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GREEN, MARY ROWENA [RENA] MAVERICK (1874–1962). Rena Maverick Green, historian, artist, suffragist, conservationist, and civic leader, daughter of George Madison and Mary Elizabeth Vance Maverick, was born in Sedalia, Missouri, on February 10, 1874, the eldest of six children, including Lucy Madison Maverick. She was educated at Mary Institute, St. Louis, Missouri, and Stuart Hall, Staunton, Virginia. She often visited her grandmother, Mary Ann Adams Maverick, in San Antonio and in 1896 moved with her parents when they returned to live there permanently. In 1897 she married District Judge Robert B. Green; they had four children. In 1907, at the age of thirty-three, she was widowed.
In 1914 Mrs. Green became one of the first women on the San Antonio School Board, and she later served on the board of trustees of the San Antonio Public Library. During World War I, as a member of the City Committee, she successfully pushed for San Antonio's first eight policewomen and first juvenile judge, and opened the first legal aid for the poor. She demonstrated for woman suffrage in Washington, D.C., and as a member of the National Women's Party of Texas worked for state passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. She served as state chairman of that organization in 1926. In 1928 the mayor appointed her chairman of the restoration project of the Spanish Governor's Palace on Military Plaza. She insisted on an authentic restoration. About this time she persuaded the city to hire its first city planner. She singlehandedly saved Martín Perfecto de Cos's house in La Villita from destruction by the City Water Board. In 1924, fulfilling her lifelong goal of conserving the beauty and distinctiveness of San Antonio, she helped found the San Antonio Conservation Society. She served as its president from 1933 to 1935 and was later made honorary life chairman of the Parks, Plazas, Rivers, and All Natural Beauty Committee. She worked with the society to save many important places, including San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, its granary, the San Antonio River, and one of the old aqueducts. She led the fight to save Travis Park from becoming an underground parking lot.
Mrs. Green edited and published her grandmother's memoirs, Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick, 1921; edited and published Samuel A. Maverick, Texan, 1952; edited The Swisher Memoirs, 1932; and wrote Robert B. Green, A Personal Reminiscence, 1962. She was a member of the board of the Yanaguana Society and belonged to the San Antonio Historical Association, Texas State Historical Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and Fort Davis Historical Association. She was also a member of the San Antonio Women's Club. She won an award from the San Antonio Conservation Society for her writing and preservation of the Maverick Ranch, near Boerne. She received honors from the San Antonio Legal Aid Association, Theta Sigma Phi, and the Pioneer Association.
Mrs. Green, a painter, watercolorist, and sculptress, received prizes for her work, including the first prize for watercolor in the Southern Artists Show and first prize in the Texas Small Sculpture Contest. She studied with Charles Martin and Maurice Stern in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in Glouster, Massachusetts, and in San Francisco, California. She was a creative cook of some note, a member of the Democratic party, and a member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. She died in San Antonio on November 29, 1962.
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Wedding Photography RSA House
Jo & Nick's gorgeous wedding at RSA House will be remembered for many reasons. Undoubtedly the wedding will be remembered for the heat, as the thermometer hit 30c in London, making it the hottest day of the year so far. It was sweltering! The wedding will also be remembered most notably by bridesmaid Sarah's (Jo's sister) for her dress disaster! Poor thing. Just as Sarah was about to step into her bridesmaid dress the zip broke – literally moments before bride Jo and all her bridesmaids were due to leave Highgate for RSA House. Crisis was averted thankfully due to Sarah hot-footing it to an alteration shop around the corner where a new zip was very quickly fitted into the bridesmaid dress. Phew. This wedding will also be remembered for the four fantastic speeches from Jo's father Kit Free, groom Nick as well as Nick's two best men, Matthew Kennedy and Petros Kartelas. The wedding will definitely be remembered for Jo's dress – wow! Bride Jo looked stunning in a delicate Ian Stuart creation which gathered at the hip and was finished off with a clutch of bewitching handmade roses at the hip. This wedding dress designer really understands the female form. Jo's bridesmaids complimented beautifully in their Coast frocks. Nick very much held his own in a beautifully cut Ted Baker suit and shoes. One of the defining memories of Jo and Nick's wedding day for me would be witnessing some incredible Greek dancing from best man Petros. I was exhausted simply watching Petros bust those moves!! A truly epic day with dripping sunshine and love free flowing all day and night. Before I go, I thought it might be nice to share one of the readings which was read to us by Georgia Littlejohn. The reading is actually a Paul McCartney song, Calico Skies, taken from the 1997 album Flaming Pie. This was a new wedding reading for me and one which really struck a chord.
It was written that I would love you
From the moment I opened my eyes
And the morning when I first saw you
Gave me life under calico skies.
I will hold you for as long as you like
I'll hold you for the rest of my life
Always looking for ways to love you
Never failing to fight at your side
While the angels of love protect us
From the innermost secrets we hide
I'll hold you for as long as you like
I'll hold you for the rest of my life
Long live all of us crazy soldiers
Who were born under calico skies
May we never be called to handle
All the weapons of war we despise
I'll hold you for as long as you like
I'll hold you for the rest of my life
I'll hold you for as long as you like
I'll love you for the rest of my…
For the rest of my life
Ceremonial venue: RSA House
Wedding Reception: RSA House
Bride's dress: Ian Stuart 'Constantine' in Ivory
Brides shoes: Jimmy Choo
Bridesmaids dresses: Coast
Hair: Hair Design Gallery
Flower Girls Dress: John Lewis
Flowers: TBA
Wedding Cake: Sue Cowley
Wedding Invitations: Aunty Carole
Wedding DJ: Mark Valentine from Freelove Entertainment
Groom Suit and Shoes: Ted Baker
Violinist: Lizz Lipscombe
Bride: Jo Free
Groom: Nick Paputselos
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My understanding of the Holocaust is a tragic point in time for the Jews. They were put to death just because of their religion. Parents tried saving their children by baptizing them but to the eyes of the Nazis, they were still Jewish. I knew that these people were sent to camps to work and later be put to death. The leader of the group in charge was Adolf Hitler, who was part Jewish himself. Jewish peoeple were humiliated in public, forced out of their homes, and separated from their families. After watching these videos I understand what kids went through. The diaries they wrote gave me and insight of how they lived and what they did to escape.
How has the Holocaust impacted the Jewish community?
Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. The Jewish population of Europe was about 9.5 million in 1933. In 1950, the Jewish population of Europe was about 3.5 million. The Jewish population of eastern Europe dropped dramatically. In 1933, Poland had three million Jews. By 1950, the Jewish population of Poland was about 45,000. Romania's Jewish population was nearly 757,000 in 1930 and fell to approximately 280,000 (1950). Most of these losses were due to the Holocaust. The Jewish population of central Europe also dropped dramatically. Germany had a Jewish population of 565,000 in 1933 and just 37,000 in 1950. Hungary had 445,000 in 1933 and 190,000 in 1950. Czechoslovakia's Jewish population dropped from about 357,000 in 1933 to 17,000 in 1950 and Austria's from about 250,000 to just 18,000. In southern Europe, the Jewish population fell dramatically. In Greece from about 100,000 in 1933 to just 7,000 in 1950, in Yugoslavia from about 70,000 to 3,500; in Italy from about 48,000 to 35,000; and in Bulgaria from 50,000 in 1933 to just 6,500 in 1950.
Rolf was arrested by a German soldier and was taken away for interrogation. He was locked in a cell by the Gestapo and whipped for hours to reveal his hiding place and the whereabouts of his brother. Rolf held his own, and he was on a train to Auschwitz the next day. Rolf grabbed a pair of pliers from a toolbox in the van that transported him to the train station. He used them to work himself out of his handcuffs. Rolf and his fellow prisoners were able to break a plank away from the side of their cattle car and jump from the train. But Rolf wasn't free yet. On the way to Berlin, he was betrayed, the Gestapo arrested him again. He was beaten so severely that he developed epilepsy. But Rolf was unbreakable, and he had a plan. When he was left alone, he scratched himself and convinced his guards that he was suffering from scarlet fever. The Germans, fearful of catching something, moved Rolf to a hospital. A guard stood outside Rolf's third-floor room, so he jumped out of the window. Even though breaking part of his spine, Rolf crawled through the city to his old hiding place. His brother was there, and the old woman who had taken them in moved them to some land she owned in Berlin. The brothers were liberated by the Soviets in 1945, and Rolf went on to become an engineer.
I picked Rolf, because his story displayed true courage. He knew the consequences if he got caught, but he risked his life anywhere. It takes real courage to escape from the Nazis, he even succeeded. Even though he hurt himself pretty severely, he crawled his way to safety. He believed that the pain was worth the reward.
When I think of the reign and take over of Hiter, the first thing that comes to mind is Fidel Castro. He was the dictator of Cuba and treated the people there terribly. My dad and both sides of my grandparents are from there, were first hand victims of the power of Castro. They were forced to give him everything they had in order to leave. My grandfather was sent to prison for taking oranges from his own farm in order to help his daughter get better. Even though Castro wasnt responsible for the death of millions, he was still an awful dictator and ruin the lives of the people in Cuba.
