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Portrait of the Marquise de Pleumartin, née Anne Le Laÿ de Villemaré (c. 1695-after 1761), three-quarter-length
signed and dated 'Nattier . pinx. / 1738.' (lower right)
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32 x 25 7/8 in. (81.3 x 65.5 cm.)
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Nattier had been elected to the Académie in 1718 as a history painter – his diploma piece is Perseus Changing Phineas to Stone in Tours – but he soon turned to the practice of portraiture. His particular innovation lay in employing the traditional formula of the allegorical or mythological portrait to portray princesses and noblewomen in poses and costumes hitherto reserved for actresses: offering them the vicarious pleasures of dressing up – or down, as it were – and playing a role.
Little is known of the subject of this ravishing portrait, except that she was born Anne Le Laÿ de Villemaré, married Nicolas Ysoré d'Hervault, Marquis de Pleumartin (who died in 1726), and had a son, Marie Victor Nicolas Ysoré d'Hervault, Marquis de Pleumartin (who died in 1757). Signed and dated 1738, this previously unpublished portrait is certainly one of the most beautiful and well-preserved paintings by Nattier to have reemerged in many years. In Nattier's elegant likeness, the artist found an ideal sitter: beautiful, fresh-faced and genuinely lovely, with no need for improvement of her considerable charms, and apparently delighted to be sitting for her portrait, which exudes contentment and good humor. The portrait, a harmony of blues, is painted on a warm ground which the artist uses to considerable effect in the lightly scumbled background. The Marquise is portrayed frontally and gazes directly at the viewer; her cheeks and lips are rouged but her chestnut-brown hair is dressed simply and is unpowdered. The simplicity of the pose is countered by a fantastic, Rococo swirl of silk, satin and velvet drapery. The beautifully modelled shoulders are left bare by a low-cut chemise and a bodice of white damask ornamented with a stripped silk bow. The Marquise wears a voluminous cape of crumpled blue-green satin shot with brown reflections, which is caught up around her waist and at the shoulder with a jewel-studded belt and brooch.
A fine copy of the present portrait, possibly executed in Nattier's workshop, was featured in a Paris sale (Hôtel Drouot, 12 December 1984, lot 36), and is today in a private collection, Paris.
The Portrait of the Marquise de Pleumartin will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the works of Jean Marc Nattier, to be published by the Wildenstein Institute.
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I would have to agree with the no color, in my personal opinion I don't think its really necessary just for people like my mom who are gray lol
Lol! Good point...
I'm a huge fan of the dark insides and bleached top layer.
I don't know how to describe it, as I'm not too good with hairstyle lingo. Anything natural or noticeable is what I personally like. I'm not too big of a fan of pony-tails or the boring, straight, evenly cut stuff.
I like a girl who keeps her hair relatively long. However, shoulder length isn't bad. Short hair is a NO NO. Keep your hair the way it is. It looks appealing.
i like thick, wavy and curly hair, that can reach her shoulders or beyond but not to her waist, and short hair is a turn off I think, but boy-cut suits some girls sometimes..
and in your case, your hair in your profile pic is nice(I don't like the word "Hot").. :)
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Ur suits u
Medium/long and straight is good.
Idk what different hairstyles are called! :o
I like braids, unless your hair is long as f*** then I like it regular.
Im sorry but I find nothing more unattractive than a person (girl or guy) who uses crude language.
Sorry didn't mean to snap, I was just taken aback :)
The one you have looks great.
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Since its inception in 1999, Pave (Centre for Promoting Alternatives to Violence) has extended a helping hand to dozens of families and individuals who are victims of abuse or violence. To help raise funds for its cause, the organisation hosted the Pave Charity Golf event at the Tanah Merah Country Club. After a day out enjoying a round in the sun, guests attended a dinner at the Garden Banquet Room, which was graced by guest-of-honour Dr Maliki Osman. The programme that evening included a speech by Pave Charity Golf Chairman Eugene Seah, a prize presentation by Dr Osman and a lucky draw conducted by the vice-president of the organisation Alan John.


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Legislators Seek to Stanch Spate of Home Foreclosures
Thursday, March 13, 2008
As the number of foreclosures in Maryland continues to climb, state lawmakers are considering one of the nation's most ambitious packages of legislation to control the housing crisis by strengthening homeowner protections and toughening oversight of the mortgage-lending industry.
Several bills are advancing in the General Assembly that, taken together, could prohibit the kinds of loans and predatory practices that contributed to the foreclosure crisis and create preemptive measures to help people at risk of losing their home.
The bills, most of which were proposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley (D), appear to be gaining broad support in the Democrat-controlled legislature, which could start voting on the proposals this week.
