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Here Are This Year's Golden Globes Nominees
It's officially awards season now that the secretive geniuses at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have announced the nominees for the Golden Globes, Hollywood's self-love and booze fest. The Artist appears to be the big winner, but that's not surprising at all. However there are some shocks to be had.
The Artist, the black and white silent movie that's way better than you think it will be, lead the pack with six nominations, the most of any film. Both The Descendants and The Help each scored five. Most of the other nominated films have all been tossed around as awards bait since before they came out, so everything seemed standard. Well, that The Help was considered a drama and My Week with Marilyn was considered a comedy I will never figure out. Also curious is how Bridesmaids was nominated for best comedy and Kristin Wiig for best comedic actress but Melissa McCarthy was shut out.
The television categories are also a little wonky. Breaking Bad is on the top of every critic's best of 2011 list, but didn't get mentioned except for perpetual winner Bryan Cranston in the best actor category. It's also a little surprising to see American Horror Story as best drama, not because it's bad (it's Ryan Murphy's best show on TV) but because it's not the usual awards fare. Also strange is the inclusion of critically panned Enlightened and Episodes as best comedy (though Laura Dern totally deserves the acting trophy).
But the best surprises are always at the unruly awards ceremony, so you know we're going to be waiting anxiously by our sets on January 15. Here are all of the nominees.
Best Picture, Drama
War Horse
The Ides of March
The Help
Best Picture, Comedy
The Artist
My Week With Marilyn
Midnight in Paris
Best Actor, Drama
George Clooney in The Descendants
Brad Pitt in Moneyball
Leonardo DiCaprio in J.Edgar
Ryan Gosling in The Ides of March
Michael Fassbender in Shame
Best Actress, Drama
Viola Davis in The Help
Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin
Rooney Mara in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs
Best Actor, Comedy
Jean Dujardin in The Artist
Brendan Gleeson in The Guard
Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris
Joseph Gorden-Levitt in 50/50
Ryan Gosling in Crazy, Stupid, Love
Best Actress, Comedy
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Jodie Foster, Carnage
Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids
Charlize Theron, Young Adult
Kate Winslet, Carnage
Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks, Drive
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method
Best Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo, The Artist
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
George Clooney, The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Best TV Series, Drama
American Horror Story
Boardwalk Empire
Game of Thrones
Best Comedy Series
New Girl
Modern Family
Best Actor, Drama
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Kelsey Grammer, Boss
Jeremy Irons, The Borgias
Damian Lewis, Homeland
Best Actress, Drama
Claire Danes, Homeland
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Madeleine Stowe, Revenge
Callie Thorne, Necessary Roughness
Best Actor, Comedy
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
David Duchovny, Californication
Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory
Thomas Jane, Hung
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Best Actress, Comedy
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Laura Dern, Enlightened
Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Laura Linney, The Big C
Best TV-Movie or Miniseries
Mildred Pierce
Too Big Too Fail
Cinema Verite
Downton Abbey
The Hour
Best Actor, TV-Movie or Miniseries
William Hurt, Too Big Too Fail
Hugh Bonneville, Downton Abbey
Idris Elba, Luther
Bill Nighy, Page Eight
Dominic West, Appropriate Adult
Supporting Actor, TV-Movie or Miniseries
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Paul Giamatti, Too Big To Fail
Guy Pearce, Mildred Pierce
Tim Robbins, Cinema Verite
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Supporting Actress, TV-Movie or Miniseries
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Evan Rachel Wood, Mildred Pierce
Best Screenplay
Midnight in Paris
The Ides of March
The Artist
The Descendants
Best Animated Feature
The Adventures of Tintin
Puss in Boots
Arthur Christmas
Cars 2
Best Foreign Film
In the Land of Blood and Honey
Flowers of War
The Skin I Live In
The Kid With a Bike
A Separation
Best Original Song
The Help
Albert Nobbs
Machine Gun Preacher
Gnomeo and Juliet
Best Score
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
War Horse
The Artist
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text: Tablets, Netbooks, iPhones, and Androids -- devices that hardly existed five years ago -- are sweeping through enterprises today. Workers no longer wish to be shackled to the corporate 18-month-old ThinkPad when they can be running the latest shiny gadget at both home and work. This means CSOs are contending with a wave of mobile devices that are accessing cloud-based applications and services from anywhere the user desires.The risks can be real -- data stored on mobile devices are more easily lost. These devices are also not operated under the careful management of the IT department, which means dangerous applications may be installed and patches not kept up to date. Of course, the consumerization of enterprise IT also has beneficial aspects: the organization has fewer devices it must buy and maintain -- a potentially large savings for big organizations.Perhaps that's one reason why so many organizations are embracing consumerization. According to the Proofpoint 2011 Consumerized IT Security and Compliance Survey, of the 632 respondents, 534 (84 percent) are making consumerized IT an acceptable part of their organization. That leaves 98 respondents, or 16 percent, that do not allow employees to use consumer technologies for work.Many IT security experts believe those organizations clamping down on users brining their own devices to the workplace may actually be increasing their IT security risks. "If your policy is to stop people from using their own phone or device, they're going to ignore your policy," says Josh Corman, research director, security at the analyst firm 451 Group. "If your employees believe they're getting more work done using their own tools and services, that's what they're going to do. And, if your policy is to block them from doing that, they're going to try to hide that they're doing it from you."Proofpoint's survey supports Corman's assertion. The survey found that 64 percent of organizations that forbid employees using their own devices suspect that employees are using consumerized IT regardless of policies against it.Pete Lindstrom, research director at Spire Security, agrees that trying to tightly control user devices in the name of security will most likely backfire. "You have to look at these things in a case-by-case basis," says Lindstrom. "If the user isn't working with regulated or sensitive data, you have less to worry about. So before you start talking about how much risk this creates, you have to do a risk assessment."If there is risk, there are things enterprises can do to protect