http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/lost/ en-us Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:40:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2455573/posts You may have hard the news that archaeologists have discovered a 1,400-year-old wine press in Southern Israel -- 25 miles south of Jerusalem -- an area which was once part of the Byzantine Empire. According to the scientists, the exceptionally large size of the press -- measuring 21 feet by 54 feet -- suggests that it was used to produce wine for export to Egypt, or Europe. But, could these archeologists have the story all wrong? To any "Lost" devotee, the unique octagonal shape of the press and its proximity to Egypt and Tunisia will bring to mind the work... www.thefoodsection.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2455573/posts#comment Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:40:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453627/posts SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the federal economic stimulus package is working in her home state despite California's high unemployment rate. Pelosi was joined Wednesday in San Francisco by city government leaders, small business owners and workers to praise the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on its one-year anniversary. Mayor Gavin Newsom said the federal money has created more than 2,900 jobs in the city and saved thousands more. AP on CBS 5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453627/posts#comment Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:17:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2443013/posts I love ABC's Lost. It is by far my favorite TV show of the last decade. Unfortunately for new viewers, it is one of those shows that is virtually impossible to come into halfway. Neoavatara http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2443013/posts#comment Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:33:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2442686/posts Lost Season 6 Episode List Episode 1: LAX Episode 2: LAX (2) Episode 3: What Kate Does Episode 4: The Substitute Episode 5: Lighthouse Episode 6: Sundown Episode 7: Dr. Linus Episode 8: Recon Episode 9: Ab Aeterno Episode 10: The Package Episode 11: Happily Ever After Episode 12: Everybody Loves Hugo http://www.lostseason6.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2442686/posts#comment Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:22:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2442679/posts ANy LOST fans out there in FReeperland? Tonights the night... FR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2442679/posts#comment Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:09:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440164/posts This is unreal- Obama is lecuring the House GOP retreat- they're asking him questions and he's talking to them like they're 10th graders.. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440164/posts#comment Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:49:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2432136/posts There were parents on TV today heart broken they do not know what has happened to their loved ones. lets get the ball rolling and find them!!! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2432136/posts#comment Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:25:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2424235/posts Here is video of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today assuring that President Obama does not plan to pre-empt the first episode of "Lost" on February 2 to give his "State of the Union" address. Gibbs was asked if he was aware of the "internet storm" created by fear Obama's speech would conflict with ABC's planned special episode of "Lost" that night, which begins the show's final season: "I don't foresee a scenario in which millions people who hope to finally get some conclusion with 'Lost' are preempted by the president." - Robert Gibbs . . . (VIDEO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2424235/posts#comment Fri, 8 Jan 2010 23:13:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2424114/posts Gibbs: "I don't foresee a scenario in which millions people who hope to finally get some conclusion with 'Lost' are preempted by the president." C-SPAN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2424114/posts#comment Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:36:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2422649/posts ABC insiders may soon want to tell President Obama to get "Lost." The White House is finalizing plans for this year's State of the Union address and is said to be mulling two dates for the speech, according to a person familiar with the matter: Jan. 26 and Feb. 2. So what's wrong with that? Well, Jan. 26 would mean an interruption of "American Idol" -- though Fox likely planned for that (or would simply tell the White House to take a hike, as it has before). But Feb. 2? Other than the fact that it's a holiday (Groundhog's Day/TV... The Wrap http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2422649/posts#comment Thu, 7 Jan 2010 01:07:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409225/posts One of every six U.S. employers that closed permanently in 2008 was in California, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration using bankruptcy court data. However, one in nine employers that opened in 2008 was in California. The net result was almost 47,000 fewer companies with employees in California by the end of 2008. The data are part of the Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract of the United States 2010. The state had 45.1% more business “deaths” than “births,” one of the steepest changes. Note that many of the closures were started in other years. In California’s case many of those... OC Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409225/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:49:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397384/posts LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. actor Alec Baldwin says he has lost interest in acting and considers his film career a failure. "I don't have any interest in acting anymore," Baldwin, 51, told "Men's Journal" in an interview for its December issue. Baldwin, best-known for his Emmy-award winning role in the NBC comedy "30 Rock" and the man chosen to co-host the 2010 Oscar ceremony, added: "Movies are a part of my past. It's been 30 years. I'm not young, but I have time to do something else". Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397384/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 04:40:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2382618/posts Herodotus wrote of a 50,000-man strong army that set out on foot into the Egyptian desert in 525 B.C. and was never heard from again ... until today.A pair of Italian archaeologists have uncovered bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert. Twin brothers Angelo and Alfredo Castiglioni are hopeful that they've finally found the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Cambyses II and his armied were buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C. He wrote, "a wind... FOXNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2382618/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:18:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380000/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US unemployment rate jumped to 10.2 percent in October as 190,000 jobs were shed, the government said Friday in data highlighting ongoing struggles of an economy emerging from recession. The Labor Department report, seen as one of the best indicators of economic momentum, showed a rise in the jobless rate, up from 9.8 percent in September, to the highest since 1983. But the number of jobs lost narrowed to the lowest level in over a year. The jobless rate shot above the key 10 percent barrier for the first time since June 1983, even though the... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380000/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:04:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2376216/posts FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- Man and dog reunite for the first time in a decade. Gary Rowley greeted his Boxer-lab mix "Brindle" Sunday morning with a smile and a leash. "His coloring hasn't changed except his gray snout. [It] used to be black. But my god! I didn't realize he was so thin! He's definitely taller!" WUSA 9 News Now / 10Connects.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2376216/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 02:28:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375643/posts On January 22, the Worldwatch Institute, a group having the goal of bringing the global community together to address climate change, environmental degradation, population growth, and poverty, approvingly said about the UN’s Convention on the Law of the Sea: “The Law of the Sea [Treaty] has set international standards for fishing, deep sea mining, and navigation since the majority of the world’s countries signed it in 1982. It provides coastal nations with exclusive rights to ocean resources within 200 nautical miles of their borders — areas known as ‘exclusive economic zones,’ or EEZs.” (Note: the treaty was initiated in 1982,... tna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375643/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 02:01:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2374258/posts Our 7-month-old kitten was hit by a car today behind our house. She was killed instantly. She was my 12-year-old son's precious baby. He is inconsolable. We are so utterly sad tonight. I thought I would share photos of this most beautiful, intelligent, adorable little one whom we shall miss so much every single day. My sad heart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2374258/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:29:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344814/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) – The top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned President Barack Obama in a confidential report that the war against the Taliban could be lost within a year without more troops. In a grim assessment of the eight-year conflict leaked to the Washington Post and published Monday, General Stanley McChrystal said a new strategy was needed and warned that "inadequate resources will likely result in failure. "Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) -- while Afghan security capacity matures -- risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344814/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:50:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2339080/posts Its melodramatic, twisting plot and apocalyptic overtones were tailor-made for western audiences. Now Lost, the US television series about plane crash survivors stuck on a remote island, is to be put on commercial release in Iran following soaring sales of pirated black-market DVDs. Silver Screen, the country's leading home video distributor, is to market the award-winning show's first three seasons – a total of 15 episodes – after buying the broadcast rights and commissioning Iranian actors to dub it into Farsi. It has also started talks with the state broadcaster, IRIB, with a view to airing Lost on nationwide television.... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2339080/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:33:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312960/posts ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her cool Monday after a Congolese student, speaking through a translator, asked her what "Mr. Clinton" thought about a Chinese trade deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?" Clinton replied, clearly irked by the thought of being her husband Bill's spokeswoman. ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312960/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:07:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150574/posts Law Of The Sea: The U.S. seeks U.N. authorization to fight Somali pirates from the air, on land and at sea. When American cruise ships become targets, maybe it's time to renew a proud tradition: Send in the Marines.On Tuesday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice formally presented to a special U.N. session on Somalia a draft Security Council resolution saying that member states fighting against piracy "may take all necessary measures ashore in Somalia, including its airspace, to interdict those who are using Somali territory to plan, facilitate or undertake acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea and to... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150574/posts#comment Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:57:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279230/posts The bad news is that the Washington Post doesn't know where Virginia governor Tim Kaine is. The good news is they're pretty sure he's not in Appalachia or Argentina: But repeated attempts to review Kaine's schedule — in Richmond, around the state or across the country — before and after he became DNC chairman in late January have been unsuccessful. The Washington Post has requested Kaine's calendar through the governor's office, the DNC and his political action committee, Moving Virginia Forward. The requests have been denied or gone unanswered. Kaine's office cites security and privacy concerns, as well as state... http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279230/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:09:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278257/posts A BOLIVIAN television news channel has been left red-faced after falling for a hoax that saw it claim pictures from the hit TV show Lost were actually the last moment of Air France flight AF447 before it plunged into the ocean on June 1. Internet footage shows a Periodistas Asociados de Televisión (PAT) newsreader describing several shots from inside the plane as it broke in half. The shots show passengers being sucked out of the back of the plane into midair. news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278257/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:49:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273096/posts Fed: That extra $25 you now receive from SSI? Yeah, that is a gift from Obama - your welcome and please vote again. Public: That is nice and all, but that extra $25 means that I am now over the income threshold to receive my $300 in food stamps. Fed: My bad, but I promise we won't make those same mistakes with health care reform. Memphis Daily News - Washington AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273096/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:55:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269013/posts MOSCOW -- Russia will rebuild its Soviet-era network of polar stations and use its icebreaker fleet to help support its claim to the vast resources of the Arctic, the man who led a mission to plant a Russian flag on the Arctic seabed said Wednesday. Artur Chilingarov, a famed polar scientist who was recently appointed the Kremlin's point man for Arctic issues, said Russia will gather data and resubmit its claim to the United Nations that an underwater mountain range crossing the polar region is part of Russia's continental shelf. Under a U.N. treaty, that would make the shelf Russian... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269013/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:44:39 GMT