The measures would make the most egregious mortgage schemes cases of fraud and subject them to criminal prosecution. They would also prohibit prepayment penalties and "foreclosure rescue transactions" in which homeowners are tricked into signing over their homes to third parties, extend the foreclosure timetable from 15 to about 150 days and require independent preloan counseling for people seeking high-risk adjustable mortgages.
If passed, the laws would put Maryland at the "national cutting edge" in protecting people from losing their homes because of predatory lending, said Thomas E. Perez, who, as secretary of labor, licensing and regulation, has been the O'Malley administration's point person on foreclosures.
"There's a recognition that we need to really take a wholesale look at some of the practices that got us to where we are," Perez said. "The corrosive power of fine print has put many people on the brink of foreclosure. What we have done in these bills is parse out all those elements of fine print that are destroying lives."
The number of people losing their homes has been escalating at a startling pace. Last month, more than 4,000 foreclosure actions were taken in Maryland, a ninefold increase from February 2007, according to RealtyTrac, which maintains foreclosure data. Roughly one-third of the foreclosures have been in Prince George's County, by far the state's hardest-hit jurisdiction.
For legislators from Prince George's and other areas, the effort to pass foreclosure bills has taken on particular urgency.
"We can't leave Annapolis without having done something to address this issue," said Del. Melony G. Griffith (D-Prince George's). "I'm convinced that there's the political will to do that." The General Assembly session is set to end April 7.
O'Malley has also used strong language on the issue, saying last month that the foreclosure crisis is "the greatest threat to the strength and the growth of our middle class."
O'Malley's comments came as he announced emergency regulations requiring loan service companies to tell the state when residents are in danger of losing their homes so the government can help.
Many states are considering legislation aimed at stemming foreclosures. In Virginia, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) has proposed requiring certain lenders to warn borrowers when they are at risk of foreclosure so they can try to get back on track with payments.
Maryland officials say the state's bills are among the most sweeping in the nation, and legislative leaders have said there has been little political opposition to them.
Republicans have not taken a formal position on the proposal, said House Minority Leader Anthony J. O'Donnell (R-Calvert).
The Maryland Association of Realtors backs the legislation. "We do think that a lot of the things that were included in the governor's package will produce very positive things," said William A. Castelli, vice president of the agency's government affairs division.
Lawmakers attribute the consensus to the way the administration drafted its proposals. Before the session, O'Malley convened the Maryland Homeownership Preservation Task Force, co-chaired by Perez. The group reviewed existing laws and came up with legislation that drew support from lawmakers, community advocates and others.
"By the time they introduced the bills, it was pretty much worked out," said Sen. Thomas M. Middleton (D-Charles), who chairs the Finance Committee, which oversees mortgage laws. "I don't know if we'll ever entirely prevent fraud or abuse in the future, but it's the best that we see we can get at to make some improvements."
Del. Brian J. Feldman (D-Montgomery), who chairs a banking subcommittee, said it is important to "go after the bad apples" without creating overly negative consequences for state-chartered banks.
But, Feldman said, "I think this is a good, balanced approach that tackles the problem but at the same time minimizes unintended consequences."
Lawmakers acknowledged possible limitations of the legislation.
"There are some people that we can't help, people who willingly and knowingly -- no scam, no nothing -- chose to buy a home far beyond their means, gambling on the hope that their home would increase in value the way the real estate market had been," said Del. Maggie L. McIntosh (D-Baltimore), who chairs a committee that oversees some foreclosure bills.
But the package of bills could go a long way toward preventing foreclosure crises, said Steven Silverman, chief of the consumer protection division of the attorney general's office.
"We're trying to close the barn door before the next group of horses" gets out, Silverman said. "In other words, we can't undo the loans that have already occurred. What we can do is put in place preloan counseling and consumer safeguards to make sure that this wouldn't happen again."


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Proctorial — Proc*to ri*al, a. Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
proctorial — See proctor. * * * … Universalium
proctorial — adjective Of or pertaining to a proctor or to the office of proctorship … Wiktionary
proctorial — prÉ'k tÉ"rɪəl / tÉ"Ër adj. of supervision, of monitoring; supervisory, monitorial; of a supervisor, of a monitor … English contemporary dictionary
proctorial — proc·to·ri·al … English syllables
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proctor — proctorial /prok tawr ee euhl, tohr /, adj. proctorially, adv. proctorship, n. /prok teuhr/, n. 1. a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations. 2. an official charged with various duties, esp. with the maintenance of good order … Universalium
proctorization — ˈpräktərə̇ˈzāshən, ˌrīˈz noun ( s) 1. archaic : the action of exercising proctorial authority or of serving as a proctor 2. archaic : the condition of being subjected to proctorial authority … Useful english dictionary
Proctorical — Proc*tor ic*al, a. Proctorial. [R.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
proctor — noun Etymology: Middle English procutour procurator, proctor, alteration of procuratour Date: 14th century supervisor, monitor; specifically one appointed to supervise students (as at an examination) • proctor verb • proctorial adjective •… … New Collegiate Dictionary


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Wood Group has announced that it is collaborating with the Centre for Applied Data Analytics (CeADAR), located at University College Dublin (UCD), to launch a new data analytics capability to deliver significant savings for the energy and industrial sectors.