corporate data. "We are still at the early stages of all of this. We'll begin to see more tools to protect the data on these devices, such as encryption on the devices," he says. "Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure is a saving grace for certain notebooks, because you have the opportunity to provide a highly controlled environment on that device," Lindstrom says.Both Lindstrom and Corman say the consumerization of IT points to the importance of focusing on the protection of the actual data rather than the device. "If you can't control the devices, or how the network is accessed, you certainly can control who has access to the sensitive data," he says.Here are some more findings from Proofpoint's survey:71 percent of organizations that do not allow consumerized IT in the workplace do nothing more than issue a warning to employees who violate policy72 percent of organizations that do not allow consumerized IT in the workplace are not convinced that it can be used in a secure and compliant manner48 percent of organizations that allow consumerized IT in the workplace allow users to choose which technologies they use48 percent of organizations that allow consumerized IT in the workplace regulate which technologies can be used89 percent of organizations that allow consumerized IT in the workplace say that the Apple iPhone and iPad are the most-used mobile devicesGeorge V. Hulme writes about security and technology from his home in Minneapolis. He can be found using all of his own consumer devices on Twitter as @georgevhulme


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U Can't Touch This
MC Hammer
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Top 40
Top 40
Top 40
A-kant Titel
U Can't Touch This
A-kant Lengte
A-kant Componist(en)
MC Hammer & Rick James & Alonzo Miller
A-kant Producer(s)
MC Hammer
B-kant titel
Dancin' Machine (Vocal)
B-kant lengte
B-kant componist(en)
Hal Davis & MC Hammer & Donald Fletcher & Weldon Dean Parks
B-kant producer(s)
MC Hammer
Hoogste positie UK
Hoogste positie US
Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em
You can't touch this (Repeat 5x)
My, my, my, my music hits me so hard
Makes me say "Oh my Lord"
Thank you for blessing me
With a mind to rhyme and two hyped feet
It feels good, when you know you're down
A super dope homeboy from the Oaktown
And I'm known as such
And this is a beat, uh, you can't touch
I told you homeboy (You can't touch this)
Yeah, that's how we're living and you know (You can't touch this)
Look in my eyes, man (You can't touch this)
Yo, let me bust the funky lyrics (You can't touch this)
Fresh new kicks, and pants
You got it like that, now you know you wanna dance
So move, outta your seat
And get a fly girl and catch this beat
While it's rolling, hold on
Pump a little bit and let 'em know it's going on
Like that, like that
Cold on a mission so pull on back
Let 'em know, that you're too much
And this is a beat, uh, you can't touch
Yo, I told you (You can't touch this)
Why you standing there, man? (You can't touch this)
Yo, sound the bell, school is in, sucka (You can't touch this)
Give me a song, or rhythm
Make 'em sweat, that's what I'm giving 'em
Now, they know
When you talk about the Hammer you talk about a show
That's hyped, and tight
Singers are sweating so pass them a mic
Or a tape, to learn
What it's gonna take in the 90's to burn
The charts? Legit
Either work hard or you might as well quit
That's the word because you know...
You can't touch this (Repeat 2x)
Break it down! (Music breaks down) Stop, Hammer time!
Go with the flow, it is said
That if you can't groove to this then you probably are dead
So wave your hands in the air
Bust a few moves, run your fingers through your hair
This is it, for a winner
Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner
Move, slide your rump
Just for a minute let's all do the bump, bump, bump, bump
Yeah... (You can't touch this)
Look, man (You can't touch this)
You better get hyped, boy, because you know (You can't touch this)
Ring the bell, school's back in
Break it down! (Music breaks down) Stop, Hammer time!
You can't touch this (Repeat 3x)
Break it down! (Music breaks down) Stop, Hammer time!
Every time you see me
The Hammer's disco hype
I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic
Now why would I ever stop doing this?
With others making records that just don't hit
I've toured around the world, from London to the Bay
It's "Hammer, go Hammer, MC Hammer, yo Hammer"
And the rest can go and play
You can't touch this (Repeat 7x)


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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Happy birthday to me
That's right, I'm half a century old.
And what happened on my birthday? My girls left! They flew down to California to visit my parents and three brothers.
Our day started at 4:45 am this morning when I hauled everyone out of bed. The girls were so excited (flying is a rare thing; they haven't been on a plane in six years) they could hardly sit still. And this time they would be flying by themselves, too.
We got on the road by 5:15 am, with the soundtrack to Riverdance blasting on the truck speakers to keep us alert. It takes an hour and a half to make the airport, and their flight departed at 8 am.
They flew Southwest.
We had shipped a box of clothes ahead of time, so the kids just had backpacks with books, a lunch (well, breakfast), etc.
They arrived safely in California, where my parents met them at the airport. My brothers have all kinds of fun things planned over the next ten days. More importantly, it's a chance for them to connect with their uncles and cousins, whom they seldom have a chance to see.
Up, up and away! Their first solo slight.
Interestingly, Don also had to be away today, so I had a rare day alone. While this might sound like a dire and depressing way to spend one's fiftieth birthday, solitude is such an unusual commodity that I rather enjoyed it. (And for those who wonder what I did, I spent the day cleaning the house. Oooh, the excitement never ends!)
In the evening some neighbors brought over a piece of pistachio pudding birthday pie and wished me happiness. Thanks!
Some people might feel sorrow upon reaching such a milestone, but I'm very content with where I am in my life. I have a phenomenal husband, two delightful daughters, we all have our health, we have our farm and our home business... yes, God is good and I'm grateful beyond words for these first fifty years He's granted me.
38 comments:
- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2012 at 9:43 PM
We want to wish you a very happy birthday, dear Patrice! (Although we've taken to calling them "barfdays" since we both hit the mid fifties a while back.) We're praying your family all get back home to you safe and sound, God bless them and you. --Fred & Deb in AZReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2012 at 9:44 PM
Happy birthday. My daughter, too, will be fifty on the twentieth of this month.ReplyDelete
Happy 50th Birthday Patrice!
50 is a great number, especially if you feel wonderful about yourself and all of your accomplishments. I turned 50 this year myself, and I must say, I agree with the saying "you're only as old as you feel".
It's great to see your daughters will be enjoying 10 days with family they haven't seen in a while. Enjoy your solitude and time with Don. God Bless!
