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This is my new background pic on my NEW Blackberry. And I am not all zen & shit with new technology devices...thank goodness no one has called me...I can't figure out how to answer it?
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From ocean to sky
Summer and fall
I have been there though it all
From laughing and crying
To pain that comes easy
From shades of gray meaning
That turn out so sweetly
I wonder when
I wonder what I'll find...
I look up to the sun
It only hurts my eyes
Maybe it's the answer
I've been wanting in disguise
The more you are with me
The more that I'm alone
I don't need the answer I already know
Subtle and grace
Desperate for change
My hand moves away
Melt dry eyes for days
Something's not right
Smiles and tantrums
Hit the ground running
It's all over and been done
I wonder when
I wonder I'll find...
I look up to the sun
It only hurts my eyes
Maybe it's the answer
I've been wanting in disguise
The more you are with me
The more that I'm alone
I don't need the answer I already know
What happens next?
We'll stop and go
The promises has already run cold
So now you know
So now you know
I look up to the sun
It only hurts my eyes
Maybe it's the answer
I've been wanting in disguise
The more you are with me
The more that I'm alone
I don't need the answer
The answer
I look up to the sun
It only hurts my eyes
Maybe it's the answer
I've been wanting in disguise
The more you are with me
The more that I'm alone
I don't need the answer I already know
The question:
New Zealand is in the unenviable position of having one of the highest drowning rates per capita in the OECD, approximately twice that of Australia. Why are there far fewer drownings (per capita) in Australia than in New Zealand?
Statue of a Victorious Youth, 300-100 B.C.E, Getty Villa. This statue made of bronze inlaid with copper, depicting an Olympic winner wearing an Olive wreath was found submerged in international waters off the Adriatic coast.
Mattel’s answer to Kenner’s mega hit Six Million Dollar Man series, the Ultimate Man of Adventure, Pulsar! He has fantastic working lungs and heart with blood circulation plus opening face to reveal a holographic mission disc. To maintain Pulsar, Mattel came up with this Life Systems Centre, the counterpart to Kenner's SMDM Bionic Transport and Repair Station, which was also released in 1977 and it is packed with gimmicks and play-ability. Sadly though the entire Pulsar series is Pulsar himself, his nemesis, the Ultimate Enemy, Hypnos and this Life Systems Centre, just three only. Sorry it did not go well for they are really wonderful toys... When it comes to word "Pulsar" people would most likely think Nissan Pulsar!
Within about 10 minutes of posting the above picture of Aaron's toy whale next to the Yin Yang symbol on a Lost forum, with my explanation of Black vs White, I was banned from the forum.
This Yin Yang Whale is pulled out of Claire's bag by Kate in "What Kate Does"
Season 6, Episode 2, 10 minutes in.
Many of my posts were deleted on Lost forums that got too close to the truth. But I just found a lot of my old archived forum posts. As I come across these posts that got me banned from Lost forums, I will copy and paste them over here.
Now you will be able to read my infamous posts that the Lost producers don't want you to see!
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In regards to the producers saying in TV and magazine interviews that John is the smoke monster and the Man in Black, another forum member says...
"Are we really to believe the producers would give us the answer to such and intricate question in the first episode of the season, absolutely not."
Finally someone that understands this!
In fact, the "writers" and actors are always saying they can't answer questions, but for the past few months have been telling everyone that he is no longer playing John Locke, and suggesting that he may be playing the man in black. That should send up RED FLAGS to everyone! Why try so hard to keep information from leaking, and then spread THIS "spoiler" information, unless it is MIS-information.
Don't listen to anything that Damon and Carlton say! They will never give you any REAL spoilers about what is happening, everything they say is mis-information.
Jeremy was lucky the bullet bounced off his knife or buckle, and quickly took cover in a Shen door behind the pillar, as the "smoke monster" arrived.
Another forum member posts:
"I'm sorry you had to see that side of me"...this would lead us to believe Flocke/MIB is smokey."
He only wanted to lead BEN to think he was the "smoke monster". Why? Because if Ben knew he was only human, Ben might try to kill him. If Ben thinks he is an invincible monster that can't be killed, then Ben won't bother trying, and Jeremy can get back to business at hand.
From another forum member:
"ash circles and were scurrying when they found out Jacob had died....but hasn't smokey lived inside the temple walls?"
We also saw Kate walk ahead of the rest of them through the tunnel leading to the temple and walk right through to the other polarity reality. (flash sideways sfx) What polarity is the "smoke monster" and from which polarity is the ash?
Ben walked towards the opening the smoke monster left (and also came from) and the director made sure to show you Ben turning around to see that "John" then came out of the secret room from BEHIND him. It would be easy to skip special morphing effects but still have "John" walk out of the door right in front of Ben, right?
They are SHOWING you here, and in other scenes, that John is NOT the smoke monster.
If bullets really could bounce off of him, he wouldn't have had to run away and hide as he did! He could have stood there like superman.
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This plane wasn't big enough to make it from Sydney to LAX. They probably figured, they didn't need to do the entire bit over again, just the part where Jack tries to save Charlie and fails. But Jack spilled one of his bottles and wasn't as intoxicated as last time, so even though they took his pen and Cindy wouldn't give him anything, he managed to save Charlie anyway with his hands. Charlie seems as pissed having to go through it all over again as Eloise was when Desmond wouldn't do what he was supposed to. Or Jeremy when he tells Jack at the radio tower "Your not supposed to do this!"
Rose almost blew it when trying to cover for Desmond when she said they were sleeping.
Another important key piece of information from season one:
TOM: (to Michael) "Did the bullet bounce off your skull, or did the gun just jam on you?"
Michael couldn't die, just as the bullet bounced off of Jeremy in the statue.
Did this mean Michael was the smoke monster because he couldn't be killed? Of course not.
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In this season, we have already seen two slightly different versions of Kate hijacking the Taxi and heard two different versions of Ford leaving the Temple. One where he shoots someone on the way out, and one where he doesn't. The gun he uses is a different gun in the scene where he leaves and doesn't shoot anyone.
ALDO: So what's your strategy for bringing your boyfriend back - I hope you got one because he shot a guy on his way out.
And yet Ford did NOT shoot someone on the way out in the reality WE saw, so why would he say that he did?
LENNON: He swallowed it?
DOGEN: Yes.
And yet Jack did NOT swallow it. So why would he answer "YES" ?
In one reality, Dogen's hand is not healed, he wears a bandage on it. In another reality, Sayid's bullet wound is healing fast.
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The Loophole:
You can't kill one of them, and you can't tell someone else to kill them. That's the rules.
A loophole would be if you got someone ELSE to kill, because they really wanted to kill, the way "John" tricked Ben into wanting to kill Jacob.