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CC3200 and SimpleWebServerWIFI issues
Icion posted a topic in Energia - MSPCC3200 LAUNCHXL v4.1 ENERGIA 0101E0013 WINDOWS 7 Hi Guys, So I just got a few CC3200 Launchpads to do some prototyping on. Ultimately I would like to be able to connect onto the Launchpad without having to first go through my router. But I digress... I've been running the SImpleWebServerWIFI sketch from Energia. It works as expected when I have my computer with Chrome accessing it, But as soon as I connect with my Android phone(4.4.2) and chrome(v39.0.2171.59) and press a button the unit freezes up. Attempting to connect to Network named: WNL108 .. You're connected to the network Waiting for an ip address . IP Address obtained SSID: WNL108 IP Address: 192.168.1.11 signal strength (RSSI):0 dBm To see this page in action, open a browser to http://192.168.1.11 Starting webserver on port 80 Webserver started! new client GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.1.11 Connection: keep-alive Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; D6503 Build/17.1.2.A.0.314) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.59 Mobile Safari/537.3 As I initially said I would like to be able to connect directly to my CC3200 device. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Hi! Leo from Dallas here.
leonardoestevez posted a topic in New users say Hi!Hi All, I'm excited to meet more of the makers in this forum. I've been playing with TI Launchpads for a couple of years now. Since my background is in wireless and AI, I've been connecting bluetooth and wi-fi radios to these things with some Android/iPhone applications. I've developed an open source virtual machine that enables programming via a simple pin oriented interpreted language(similar to wiring) from your smartphone and have started rolling out some application specific kits around this. You can checkout my projects on my blog. I'm joining this forum because I've been thinking about a new bluetooth motor control boosterpack and wanted to see what the interest level on this might be. BR, Leo
MSP430G2553 + JY-MCU + AndroidHi guys, I'm working in a project and I want to know how can i make an android application connect with JY-MCU (Bluetooth Module) and MSP430G2553. Could anybody send me an tutorial or something? Best regards, John
Health monitoring system [work in progress]
nuclearrambo posted a topic in ProjectsI had been working on a compact health monitoring system which would have ECG, body temperature sensor, glucometer, and a pulse oximeter all put on one single PCB. So far I was successfully able to have ECG, temperature and the glucometer working. Having this was not sufficient, I wanted to send all this data onto an android phone. For this I used HC-06 bluetooth module and had an android app running on the phone to collect and display the data on to its screen. I made use of Amarino's library for communication between Arduino and Android. It was pretty easy to port Amarino from Android to Stellaris and it worked very well! I used Stellaris Launchpad in my project considering that I would be implementing signal processing in future and also it is quite inexpensive This is my entire unit fit in one box. I plan to having the processor on the same board and eliminating the use of bulky launchpad. Can anyone tell me how I could do that? I have never done such a thing before. Just showing off some photographs The step up converter that I used to power up all the circuits in that box. Takes 3.5 to 4V from Li-ion battery (NOKIA) and converts it to 5.1V. Pretty cheap module I found on some chinese website. This is my android app showing my ECG. I can enter my name in the text box and upload the ECG onto the online website. Note: I used Amarino's example SensorGraph and modified it to add the uploading functionality. You can view the database here : http://projectarogya.com/arogya/patients.php This is how my ECG looks online. The php script also does the task of calculating heart rate and putting a time stamp at the time of upload. I am using a simple LM35 temperature sensor. I had to build seperate app for temparature and glucometer. Note: I used Multicolorlamp app from Amarino's website and modified it. Now it is so much modified that its like a completely new app except that the name is still unchanged I have also uploaded a more detailed blog post on http://nuclearrambo.com/wordpress/android-based-wireless-ecg-monitoring-temperature-sensor-glucometer-included/ Because of some problem with ground, I am not able to get a clean output. It fluctuates a lot and hence does not give correct glucose readings. I will add in the explanation about how glucometer works if you people want to hear about it. PS: I had only been reading on this forum. This is my first post here and I thought I would share my project with you all. I am also hoping to produce and sell it once its complete. If anyone's interested in lending a helping hand with design and stuff are totally welcome
Software selectionguys how do i choose which platform to work on? Ångström Linux Android Ubuntu Cloud9 IDE I knw C/C++, JAVA lang....but i m ready to learn another if needed I want to build real time OCR project using BBB as processing device.....
I was wondering, does anybody know of a good msp430 compiler like IAR for mobile devices? If not, I have some ideas if anybody is up for making one. Physically connecting to the phone is out of the question, so it would have to be bluetooth. An msp (preprogrammed) with a bluetooth transceiver may just be all that's needed to program another msp via spi-bi-wire, and possibly throw in an rx/tx port to transfer data back through the Bluetooth, just like the launchpad does with USB. Just tossing ideas out.
MSP430 Launchpad + Android = PinballHi everyone, I wanted to connect a MSP430 to an Android device. In fact, my idea was to use the MSP430 launchpad as a low-cost GPIO board for an Android tablet. I did a little research, and first thought on the audio port for the communication ( http://robots-everywhere.com/re_wiki/index.php?title=Serial_on_Android_using_the_audio_port ) but then I remembered that the tablet supported USB OTG. So, I compiled the CDC_ACM module for the (Allwinner A10 based) tablet in order to emulate serial port over USB. Then, in the MSP430 Launchpad side, I needed a lib for using the serial port. I found MSP430-softuart by Stefan Wendler (https://github.com/wendlers/msp430-softuart) and used it for the bidirectional communication Android-Tablet<->MSP430-Launchpad. In order to make a demo, I modified the code of Open Source Vector Pinball (http://dozingcatsoftware.com/VectorPinball/index.html ), adding support for serial port access (using http://code.google.com/p/android-serialport-api/). This modified Vector Pinball has the flippers linked to MSP430 Launchpad buttons. When the buttons on P2.5 and P2.3 are pressed they flippers are activated. A LED is also connected on P1.6 in order to toggle it when receiving "toggle" command from the Android app. You can find the video demo here: This is the source code for the MSP430 (find it also attached to this post) #include <msp430.h> #include <stdint.h> #include "uart.h" #define LED1 BIT0 #define LED2 BIT6 #define BUTTON1 BIT5 #define BUTTON2 BIT3 static volatile bool r = false; static volatile bool l = false; int main(void) { WDTCTL = WDTPW + WDTHOLD; // Stop watchdog timer BCSCTL1 = CALBC1_1MHZ; // Initialize clock DCOCTL = CALDCO_1MHZ; P1DIR |= (LED1 + LED2); // Set BIT0 and BIT6 as output P1OUT &= ~(LED1 + LED2); // LEDs off P2REN |= (BUTTON1 + BUTTON2); // Select pull-up resitors por P2.3 and P2.5 P2IE |= (BUTTON1 + BUTTON2); // Enabling Button interrupts P2IFG &= ~(BUTTON1 + BUTTON2); // Clear interrupt flags for the buttons uart_init(); __enable_interrupt(); uint8_t c; while(1) { if(uart_getc(&c)) { if (c == 't') { P1OUT ^= (LED2); // Toggle LED2 } } if (l) { uart_putc('l'); // Send "left" command via UART l = false; } if (r) { uart_putc('r'); // Send "right" command via UART r = false; } } } // Port 2 interrupt service #pragma vector=PORT2_VECTOR __interrupt void Port_2(void) { if ((P2IFG & BUTTON2)) { P1OUT ^= LED1; // Toggle LED1 P2IFG &= ~BUTTON2; // Clear BUTTON2 interrupt flag P2IES ^= BUTTON2; // Interrupt called on High-to-Low and Low-to-High l = true; } if ((P2IFG & BUTTON1)) { P1OUT ^= LED1; // Toggle LED1 P2IFG &= ~BUTTON1; // Clear BUTTON1 Interrupt flag P2IES ^= BUTTON1; // Interupt called on High-to-Low and Low-to-High r = true; } } Later today, I will include the schematic and a guide with the steps for replicating the setup in case you want to build it. Do you find the project interesting? msp430-pinball.tar.gz


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A former Mendota Heights high school teacher has been sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a student.
Thirty-two-year-old Christine Lee Funk faced a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison for three counts of criminal sexual contact with the 17-year-old boy. Instead, Funk pleaded guilty to one count and the two others were dismissed.
A Dakota County District Court judge on Monday also ordered Funk to serve 10 years of probation. The former music teacher at Henry Sibley High School was accused of having sex on three occasions with the student. Police learned of the relationship after being alerted to inappropriate text messages on the boy's phone that included semi-nude photos of Funk.
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IT all started as 'a bit of a daft idea' over breakfast one day, Cliff Woolley recalls.
IT all started as 'a bit of a daft idea' over breakfast one day, Cliff Woolley recalls.
"We'd learned this new song the previous evening at choir practice and both my wife Gaynor and I had woken up with a sore throat," he said.
"It wasn't a particularly difficult piece of music. We were both singing the tenor part but seemed to be almost as high as the sopranos for much of the time. Over porridge and Strepsils we decided we really fancied singing a few more 'ordinary' English folk songs."
And so the Mangotsfield Kitchen Project was born.
