Thursday, May 24, 2007
Daily Update 05/24/2007
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Canadian researchers say they have developed the most detailed model of a human yet, a movable "4D" image that doctor scan use to plan complex surgery or showpatients what ailments look like inside their bodies.
Called CAVEman, the larger-than-life computer image encompasses more than 3,000 distinct body parts, all viewed in a booth that gives the image height, width anddepth, the researchers said on Wednesday.
CAVEman also plots the passage of time -- the fourth "D."
Scientists can layer on the unique visuals of patients, such as magnetic resonance images, CAT scans and X-Rays, giving physicians high-resolution views of the innerworkings of the body while it appears to float within arm's reach.
It will help researchers study the genetics of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, muscular sclerosis and Alzheimer's, said officials at the University of Calgary Faculty ofMedicine, which has worked on the system for six years.
"Today, this kind of a model is unique in the world. It's the only one that is complete," said Christoph Sensen, director of the medical school's Sun Center of Excellence forVisual Genomics.
"We have components of models. We could make this thing with 50 different brains because everybody makes their own brain model. What we didn't have was a whole,complete body."
CAVEman is an offshoot of a 3D virtual reality "Cave," a C$6 million ($5.5 million) lab the Sun Center opened in 2002 in conjunction with Sun Microsystems Inc.
The model started partly due to a desire among massage therapy teachers at a company in the central Alberta city of RedDeer for a more intricate picture of muscles andbones.
It cost somewhere between C$500,000 and C$2 million. "It's very hard to guess, because it has taken many years, especially in Red Deer, with at least one or two artistsconstantly employed," Sensen said.
CAVEman, seen through 3D glasses in a booth, appears to stand in front of the viewer. As in a video game, the controller can manipulate it and focus on body parts -- skin,bones, muscles, organs and veins.
"We say that killing monsters is fun, but curing cancer is more important," Andrei Turinsky, a mathematician and computer scientist, said as he moved the model aroundusing a joystick.
The closer the image gets, the further into the body the viewer appears to travel. It is difficult to resist trying to touch it.
The image can also be loaded on to regular computers, to be viewed off site.
The medical community will benefit by being able to merge patients' diagnostic results -- such as computerized internal images and blood tests -- in one place, allowingspecialists to work together more closely, Sensen said.
In addition, surgeons can use it instead of cadavers as teaching tool, and to plan surgeries before conducting them.
Patients will also gain much more understanding about their own conditions, he said.
"We want to do this so any patient can walk up to a machine with a surgeon in tow who says, 'This is what it looked like six weeks ago and this is what it looked liketoday. You better get surgery now'."
Next steps include developing versions to sell to hospitals around the world, and adding a touch element to the image.
(Additional reporting by Caroline Hedin)
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Hey, it's Daniel from TMZ here, back with another edition of the "Lost" Diary. Earlier this year, I wrote that there are four times when I am super-mega excited for an episodeof "Lost": a season premiere, a season finale, the week after a great episode and the week after a terrible one. I need to add a fifth instance: when the seasonfinales of "24" and "Heroes” suck. Such a total letdown on both fronts. I was angry about "Heroes" for two days straight -- all that buildup was for that? Verydisappointed. Needless to say, if "Lost" doesn't deliver the goods I am going to have to be severely medicated for my own protection. For all you "Lost" Diary newbie's,here's how it goes. I gather with a group of friends watching "Lost,” writing what happens on the show as it happens, and throwing in my two cents along the way.This week the crew is Ari, Lauren, Marisa, April, Matt and Michelle (making her debut). It's two hours of "Lost" goodness tonight.
Let's roll: 9:01 - Jack is headed back to Los Angeles (on Oceanic Air, mind you) and with a full beard. Looks like he stole it from Mr. Friendly's fake beard collection.
9:02 -- Moving along slowly, something in the newspaper has Jack broken up as he pulls over to the side of the road on a bridge. Is a failed suicide attempt in his future?Oh no, Jack -- please don't drunk-dial your ex.
9:03 -- OK, seriously, what has Jack so despondent right now? This whole thing doesn't feel right.
9:04 -- Jack's suicide is going to have to wait, as a massive car accident just happened. Someone we know, perhaps?
9:05 -- As the Losties prepare for the Others invasion, a few readers made a great point: if the Others are coming a day early, and Juliet marks the tents, won't they knowsomething is up since she shouldn't have marked them yet?
