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In the past seven days there have been three suspicious incidents, including one attack, reported in the HRA:
ID 578: At 0735UTC on 6 August a merchant vessel was approached by a single skiff in position 12:53.9N 043:14.6E, Bab-el-Mandeb, southern Red Sea. As the skiff closed to within 3 cables, a ladder was seen. The vessel activated protection measures and the embarked security team fired two flares resulting in the skiff stopping its approach. No weapons were seen.
– This was the second suspicious approach in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait within two weeks and the fifth incident in the southern Red Sea in the same period. With wind speeds averaging 8 knots and wave heights of around 0.5 metres – compared to 4 metre waves and 30 knot winds further east in the Gulf of Aden – PAGs are likely to continue operating here in the coming weeks.
ID 579: At approximately 0800UTC on 6 August an Italian Tanker was approached in the western Gulf of Aden. Eight skiffs surrounded the vessel. The embarked security team fired warning shots and the skiffs moved away.
– The location of this attack is estimated as the initial report states only that it took place in the western Gulf of Aden. The number of skiffs is unusually high, but the PAG may have coerced local fishermen to surround the vessel in order to confuse the crew and embarked security team. A similar tactic is thought to have been used during an incident involving 10 skiffs in the southern Red Sea on 30 June.
ID 580: On 12 August, the Port of Fujairah issued an alert stating that MT Bon Atlantico, an Indian-flagged product Tanker, was under attack in position: 25°09.N 057°03.E, 37nm east of Fujairah, UAE. No further details were available at the time of writing.
– This is the first incident reported in the Gulf of Oman since 21 May. Some of the incidents that occurred in the Gulf earlier in the year have been attributed to pirates originating from Iran and Pakistan. The current environmental conditions have prevented Somali PAGs from operating outside the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden so it is possible that local pirates are responsible. Crews operating here should be aware that the pirates involved in this incident may not be of the same appearance as Somali PAGs, and may still be active in the area.
West Africa:
In the early hours of 9 August, a product tanker was attacked while transiting 200 nautical miles south of Nigeria. A single vessel was initially identified on the ship's radar before three small boats approached the tanker from the starboard side. A number of single shots were fired, followed shortly after by a burst of automatic fire. The Master implemented anti-piracy procedures and the crew mustered in the citadel. The pirates attempted to board the vessel at the stern but were unable to keep pace with her as the Master increased speed.
– It is extremely rare for West African pirates to attack a vessel this far from the shoreline; most attacks take place within 70 nautical miles of the coast. This attack supports the theory that Nigeria-based pirates are extending their area of operations in order to avoid regional naval patrols, but it may also highlight a further development in their modus operandi. Three hijacks off Ghana in June and July took place around 50 nautical miles from the coast, so the pirates would have been able to refuel and replenish stores in the coastal towns and villages of Benin, Togo and Ghana as they transited towards their intended area of operations. To operate 200 miles from shore, the pirates responsible for this attack would most likely require a mother ship. This will allow them to operate at extended distances from the shore and stay at sea for protracted periods of time. Therefore, it is assessed that a mother ship-based PAG remains active in this location and could conduct further attacks against merchant vessels until it achieves its aim or is interdicted by naval forces.
At 2220 local time on 11 August three robbers boarded an anchored offshore support vessel in position: 04°45.29S 11°49.27E, Pointe Noire Anchorage, The Congo. The crew noticed the robbers on deck and on the forecastle and raised the alarm. Seeing the alert crew, the robbers escaped and were seen approaching another vessel. A broadcast on VHF Channel 16 was made to alert all ships in the vicinity as well as the port authorities.
– This is the third reported boarding at Pointe Noire anchorage in the past six months; the previous two incidents took place February and March. Most robberies here can be attributed to local criminals, intent on stealing ship stores. The robbers occasionally carry long knives but on most occasions they will avoid confrontation and disembark from the vessel if challenged by crew.
On 6 August four members of a private security company operating in the coastal area off Ondo State, Nigeria, were killed and four others were left seriously injured after a shoot-out with suspected pirates. The private security personnel were patrolling the area as part of an operation against oil theft when the armed men attacked. Three members of the pirate group were also killed in the fighting.
– It appears that this attack was not a planned operation against the security company but a violent response to an approach by the security personnel. The incident is illustrative of the willingness of criminals to use violence if approached. Criminal groups are typically well armed and have engaged security forces in on several occasions during operations against the illegal fuel industry in the Niger Delta area.
At 0630 local time on 11 August four robbers in a wooden boat approached an anchored chemical tanker in position 03:54N 098:46E, Belawan Outer Anchorage, Indonesia. One of the robbers boarded the vessel and attempted to steal the ship's stores from the forecastle store. Duty crew noticed the robber and informed OOW who raised the alarm, sounded ship's whistle and mustered the crew. Seeing the crew alertness, the robber escaped with his accomplices empty handed.
– This is the second boarding at Belawan anchorage in the past three weeks, and the fourth since 22 May. Most incidents are aborted when the robbers are confronted by crew. In those cases where the boarding is not detected, ship stores such as paint and mooring ropes are usually stolen.
Select Maritime News:
On 5 August three major shipping organisations released advice on the ebola epidemic. The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), International Maritime Employers' Council (IMEC) and the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) issued guidance aimed at crews conducting port calls in ebola-affected countries. The guidance highlights the importance of crew awareness and recommends denial of access to vessels to any unauthorised persons. Additionally crew changes in affected countries should be avoided and any crew member experiencing symptoms of the virus are encouraged to seek immediate medical attention. The ebola virus began in Guinea in February and has killed more than 900 people to date. Many shipping lines have already suspended crew changes and shore leave in West Africa prompting fears that companies could reduce regional operations further if the situation continues to deteriorate.


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I pretty much got done with modifying some of the CSS source from the original IdleRPG pages to somewhat fit the ShadowHime site. I'll have a tutorial, or information page up soon for IdleRPG. Until I can do that, y'all may follow this post for the time being. It's a lot of information to try and fit onto here and to get a good format going in order to help make it easier for all of you to use it.
Do keep in mind, if you do sign up to play along with us on IdleRPG, you will not be immediately added on the players page. Because it is hosted on a different server, I have a script in place that will update that page every so often (by what I put, 20 minutes). So, if your not on there, check back in 20 minutes or so and see if you are. If not, please do not hesitate to contact me. I am usually available on the IRC most of the time, so I should be able to provide assistance to those who need it.
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Since we now have a start date and a finish date for 2199 (which I will not reveal the latter for since Chapter 7 is yet to be released on home video), I will be moving my way through the series an episode at a time, and coming up with dates for events in the episodes.
When formulating dates, I made the following assumptions:
(1) Explicit date references and time periods have precedence over all other dates, except where logic dictates that the timeframe or date cannot possibly be correct. There are several explicitly-referenced dates and timeframes in the series, notably the date of Operation M, the ten minutes that it is reported that Amaterasu will take to get from Neptune to Mars, the three-week period it takes Kirishima to reach Mars on the way to Earth, the date of the first contact with Garmillas, as well as the date that Yamato returns to Earth.