The couple had sung in a number of community choirs and smaller groups over the last ten years and really enjoyed it. The songs were pretty varied and there was always a sense of achievement when they were able to perform them in front of an audience. They also enjoyed the song sessions in pubs and folk festivals, where people take turns at leading and everyone joins in the chorus. You soon pick up the words after a few times through, and then take the lead when you feel a bit more confident. So why not try to combine the two ?
Cliff and Gaynor put together a list of about 30 songs, ranging from junior school ditties like Donkey Riding and Raggle Taggle Gypsies to Scarborough Fair by Simon and Garfunkel and Steeleye Span's Gaudete. Then with a further list of names of friends who might be interested they started bringing it up in conversation.
"No one actually came straight out and told us what a stupid idea it was," said Cliff. "They were probably just being nice, but we interpreted it as genuine interest."
The first session finally took place last September and they group have sung together almost every month since then. Some have dropped out while new singers have recently started to come along. There's a core group of about fifteen and they're now looking for more people to fill out the overall sound. No audition, no sight-reading. Monthly meetings.
Cliff explained: "The arrangements are fairly uncomplicated, mainly in two or three parts. The emphasis is really on getting people singing and hopefully we'll bring back a few memories of the songs we used to sing at school."
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Lost Season 5 Episodes 16 and 17: The Incident Pt 1 and 2
Maybe Lost has melted my brain so many times that I'm now immune. Maybe I over-theorized about the finale. Whatever the reason, the finale didn't totally blow my mind. Let's break it down.
The episode opens in a poorly lit shelter, where a faceless man is working at a spinning wheel and then a loom. We then see the man retrieving fish from a trap in shallow water, which he cooks up over a fire on the beach. The man is joined on the beach by another man and they both look out at the ship that is approaching the shore. It appears to be the Black Rock, and Man #2 says they will come fight, destroy, corrupt, it always ends the same way. Man #1 says it only ends once and that anything that happens before that is progress, which seems to piss Man #2 off. Man #2 says he wants to kill Man #1 and threatens that one day he will find a loophole. Man #1 says he'll be waiting. Man #2 gets up to leave and says, "It's always nice talking to you Jacob." Jacob says, "It's always nice talking to you too," but doesn't say Man #2's name. The camera then backs out to reveal they are at the base of the statue, and it appears to have a sort of crocodile mouth–that doesn't sound like any Egyptian god I've ever seen.
So we finally know what Jacob looks like–and this sets up a series of great flashback reveals throughout both the entire two-hour finale. The first involves a Young Kate who tries to shoplift a New Kids on the Block lunchbox, only to get busted. Jacob arrives just in time to pay the shopkeeper and keep Kate out of trouble. He makes Kate promise not to steal anymore–yeah that worked.
Back to the sub in '77 and Sawyer basically tells Kate to get over it and come back to the real world with him and Juliet. Back on the island, Jack and Sayid layout their plan to remove the plutonium from Jughead and transport it to The Swan site. According to Sayid, they only have two hours to make it happen. Over at The Swan, Chang tries to explain to Radzinski why they have to stop drilling, and Radzinski bitches him out, explaining he has been working on the plans for The Swan for six years.
In '07, Locke gives his people a quick five, which gives Sun enough time to ask Ben who Jacob is. Ben explains that everyone answers to someone, and the Leader answers to Jacob. She probes further, causing Ben to begrudgingly reveal to her that he has never actually seen Jacob. Meanwhile, Locke and Richard are talking and Richard explains the reason he's been starting at John is because he's never seen someone come back to life before. Before pressing on, Locke let's Richard know that after they are done visiting Jacob, they will have to 'deal' with the Ajira survivors. For whatever reason, Locke doesn't even find it necessary to pretend that 'deal' means anything other than kill. Speaking of the Ajira folks, they are arriving on the main island and Lapidus regains consciousness just as they are discussing what to do with him. He asks what's in the box, and surprisingly they decide to show him. We don't get to see what it is, but the look on Frank's face is priceless. All he can say is, "Terrific."
Another flashback shows us Young James after his parents' funeral. He is sitting down to write the letter to Mr. Sawyer and Jacob shows up to give him a nice pen to write it with. After Jacob leaves, Uncle Doug shows up and tells little Jimmy that he needs to move on. He tells him that what's done is done. This obviously frames grown-up James' opinion about whether or not to execute Faraday's plan.
Back on the sub, after some debate which Sawyer thinks he's won, Juliet surprises him by knocking out the guard and freeing herself. They disable the radio and make the captain surface so they can get back to shore to stop Jack from carrying out Daniel's plan. Beneath Dharmaville, Richard approaches Jack and wants to know a little more about this Locke dude. He tells Jack he has left the island on three occasions to visit John and that he has never seemed particularly special. Jack tells Richard not to give up on him just yet.
On the road to Jacob, Locke quizzes Ben in an attempt to figure out why Ben hasn't tried to screw him over yet. Ben explains what went on in the cave below the temple, then begrudgingly confirms when Locke realizes Ben has to follow his orders. Locke instructs Ben to kill Jacob.
Off-island in '04, we see Sayid and Nadia walking down the sidewalk, approaching a crosswalk. They start across when Jacob appears and get's Sayid's attention. This separates them just enough for Nadia to get plowed by the SUV while Sayid is totally unharmed.
In the tunnel in '77, Richard opens up a wall to reveal a passage into a Dharma house, then knocks out Eloise so she can't lead the group any further. He tells Jack and Sayid to go on alone, and turns back with Eloise. Once topside, Jack and Sayid quickly find themselves in a firefight with Dharma, resulting in a serious gunshot wound for Sayid, and Jack killing several Dharma guys. Hurley, Miles, and Jin pull up just in time to drive the boys to safety.
We got a nice break at this point, and some long overdue fan service. Sawyer, Juliet, and Kate arrived back to the beach, only to be greeted by Vincent–followed by a disappointed Rose and Bernard. Apparently they have been enjoying 'retirement' on the island and have absolutely no interest in rejoining the fight. They say they don't care what happens with the bomb as long as they're together. This offers an important insight for Juliet, who at that moment see Sawyer look not in her direction, but instead toward Kate. Elsewhere on the island, Lapidus is wishing he hadn't seen the contents of the box when he is assured these people are 'the good guys'. Then the group comes upon the cabin, and after Ilyana retrieves a piece of cloth with a picture of the statue on it, the burn the place to the ground. In the middle of this, we get a flashback to an injured Ilyana who is visited by Jacob in the hospital. He explains he needs her help.
Another flashback shows us Jacob on a bench reading Flannery O'Conner's 'Everything That Rises Must Converge', which seems very tongue-in-cheek once we see John Locke's paralysis-causing fall take place over Jacob's shoulder. Jacob goes to the injured Locke and rouses him long enough to assure him everything will be fine.
On the island in '07, Locke lets his people rest at the old Oceanic campsite while he shares a few moments with Ben. Ben admits he is a liar, and Lock proceeds to explain that with everything that has happened to Ben, he fails to see why he wouldn't want to kill Jacob. This seems to ring true to Ben, and I think we just witnessed the first time Locke has ever tried to manipulate Ben and been successful. On the other side of camp, Sun finds Charlie's old ring and flashes back to her wedding with Jin, remembering a visit they received from Jacob, who Jin noted spoke excellent Korean.
Hurley hits the brakes on the Dharma van in '77 and when Jack asks why, we see that Sawyer, Juliet, and Kate are standing in the road with their guns drawn.
'07 – Locke asks Richard why they're stopping and Richard just says, "You'll see." Pan over to the statue's foot.
Sawyer tells Jack he needs five minutes to talk to him before they let him go on. Jack flashes back to his first big surgery, during which Christian made him look like a fool. Afterward, Jack runs into Jacob at the candy machine when Jacob gets two candy bars after Jack's gets stuck. As Jack walks away with his candy, we hear Jacob say, "I guess it just needed a little push." This seemed to me like a reference to what it took to make Jack into a true believer instead of a cynical man of science. Back with Sawyer, Jack listens to the theory of 'what's done is done' and denies it. A fistfight ensues, and is only broken up when Juliet arrives to tell Sawyer she has changed her mind about helping Jack. Flash to Young Juliet and sister Rachel getting told by their parents that they're getting divorced. This leads to Juliet confronting Sawyer about his feelings for Kate, and her final argument, "If I never meet you, then I don't have to lose you." I really don't like this reasoning, because I think that regardless of the love triangle and its outcome, Sawyer is a better man now than he was when the plane crashed. Reverting everything back would mean turning him back into the asshole he originally was.
Over near the Swan, Jack and Kate share a moment and Jack gets her to agree to help him after all. He says, "Nothing in my life has ever felt so right." It seems to me that includes all the time he spent with Kate–hmm slap in the face much?
Off-island Hurley is getting out of jail, and naturally Jacob is waiting to share a cab back to town. Jacob explains to Hurley that maybe he's not really cursed, and might even be blessed. He tells Hurley the Ajira flight information and says the choice is his. Jacob leaves the guitar case behind in the cab when he gets out.