9:06 -- I was amazed last week at how many people said they don't like Rose and Bernard. They're awesome.
9:07 -- Subtitled goodbyes always get me. "Awwww, English." -- Lauren.
9:10 -- Naomi fell from the sky and has been in camp for like two, maybe three days, and even SHE doesn't trust Juliet.
9:11 -- Charlie is getting his ass handed to him by the LGBs (Looking Glass Babes). It's like "Lost" porn to me.
9:12 -- So whoever these girls are, they know Ben. That would make them Others -- but why doesn't anyone else know about them?
9:13 -- "You're inside a room full of equipment. There's a blinking yellow light above a switch. You flick the switch, light goes off, and you drown." -- Desmond. It can all stillhappen just the way he predicted it.
9:14 -- "But if Juliet told them about the Looking Glass, what else did she tell them?" -- Mikhail. So no one else knows about the Looking Glass. I still think maybe Richardmight.
9:15 -- The tents are marked a day early and the Others don't seem to care. Idiots. Gotta say though, I don't want to see Mr. Friendly die.
9:16 -- The room breaks out in applause after each tent explodes. Bernard held his own, but Jin didn't, and now he's being held at gunpoint. I thought that was Kate's move.Ohwell, at least they got a few of them before getting captured.
9:20 -- Jack's ex-wife looks a tad pregnant, doesn't she? That's got to sting.
9:22 -- Everyone's worried about Sayid, Jin and Bernard, but Jack's right. They have to keep moving. Though it would be the Jack thing to do to go back and rescue them.
9:23 -- Mark it down folks: the first time I ever truly like Charlie. I love that he's flaunting the certainty of Desmond's vision right in the LGB's faces.
9:24 -- Man, Henry Gale soundsnerrrrrrrrrvous.
9:26 -- (Shaking head) Oh Bernard. I bet they shoot him once he's done flapping his gums.
9:27 --Something tells me Alex is grounded. No hatches for a month.
9:30 -- Um, what's the temple? Kinda funny that the Others have a bunch of unanswered questions. Welcome to the club.
9:31 -- "I'm going to talk them out of it." -- Henry Gale. Ok, he's good and all, but he's not that good.
9:32 -- "And since when did you start calling me Kate?" -- Kate to Sawyer. I'm holding firm with my prediction that one of them dies.
9:33 -- Oh yeah, Desmond. Almost forgot about him. And now he's making his way down to the Looking Glass. Not sure if I can deal with another scene of Desmond tryingto save Charlie. Forget the fact that I want Charlie to die; they've done it too many times already.
9:40 -- Man, Jack looks likeshit.9:42 -- OK, I've got a few questions. First off, who is the woman from the accident? Secondly, when exactly are we? Because, and I knowthis probably can't be the case, but so far it sure feels like all this is happening AFTER the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. If not, where was Jack coming from and whydoes he look the Unabomber and what was in that newspaper?
9:43 -- Sawyer is a man with a death wish and he's going back to the beach to save Sayid and company, and it looks like Juliet is going to go with him. Lauren just calledJuliet a name I can't repeat.
9:44 -- "Don't wait up." -- Juliet.9:45 --Next up at the Looking Glass, Mikhail, sans the eye patch. Charlie is trying to play Mikhail against the LGBs and, again, I'm kindadigging it.
9:46 -- Mikhail is pissed and now Henry wants him to kill everyone. It's like, "Hey, sorry I lied on all these years, but can you do me a favor and kill a bunch of people forme? Thanks, you're the best." Only Henry Gale could pull that off.
9:51 -- "So, you screwing Jack yet?" -- Sawyer.9:52 -- "No, are you?" -- Juliet.
9:53 -- So not only are there no guns, but now Hurley wants to help too. Ari is convinced Hurley will save the day. Lauren thinks it will happen by accident.
9:54 -- "Why do you have to stop them? Why won't you just let them leave?" -- Alex. That's the million dollar question, ain't it?
9:55-- Ladies and gentlemen, the man you've all been waiting for. The man the island talks to. The man Jacob asks for help. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome backto the show ...
9:56 -- JOHN LOCKE!!!!! (Applause)
9:57 -- AND WALT!!!!!!!!(Probably not really him, but still)
10:00 -- "Because I love you." -- Jack. Make up your mind Jack: Kate or Juliet. Can't have both. Or can he?