(2) Context of the "Days Remaining until Earth's destruction" counter at the end of each episode. For the following reasons, I have assumed that these are the days remaining at the start of the next episode:
- (a) The "two-part" episodes which continue immediately from one episode into the next (notably 1 and 2, 5 and 6, 12 and 13, and 19 and 20) the day count in the preview at the end of the first part (i.e. the second episode's preview) is a single day. While some episodes early on cover a single day, the ones later do leave a big gap of time (e.g. by Episode 7, most of the hull plating damaged by the Reflection Satellite Gun on Pluto has been repaired and repairs have turned towards more maintenance style activities).
(b) The "days remaining" counts are being mentioned in the context of the next episode's events. In the original series, there were no previews for the next episodes other than a splash screen at the start of the ending credits for the next episode's title, and the day counter was shown before this, in the episode itself.
(3) Other dates are construed from the "days remaining" count. If events take place within an episode, if there is evidence that a change of timeframe has occurred during the episode, then that is taken into consideration.
Why do I do this? Why not just "suspend disbelief" and enjoy the show for what it is? I do it because for me, it's fun. I actually enjoy placing dates around the series, to see how good my powers of observation and extrapolation are. I fully expect people will challenge me on some things, and that's another reason I do it. Fostering discussion among fans about this sort of thing is a big part of what these forums are attempting to achieve.
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Part One: Establishing Dates for Each Episode
Since the "Days Remaining" counter provides us a good start for timeframes for periods in the show without breaking episodes which cover significant timeframes, and using the assumptions referred to above as to when the days left counter kicks in, I've come up with the list below:
The date for the start of the second episode is taken as follows:
(1) Operation M takes place on 2199-01-17: this is corroborated by the fact that Sasha's ship, Sheherazade (code-named Amaterasu), arrives on Mars the same day as the operation begins (her grave marker explicitly mentions this date).
(2) An explicit reference to "three weeks later" is shown on screen. If it takes Kirishima three weeks to reach Mars from Pluto, then assuming that it takes Kirishima some time to slow down, take Kodai and Shima aboard, and then accelerate back to cruise speed, it would be safe to say it takes 2-4 days for the return to Earth.
(3) It's near sunset when Kodai and Shima steal the Zero and fly to Bono Misaki (the site of the Yamato's construction), so it's safe to say that the announcement of the Yamato Plan and the ship's crew takes place the next day. Assuming that the launch occurs early the morning after that (the launch procedures start at 6am), it would be early on the 12th of February when the ship launches.
From there, it's fairly straightforward to calculate the date at the start of each episode.
There are two issues with the timeline quoting the preview day count verbatim:
Firstly, for Episode 24's start date, given during the preview at the end of Episode 23. Okita clearly says 199 days ("hyakku-kyuju-kyu nichi") remain, however, considering that this episode's events would have happened inside a day and certainly not taken 11 as the count from the previous episode count suggests, I've chosen to rule the preview wrong and say there are 209 days left at the start of Episode 24. This has two repercussions:
(1) The time elapsed in Episode 23 is realistic; and
(2) The timeframe referred to at the start of Episode 25 by Yuria Misaki, is correct to the tune of two days. We only see two nights pass on Iscandar, so it's safe to assume that they leave on the 19th of July. This would make the time between leaving Iscandar and Yurisha's announcement that two months have passed since leaving, correct to within two days.
Secondly, the reference to "Eight Months" having passed since Yamato left Earth. Since it is mid-late September, and Yamato left on the 12th of February, that's barely more than a week over seven months. However, in terms of lunar months, then this would actually be accurate to within two days (the episode starts on Day 222, and 8 lunar months would be 224 days). Since 56 days is two lunar months and 64 days would have passed since Yamato left Iscandar (2 lunar months plus 8 days), rounding it down to two months is appropriate.
[EDIT 2015-06-01] Following Ark of the Stars' subtitled release in May 2015, an observation was brought to my attention by Luis Cotovio that I'd missed: That in the epilogue to the movie a screen is seen in Todo's room that says "41 days left". This would mean that 324 days have elapsed in the mission by the time Yamato returns to Earth. If we subtract 324 days from December 8, 2199, we get January 18, 2199. This would also coincide with the dialogue in Episode 25 that states it's 8 months since Yamato left Earth. The key problem here is that they've completely forgotten or disregarded the "three weeks later" that appears on screen just before Kirishima arrives at Mars to pick Kodai and Shima up. The date we see on Sasha's grave is January 17, 2199; however, it's quite clear from the animation that Sasha crashed on Mars at the same time as Operation M was fighting. Had it not been the case, her crash would have been after the "three weeks later" sign, and would in that case have contradicted the "reaching Mars in 5 minutes" in the dialogue as Sheherazade passed Neptune.
Since the final episode preview simply says, "The journey never ends", we can't estimate how many days pass between the end of Episode 25 and the start of 26. More observation is needed there, and I'll get to that at a later date.
All we know is that 78 days pass between the start of Episode 25 and the end of Episode 26, and that the return journey takes 142 days.


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Practitioners require clinical supervision to support them in their work with NVR, so they can maximise their effectiveness and safely manage risk. This can only be delivered safely by professionals who are proficient in the delivery of NVR, and who have received additional training in recognising and addressing the supervisory needs of practitioners working within the approach. This training and consultation module helps local supervisors develop local support structures for NVR practitioners and deals with questions such as:
- What skills, competencies, knowledge and understandings has the local supervisor gained in their own practice involving NVR? How has this shaped them as a person and as a professional?
- What are the specific supervisory needs of practitioners using NVR? What impasses in practice do they need to help their supervisees overcome?
- In which ways, and using which methods can a local supervisor address their supervisees' needs?
- How will the delivery of supervision be organised locally – individual, group supervision, peer supervision? What other models of supervision should be incorporated in the local support structure?
- What is the overall structure of support for NVR practice within the local supervisor's organisation? How does this support structure need to change or improve, to enable safe, effective and efficient practice of NVR?
- With which managers within the organisation can the local supervisor develop a working alliance, to achieve the necessary service development?
The training develops the skill-base for specific 'clinical' supervision in NVR; this is particularly necessary for workforce development, risk management and safe, competent practice: working with issues relating to aggression, violence, destructive behaviour and trauma is especially taxing to the individual frontline practitioner, who requires high-level expert support to prevent burn-out or secondary traumatisation and maintain their emotional well-being.
Local expert supervision ensures that these workers perform at a high level of competence; they need their own support network, in the same way that they promote the family's development of a functional support network when working with NVR.
Learning Outcomes
- Participants will learn to recognise supervisory needs specific to the practice of NVR.
- Participants will be introduced to supervision methods which can address these needs.
- Local supervisors will be introduced to the specific use of reflecting team methods in the delivery of NVR.
- As senior members in their teams, participants in this training will develop an understanding of the necessary organisational structures for delivering NVR safely and effectively, and how they can be instrumental in developing these support structures.
**full catering will be provided**
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Who should attend?
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We can only accept practitioners on local supervisor training, who are taking part or have completed Advanced Level training in NVR, actually work with clients in the approach and will be providing supervision to their colleagues within the organisation.


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Every so often a lovely feel good story comes along, that delights the heart and brings with it a lovely warm smile. This is such a book, written and illustrated by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros, as he has a tilt at the wonderfulness of that very funny, often times amusing thing called love.
Stick Insect has fallen in love with the girl of his dreams. He is wooing her with everything he has in heart, thinking up wonderful things they can do together, places they can go and the happiness that will be theirs.