'07 on the beach, and Richard is lighting torches to lead the way to Jacob. Richard is pissed when he sees Ben coming along, but Locke puts Richard in his place. Richard opens the door then leaves. Locke then hands Ben a knife and reminds him that things will change once Jacob is gone. For some reason I really felt like for once, Ben was going to follow through and not screw Locke over.
Near The Swan in '77, Miles takes a moment to ask the group if anyone ever thought maybe the bomb was actually the cause of the incident, and that the best thing they could do was actually nothing. Once again, I have to thank the writers for making Miles the voice of the fans. I have been considering all along that the incident was really caused by the actions of the gang, rather than prevented by them. At the construction site, Jack is spotted and the big climactic firefight begins. Several Dharma folks are killed, and eventually Phil calls everyone off since there's a gun to his head. Sayid has rigged the bomb to detonate on impact, and Jack drops it into the drill shaft since Faraday's notes called for it to be close to the energy source. Everyone braces for the explosion and then nothing happens. Instead, the electromagnetism kicks into overdrive and metal stuff starts flying everywhere. Dr. Chang gets pinned under some scaffold and Jack gets busted upside the head by a toolbox, knocking him out. Sweetest of all, Phil gets pinned by scaffolding, then run through with some other metal parts. The culmination of the scene comes when Juliet gets tangled in a thick metal chain, which causes her to get dragged into the mouth of the shaft. Sawyer grabs her arm, but she cannot free herself from the chains. She professes her love for James while he shouts at her not to let go. Ultimately the magnetic force is to strong and she is pulled down the shaft, leaving a screaming, sobbing Sawyer on the surface with Kate.
The Ajira group approaches the Statue beach in '07 and says they are looking for Ricardos. Richard steps forward and correctly answers the secret question with a Latin phrase. Ilyana then opens the crate and reveals that what they found in the cargo hold of the plane was the body of John Locke. So we quickly realize that this new forceful Locke is none other than some form of Man #2 from the opening sequence of this episode. This explains his strong desire to see Jacob and get Ben to do the dirty work for him. Inside the statue base, Jacob greets "Locke" and says, "I see you found your loophole." to which he replies, "You have no idea what I've gone through to be here." Jacob explains to Ben that he has a choice to make, which only serves to make Ben angrier than he already was. Ben is extremely bitter about the way he was treated, especially after he blindly followed orders and sacrificed so much for the island. Ben asks, "What was it that was so wrong with me?" and then wants to know what's in it for him.
Ben: "What about me?"
Jacob: "What about you?"
That's all the justification Ben needed to plunge the knife into Jacob's chest. And while Ben seems somewhat horrified at what he has done, Man #2/Locke just kicks Jacob's body into the fire to ensure the job is finished. The look on Ben's face reminded me of two things at once: 1) Brutus after stabbing Ceasar, and 2) Judas after kissing Jesus on the cheek. I'm sure this similarity is not accidental.
Back at The Swan site, the camera takes us into the shaft, and to Juliet who's eyes slowly open. She seems upset to still be alive, then happy to see that the un-detonated bomb is just a few feet away. She grabs a large rock and begins to strike the casing of the bomb. It doesn't work at first, so she tries again and again and then a white flash fills the screen. LOST.
Let's be clear. While the episode didn't completely melt my brain, I still thought it was EXCELLENT. Just like we have all season, we got a lot of answers tonight–answers to questions we have been asking for years in some cases. Of course, in true Lost fashion, we got a bunch of questions too. But that's okay.
I told my wife last week that I thought the season would end with a white flash and LOST. I'm actually not thrilled to be right about it though. I would have loved to have been wrong and actually seen what happened to our heroes, instead of being forced to wait until January to find out. That's okay though, because I know in a year when the series is over, I will be sad that there is no more suspense left. That is my advice for now–enjoy the suspense while we have it, because it is finite.
Lost Season 5 Episode 13: Some Like It Hoth
As much as we have learned about the Oceanic passengers, Desmond, and some of the Others (Ben & Juliet) over five seasons, we still haven't learned much at all about the Freighties – Penelope, Faraday, and Miles. I understand they've only been with us for about one season now, but I think we all know that they must be pivotal in the endgame that is starting to unfold. At least if we didn't know before tonight, we know now.
The episode opens with a woman looking at a mediocre apartment, who we quickly find out is Miles' mother. She assures the potential landlord that he is a well-behaved young man, then gives Miles money for the candy machine. Not surprisingly, young Miles ends up in another apartment with a corpse instead of a candy bar. The scene ends with Young Miles shouting at his mother, "I can hear him!" so now we know that this is an ability Miles has had since childhood.
Cut to '77 and Miles is working in the security office when Sawyer calls and asks him to erase the pylon security tape to cover up for him and Kate. Miles is about to pull the tape when Horace arrives with a mysterious black bag that he needs delivered to Radzinski at Grid 334. Horace tells Miles that he's bringing him into the circle of trust since Lafleur is MIA. Miles goes to Grid 334 and Radzinski greets him by aiming a rifle at him and asking why Lafleur didn't come–Miles says, "Horace sent me instead, I'm in the circle of trust." Personally, I don't know how anyone could say this line without cracking up. I really feel like 'circle of trust' is a comedic phrase for all time thanks to Meet the Parents. At any rate, Radzinski takes the mysterious black bag, unfolds it, unzips it, and two Dharma workers bring out a body to fill it. Dirty hippie Radzinski won't say what happened or why it looks like the guy was shot, but we all know Miles can just use his powers to find out anyway.
Back to the mainland and teenage Miles is visiting his dying mother. He wants to know more about his father and she tells Miles that he is dead.
In Dharmaville, Miles gets orders from Horace to take the body to Dr. Chang at The Orchid. When Miles goes back to the van, he finds Hurley loading coolers into the back with the body. Oddly, Hurley doesn't notice the body and just tells Miles he wants to carpool, adding that maybe they could prevent global warming since it hasn't happened yet. I have to say that while it seems a bit out of place at times, I really love the comic relief that the Miles-Hurley conversations have been adding lately. It's also nice to see the writer's providing a bit of fan service with some of the topics they have been discussing, like time travel paradoxes and now Star Wars.
Kate comes back to the infirmary and lets Juliet know that they left Young Ben with The Others. She barely gets this out when Roger comes in and sees the empty bed. He starts freaking out, as you would expect, and Juliet is immediately apologetic and emotional, swearing that she only stepped out for 10 minutes and when she came back he was gone! As soon as Roger leaves though, Juliet's emotion vanishes. She simply looks at Kate and says, "Well, here we go."
We rejoin Miles and Hurley on the way to The Orchid, and Hurley accuses Miles of farting in the van. He has Miles pull over so he can check the food, and then discovers the body. Miles explains that the guy was working in a hole when a filling ripped out of his tooth and exited his head through his brain. Hurley starts asking about Miles' power, and then tells Miles that his secret is safe because he also talks to dead people.
Off island, grown-up Miles is selling his 'service' to a grieving father. When the father explains there is no body, Miles demands more money to contact his son, then tells the father what he wants to hear. As he leaves, Miles is approached in the street by a pre-stabbed-in-the-back-by-Locke Naomi, who invites him to a restaurant to discuss a possible job.
In '77, Kate tries to ease Roger's fears, and only succeeds in arousing his suspicion. Hurley and Miles are finishing their dead people conversation as the approach The Orchid–Miles tells Hurley you can't have a conversation with the dead and Hurley says, "you're just jealous because my power is better than yours." If we believe that Miles has a legitimate ability, then perhaps this confirms that Hurley is not talking to the dead after all. Does this mean Hurley really is hallucinating, or just that the island is giving him visions? It wouldn't be the first time, since it previously showed him Jacob's cabin. After their conversation, Hurley and Miles arrive at The Orchid, where Dr. Chang chastises Miles for bringing someone along, then threatens Hurley with polar bear shit detail on The Hydra island. Dr. Chang also indicates that the experiments on the other island are absurd, which tells me they must have nothing to do with his own work. I noticed that Miles wouldn't make eye contact with Dr. Chang during this scene, but before I could finish my thought, Miles was telling Hurley that Dr. Chang is actually his father.
2004 Miles and Naomi arrive at what she call 'his audition'. Miles quickly explains that the dead guy was delivering something to Widmore, then references photos of empty graves and a purchase order for an old airplane. Naomi is impressed and offers Miles $1.6 million to join the expedition to an island to capture 'a murderer'. At least now we know why Miles asked Ben for such a weird amount in order to look the other way.
Janitor Jack is cleaning at the Dharma school when Roger appears and asks if Jack knows anything about Kate. Jack let's Roger know that Kate would never hurt his son (at least not in 1977) and basically tells Roger he should sleep of his drunken haze before thinking about reporting anything to Horace. Back in the van with Hurley, Dr. Chang, and Miles, and Hugo is asking Chang a bunch of questions, mainly to mess with Miles. Just as Hurley is suggesting they all have a beer together sometime, Chang tells Miles to stop the van. He gets out and opens a camouflaged gate, revealing the construction site for The Swan. When Miles and Hurley are about to leave, they spot to workers putting a serial number on the door of the hatch. Miles is intrigued when Hurley correctly guesses the final number (42) on the hatch. When Miles asks how he knew, Hurley says it's because that's the hatch that crashed our plane.