Ben thought that Widmore changed the rules by telling Keamy to kill Alex, but it was actually Ben that told Keamy to kill Alex. And Keamy that wanted to do it, not Widmore.
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I have seen two different Jacobs so far, so just because one is dead, doesn't mean the other is.
The moment someone other than Hugo can see him, that will probably be the other Jacob.
Note: this ended up exactly how the producers showed it, with other characters besides Hugo being able to see the other Jacob at the campfire.
While John Locke exited the island at the antipode point in Tunisia, Jeremy Bentham stayed on the island and has been showing Claire how to sharpen axe blades, shoot guns, sew up wounds, etc. for the past 3 years.
In one Temple, they have Aaron. In the other Temple, they do not.
You need to pay attention to the flash-sideways sound effects of the plane crashing, or there is no way you can follow what is happening. They don't flash sideways EVERY time the scene changes from on island to off island, so it is real important you keep track of WHEN they play this sound effect, so you know which reality you are watching both on and off island.
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In one reality, Widmore fakes the crash, but in the other, he spends a lot of money to go down and acquire the black box of the real crash.
In ONE reality, Widmore put it there. But in another reality, it is NOT a fake, it is the real Oceanic with the real passengers.
Do remember that Daniel was crying and really upset, (not over complete strangers, but passengers he KNEW were on that plane) the pilot didn't have a wedding ring on, Jack told us he had pilot training, and Jack told Sun about why he isn't wearing a wedding ring and that it is in his sock drawer at home.
And do note that the Flash Sideways sound effects is of a plane going down.
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People who only watched each episode ONCE, in order, will NEVER understand what is going on.
For instance, of what did we care in season one that Charlie goes to Sydney to tell his brother that they got a gig to open up for MEAT COAT in LA?
But in season 6, we see Jack's son David with a poster of MEAT COAT on his wall, and listening to DRIVE SHAFT in his headphones when he tells Jack that Jack wouldn't know who they are.
You will note that the audio was scrambled so we couldn't actually hear it was Drive Shaft, but if it wasn't, there would have been NO REASON to scramble the audio to the viewer.
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When Claire mentioned being tortured, the other guy from the Temple said she wasn't remembering it right. (that other guy remembers it different, because it DID happen different in the other reality)
So while in ONE reality, she was burned there, in the other she wasn't.
Just as in ONE reality, Ben killed Jacob, but in the other, he didn't.
In one reality, Ben kept his promise to Alex, to keep it between them what Alex told Ben about the Principal's affair.
They don't put those "flash sideways" sounds in there for nothing.
Even in Season One, when Claire is attacked and has needles put in her, for which Jack thinks she is just making it up, because there are no needle marks on her, if you watch, you will see her shirt change from black to white, and only ONE version of her got stuck with the needles, not the other version of her. But her mind was able to experience what her other self was going through.
It makes perfect sense that she doesn't have that burn mark in one reality, just as she didn't have needle marks in one reality.
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Claire once again lets us know, by telling Jack, she has been with "John" since Jack left the island.
"John" tells Jack that John Locke's dead body needed to be brought to the island before he could take his form.
So then you tell me WHO Claire was with, if John Locke's body wasn't yet brought back to the island?
See the problem? See the CONTRADICTION in the show itself?
"John" is lying to Jack, his motive being, he LIKES that they think he is a smoke monster. That way, they will fear him and think they can't hurt or kill him, and thus not try to hurt or kill him.
Claire was with "John" for the 3 years they were off the island! Years BEFORE John's body was brought back to the island! ONE version of John on the island teaching Claire how to sharpen axes and hunt, while ANOTHER version of John is off the island being killed by Ben.
Ever since LAST season, there has been tons of proof that show "John" can not be the "MIB" or the Smoke Monster.
Did you notice towards the end of the episode prior to this one, that "John" was very thirsty and took a drink of WATER from that green US army canteen? Or that Micheal pointed to Hugo where "John Locke" was, and didn't say anything about him being dead, or warning Hugo to stay away from him? Why wouldn't Micheal's spirit tell Hugo that it wasn't really "John Locke" but it was a smoke monster? Because he was NOT a smoke monster.
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Claire is only crazy on the dark side, and more normal on the light side.
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He made a DEAL with Ricardo and then when Ricardo wanted out of the deal, this "Man in Black" didn't hold him to it. Instead, he said that he understands that Jacob can make a convincing argument, and said that the offer would always stand, if he ever changed his mind.
Doesn't sound like very EVIL actions, when the other guy broke the agreement they had, does it?
Remember what Frank Lapidus said. When ever someone tells you they are "the good guys"...
In any war, the government of your own country will try to tell you that they are the good guys.
The government of which side tell's it's people it are the "bad guys"? NEITHER.
We have seen the same thing here in LOST. Everyone says THEY are the good guys.
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Sayid taught us in the previous episode that John can't tell if someone is lying to him. (He doesn't have special mind reading powers or anything) He couldn't tell that Sayid lied to him about killing Desmond.
Previous seasons have shown us that John knows when things are going to happen (like it will start to rain, seconds after he says it will) because he has lived through all of this before. Same as others like Eloise, Alex, Desmond, etc.
He knew everyone would not die on the sub, probably the same way he knew (while carving that stick recently) that they would just sit at their camp and wait, and Jack and company would come to them. Because that is always the way it happens.
The cheap homemade leg cuff, made from airplane wreckage by Illana and put around Ben's leg, always ends up breaking off at that exact moment too. Right at the moment he points down for Ben to look at it.
John didn't magically make it pop off, just as he didn't magically make it rain on command in previous seasons either.
Keep in mind this season started on Ground Hog Day.
John is like Bill Murray's character. Each time, he uses more knowledge of what he seen happen last time around, to use that to his advantage.
He also remembers each time the Smoke Monster appears too. Gee if one knew that, one could actually trick others into believing that he was the Smoke Monster.
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Daniel isn't going to be sad and cry about some strangers he doesn't know on a plane crash wreckage he sees on TV. He is crying, because part of his mind knows those people, but the other part doesn't. Just like Jack is confused at his appendix scar and when he had it removed, because part of his mind is linking to the other reality where he had it out on the island as an adult. People kept saying that when the flash forward showed him taking a shower and he didn't have that scar anymore, that it was a "production error" well, this season proved that it was NOT a production error. In fact, one of the characters this season shares the same last name as the Script Supervisor of the program, who keeps a large bible to make sure there are no continuity errors. And how anyone can suggest that it could be an ERROR or MISTAKE or OVERSIGHT that Hugo and Jame's shirts have been changing color and getting darker all season long, is just ABSURD.