Wood Group Kenny (WGK) will work with CeADAR to develop predictive analytics for deployment particularly in the oil and gas industry. This will initially be targeted at brownfield engineering services and will strengthen WGK's existing services in the area of measured data analysis.
By tracking the integrity of system components, the service already delivers significant savings to clients through problem detection and optimisation, leading to reduced inspection, intervention and maintenance costs.
Bob MacDonald, CEO of Wood Group Kenny, says, "Maximising productivity is a strong focus, even more so in the current low oil price environment. The accelerated development and deployment of advanced analytics capabilities will provide a significant enhancement to our existing brownfield engineering service line in 2016. This specialist technical capability will allow Wood Group Kenny to handle data more efficiently and deliver a greater volume and variety of cost saving insights to our clients."
CeADAR, funded by Enterprise Ireland and Industrial Development Authority (IDA) Ireland, is a market-focused technology centre for the innovation and application of big data analytics and visualisation with industry partners. Led by UCD, in partnership with University College Cork and Dublin Institute of Technology, CeADAR specialises in accelerated development and deployment of technologies such as data management, predictive analytics, machine learning, real time analytics and visualisation.
CeADAR is headquartered at NexusUCD, the University's Industry Partnership Centre.
Dr Brian Mac Namee, Principal Investigator at CeADAR, says, "For CeADAR, working with Wood Group Kenny provides a great opportunity to apply the latest data analytics techniques to large, interesting, real world datasets, and to see this application make a difference to Wood Group Kenny's business."
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Civil War Journal
By Kathryn Parker
Journal #1
I am Kathryn Parker. I was first a house hold wife until my husband had to go away. He was forced to enlist. I have never thought before that I would think of slavery in dept. I have recently read Harriet Beecher Stowe's book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and it made me think for a long time about how I never though or asked anybody how it worked. I felt like I need to do something beneficial to everyone. I had enlisted my self after a few months so my husband wouldn't know. I had choose to become a spy. In a few weeks I would be moving to the border and living there. I also decide to travel down into the South after a few months so I don't get suspected.
Journal 3
A:Hi possum, you're fit as a fiddle
B: Just toeing the mark. Got anything to pass on?
A:I have this note, but it will look like greenbacks. You'll have to give em' to the skunks.
B:It might have hard knocks and played out a lot by the time we get there but I'll make sure they get it by the end of the week.
A:Make sure that you don't become a jailbird.
B: Don't worry I'm a hard case but I better skedaddle pretty soon.
A:I better too. I'll be top rail with this note.
B:I'll be sure to get it to the Yankees before the Greybacks can even find out anything
A:Hunkey dorey, I'll see you at the end of the week.
B:Great! I'll see if I can bring you back some Goobers
A: Good luck
B: Goodbye
Photo: Morning
I had recently woke up early and found myself seeing the early mooring sun.
Though I long to write a letter to my husband it would take a long time for him to get it. I am currently moving down the Southern states, but I have only reached to Tennessee. I could say that I'm some what close to Shiloh. I live in a small house. I do the regular old chores that I need to do. I clean some clothing, bake some things to sell, and work out in the local market. I am faced with many sad slaves and Southerns that look at me because I am recently new.
Journal #4
Jeremiah is going to be a new recruit. He will be having a higher chance of dying since his troop will be staying in one spot . Plus he will not have the advantage. I bet he will be scared since he is only 13 and is still young. He won't also understand what is happening most of the time too His small routes will be difficult for him since he will have a problem on what to choose.
Photo: Color
I was walking down near the market to find these in somebodies yard. Aren't they lovely.
Journal #6
Chorus:Where off to go fight
Where off to go fight
One by one we'll leave our wives
Chorus:We'll love you
We'll write back
We'll remember you
Chorus:Where off to go fight
Where off to go fight
One by one we'll leave everything behind
Chorus:March, march,march
Trouble everywhere
I love you
And you'll love me
Journal #5
I have recently move around a lot. My life has been very secretive and very worrying. Most of the time though I walk to past time and to past on notes and things to others. I was walked on the edges of rivers and made bread to sell. I have also been talking to my neighbors. Not much to talk about though. The only food I have eaten the whole time was some steak with salt and carrots and peas braised in butter and chicken stock . Everyday and only once or twice a day. I also have dried salted peas. Its not so filling.