2004 Miles is enjoying a fish taco when he gets grabbed by some guys in a black van. They try to get him to skip to freighter job, and also ask if he knows what lies in the shadow of the statue. Miles doesn't know, and try to get him to come with them so he can find out the answers to all his questions. Miles says he will if they double his money and they just drop him off instead. When Miles asks what team they're on, they respond, "The one that's gonna win."
On their way back to Dharmaville in '77, Hurley tells Miles that there will be an accident at the hatch and they'll have to install a computer with a button you push to keep it from happening again. This leads to the big confrontation where Miles reveals what Hurley has been scribbling in a composition book for the entire episode–it turns out to be a screenplay for Empire Strikes Back, which Hurley thinks he can send to George Lucas to provide some help, and perhaps a few edits. At Casa de Lafleur, Sawyer returns to find Jack waiting to fill him in on the Roger/Kate situation. Sawyer thanks him and after Jack leaves, Security Phil appears with the pylon video tape. The idiot comes inside and tells Sawyer that he hasn't informed Horace yet, so Phil gets cold-cocked.
2004 Miles returns to the grieving father and gives him a refund, telling him that he should have told his son he loved him before he died if he needed him to know. This sets up the cutback to '77 where Hurley tells Miles that he should give his dad a second chance. Hurley compares Miles to Luke Skywalker, and why it would have worked out better if he hadn't freaked out when Vader broke the paternal news to him. This leads us to my bet for what must be Jorge Garcia's favorite line of the series, "Let's face it, ewoks suck dude." After receiving this bit of wisdom, Miles walks away and looks in the window of the Chang house to see his father reading a story (about polar bears) to his infant self. Miles is getting teary-eyed when we see Dr. Chang get a call and come outside. He asks Miles to come with him to pickup some scientists who have just arrived from Ann Arbor on the submarine. Once they arrive at the dock, Miles goes down to the sub and find himself face to face with Dr. Daniel Faraday, who offers, "Hey Miles, long time no see." LOST
This was definitely a critical episode that gave us some excellent back story on Miles and Dr. Chang, and also gave us more information about The Swan. What I'm most excited about it that it disproves completely the theory that Sun was the infant child in the Chang house. I never believed the theory that a person could not exist twice in the same time, since Locke/Sawyer/Juliet/Sun had been hopping through several points where they already existed. I'm glad to see this definitively proven tonight. My theory is that the landing points in time for the Ajira passengers are based on their role in the endgame–in other words, which side they will end up on. I thought at first that it could be the Widmore vs. Linus war, but I think we're going to see Richard Alpert's group vs. Everyone Else. One thing is for sure, next week we aren't going to see anything new, but it looks like we should have a great Faraday-centric episode to blow our minds in two weeks.
Lost Season 5 Episode 11: Whatever Happened, Happened
I've never been a Kate-hater, but the more I've gotten involved with the online Lostie community, the more I see just how many people really don't like her. I'm still not a hater, but I'll admit this episode definitely wasn't on part with the previous three installments. Kate-hate aside, there were some great reveals this week, so let's get to the spoiler zone for some recap and analysis.
We open in '77 with Jin regaining consciousness after his beatdown from Sayid. He talks to Creepy Phil on the radio then retrieves Young Ben, who whispers, "Please help." Jin loads him in the van and heads back to Dharmaville. Cut to Horace organizing the search and security force and — what's this? Workman Jack has the audacity to question Horace about the prisoner escape? Guess who just went to the top of Horace's suspected traitors list? Pan to Roger Workman who notices Kate standing around being useless and enlists her for winch duty. After they extract the burned-out Dharma van from the house, Roger has just enough time to tell Kate his last name and see her flinch before Jin pulls up and takes Young Ben straight past them toward the infirmary. Cue Flashback…
2004 Kate is traveling with Baby Aaron. We find out she's visiting Cassidy, who you may remember is the woman Sawyer screwed over and Kate also saved from a run in with the police in their pre-island days. Cassidy is surprised to see Kate, but not as surprised as she is when Kate says, "Sawyer sent me." So the mystery of Sawyer's helicopter whisper in Kate's ear is that he asked her to make sure his daughter Clementine was taken care of. In the process of explaining, Kate apparently spills the beans about the Oceanic 6's lies. Cassidy has a theory about why Sawyer jumped out of the copter–classic fear of commitment. Then she calls bullshit on Kate's lie about being Aaron's mom–she asks why Kate would tell almost all the truth and try to keep lying about this–Kate says, "Because I have to."
In '77 Kate is talking to Sawyer at the Dharma Security Bunker when Horace, Jin, Miles, & Phil show up. Sawyer spins a quick lie about questioning Kate, then sends her away. The guys examine the cell and find a set of "janitor keys" hanging from the lock. (I guess they could tell because the keys had the cool retractable belt loop attachment that janitors always have.) Cut to Sawyer arriving at the infirmary and quickly pinpointing that Roger is missing his keys. Inside, Juliet informs Sawyer that Young Ben needs a real surgeon if he's going to live. She didn't specify that the surgeon should also be wrestling with his faith and have a substance abuse problem, but I'm still pretty sure she was talking about Jack.
In my favorite moment of the episode, we are in a Dharma house with Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Miles. Hurley is acting weird and when Miles asks why, Hurley explains he is trying to see if he's disappearing. "You know, like Back to the Future!" I love it when Hurley acts as the stand-in for all of us geeks who the creators know are in the audience. Sawyer ends the comedy by bursting in looking for Jack, who promptly refuses to save Ben again, regardless of his age. Sawyer leaves and Kate pleads with Jack not to let Young Ben die. Jack tells Kate to get stuffed in so many words. He also manages to remind us that he is starting to believe in the island, thinking that his previous actions were just getting in the way of the island fixing things on its own. Kate says she doesn't like the new Jack, to which he reminds her that ultimately she didn't like the old Jack either. Ouch.
Kate goes to the infirmary and has an exchange with Roger that I think was supposed to make us actually feel sorry for him. It didn't work. Roger has been too big of an asshole for me to forgive him after four lines of remorseful dialogue. Thankfully we cut back to the house where Hurley is trying to disprove the 'circular time' theory that Miles is explaining. Some hardcore fans might not like this blatant explanation for more casual fans, but I find it hilarious. It was particularly welcome in tonight's episode with all the downers courtesy of Sad Kate.
Kate decides to play mother to Young Ben and gets Juliet to help her load him in a van so she can take him to The Others. Juliet wanted to go, but Kate tells her not to risk her life with Sawyer.
Back to the dock scene in '07. Now we follow Kate after the group breaks up. She takes Aaron to the grocery store and promptly loses him. For a moment she thinks Ghost Claire has appeared to take him, but it's just a random blonde woman.
'77 Kate pulls up to the sonic fence and hops out as Sawyer pulls up in another van. He calls her Freckles (for the first time in '77) and says he's there to help.
We jump back to Cassidy's house in '07 and Kate admits she has been expecting Aaron to be taken all along. Cassidy gets Kate to admit that she only took Aaron because she wanted to fill the void left by her breakup with Sawyer.
Back to the sonic fence and Sawyer reveals it's actually Juliet who got him to come. Back in Dharmaville, Juliet is confronting a naked post-shower Jack, letting him know it's his fault that Sawyer and Kate have left. Jack takes offense and says he came back to save everyone. Juliet doesn't buy it, telling Jack he came back for himself and no one else. Jack changes course and says he came back because he was "supposed to". In the jungle, Sawyer gets a Clementine update from Kate, then tells her they never would have worked out. She points out that he seems to have settled down with Juliet nicely–he admits he's grown up a lot in three years. The Others appear and Sawyer demands to be taken to Richard Alpert unless they want a war.
In '07, Kate shows up at the motel and confesses to Claire's mom. She tells her she's leaving for a while and that Aaron is waiting for her in another room. Kate has a tearful goodbye with sleeping Aaron and we go back to '77.
Sawyer (carrying Young Ben) and Kate meet Richard in the jungle. Richard immediately asks if this is Benjamin Linus, revealing that he knows the boy. Kate asks if Richard can save Ben. Apparently it's not that simple–Richard explains that he can, but Ben will not remember anything. He also warns that Ben will lose his innocence and be "one of us forever." Another Other whispers in Richard's ear that he shouldn't do this without asking Ellie, and what if Charles finds out? Richard blows this guy off saying he doesn't answer to them. Richard takes Young Ben away and we cut to an exterior of the ruins where the Smoke Monster lives. Richard approaches with the boy in his arms and enters the structure.
Cut to '07 on the island and adult Ben awakens to a smiling John Locke who says, "Welcome back to the land of the living."
The last two scenes really made up for an extremely sluggish episode. While I'm not a Kate-hater, I wouldn't try for a second to convince anyone that this wasn't a much slower and less exciting episode than any other one this season. Thankfully we got the answer to how Ben became an Other, as well as an explanation for how he became such a dark and sinister bastard. For a moment after the episode, I thought they were trying to tell us that when Richard healed Ben it caused Ben to immediately jump forward to '07. Once I thought about it for a minute, I decided this just wouldn't work. The one huge question I have is this–Is Richard Alpert also the Smoke Monster? There has been a lot of speculation about Richard being a god-like figure (Egyptian god Ra has been a popular choice) so perhaps the Smoke Monster is just another form he can assume and the ruins are his sacred ground? I really don't know, but I'm feeling more and more confident that Richard is definitely not human.