In a news story, it was asked if they would ever consider publishing the continuity log book after the series is over, and the answer was no, because they want some mystery to remain.
Well, that PROVES they are not continuity errors! Because unless that book shows PROOF of intentional changing colors of shirts, or changing the turntable in the hatch, then why would publishing it reveal any mystery?
It would be a very BORING book to read, UNLESS... It gives every intentional change of every prop, costume, and everything else.
There have to be more than 2 realities/timelines, because we have photographic PROOF of Sun and Jin's wedding with Sun in THREE different dresses for her wedding. But keep in mind that we know some characters have been through this more than once, so you would have to add another 2 realities, at least, to each of the time loops, and that brings a lot more differences to account for.
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Why would the person in charge of costumes, get the same style shirt for James in 3 different colors? You always have more than one, in case one gets lost or damaged, but they would all be the SAME COLOR!
One of the characters on the series was even named AFTER the script supervisor (in charge of CONTINUITY) his name is Gregg Nations. No such production, in all of recorded history, has ever had this many production errors, and it is the job of Gregg Nations to make sure there AREN'T ANY continuity errors in LOST. If these were production errors, then he would have been fired years ago. He would also never be able to get another job in the industry ever again!
And you only seen the PICTURE evidence I posted. Every time they have shown the same scene more than once, the DIALOG has been different too!
Now that can NOT be a mistake, because the text on the scripts doesn't CHANGE by accident or by magic!
Also.. Say the script supervisor, who's job it is to watch every scene being filmed and make sure there are no continuity errors, misses one. And say the actors and crew and director all missed it too. Well now it goes to post production and the director usually supervises there too, and it could be caught there, and redone.
Watch the scene in Widmore's office this season with the scale painting again. Note EVERY LAMP in the room and EVERY ITEM on his desk! Things are moving and disappearing like CRAZY in that one short scene! Go watch it and be amazed! No one can make that many mistakes, there must be a dozen alone in that one scene! See how many you can count up!
If you want to go back and look at the best example of alternate realities being shown, probably the best example would be from season 5 where they show the exact same incident, played out in each reality:
5.05 THIS PLACE IS DEATH -
Sayid: And if I see you or him again, it'll be extremely unpleasant for all of us"
5.10 HE'S OUR YOU -
Sayid: And if I see you again, it'll be extremely unpleasant for us both"
In one reality, Sayid makes the threat to both Ben and Jack, in the other, he is only angry at Ben.
In 3.08, is the most obvious time, back when Desmond saw Charlie singing and playing on the street, knowing it was going to rain, then it rained, and Charlie didn't get to save Nadia, because Desmond was speaking to him.
In 3.21, when it starts to rain, Desmond isn't there to distract Charlie, so Charlie hears Nadia's call for help in the alley and saves her.
But since Desmond remembers he was there before and that it was going to rain, this means there is at least a third variation of this same scene, that was never shown to us, that Desmond remembers living through.
1.05 - Charlie tells Jack that he can't swim.
In a later episode, he tells Jack he is an excellent swimmer and wants to volunteer to swim down to the looking glass station.
Once again, we have been watching alternate realities all along. In one, Charlie doesn't know how to swim, in the other he does.
These are NOT production or continuity errors, they are written into the script that way.
Watch the scene with Kate getting into the airport Taxi in "LA X Part 2" and then watch the same event in the other reality in "What Kate Does" Note the differences.
Anytime they show you a scene you have already seen in a previous episode, you will want to compare them both back to back to see the differences.
The only reason they show a scene we already seen AGAIN, is to show how it happened in another reality.
Why else, with so little time left, would they waste valuable episode time showing us a scene we already saw in a previous episode?
In the scene of Hugo and John in the parking lot, Hugo's lines were about him parking in the handicap space, but the scene they showed, he wasn't in the handicap space.
This is one way of showing what happened in both realities, by only showing the scene once. The video shows one reality, and what they said, is what took place in the other reality.
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I explain this elsewhere in more detail, but there are two main realities in which one is slightly ahead in time from the other. Thus why people can only make decisions one way, because they can't link to the other half of their minds which give them better judgment (together), because that version of their minds are doing different events and tasks. They are out of sync. Someone is trying to get both sides back in sync.
On the dark side reality, everyone can only have the attitude: "don't tell me what I can't do!" and always just want to do the opposite of whatever anyone tells them. In the light side reality, the same people "don't have what it takes" and just go along with what anyone tells them and never argue.
The problem comes when one of them has already made a decision and took a path, and the other version wants to keep doing things differently, making it hard for the universe to course correct. Thus why our "time police" keep trying to get them to do things differently, only they really aren't allowed to tell them what to do, the characters have to WANT to do it themselves. That's the rules.
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Most any of them this season (other than ones like Ab Aeterno) which include the "whoosh" with the plane engine sound in it that separates light and dark realities.
Dr Linus is a perfect example, because in one reality he keeps his promise to Alex and in the other he doesn't. On one side he tries to blackmail the principal, and in the other side he went to speak to the school board instead. If you can't see that in the off island scenes in that episode, there were two completely different Bens and two completely different versions of the same story taking place, then what you saw most likely didn't make any sense at all to you.
In one, all he cares about is power, and in the other, he cares about others. He even TELLS US THIS via clues in his history lesson he teaches the students, which is really more of a clue for the viewer, than a history lesson for students.
When he writes ELBA on the chalkboard, it can be seen how it is written DIFFERENT in both realities.
Happily Ever After and Everybody Loves Hugo are a perfect matched set to see this in action too.
Because at the very end of the first one, you end up in the dark side reality, where you can see the sinister look in Desmond's face as he wants a list of the other passengers of the plane from his driver, and we KNOW it is because he wants to do to them what Charlie did to him!
But the next episode, each time we see him meeting one of the other passengers, it always occurs on the LIGHT side reality. (once again, each episode starts in the light side, REGARDLESS if the scene is on or off island, and each time you hear the Flash Sideways SFX, you toggle back and forth between light and dark realities.)
In Happily Ever After, almost the ENTIRE EPISODE is on the light side, and they never play the Flash Sideways SFX until the very end. THEN you hear the SFX and the scene is at the stadium.
In Everybody Loves Hugo, we hear the Flash Sideways SFX 9 times. When Desmond hits John with his car, guess which side that takes place in? The DARK side reality. Which makes perfect sense, because it is in that reality that in the last episode, we could read in Desmond's face that he was going to go and try to bring each of the passengers to a near death experience, even BEFORE we saw the next episode!
But then he DIDN'T do that at all, he ended up playing cupid instead! But that is because that is what he did on the LIGHT side.