Photo: Battle
I have been waling to the next time and I was scared for life. I saw dead men on the ground. There bodies covered in maggots and flies. Their loved ones will never see them.
Journal #7
As I stop to the next own, I had seen soldiers with bullet would and diseases that no body wanted in the town. The bullet would had been taken care by a doctor who knew nothing about the medical practices. It seemed like that though because he seem to be unsure when a soldier had come up to him. Another doctor was using his hands to take out a bullet. I had seem them with malaria and dysentery, but I mostly saw them with diarrhea. I had to take care of the soldiers too. They had wanted water all the time and they had a problem with their stomach. I didn't want to bleed them or sweat them at all.
Photo: Fun
I had always tried to sew at what I had left of my day. I would sew some men clothes so I can give them to the men when I sew them. I also had made them some tents.
Journal #8
Dear Husband,
If your still alive to see this letter, I have enrolled myself as a spy in the beginning of the war. I have fought for the Union. Right after you left. I felt like I need to do something. I will be coming home soon. I have been walking far and wide,now coming back. I have seen bodies and people who were on the ground left behind to die. The houses I stayed at had men and I had seen fights of many sorts. One with bayonets or the cannonballs that rained down on the last town. Would you wait? I love you very much dear. I need to say this again, if you ever get to read this. And don't cry. You'll be waiting and I'll be waiting.
Your wife,
Photo: Home
Here's the house again, now I wait for my husband. When I go in to must be cleaning the house. Nothing much has changed though.
Works Cited
Alspach, John. "Gratz." Civil War Blog. Civil War blog, 14 May 2014. Web. 14 May 2014. <http://civilwar.gratzpa.org/2011/09/gratz-during-the-civil-war-rebecca-alspach-buffington-house/>.
Wilcox, David. "The Harvest of Death." The Citizen. Auburn Citizen, 12 May 2014. Web. 12 May 2014. <http://auburnpub.com/lifestyles/capturing-conflict-seward-house-lecturers-lead-look-at-civil-war/article_83353207-89f4-58b7-93df-1de03139aafe.html>.
"A Woman Sewing on a Singer Sewing Machine." About.com. About.com, 13 May 2014. Web. 13 May 2014. <http://0.tqn.com/d/quilting/1/0/d/q/-/-/Sewing-on-Singer-Machine-1860.jpg>.
"Woman Spies in the Civil War." Civil War. Tangient, 2014. Web. 6 May 2014. <http://civilwaradventure.wikispaces.com/Process>.


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Shout from the rooftop
I remember the last time I stayed in a hostel. It's hard to forget. It was in late January 2007 and I had spent the previous 29 nights in backpacker hostels from Bondi to Byron Bay, Hervey Bay, Airlie Beach and Cairns in order to write a book called The Secret Life of Backpackers. On that final night, there were five people in my room at a "flashpacker" hostel in Cairns and four of them were having sex. I was the other guy.
The following morning, I knew I had the (happy) ending to my book and, as I checked out, I promised myself that was the last time I would stay in a hostel ever again.
So, why am I checking into another one? Well, it's the Sydney Harbour YHA, which opened in August, offering million-dollar views of the harbour for as little as A$37.50 (NZ$48.11)a night. It sounded too good to be true, so I broke my promise.
Before I'm even inside the front door, I realise this is not a typical hostel. For a start, the 106-room, three-level, A$25-million building is constructed on pillars over an archaeological dig. Since the 1950s, this site had been a bus depot and then a car park. Then in 1994 it was earmarked for development by the state government but when the bitumen was lifted it revealed the foundations and footings of 46 buildings dating back to colonial times and more than a million artefacts. An educational facility called the Big Dig was established and the hostel was built to highlight what lies beneath - all the rooms face a central airshaft looking down on to the dig. The place is literally built on history.
Inside, there's a spacious lounge with couches and ottomans on reception level, a dozen big-screen computers with internet access and a kitchen with stainless-steel gas stoves, microwaves, toasters, cookware, crockery and cutlery. My double room on the second floor is simple but clean, with a steel-frame bed, desk and hanging space, a bathroom with large sink and shower, and a view of the rear of the Museum of Contemporary Art and glimpses of "the Toaster" (you can pay extra for a room with a harbour view).