They can dip their toes into the sea, join a big noisy brass band, surf the ocean waves and fly away like the birds. The list of wonderful things they can do together is endless. The love and joy they will have together is immeasurable.
His friend Butterfly is trying to tell him something, but he is so in love he is simply not listening to anything Butterfly has to say about his true love. That is, until he does finally figure out that perhaps this love thing could be nothing more than a one way street!
Totally enjoyable, with lovely, happy, large format illustrations, this is a story that will delight reader's young and old and definitely become a firm favourite to be read time and time again.
|Chris Naylor-Ballesteros and illustrator.
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Maldives National Oil Company ltd (MNOC) was incorporated by the Government of the republic of Maldives to complement the Government's effort to diversify the national economy and thereby generate employment and foreign income through oil and gas business in the territory of the Maldives and abroad. MNOC is formed as 100% owned subsidiary of State Trading Organisation Maldives (STO Plc.)
MNOC takes direct responsibility for the development of oil and gas industry processes in the Maldives and overseas. This responsibility encompasses oil, natural gas, hydrocarbons and related minerals. MNOC also endeavour to oversee the production, refining and transport of the aforementioned substances and any of their derivatives or by-products.
The Principal activities of the company includes making necessary preparations such as seismic survey agreements with foreign oil and gas exploration companies to commence the third round of oil and gas exploration in the Maldives. The company had also embarked on a program of building local human resource capability in the oil and gas sector by sponsoring Maldivians to study and gain experience in the oil and gas business.
MNOC also envisages in sourcing of crude oil from crude-oil producing countries, for the purpose of refining and processing at the refineries in neighbouring countries such as India, Sri Lanka and Singapore. The refined products processes from the crude oil will largely be consumed in the Maldives.


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late and this episode killed me. KILLED ME. i'm serious. I'm a zombie right now.Ok but for real, this was effing intense, man
The episode was all about Bobbi and Hunter… the best, most in-love, imperfect children. It takes place in different times– sometimes it shows them when they're captured, other times, how they got to be where they were. There was an amazing scene where they talked about the vacations they've never had, and they were leaning so close, I couldn't deal. I can't deal. I will never be able to deal. And he just stares at her, and she's so… wioenrfekdlf THEYRE SO IN LOVE HELP ME. Then, one of the prison-y, they're captured scenes, they're taking Hunter away and he yells repeatedly "Let me speak to Bobbi!" They kill me, you guys. One of the guards / ppl there realizes something "you are each other's weaknesses", he says. SO TRUE. SO PAINFUL TO MY HEART BC THEYRE GOING THROUGH SHIT RIGHT NOW. Back in 'how they got there' time zone, Bobbi is talking to Hunter and the rest of the team through comms, and then he's not responding, and she's all "please tell me you're okay!" and she's so desperate and uGH. In prison-y time zone, they're reunited, Bobbi takes his hand saying she thought he was dead. They share a few words, and they do the forehead touch. the fOREHEAD TOUCH. the end of the episode was so intense, they end up leaving the team, and leaving helping the government forever, to protect SHIELD. At the very end, the two of them are in a bar, then they keep getting drinks from other people in the bar– the rest of the team, and they can't talk bc ppl are watching, and it'll put the SHIELD agents in danger. Bobbi says it's "A spy's goodbye". They all drink and raise their glasses, and then leave. Mack hovers, teary eyed. Bobbi is also half crying, and Hunter tears up, along with the rest of the team looking sad / tearful as well. Music is playing, which makes it all so much more emotional. I had to repeatedly pinch my neck to keep from crying and I was sweating so much by the end. It was a perfect send-off though, probably my favorite episode. But also the most painful. I can't believe my babies won't be on the show anymore :c
Daisy/Bobbi is now my fave friendship okay, but like really. Bobbi is saying Daisy will learn Russian eventually, and Daisy's all "yeah, so hopeful" and later Bobbi says,
"You ready, sestra?" (meaning sister)
and Daisy responds, "Da."
literally the best. they're the best.
let's hope tonight's ep is good!


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Here comes a testing focused article after a series of technical blogs! It is based on experience with projects managed through waterfall processes and it continues the series about tackling test complexity.
It is about a luxury that we so often ask for and we often don't have in testing: to be involved early in the product development process. What does it mean actually to be involved early in the process? Why is it so important? And how does it help tackling test complexity anyway?


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"What are the advantages of open source software for health care?
Open source solutions have a number of advantages for a health care enterprise. The collaborative sharing of ideas and concepts practiced by users of open source software can create 'communities' of developers, partners, testers and users who interact with each other to further improve the software. This can speed up the development process,
bringing in skills that a single software vendor would not be able to provide."
Quality and reliability of open source software.
"Bugs are vigorously discussed and fixed in the open, lending an unusual degree of transparency to the development process. This degree of community engagement takes time, and may give the appearance that open source development is more time consuming than traditional code development. The trade-off of the open source process is a higher degree of software quality. Detecting bugs before the software is placed into superior to proprietary software."
Security concerns. (Security does not equal Secrecy)
"Since there is an admirable emphasis on protecting patient privacy in regards to health care information, managers need to be assured that an open source product implementation provides the level of security that is expected by consumers and clinicians. There is an unfortunate tendency to conflate security with secrecy. When such confusion reigns, then it is easy to carelessly assume that open source code must not provide the same degree of security as proprietary code."


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Terrence Jones, Donatas Motiejunas Won't Sign Extensions With Rockets
However, NBC Sports speculated, that the Rockets have not really been giving much importance to both players who are coveting for the same power forward spot. Motiejunas like Jones was also plagued with a season-ending back injury last March and is still undergoing rehabilitation. Motiejunas is presently dealing with a back injury that kept him out of the opener, and his timetable for a return is unknown, but he should come off the bench this year and will likely struggle to match last ...
Nike athletes star in epic 'Snow Day' advert
During the broadcast of the New England Patriots' 36-7 in over the Miami Dolphins on Thursday Night Football , the CBS crew cut to a long-lost highlight for tight end Rob Gronkowski - at age 5. Sure, snow is on its way to the East Coast and "Snow Day" is soon going to become part of the vernacular again, but that doesn't mean people should be stuck at home doing nothing.
Packers vs. Broncos Point Spread
Lang, who started and played the entire game against the Chargers despite a right knee injury suffered the previous week. Following last week's bye, McCarthy hopes Starks will make enough progress to play in Denver. NOTES: S Morgan Burnett (calf), LB Nick Perry (shoulder/hand) and DT B.J. Without an efficient air attack, the Broncos could be dead in the water as they're averaging just 85 yards per game on the ground.
Paul Kruger: Browns place OLB Paul Kruger on trade block
The National Football League trade deadline is usually a dud, and it's entirely possible that nothing could come of any of this, but the fact that Cleveland is willing to listen on such talented players is certainly an interesting wrinkle. The Cleveland Browns are willing to trade outside linebacker Barkevious Mingo, a source told Cleveland.com's Mary Kay Cabot on Sunday. On top of Mack and Thomas, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported that Cleveland is also listening to offers on linebacker Paul ...
Miami Hurricanes vs. Duke Blue Devils
Freshmen Luke Kennard and Derryck Thornton also figure to see plenty of time in the Duke backcourt Friday as the Blue Devils look to move on from the departures of Quinn Cook and Tyus Jones. The Blue Devils (6-1, 3-0 ACC) sit just behind North Carolina atop the Coastal Division standings and are eyeing their second trip to the ACC Championship in three years after winning the division in 2013.