The big payoff at the end of this episode was the teaser for next week–It's a Ben episode! That means we should finally find out how he got his ass kicked before the Ajira flight, and I'm sure we'll see more about the resurrection of Young Ben as well. While tonight's episode may not have been the best, at least it provided some answers and allows us to move on to a much more exciting chapter.
Lost Season 5 Episode 10: He's Our You
Let's get straight to the recap/analysis on this very Sayid-centric episode.
We open with a scene in Tikrit where a father is trying to make his son a man by forcing him to kill a chicken in their coop. After the father goes inside, a younger boy appears and proceeds to lure and kill a chicken with his bare hands. It's no surprise when we find out that this boy is in fact Sayid. I believed the older animal-loving boy was Sayid for about 0.2 seconds, until my brain reminded me I was watching Lost and it was obviously a trick.
Back to '77 and Young Ben is bringing another sandwich to Sayid. Ben reveals it has been four years since his conversation in the jungle with Grungy Hippie Richard Alpert. Ben wants to know if Richard sent Sayid to retrieve him.
Flash to '04 off island and Sayid executing a Russian guy who makes a worthless attempt to bribe Sayid and avoid death. After the hit, Sayid meets up with Ben, who tells him that was the last hit. Sayid is pissed off, but Ben tells him the mission is accomplished and his family is no longer in danger. "No one else in Widmore's organization is a threat. You're free Sayid." I'm surprised we didn't see the steam rising for the hot bullshit that Ben was serving up on a cold Moscow night. I think it's painfully obvious at this point that Ben is completely full of shit and the killings had nothing to do with Sayid and everything to do with Ben's vendetta against Widmore.
Horace and Radzinski pay Sayid a visit in '77. Horace removes Sayid's restraints in a lame-ass attempt to get on his good side and get some information. Radzinski presses Horace to ask about the model of the Swan, but Horace gives Sayid an hour to start talking, or he'll have to "take it to the next level."
Cut to a preoccupied Juliet staring out the window. When Sawyer asks what's up, she confronts him about Kate and the gang returning and guesses that their time 'playing house' is over. This moment almost gets lost as Horace shows up to tell LaFleur that they're taking the prisoner to see Oldham. I think the important thing to take away from this scene is that Juliet is genuinely invested in her relationship with Sawyer–and it really seems like he is as well. They share a look right before Horace comes in that tells me that Sawyer may not ditch Juliet for Kate after all.
Sawyer quickly heads to security and tells Phil to go take his lunch. Once alone, he invites Sayid to "join the party in Dharmaville," but Sayid decides to go it alone.
Still in '77, we get a quick scene in the Dharmateria that serves only two purposes: 1) To show us that Hurley is working in the cafeteria, and 2) To offer a lame pretext for Hurley to tell Kate that Sawyer and Juliet are living together, "you know, like, not as roommates."
Back to Dharmajail and we get a cameo from Roger "Workman" Linus, who offers up a warning about Oldham to Sayid. Then we are reminded that Roger is an asshole when Ben shows up with a sandwich for Sayid, only to receive a beating from his father. It was nice to get a refresher on why we weren't upset when Roger got the gas.
Back to the future ('07-ish by my guess) and Ben has found Sayid at his Dominican Habitat for Humanity. Ben tells Sayid that he is in danger and then John Locke is dead. He even has the balls to tell Sayid, "I think he was murdered!" I laughed out loud at that–more confirmation that Ben will say pretty much anything to get his way. He then reminds Sayid that no matter how many houses he builds for the poor, he's just a killer at heart. When Sayid says he doesn't like killing, Ben apologizes and says "I was wrong about you."
Back to '77 and Sayid is tazed and taken to Oldham's camp outside the village. Sayid asks who this guy is and Sawyer says, "He's our you." I said, no that's Larry from Newhart. You know the guy with the two brothers named Darryl? Or perhaps you remember him from Blade Runner? Whatever you remember him from, he gives Sayid a sugar cube soaked with truth serum.
Flash to the dock in '07 with the gang splitting up when they realize what Jack and Ben want them to do. After he leaves, Sayid is at a bar when who starts hitting on him–the Marshal.
Next we join a very loopy Sayid at Oldham's place. Sayid spills the beans about both of his flights to the island. He almost blows Sawyer's cover, but Oldham changes subjects to the Dharma stations. When Sayid mentions the Swan and "The Incident" Radzinski loses his shit. Sayid then warns them all of their impending deaths, causing Oldham to wonder if he used too much serum. Sayid lets out a maniacal laugh and tells him he used "exactly the right amount."
At the motor pool, we have another scene that exists to give us one piece of information. Kate tells Juliet she knows about her and Sawyer, then Juliet admits she's glad Kate knows. Juliet does make it clear she's not giving Sawyer up easily.
The inquisitors gather in Horace's living room to discuss Sayid's fate. Sawyer tries to sway the group away from execution, but Amy steps in and makes a plea to kill Sayid so she can stop 'sleeping with one eye open'. Her speech works and everyone votes for death. Sawyer resists at first, but caves when Horace turns and says that he would like the vote to be unanimous.
Sayid's hotel room in '07 – He and the Marshal burst in while making out and find their way to the bed. As he starts to undress her, she kicks his ass and pulls a gun. According to her, the family of the guy Sayid killed on the golf course have hired her to bring Sayid to Guam. Apparently she's a bounty hunter and not a marshal after all. I guess I'll have to start calling her Boba.
In '77 we're back at Dharmajail and Sawyer is trying to help Sayid escape. Sayid refuses and tells Sawyer that he now knows his purpose for being back on the island. Sawyer leaves and finds Kate to ask why she came back. Before she can answer, a flaming Dharma van crashes into a house and starts a huge fire. Janitor Jack miraculously becomes Fireman Jack as Sawyer issues the all-hands-on-deck. In the fray, Young Ben appears and offers to spring Sayid if he can come too. Sayid agrees to take him along, saying "That's why I'm here."
Quick scene at the airport in '07 with Sayid asking Boba if they can take the next flight once he sees Hurley and Kate waiting at the gate. When Ben gets on the plane, Sayid asks Boba if she's really working for him–she says no. By the look on her face she's either telling the truth, doesn't know she's working for Ben, or is just a really good liar.
Sayid and Ben race into the jungle in '77, only to encounter a Dharma van. The van stops and Jin pops out. Sayid asks him to look the other way, but is forced to knock Jin out when he insists on trying to raise Sawyer on the radio. Ben tells Sayid they need to hurry. Sayid says, "You were right about me, I am a killer," then shoots Ben in the chest and walks away. LOST
Now I don't think for a second that Young Ben is actually dead. I could be a sucker, but I really believe in Faraday's whole theory about not being able to change things. I also like the idea of the symmetry between Young Ben returning from a gunshot in the same way Locke returned after older Ben shot him. What I'm really looking forward to is finding out more about Widmore's past on the island, but I'm starting to think that won't be revealed until Season Six.
Another intriguing item tonight was Sayid's mention of "the incident" during his interrogation by Oldham. On this week's Official Lost Podcast, Lindelof and Cuse revealed that the two-hour season finale has been written and is titled "The Incident Parts 1 & 2". They also said not to worry, both parts will air together on the same night. One thing is for sure, once the finale has aired, none of us want to wait until next January for the next episode.
Lost Season 5 Episode 9: Namaste
The last 13 days have been painful. This is the longest we have gone without a new episode of Lost since season five premiered in January. After this brief layoff, I am dreading the long 8 months that will separate the end of season five and the premiere of season six. I decided to mix a spoiler-laden recap with my own thoughts, analysis, and speculation, so this post is a bit longer than most.
The only positive thing for me about our week off, was I got to experience a higher level of excitement when my brain caught up and realized it was time for Lost again. One moment, I was using my iPhone and hitting play on the DVR and the next my brain was shouting, "Oh Shit, It's the Ajira plane! We're going to see the trip back to the island from the perspective of the people who didn't get flashed off the plane!"
That's exactly what we got to see. We got some sweet Lapidus-as-hero action as he navigated the stalled plane to a safe landing on the much talked about Dharma runway on the second island. I was glad to see this validated since it's been the subject of so much online gossip since the 316 episode. Captain Lapidus awakens on the ground in the cockpit, only to discover his copilot has come down with a terminal case of Tree Branch Through the Chest Syndrome. Back in the cabin, Cesar introduces himself to the Marshal who had escorted Sayid onto the plane. It seemed to me that this introduction was solely to remind all of us what Cesar's name is, so I guess he'll be around for at least a few episodes. The next reveal is that Lapidus isn't the only alumnus who didn't disappear in the flash–Sun and Ben are with all the newbies as well. Cue the first brain melting moment of the night…
30 Years Earlier
Oh. Shit. Without sounding to cocky, I kind of felt this coming, but it was still something totally different to see it in black and white on the screen. I think we all knew it couldn't be super easy for everyone to just flash back to the island and live happily ever after. What I'm very interested in is the explanation of why Sun, Ben, and Lapidus weren't cool enough to get flashed off the plane.
