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WASHINGTON, D.C.: In what they hope will be a massive end-run around politicians, thousands of children's advocates will march on Washington this weekend to plead for a renewed national commitment to meet the varied needs of children. The "Stand for Children" march, organized by Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fund (CDF), comes at a time when federal programs for children are targets of a budget-cutting Congress and of a White House that has proved willing to experiment with the social safety net. Conservative groups such as the Family Research Council and the Traditional Values Coalition this week dismissed the event as a ruse by left-leaning activists to use children's issues to keep "big government" alive. Edelman, a longtime friend of Hillary Clinton with deep Democratic roots, fired back: "Too many of them . . . don't seem to be worried about big government when it comes to the Pentagon." TIME senior writer Elizabeth Gleick reports: "The political goals of the march are very vague. Organizers want to generate the same kind of exhilaration that the Million Man March generated and raise the focus on children's issues. But children's issues encompass so much, that the goals depend on who you are and what you think the government's role should be in raising children."


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"What the!?" you ask yourself, "this guy gave 80 to a shred album! Didn't he give 45 to another one?" Yes, I did. In my defense, Cacophony actually TRIED to be a metal band (and is, in fact, an actual band.) This guy is clearly not a 'metal band,' thus a different standard for this review.
M.A.B. is often considered the fastest damn shredder in the business. Put on ANY of these tracks and I swear to you that you will quake in your combat boots after hearing his six-stringed prowess. If there ever was a 'Shredinator,' it would be this guy. Listen to the solos (though they may just be a part of the song as much as a riff,) on "Burn" or "Tribute to Randy." He makes John Petrucci or Rusty Cooley look like kids who just picked up a guitar!
Most of the songs here are covers, and they are all fantastic. Even "All Along the Watchtower" and "Dream On," songs that aren't often shredder favorites. The songs he actually writes aren't half-bad either, the title track is somewhere between 'Catchy' and 'How did he do that?' Oh and the covers are played at 'too fast my ass,' Dark Angel salutes you M.A.B.!
The production highlights the guitars, of course. But you can hear the other instruments as well, the drums are solid and the bass too. Mark Tremonti, of Creed 'fame,' plays a solo that's worthwhile in "Burn" I expected something a lot worse for a mallcore guitarist. The worst part of this album is it's claim to fame: It's too damn FAST! You can hardly remember the jawdropping leadwork unless you listen very carefully for the umpteenth time.
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50 Greatest Concerts 1959-2009: Part Two (Throwback Thursday)
15. Bob Marley, The Roxy, Hollywood, Calif., May 26, 1976
Owo! Yoyoyo! Yabba yabba yo! The exhilaration of singing along with a Wailers chant was a martial and spiritual awakening that stirred the star-studded, blasé Los Angeles audience when The Wailers played The Roxy. Would The Wailers win over local heroes like Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, Neil Diamond, Robbie Robertson, Carole King and Led Zeppelin, plus movie stars like Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson? The waves of audience voices the musicians heard onstage, shouted yes. Their new album, Rastaman Vibration, functioned as a calling-card for a worldview as well as a new riddim; and with the churning, uplifting 20 minute encore of "Get Up, Stand Up," "No More Trouble" and "War" that closed the show, changed minds and lives – and established the band's American career. London was Marley's second home. But this was Los Angeles – Hollywood – the home of the cowboy movies that inspired Marley to write "I Shot the Sheriff," which helped make Marley's name when Eric Clapton began covering it two years earlier. That night, Marley threw his all into the song, in a way he only did when his urge to communicate transformed him fully from artist to shaman. He mimicked the shooting, and his fast, soccer-trained footwork suggested how it felt to be on the run, wrongly accused. That night, though, the joy of the L.A. audience declared him not just a free man, but – creatively and spiritually speaking – one of the freest that ever lived. Vivien Goldman
14. Led Zeppelin, The Forum, Los Angeles, Calif., June 25, 1972
Led Zeppelin cognoscenti – Jimmy Page included – agree that the mighty hard rock behemoth was at the zenith of their powers for this show. They hadn't toured immediately to promote Led Zeppelin IV, which had been released in November the year before. The break invigorated the band and when Led Zeppelin hit our shores on their eight-date North American tour, their first in three years, they were on fire, but never so much on this hot, sticky June night They were exhausted and giddy, introducing three songs from the not yet recorded Houses of the Holy – "Over the Hills and Far Away," "Dancing Days" and "The Ocean." Plant assured fans that they wouldn't title the next offering Led Zeppelin V, but instead Burn That Candle – a title that bootleggers misinterpreted as Burn like a Candle, misnaming the stealth recordings that flooded the market soon after the show. The temper of the crowd was as high strung as the violin bow that Page used, with a number of rowdy fans persisting in setting off firecrackers, something that Plant addressed with some improvised lyrics, later threatening to leave: "You start blowing blows and we'll go, right? …If everybody keeps cool, we can stay here all night!" Which they did, doing a 25-minute "Whole Lotta Love" medley (one of the last times they'd do it) and a record seven encores! Jaan Uhelszki
13. Talking Heads, Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, Calif., December 18, 1983
It was the end of the Speaking in Tongues tour in the U.S. Those shows which from that tour were truly uplifting. It had a spiritual, perhaps a church-like gospel element to it. There was a feeling of transcendence that I'm pretty sure we reached every night. The show built as it progressed – it was designed that way – the whole set was fantastic. For me, "Genius of Love" was a real high point, though objectively, it was just an excuse for David Byrne to change into his big suit. When he came back, that's when things really started smoking (the final three songs were always "Girlfriend is Better," "Take Me to the River" and "Crosseyed and Painless" ). People were always on their feet from like the third song till the end of the show and by the end of the show, everybody was pretty sweaty and done. Jonathan Demme shot these three shows at the Pantages for his film Stop Making Sense (celebrating its 25th anniversary on Blu-ray this year we might add) and after the last one we had an enormous reception backstage with people like Brian Wilson, Robbie Robertson, Peter Gabriel, Jodie Foster and Drew Barrymore when she was little. Every night of that tour for me, and I'm certain for the rest of the band, was a transcendent experience. Chris Franz, Talking Heads
12. Pink Floyd, Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, N.Y., February 28, 1980