The Most freaky College Football Playoff Field That's Still Actually Possible
The one thing Alabama knows how to do, is win, no matter how ugly it is. That rarely happens for them. Derrick Henry went for 143 and two scores , including the game win. Greg Ward, Jr continues to develop nicely, the showdown with Memphis looms. Nonetheless, they looked really impressive against Texas A&M last week.


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Hello again! Here I am, with your feminist headlines of the week. Also, to my dear Ohio/American friends, I'm sorry about your heat wave, although I'd love to have just a little bit of that heat over here (it's currently barely 60F over here). I understand your discomfort though. But I digress. On to the issues!
-A new report from the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics states that even though 60% of women are currently the primary or co-breadwinner in their respective households, they are still doing the lion's (lioness's?….har har) share of the housework. From the report "On an average day, 19 percent of men did housework–such as cleaning or doing laundry–compared with 48 percent of women. Forty percent of men did food preparation or cleanup, compared with 66 percent of women." The article links to the actual report, if you care to read it. I think stuff like this is so interesting and still such an important part of the dialogue around equality-topics like household care often get swept under the rug (damn, I am on a roll here with the topical puns!). Personally speaking, in my household we try to divide everything equally-whoever cooks dinner doesn't have to do the post-dinner dishes, we take turns doing laundry, Jon vacuums and I dust, etc. Basically the only thing that's gendered is that he has to get the cereal from the top shelf because I can't reach it and he's a giant man, and I don't know if that even counts. And I cannot imagine marrying a man who would expect me to work all day and also be 100% in charge of cleaning our house. What kind of shit is that? Of course the conversation changes when only one partner works and the other stays home all day. Then-get to cleaning, yo. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/06/25/506017/women-still-doing-housework-and-working/
-I usually avoid "The Good Men Project" because that shit is far too earnest for me-also, I'm not a man. But I had to read their article titled "Why Being a Good Man is a Feminist Issue". News flash: it really is! This bit sums it up for me: feminism began as a movement to liberate women from their stupid, limiting gender roles, but…….there's no separating women's horrible gender roles from men's horrible gender roles. Every dumb cliché about how women are overemotional carries with it the connotation that men can't have or express emotions. Every joke about men being lazy slobs implies that women are destined to do all the cleaning. The idea that women are helpless objects to be protected from everything is tied right in with the idea that men are disposable cannon fodder, whether in combat or civilian life. Men's issues and women's issues simply are not two separate problems, and the illusion that they are is just another outdated notion we need to outgrow. Word. Sadly, it seems that a lot of fellas aren't responding well in the comments to the piece. Anyway. Read more here http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/why-being-a-good-man-is-not-a-feminist-issue/
-Researchers at the University of Delaware recently conducted a study regarding NBC's commentary at past Olympic games, and the conclusion was that they have some serious issues over there, sexism-wise. Annnnd racism-wise. In sum, according to the researcher in charge of the study, "It's all about luck with the females. It's all about ability with the males." When discussing Olympians? Why?? The researchers looked at clips from the tv network's coverage and categorized them according to 17 different criteria, coming to the conclusion that not only does NBC's Olympics commentary unfairly compare men and women athletes, it also gives more coverage to U.S. athletes and includes racist remarks. Those remarks include references to white athletes being committed and composed, while black athletes have physical strength and Asian athletes are intelligent. More about the study here http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2012/jun/Olympic-commentary-061812.html
-80% of American 10 year old girls have been on a diet, and the number one "magic wish" for girls aged 11-17 is to be thinner. That's all. I'm going to go cry now. http://www.upworthy.com/80-of-ten-year-olds-have-been-on-a-diet-yes-you-read-that-correctly?c=mrp1
-An opinion writer from the Washington Post responded to the Atlantic cover story "Why Women Can't Have it All" (which I linked to last week). I love the response, which centered around the idea that a minuscule percentage of women around the world/in the States even have the option to ever "have it all" and that the argument that they can or can't is a bit elitist in nature. In reality, most women are just trying to get by, facing daily obstacles while trying to keep their families afloat. High-powered jobs and loads of money and paid sick leave are not things that the average American woman is dealing with-so why are we talking about whether we can have it all? Why aren't we demanding a living wage for women (and men) who are trying to care for their families? Maybe because other issues are far more provocative? That's just my cynicism talking.
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Feb 9, 2017
Stars do not age according to modern ideas.
"It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star."
— Arthur Eddington, Astrophysicist
T Tauri stars take their name from the original star discovered in October 1852 by John Russell Hind. They are thought to be young stars, since their composition accords with conventional ideas about star formation. Lithium, found in T Tauri spectra, is supposed to indicate stellar youthfulness, since stars are supposed to "condense" out of nebulae composed primarily of light elements.
Stars like the Sun live their lives according to theories that involve hydrogen fusion. They consume fuel in well-defined stages: first they are born as T-Tauri stars, then they enter their adulthood as "G-type" stars. As written elsewhere, consensus ideas suggest that, once stars exhaust their supplies of hydrogen their hydrostatic equilibrium decreases, causing their cores to contract, which raises the core temperature. At 100 million Kelvin, a star's core begins to consume helium "ash" that collected there. That increased temperature also means that stars form a hydrogen-burning region outside the helium core. Astronomers believe that stars in that stage of evolution become cooler, but brighter. This is what allows them to determine stellar ages based on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
Star cluster formation in various nebulae do not conform to the standard model, however. Stars are thought to form on the inside of nebular clouds first, since gas and dust is more concentrated there. The theory of star formation requires gravity to concentrate dust and gas into smaller and smaller dimensions until fusion ignites. That idea is now called into question.
Using the Chandra X-ray Telescope, astronomers analyzed various nebulae in X-ray light. Combining that information with infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope enabled them to use their theoretical models as a way of measuring stellar ages. What they found did not match what was predicted: stars on the outside of many nebulae are found to be older than those inside.
The reason that conventional ideas about star formation are confused is because astrophysicists fail to consider electricity as a formative and sustaining force. In an Electric Universe, gravity, density, compression, and mechanical phenomena are overshadowed by the effects of plasma behavior. Stars are not balls of hydrogen gas that are crushed into helium and electromagnetic radiation by gravitational pressure. Rather, they are the loci of galactic z-pinches in Birkeland currents.
Electric discharges in plasma clouds create double layers along the current axis. Positive charge builds up on one side and negative charge on the other. A strong electric field forms between them, and if enough current is applied the sheath will glow, but it is otherwise invisible. Electric charge flows along the sheaths. In plasma, electric charges spiral into filaments. Filaments attract each other, but rather than merging they spiral around, gradually pinching down into arc mode discharges.
Nebulae should be thought of as arc lamps that emit light at specific frequencies, depending on the gas that it contains. Electricity causes the gaseous plasma to glow. Since more than 90% of the light from planetary nebulae is from ionized oxygen, they should be thought of as gas discharge tubes and not as balls of gas.
The Electric Star theory explains many ideas about plasma and electric fields in space. Instead of kinetic effects, nebulae are powered by electricity. The electric power density in dusty plasma is greatest along the axes of Birkeland current filaments. The current produces an electromagnetic field that draws matter to the filaments from surrounding space more strongly and from a greater volume than is possible with gravity. When sufficient matter accumulates in the filaments they luminesce. Stars are born along those filaments.