It's all about the rooftop, so I make my way upstairs and there it is - a panoramic view of the bridge, the Opera House and the harbour.
At one table, a group of German girls studiously update their travel diaries and at the next, a clean-cut bunch of Scandinavians are preparing an early lunch; the girls making salads and doling out steamed potatoes and cobs of corn; the guys flipping steaks on the barbecue. These travellers appear to inhabit a different universe to those I met three years ago in hostel hell, who survived on two-minute noodles, cask wine, cigarettes and little sleep. I also notice there are people here older than 35 and even some parents with small children.
I'm not particularly interested in opal jewellery, Ken Done tea towels or stuffed toy kangaroos wearing boxing gloves and hats with corks dangling around the brim, so I've never felt the need to hang out in The Rocks. But there's plenty to do around here, even if you're a local.
The sandstone alleys are great to explore and when you get thirsty there's a classic old Sydney pub on nearly every corner.
I wander through the bustling markets along George and Playfair streets, see an exhibition of Sydney artist Nicholas Harding's work at the S.H. Ervin Gallery on Observatory Hill, catch up on reading the previous weekend's The New York Times at the Customs House Library and then meet my girlfriend for a drink at the Opera Bar as the sun starts to sink.
Flying foxes flap overhead in formation as we head back to the hostel and up to the rooftop to watch twilight fall. We get talking to a group of four women in their late 30s who are sharing a bottle of champagne. They're from the outer suburbs of Sydney and come to the city a couple of times a year for a girls' night out.
"Normally with the four of us we have to get two rooms in a hotel and it works out to be pretty expensive," one of them says. "Here we've got a four-share room for A$180. It's great. And look at this view." Yes, look at it. It's the same view that the people in the Shangri-La and the Park Hyatt are looking at. But we're paying a lot less for it.
That night we have a cheap and tasty dinner at the Lord Nelson Hotel, go for a walk under the bridge and sit on a bench watching the harbour lights and a colony of rabbits that has set up home on the grassy slopes. Then we stroll past the ritzy restaurants and bars of the passenger terminal.
From outside the MCA we hear a swing band in full flight inside and get closer to investigate. And then we dance, in the open air, on the footpath, on a balmy Saturday night. Your own city can be more romantic than you think.
There's a shuttle bus to the hostel from Sydney Airport. The hostel is at 110 Cumberland Street, The Rocks. The nearest train station is Circular Quay.
Sydney Harbour YHA has six-person mixed rooms from A$37.50 a person; four-person single-sex rooms from A$39.50 a person; double or twin rooms from A$128 a person; double rooms with harbour views from A$143 a person; four-person family rooms from A$160 a person. (Tariffs are low season.) All rooms have private bathrooms.
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Security Watch: Problematic Patches Plague Windows Users
thanks to security software company f-secure for reporting that mcdonalds in japan distributed a trojan horse program earlier this month.
the company had shipped 10,000 mp3 players as prizes in a contest run in association with coca-cola. the players had 10 songs preloaded on them and, unfortunately, a variant of the qqpass password-stealing trojan. users just have to connect a windows pc to the player to risk infection.
f-secure has not actually seen the player and virus, but refers to a web page released by mcdonalds in japan announcing the problem and warning users. according to google's beta translation of the japanese to english:
- the virus of troy wooden horse type, the worm and the spy wear were discovered.
as a phenomenon, the occasion where this prize is connected to the personal computer, on that personal computer "the chinese memo pad stands up", "message of virus inspection was made", that and so on 7 cases we have received the communication which was said in as of 12 days.


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I should probably wait until I've had a reasonable time to absorb it to write about the series finale of Lost.
I probably should, but I'm not.