No less than the most elaborate stage show ever launched up until that time, Pink Floyd's live staging of its album The Wall was unprecedented. As drummer Nick Mason reflected, "It was absurdly expensive. It's not something other people will do, generally, because it's just so expensive to put on – it's simply not feasible. But it was great to have done it once." In all, The Wall was only performed live 31 times in four cities, 12 of which took place in New York and Los Angeles. Throughout the first set, a physical wall consisting of 340 white bricks would be built to form a wall 160 ft. wide and 35 ft. tall. Giant puppets representing various characters in the narrative loomed about the stage. The second set, which began with "Hey You," would see the wall slowly coming down – the show reaching its climax during "Comfortably Numb" as guitarist David Gilmour would appear on top of the wall seemingly out of nowhere for a searing solo. "It was a fantastic moment," recalls Gilmour. "The audience, they're all looking straight ahead and down, and suddenly there's all this light up there – their heads all lift up and there's this thing up there and the sound's coming out and everything. Every night there was this sort of 'gasp!' from about 15,000 people. And that was quite something, let me tell you." The final Nassau show would be the last Pink Floyd show to feature Roger Waters in the United States. Josh Baron
11. David Bowie, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, Calif., October 20, 1972
David Bowie brought his feral androgyny and sci-fi glam-rock to the United States for the first time in Cleveland, on September 22, 1972. Bowie had released Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars earlier that year and he was inhabiting the persona of that rock and rollin' bitch of a space invader onstage. On October 20, Ziggy and the Spiders performed a particularly excellent – and bootlegged – show that was re-released earlier this year as Live Santa Monica '72. The kinky link that would mutate hippie into punk had arrived on platform heels with rainbow kimono a-flowing. The Ziggy-Spiders sound was a high-voltage hybrid of rock, folk and musical theater smacked around and bruised by guitarist Mick Ronson's scrappy blues-rock licks. According to Bowie, Ziggy was a Christ-like creation with Dionysian tendencies, the human manifestation of an alien come to save the earth five years prior to its destruction. Onstage, as one can enjoy in director D. A. Pennebaker's 1973 film of Bowie's final Ziggy, this translated into a triumph of style over substance amid some great tunes and an eventual "Rock and Roll Suicide." Fortunately, by this time, Bowie had already morphed into Aladdin Sane. Richard Gehr


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Christine Penmark (Nancy Kelly) is the daughter of a famous writer,
Richard Bravo (Paul Fix). She's married to Kenneth (William Hopper), a
military Colonel who seems to spend most of his time away from home,
usually on short-term call in some other city. The landlady of their
apartment building, Monica Breedlove (Evelyn Varden), is obsessed with
psychology, having even been analyzed by Freud. Because of this, she
courts friendships with other intellectuals, including a criminology
author, Reginald Tasker (Gage Clarke). But by far the most important
character is Christine's young daughter, Rhoda (Patricia McCormick).
Rhoda is oddly adult in her behavior. She goes out of her way to excel at everything she does, to be prim and proper, to seem amicable and innocent. However, in the wake of one of Rhoda's classmates falling victim to a drowning accident while on a school picnic, suspicion falls on Rhoda. As more facts come out, Christine realizes with horror that her child just might be a "bad seed".
A tightly focused ensemble piece, heavy on dialogue and taking place primarily in one interior location, The Bad Seed is one of the better but more understated horror films from the 1950s. Because of its ideas, its unusual portrayal of a manipulatively "evil" child (and a weirdly cute young girl at that), and its nihilistic and abruptly mind-blowing ending, The Bad Seed was quite a shocking film in 1956. In my book, it still is. That's not to say that the film is graphic. Much more so than, say, The Haunting (1963), The Bad Seed is the classic example of how something implied and not shown can be just as effective and disturbing as something shown.
Still, not everyone loves it, of course. "Staginess" is often cited with either a direct claim or an implication that that quality is necessarily a flaw. The Bad Seed's "staginess" is easily explicable. It is a film adaptation of a play by Maxwell Anderson, which was itself adapted from William March's last novel, published in 1954. It's easy to see how only minor changes would allow the film to be performed on a stage. However, I don't see The Bad Seed's staginess as a flaw. It's not as if plays are bad merely for the fact that they're plays, right? There seems to be some unspoken or unanalyzed attendant assumption that cinema shouldn't bear strong similarities to other artistic media and/or a belief that cinema should always be "naturalistic". I don't agree with either of those assumptions. Cinema can do many different things. It shouldn't all just be one way or another.
Rather than being a flaw, the staginess of The Bad Seed is an asset. It catalyzed the effective "tell, don't show" attitude towards the film's violence. It allows all attention to be placed on the fantastic ensemble performances, and especially on McCormack, who turns in the best young female performance this side of Dakota Fanning. And it helps make the film feel like the parable that it is.
Under director Mervyn LeRoy's hand, The Bad Seed is an extended meditation on two philosophical ideas--twisted psychologies and the nature versus nurture debate. It's not just Rhoda who has psychologically-rooted problems and dysfunctions, but everyone in the film. Christine is in denial, and shows that she has long been in denial, about her happiness, her life and her daughter. She continually tries to act as if everything is kosher and normal, but as the film progresses, she has periodic cracks in the armor, until the "breakdown" at the end--and even in the midst of that, she tries to act as if everything is okay and mundane. Monica, who keeps trying to psychoanalyze everyone (except the one person she most needs to psychoanalyze), tends to also intellectually browbeat or overpower them. Kenneth is an absentee husband. Leroy Jessup (Henry Jones), the apartment maintenance man, presents himself as just as twisted, deceptive and manipulative as Rhoda, and there is a pedophile subtext with the character. Claudia Fern (Joan Croydon), the head of Rhoda's school, seems on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and also seems to be in denial, as does Christine's father Richard, who also has elements of absenteeism and emotional distancing. Hortense Daigle (Eileen Heckart), the mother of the drowned boy, is an alcoholic, and her tragedy puts her over the edge. In fact, the only character in the entire film who seems well-adjusted is Reginald, and perhaps that's symbolic of his function as a criminologist.
The nature versus nurture material is incorporated in an unusual way. Characters debate this to an extent, but most take the nurture side. However, the film itself makes more of an argument for the nature side, and Christine, despite being in denial, comes to believe the nature side, as does Reginald, the even-keeled character. In fact, William March (the author of the novel) believed more in the nature side, and said as much to colleagues while he was working on the book, including doing research into psychotic killers.
What helps to amp up the disturbing qualities of the film is that Rhoda is manipulating the audience as well as she is manipulating other characters. Only very seldom does LeRoy have her "true nature" come through, and it's a shock to us in the same way that it's a shock to the other characters. The ending of the book was changed to be in line with the "moral code" for Hollywood films at the time, but the resultant, somewhat bizarre ending, is probably more shocking in retrospect than March's original ending would have been. There have been many horror films over the years with endings somewhat similar to March's. There haven't been many that end in quite the same way that The Bad Seed does.
While the film would certainly require a bit of adjustment for many younger modern horror fans, it is well worth watching, especially if you've become acclimated to slower-paced, dramatic, understated horror.
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As the closing statement says, "This motion picture presents a premise that
is daringly different."