Thus why you need to watch each episode twice, and the second time, use pen and paper to log the episode and MARK off the paragraphs to light and dark sides. Remember, each episode STARTS in the light side, and commercial breaks never count for any changes, when you come back from commercial, you are still on the same side you were before the break. Because there was no Flash Sideways SFX.
Again, ask yourself, WHY THE HELL DID THEY PUT THESE SOUND EFFECTS IN THESE EPISODES IF THEY WERE NOT SO IMPORTANT!
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It does start out where the Flash Sideways are heard between island and off island, so that the first two off island scenes are on the dark side. But After the on island scene where Ben says to Lapidus, "The island still got you in the end, didn't it?" there is a commercial break. When we come back from the commercial break we are OFF island again, but there was NO WHOOSH, so we are now seeing the FIRST time that episode of the OFF island scene in the LIGHT reality side.
This is where Ben promises to Alex that he will keep what she told him between them, and that a promise is a promise. Right after he says that, WHOOSH SFX, we are on the island in the DARK reality. Then there is another commercial break, and after the commercial, we are OFF island again, but this is still the DARK reality, there was no WHOOSH separating it. So when LIGHT Ben has Artzt break into the principal's emails for him, he is not breaking his promise to Alex, because this is the OTHER side, this is DARK side Ben.
In fact, the only OTHER scene that is OFF island that is LIGHT reality again, is when Ben tells Alex he didn't have anything to do with the principal's letter of recommendation for her. He also tells Artzt that he didn't do it. Ben is telling the truth.
Miles also had no way in hell enough time to dig up those diamonds if everything you see this episode on island was one linear reality. He had only 3 minutes. Also, in one reality, James threw the diamonds out LOOSE over the bodies before they were buried, it would take many long hours to find them.
This episode ONLY makes sense, when you separate the two LIGHT and DARK realities of BOTH on AND off island with the flash sideways. Any why else would the sound effects be there if they had no purpose? They wouldn't.
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The Flash Sideways SFX are very obvious in The Last Recruit, so really no reason for me to take the time to explain every scene, they are where they are. I will only mention ONE of them, because ONE of them was sort of faint, and some people might have missed it.
It is after James trips Sayid at the back door with the garden hose, is handcuffed and arrested. There is a Flash Sideways between that, and going back on island where Jack is talking to Claire. Of course, if you MISS that, then the rest of the episode will be off, you will think you are on the wrong sides, both on and off island.
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Yes he told Artzt he didn't do it, in the LIGHT side, but he DID do it in the DARK side.
I suspect in the ending we saw, which was the LIGHT side, he had gone to the school board (under more of the suggestion from John at the beginning of the story) and went through the LEGAL channels, and the school board came to some sort of a compromise in which he got to have his history club back, because if his blackmail effort didn't work, why and how did he get to have his history club back?
See?
One Ben doesn't seem very enthusiastic to dig that grave, but the other Ben is really into the digging and gets pretty deep. Yes, they showed them in that order, so one can think the hole just got deeper because more a period of time went by, but that is what they do with everything. If they showed the OTHER Ben digging a pretty good sized hole, and then later showed the Ben with a hole hardly two inches deep, then you would have a better time believing me, right? But they showed it in the order they did, so that it sort of almost makes sense as a THIRD story, by editing bits and pieces of the two stories together like that.
Picture it this way....
One side's motto is: "Don't tell me what I can't do!" and no matter what you try to tell that person, or how you try to convince them, they will always want to do the exact opposite, because that is all they can ever want to do.
The other side's motto is: "I don't have what it takes" and no matter what you tell that person, they will be agreeable and do whatever you tell them, without argument. Because that is all they can ever want to do.
There is no "freewill" or rational decision making so long as your brain or soul is split up Yin vs Yang, in slightly different times, so that the mind can never sync up and make a rational decision. Each part is stuck in the same situations, from minutes, to even days apart, so each half always wants to do the opposite decision in each of those same exact situations.
We saw John not being able to decide which color swatch to choose, whatever Hellen wants, that is what he wants. But we didn't get to see the other John. In that other reality, whatever Hellen wants, he would choose the exact opposite color, and wouldn't budge on that decision.
Most of this series, Jack has been a real stubborn ass, and always arguing and wanting to do things just to argue and be difficult. This season, we finally get to see the OTHER Jack, who can't make decisions, and just wants to do whatever Hugo tells him to do.
One would instantly guess that the goal of this story is to get both realities back in SYNC, so that the mind can view each situation and incident at exactly the same time, and people would be able to use BOTH their Yin and Yang to come to a more BALANCED way of decision making.
Yes, the producers have edited the two realities together, back and forth, to try and give you a rounded out view and actually create something that more resembles what reality would resemble if the problem this whole story is about, didn't happen.
Let's suppose you argue that the hole got deeper from one Ben, because time had gone by. But you can never explain how Miles could dig up and find all those loose strewn about diamonds in that grave, in only 3 minutes time.
THAT is the proof that what I say is correct. Because what I say, ends up having a way to make that FIT, whereas, saying my way is wrong, and things are just happening in one time line off island, and one time line on island, you have a BIG IMPOSSIBLE problem trying to explain how Miles got those diamonds.
Interesting too that they were in a sack, when we saw James thrown them in that grave all loose.
Seems that in the OTHER reality, James didn't throw them in loose like that, and that in the other reality, Ben and Illana had talked for a lot longer than 3 minutes, giving Miles enough time to dig and find that sack of diamonds.
And I can't repeat it enough.. But each time you hear the flash sideways SFX, if you mark each side LIGHT and DARK as they alternate, you see that things that would HAVE to be in opposite realities ARE!
In other words, I can watch an episode, without paying attention to the flash sideways, and GUESS which scene is taking place in which reality. Then when I watch the episode again, the sides I guessed each would be on, MATCH UP PERFECTLY to the sides divided by the flash sideways sfx. In EVERY episode this season.
So to say that is coincidence is just crazy. I obviously discovered something that is consistent, to the point I can predict it, and then double check with pen and paper, and it comes out EXACTLY as it should, each time.
When such an experiment can be repeated over and over again with 100% same results, then scientists tend to stop considering it a "theory" and safely start to consider it a "fact".
Here is the problem with REAL LIFE...
No matter what one finds to be a fact with rational logical reasoning, if an authority figure tells the masses it is wrong and gives a lie as the official story, then MOST people will believe the lie.
There were always a small minority of people like me, that disagreed with authority figures throughout time. Big respectable authority figures like these...
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
(Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
(Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
(Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)
"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." (Western Union internal memo, 1876)
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
(Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces during the closing months of World War I, 1918)
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
(David Sarnoff's associates, in response to his urgings for investment in radio in the 1920's)
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
(New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work, 1921)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
(Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
(Charles H. Duell, commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899)
In our own lifetimes, we were told that butter was not good for us, and that margarine with hydrogenated oils were much healthier! Chocolate was not good for us either, and now it is sold in every health food store!