Bright X-ray knots in nebulae come from electric filaments creating z-pinches in plasma. Those z-pinch zones are located in various parts of any particular nebula, not necessarily in their centers or their edges. Dating the ages of stars cannot be done using conventional models, so astronomers will always find new mysteries in their theoretical models.
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Like all other humans, I grew up with the nearly constant companion that we call "Hope."
I had the usual childhood self-centered hopes for things, and although I didn't know it at the time, I also hoped to be loved and supported, trusted, treated well. In my teens, I developed the more mature, altruistic hopes for a better world that often accompany the transition into young adulthood. And then, in my 20s, I started hoping to become spiritually enlightened, earnestly pursuing this idea for the next several decades, in a variety of ways.
In hindsight, I see now that I didn't realize that this impulse – to become enlightened – was motivated by a desire to be free from all the worries that weighed on me, the ones that birthed hope. I hoped for many things, but felt that most, if not all, would likely not come to pass: a long, healthy life and an easy or swift and painless death; enough money to live comfortably; a better, brighter future for myself and my loved ones, and for all people; and, of course, the big hope we all share – world peace – a life of ease for all of the Earth's inhabitants.
I realize now that hope is an empty promise. This moment lacks nothing, despite all outward appearances, and there is no such thing as the future (other than as a thought). Knowing this, what is there to hope for?
But our global situation – life on Earth – seems to be filled with more than enough fuel for a lifetime (and the proverbial lifeline) of hope, and so, paradoxically, I am free to continue to hope for freedom from pain and suffering for all. The difference is that hope now springs from the eternal knowing that all is well.


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Here's a short history of the guy your visiting...Born in 1951 in the Atlantic City Hospital(March 1st)...early in the A.M....so I've been told,to Sarah Elizabeth(nee:Smallwood)Davis,and James L.(J.L.)Davis.
My Mother was born in the late 1920's in the small town of Port Republic,N.J.Born right in the house she was.This was in a town of less than 300 people.Everybody knew each other back in those days,and even if you weren't the best of friends with one another,everybody pitched in and helped each other out,and watched out for each other.Nobody locked there doors.Wasn't any need to.Well,my Mother moved around when she was young.Only because back during the depression,people were hard pressed for work.But not my Grandfather.He worked as a heavy equipment mechanic for a large construction company.So there was always work.As long as you didn't mind travelling.
Well,Sarah,along with her older brother,William and her parents(Somers and Mary Smallwood),headed South to the glorious state of North Carolina,to a town called Fayetteville.There my Grandfather had a construction job.And even though it was the depression,my family was lucky enough to always have a roof over their heads and plenty enough to eat.My Grandfather was always a good provider,and his family never went without.
Earlier in his
life,my Grandfather,Somers Smallwood,was in the
U.S.Army.Following in his father's footsteps who was a soldier in the Grand Army Of The Republic, Yankee,during the Civil War.
But my Grandfather served during what was called the Big War also known as WWI.He was one of the unfortunate young soldiers that fell victim to the terrible Flu Epidemic,that swept our nation and wiped out hundreds if not thousands of people.He had contracted the disease and was hospitalized stateside...and for a good deal of the time was on death's doorstep.As I later found out,the day he was released from the hospital with a clean bill of health,the Armistace was signed.Talk about being lucky! He never did have to face the trials of Combat,nor did he have to endure the suffering of being gassed,and watch his buddies getting maimed and killed.But he did see quite a few fellow soldiers die of the influenza virus,which was by no means an easy thing to live through.He was a strong,and tough man with a very friendly and likeable personality,from the old school. I always had a good deal of respect for him.I never heard a man speak badly about him,and many looked up to him.
Well,after the depression,and the job in South Carolina was completed,my Grandad brought his family back up North to Port Republic.My Uncle Bill,and my Mom continued through school in Atlantic County,and both graduated from Egg Harbor High School,which is no longer a high school.This was not Egg Harbor Township H.S.,but Egg Harbor City.My mother,still being a teenager and recent High School graduate,got a job working in a rehabilitation Hospital in Longport,NJ,called Betty Bacharach.Here kids with polio and various other birth defects were placed by their families for care they could never expect to receive at home.For our area,this was the best hospital of its kind,back in those days.And to this day is one of the most respected Rehabilitaion Facilities anywhere.


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Having a solid list of contacts to engage with is great and all, but it can get really overwhelming when your lists and contacts start getting out of control. When those two things start to become jumbled, typical processes that were once easy can get really difficult...really fast.
Well, enough of that mess. Let's clean things up! In this video, we'll show you how to create new lists, how to delete lists or contacts, and how to move your contacts around to other lists.
Check it out to get started on organizing everything in your Contacts tab to keep things simple!
If you'd prefer to read, here's a step by step:
We're all about building relationships here at BombBomb, and it's a lot easier to do that when you're organized with your lists and contacts. To start, log into your account and head over to the Contacts tab.
The first thing you'll see on the Contacts tab is the relationship score scale. The more engagement that occurs between you and one of your contacts, the better your relationship score with them. You can see the relationship score next to whole lists and individual contacts.
Under this, there is a search bar where you can search for your contacts by first name, last name, email address, or anything that you've included in a contact's information when adding them.
On the left side, you'll see your lists. The first one, called "All Contacts," is a full accumulation of all the contacts you've both sent to and uploaded into BombBomb including from the desktop application, mobile, the Quick Send, and even the extension for Gmail.
The contacts in the "Gmail Recipients" and the "Suppression List" lists are not counted in the number of contacts you get in your subscription unless you've sent to those people through BombBomb. The "Gmail Recipients" list grabs every contact you've sent to through the Gmail extension, and the suppression list is a list of people you don't want to send to because they've opted out of receiving your emails.
To make a new list, click in the empty "New List Name" field and type in a name for your list. Click the "Create List" button (or press enter) and your list will be added.
Once you create a new list, you will be taken straight to the list in case you'd like to go ahead and upload contacts. To change the name of a list, click in the field where the list name is, change the list name, then hit the enter key.
To export a list, click the gear wheel icon next to the list name and select "Export." When you do, BombBomb will email you a .csv file of all the contacts you have in that list.
In the gear wheel icon, you have some more options. You can copy your contacts over to another list by clicking "Copy."
When you click "Copy," you'll have the option of copying those contacts to an existing list or copying them to a new list, which you can create right there from the pop-up.
Also from the gear wheel icon, you can delete a list. Just click the icon and select "Delete." This prompts you to type "DELETE" in all capitals in order to complete the task. This is an extra cautionary measure because once a list is deleted, it cannot be retrieved again. This option also deletes the contacts within that list from your account.
If you'd like to manage each contact individually, you can click the checkbox next to a contact's name. When you do this, three options appear at the top of the list; you can segment the selected contact and copy them to another list, you can delete the selected contact, or you can suppress the selected contact.
If you choose to delete the contact, you'll have the option of deleting the contact from that list or deleting the contact from your account entirely.
Segmenting a contact allows you to move a contact to another list. Just click the "Segment Selected" button and you can choose which list you'd like to move the contact over to.
Your last option is to suppress a contact. Only suppress a contact if you know for a fact that you do not want to send them any emails.
When you are in any of your contact lists and you select the checkbox to select all, this selects the first 100 contacts on the list. However, if you have more than 100 contacts in a list, there is an option that appears where you can select all of the contacts on the list.