It may seem to be a self-indulgent thing to say, but in 1956, a film about an angelic looking child named Rhoda Penmark (the remarkable Patty McCormack, whose performance is absolutely brilliant, vicious, and mercurial...she transforms with ease from a sweetie-pie to a bristling monster and back to a sweetie-pie), complete with cutesy dresses, disarming curtsies, and blonde braids, who in fact is a homicidal, amoral murderer, was indeed "daringly different". After the generation of Shirley Temple's angelic dresses and bouncy curles and darling dimples, the idea of a perfectly beautiful little girl being a chillingly cold killer is unnerving to say the least. I love this movie, the controversy surrounding its theme: is a murderous personality inherited???
The book HIDEAWAY by Dean Koontz may have been inspired by this classic B&W film. Koontz describes the malefactor in that book in much the same way little Rhoda is contemplated in this film. Something missing in their genetic codes. "The fundementals of nucleotides, DNA proteins..."
As in HIDEAWAY, where the reader was shocked to discover that Vassago's grandpa was a maniac who slaughtered his family, we discover in THE BAD SEED that there was a grandmother back in Christine's (Nancy Kelly) family who methodically murdered her own brood and then calmly left the country, never to be heard from again.
Just the sight of little Rhoda in that infamous scene with the ex-con/yardman LeRoy is enough to have your hair standing on end: "YOU GIVE ME MY SHOES!!! THEY'RE MINE!!! GIVE THEM TO ME NOW, LEROY!!! RIGHT HERE TO ME!!!" Ooh!!! {{{Shiver}}}!!! That is one nasty little seed, that is!!! And not one any sensible person would dare mess with. Poor LeRoy learns this the hard way.
Not a film for the easily upset or faintish. It's not a horror movie, but laden with truly horrific scenes. The "daringly different" premise is brilliant and far ahead of its time of the sweet, Mrs. Cleaver 1950s.
What we have here is a fantastic classic horror film, which benefits
from great performances from all concerned and a plot not typical of
serial killer films. The film doesn't adhere to convention and builds
its story around an idea that was frightening for the time - and still
is to this day. The murderer in this film is as evil as any other; the
only difference being that here the killings are committed by a
decidedly amoral child. The film presents a good portrait of its star,
as it presents its ideas very much from a child's point of view. The
young girl doesn't see what she's doing as wrong as she is always given
a reason to pass on the blame for wrongdoings, and this always comes
across in a plausible way. The plot surrounding the atrocities is even
more interesting than the central idea, as we follow the torment
inflicted on the girl's mother. The situation that Christine Penmark
finds herself in is the stuff of nightmares; just what can you do if
you find that your eight year old child has committed murder? The Bad
Seed makes excellent use of this dilemma, and the fact that it's
incredibly easy to buy into the plot ensures that The Bad Seed prevails
as an potently chilling film.
The film is based on a stage play by Maxwell Anderson, and this comes across often as the film takes place in just a few settings and the whole thing is very stagy. This is, however, to its benefit; as the locations make the whole piece more claustrophobic, and the fact that we don't see the murders themselves benefits the film immensely as it allows the audience to spend more time considering the implications; which are what the film is actually about. The main reason why this film works so well is down to a great performance by talented child actor Patricia McCormack. McCormack presents a portrayal that finds exactly the right pitch between the sweet and innocent youngster that she appears; and the dark persona that lies just beneath her exterior. Nancy Kelly similarly gives a defining performance as her tortured mother, and excellently puts across a torrent of emotion. The acting is typically melodramatic, but all the cast somehow manage to keep their acting down to earth. Every scene in the movie is perfectly pitched and nothing is wasted as we are continually taught more about the characters and their situations. The climax to the film is fabulously poetic, despite being implemented on the producer's orders and overall, I really don't see much wrong with this film. Highly recommended!
I saw "The Bad Seed" years ago, circa 1970, for the first time, and
have seen it periodically over the years. When I first saw the film, as
a child, I found the film, expectedly, quite chilling.
I saw it again this afternoon, after not having seen it for about three years, and still find it quite disturbing. Now that we have IMDb, I decided to offer my thoughts. And so, I was shocked to find SO MANY comments about it...more than for any other film that I've reviewed on IMDb to date. If I add anything of unique value, great. If not, I'm happy to share my review anyway.
Certainly, there are flaws, or perhaps only "unique differences", in this film. Primarily, it can very easily be considered a filmed play, as the staging, the dialog, and the entrances and exits of the characters throughout the film seem to be lifted directly from the stage version. Therefore, some may find the film a bit too sterile or unnatural in many ways. However, I think it is this very sterile, staged, stark-from-a-production-standpoint quality that gives the film an even eerier and in some ways far more realistic edge than might be found were it to be produced today for film, with far more slick and sophisticated sets, dialog, camera work, etc. The realism and pronounced disturbing quality of this version stems from the simple story itself, the psychological horror of which could be in some ways obfuscated from a much more sophisticated, big-studio, modern-day production.
As for the subject matter itself, I know that the number of cases, historically, involving child murderers is actually low. Therefore, some critics have argued that to take a relatively rare phenomenon, such as the child murderer, and build a motion picture around it, portraying it in the vein of plausibility, can be misleading and dangerous, giving the impression, especially to younger viewers, that child criminals are more commonplace than you may think. I wholeheartedly reject this notion. The whole purpose of acting is to portray the entire range of the human condition with as much truth as possible, no matter how rare or commonplace certain aspects of human behavior might be. Though child murderers may be few in number, it's an area worthy of as much exploration, in film, as is an ugly, unrealistic alien telling us to "phone home" or the sinking of the Titanic.
Even though this film possesses a definite "campy", staged, and perhaps even "cult" quality, it is chillingly effective. One reason for which this film works is due to the character of Rhoda herself, played by Patty McCormack. The smiling, blond, blue-eyed veneer of the child juxtaposed with the idea of her criminal potential (and actions) is just plain "creepy". Moreover, the less you see, in terms of the actual crimes she commits, the more you conjure. And, you continually wonder who her next victim will be. Furthermore, you wonder how many people will eventually "come on to her" and become aware of whom she is, and how that knowledge will affect their fate.
Another reason for which this film works is because of the mother, Christine, played by Nancy Kelly. As we slowly watch her become aware of what has become of her daughter, we can't help but empathize with her predicament and her decision in handling it. The first few times I saw the film, just as I felt that Patty McCormack's portrayal and dialog delivery were probably mere replicas of what she offered on stage, I felt that Nancy Kelly's performance was affected and probably lifted directly from her work on the stage (I've never seen a stage version, nor have I read the book, yet). But in the case of Ms. Kelly, watching her realize what she has ultimately given birth to and raised is very heart wrenching. Moreover, I have always wondered if the use of her right hand was a direction given to her by either of her directors (for play or film), or if it was something she came up with herself. Two instances come to mind.