So Ajira crash minus 30 years, Jack tells Sawyer that Locke is dead, and Sawyer drops some knowledge of his own by telling us all that it's 1977. Cue Hurley with the line of the night: "Uh….what?" Back at Dharma camp, Juliet is a bit too frantic at the security station, asking Miles where James has gone. Maybe it's the three years of relationship we didn't get to see, but for me the whole Juliet-as-worried-girlfriend/wife/whatever just doesn't come off as believable. Back to the Oceanic 3, and we see an interesting side of Sawyer as he tells the gang that he doesn't want to 'screw everything up that they have with Dharma'. Again, I wish we could have seen more of the missing three years, but I get the distinct impression that old Sawyer may be happy with his new Dharma day job. Jin, having found out from Jack and Co. that Sun was on the plane, races to The Flame to see if Radzinski has spotted any planes landing/crashing on the island. Radzinksi blows Jin off, and we get to see a flash of the old pre-island Jin come out as he gets physical in convincing Radzinski to call the other stations for a report.
Fast Forward to Sun on the beach. The Marshal is starting to quiz Sun when Lapidus gathers the group and informs them the radio is broken and wherever they landed, it isn't on his charts. Well no shit. Cesar seems to be unhappy with Captain Lapidus assuming the leadership role and starts running his mouth about buildings and animal cages on the island. Cue Ben, who goes running into the jungle. As an aside–I've always thought Ben looked like a rodent of some kind, and when Cesar was talking, I think I saw Ben perk up like a caged mouse who can smell the cheese before it's dropped in his cage. No surprise that Sun follows after Ben.
Back to the 70s and Juliet is snooping. She wakes Amy from a nap on accident, and then decides to check on the baby. Brain melting moment 2:
Amy & Horace's baby is Ethan. And now we understand why he's so loyal to Ben. Obviously young Ben makes a disciple of Ethan at an early age. Back at The Flame, we have a Code 14J, also known as a Hostile in Dharma territory. Jin grabs a rifle and runs out into the jungle only to find Sayid wandering around. Before he can fill Sayid in, Radzinski shows up with his rifle and forces Jin to play along, taking Sayid into custody. Back in the Dharma bus, Sawyer is telling Jack, Kate and Hurley what they need to do to fit in as recruits who are fresh of the submarine. In the process, Hurley asks if Sawyer is planning to save the Dharma people from the Others. Sawyer explains that Faraday doesn't think it works like that. Then we find out that "Faraday isn't here anymore." So what's up? Did Daniel hop a sub back to the mainland? Did he die? Did he decide to give the donkey wheel a spin? Whatever the answer, my money is on it having something to do with Desmond. The new recruits get welcomed, but not before Miles shows up looking for an explanation from LaFleur about his disappearance. I enjoyed watching the look on Miles's face when he saw Jack, Kate, and Hurley.
Back to Ben and Sun, who are joined in the jungle by Lapidus. Even he knows better than to trust Ben, but Sun seems determined to follow Ben to the outriggers and then to the main island. Just when I started wondering what the hell Sun was thinking, Ben decided to start a monologue about his responsibilities and what his plan on the main island was and just when he gave enough details WHAM! Sun cracks him upside the dome with an oar. Nice.
A bonus character intersection at Dharma Orientation as Jack meets with Pierre Chang, Dharma's resident orientation film star. We find out the apparently Sawyer has earned the respect of Chang, then we are treated to a funny parallel of Ben's father's orientation as Jack is informed he will be a Workman. I'm sure Sawyer had a hand in making Jack a janitor. Just as Kate is about to be busted by Security Phil, Juliet arrives to save the day with a sweet line of bullshit. Back to Sawyer arriving at The Flame, and we discover that in 1977, The Swan is apparently nothing more than a model Radzinski is working on.
Back in 2007, Sun and Lapidus arrive at a trashed Dharma camp that is occupied by a smoke monster and brain melter number three of the night: Christian Shephard. Oh man this is getting good. I don't know why it took me this long to believe it, but I think Christian is alive. I never had a problem believing Locke was brought back by the island, so I don't see any reason that couldn't apply to Christian as well. Apparently he knows a little something as well since he tells Frank and Sun that they have "quite a journey" ahead of them.
The episode wraps up back in 77 with an increasingly suspicious Security Phil wondering why Jack the Janitor is dropping in on Lafleur, Master of Security. Jack gets surprised with a Juliet reunion, followed by the reveal that she lives with Sawyer. The scene that follows between Jack and Sawyer was my favorite of the night. It really seems that three years with real responsibility have given Sawyer some much needed perspective. He proceeds to serve jack a big slice of humble pie when he reminds Jack that all the actions Jack took were reactive, whereas he prefers to stop and think in order to come up with the right solution. It really underscored for me the journey in opposite directions that Jack and Sawyer have been on in the three years since they last saw each other. Sawyer built a life and a career based on fulfilling responsibility to Dharma and Juliet, while Jack has done nothing more than become a self-pitying drunk and painkiller addict.
The closing scene is a nice reveal of a young boy visiting Sayid in Dharma jail to bring him a sandwich. Who is that young man with the rodent-like features and dorky circular glasses? Why Ben Linus of course. And now Sayid (who didn't get Faraday's memo about altering the past) may have a new plan of his own.


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Meet The Next Ooni Of Ife
How The 'Deities Intervened'
ALMOST everybody knows who the next Ooni of Ife is. He is Prince One-of-the-several-contestants! Of course, the snag with revealing his name at present is: he has not been officially designated.
But who is he really? The answer to that question depends on whom you ask, what media platform you have logged on to, and what you choose to believe in the fast-paced, action-packed drama to appoint a successor to the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade.
Oba Sijuwade was crowned December 6, 1980 after a hotly contested battle for the throne. News of his death in a London hospital filtered into the media July 28, 2015 but was refuted by the Ife council of chiefs, who cited age-long traditions guiding such sensitive pronouncements. Following his burial, Ife kingdom has again been thrown into another round of tussle.
Only this time, it could be ever so intriguing. There are just four Ruling Houses. Period. Presenting a list of their names, however, is not as simple as it seems, and how they are ordered might depend on who is doing the ordering and what subtle effect such wants to achieve. Suffice it to say that the last monarch, Oba Sijuwade, was of the Ogboru Ruling House, while his predecessor, Oba Adesoji Aderemi, was of the Osinkola House.
While it had initially appeared the Ogboru House might not stake claim to the royal seat, having produced the last Oba, the race took a controversial twist, last week, as one family in the House argued that a conciliatory pact with Giesi House, which allowed for the ascension of Oba Sijuwade might not be interpreted as deal with the entire Ogboru House.
Consequently, a prince threw in the hat. Giesi House, meanwhile, has been in the media, making loud claim to the throne, and explaining why, by a 1977 document – The Ooni of Ife Declaration, reference number CB141/7/1/540 – it has the right to produce the next monarch.
On the other hand, Lafogido Ruling House argues that its Giesi counterpart failed to stand its ground when it was its turn to produce the Oba, conceding to Sijuwade, and so should in fairness be deemed to have lost its chance; something like the Ruling House sold its right for a mess of porridge and should stand aside for the round to finish before laying claim to the stool. Therefore, Lafogido has decided to join the contest.
Also, at a press conference on behalf of the Osinkola Ruling House, last week, a spokesman noted that if fairness were followed, Osinkola should produce the next monarch.
He argued that before 1930, there had been no chieftaincy declaration guiding the selection of an Ooni and that in 1957, the first chieftaincy declaration came into existence. He, however, explained that in 1977, there was an "alteration and some variations".
These factors, he said, paved the way for the emergence of Oba Sijuwade, adding, "What we seek is that the variations that were considered then should once again be activated for us, Osinkola, to be considered."
With these, it appears all the Ruling Houses, regardless of any known or unknown formula, have decided to slug it out. This is not to mention claim, and rumours of claims.
But modern day Ife is no longer stranger to brash encounter with modern day reality. Following the death of Oba Sijuwade, contemporary media stole, as it were, the magic wand from the hand of traditional chiefs who had held same for centuries. While they huddled around the fireplace of ancient culture, whispering in hushed tones, roasting relevance, the mass media blasted the death of their revered monarch over the top of their heads. Although they struggled to hold on to the grill, present day reality, perhaps for once, beat them to it. And it could happen again.
But why should simple rotation among just four points prove so evasive? Why should a matter that would finally be 'decided' by the Ifa deity elicit so much argument and counter argument among mortals? The sum total of answers to these questions would define the identity of the next Ooni of Ife.
Thirty-five years since the last coronation, the Ife monarchical stage remains practically the same. But that is where the similarity stops. The actors, directors, audience and props have all changed.
When Olubuse II, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, took the reins of power, there was no Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, GSM, SMS or the Internet. Today's struggle for the royal seat, however, is happening against the backdrop of such media spotlighting that whether admitted or not, could tinker with the final outcome of things.