10:01 -- Jack is still rocking the beard, still holding on to that newspaper clipping and headed to a funeral parlor. They are sure dragging this whole thing out.
10:03 -- Who's in the coffin? Apparently Jack is neither friend nor family to the deceased. I can't think of anything that could have Jack this messed up.
10:04 -- Anyone else notice how weird the music has been this week?
10:05 -- "Hello, Jack. We need to talk." -- Henry Gale. Oh it is so ON!!!!!
10:10 --Mikhail takes down one LGB.
10:11 -- But Desmond shoots Mikhail before he can kill the other one. Now Desmond and Charlie have someone that can give them the code.
10:12 -- Jack vs. Henry Gale doesn't have the same oomph as Lockevs. Henry Gale does.
10:13 -- Rockbottom Jack is struggling. Alright, I am just going to say it: since nothing, and Imean NOTHING is happening in this flashback, it isn't about WHAT happens,but when. Since this whole episode is about them getting off the island, I think this flashback happens after the island -- it's a flash-forward. The whole room inagreement.
10:14 -- "The woman you're traveling with, the one who parachuted onto the island from a helicopter. She's not who she says she is." -- Henry Gale.
10:15 -- So Henry Gale is saying that Naomi is from a group of people who want to kill everyone on the island, if they can find it. He's giving Jack a "damned if you do,damned if you don't" kind of proposition. Is he telling the truth? I say yes.
10:16 -- Now Henry is threatening the lives of Sayid, Jin and Bernard. Yet another no-win situation for Jack.
10:17 -- R.I.P. Sayid, Jin and Bernard?
10:18 -- Jack, we're cool. I kind of like you, when you're not being a whipped little mama's boy. But please stop hitting Henry Gale. We can't be boys anymore if you'regoing to beat my main man senseless.
10:19 -- "I'm going to lead my people up to the radio tower, and I'm going to make a call, and I'm going to get them all rescued -- every one of them. And then I'm going tocome find you and I'm gonna kill you." --Jack.
10:23 -- "OK, Bonnie, we're both going to die down here, let's be perfectly honest. That one-eyed maniac just killed your friend and shot you in the back. It would appearyour glorious leader Ben put him up to it. Are you a sodding idiot? You have the opportunity to make Ben very, very angry. Why would you not take that?" -- Charlie.It's like last week they wanted to redeem Charlie in the eyes of all the women who watch "Lost," and this week it's the men. This is definitely the coolest he's everbeen.
10:24 -- R.I.P. Bonnie, but thanks for the code.
10:25 -- "Alex, this is your mother." -- Henry Gale. Reunited and it feels so goooooood.
10:27 -- Do you think Sayid, Jin and Bernard are really dead? I'm kind of 50/50, but ifI had to choose, I'd say no.
10:28 -- "Because I want him to see it. I want him to experience the moment we get off this island and I want him to know that he failed. And then I'll kill him." -- Jack.Foolish man, none of those things are happening.
10:29 -- Guess they're still alive. "THANK GOD!" Lauren just yelled at the top of her lungs.
10:30 -- Here he comes to save the day! Hugo Reyes is on his way!
10:31 -- "That's for taking the kid off the raft." -- Sawyer. R.I.P. Mr Friendly. Alright, my predictions have been terrible tonight, but here's another one (or at least anamended one): not only does Sawyer die, but the Smoke Monster (Jacob?) does him in.
10:35 - Rock bottom Jack is now stealing drugs. Jack mentioned his dad before, but we never saw or heard from him. Worth noting.
10:36 -- "Do you have any idea what I've been through?" -- Jack. Yeah, I think we do.
10:37 -- Another mention of Jack's dad, but we don't actually see him.
10:38 --It just hit me: this is all like the plot of "Return of the Jedi." One team takes out the shield (in this case, the jammer), while the other team destroys the Death Star(or uses the satellite phone).
10:39 -- "Yeah dude, I told you. I saved them all." -- Hurley. Don't mess with Hurley.
10:40 -- "So much for fate." -- Charlie. Wouldn't light the victory cigar yet.10:41 -- Penny?
10:42 -- Who is Naomi?" -- Penny. Uh oh, Henry Gale may have been telling the truth. And what is that banging?