In the first one, the manner in which she hits the table with her right hand as she listens to what is happening outside near her shed while Rhoda plays "Au Claire de la Lune" on her piano is very pronounced, appears somewhat odd and is perhaps symbolic. She seemed to be pounding her hand not only in outward denial and anger at the realization she now has of what her child is capable of committing, but as a means to torture and punish herself for having given birth to her in the first place. In the second instance, Nancy Kelly used her right hand again in a very pronounced manner when she offers Rhoda her vitamins "that night". Again, I couldn't help but wonder what symbolism she wanted us to draw from her gesture. It might be said that this very hand, which once comforted and fed her child all her life, has now become the tool that feeds the ultimate fate of her child toward the end of the film. (Again, not having read it, I have a fairly good idea how the book ends).
As for how the ending/epilogue in the film was handled, practically everyone on this site who has offered a review knows that the use of the "casting call" was basically dictated by the mandates of the Hays Code. I'll just add that I find that the chilling effect of the story carries over to this bizarre "epilogue". I still find it a bit unsettling to see each of these actors take their bows, especially considering that some of the characters they portrayed would, in my estimation, appear stranger to a child than does Rhoda....particularly Leroy, when he bows to the viewing audience carrying his large pitchfork.
My daughter, Rachel, always found this the most frightening movie she ever
saw, and from a psychological perspective, it's easy to see why. Patty
McCormack is magnificent as charming but evil first-grader Rhoda Penmark.
Nancy Kelly is terrific in some scenes, but almost comically overwrought in
others, as Rhoda's gradually terrified mother. Paul Fix deserves special
mention in a strong performance as Kelly's father. And, Eileen Heckart is
also a standout as the grief-stricken mother of a boy that we suspect Rhoda
of killing. But, my personal favorite character is LeRoy, incredibly
portrayed by Henry Jones. This is a characters I have never forgotten from
the moment I first saw this one in the late 50's.
"That Rhoda is smart, almost as smart as me", he repeats for the camera several times in obsessive fashion. The ending which differed from the play has disturbed a lot of purists, but I think it has a lot of merit. Altogether, I give it 8 out of 10, very memorable and extremely well done.
Minor 1950's classic that holds up well fifty year later. The film does
have its flaws. Occasionally it has the feel of a staged play--at times
it seems Mrs. Penmark has to answer the door every five minutes so as
to get the other major characters on screen. The Freudian psychobabble
and the altered ending add an unnecessary half hour or so to the
running time. And the acting can be very overwrought (although the
scene in which Mrs. Penmark is screaming in the apartment as Leroy
screams outside--both counterpointed by Rhoda's untalented but very
loud rendition of "Au Clair de la Lune"--is a moment of high camp
horror on par with anything in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?") Still
the movie works, largely because of Rhoda, the eerily self controlled
little murderess who despite her sweet smiles always looks at though
her hair is braided a bit too tight. It helps that an actress was cast
who was cute enough, but not too pretty--Patty McCormack looks like a
miniature gargoyle when she drops the sunny mask and starts roaring.
Leroy, the leering simple minded caretaker is almost as unsettling--the
scenes in which he sadistically taunts Rhoda almost amount to a very
twisted flirtation, as he is clearly more delighted than appalled by
her capacity for evil (at least until he learns just how far this
capacity goes).
I haven't seen the 1980's remake, but I can't see how it could top the original, if only because evil little girls in jeans and T-shirts just aren't as scary as evil little girls with hair bows and starched frocks.
I was blown away! I was at the edge of my seat the whole time. Those people gave me the creeps. I was just flipping through the channels when I came across it. Normally I'll change the channel after a minute or two to see what else is on, but not when I saw this movie! I was so terrified, I sat through the whole movie, uninterrupted. I'm shivering just thinking about it right now!
With some familiar elements of classic thrillers plus some creative turns,
this is an unusual and effective thriller. Patty McCormack is memorable as
young Rhoda, and the rest of the cast succeed in making their characters
react believably to some nearly unbelievable situations. The story moves
slowly enough to build suspense carefully, while still holding your interest
the whole time.
For this kind of story to work, it has to keep the tension and uncertainty without becoming obviously implausible or annoyingly overplayed. In "The Bad Seed", we see the tension and fear that build in the characters as the story develops, but events also unfold within an atmosphere that otherwise would be peaceful and normal, making for an interesting contrast that helps to maintain a good balance.
Unlike the many banal movies made in recent years about serial killers and the like, "The Bad Seed" also contains some substance. The characters, especially the mother (played by Nancy Kelly), not only have to make difficult decisions, but also must fearfully attempt to understand the reasons for everything. It's a good example of how well a thriller can work when carefully made without a lot of extraneous elements, and it's a demonstration that a movie can have a tense, dark story without being shallow or superficial at the same time.
as the mother of the drowned boy.... a performance that must rank with the best of the 1950s. Heckart repeated her stage role in the 1956 film with Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormack as the mother and daughter. Henry Jones (also in the stage production and excellent), Evelyn Varden, Gage Clarke, Paul Fix, Joan Croyden and Jesse White are good in support. Jones and Varden are especially good. William Hopper is and always was BLAH. But Eileen Heckart is superb as the drunken, crushed woman who knows there is something more to her son's death than she is being told. Her two scenes are riveting as she lurches across the room, begging for information, yet totally in control of the situation. Kelly, McCormack, Jones, and Varden are also good (if stagy) in their roles. Kelly seems hopelessly hammy but grows on you even though she seems to be imitating Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard most of the time. Great film, literate, interesting, riveting..... a must!
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This is a movie that stands the test of time because of the period in
which it was filmed, its methods of filming and acting, and the level
of knowledge of the subject matter at that time. It is truly a period
piece and as such, it is a powerful chiller-thriller.
A hit on Broadway, 'The Bad Seed' was translated into film as though it were a play; hence various commentators speak of its staginess and sometimes overwrought acting as if they were serious objections to the enjoyability of the movie. But does anyone complain that 'Dracula' was stagy and overwrought? No, because the movie is classic in and of itself, and so is 'The Bad Seed'.
Translate your mind back to the early nineteen-fifties and 'The Bad Seed' takes on new levels of meaning and challenge. Christine Penrose, whose military husband is called away from home, is raising her darling daughter Rhoda on her own when things start slowly coming apart. Rhoda is the perfect eight-year-old, a pretty, intelligent and very affectionate child, in crinoline dresses and blonde braids, to whom everyone around gives praise and, often, gifts. She is always grateful and loving in her delight with what she gets.
What is wrong with this picture? Rhoda wants something very badly, something she feels she won and has been unjustly denied, something that disappeared when its owner died a sudden, tragic death. So why does it turn up in Rhoda's possessions?