Now they tell you sugar is bad, and that Aspartame and Sucralose (not sucrose, check spelling difference) are completely safe and much healthier than Sugar.
The authority figures (writers/producers) will tell you something, such as something was really just a "production error" while I will tell you it most certainly was NOT a production error and why it would be IMPOSSIBLE for it to be so, and yet who will most people believe?
Me, or the producers and writers of the show?
Because people tend not to THINK or REASON, they just care about what the "authority figure" said, and then just take it on blind faith!
People are trained from school on wards, not to THINK, but to react in the way that gives the best reward. Be it better grades in school for selecting the answers and responses the "teachers" will give a higher grade for, rather than the answer that makes the most sense and results in a failing grade or paper.
I retained my ability to think and reason. Thus why I can easily figure out what is going on in Lost better than most people, because I don't let anything the producers or writers say, influence what my own eyes and ears show me.
In fact, since they are so secretive in filming episodes and letting information out, when they DO volunteer any information, a wise person always questions the MOTIVE of WHY would they volunteer such information or spoiler!
Most likely, because it is FALSE information meant to deceive and throw you farther away from the truth.
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You replied to Guest
Thank you.
It makes you wonder why I was suddenly, without reason or cause, prevented from posting these same theories on that other site you found, doesn't it?
Nothing assures you are on the right track to the truth better than suddenly being prevented from speaking it.
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Lindelof is recently quoted on this website saying: "There might, possibly, be some questions that we, as storytellers, will answer in the body of the show that might not be appearing in the finale."
This I knew years ago. Because that is how I already have many answers that most people don't. I have always said that all the MAJOR spoilers are back in the previous seasons and episodes. If you don't like spoilers, then do NOT go back and watch any former episodes.
A magician can make the illusion of having an object appear or disappear right in front of your eyes.
And the reason most magicians will never show you the same trick again, or more than twice tops, is because once you know what is going to happen, the NEXT time you watch the trick, you are looking elsewhere and will see how it is done.
Every episode of LOST has a similar effect, in that your attention is directed in one place, while all sorts of other things are being revealed that are not picked up by your conscious mind the first time you watch them. You MUST watch any episode more than once, or you are missing MOST of the information contained in it.
The "writers" have said that they intend to go into hiding after the series is over. This is not something you say or feel you need to do, unless you have INTENT to make the viewers angry. Because if you FEAR the viewers are going to be angry, then you can choose NOT to end the series in that way.
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Someone suggested I edit together only scenes from each side and produce two completely different stories from them, putting each side only in it's own story, however, they don't SHOW everything from each side, so it isn't possible to do this, unless one had access to the other footage that was never aired or released. The show was set up to give enough clues so that we can FIGURE OUT what happens in those scenes, even if they are never shown.
For example, the scene where Hugo parks his Yellow Hummer in the handicap parking space, because the sign said "Reserved" and they told him they were going to reserve a spot for him to park.
We never got to SEE that scene to date, but we KNOW it happened in the other reality. That is also why John can't get his remote controlled ramp to smash into Hugo's car, because that isn't how it happened, and the cars were not in those positions on the other side. The universe course corrects by not allowing that ramp to hit Hugo's vehicle.
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Why such an elaborate large wooden stairway built going up to the Ajira on the island? Wouldn't a simple rope ladder have sufficed?
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Kate said "I don't want to be Eve."
She also did NOT say "I don't want to end up LIKE Eve." she said she didn't want to BE Eve, implying that she already was.
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These two are not the "Adam and Eve" skeletons. The clothes on the Adam and Eve skeletons are not that old, and Adam and Eve were not laid side by side.
When you walk through the Shen door at the Temple, you come out in the reality in which the bodies are side by side, a lighthouse exists and Shannon's inhaler was found at the cave. (because in that side she DID live at the "rape caves" and they DID find her inhaler)
They never show if Jack puts the rocks back, or if he kept them.
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The light can be seen when Ben and John each turn the wheel.
Another thing to keep in mind, the hole was not widened and the wheel not yet attached when the well was filled in.
Yet we have seen the wheel attached and operational.
Either someone digs back down there again and completes the project, or in one reality it gets built, and in another reality it does not get built.
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If John was the smoke monster, why didn't he turn into the smoke monster instead of being beaten to death by Jack?
And why does John's dead human body remain at the bottom of that cliff?
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The "man in black" told Jacob he wanted to kill him, Jacob already knew this and told him "well when you do, I'll BE RIGHT HERE." (at the statue) so he KNEW where Jacob was.
"John" did NOT know where Jacob was, and needed Richard to show him. Even as they got to the statue, he says: "Well, it's a wonderful foot, Richard, but what does it have to do with Jacob?" When Richard tells him, you can tell in his face he was surprised to learn of this fact. A fact that "the man in black" would know.
Ben says: "and clearly it hasn't told you where Jacob is, or YOU WOULDN'T NEED RICHARD TO SHOW YOU"
Excellent point, Ben.
When Ben tells him that "the smoke monster" told him to follow and do what John says, "John" was again very surprised to learn of this fact. You also see the look of surprise in his face as he looks down in the hole after Ben just dealt with the smoke monster. If John was the smoke monster, then he would know these things and not be surprised by them.
"the smoke monster" or "Alex", told Ben it was known Ben wanted to kill John, but that he better NOT and better do as John says.
Why would the smoke monster tell Ben not to kill John unless he CAN be killed. And would the smoke monster need to tell Ben not to kill the smoke monster that he wouldn't be able to kill?
Now that Ben thinks "John" is the all powerful smoke monster, Ben has got it out of his mind to try and kill him, and we can go on with the task at hand.
The rule is no other can kill one of their own. Thus why "the man in black" was not able to kill Jacob. And if he is going to pretend to be John, just to go to see Jacob, that would be cheating. And if he was going to cheat, he could just have killed Jacob many years ago.
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There really never was any story being told here at all. Had we seen the finale of the TV series 6 years ago, it wouldn't have mattered.
This was like going through life and just observing things around you every day. Not really a story, but you can tell stories about certain events you have witnessed.
Lost wasn't a story being told, but you can MAKE stories from all the events witnessed from it.
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7-27-2009
Damon Lindelof says the final season will address the origin of the food drop from Season 2.
Jun 2 2009
Carlton Cuse and Damen Lindelof drop hints about how ABC hit drama will end
Among the mysteries unraveled in the very last episode will be the significance of the four-toed statue, and what the Smoke Monster really is.
Says Cuse: "The end of the show will be a combination of trying to answer mysteries the audience still cares about, such as the statue and the Smoke Monster.