Sandy, Oklahoma Transient
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2012 at 12:09 AM
My wife will probably hit me in the arm for this, but I'm pretty sure the girls didn't hop a flight on an Air Force KC-135 aerial re-fueller.ReplyDelete
Yes I am the guy who will pick apart a movie w/ military mistakes. Sorry.
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2012 at 12:11 AM
Sorry again,ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday!!!
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2012 at 2:45 AM
Happy Birthday Patrice!! Wishing you many of God's blessings for the next 50 years.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday!!!! Glad to see ya made it. Lol. I'll be right there with ya in no time. :)ReplyDelete
- Brian KeithSeptember 7, 2012 at 4:23 AM
Happy Birthday Patrice!!!ReplyDelete
"May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live"
- Stuck in CASeptember 7, 2012 at 5:22 AM
Happy Birthday Patrice!!! I just turned 50 on September 1st.ReplyDelete
Not a sad moment at turning a half century. I feel blessed each day.
I think we as mothers and wives get better with age.
- Grandma RuthSeptember 7, 2012 at 5:24 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Miz Patrice!!!ReplyDelete
Happy belated birthday. It was my second to the youngests 18th birthday. A great day!! (I turned 50 a few months ago. I think life is only going to get better now that we are officially "mature" women:) I would have done the same thing as you, had I been home by myself. Congratulations on this milestone in your life!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday! It is so refreshing to hear someone who is CONTENT with their life! Wishing you and your family the best.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2012 at 6:24 AM
Well Happy Birthday! Glad you enjoyed your day of solitude!ReplyDelete
Belated Happy Birthday! I absolutely understand the appeal of having alone time. What a lovely birthday gift! Here's wishing you many more, and that this next year will be especially enjoyable!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2012 at 6:57 AM
Happy Birthday! May you have many more.ReplyDelete
(I recently hit 64, and one of my boys played the Beatles song for me :>)
A nice milestone on your life's journey. I find it nice that the older you get the longer you will live, according to the actuary tables.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Patrice, although your day started very early I hope you have a spectacular day!!!!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Patrice, although your day started very early I hope you have a spectacular day!!!!ReplyDelete
- East Coast DanSeptember 7, 2012 at 7:25 AM
HAPYY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!ReplyDelete
Aside. It would be very interesting to hear your daughters assessment of life in Californis. Sort of an after action report.
Happy Birthday! 50 is wonderful!!!! We know who we are and what we want in this life. It's avtually freeing!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM
But wait a minute... did anyone buy you a red hat????ReplyDelete
Happy birthday!
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2012 at 9:50 AM
How was airport security? Any issues there? It looks like you were able to accompany them to the gate; I thought that was hard to do nowadays.ReplyDeleteReplies
Security was no big deal. I requested a pass to escort them to the gate, which was granted right away (I've done this in the past when our young nephew comes to visit). Security itself consisted of just taking off our shoes, putting our bags through the x-ray, and walking through a metal detector. Younger Daughter had to go back through the metal detector twice until it was determined she was wearing a belt with a metal buckle, but other than that we had no issues.Delete
- Patrice
Happy Birthday! I'm right behind you... my 50 comes in April...ReplyDelete
- Phyllis (N/W Jersey)September 7, 2012 at 1:43 PM
Happy, Happy Birthday, Patrice! May your next fifty years be filled with lots of love, family and good memories!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday! Enjoy reading your blog -- learn so much from it. When I turned 50 seven years ago I told my family if I make it to 100 I'm half way there. May God continue to bless you and your family.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday!ReplyDelete
Many more wonderful years to you. ♥
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2012 at 7:09 PM
Happy Birthday Patrice!!!!ReplyDelete
May you be even more blessed in your next 50 years!!!!
- Linda in SoCalSeptember 7, 2012 at 11:27 PM
Well, I'm a little late, but happy birthday :) I'm glad you enjoyed your day of solitude. Sometimes some quiet time is such a gift.ReplyDelete
Happiest birthday wishes and prayers for a year filled to overflowing with God's blessings!
Belated Happy Birthday Patrice!ReplyDelete
Happy, Happy Birthday Sweet Patrice!ReplyDelete
May you be blessed with many more happy & healthy years, surrounded with loved ones on your lovely property. God is good and you're never alone even when it seems like you are. I'll be 50 in May and looking forward to it too, since I have an awesome husband and daughter. So, I'm right behind you and very content with the big 5-0.:)
Sorry to be late for the party. Happy Birthday, Sweet One. God bless.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 9, 2012 at 12:10 AM
Happy Birthday Patrice. Hit the same milestone myself just a month ago. All the best!ReplyDelete
Jeff - Tucson
Happy Slightly belated birthday! We flew Southwest for the first time recently and really liked it. Glad you had a good if slightly unorthodox day.ReplyDelete
Glad you had a nice day on your 50th. I could handle that and even turning 60. It was my son, my baby, turning 40 that shook me up. LOL!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2012 at 9:30 PM
Patrice, I am glad that you had a wonderful day. I am late in wishing you a "Happy Birthday", but I have a really good excuse. Last week on your birthday, we were at the hospital impatiently awaiting the birth of our youngest grandchild. He now shares your birthday, so I will never forget yours. I only hope that he is as blessed in his life as you have been in yours. You are truly a blessing to your family and friends. Thank you so much for sharing your life with us.ReplyDelete
Congratulations! It's a nice day to celebrate a birth.Delete
- Patrice


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A minor pneumothorax may only need to be watched by your doctor. In some cases, oxygen may be given (through a mask). More serious cases are treated by placing a needle or a chest tube into the chest cavity. Both of these treatments relieve the pressure on the lung and allow it to re-expand.
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If you have had one pneumothorax, you have an increased risk for another. Nearly all recurrences happen within 2 years of the first pneumothorax. If you smoke, quitting smoking can reduce your risk of another pneumothorax.
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Erdenet, city, northern Mongolia. It lies in a valley between the Selenga (Selenge) and Orhon (Orkhon) rivers about 150 miles (240 km) northwest of Ulaanbaatar. Erdenet is a major industrial centre that was organized in 1973 and built in the mid-1970s as a joint Soviet-Mongolian venture. Founded mainly to exploit the area's huge deposits of copper and molybdenum ore, Erdenet has a gigantic ore-mining and ore-dressing complex that began operation in the late 1970s. Other industries include a carpet factory, a food-processing plant, and a timber-processing industry. Erdenet is connected with the city of Darkhan by the Trans-Mongolian Railway. Pop. (2010) 83,379.