If you'd like to select more than the first 100 contacts in a list but less than the list in its entirety, you can show more contacts on the page to select. Scroll down to the bottom of your list and click the "Load More..." button and an additional 100 contacts will be loaded on the page. You can do this as many times as you need.
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When it rains…
November 12, 2008 at 9:03 pm 1 comment
A change of scenery here because I'm about to have yet another change of scenery in my life. I've developed this habit of moving around a lot. It's good, because it means I have gotten rid of A LOT of the junk I had been collecting over the years. Cleaning out a storage unit you haven't really opened much in 2 years is really great. I threw away or donated more than half of that crap.
Anyway, this friday I'm moving to Portland, Oregon. I should really say I'm starting the process, since a few boxes will remain at my parents' house in Baltimore. One day, I'll have it all…..
I just got back from Central America last Friday and have been spending the past week organizing myself for this next change. I'm getting really excited about it, and things are falling into place already, from nearly 3,000 miles away. I have several open doors (to borrow a phase from Sarah Palin) right now for housing, and am beginning to explore what job possibilities there might be. It is fun to sit back and see what God delivers!
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Mike Pearson has got yet another AI project on the go – this time he goes behind the Iron Curtain, and presents the MiG-21 family. From his statement on MAIW:"Part 1: 1st/2nd Generation builds, in final beta-test (F/P models)Part 2: 3rd Generation builds, in final modeling/texturing (M/S/bis models)Part 3: Foreign builds and Re-Furbs (India, Romania, Czech, etc.) not counting PRC, in productionPart 4: Foreign builds (People's Republic of China), in productionPart 5: Two-Seaters, in final modeling/texturing (U/UB/US/UM/U-400/U-600). A lot of these are just country-specific, or with avionics changes only. Also, I may just slot these in with other parts of the project, since I have the basic U/UM models nearly done anyways."I am helping in the Beta-testing of these models, and from what I have seen so far, we are definitely onto a winner here!
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Trauma is the leading cause of death between the ages of 1-46 in the United States, and an estimated 30,000 traumatic deaths could be prevented each year if medical care was started sooner. Severe bleeding can become fatal in less than 5 minutes, and airway issues can cause brain death in as little as 6 minutes. Since the average ambulance response time is around 9-15 minutes, a bystander is frequently a victim's best hope for survival. By equipping your campuses with the knowledge and equipment within the Mobilize Rescue System, you can empower your students, staff, and faculty to save lives while EMS is en route.
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Clocks Turned Forward?
Daylight Savings Time begins this weekend and everybody will lose one hour of sleep early Sunday morning. Coincidently, this is National Sleep Awareness Week. Chris Fink is the manager of the Brainerd Lakes Sleep Health Center at the Brainerd Medical Clinic. Chris said on average, most of us need between 7 and 8 hours of sleep a night but there are some of us who function best on 4 hours a night. Others need between 12 and 14 hours everynight to be at our peak. Fink said the Sleep Health Center offers a number of diagnostic programs to find out more about your sleep habits and patterns. Fink added that we spend a third of our lives, sawing logs, and its a shame that we don't invest more in such an important part chunk of time.


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The End (Lost)
|"The End"
|Lost episodes
Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) in the bamboo forest with Vincent by his side. This scene mirrors the first scene of the series.
|Episode nos.
|Season 6
Episodes 17 and 18
|Directed by
|Jack Bender
|Written by
|Damon Lindelof
Carlton Cuse
|Production code(s)
|617 & 618
|Original air date(s)
|May 23, 2010
|Running time
|104 minutes[1]
|Guest appearance(s)
Additionally numerous returning actors are credited to the Main Cast.
"The End" is the series finale of the television series Lost, consisting of the 17th and 18th episodes of season 6. It is also the 120th and 121st episodes overall of the series. It aired on ABC in the United States on May 23, 2010. In the episode, the Man in Black (Terry O'Quinn) executes his plan to destroy the island as Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) tries to stop him once and for all. Meanwhile, the true nature of this season's "flash-sideways" narrative device is revealed.
The finale was written by co-creator/executive producer Damon Lindelof and executive producer Carlton Cuse, and directed by executive producer Jack Bender. Unlike the previous season finales, which were two hours long with advertisements, the series finale was expanded by half an hour, running two and a half hours starting at 9 pm ET, with a retrospective of the past six seasons running for two hours, starting at 7 pm.
"The End" was watched by 13.5 million Americans and received a polarized response from both fans and critics. Reviewers from the Chicago Tribune and IGN called it the best episode of the season and praised its emotion and character. Reviews from the Los Angeles Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer criticized the finale for answering so few of the series' questions. Web site Metacritic gave "The End" a score of 74 out of 100, suggesting "mostly positive reviews", while The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph reported mixed and "lukewarm" reviews. Retrospective reviews have been more negative, with the episode now being remembered by some as one of the worst series finales of all time.[2][3][4][5]
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Desmond gathers many of the islanders at the benefit concert of Daniel Widmore (Jeremy Davies) and DriveShaft. One by one, each protagonist begins to recognize one another based on close contact with a person or object that was important to them throughout their time on the island, receiving flashes of memory. Eventually, most of them remember their past lives and are drawn to the church that was to be the site of Jack's father's funeral. John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) regains the use of his legs after being successfully operated on by Jack. After remembering his time on the island through the flashes of memory, Locke attempts to convince Jack of the truth, but Jack, although also experiencing flashes of memory, resists the revelation. Locke later meets Ben outside the church where Locke forgives him for murdering him. Ben then meets Hurley, who says everyone is inside, motioning him to join them, but Ben elects to stay outside. As Hurley heads back inside, he says to Ben that he was a "real good number two...", to which Ben replies back that Hurley was a "great number one". Kate later encounters Jack, and while her presence causes him to experience more flashes, he continues to resist. She takes him to the church and instructs him to enter through the back door, telling him the others will be waiting for him. In the church, he enters a room where there are symbols not just of Christianity, but also of other faiths such as Hinduism, Judaism, Islam etc. He then encounters his father's coffin. He opens the coffin lid and discovers it to be empty. Christian Shephard (John Terry) then appears behind him. Jack slowly comes to realize that he is dead as well. After an emotional embrace, Christian reassures him that the events leading up to now actually happened and the time he spent with the people on the island was "the most important period" of his life. He explains to Jack that time has no meaning in this place and that they "made" the place to "find each other", independent of the time at which they died. Christian explains that place exists so the Oceanic 815 survivors could "let go" and "move on" together. Jack and Christian go out into the church to meet the others. Everyone is able to see, recognize, and remember everyone else and their lives together. After an emotional reunion, Christian opens the front doors, revealing another bright light that slowly envelops everyone inside the church.
On the island[edit]
Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) and Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia) head to the heart of the island, while James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway) goes after Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick), who was thrown into a well. Arriving there, Sawyer is confronted by Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) and the Man in Black (Terry O'Quinn), who reveals his plan to destroy the island. Sawyer then steals Ben's rifle and reunites with Jack's group. Jack then tells Sawyer that he plans to confront the Man in Black.