10:43 --Mikhail lived -- again -- and now he has a grenade. Charlie slams shut the door to the communications room, trapping him self inside and keeping Desmond awayfrom Penny. And now, it's happening ...
10:44 -- I don't know what to do with myself. The words I have been longing to type and I can't bring myself to do it. Aw hell, yeah I can!
10:45 -- R.I.P.Charlie.
10:46 -- "Charlie just got us rescued." -- Naomi. Oh, really? Maybe Naomi doesn't quite know who she works for.
10:48 -- "We're here." -- Rousseau. Whenever those words are said on "Lost," cool shit usually happens next.
10:49 -- "I'll celebrate when we're home." -- Jack.
10:50 -- Locke to the reverse rescue!
10:51 -- Even if Locke shoots Jack, he's still going to have everyone else to deal with. Don't know how he's planning to pull this off.
10:52 -- Man they are setting this up to end really, really badly for the Losties.
10:53 -- What's with all the maps, Rockbottom Jack? Who died? When is all this happening? Who is he calling? Juliet maybe? Penny? Kate?
10:54 -- Who's in the car? I am dying here!!!
10:55 -- Kate, I knew it. Damn she looks good. Being able to shower on a daily basis really does wonders.
10:56 -- "Still pulling people out of burning wreckage?" -- Kate.
10:57 -- "Because I want it to crash, Kate." -- Jack.
10:59 -- "We made a mistake ... We were not supposed to leave." -- Jack.
11:00 -- "We have to go back!" -- Jack. So the whole point of Jack's flash-forward was to show us that Henry Gale was right -- whoever Naomi is with are the bad guys.
I kind of like the idea of showing us everything leading up to Jack making the rescue call, and then showing us that it all went to hell, without actually seeing any of whathappened in between. Since every season had a theme (the crash, the hatch, the Others), you have to assume that season four will be about whoever was on theother end of that phone. While there may not have been any "major" questions answered -- the numbers? Jacob? Michael and Walt? -- We did learn why Henry Gale does whathe does. Why does he jam communications off the island? Why does he keep such a tight hold on information? Why doesn't he let people off the island? Becausepeople are looking for the island and they want to destroy it. I've said it once and I'll say it again -- you have to trust Henry Gale when the chips are down. Hedoesn't lie about the important stuff. He's always right. Other than that, I am just going to start throwing out thoughts as they come to me: -- "Lost" was 120 minutestonight. Let's take away 30 for commercials, leaving us with 90. Of said 90 minutes, Locke was in two of them. Not a good ratio. -- Oh, and Jacob was in none ofthem.-- Are we done with flashbacks? Are flash-forwards the new thing? Or was this a one-time deal? Feels like just a one-time thing. -- Charlie, we've had a long history.Wish I could say I was sad to see you go, but after all the buildup, you literally had to. At least you went out on a high note. See you in another life, brutha.-- As forCharlie's death, a few people asked me, "Why did he close the door? Why didn't he swim out the window?" Because Desmond told him he had to die for everyone to besaved. He wanted Desmond's vision to come true, down to every last detail.-- I wish Richard was more prevalent tonight. Here's to hoping we see more of him nextseason.-- Can Mikhailever be killed? -- Jack referred to his dad a lot in the future. Is he alive? -- Is Kate with Sawyer in the future? Was Henry Gale the one who died?Who else made it off the island? This episode felt to me like it was such a setup for next season, I don't even feel like I could give it a grade. It would be like talking about"Kill Bill Vol. 1" without making mention of "Vol. 2."This episode felt more like a season premiere than a finale. That said, obviously it was amazing. So it's over, huh?Where did the time go? But don't worry, I'm not taking eight months off like "Lost" is. Over at TheLostDiary.com, I am going tore-watch Season 1 (and probably 2 as well)and post new Diaries for them every Thursday. I haven't seen any of the episodes since they originally aired, so I think it will be interesting to watch them again. Meanwhile,on Mondays, I'll be posting the Q&;A columns -- and I imagine this week's will be crazy. E-mail your questions to )
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PokerTime player, Ryan S from the US, won his all expenses paid trip to sunny South Africa and SA Poker seat earlier this month in the final online SA Poker Main Qualifier. After abad beat resulted in his unexpected exit from the Tournament he transformed from a poker pro into an overwhelmed tourist.