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WASHINGTON – The Senate Energy Committee on Thursday endorsed President Barack Obama's nomination of Sally Jewell to be Interior secretary, moving her nomination to the Senate floor for an expected vote next month.
The committee's 19-3 vote in favor of Jewell came after current Interior Secretary Ken Salazar agreed to review a decision blocking construction of a gravel road through a wildlife refuge to provide access to an all-weather airport in rural Alaska.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, had threatened to hold up Jewell's nomination unless the Obama administration agreed to a land exchange that would allow the road, which would grant access to an all-weather airport for the remote community of King Cove, on the Bering Sea in southwestern Alaska.
Under the agreement, Interior will review an environmental analysis by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that concluded the road could be harmful to geese and other waterfowl that fly through the refuge on their way to warmer climates. Murkowski says the report didn't adequately consider the importance of protecting human health and safety.
As part of the agreement, an assistant Interior secretary will visit King Cove and tour the site of the proposed road. If confirmed as Interior secretary, Jewell also will tour the site, most likely this summer, Murkowski said.
Salazar never visited King Cove before rejecting the road, a point of contention for Murkowski and other Alaska lawmakers.
"Secretary Jewell will have the undeniable privilege of going to King Cove, and I will be there with her," Murkowski told reporters after the brief committee meeting. "We may have to fly to (nearby) Cold Bay and walk, but that's OK. She's a hiker," Murkowski said.
Even with the road dispute tentatively settled, Jewell faces other obstacles to confirmation. Several senators who voted to advance her nomination, including Murkowski, said they reserved the right to oppose her on the Senate floor.
Jewell, the CEO of outdoor retailer REI, was nominated last month to replace Salazar as Interior chief, overseeing more than 500 million acres of national parks and other public lands, and more than 1 billion acres offshore. The lands are used for a range of purposes, including energy development, mining and recreation. The department also provides services to 566 federally recognized Indian tribes.
Jewell, 57, of Seattle, previously worked as a petroleum engineer and banker. A lifelong outdoors enthusiast, Jewell is known as a biker, skier and mountain climber and served on the board of the National Parks Conservation Association, an advocacy group that works to protect and enhance national parks.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said he was concerned that Jewell claimed ignorance about a series of lawsuits filed by the parks group, which has sought to block a federal law allowing firearms in national parks and to stop development of coal mines and other energy production.
Jewell's service on the NCPA's board poses a potential conflict of interest, Barrasso and other GOP senators said. Jewell told the committee at a hearing this month that she played no role in the lawsuits.
Republican Sens. Jim Risch of Idaho and Dean Heller of Nevada said they would push Jewell to refrain from listing the sage grouse as an endangered species. Offering protections for the bird under the Endangered Species Act could severely restrict ranching, grazing, mining and other activities on public land in their states, the senators said.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the energy panel, said Jewell had pledged to work collaboratively with lawmakers from both parties to resolve a range of issues.
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October 4, 2010
Falls the leading cause of injury among older adults in China
Falls are the most common injury for both urban and rural elderly in China, responsible for more than two-thirds of all injuries in people 65 and older, according to a new study by researchers from China and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy.
This is the first study to uncover the leading causes of nonfatal injuries among older adults in China, who make up 9 percent of the total population. The report is available on the website of the journal Injury Prevention.
The researchers also examined the most common places of injury occurrence and the influence of marital status on injury. More than 70 percent of all injuries occurred in the home or in the street, with public buildings being the third most common place of injury for rural residents. Marital status was found to be a significant predictor of sustaining an injury; specifically, the divorced and widowed had 4.6 and 2.2 times the risk of injury, respectively, as elderly who were single.
"The identification of the most common locations and causes of injury is useful for the development of interventions and priorities," said Susan P. Baker, a professor with the Center for Injury Research and Policy. "The results indicate the divorced and widowed elderly should be targeted as high-risk groups for injury. Prevention programs for all major causes of injury need to be developed as soon as possible in China."
The researchers analyzed 2008 data from the National Health Services Survey of China, which is conducted once every five years to help the government understand the need for and supply of health services. The survey is administered through face-to-face interviews with representatives from more than 56,000 households.
"Importantly, 2008 marked the first year the National Health Service in China has included injury in their survey," said lead study author Guoqing Hu, an associate professor of epidemiology and health statistics at Central South University in China. "This is an important milestone, and we hope it signifies greater investment in injury control moving forward."
Support for this research was provided by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Health Statistics and Information of the Ministry of Health of China and China Medical Board of New York.


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Award Strengthens Growing Portfolio of microRNAs in Viral Infection
PHILADELPHIA and REHOVOT, Israel, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Rosetta Genomics Ltd. (NASDAQ: ROSG), a leading developer and provider of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, announces receipt of a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent Office related to U.S. Patent Application No. 12/517,760 entitled "Nucleic Acids Involved in Viral Infection."
The allowed claims include a method of reducing the amount of virus replication in a target cell infected with the virus by introducing into the target cell an effective amount of miR-210, its variants or its precursor.
"We are delighted to add this new patent to our expanding intellectual property portfolio of microRNAs in viral infection. This newly granted patent further solidifies our dominant patent position in microRNAs and opens up other disease states where microRNAs may be of great benefit. Many of the current viral therapeutics suffer from low efficacy, toxicity and induction of resistance. With its potential to reduce viral replication, miR-210 may prove to be an effective therapeutic that may overcome the limitations of currently available viral treatments," stated Kenneth A. Berlin, President and CEO of Rosetta Genomics. "Our growing patent position in microRNAs provides us with the opportunity to license, partner or otherwise derive value from this powerful technology in viral and other disease areas."
Rosetta Genomics maintains a robust intellectual property strategy to protect its leadership position in microRNA technology. Rosetta's portfolio includes 29 issued patents, including 25 in the U.S. In addition, Rosetta has 41 patent applications, including 21 in the U.S.