Christine Penmark has no idea what is going on. Children were not believed to have mature personalities according to the psychology of the day, and the case of Leopold and Loeb was brutal and startling, and apparently a singular aberration, just a few years before the play debuted. There was then no way to explain what Christine begins to perceive: that Rhoda takes what she wants if she can't charm her way to it, and anyone who gets in her way she simply 'removes'.
This wasn't supposed to happen in the 1950's. Today we may be more reliably informed, especially to the statistics that point clearly to the 'nurture rather than nature' explanation, but Christine is alone with her manipulative little murderess with no world-view to encompass what she faces. Her confusion and denial aren't weaknesses of character but the product of the general understanding of the day.
It is not until she has a chance encounter with a criminal psychologist who posits the 'nature, not nurture' theory of criminality, and then digs more deeply into the dark secret of her own childhood that things begin to add up, and Christine Penmark herself unravels in as ghastly a manner as her life has done.
The play is in black and white, and so are the performances and the ethics and morality of its message. Rhoda has only two sides to her: the apparently good, affectionate, perfect angel and the manifestly evil, selfish, deadly crocodile-brained killer. Patty MacCormack is excellent in the dual portrayal, and her performance as a child actress is an achievement seldom rivaled and never bettered.
Nancy Kelly's utter devastation, step by step, is carefully crafted and touched with a dread terror that recognizes, though never states, that Christine knows that she herself is not safe around Rhoda, let alone anyone else. Her response to that knowledge is telling; she is the mother of a murderess, after all.
The performances of Henry Jones as the unsavory handyman the audience ends up wanting Rhoda to put out of our misery and Eileen Heckart as the bereft and alcoholic mother of Rhoda's dead schoolmate are both stand-outs. Again, look to the time of the filming. People had no access to the psychiatric and sociological services both of these two characters needed in spades. People like them were out there in the 50's, more of them than we -- five decades or so later -- want to think, and without help or restraints we expect to come naturally now. Terrifying or pitiable, they were there when the movie was made.
I read the book before I saw the movie, so I expected the original ending and was somewhat disappointed that it was changed. But the add-on tag is yet another level of good v. evil, one the audience might embrace emotionally if not intellectually, and perhaps more reflective of other beliefs of the 1950's, also.
Beware if the Penmarks move in next door. They may not be good neighbors, no matter how much they smile and compliment you. After all, it runs in the family. Oh, and as Christine Penmark had to do, take a long look at your own....
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PM81536: z/TPFDF should ensure that the correct file ID exists in pool records before releasing those records.
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APAR NUMBER: PM81536 PRODUCT: z/TPFDF FUNCTIONAL AREA: TPFDF CENTRAL DATABASE ROUTINES SHIPPED IN PUT: 10 ABSTRACT: z/TPFDF should ensure that the correct file ID exists in pool records before releasing those records. Also, when a DBRST is issued after an LLR was deleted from the prime block, multiple releases of the LLR or a DB0168 may occur. PACKAGE CONTENTS: Source Segments: (C) tpfdf/include/i_dfhd.h (C) tpfdf/rt/uas0.asm (C) tpfdf/rt/ub90.asm (C) tpfdf/rt/ufka00.cpp (C) tpfdf/rt/ufka03.cpp (C) tpfdf/rt/uftk.cpp Object Only Binaries: None. Configuration Independent Binaries: None. Support Files: None. OTHER BINARIES TO BUILD: YES (C) <sys>/lib/libUTDF.so (C) <sys>/load/UFKA.so (C) <sys>/load/UFTH.so (C) <sys>/load/UTDF.so (C) <sys>/obj/uas0.o (C) <sys>/obj/ub90.o (C) <sys>/obj/ufka00.o (C) <sys>/obj/ufka03.o (C) <sys>/obj/uftk.o COMMENTS: (1) z/TPFDF should ensure the correct file ID exists in a pool record before it releases that pool file address. In most parts of z/TPFDF, the block has already been accessed and its ID has been verified before z/TPFDF issues a RELFC on its file address. Therefore, an additional ID check on the RELFC API is not needed in those cases. However, there are some routines in large logical record (LLR) and B+Tree processing where file addresses are released without accessing them first. These routines should be enhanced to validate the file ID before releasing the records in case those records are in use by another database. (2) Furthermore, a DB0100 system error is generated when an I/O error occurs when z/TPFDF attempts to retrieve a record. However, the online message does not indicate which I/O error occurred. It would be helpful if the online message indicated which specific I/O error occurred. (3) In addition, if there was an LLR in the prime block that had previously been deleted and a DBRST is done, the blocks in the LLR could be released more than once. This is because DBRST copies a possible user header part of the "from" block to the "target" block. An incorrect length was used in the calculation, so the z/TPFDF header component of the standard header is copied to the target block, potentially overwriting the next available byte (NAB) value. As a result, a possibly inactive LLR is activated again and either generates a DB0168 if an attempt is made to re-access it, or reults in multiple releases if the LLR is re-released.
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SOLUTION: (1) Segments ufka00.cpp and ufka03.cpp have been updated so that LLR release processing issues a find and wait on LLIBs and LLDBs to ensure the file ID is valid before releasing the blocks either directly in function UFKA03_release_blocks() or asynchronously in function UFKA00_release_all_LLDBs_from_this_LLIB(). If an error is encountered, informational dump OPR-DB0189 is issued and the block is not released. The dump is issued only once per LLIB, but the loop to release additional file addresses continues. Segment uftk.cpp has been updated so that B+Tree processing issues a find and wait on B+Tree nodes to ensure the file ID is valid before releasing the blocks. If an error is encountered, informational dump OPR-DB0189 is issued and the block is not released. Header i_dfhd.h has been updated to contain a common macro to generate the DB0189 system error that is based on the DB0100 system error. (2) Segment ub90.asm has been updated to add information to the DB0100 system error such that its content matches the DB0189 system error. (3) Segment uas0.asm has been updated to use the correct displacements and lengths (taking into account both the z/TPF and z/TPFDF headers) in the calculation of the user header in the copy routines. COREQS: NO None. MIGRATION CONSIDERATIONS: YES Functional, automation, and operation changes: New system error: DB0189 Modified system error: DB0100 BUILD COMMANDS AND INSTRUCTIONS: YES #maketpf commands for linux maketpf -f UTDF uas0.o ub90.o maketpf -f UFKA ufka00.o ufka03.o maketpf -f UFTH uftk.o maketpf UTDF link maketpf UFKA link maketpf UFTH link UPDATED INFORMATION UNITS: YES z/TPFDF Messages (System Error, Online, Offline) See your IBM representative if you need additional information. DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS: http://www.ibm.com/software/htp/tpf/maint/maintztpf.html APAR URL: http://www.ibm.com/software/htp/tpf/ztpfmaint/put10/PM81536.htm
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Type of Document Dissertation Author Zhao, Chengsong Author's Email Address firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-06122005-230659 Title Identifying and characterizing genes that regulate vascular tissue-specific functions Degree PhD Department Horticulture Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Beers, Eric P. Committee Chair Keywords
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Date of Defense 2005-06-03 Availability unrestricted AbstractVascular tissues provide both the mechanical support to the plant body and the conducting cells for the transport of water, mineral solutes, hormones and other signaling molecules, amino acids, and sugars. To identify genes that may regulate vascular tissue-specific functions, we isolated xylem, phloem-cambium, and nonvascular tissues from the Arabidopsis root-hypocotyl, performed a genome-wide comparative analysis of tissue-specific transcripts using the 24K Affymetrix Arabidopsis ATH1 Genome Array (24K GeneChip), and identified potential genes that are required for xylem and phloem differentiation or tissue-specific functions.