Not only did the VIP PokerTime team show their player from the US the best party spots in South Africa but they also took him on a tour to Soweto where he ate Africancuisine and visited Nelson Mandela's house. It was, however, the African horse back safari and the lion tour that was the highlight of Ryan's trip. "I'd definitely comeback to South Africa for the next poker tournament and bring my family with", said Ryan just before he boarded the plane for his long flight back to the US.
With 105 players taking part in the SA Poker Open the prize pool came to R2 million and the first 10 players came in the money. A Roaming television crew and a TV tablecaught all the action and provided close up shots of the final table that took eight hours to finish.
It was a battle between chip leader Danny K and previous All African runner-up Jaime Vilela that finished in the final showdown when Vilela's four of a Kind crowned him the2007 SA Poker Open Champion.
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I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do. Most topics posted on this page will becompletely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today.
My Favorite Featured Story
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Canadian researchers say they have developed the most detailed model of a human yet, a movable "4D" image that doctor scan use to plan complex surgery or showpatients what ailments look like inside their bodies.
Called CAVEman, the larger-than-life computer image encompasses more than 3,000 distinct body parts, all viewed in a booth that gives the image height, width anddepth, the researchers said on Wednesday.
CAVEman also plots the passage of time -- the fourth "D."
Scientists can layer on the unique visuals of patients, such as magnetic resonance images, CAT scans and X-Rays, giving physicians high-resolution views of the innerworkings of the body while it appears to float within arm's reach.
It will help researchers study the genetics of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, muscular sclerosis and Alzheimer's, said officials at the University of Calgary Faculty ofMedicine, which has worked on the system for six years.
"Today, this kind of a model is unique in the world. It's the only one that is complete," said Christoph Sensen, director of the medical school's Sun Center of Excellence forVisual Genomics.
"We have components of models. We could make this thing with 50 different brains because everybody makes their own brain model. What we didn't have was a whole,complete body."
CAVEman is an offshoot of a 3D virtual reality "Cave," a C$6 million ($5.5 million) lab the Sun Center opened in 2002 in conjunction with Sun Microsystems Inc.
The model started partly due to a desire among massage therapy teachers at a company in the central Alberta city of RedDeer for a more intricate picture of muscles andbones.
It cost somewhere between C$500,000 and C$2 million. "It's very hard to guess, because it has taken many years, especially in Red Deer, with at least one or two artistsconstantly employed," Sensen said.
CAVEman, seen through 3D glasses in a booth, appears to stand in front of the viewer. As in a video game, the controller can manipulate it and focus on body parts -- skin,bones, muscles, organs and veins.
"We say that killing monsters is fun, but curing cancer is more important," Andrei Turinsky, a mathematician and computer scientist, said as he moved the model aroundusing a joystick.
The closer the image gets, the further into the body the viewer appears to travel. It is difficult to resist trying to touch it.
The image can also be loaded on to regular computers, to be viewed off site.
The medical community will benefit by being able to merge patients' diagnostic results -- such as computerized internal images and blood tests -- in one place, allowingspecialists to work together more closely, Sensen said.
In addition, surgeons can use it instead of cadavers as teaching tool, and to plan surgeries before conducting them.
Patients will also gain much more understanding about their own conditions, he said.
"We want to do this so any patient can walk up to a machine with a surgeon in tow who says, 'This is what it looked like six weeks ago and this is what it looked liketoday. You better get surgery now'."
Next steps include developing versions to sell to hospitals around the world, and adding a touch element to the image.
(Additional reporting by Caroline Hedin)
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
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Hey, it's Daniel from TMZ here, back with another edition of the "Lost" Diary. Earlier this year, I wrote that there are four times when I am super-mega excited for an episodeof "Lost": a season premiere, a season finale, the week after a great episode and the week after a terrible one. I need to add a fifth instance: when the seasonfinales of "24" and "Heroes” suck. Such a total letdown on both fronts. I was angry about "Heroes" for two days straight -- all that buildup was for that? Verydisappointed. Needless to say, if "Lost" doesn't deliver the goods I am going to have to be severely medicated for my own protection. For all you "Lost" Diary newbie's,here's how it goes. I gather with a group of friends watching "Lost,” writing what happens on the show as it happens, and throwing in my two cents along the way.This week the crew is Ari, Lauren, Marisa, April, Matt and Michelle (making her debut). It's two hours of "Lost" goodness tonight.