At the same time, Desmond, having been rescued by Rose Henderson (L. Scott Caldwell) and Bernard Nadler (Sam Anderson), is confronted by the Man in Black, who has Ben with him. The Man in Black threatens to kill Rose and Bernard if Desmond does not come with him, and he complies, provided the Man in Black leaves the couple unharmed. Meanwhile, Miles Straume (Ken Leung) finds a no longer ageless Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell) in the jungle, and they set out by boat to destroy the Ajira plane which would allow the Man in Black to escape. Along the way, they rescue Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey), who had survived the destruction of the submarine, and they decide to leave the island by using the plane.
On the way to the heart of the Island, Jack's group encounters the Man in Black's group. Jack tells the Man in Black that he is going to kill him, and together with Desmond, they travel to the heart of the Island. Jack tells Sawyer that he believes Desmond can kill the Man in Black because he thinks Jacob brought him back not as bait but as a weapon. Desmond tells Jack that destroying the island and killing the Man in Black do not matter because he is going down to the heart of the island and leaving for another place. Jack and the Man in Black lower Desmond down to the heart of the island and he reaches a chamber, leading to a glowing pool with an elongated stone at its center. Immune to the pool's electromagnetic energy, Desmond manages to remove the giant stone stopper in the center of the pool. However, the light goes out and the pool dries up, setting about the destruction of the island which the Man in Black predicted. A result of Desmond's act is an unforeseen side-effect of making the Man in Black mortal again. During a prolonged fight, the Man in Black stabs Jack in the same spot where his appendix was taken out and almost kills him when Kate shoots the Man in Black in the back, allowing Jack to kick him off the cliff to his death. The island continues to crumble and Jack realizes that he has to restore the light of the heart of the Island. He tells Kate to get Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin) on the plane and leave the island in case he fails. The two profess their love for each other and Kate leaves with Sawyer while Hurley and Ben follow Jack back to the pool.
Kate and Sawyer travel to Hydra Island via Desmond's boat Elizabeth, to the site of the Ajira Airlines plane where Lapidus, Richard and Miles have been quickly trying to make it air-worthy. Kate convinces Claire she can help her raise Aaron and they head for the plane. After Kate, Sawyer and Claire board the plane, Lapidus successfully gets it off the island. Jack leads Hurley and Ben back to the heart of the Island, where Jack convinces an emotional Hurley to take over as the protector of the island, stating Hurley was always meant to be the leader. Hurley and Ben lower Jack to the dry pool where he rescues a barely conscious Desmond. Jack manages to restore the light by replacing the stone plug, and is enveloped in the light that surrounds him. Hurley, in his role as the new protector of the island, does not know what to do. Ben tells him he should help Desmond get home and suggests there may be a better way of protecting the island than how Jacob did. Hurley asks him for help, and Ben is honored. Jack reawakens outside by a river and walks toward the bamboo forest. After Jack collapses to the ground, Vincent approaches him and lies next to him. Jack gazes happily at the sky while watching the Ajira plane fly overhead away from the island. Jack slowly closes his eyes as he dies.
Damon Lindelof, producer, reported on his Twitter page that the finale completed shooting in Hawaii on April 24, 2010, exactly six years after filming was completed on the show's pilot.[7] When interviewed about the finale, Carlton Cuse stated that it had a real, definite resolution instead of "'a snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending," referencing the series finales of St. Elsewhere, Newhart, and The Sopranos, respectively.[8]
Only Fox and O'Quinn's scripts explained the nature of the Sideways world; Lindelof and Cuse explained its meaning to the others while filming the church scene, the last time the cast members were together.[9] They have expressed satisfaction regarding the finale; Daniel Dae Kim stated "If you think about how many pieces the writers had to put together in order to make it fall into place, it's mind-boggling, and they did such a great job... For me it was very satisfying. After I read it, I had to sit for five or 10 minutes, just reflecting and digesting, because it definitely makes an impact."[10] Emerson said:
I have received the finale by degrees. I read the script without the secret scenes, then I read the secret scenes, then I shot the script and each time I'm thinking about 'what does this mean?' When I first read it, the ending wasn't clear to me – but since then it's grown more clear and I have to say, grown more satisfying the more I think about it. I expect a mixture of satisfaction and consternation amongst the viewers when it airs. But once they rewatch it, rethink about it and possibly look at the saga again, gradually they will feel like they have just read a good novel—but you have to chew on it for a while.[6]
Carbonell described the finale as being "all about everyone's resolutions."[11] Cusick said "There are so many walks of life getting together to talk about the show and so many issues to be brought up and that's exactly what the ending will bring up. People will be talking about it for weeks afterwards and that's what the show has always done."[12]
Instead of being displayed along with ABC promotional material (which in most cases would consist of a preview of the next Lost episode), the finale's closing credits are shown alongside various shots of the Oceanic 815 plane wreckage. However, this footage was not added by the producers of the show and is not considered a part of the actual episode. ABC independently decided to add the footage as a soft, nostalgic transition between the final scene and upcoming local news broadcast.[13]
After the finale, a post-finale special of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, titled Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost, aired at 12:05 am, showing three alternate endings, which turned out to be finale spoofs from Survivor, The Sopranos, and Newhart.[14] An ABC source reported that the DVD and Blu-ray release of season six will feature twenty minutes of additional scenes, some of which will have answers to questions, cut from the storyline because of running time.[15]
Returning actors[edit]
All former series regulars who appear (Jeremy Davies, Maggie Grace, Rebecca Mader, Elizabeth Mitchell, Dominic Monaghan, Ian Somerhalder, Cynthia Watros) are restored to the main cast in this episode. Those who do not return are Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Malcolm David Kelley, Harold Perrineau, Michelle Rodriguez, Kiele Sanchez, and Rodrigo Santoro (Rodriguez appeared in the previous episode). Additionally, long-time recurring guest stars Sam Anderson, L. Scott Caldwell, François Chau (incidentally, it's the first time Chau was credited for his appearance), Fionnula Flanagan, John Terry and Sonya Walger are upgraded to the main cast.
Despite being killed off in the twelfth episode of the season and reprising her role only once more in the thirteenth, cast member Zuleikha Robinson received an on-screen, main cast credit for every episode. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje turned down an offer to return because of salary disagreements.[16] Despite the fact that it was earlier reported by Carlton Cuse that Malcolm David Kelley would appear,[17] he only appeared in archive footage.