Based on this comparative analysis, two phloem-specific G2-like transcription factors, MYR1 and MYR2, and a xylem-specific NAC domain family member, XND1, were selected for further characterization. Under continuous light, myr2 plants flowered early, while myr1 plants did not differ significantly from wild type controls. However, double mutant myr1myr2 plants exhibited a novel phenotype characterized by elongated petioles, semi-erect leaf orientation, and suppression of lateral shoot outgrowth. These characteristics are reminiscent of yucca, a dominant Arabidopsis mutant with elevated levels of free auxin. Preliminary results indicated that like yucca, myr1myr2 plants were more resistant than wt plants to 5-mT, a toxic tryptophan analog, suggesting that MYR1 and MYR2 may be involved in regulating tryptophan-dependent auxin biosynthesis. Overexpression of any one of MYR1 isoforms resulted in a phenotype that in some cases resembled that observed in the double mutant, indicating that the regulation mediated by MYR1 and MYR2 may depend on formation of specific heterodimers consisting of isoforms of MYR1 and/or MYR2, and that the dimerization was susceptible to disruption both by overexpression and loss-of-function of MYR1/MYR2.
Overexpression of XND1 resulted in the absence of TEs as determined from the absence of both secondary cell wall deposition and TE death. Using 3 tissue-specific promoter-GUS lines as genetic backgrounds, we demonstrated that overexpression of XND1 suppressed only TE-specific GUS expression but not phloem-specific GUS expression. Three T-DNA/transposon insertion lines, xnd1-1, -2, and -3, were identified. Under normal conditions, xnd1 did not exhibit significantly different growth and development compared to wild type plants. However, preliminary data indicated that xnd1 plants were ABA and cold hypersensitive. Yeast-two hybrid screening using the N-terminal portion of XND1 as bait identified a novel RING finger protein, At3g62970 that may function as the ubiquitin ligase (E3). These results suggested that XND1 functions as a negative regulator of xylem cell differentiation, and that the regulation mediated by XND1 may be integrated with the ubiquitin/26S proteasome pathway.
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Harding to lead OMC Foundation
The multi-million dollar fundraising arm of Oconee Medical Center has a new leader. Its new chairperson is Lorraine Harding, who succeeded Kyle Thomas on October 1. Harding has served on the board since 2006 and, most recently, as vice chair and chairperson of the nominations committee. She has been in the real estate business in the tri-county area since 1970, is past S.C. Realtor of the Year, and a current member of the board of the National Association of Realtors. The OMC Foundation Board has 21 members and is responsible for overseeing the operations and investments of the foundation.


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Platte Valley Simmentals LLC is located on the south side of the Platte River in Kearney, Nebraska. Family members involved include Terry and Jacki Buettner and their son Drew and his fiancé Emily Griess and daughter Lauren. The operation consists of a mix of Simmental, Angus and Simangus females and focuses on mating for half-blood cattle to maximize heterosis keeping the commercial cattleman in mind. Along with the cattle there is row crop rotation of corn and beans as well as alfalfa production. Currently we are utilizing A.I. extensively as well as transitioning most of our Simangus and Angus females to recips.
Currently we market our bulls in the spring through a private treaty bid off sale in partnership with Smedra SimAngus. Our females are marketed as breds and virgin heifers private treaty on the farm and through Gonsior Simmentals "In the Heartland Sale".
Drew attended college at Southeast Community College in Beatrice, NE majoring in Animal Science and received his bachelors at Fort Hays State competing on the livestock judging team at both junior and senior colleges. He recently made the move back to Kearney and is farming with Terry and taking care of the day to day cattle operations. Emily is currently finishing her Veterinary school through the Nebraska/Iowa State program and will graduate in 2013 with a hope to focus in feedlot consulting as well as embryo transfer. She also attended Fort Hays State as well and competed competitively on the judging team.
Lauren is involved with the operation as well when she gets time away from her studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she is studying to be a Dental Hygienist.
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MMA fighter vomits during post-fight interview
Cliff Thompson had just finished a grueling three round affair with Doug Usher at NFC #57. He barely had time to catch his breath before MMA Mayhem caught up with him. That led to this disgusting and hilarious moment.
Sure, Cliff losing his lunch is a bit squeamish but the interviewer goes over the top with his reaction. Pure gold.


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Losing a battle, winning the war
The professional satirist best wins our applause as David, slinging stones at the Goliaths in our society. The Chaser played this role with rare audacity in recent years, and millions tuned in to see philistines within state, church, business, sport and law rocked by well-deserved hits of well-targeted humour.
For many, the Chaser's now infamous "Make a Realistic Wish" sketch seemed like a painful betrayal by their comedians of choice. Have our comic champions really morphed into a Goliath of grotesque insensitivity, beating up the most vulnerable of victims - terminally ill children?
I believed Craig Reucassel when, as a part of the group's formal apology for the skit, he stated that they "never intended to say that sick kids were greedy or that the Make-A-Wish foundation does anything other than good work". In this instance their culpability lies with poor artistic execution, not moral failure.
The first episode of the new The Chaser's War On Everything series honed in on appropriate targets such as the archaic sexism of the Melbourne Club, which denies membership to women and consequently has for the first time excluded the Governor-General. In another sketch the indulgent efforts of Shore, the well-heeled private school, to raise funds for new rowing sheds drew effective fire as The Chaser sought donations from underprivileged groups including Somali villagers. Humour-seeking missiles, right on target. But Episode 2 contained a sketch that badly missed its mark, causing serious collateral damage.
The Chaser's instinct that society may now be ready to deal with humour based around terminally ill children has lately been shared by several humorists of note. In Larry David's TV series Curb Your Enthusiasm, an obnoxious adolescent hospital patient blackmails David into granting the request the Make-A-Wish Foundation turned down, namely to arrange for him to see a naked woman. And in Extras, Ricky Gervais reluctantly agrees to provide bedside company for a boy who may only have a few months to live.