Let's roll: 9:01 - Jack is headed back to Los Angeles (on Oceanic Air, mind you) and with a full beard. Looks like he stole it from Mr. Friendly's fake beard collection.
9:02 -- Moving along slowly, something in the newspaper has Jack broken up as he pulls over to the side of the road on a bridge. Is a failed suicide attempt in his future?Oh no, Jack -- please don't drunk-dial your ex.
9:03 -- OK, seriously, what has Jack so despondent right now? This whole thing doesn't feel right.
9:04 -- Jack's suicide is going to have to wait, as a massive car accident just happened. Someone we know, perhaps?
9:05 -- As the Losties prepare for the Others invasion, a few readers made a great point: if the Others are coming a day early, and Juliet marks the tents, won't they knowsomething is up since she shouldn't have marked them yet?
9:06 -- I was amazed last week at how many people said they don't like Rose and Bernard. They're awesome.
9:07 -- Subtitled goodbyes always get me. "Awwww, English." -- Lauren.
9:10 -- Naomi fell from the sky and has been in camp for like two, maybe three days, and even SHE doesn't trust Juliet.
9:11 -- Charlie is getting his ass handed to him by the LGBs (Looking Glass Babes). It's like "Lost" porn to me.
9:12 -- So whoever these girls are, they know Ben. That would make them Others -- but why doesn't anyone else know about them?
9:13 -- "You're inside a room full of equipment. There's a blinking yellow light above a switch. You flick the switch, light goes off, and you drown." -- Desmond. It can all stillhappen just the way he predicted it.
9:14 -- "But if Juliet told them about the Looking Glass, what else did she tell them?" -- Mikhail. So no one else knows about the Looking Glass. I still think maybe Richardmight.
9:15 -- The tents are marked a day early and the Others don't seem to care. Idiots. Gotta say though, I don't want to see Mr. Friendly die.
9:16 -- The room breaks out in applause after each tent explodes. Bernard held his own, but Jin didn't, and now he's being held at gunpoint. I thought that was Kate's move.Ohwell, at least they got a few of them before getting captured.
9:20 -- Jack's ex-wife looks a tad pregnant, doesn't she? That's got to sting.
9:22 -- Everyone's worried about Sayid, Jin and Bernard, but Jack's right. They have to keep moving. Though it would be the Jack thing to do to go back and rescue them.
9:23 -- Mark it down folks: the first time I ever truly like Charlie. I love that he's flaunting the certainty of Desmond's vision right in the LGB's faces.
9:24 -- Man, Henry Gale soundsnerrrrrrrrrvous.
9:26 -- (Shaking head) Oh Bernard. I bet they shoot him once he's done flapping his gums.
9:27 --Something tells me Alex is grounded. No hatches for a month.
9:30 -- Um, what's the temple? Kinda funny that the Others have a bunch of unanswered questions. Welcome to the club.
9:31 -- "I'm going to talk them out of it." -- Henry Gale. Ok, he's good and all, but he's not that good.
9:32 -- "And since when did you start calling me Kate?" -- Kate to Sawyer. I'm holding firm with my prediction that one of them dies.
9:33 -- Oh yeah, Desmond. Almost forgot about him. And now he's making his way down to the Looking Glass. Not sure if I can deal with another scene of Desmond tryingto save Charlie. Forget the fact that I want Charlie to die; they've done it too many times already.
9:40 -- Man, Jack looks likeshit.9:42 -- OK, I've got a few questions. First off, who is the woman from the accident? Secondly, when exactly are we? Because, and I knowthis probably can't be the case, but so far it sure feels like all this is happening AFTER the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. If not, where was Jack coming from and whydoes he look the Unabomber and what was in that newspaper?
9:43 -- Sawyer is a man with a death wish and he's going back to the beach to save Sayid and company, and it looks like Juliet is going to go with him. Lauren just calledJuliet a name I can't repeat.
9:44 -- "Don't wait up." -- Juliet.9:45 --Next up at the Looking Glass, Mikhail, sans the eye patch. Charlie is trying to play Mikhail against the LGBs and, again, I'm kindadigging it.
9:46 -- Mikhail is pissed and now Henry wants him to kill everyone. It's like, "Hey, sorry I lied on all these years, but can you do me a favor and kill a bunch of people forme? Thanks, you're the best." Only Henry Gale could pull that off.