11-19-2009
Lindelof: "I can't believe we're going to be able to end the show on our own terms. And there are no excuses. We get to do the ending on our own terms, and hopefully people will like it."
"The questions that count will be answered.”
"All I can say is that we've spent the last five years answering the question, 'Were you guys making it up as you go along?' 'Do you know what you're doing?' It's a great comfort to know that in about six months people will stop asking us that question. They'll go 'Wow, you really had a plan.'"
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This episode was not "two and a half hours"
The final episode ended up being only 1 hour and 42 minutes long when I edited the commercial breaks out.
That leaves 48 minutes of commercials!
That's longer than an entire episode of Lost which is usually 40 minutes.
They could have aired another entire episode in that same time period, with some answers, and still have 8 long minutes left over to play commercials.
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Splodge replied to you
Why are most of your comments removed?
Where are you LZ-128, I'd like to hear your take on the ending?
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(Edited to add answer key)
I shot the same scene with eight different imaging devices. Which device shot George best?
Each photo was shot in full-auto mode and I made no adjustments to the image afterward. All I did was crop and scale each one to a size of 2048 pixels to facilitate your side-by-side comparison. Go ahead and click through to the full-size version if y'like.
To give you some idea of the detail in the image, I've also compiled a lightbox of thumbnails, clipped from the same region of the image at the file's full original resolution (and then scaled to common dimensions).
What to you think? Leave your comments in the comments. I'll post the "answer key" after these have been online for a bit.
It was a great morning. My wife was gathering seaweed for composting purposes.
(Yes, I have contacted Lidl... if they want to use the photo ;-)
Update (5th of Oct):
I received a kind and polite answer: "Not this time". Thanks to Lidl Finland and Kaisa K.!!!
Answers come in many forms. One, most recently, came to me when Andrew, our 14 year old, nearly died. It was a close call and long experience. It started the day before school began here. Rushing him into emergency, where they removed his appendix. Unfortunately, they were wrong. Andrew instantly got worse. They sent him home anyway. I watched and called the doctors. Andrew started slipping through my fingertips. Pain. Pain. Pain. Weak. Weak. Weak. Fever. Fever. Fever. Unable to keep anything down. Pain. My baby in such pain.
Finally, the doctor listened. Almost too late. Andrew had a very rare disorder, which ended up bursting inside of him - expelling stomach acid and over a pints worth of pus. Second surgery lasted three hours.
Nearly four weeks later. I stand here staring out the window, knowing all I need are my kids, husband and those who love us for us - truly - unconditionally. My little family is what I value. And if anyone can't see that, well, then....their loss.
I can't even begin to express the gratitude in this experience. Just when you think life can't get any harder you come seconds away from losing a child. So many people are not as lucky. I count my blessings.....1...2...3...4 + Me + those of you who honestly love us = LOVE.
oxox
“Sir! She’s sprung a leak!” The first mate dashed into the pirate Captain’s cabin, flushed and out of breath.
The Captain raised a scowling face. “Man the pumps then! You know what to do!”
“This is no ordinary leak, sir. She’s going fast!”
“Whad’ya mean, she’s goin’?” The Captain followed the words with a string of curses and then nearly bowled his mate over as he rushed topside. “All hands on deck! Man the pumps! Full force!” The next instant he was down in the hull with the mate beside him, pointing out the leak. The Captain’s face twisted in rage. “Who did that? That’s no leak. We’ve been scuttled! Who had the last watch?”
The mate shifted uneasily. Water poured in, soaking both men’s boots, but neither seemed to notice. At last he muttered, “Billy was at the tiller.”
“Billy?! That good for nothin’… Lazy – I’ll make him pay! Probably did it a purpose – wants us all ta drown!”
The mate was about to reply, but instead he ejaculated, “Good heavens! We’re sinking!” The words ended in a kind of scream. For the water was now rushing furiously in, threatening to sweep both off their feet.
“Shut your mouth!” the Captain spat, climbing topside again and ignoring his dripping garments.
At that moment the ship tilted violently, sending both men along with several other pirates into the scuttles. Billy fell too, slamming into the Captain.
“You! – You did this!” The Captain grabbed the unfortunate cabin boy by the neck.
Billy shuddered, turning terrified eyes to the Captain’s ferocious look.
“Well?! Answer me!”
With sudden boldness the boy spoke up. “I did do it.”
“Treason! Mutiny! You’ll pay for this!”
“Of course he will,” the mate grumbled. “We’re all goin’ to the bottom!”
“I’ll make sure Billy gets there first!” the Captain exclaimed, uttering a fearful oath.
Another lurch of the ship freed Billy from the Captain’s grasp for a second and he scrambled to his feet, desperately climbing toward the prow which was now pointing to the sky.
Cries and shouts resounded through the ship, which had now begun to sink in earnest. And yet for all their desperate plight, the pirates only quarreled and fought with each other, all eager to prolong their miserable lives by as many minutes as they could, even if it meant sending another to his death. The more reckless dove into the rum supply, determined to drown in drink for the last few minutes before they really drowned. Slowly the ship sank lower and lower, and now many of the pirates, forced to realize their plight, screamed in terror. Those who had sent so many to their deaths were unwilling to go themselves.
Above deck the Captain pulled himself aft by main force, practically tearing the boards, almost foaming at the mouth in his impotent rage. Billy clung to the bowsprit, unsure whether to face the Captain’s fury or spring overboard at once. He shuddered as he looked down into the water, and, opening his clasp knife, resolved to defend himself.
Ropes and bits of iron slid down the decks along with other miscellany. The Captain lost his hold – caught it again – and in desperation, pulled out his pistol.
Billy shuddered and tried to shrink into as small a target as possible.
The next instant a heavy sack smashed into the Captain’s legs and with a terrible cry he crashed headlong into the churning water.
And now the ship had almost completely sunk, and Billy was left alone. A sudden silence – an eerie silence – succeeded the fearful shouts. Billy climbed farther up the bowsprit until he was perched as high atop it as possible.
He had done it, and he thought his own life was a small price to pay for the blessing of ridding the sea of such a scourge. But other thoughts came to him in those moments that seemed like a life time as he straddled the rough timber, knife still in hand. After all, the quick, almost painless death to which he had sent his comrades seemed a poor repayment for their actions. They would have died, eventually, anyways – he had only hastened it by a year or two – and was that all? For all their villainy, for all their injustice, for having taken him, still a little child, and made him virtually their slave, dragging him through unspeakable horror? …hate surged through him, and he half cursed himself for taking such a poor and flavorless vengeance.
Then he thought of the deeds he himself had taken pleasure in doing, and loathed himself as heartily as any of his companions.