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miRview® are a series of microRNA-based diagnostic products offered by Rosetta Genomics. miRview® mets² accurately identifies the primary tumor type in primary and metastatic cancer including CUP. miRview® meso diagnoses mesothelioma, a cancer connected to asbestos exposure. miRview® lung accurately identifies the four main subtypes of lung cancer using small amounts of tumor cells. miRview® kidney accurately classifies the four most common kidney tumors: clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC), papillary RCC, chromophobe RCC and oncocytoma. miRview® tests are designed to provide objective diagnostic data; it is the treating physician's responsibility to diagnose and administer the appropriate treatment. In the U.S. alone, Rosetta Genomics estimates that 200,000 patients a year may benefit from the miRview® mets² test, 60,000 from miRview® meso, 54,000 from miRview® kidney and 226,000 patients from miRview® lung. The Company's assays are offered directly by Rosetta Genomics in the U.S., and through distributors around the world. For more information, please visit www.mirviewdx.com. Parties interested in ordering the test can contact Rosetta Genomics at (215) 382-9000 ext. 309.
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Rosetta develops and commercializes a full range of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics. Founded in 2000 Rosetta's integrative research platform combining bioinformatics and state-of-the-art laboratory processes has led to the discovery of hundreds of biologically validated novel human microRNAs. Building on its strong patent position and proprietary platform technologies, Rosetta is working on the application of these technologies in the development and commercialization of a full range of microRNA-based diagnostic tools. Rosetta's miRview® product line is commercially available through its Philadelphia-based CAP-accredited, CLIA-certified lab. Frost & Sullivan recognized Rosetta Genomics with the 2012 North American Next Generation Diagnostics Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award.
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Editor's Note: Intelligence estimates on enemy strength have long been a delicate issue for powerful military commanders who want to present their war strategies as succeeding, not faltering, a problem that arose in Vietnam in the 1960s and is emerging in Afghanistan now.
Like Gen. William Westmoreland before him, Gen. David Petraeus appears to have won out in an internal struggle over measuring the size of enemy forces, as Gareth Porter reports in this article which was first published by Inter Press Services:
Despite evidence that the Taliban insurgency had grown significantly in 2010, the U.S. intelligence community failed to revise its estimate for Taliban forces as part of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan in December.
That unusual decision was in deference to Gen. David Petraeus,
commander of U.S.-NATO forces in Afghanistan, who did not want any
official estimate of the insurgency's strength that would contradict
his claims of success by Special Operations Forces in reducing
the capabilities of the Taliban in 2010.
In late 2009, the intelligence community adopted an estimate of 20,000 to 30,000 full-time insurgents, as reported by McClatchy newspapers in November and confirmed in a press briefing by Brig. Gen. Eric Tremblay, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), on Dec. 3, 2009.
But in 2010, the Taliban and their allies increased the total number of attacks to 34,000, compared with 22,000 in 2009, according to official ISAF data -- a whopping 54-percent rise.
That major step-up in operations suggested that the Taliban had grown substantially between 2009 and 2010. Yet no revised intelligence estimate of Taliban strength appeared in late 2010, even though the National Intelligence Council produced a National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan in December.
Such an NIE would normally be expected to include an updated estimate of insurgent strength.
Last month, officials of NATO and Petraeus's command suggested that the number of insurgents had not grown in 2010 and then dismissed the very idea of an intelligence estimate of the size of the forces fighting against ISAF.
On Jan 3, an unnamed NATO official in Brussels said there were "up to 25,000" Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, according to a Jan. 6 story by Associated Press reporter Slobodan Lekic. The same 25,000 figure -- the mid-point in the 2009 estimate -- had been provided earlier by "several military officers and diplomats," according to the Lekic story.
That figure would imply that the number of full-time Taliban had not grown since 2009, and might even have shrunk -- thus supporting Petraeus's claims of success.
But in a Jan. 9 response to a query from Associated Press, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu clearly disparaged the idea that there could be an official estimate of the Taliban strength.
"There has never been a single
reliable source for the size of the insurgency," said Lungescu, adding
that all estimates of the insurgents are "highly unreliable."
Lungescu sought to divert attention away from a focus on the numerical strength of the Taliban, suggesting that it "misrepresents gains made by alliance forces in the past year." But it is logically impossible for a numerical estimate of insurgent strength to "misrepresent" the results of military operations.
Lungescu was implying that an estimate of Taliban numerical strength would interfere with ISAF's claims of having weakened the Taliban.
In an obvious effort to suggest that the insurgency had been reduced in size, Lungescu said,"[T]housands of insurgent leaders have been killed or captured and several thousand fighters have been taken off the battlefield."
In response to an IPS query to ISAF about the estimated strength of the Afghan armed insurgency, an ISAF spokesman, U.S. Navy Lt. Fernando Rivero, did not respond except to refer to the Jan. 9 statement by Lungescu.
An Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman said Feb. 9 that the ministry estimates the number of Taliban insurgents at between 25,000 and 35,000, although he said it was "just a guess."
The failure of the intelligence community to adopt a revised estimate in the NIE last year was shaped by a highly politicized relationship between the intelligence community and the most powerful field commander in modern U.S. warfare.
The NIE reflected an agreement on what one intelligence source called a "division of labor" between the NIE and the military under which the NIE would not deal with issues bearing on the success of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan. Intelligence officials understood that such issues were "outside our lane," the source said.
An estimate of Taliban strength in the NIE would have obvious bearing on the success of U.S. military operations, since it would show whether the Taliban had been able to continue to grow despite losses inflicted by Special Operations Forces raids.
The decision to forego a formal estimate of insurgent forces may have been authorized by the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, who has oversight of any national intelligence product, and adjudicates any major differences of view that can't be negotiated.
Clapper, who took over as DNI last
August, has a reputation for sacrificing truth to support existing war
policies. He is best known for having claimed in October 2003, when he
was director of the Defense Department's National Imagery and Mapping
Agency, that the missing WMD in Iraq "unquestionably" had been
transferred to Syria and other countries before the March 2003 U.S.
invasion of Iraq.