The episode was initially broadcast on ABC in the eastern United States[18] and CTV in eastern Canada, then simultaneously[19] in the western United States, Western Canada, Fox in Italy and Portugal, Fox and Cuatro in Spain, DiziMax in Turkey and Sky1 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, HOT 3 in Israel at 9 pm Pacific Time on May 23, 2010.[20][21][22] Because of the time difference, its initial Spain simulcast airing was at 6 am (5 am in the UK) BST. In Ireland, RTÉ Two decided to air it on Monday, May 24 at 9 pm rather than its usual Thursday night slot in the interest of fans who did not want the ending to be spoiled.[23] ABC charged up to US$900,000 for a 30-second commercial during the May 23 U.S. broadcast.[24]
Ratings and viewership[edit]
In its original American broadcast, "The End" was viewed by 13.5 million households with a 5.8 rating/15% share in the 18–49 demographic, coming first in every time slot and boosting ABC to the highest rated network on Sunday. The best rated half-hour (the last one) was viewed by 15.31 million viewers and earned a 6.4 rating/19% share in the 18–49 demographic.[25] At least 20.5 million viewers watched at least six minutes of the episode according to ABC.[26] After its first broadcast, the series finale became the 55th highest viewed series finale ever in the United States. Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello called the ratings "Solid, not spectacular". According to Ausiello, even though it was the show's highest rated episode in two years, it was still "far from a record-breaking performance".[27]
In the UK, 584,000 viewers tuned in to see the episode on Sky 1 during a 5 am broadcast. A later broadcast the following night was viewed by approximately 2.5 million.[28] In Canada, viewers averaged over two million with the 7 pm special and the two-hour finale.[29]
Critical reception[edit]
Contemporary reviews[edit]
"The End" provoked an immediate response, and received a strongly polarized reaction from both fans and TV critics alike. Response to the episode was positive and negative in equal measures, both in the United States and internationally. According to the web site Metacritic, "The End" received "generally favorable reviews" with a Metascore – a weighted average based on the impressions of 31 critical reviews – of 74 out of 100.[30] Of the most positive reviews, IGN writer Chris Carbot gave the episode a score of 10/10, describing it as "one of the most enthralling, entertaining and satisfying conclusions [he] could have hoped for."[31] Eric Deggans of the St. Petersburg Times also gave "The End" a perfect score, calling it "emotional, funny [and] expertly measured".[32] Robert Bianco of USA Today rated the finale as perfect as well, stating that it could "stand with the best any series has produced".[33] James Poniewozik of Time also praised "The End", calling it "full of heart and commitment";[34] Zap2it's Ryan McGee described the episode as "a masterpiece."[35] Jason Hughes of TV Squad felt that "as finales go, 'The End' will definitely go down as one of the more satisfying ones".[36] Emily VanDerWerff of the Los Angeles Times felt that the episode "provides character payoffs we've been waiting for. ... The important thing ... is not answers. It's resolution. And 'Lost' provided that in spades."[37] Richard Roeper gave the episode an A+ rating, calling it a "great finale to one of the best TV shows of all time."[38]
Not all critics were satisfied with the episode: the British newspapers The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph both reported that "The End" received negative reviews and disappointed its viewers.[39][40] Alan Sepinwall of Star-Ledger was less enthusiastic about the finale and stated that he didn't consider the episode to be "wholly satisfying, either as closure for this season or the series", highlighting the episode's "narrative dead ends" as part of the reason.[41] Mike Hale of The New York Times gave "The End" a mixed review, as the episode showed that the series was "shaky on the big picture".[42] Matthew Gilbert of the Boston Globe also gave the episode a mixed review, citing some of the episode's "quite hokey" metaphors.[43] David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun gave the episode a highly negative review, describing the final scenes as "wimpy, phony, quasi-religious, white-light [and] huggy-bear". He added: "It looked like [Jack] was walking into a Hollywood wrap party without food or music – just a bunch of actors grinning idiotically for 10 minutes and hugging one another."[44] Max Read of Gawker was also particularly scathing, calling the finale "incredibly dumb" and remarking that "it ended in the worst way possible".[45] Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times gave the episode 1½ stars out of 5, saying that many fans would wish "for a time slip that would give them those 2½ hours and possibly six seasons back".[46] M.L. House of TV Fanatic felt "bored" and "especially disappointed" by the finale, and that the show's resolution was "overarching".[47] Peter Mucha of The Philadelphia Inquirer also spoke negatively of the finale, calling the series "one of TV's longest, lamest cons."[48] Laura Miller of Salon.com suggested that the finale episode was a failure because of its fan base, calling the series "the quintessential example of a pop masterpiece ruined by its own fans."[49]
Outside the US, the episode also prompted a polarized response. The BBC's Entertainment reporter Kev Geoghegan felt that the episode was "emotionally satisfying" and that "the show was wrapped up rather nicely".[50] Michael Deacon in The Daily Telegraph was "beatifically surprised" at the "great" ending.[51] Shane Hegarty in The Irish Times felt that the final scene was "somewhat of a letdown", comparing it to the recent similar ending of Ashes to Ashes and contrasting it with the last ever episode of The Sopranos. He remarked: "[The Sopranos] was not about mystery, but its final scene was so inscrutable that fans are still squinting in an effort to figure it out. Lost's finale, though, was not too obtuse."[52] Some reviewers ended puzzled about the meaning of Lost. Tim Teeman in The Times referred to "a global scratching of heads" in his review but concluded "The questions are ceaseless: it may be healthier, as one online fan put it, 'to just accept it and move on'".[53] Steve Busfield and Richard Vine of The Guardian spoke positively about the episode, saying that the series would "continue to baffle, infuriate and delight fans for an eternity".[39] Conversely, the TV critic Charlie Brooker, also writing for The Guardian, remarked that "The End"'s plot "made less sense than a milk hammock",[54] while the comedian Danny Baker called the episode "an outrage".[5]
Reflective reviews[edit]
Retrospective reviews from critics have been more negative. Chris E. Hayner of Zap2It named "The End" as the number one worst series finale, calling it "the king of disappointing series finales".[2] Indiewire similarly branded the finale as the number one worst ever, criticizing it for being "unbelievably long" and having a "decided lack of dramatic tension and any real thrills".[3] Discussing the final season as a whole, Indiewire described season six as "directionless" and "largely a 'miss'".[3] Writing for MTV in 2015, Josh Wigler called the episode "the finale that sucks", and said that it would live on "as the model for how NOT to finish your show".[55] Daniel D'Addario, writing for Salon.com, listed "The End" as one of the "worst finales ever", describing the series as "a show whose twists and turns didn't always seem to be undertaken by people who knew what they were doing."[4]
The resolution of the flash-sideways storyline as being a form of purgatory received considerable criticism: writing for Rolling Stone in May 2015, Sean Collins named "The End" as one of the worst series finales, and described the flash-sideways plot point as "corny". Collins felt that "this short-sighted decision [made] the series hard to happily revisit", and that the episode as a whole had "balked".[56] Brian Moylan of The Guardian felt that the finale had failed to fulfill some of the writers' promises, specifically the purgatory storyline. Moylan believed that the writers had set up mysteries that they "had no intention of answering".[57] Danny Walker of the Daily Mirror listed the episode as one of the seven worst TV series finales, saying that it "left viewers with even more unanswered questions".[5] Maddie Crum of The Huffington Post selected "The End" as her choice for the most disappointing series finale of all time, saying that it was "a complete stock ending" with "cheap pathos plays".[58] In 2019, Kelly Lawler of USA Today named the episode the third worst series finale, describing the ending as "easy" and "schmaltzy".[59]
Writing in September 2014, Tom Eames of Digital Spy defended the finale, explaining that, although "divisive and controversial", it was "a beautiful piece of television". He stated: "It had returning characters, tears, action, romance and as happy an ending as possible for a show like Lost."[60] Cory Barker of TV.com also retrospectively reviewed the episode positively, naming it one of his all-time favorite series finales, and describing it as "emotionally satisfying" and "jam-packed with amazing moments".[61] Entertainment Weekly listed "The End" as the seventh best series finale ever, describing it as "a high-energy epic romp".[62] Reception from audiences continues to be mixed: as of April 2014[update], an ongoing poll for E! states that 53.87% of the audience loathed the finale, while the remaining 46.13% loved it.[63]
The episode was nominated in eight categories for the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, the most Emmy nominations for a Lost episode. The episode was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards in the categories of Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.[64] For the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, "The End" won for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series, while other nominations included Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series, Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score).
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