Was this all life had? Was there no real justice? The thought was intolerable to him. Far better to stand condemned, as he knew he would be, then to think that in the end, wrong would win.
But perhaps… perhaps… could mercy be found? Even for him?
The still, silent waters closed over the pirate ship, leaving no trace.
Class A4 4468, Mallard - one of 35 A4 class engines. She broke the steam engine speed record on 3 July, 1938.
It's old, it's a Mercedes L710, and there my knowledge runs out.
Pembroke Road, Southsea
06 August 2017
The Star Wars Question and Answer Book about Space. The personable droids from Star Wars answer all your questions about space: Are there Moon creatures? Can humans explore Mars? And more!
The sticker on the cover was added by a young Jedi Knight.
Random House; 1977.
Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of the bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.
There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay?
Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself. Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the beginning and end of time. Answer me that and I will reveal to you the purpose of the moon.
Excerpt from; "Still Life With Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins
(two of the impossible project black frame poor pod that I opened and sandwiched)
Anyone else ever afraid of what the future will bring in your life? Lately I've been searching and trying to figure out what career path I am to take but I just don't know. Why is it that some people just know what they want to be in life at a young age and waste no time and go after it? Me, I didn't know, I just wanted to get out of highschool and be done with it. Now I look back and wish I would have tried harder and taken different classes.
There is always light at the end of the tunnel and I know it will all work out, just a matter of time I guess.
Much better View On Black
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... To yesterday's Wacky Wednesday.
When I went to buy a new bucket last month, they only had them with the mop attachment available.
As I use a floor cloth and stiff bristled broom to wash the floors the extra part isn't used and is usually under the kitchen sink.
Reference photo : flic.kr/p/2p8w2yi
Now you know what the wacky photo is.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :)
The definitive answer to your Burning Questions."Why are Flamingos' knees backwards?" and, "You mind if I don't watch?"
I wish my shutter had been a little faster....but I was unprepared for this sudden action shot.
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Oh Rover! So many grand ideas, so little effort! The Rover CCV (Coupé Concept Vehicle) could have been the answer to the company’s prayers in the late 1980’s. But instead is just another one of those missed opportunities that we can only look back on and imagine a world where this idea had been taken up.
In the mid-1980’s, Rover was undergoing a turbulent time as the company’s ownership changed hands. Sick to death of having to deal with it, the Thatcher Government decided to break up the nationalised conglomerate known as British Leyland, which had been suffering from poor reliability and hopelessly bad car design. By the beginning of the 1980’s, BL faced a defining moment when it made a deal with Honda to help create cars of better engineering than the Allegro and Marina it was trying desperately to get rid of. The result was the Montego, the Maestro, the Triumph Acclaim and the Rover 200, based largely of Honda products such as the Ballade and the Legend. Though much more reliable and selling well, the profits reaped were nowhere near as great as those being collected by rivals Ford, BMW and Mercedes-Benz, largely due to two factors. One; the unreliability that had plagued BL throughout the 70’s was still very much in evidence during the 1980’s, and these well-engineered cars suffered greatly from that. Two; many people found themselves questioning why they should buy a Rover, especially when considering that Honda was providing a near identical car for half the price!
All these problems and more meant that British Leyland had to come up with a new strategy, and in the mid-1980’s assigned a crack team of engineers to create a new range that would help the company define the 1980’s. In 1986, Rover was sold by the UK Government to British Aerospace, with the Austin badge now dropped and the only remaining marques being MG, Rover and Land Rover, this new private company being dubbed Rover Group. In 1985, MG proposed a 180mph supercar known as the MG EX-E, a smooth and sophisticated machine that could have been a contender for one of the best supercars of the 1980’s if the company had decided to go through with it. Sadly the MG EX-E was never meant to be due to fears of spending huge amounts of cash on a not very profitable niche market, but attempts to create a car of similar design both on a technical and cosmetic level, this new machine being aimed at the mass customer market.
Dubbed the Rover CCV, the car made its debut at the 1986 Geneva Motor Show, and was intended to be a coupe version of the upcoming Rover 800. Designed by Roy Axe, the company’s chief designer, the CCV basically shared the same underpinnings as the 800, which share the same underpinnings as the Honda Legend including a 2.0L Rover Straight-4 or a 2.7L Honda V6. The design however carried over many assets of the MG EX-E project, including a large overall glass roof and windows, a low, smooth body profile, colour coded and blended bumpers, and just an overall handsome aesthetic. In fact, the styling looks almost like some American cars of the 1990’s such as the Chevrolet Corsica or the Buick Skylark. The interior was also mocked-up for his prototype and boasted solid state instrumentation and a dashboard mounted CD player (very novel back in 1986).
So beautiful and sleek was this machine that it even wooed the US market. In 1986, Rover Group, and the previous British Leyland, were desperate to regain a foothold in the United States, the last car that was sold there being the Rover SD1, of which only 774 left the showroom. The CCV however got many American investors on board, especially with a huge market for two-door coupe’s in the mid to late 1980’s. Rover’s enthusiasm was high for such a project, and many envisaged the CCV being the new California Cruiser, the primary ride for those aspiring business executives out in Los Angeles. The project to sell cars in the United States was eventually dubbed Sterling, as due to the unreliability of the Rover SD1 heavily damaging the Rover reputation in America, the company was reluctant to show its face again without going via a third-party or under an assumed name.
However, once again the biggest problem that hampered any good idea that Rover ever had, was itself. While US and British investors were highly enthusiastic of the CCV project, the Rover management refused to commit to such a project, largely due to the poor sales of the Sterling project. Sterling was launched in 1986, selling what were essentially rebadged Rover 800’s as the Sterling 825 sedan, and even though the Rover 800 is a good car in its own right, the rather humdrum design mixed with biblical unreliability and the fact that the Honda Legend was also on sale in America for half the price but twice the performance, meant that sales for the Sterling were abysmal, with only 14,000 of the forecast 30,000 cars actually being sold. These alarming results made Rover (in its usual cool, calm and collected manner) panic and the CCV project was scrapped entirely in 1987. The Sterling project would lumber helplessly on until 1991, when, after losing cash like water, it was removed from the US market, with no more British mass-production cars being sold in America ever again.
Guys, it breaks my heart! The Rover CCV truly could have been the answer to all the company’s prayers if they’d just bitten the bullet and put the thing into production! Rather than rushing into the project blindly in an attempt to get cash in ASAP, Rover should have delay the launch of Sterling by another year, launching both the Sterling 825 and CCV simultaneously, so if the 825 failed to sell the CCV and its beautifully crisp design and overall contemporary feel, could have picked up its slack. Also, an overhaul of the company’s quality control and work ethic should have also been a part of this major image change, sending cars out which actually were reliable, built properly, and had been constructed with at least a smidgen of integrity! Instead, the company went on a hide into nothing and ended up costing themselves an absolute fortune. There’s nothing to say that the CCV wouldn’t have sold here in the UK or in Europe, the 800 certainly did well on the domestic market, just enough to keep its head above water for the duration, so the addition of a highly futuristic model such as this could have easily helped reverse some of the company’s fortunes.