Dr. Antonio Giustozzi of the London School of Economics, a widely-published specialist on the conflict in Afghanistan, told IPS the Afghan National Army had provided him with an estimate in April 2010 of 36,000 full-time insurgents -- roughly a 50 percent increase over the 2009 estimate.
Giustozzi provided IPS with his detailed estimate of insurgent forces as of January 2011. The estimate includes 36,000 full-time fighters and nearly 50,000 part-time local fighters. The Taliban only mobilize that much larger local pool of manpower occasionally, according to Giustozzi.
That a revised estimate of the insurgency's strength is missing from the latest NIE recalls the political struggle between the CIA and the U.S. military command over the estimate of Vietnamese Communist-led military forces.
In late 1966, a CIA analyst, Sam Adams, found that the military's estimate of less than 300,000 Communist-led forces in Vietnam did not reflect the evidence of continued growth in those forces -- and particularly of "irregular" local paramilitary forces.
The CIA came up with a new estimate of Communist-led forces to 431,000 to 491,000, which was presented in a draft national intelligence estimate in spring 1967. But the military command continued to stonewall, flatly refusing to accept any increase in the overall Viet Cong "order of battle" above 300,000.
Gen. Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote to Gen. William Westmoreland, the top U.S. commander in Vietnam, on March 9, 1967, "If these figures should reach the public domain they would literally blow the lid off Washington."
Wheeler urged Westmoreland to "do whatever is necessary to insure [sic] that these figures are not repeat not released to news media or otherwise exposed to the public."
Westmoreland agreed. According to his intelligence chief, Gen. Joseph A. McChristian, Westmoreland said such an estimate would be a "political bombshell" if it got out to the public.
CIA Director Richard Helms finally caved in to military pressure in September 1967 and ordered the CIA to agree to an estimate of exactly 299,000.
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern told IPS he recalls Sam Adams quoting in a conversation with him the explanation Helms had given to Adams: "My job is to protect the Agency, and there is no way I can do that if I get into a pissing match with the Army when it's at war."
Like Westmoreland, Petraeus appears to have invoked the privilege of the military commander to avert the potential "political bombshell" of an estimate that would almost certainly have shown a large increase in the number of armed insurgents in Afghanistan.


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The following is an excerpt from The MacArthur New Testament Commentary on 1 John 5.
This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him. (5:14–15)As noted above, the full experience of eternal life awaits Christians in heaven. But though they have not yet entered into their eternal inheritance (cf. 1 Peter 1:4), they have access to all of God's resources through prayer. Parresia (confidence) literally means "freedom of speech" (cf. the discussion of 3:21 in chapter 13 of this volume). It can also be translated "boldness" (Acts 4:31), or "openness" (Acts 28:31). The phrase translated before Him has the sense of "in His presence." Through Jesus Christ believers have "boldness and confident access" (Eph. 3:12) to God that enables them to "draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that [they] may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need" (Heb. 4:16).
The sure promise of God is that when believers boldly and freely come to Him with their requests, He will hear and answer. If we ask anything according to His will, John wrote, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him. Hearing in this context refers to more than merely God's being aware of believers' requests; it also means that He grants the requests which we have asked from Him. That is nothing less than a blank check to ask God for anything, but it comes with one important qualifier: the requests must be according to His will.
To pray according to God's will assumes first of all being saved. God is not obligated to answer the prayers of unbelievers. He may choose to do so when it suits His sovereign purposes, but God does not obligate Himself to any unbeliever. John illustrated this principle when he wrote earlier in this epistle, "Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight" (3:21–22). The Lord Jesus Christ made a similar statement, recorded in John 15:7: "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you [the definition of a genuine believer], ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you" (cf. v. 16). Only believers, those who obey God's commandments, can have the certainty that He will answer their prayers.
Praying according to God's will also means confessing sin. The psalmist wrote in Psalm 66:18, "If I regard wickedness in my heart, the Lord will not hear" (cf. 1 Peter 3:7).
Again, the Lord's promise in John 14:13–14 affirms the requirement of praying according to God's will: "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it." To pray in Jesus' name is to pray consistent with who He is, with the goal of bringing Him glory. It is to follow the pattern of His model prayer: "Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10), and His example of humble submission to the Father's will when He prayed in Gethsemane, "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done" (Luke 22:42). The goal of prayer is not to gratify our selfish desires (cf. James 4:3), but to align our wills with God's purposes.
Praying according to God's will not only brings glory to the Son, but also joy to believers. "Truly, truly, I say to you," Jesus said, "if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full" (John 16:23–24). When obedient believers delight themselves in the Lord, He will plant the desires in their hearts for what glorifies Him (Ps. 37:4), and those desires will control their prayers. God's answers to those prayers will glorify Him, bring believers' wills into line with His purposes, and fill them with joy.


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This project contains EEG data from 11 healthy participants upon rapid presentation of images through the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) protocol at speeds of 5, 6, and 10 Hz.
Data Collection
The images are aerial pictures of London, subtending 11.5 x 11.8 degrees of visual angle. Target images contained a randomly rotated and positioned airplane that had been photo realistically superimposed. Non-target images did not contain airplanes. The horizontal position of a target was defined as the x-coordinate of the centroid of the airplane. Lateral targets (the ones included in this database) were those the centroid of which was positioned at a visual angle of at least +/-1.2 degrees of visual axis on the horizontal axis (with respect to the centre of the screen), and they represented about 60% of the target images.
Data Files
The data presented here are EEG signals from 8 channels following the 10-20 system (PO8, PO7, PO3, PO4, P7, P8, O1 and O2) during a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task.
The file names have the following format:
For each presentation rate and participant there are two files. The last field (either "a" or "b") just indicates which one was taken first. Participants took a long break between both files.
Each of these files contains a continuous EEG recording from a participant and presentation rate as given in the file name. Samples are measured in microVolts.
The annotations specify the onset of each image, and whether it was a target (T=1) or not (T=0). If the image contained a target, the x-coordinate of its centroid (ranging 0-640, measured in pixels) is also given in the annotation.
EEG data have been filtered between 0.15-28 Hz and the sampling rate is 2048 Hz.