Before I get to my evaluation of the episode itself, I'll go back to the five criteria I mentioned last time, and merely give a straightforward response to how (or whether) each question was answered:
1. What is the conclusion of the Man in Black / Smoke Monster's story? This one was answered definitively. With the "Source" gone out, it seemed as though the island's mysterious properties were suspended. That's the explanation I'm going with as to why Kate's last shot actually damaged the Man in Black. I suppose that's also why Desmond was considered a "fail-safe" for Jacob. Desmond could de-power the Man in Black by de-powering the island, also setting the stage for Jack to make his sacrifice to re-power it. Desmond's comments prior to entering the Source cave also indicate his limited clairvoyance had returned. Anyway, there was definitely a clear ending to this story: The Man in Black was killed by Jack and Kate.2. How did Eloise acquire superior knowledge? I said that this was critical to the story because, "In 1977, she had no idea until after the fact that she had just killed her own son. In 1996, she knew Desmond wasn't 'supposed' to buy the engagement ring, that the man with the red shoes was going to die, and that the universe has a way of course-correcting. Similarly, in the FST in 2004, she told Desmond he wasn't 'ready' to know more about Penny yet. So, what happened between 1977 and 1996? Without some explanation, some pretty key elements of this story don't add up (the early part of Season 5, for one)." They left this out, and I think that's not a positive. The hypothesis I would throw out in their defense would be that one of Desmond's actual abilities was not as it originally seemed. If we're to piece together what happened earlier this year, it seems a bit like Desmond traveled mentally to the FST (which we now know is part of the afterlife), and then returned. So, if one of his abilities is to have his consciousness "cross over," when he comes into contact with high levels of electromagnetism, then return, perhaps what we saw in "Flashes Before Your Eyes" was a trip (and return) not to the actual 1996 as it appeared, but, rather, to the afterlife (or, if you prefer, the flash-sideways 1996, albeit with minimal apparent changes). Since Eloise was technically only omniscient in FBYE and in the FST, all of that could be explained by saying that Desmond crossed over and came back in FBYE. Of course, it would be nice if I didn't have to connect that many dots on my own.
3. Why is Aaron so important? I said the likelihood of this was low, and offered an acceptable alternative theory, but neither were taken. Ultimately, we know that Claire returns to Aaron in 2007 and presumably raises him from age 3 forward. Maybe that renders the question moot.4. Why is the island sunk in FST / what happens if MiB "wins?" This, I think, might be the biggest "failure" of the episode. I can chalk up the island being sunk in FST to "that's just how the people who haven't moved on yet think of it" (more on this in a bit), but I still have no clearly-defined explanation of what would happen if MiB got off the island. Although I think we can all agree that the Source was real/important within the context of the show's reality, I honestly think that MiB leaving the island being unacceptable or dangerous may have just been a fairy tale spun out of Mother's dim view of humanity. That "rule" was perpetuated by Jacob, but, as Ben hints toward the end of the episode, Jacob's rules aren't necessarily the best way of doing things.
5. How do the timelines merge? As we now know, they aren't, in fact, two timelines. What we call the OT is the show's earthly events. What we call the FST is a layover of indeterminate length that is an intermediary step or first step in the afterlife. It's a place which exists so that those destined for the peaceful, loving existence described in the FST at various points can come to terms with what's happened, repent if necessary, and, ultimately, let go and move on. A fully-robust analysis of the season would undoubtedly turn up a few plot elements that become problematic in light of this explanation. I'll leave that to the disgruntled nit-pickers. We got our explanation, as expected.
One last thing before I bottom line this episode and the series: The stuff I got right, and the stuff I got wrong, just for vanity's sake.
Wrong: Nobody in the OT was from the future. Aaron didn't directly figure into the OT plot in any meaningful way. The Man in Black had no name at all.
Right: Juliet was Jack's ex-wife in the FST. Jack was called upon to heal/fix the island in a vague callback to his first surgery. The final shot was the bookend of a dying Jack's closing eye after making a sacrifice to save the island. Rose and Bernard rescued Desmond. Hugo "I'm just glad it wasn't me" Reyes wound up being the next protector of the island after Jack's William Henry Harrison-esque tenure. Jack suffered an injury in battle with MiB that led to the neck bleeding we saw in FST.
As with most things "Lost," this episode is very difficult to evaluate in a traditional sense.
I'll start with my only specific negative criticisms (despite what I say above):
1. I thought the death of MiB came a bit early and was also a little anti-climactic. Not a huge issue, but an issue nonetheless. I did like the nice touch of mirroring MiB's kick of Jacob into the fire with Jack kicking MiB toward the water.2. The Shannon-Sayid storyline was one of the least favorite / most implausible of the entire series for me, and I was sorry to see it revived - and for eternity, no less!
3. The further reveal of the Source did little to shed light (no pun intended) on related plot points. I wasn't expecting an explanation, but, for instance - why did MiB become a smoke monster, whereas Jack does not? My assumption is that MiB's pre-existing "special" abilities caused him to be converted into that psychic cloud. Of course, Mother seemed to know it would happen so . . . oh, I don't know. It's just an added complication that didn't seem necessary. I guess the alternative (Jack and Desmond both turning into smoke things) is much worse, so I should be grateful.
But those minor quibbles aside . . . Had I simply read the script, I would have likely been dissatisfied with this episode. No real explanation of the stakes if MiB made it off the island. No reference to Aaron's importance. No explicit description of Eloise's all-knowing nature (although I think the dots I connect above are reasonable).
And yet . . . I came away happy. And, more importantly, moved. The emotional component and the intangibles overrode most of the concerns I had about the plotting or story structure.