Sadly not, the CCV unfortunately became a victim of that fatal formula that plagued both British Leyland and Rover right up until the end. Great cars, poorly built, but managed even worse!
I know I'm not alone on this... i worry if I'm making the right decision, or I'm frustrated with where my life isn't... and I can't seen to get any clear cut answers from my family or friends as to which direction to take.
And then I take the time to read it again... just like I have before, except this time the words just jump off the page and nail me straight in the heart... He knew all along that I would be right here, at this very moment in my life, and he had these words written over 2,000 years ago just for me... so I could see clearly the path that lies before me...
Thanks for not giving up on me...
On a less personal note... this young man is modeling for a friend of mine who runs an outreach program for incarcerated youth in the local jails. I was asked to help with some pics for their new brochure. I have this one and a couple more that I would love your critique on... thanks :)
An old, broken down telephone/telegraph pole along an abandoned train track in rural Ohio no longer carries a message.
dear friends - i have a plan and need a little help. please give me your permission if you like your pics in my mosaics (some of you did it before) others maybe under this photo. the rest i ask per mail. if i have all answers after a while i tell you more.... thank you all for your support and ideas :)
This is my answer for the challenge in Get Pushed Round 15 that I got from Skippys1229
Chris has a photostream with fantastic macro shots and beautiful nature shots and lots more. Go check it out.
Here is what he wrote to me : " The month of December seems to bring two types of themes to mind. The first is "celebration" with all the holiday festivities leading up to Christmas and New Year's. The second is "reflection" as there are many year-in-review lists that go over certain important events that happened during the year. I would like to see something that expresses these two themes. The subject can be whatever you choose. Also, you can either have them expressed in the same shot, or you can frame it as a diptych."
This one got me thinking a lot! And that's good of course :)
I've been trying out the diptyching since this push was sent my way a lot with a tool I mostly operate from my Ipad. The app is called Diptic. It works very well I think. I can take my Nikon shots into the photostream and so forth. These photos I've also done a bit of processing on in Picnik.
Now for the presentation that I have chosen. The photo to the left is a snow flake ornament in my parents' Christmas tree (Celebration) and the shot to the right is from the sea close to my parents house (Reflection). Since when I look back on 2011 what comes to my mind the most are all the threats to nature and the meeting that took place in Durban, South Africa - unfccc.int/meetings/durban_nov_2011/meeting/6245.php this november/december. Unfortunately it seems hard for the world to come to good solutions.
The climate changes are very present! This summer has been the rainiest and 'coldest' I can remember and this winter so far the 'warmest'. No snow here yet! Last year we had snow for almost 6 months!
The sea in the picture, I read yesterday, is short on oxygen! Which means that 'things' that live there cannot survive... I can only hope and try to do some of my share to save the Earth we've been given.
Happy New Year everyone!
Get Pushed group admins and all other members I'm thankful to you. This group is lots of fun :)
The moment left no time for answers as the pair rounded a blind turn, only to find they were surrounded by another wall of searing flame! Soundwave screeched to a halt and transformed, drawing on his vast warrior past to find his calm and pull himself from the panic of the din. He remembered the wall rippling as the beast now behind him appeared, as though the wall were... a hologram!
Soundwave turned and took Steelwing, cradling him, then charged toward the flame.
Steelwing: “Are you mad?”
The death-shrieks swirled around his cerebro-circuitry and he struggled to focus, but as the flames were about to lick him, Soundwave leapt up and over them. He had taken the beast by surprise and did not wait for a reaction. Soundwave dived toward the chasm wall.
Steelwing: “You are mad!”
The pair fell straight through the hologram wall and crashed to the ground. The Decepticon pulled himself up and looked around, finding himself inside an offshoot of the chasm. This branch however, had walls lined with obvious technology. Steelwing took a moment to mentally catch up with the situation.
Steelwing: “What? A hologram! That's not gonna stop those monsters! Run!”
Steelwing was right and a moment later, a dark, beastly silhouette perforated the holo-wall, filling the offshoot with the same panic inducing din as a moment ago. The initial silhouette was soon followed by that of the second, larger beast, but neither Soundwave nor Steelwing cared to wait to try and identify the monsters. Once again, Soundwave transformed and raced on through the chasm corridor. As he pulled away, he heard one of the beasts stop its terrible call. Another sound, a sound that would be hidden to all but those with the most sensitive of audio receptors, took its place. The feint whirring sound felt familiar and Soundwave would analyse it later, for the familiar sound was followed by the screech of mighty tires and the roar of a powerful engine. Soundwave was being chased!
Soundwave knew that his vehicular mode was not built for speed, a fact that did not escape the attention of Steelwing either.
Steelwing: “We'd be moving faster by foot, Soundwave! Move it!”
The fear inducing shriek of the larger beast soon filled the chasm once more, making it difficult for Soundwave to focus. Difficult, but not impossible.
Soundwave flew around a blind turn in the chasm with a thought that perhaps the beasts remained in the depths of the chasm for a reason; perhaps they could not climb! Soundwave transformed with Steelwing clutching his back and reached up to grip the chasm wall, but the roar of the engine of the smaller beast caught up with him before he could take the first step. With another whir and the Decepticon felt crushing jaws of a metallic monster tear at his leg. Once again, flame overshooting the beast silhouetted the monster and distorted its details, the call of the larger monster made it impossible to remain calm. Soundwave was thrown into the opposite wall of the chasm and crashed hard. Steelwing tumbled to the ground as the second beast rounded the bend with a roar!
Voice: “Scales! Zod! Stand down!”
Soundwave screeched to a halt at the sound of the voice that stopped the advancing metal beasts and transformed, protectively shielding Steelwing with his arms. He looked downward and saw a face he instantly recognized: the Renegade Go-Bot, Fitor!
Fitor: “Soundwave. Your body has changed but I still recognize you. I have spared your life.”
Soundwave jerked his head to look behind him and saw the Renegade beasts Zod and Scales box the pair into the charm corridor. He looked back at Fitor, the pressure of the moment fading only slightly. Fitor held his arms to the side in what he intended as a gesture of peace and trust.
One eye sees, the other feels.
Words by Paul Klee
A series I have been working on intermittently. No. 5/12
for Flickriver - Sophie Shapiro