This data was contributed by Ana Matran-Fernandez from the University of Essex.
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Lost's Last Call: Ricardus Everlasting
"Two players. Two sides. One is light, one is dark."
Those words — spoken by John Locke, as he explained the rules of Backgammon to Walt in the pilot episode of Lost — may be the only island concept we all still know to be true in this late stage of the game, halfway through the final season.
It's simple. And yet extraordinarily complex. Just like everything else on the show.
The writers have implied that Jacob and the Man In Black (MIB) are the two sides, the two players.
One identifies with a dark stone and one with light, just like the Backgammon pawns. Jacob wears light colors on the island, while MIB wears black. The ship that Jacob brings to the island is called the "Black Rock." Leading up to his murder, Dogen explained to Sayid that a man's soul has both light and dark sides.
And back when Jack discovered the "Adam and Eve" cave skeletons, he found a bag with two stones in it — one light and one dark. Historically, people who carry two stones like that believe in the stones' divination powers. The dark one means "yes" and the light one means "no." They're like an old-fashioned Magic 8-ball and go as far back as Biblical times. Paulo Coelho describes them in his book The Alchemist. Whenever his main character needs guidance, he pulls out one of the stones.
Which brings us to one question: Why were the Adam and Eve skeletons so indecisive?
But seriously, those stones will surely end up being related to Jacob and MIB. Something tells me we won't discover who those skeletons are until the finale (but hopefully I'll be proven wrong), because "Ab Aeterno" was one of those episodes that answered many lingering questions… but also introduced many more.
The Latin definition of "ab aeterno" is "from the beginning of time." As the Others' preferred language is Latin and they worship Jacob, we can assume that Jacob has been around for... well, maybe he's been there forever.
And in case the viewers needed a reminder of that, the first scene of "Ab Aeterno" was a flashback, revealing Jacob's Latin greeting to Ilana in the as-yet-to-be-identified hospital where she was recovering, mummy-style (an Egyptian reference?), from as-yet-to-be-identified injuries.
In the flashback, Jacob apologizes for not getting there sooner. He asks her if she will help him protect the six remaining candidates. Ilana agrees to help him even before she finds out what he wants her to do.
This episode could also be called "Playing catchup with Jack" because he asks an awful lot of questions and they are finally the right ones. Jack is all ears now, especially when it comes to anything Jacob-related — likely because Jacob told Hurley to tell Jack that he "has what it takes" and Jack is so hungry to prove that.
At the beach bonfire, Sun explains to Jack (and Hurley) that they are candidates to replace Jacob. And Ilana explains that Jacob told her "Ricardus" would know what to do next.
Ilana's question finally brings us the Lost backstory of the great and powerful Richard Alpert, who turns out to be not so great and powerful after all. This is also the first episode of the season that does not feature a Sideways story line.
Since he learned of Jacob's death a few episodes ago, Richard has basically been spooked. And on this episode, he proclaims his new belief: that Jacob is essentially a liar. But when he says that everything Jacob has ever said was a lie, it sounds strangely like he's describing the Man In Black, doesn't it? He's proven himself to be a liar and manipulator several times now.
Another part of Richard's "new" theory? They're all dead and in hell. Due to his frustration with Jacob, he tells everyone that he's going to "listen to someone else."
While Sun, Ben and the others explain to Jack who Richard means by "someone else" (MIB/Flocke), Hurley gets distracted by the ghost of Richard Alpert's long-dead Spanish wife. Of course, Jack asks Hurley what he's talking about with "Jacob" because he assumes he's the only dead person Hurley talks to… and probably also because Jack's mind currently looks something like this: "Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob..."
After telling Jack to see his way out of the conversation, Hurley goes off to search for Richard in the jungle. He had run away, completely bug-eyed (something Nestor Carbonell does exceptionally well in this episode — it's almost his permanent expression). After Hurley's departure, Ben reveals that Richard really doesn't have any answers and he also… never ages.
And the ultimate audience voicebox, the unflappable Lapidus, asks, "Well, how the hell did that happen?"
It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, then, that Richard's backstory is set in 1867.
The first shot of Richard's backstory shows him riding a horse, reminiscent of the phrase, "You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." More on that later.
The 1867 version of Richard tries desperately to save his sick wife, Isabella, out on the Canary Islands. He tries to get a doctor to come to their house, even though they are peasants and she's basically a goner. When Richard tells Isabella (in Spanish, his native language) that he's going to get the doctor, she gives him her cross necklace. He takes it reluctantly. Just before he leaves, she tells him not to worry about her dying because if he closes his eyes, they can always be together.
When the doctor tells Richard that he doesn't have enough money for the medicine, Richard regretfully gives him the cross and says, "Now you have everything." The doctor calls the cross worthless and then the cross-less Richard (he always seems to get into trouble when he doesn't have that cross in his possession) accidentally kills the doctor. He runs home with the medicine but gets there too late. His wife dies and Richard gets arrested for killing the doctor. He's sentenced to Canary Islands death row.
Does Richard have the most miserable backstory of all the castaways? Yes. Yes, he does.
In prison, a priest comes to bring Richard food, but he says he's not hungry. The priest foreshadows that he might be hungry later. He asks to see Richard's Bible.
Did anyone take a look at what part Richard was reading when the priest took it from him? It was Luke 4:24, the section that comes directly after the story of Jesus being tempted by Satan.
Shortly after that reveal, the priest tells Richard that the devil awaits him in hell and he must do penance for committing murder.
Instead of being executed, Richard gets sold into slavery and chained up on the Black Rock because of his ability to speak English. Everyone pretty much knew this was coming, right? Richard told Jack a few episodes ago that he was once on the Black Rock.
What viewers also should have seen coming was the Black Rock crashing into the 30-story statue of Tawaret. You'd think that if Jacob brought a ship to the island, he'd make sure the ship didn't also demolish his home, save for one foot.
After the Black Rock hits the island and all the remaining passengers get killed by the officers or the Smoke Monster/MIB, Richard's cross strangely goes missing. Undoubtedly, his faith also goes missing at around the same time. Can you really blame him? He's shipwrecked, shackled with no means of escape and no food or water and he's threatened by boars and mysterious black smoke. Plus, the ghost of his dead wife shows up and tells him they're both dead and in hell together. Not an ideal situation.