I've never seen a television program that was ultimately so engulfed by a singular concept: Faith. Not just specific religious faith, although that's one component of it. Broader notions, too, like what we do has greater, even cosmic significance, even if we can't see it.
Things happen for a reason.
This ranges from the themes of the show to the writing to the nature of its fandom. Now, at the end, we're still left with questions. I have to admit that my response to most of them is "does it really matter?" What mattered, in the end, was not so much the show's strange intrigue, but the fact that these characters could generate emotional responses in viewers. As different as Lost was as a television show, and as unlikely as it is we'll ever see anything like it again on network television, it worked in the same way that every other successful piece of fiction has throughout history: These fake people, in a very fake place, with all sorts of fake events, somehow extracted real emotions from the audience.
I think that's one of the points of the show: These characters were faced with truly bizarre, often inexplicable surroundings. But it wasn't the bizarre that made them noteworthy. It was finding purpose, just as any of us can, even in mundane circumstances.For those who want a more thorough explanation of the FST, this is how I would describe it: It's a "place" after death that exists as a stopover before the afterlife proper. Its purpose is several-fold. For some, it's a place to experience the great unknown of what their lives might have been, and to come to terms with the reality of their true lives. For others, it's a chance to repent for some of the things their lives actually were. But, for all of them, it's a place to do those things prior to moving on to the full afterlife - the warm embrace of love that Charlie described to Desmond. And it was a meeting place for these closely-connected people to gather together.
"The most important part of your life is the time that you spent with these people." - Christian Shepherd to Jack.
So, John Locke can live a life wherein his father loved him and Helen was to be his wife. Sawyer and Miles can be buddy cops. Ben Linus can receive a form of absolution by mentoring Alex. Hurley can be blessed rather than cursed. Desmond can have the respect of Charles Widmore. Eloise can have a son who gets to do the one thing he always wanted to do - play music - and not be coerced into becoming a physicist. She can make amends, as can all of them in this place. Of course, she doesn't want to move on yet, because, even though she knows the truth about where she is, this existence is one devoid of the guilt she felt when she knowingly sent her son to his death at her hand. She'll get there, but not just yet.
Jack can have a son and not repeat the same mistakes his own father made.
And, at long last, he can attend the funeral that he was meant to all those years ago.
Not everyone is there, however. Some (like Michael) can't move on because of what they did. Others (like Walt, perhaps) aren't present in the church because the most important part of their lives was some other time, which makes sense.
These people, though - this hodgepodge of folks from all over the world and all walks of life - each played a role in something very important. Eventually, they remember this, cherish it, and are ready to move on to the next level of existence. They were unknowingly linked before they got on flight 815, they were linked on the island, and, as it now turns out, they were linked even beyond their earthly lives.Locke was right all along.
And, in the end, that's what this was all about . . .
A group of strangers, chosen by destiny, come to an island that is of great significance. There are supernatural and scientific forces on the island not found anywhere else on earth. That, in and of itself, makes the island special and worth protecting. It has likely been guarded since the beginning of humanity, but Lost was the story of how this one specific group of people, in their relatively short time on the island, saved it and its uniqueness from destruction. This was the most important thing that any of them ever did, whether they realized it at the time or not.
As fascinating as the island and its magic and mystery were, as central as the themes of good vs. evil and free will vs. fate were, as once-prominent as the idea of a subset of "special" humans was, the story was about these people. These ordinary, flawed, conflicted, damaged people. People, like many of us, who, when put in the most unusual and dire of circumstances, rose to the occasion to be greater than the sum of their flawed parts. As it often was with this show.
In the process, they overcame those flaws, put aside differences, and became connected in a special and ultimately eternal way.
So, we discover the FST becomes a flash-forward of sorts. Jack dies at the very end of the show, and, perhaps, that's where his FST story begins in LA X. Shortly into the episode, after turbulence, Rose tells him "You can let go now." Some have been there since prior seasons (Shannon, Boone, Libby, etc), while others won't get there for years (Hurley, Linus, etc). They all initially perceive themselves as contemporaries because, as Christian explains, "There is no 'now' here."
It's noteworthy that a show in which time played such an important role wound up in a place where time was essentially meaningless.In the earthly reality after Jack's death, Hurley and Linus remain on the island, with Linus finally getting what he never got from his father or from Jacob: A sense of self-worth and value. He's genuinely touched when Hurley asks for his help in running the island, in sharp contrast to Jacob's cold indifference. Linus' redemption is complete, although he still has to make further amends in the FST, which is why he doesn't join the group in the church. Hurley and Linus work together to attempt to send Desmond home at some unknown time in the near future. When all is said and done, years - perhaps tens or hundreds of years - of service are summed up by this affectionate exchange:
"You know . . . you were a real good Number Two."