In both these scenarios the main characters mirror the awkwardness, anxiety, guilt and selfishness which play against their desire to help - and which many of us feel when confronted by the reality of dying children. There is truth here and it makes us laugh at the foibles we share.
The Chaser's premise echoes another Australian-written skit, about the Make-A-Reasonable-Request Foundation, which aired on the TV show The Mansion. Both sketches are built on the blunt premise that sick children need to adjust their expectations downwards. A sharper and much funnier sketch was posted by the satirical online news service The Onion early last year; talk show Today Now! reports the story of an eight-year-old leukaemia sufferer who is bankrupting the Make-A-Wish Foundation by exploiting the legal loophole of making unlimited wishes.
Though intentionally black in tone, the comic creations of David, Gervais, and The Onion present the terminally ill child as a person of power and we, the audience, laugh not at the child but at our own confusion on how to respond to something so tragic.
The children in the Chaser skit are passive and weak, the characters played by cast members are unconflicted and pragmatic, and since there are no other satirical targets in sight many viewers saw the spoof as a cheap attack on the innocent and the good. In this one-minute sketch, by both popular consensus and by their own frank admission, a group of frequently brilliant comic minds got it terribly wrong.
The remedy for The Chaser is not to follow the Prime Minister's advice and hang their heads in shame but to put those very heads together, learn the lessons from this defeat, then reload their satirical slingshot in readiness to once again fight the giants they have so often confronted with impressive boldness - the bullies of duplicity, chicanery, misinformation and institutionalised self-interest. That is a war worth watching.
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Kyrie Irving may indeed privately wish to set sail from the shores of Lake Erie for supposedly greener pastures, but before freaking out about it you should get to know why the CBA makes that extremely impractical and unlikely for him to do.
Irving is in the midst of the third year of his rookie deal. The way first round picks currently work under the CBA is that they are offered two-year guaranteed deals and the teams have separate options for the third and fourth years, along with a deadline to pick up those options. With Irving, and really most rookies, those options are no-brainers for teams.
Rookie deals are the most valuable contracts in the NBA currently due to the fact that there is almost no negotiating room for the player and his salary is determined solely by the position he is drafted in: the higher the pick, the higher the salary. Thus, players on rookie deals often over-perform their pay grade. In the case of players like Irving, they outperform it by a wide margin. Even if fans are disillusioned with his supposed lack of leadership and the fact that he hasn't won a whole of lot of basketball games, on an open market Kyrie would be making almost triple his current $5.6 million salary.
Players on their rookie deals are eligible for contract extensions from their current team in the summer following their third season, which is what Irving is currently headed toward. The maximum length of an extension is four years with one exception, the "Designated Player" rule. This rule allows teams to select one player on a rookie deal for a five-year extension. Oklahoma City used this rule to give Kevin Durant five years while only being able to offer Russell Westbrook four. David Kahn, the former GM of the Timberwolves, famously decided to save Minnesota's "Designated Player" slot for Ricky Rubio and in the process upset Kevin Love, causing him to push for a player option for the fourth year of his deal which will allow him to bolt Minnesota early if he so desires.
The contract offered to Irving this summer will in all likelihood be the largest the Cavs can offer within the CBA. That is for five years and somewhere around $80 million. The yearly salary is derived from 25% of the salary cap. Irving is also potentially eligible for the "Derrick Rose" rule due to his selection as a starter in this year's All-Star game. The "Derrick Rose" rule allows "Designated Players" to instead earn 30% of the salary cap if they meet any of the following criteria before the start of their new contract: win a MVP, be selected to start in two All-Star games or be named to an All-NBA team twice.
If Irving is voted in as starter again in 2015, then he will be eligible for this pay raise assuming he signs the extension. James Harden was eligible for this raise, but failed to meet the requirements; the first year of his "Designated Player" deal was worth $13,668,750. Paul George is going to enter the first year of his "Designated Player" deal next season and, seeing as he is probably going to make his second All-NBA Team, will meet the requirements raising his pay to $15,800,000 in the first year of the deal.
But What if Kyrie Doesn't Sign the Extension?
If Kyrie fails to sign any offer put forth by the Cavaliers by October 31, 2014, then Kyrie will not only be the first player to turn down the "Designated Player" contract, but he will have already cost himself a decent amount of money. If a player on his first contract enters the summer following his fourth season without an extension then the team can either rescind his rights (not happening) or offer him a Qualifying Offer, which is a one-year deal valued at 125% of the player's previous season salary. Irving's Qualifying Offer would be around $9 million.
The player then can accept the offer (which almost never happens), and become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the one-year deal, or decline it, at which time he becomes a restricted free agent. Once the player becomes a restricted free agent, his current team has three days to match any offer sheet signed by the player from another team. Thus, players in restricted free agency are ultimately still controlled by their current team.
Irving cannot make as much money in restricted free agency as he could by accepting the "Designated Player" contract. Not only that, but it doesn't give him any control of where he plays. If he's going to turn down an extension, it's hard to see him not opting to take the Qualifying Offer and in doing so becoming the first player to turn down a mega-contract coming off their rookie deal in an effort to enter free agency early. Seeing as Irving is likely to qualify for the "Derrick Rose" rule mentioned earlier the difference between the money he'd make under the Qualifying Offer and an extension with the Cavaliers in the 2015-2016 season alone is around $7 million. Not to mention the fact that Irving can only get a four-year deal in free agency where as he can get a five-year deal with the Cavs.
Following the blowout loss to the Knicks on TNT, Irving was quoted as saying:
"Do I privately want out when my contract is up?' I'm still in my rookie contract and I'm happy to be here. And I'm pretty sure I'm going to be here for a long time. I'm not saying anything to tell the future, but I'm pretty sure the relationship I have with Dan Gilbert and management extends off the court. I enjoy being here."
The fact that he mentioned he's still on his rookie contract in a response to him wanting to be here implies an understanding from Kyrie that even if he did want out of Cleveland, it would cost him risking way too much money to do so and ultimately the notion is impractical. In all probability he will be plying his basketball trade in Cleveland for the next five or six years. It's up to Gilbert to convince him to stay beyond that.
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|December 2000Number 129
|JEL classification: N1, G2, E3
Authors: Donald Morgan, Bertrand Rime, and Philip Strahan
We investigate how bank migration across state lines over the last quarter century has affected the size and covariance of business fluctuations within states. Starting with a two-state version of the unit banking model in Holmstrom and Triocole (1997), we conclude that the theoretical effect of integration on business cycle size is ambiguous, because some shocks are dampened by integration while others are amplified. Empirically, we find that integration diminishes employment growth fluctuations within states, and decreases the deviations in employment growth across states. In other words, business cycles within states become smaller with integration, but more alike. Our results for the United States bear on the financial convergence under way in Europe, where banks remain highly fragmented across nations.


