky in that at least we aren't poor). Still, I'm told by fans that they're happy to see us come and play. Even though we're not big, a good many people enjoy our performances and our records. But not everyone pays for our work, and they othen have elaborate justifications for why they snuck into the show or downloaded an illegal copy of our record.]]>
Put simply DRM will only work when the remote host can be fully trusted. It is not possible to ensure that an offline system can be trusted, let alone fully. And arguably online systems as well cannot be fully trusted (this is because in the case of DRM the customer at some point ends up with unprotected data).
There is plenty of evidence of this DeCSS, the Linux X-Box hacks etc etc etc. Even if Intel etc build in TCB/DRM into the CPU it will still be possible to circumvent it. Basically you build an emulator of the chip and open up the data and pipe it somewhere else (ie a hard disk)...
By the way doing this is somewhat less hard than the breaking of DES was.
The real question is if DRM is not just theoreticaly Snake Oil but Practicaly as well, what is the motivation of the various groups promoting it.
It has become clear to many system manufactures (Sony included) that more money can be made from unprotected systems than protected (this is because the cost of protection is not negligable and in FMCE products even a few cents per item can be fatal for a new product).
The Artists now are also are comming round to the same opinion, ie DRM costs them more than it makes/saves them...
So who is left, could it be that the dinasour record companies are begining to feel the icy draft of extinction...]]>
some of them deliberately create lots of errors on the cd so that while they play ok, albeit with your error checker running flat out, your pc cd player has trouble copying them. In other words they're deliberately selling you a faulty product.
Another method is to create dummy sessions on the cd which again confuses your pc cd but not a 'normal' cd player.
I feel that I should link to the Cory Doctorow anti-DRM talk that he gave to Microsoft as it seems relevant. It is a long, but worth while read.
But then again we shouldn't be surprised with what the Recording/Music Industry is doing as listening to music on your computer is a privilege and we should all just buy a regular CD player!
But, to the point of the topic: The majors have taken things to a point where they are harming the interests of musicians by alienating fans that used to spend money. DRM has angered people who would never make illegal copies and some of us are refusing to buy the DRM records because they are too much of a hassle to deal with. So this year I've skipped on purchases from bands I rather enjoy (Kings of Leon, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) as well from as breaking artists like Kasabian (who being new, would be better served by giving away a taste for free - instead they have DRM that makes their release iPod-proof).
It is in response to consumers like me that Sony is backtracking. Their artists know that paying fans are getting annoyed. But they still don't get it. I knew how to hack their DRM before they told everyone how. I don't want to do extra work - I buy 5-10 records a week (maybe a little less now since majors are doing more DRM) and don't want to mess around with figuring out what to do with each one if I want a copy for the car and on my MP3 player.
The people stealing music are going to do it one way or another. Those of us who pay for CDs want convenience. Instead we are asked to install secret software on our machines that might as well be spyware for all we know. It seems like no ones interests are being well served.]]>
The choice between DRM and "all music is free" is a false choice.
The music industry survived for decades without DRM--even with people making mix tapes and sharing with friends. We have a great example of what a music industry would look like without DRM--and it looks profitable to me.
I've never done any music filesharing, but DRM still gets very much in my way of doing other fairly mundane activities. If an artist tells me how to circumvent their DRM, they haven't lost a cent. A buy the CD, I re-burn the CD without DRM, and I throw the original away. At which step do they lose money?]]>
On the other hand, I look at the hard shift that Metallica went through -- from refusing to license t-shirts, etc. to deciding that if anyone was going to make money on their logo, it should be them -- and expect that musicians who give away their music for free will eventually fight to prevent anyone else from selling it for a profit without their approval. And then you're right back to the question of how to enforce rights in an overly efficient model, like the problems with a GNU General Public License, no?
This also reminds me of the discussion about the Hymn project:
DRM could affect their most profitable revenue source if it turns their fans away from their concerts. So if they could help their fans defeat the DRM on their own CDs, they could benefit economically.]]>
It shouldn't be too long now for the music industry to claim they own all the music, even that sung by angels, and want payments even for humming along (or the notes generated from breaking wind and associated internet advertisements). iTunes anyone?]]>
The language ("more and more", "realizing") is anything but impartial. It makes claims without supporting them, clearly favoring one direction without justifying that choice; rather than describing a phenomena, it describes an agenda.
In reality, the short term interests of *some* musicians are served by people freely copying it, the interests of others are not. And long term interests are yet another ball of wax - if music were free, of course the labels would go away. But then, without the constant promotion, would music take such a central role? would we have another megastar? Maybe. Maybe not.
RIAA - move forward. Don't dig your heels in and deny that the world has changed around you. Find a way to distribute music AND generate profit. iTunes and other online outlets are a good start.]]>


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