Like never before in the history of Ife kingdom, aspirants to the throne, through contemporary media, have almost unlimited power to sway opinion, and have unprecedented visibility and audience.
And it is foolhardy to suppose that contest for the throne is everything else except a media war. Consequently, on the pages of newspapers and online, the next Ooni is evolving anyhow, as contenders push their regal arguments, implicitly and explicitly to secure some advantage.
But modern day Ife is no longer stranger to brash encounter with modern day reality. Following the death of Oba Sijuwade, contemporary media stole, as it were, the magic wand from the hand of traditional chiefs who had held same for centuries.
While they huddled around the fireplace of ancient culture, whispering in hushed tones, roasting relevance, the mass media blasted the death of their revered monarch over the top of their heads.
Although they struggled to hold on to the grill, present day reality, perhaps for once, beat them to it. And it could happen again. Choice of a new monarch, according to established tradition, is the preserve of the Ifa oracle, which has the power of supernatural discernment, judgment and foresight.
Such is the high regard the African brings to the pronouncement of his deities that when once they have uttered their voices, in submission, the people chorus: "The gods have spoken."
And discussion moves to other matters. But the controversies that are beginning to dog the appointment of a new Ooni suggest someone might have lost confidence in the ability of the oracle to decide: very unlike what might have obtained in centuries past, but quite the realism of modern day power games, where the winner is the deft, ruthless, quick and smart, regardless of extant rules.
Someone, perhaps, has embraced the maxim: 'the gods help those who help themselves', and has decided to stop at nothing to stuff his couch. And so, behind the media war, trips to political godfathers, emails, phone calls, SMSs and intense lobbying, rather than sober recourse to tradition and the gods, are gradually fashioning the identity of the next occupant of the throne.
With every passing day, the contest is expected to get tighter; and with every passing day the risk of bringing one of Africa's most respected institutions to ridicule, that is if the claimants decide to dig in.
But the drama won't be any different from the present day power tussles across the continent, where gods – written constitutions – have been sidelined and parties have left a trail of bitterness and worse.
May there be no factional Ooni! Ewo orisha! May there be nobody walking, Sanusi style, to office anywhere in Nigeria, dressed like an Ooni before D-day! Ka ma ri! After the Ooniship war has been won and lost, the next Ooni is not so much the man – Prince One-of-the-several-contestants.
The next Ooni will be an institution, battle scarred but wiser; one that helplessly has moved a step further into brazen political realities, and dare we say, a step from some of the rigours of passing traditions; one that has shed a little more of its ancient innocence. Now that you know the next Ooni of Ife, you may, please, meet him. Kabiyesi O!


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Veronica Mahon trained at the Australian Ballet School receiving Dux of the year in 1998 before joining the Australian Ballet Company in 1999. In 2003, she moved to the USA to work with The Atlantic Southeast Ballet Company in South Carolina and spent 2007 with Sydney Dance Company.
Veronica commenced her teacher training at the Marie Walton-Mahon Dance Academy (MWM) in Newcastle, where she piloted the Royal Academy of Dance NEW (RAD) Intermediate and Intermediate foundation syllabuses, and taught students from Grade 1 to Solo Seal.
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Pu-239 trailer and behind the scenes
Pu-239 has come out of nowhere for me, and yet it has a great premise and a strong cast including Paddy Considine and Radha Mitchell.
The film tells the story of a Russian man who has received a deadly does of radiation poisoning at his work at a nuclear power plant. It was an accident but his work are refusing to compensate his family and so he decides to steal something very valuable from the plant to sell, Plutonium.
Hence the name, Pu-239, the elemental name of weapons grade Plutonium, as it has become known. He steals the element and while he's slowly dying he tries to sell it in order to get enough money for his family to be secure after he's gone, knowing that whoever gets the material may use it to make a bomb which could kill thousands of innocent people.
It's an HBO film and there's a wealth of information on the official site. An interview with the screenwriter and director Scott Z. Burns, with the excellent Paddy Considine and the talented Radha Mitchell, as well as a trailer and an interesting behind the scenes look with words from the stars.
The film looks really interesting and rather scary, presenting an incredible choice to the main character which would seem a no brainer, and yet, in that situation, doesn't seem as clear cut as you might first think.
I'm keen to see this considering the talent involved. You can see the trailer over at the official site in the video section [QT:WMV].


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PAF actively supports also laureate activity and Václav Stratil's Award intended for artists over 35 years old. This year's finalists are Milena Dopitová, Dalibor Chatrný, Krištof Kintera, Jan Merta, Viktor Pivovarov and Tomáš Vaněk. The activity "Artist Has Sense" originated in 2007 from the need to highlight artists worthy of being authorities for the young generation and who deserves respect. After Jiří Kovanda, Vladimír Skrepl, ADriena Šimotová, and the artistic duo Lukáš Jasanský and Martin Polák, the fifth guarantor of the award is Václav Stratil.
The award serves as a gesture of the young generation of artists and theorists towards the generation of older artists. It is especially an appreciation that is mediated to a certain artist whose election is arranged by more than 500 people from the Czech Republic who are not 35 in the time of the election and who thus nominate two artists over 35. The sum of received votes creates a group of five – seven finalists. In the second stage, a laureate is voted every year by a different jury. The age limitation of "nominators" is voted intuitively; character of the award depends on meeting of replaced jury and the finalists in their ateliers.
The award includes also voting of the most appreciated group as well as individual exhibition that took place in the Czech Republic during the past year. The announcement of Václav Stratil's Award laureate 2011 will take place in the auditorium of the Museum of Applied Arts in Brno, on Friday the 25th of November from 6 pm. On basis of young artists', curators' and theorists' voting, the following were nominated:
Milena Dopitová
Dalibor Chatrný
Krištof Kintera
Jan Merta
Viktor Pivovarov
Tomáš Vaněk
The jury consist of:
Anna Balážová (student, assistant of Video Atelier, Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts)
Dominik Gajarský (student, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague)
Jana Kapelová (artist, assistant of New Media Atelier, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague)
Jiří Ptáček (curator of Youth Gallery in Brno)
Mark Ther (artist, finalist of Jindřich Chalupecký's Award 2011)


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When the guy who designed it in doing so to kill people wouldn't accept civilian use why should the government.
"The family of the man who invented the AR-15 assault rifle says he never intended for the weapon to be used by civilians.
"Our father, Eugene Stoner, designed the AR-15 and subsequent M-16 as a military weapon to give our soldiers an advantage over the AK-47," the Stoner family told NBC News in a statement late Wednesday.
Stoner, who designed the AR-15 and the M-16 in the 1950s, died of cancer in April 1997. He was 74."He died long before any mass shootings occurred," the family said. "But we do think he would have been horrified and sickened as anyone, if not more by these events.-Dylan Stableford(Yahoo News).
The AR-15 is the most talked about gun in America.
But the AR-15's creator died before the weapon became a popular hit and his family has never spoken out.
Until now.
"Our father, Eugene Stoner, designed the AR-15 and subsequent M-16 as a military weapon to give our soldiers an advantage over the AK-47," the Stoner family told NBC News late Wednesday. "He died long before any mass shootings occurred. But, we do think he would have been horrified and sickened as anyone, if not more by these events."
The inventor's surviving children and adult grandchildren spoke exclusively to NBC News by phone and email, commenting for the first time on their family's uneasy legacy. They requested individual anonymity in order to speak freely about such a sensitive topic. They also stopped short of policy prescriptions or legal opinions.
Related: AR-15 Style Rifle Used in Orlando Massacre Has Bloody Pedigree
But their comments add unprecedented context to their father's creation, shedding new light on his intentions and adding firepower to the effort to ban weapons like the AR-15. The comments could also bolster a groundbreaking new lawsuit, which argues that the weapon is a tool of war — never intended for civilians.
Eugene Stoner would have agreed, his family said.
The ex-Marine and "avid sportsman, hunter and skeet shooter" never used his invention for sport. He also never kept it around the house for personal defense. In fact, he never even owned one.
And though he made millions from the design, his family said it was all from military sales.
"After many conversations with him, we feel his intent was that he designed it as a military rifle," his family said, explaining that Stoner was "focused on making the most efficient and superior rifle possible for the military."
He designed the original AR-15 in the late 1950s, working on it in his own garage and later as the chief designer for ArmaLite, a then small company in southern California. He made it light and powerful and he fashioned a new bullet for it — a .223 caliber round capable of piercing a metal helmet at 500 yards.
The Army loved it and renamed it the M16.
But after Stoner's death in 1997, at the age of 74, a semi-automatic version of the AR-15 became a civilian bestseller, too, spawning dozens of copy-cat weapons. The National Rifle Association has taken to calling it "America's rifle."
The bullets that tore through the Pulse nightclub in Orlando were Stoner's .223 rounds, fired from a AR-15 spin off made by Sig Sauer.
In all, an AR-15 style rifle has been used in at least 10 recent mass shootings — including at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and a work party in San Bernardino, California.
"What has happened, good or bad, since his patents have expired is a result of our free market system," Stoner's family said. "Currently, a more interesting question is 'Who now is benefiting from the manufacturing and sales of AR-15s, and for what uses?'"
That's the question for the rest of us.
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