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|Yankee Stadium is known as "The House That Ruth Built," yet the legendary home run hitter
never lifted a hammer or poured a drop of concrete in its construction.
Brooks Stadium is known as "The House That Brooks Built" because its namesake had everything
to do with its construction. J. Polk Brooks didn't allow his status as president of the Paducah Baseball Association to interfere with his taking a first-hand interest in seeing that the concrete and steel stadium was built as cost-effectively as possible.
Check Paducah Chiefs scores and statistics at the Ohio Valley League Website!
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Right, I've done that. I've set the DNS servers to 192.168.x.x and
those get passed to the clients properly. If you look at the
resolv.conf on an OSX client after a connection, it looks like
nameserver 192.168.x.x
nameserver 192.168.x.y
but I want it to look like
domain bar.com
nameserver 192.168.x.x
nameserver 192.168.x.y
Windows clients behave in a similar way, not getting the default
search domain. The domain is set to bar.com in the general setup on
the monowall, but it doesn't seem to get passed to the clients.
On Oct 5, 2006, at 9:53 AM, SDamron wrote:
> You need to assign DNS automatically to the pptp client and setup DNS
> names for your servers in m0n0. There is documentation for this on
> the site, can't remember the exact link, but do some searching, and
> you will find it.
> On 10/5/06, Jay Lyerly <jayl at ceintl dot com> wrote:
>> Is there any way to assign a default DNS search domain to pptp
>> clients? I have an internal web server named foo in the domain
>> foo.bar.com. On my internal hosts, http://foo works b/c they are set
>> to search bar.com. This setting isn't passed to PPTP. From a pptp
>> machine, http://foo doesn't work, but http://foo.bar.com does.
>> Under both windows and OSX, you can set the search domain on the
>> client side, but its many clicks and something my users are
>> invariable not get quite right. I was using the PPTP server on OSX
>> Server edition which managed to set the default search domain on
>> clients. Unfortunately, as a PPTP server, it wasn't all to stable.
>> So, can the PPTP server broadcast its DNS search domain to clients?
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T.I. Tries To Fix Marriage In New Music -'Stay' ft Victoria Monet [AUDIO]
In T.I.'s latest music release, "Stay" ft Victoria Monet, he makes a lot of references to his marriage with Tiny. After listening to the heartfelt lyrics you can feel T.I.'s effort to make his marriage work.
Sample of lyrics:
"Man after everything we will never be the same/ Man I'm tired of tellin' lies, know you sick of playin' games/ I remember you got a tattoo, put my name on it."
"And you can't say that I ain't changed your whole life since we met that day/ And when we get it right, God bless that day/ But until then, shawty, I just pray."
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Cities stand at the very center of each and every one of the biggest challenges the world now faces.
Young photographers capture the country's abandoned spaces, overcrowded cities, and the people left behind.
The "people-centered" plan has some serious flaws.
I'm a Millennial who moved to New York City, but I'm not sure how long I'll stay.
Can we possibly prepare?
How globalization has changed the nature of urban development.
The distinction between city and countryside is disappearing, creating a raft of new problems that disproportionately hurt women.
They can act as economic engines for entire countries.
A dire slump threatens to send poor, unemployed migrants back to the countryside in search of work.
Which cities attract the most people, and what kinds of communities are losing them.
Focusing on total population—rather than the number of people actually residing in urban areas—obscures the extent of China's urbanization challenge.
A non-profit thinks it's the future of urban development. Here's why they're dead wrong.
In Peru, there's no shortage of discussion about Mario Vargas Llosa's The Discreet Hero.
We are now more materialistic and individualistic.
The lightning pace of world urbanization is on display in these animated GIFs of Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Hong Kong and other exploding metropolises.
Officials say the canal will fuel the country's economy. But opponents worry it will add to runaway sprawl and rampant water pollution.
Former Barcelona mayor Joan Clos warns that a lack of urban planning could turn our expanding cities into powder kegs.
A new exhibition of contemporary Chinese photography charts the country's phenomenal growth from 2000 to 2012.
Spanish researchers are making the case that the world will in fact be less crowded in 2100 than it is now.
Some scholars are calling for a stronger understanding of the "DNA" of cities — and, by extension, an improved ability to address urban problems in a systemic manner.


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Docket Management
Docket: 02N-0209 - Request for Comment on First Amendment Issues
Comment Number: EC -54
Accepted - Volume 1
Comment Record
Ms. brian thayer
2002-05-29 10:49:46
Ms. brian thayer
Comments for FDA General
1. Are there arguments for regulating speech about drugs more comprehensively than, for example, about dietary supplements? What must an administrative record contain to sustain such a position? In particular, could FDA sustain a position that certain promotional speech about drugs is inherently misleading, unless it complies with FDA requirements? Does anything turn on whether the speech is made to learned intermediaries or to consumers? What is the evidentiary basis of such a distinction?
Only prescrption drugs should carry mandated speech from the FDA. The administrative record should simply state that there is an inherent trust factor in prescrpition drugs due to the physician/patient/drug company relationship that is not present in the buyer-beware that consumers understand to be present in the off-the-shelf market. The consumer products industry is full of claims that consumers evaluate at arms length each day - supplements are in the same category. All the warnings in the world will not protect certain people from themselves. Consumers should be learned intermediaries through self-education and cautious or not put a foreign substance in their body. No amount of goverment mandated intrusive labelling requirements will affect that. Thank You


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Kevin VanDam is scrambling to the bitter end. Add a frog to the baits VanDam has thrown in the last two hours today. And you can add it to the list of lures that haven't produced a single fish for him this afternoon.
He may have enough weight to make Sunday's Final Four, but that's a definite uncertainty at this point. Fifteen minutes ago, VanDam had moved back into the Heritage Landing area and was fishing about 100 feet from the check-in spot. But he's now on his second spot since then. He has moved across the lake again, west of Bear Lake Channel, fishing a jerkbait along a dropoff - a well-known spot, according to boat driver Mike Elkins.
Elkins fishes this lake a lot. He lives in Kalamazoo and has known VanDam since KVD was 15. And Elkins is stunned that VanDam hasn't caught even a short fish this afternoon. The wind is blowing, like the anglers wanted, and it's Kevin VanDam, for goodness sakes.
"That just shows you how off the bite is in this lake right now," Elkins said.


text: As part of Gilt Groupe's site-wide "Surf's Up" summer sale launching today, the online flash retailer will offer, in conjunction with Exhibition A, two one-of-a-kind surfboards with images appropriated from original works by artists Sean Landers and Richard Phillips. Sean Landers' surfboard features the clown from his painting Around the World Alone (The Holy Hermit), while the surfboard by Richard Phillips – a surfer himself – depicts the artist's painting Der Bodensee. A portion of sales will be donated to The Pablove Foundation in support of pediatric cancer research and treatment. Access the boards here.