"You were a great Number One, Hugo."
"Thanks, Ben. I'll see ya."
As for the rest of our friends, Sawyer, Lapidus, Richard, Kate, Claire, and Miles constitute the roll call of people who make it back to the civilized world once and for all (besides Aaron and Walt). Desmond presumably joins them later with the help of Hurley. Rose, Bernard, and Vincent remain on the island, happily living out their remaining days, with Hurley as guardian and Linus as his advisor.
My original theory of the FST was that it would be what we the viewers were left with when the show concluded. The idea was that it would be comforting - realizing that we had actually been seeing the post-show exploits of our favorites during the sixth season of the show. I quickly abandoned that notion, thinking that the writers wouldn't be so foolish as to "undo" everything that happened on the show and reset to an alternate 2004 for fear of the backlash.It turns out that the FST is what we're left with, but in a way that I did not anticipate. Nothing is undone. Whatever happened, happened. Re-watching season six with this knowledge will be interesting, but, I suspect, will not fundamentally-alter the viewing experience.
Most everyone gets a happy ending in an episode packed with emotional moments. When you think about it, it's the happiest ending possible, I guess: Some form of eternity with the love of your life and the people who were most important to you.
The two moments that were the most powerful for me - Locke's conversation with Jack after he wakes up from surgery, for reasons that are largely related to my late father's passing. Secondly, the scene at the very end also hit me hard. It wasn't because of the parallelism to the opening of the Pilot. Although I thought that was extremely well-done, I had anticipated that much. What I hadn't anticipated was Vincent running out of the woods to be with Jack as he lived his final moments. Not only do I love dogs and believe that they have a sort of capacity for understanding human emotion, but all I could think of was, "Jack didn't have to die alone."
As soon as the episode was over, I started thinking of what the next round of debate would be among some of the more "intense" fans now that we'll get no more new episodes. I suppose it will come in the form of some making contrarian arguments that everyone really did die in the plane crash at the outset, and that the OT and FST are merely different levels of the afterlife, or that Christian Shepherd really was Christian Shepherd all along, and that MiB was lying. Or the opposite, and that the Christian we see at the end was really MiB.
As my tone indicates, I find these arguments without much merit. My take on the show has and will always be: No, the writers didn't have it figured out from the beginning. And, although there's a lot they don't show us, the things they do show us can normally be taken at face value. I think Christian's line "Yeah, I'm real. You're real. Everything that's ever happened to you is real" was intended to deflect such arguments.
This was a show about unexpected friends, enemies, lovers, and allies joining together to write one exceptionally memorable chapter in the long history of an island about which we'll probably never know many things - and I can live with that. It was about these people surpassing limitations, whether mental, physical, or emotional, in ways they never could in their old lives.
I suspect the response to the show as a whole, but specifically the finale, will be tied to a given viewer's personal feelings about faith, destiny, and so on. I think that's true for this show more than any other successful network show of my lifetime. Personally, this show touched a couple of different nerves for me in its six-year run. Where it wound up was not the location I expected, but it delivered an emotional impact that made the unanswered questions more than worth it.We'll never know for sure why women started having pregnancy issues. We won't know why Dharma kept making food drops. The Hurley Bird will likely remain a mystery forever. And who was shooting at the outrigger during the time-shifts? We don't know. And maybe that's ok.
I don't know if this is the last time I'll write about Lost. I may revisit it once the complete series is released, but probably not. I enjoyed this show as much, if differently, than just about any show I've ever watched. I think I'll probably watch it all the way through once more within the next year, then fondly put it to rest.
But, of course - "moving on" or "letting go" isn't the same thing as "forgetting."
It's been a strange and fun ride, Lost. Thanks for six great seasons.
And, as always, thanks for reading.
--Montecore's Revenge 09:45, May 24, 2010 (UTC)


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I want to extend my lease but the freeholder is refusing. She would rather everyone buy a share of the freehold however not all flats want to do this
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Take the bull by the horns and extend the lease if you are eligible. This will make it cheaper for you if in the future all the leaseholders club together and apply for collective enfranchisement (ie buy the freehold).
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#3... I always ask patients if there is anything else they need before I leave. This is often a mistake, but I have yet to stop doing it.
#4... I wake up at 4:30 AM just so I can be lazy drinking coffee in my house shoes before going to work.
#5... I will play devil's advocate for the sport of it. I do this to check the validity of my own position, and anyone who has me doing this to them should feel honored that I have deemed them a worthy adversary. They often just get pissed and shake their heads in disgust.
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