The Smoke Monster/MIB, which sounds a lot like a growling dog or demon in this episode, comes and take a gander at Richard just before Isabella's ghost shows up… likely "downloading" Richard's knowledge so he'll know how to manipulate him later.
Can MIB disguise himself as corpses who have not landed on the island? Can Richard's possession of Isabella's cross be enough for MIB to take on her appearance?
Richard finally finds relief when a hand pats his near-unconscious back. He'd been trapped in the ship quite a while by then... maybe as long as 40 days.
His savior, MIB, places a heavy hand on him, scaring the beJesus out of him. MIB offers him water but Richard refuses. So he then forces him to drink it.
He forgets that you can't make a horse drink.
But then MIB basically forces his decisions on everyone he encounters. This is just one more example of it.
He confirms Richard's fear that he is in hell, and when Richard notices that MIB wasn't on the ship, he pauses… it's that same long pause we've seen Flocke make while gathering his thoughts on many occasions now. MIB sits back and says, "I was here long before your ship." He then convinces Richard that Jacob is the devil and that he's holding Richard's (dead) wife captive. And when Richard says he must save her, MIB says he'll free him because, after all, he "wants to be freed, too." Way to look out for No.1.
MIB says he has the keys to Richard's chains (likely because he smoked out the officer who held them) and will unlock them but only if Richard promises to help him. The desperate Richard agrees.
This whole scene is a bit like Ilana telling Jacob she'd help him when she's in the hospital. But Jacob doesn't hold anything over her head to get her to do that.
MIB then tells Richard he's going to need his strength to "kill the devil" and he feeds him boar out in the jungle. Notice how MIB doesn't eat or drink anything? All he does is hold his intended murder weapon.
While holding the sword, the same one that Dogen gives to Sayid later, he tells Richard the same things that Dogen tells Sayid: "You only have one chance. Do not hesitate, do not let him say a word. If he speaks, it will already be too late. He can be very persuasive."
Why do you think the speech is the same? Is it part of "the rules"?
In confusing MIB-speak, he tells Richard how Jacob betrayed him, took his body, his humanity, yada, yada, yada ... basically whatever he has to say to get Richard to do his bidding.
After professing that he knows that murder is wrong, Richard embarks on his quest anyway. And he meets a very different adversary than MIB.
This one doesn't force-feed him. Jacob baptizes him, presumably to knock some sense into him. And Jacob doesn't ask Richard to kill anyone. Instead, he starts offering some island wisdom over a bottle of wine, although Richard refuses to imbibe.
Finally, viewers get an explanation as to why Jacob brings people to the island. He holds up the bottle of wine and says: "Think of this wine as what you keep calling 'hell.' There are many other names for it, too: malevolence, evil, darkness. And here it is swirling around in the bottle, unable to get out. Because if it did, it would spread. The cork is this island and it's the only thing keeping the darkness where it belongs. That man who sent you to kill me believes that everyone is corruptible because it's in their very nature to sin. I bring people here to prove him wrong. And when they get here, their past doesn't matter."
Their past doesn't matter. This is crucial. MIB exploits people's pasts but Jacob sees them as a fresh slate. This is also the first time Jacob actually mentions the word "sin."
It's odd that Richard had to inform Jacob that if he doesn't at least offer some guidance to island castaways, they're much more vulnerable to MIB's manipulations. After hearing that, Jacob has an epiphany (seemingly) and asks Richard if he wants to be an intermediary for him.
When Richard realizes he should get paid for this "job" and Jacob says he can't bring his wife back nor absolve him of his sins, he says he'd like to live forever. It's an option of last resort. Jacob touches him, granting his "wish," and his touch is noticeably less menacing than MIB's. It's a pat on the shoulder, not a grab on the back.
This whole scene brings about a "new world" of questions. Maybe Jacob isn't protecting the island from the world but, rather, protecting the world from what's on the island?
Richard returns to the Man In Black, who gives him back his wife's missing cross necklace. And he says he's always there if Richard ever changes his mind.
This brings about even more questions. If MIB had the cross this whole time, does that mean he was basically taking Richard's faith in the world, in God, and capturing it in his big, scary, smoke-filled hands?
This episode's flashback story makes it seem inconceivable that Richard would still want to redeem MIB's offer. His frustration is palpable, thanks to the talented Nestor Carbonell, but after all he's seen on the island, wouldn't he know at this point that following the Man In Black couldn't lead to anything positive?
In a very Whoopi Goldberg moment, Hurley finds Richard and relays messages from Richard's dead wife — who seems very different than the frightened version we saw on the shipwrecked Black Rock.
As Lost mythology says, "Dead is dead." And in death, Isabella is at peace. This is something this show always does incredibly and poignantly well. Isabella tells Richard, in the same way she did back in 1867, that if he closes his eyes, she is still always with him.
Richard places her cross back on his neck, ostensibly regaining his faith in life (despite the fact that he's lived for nearly 200 years and his plight still seems never-ending).
What are we to think about Hurley telling Richard that they have to stop the Man In Black or they'll all go to hell? This seemed a bit preposterous to me. And maybe strange that Isabella would be saying that.
What are we to make of Jacob and MIB's wrap-up scene? When Jacob hands the wine bottle to MIB and tells him he can use it to "pass the time" (similar to what Locke said to Ben when he was locked up in the Swan station), MIB says he'll see him sooner than he thinks. This has become the Smoke Monster's catchphrase now. He smashes the bottle, and the wine soaks the dark rocks like blood.
This was an episode that took viewers so far only to leave them more perplexed than ever. But it was obviously a great, great episode for Nestor Carbonell. It's about time.
Anyone catch that Easter egg (if you can call it that) in the Black Rock? The little blue butterfly? Something tells me that's a great omen, a guide much more powerful than Adam and Eve's white and black divination stones combined.
As usual, all comments, questions and answers are welcome below. Especially if you're as much of a Natalie Babbitt fan as I am.
By Laura Carney


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