9:51 -- "So, you screwing Jack yet?" -- Sawyer.9:52 -- "No, are you?" -- Juliet.
9:53 -- So not only are there no guns, but now Hurley wants to help too. Ari is convinced Hurley will save the day. Lauren thinks it will happen by accident.
9:54 -- "Why do you have to stop them? Why won't you just let them leave?" -- Alex. That's the million dollar question, ain't it?
9:55-- Ladies and gentlemen, the man you've all been waiting for. The man the island talks to. The man Jacob asks for help. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome backto the show ...
9:56 -- JOHN LOCKE!!!!! (Applause)
9:57 -- AND WALT!!!!!!!!(Probably not really him, but still)
10:00 -- "Because I love you." -- Jack. Make up your mind Jack: Kate or Juliet. Can't have both. Or can he?
10:01 -- Jack is still rocking the beard, still holding on to that newspaper clipping and headed to a funeral parlor. They are sure dragging this whole thing out.
10:03 -- Who's in the coffin? Apparently Jack is neither friend nor family to the deceased. I can't think of anything that could have Jack this messed up.
10:04 -- Anyone else notice how weird the music has been this week?
10:05 -- "Hello, Jack. We need to talk." -- Henry Gale. Oh it is so ON!!!!!
10:10 --Mikhail takes down one LGB.
10:11 -- But Desmond shoots Mikhail before he can kill the other one. Now Desmond and Charlie have someone that can give them the code.
10:12 -- Jack vs. Henry Gale doesn't have the same oomph as Lockevs. Henry Gale does.
10:13 -- Rockbottom Jack is struggling. Alright, I am just going to say it: since nothing, and Imean NOTHING is happening in this flashback, it isn't about WHAT happens,but when. Since this whole episode is about them getting off the island, I think this flashback happens after the island -- it's a flash-forward. The whole room inagreement.
10:14 -- "The woman you're traveling with, the one who parachuted onto the island from a helicopter. She's not who she says she is." -- Henry Gale.
10:15 -- So Henry Gale is saying that Naomi is from a group of people who want to kill everyone on the island, if they can find it. He's giving Jack a "damned if you do,damned if you don't" kind of proposition. Is he telling the truth? I say yes.
10:16 -- Now Henry is threatening the lives of Sayid, Jin and Bernard. Yet another no-win situation for Jack.
10:17 -- R.I.P. Sayid, Jin and Bernard?
10:18 -- Jack, we're cool. I kind of like you, when you're not being a whipped little mama's boy. But please stop hitting Henry Gale. We can't be boys anymore if you'regoing to beat my main man senseless.
10:19 -- "I'm going to lead my people up to the radio tower, and I'm going to make a call, and I'm going to get them all rescued -- every one of them. And then I'm going tocome find you and I'm gonna kill you." --Jack.
10:23 -- "OK, Bonnie, we're both going to die down here, let's be perfectly honest. That one-eyed maniac just killed your friend and shot you in the back. It would appearyour glorious leader Ben put him up to it. Are you a sodding idiot? You have the opportunity to make Ben very, very angry. Why would you not take that?" -- Charlie.It's like last week they wanted to redeem Charlie in the eyes of all the women who watch "Lost," and this week it's the men. This is definitely the coolest he's everbeen.
10:24 -- R.I.P. Bonnie, but thanks for the code.
10:25 -- "Alex, this is your mother." -- Henry Gale. Reunited and it feels so goooooood.
10:27 -- Do you think Sayid, Jin and Bernard are really dead? I'm kind of 50/50, but ifI had to choose, I'd say no.
10:28 -- "Because I want him to see it. I want him to experience the moment we get off this island and I want him to know that he failed. And then I'll kill him." -- Jack.Foolish man, none of those things are happening.
10:29 -- Guess they're still alive. "THANK GOD!" Lauren just yelled at the top of her lungs.
10:30 -- Here he comes to save the day! Hugo Reyes is on his way!
10:31 -- "That's for taking the kid off the raft." -- Sawyer. R.I.P. Mr Friendly. Alright, my predictions have been terrible tonight, but here's another one (or at least anamended one): not only does Sawyer die, but the Smoke Monster (Jacob?) does him in.
10:35 - Rock bottom Jack is now stealing drugs. Jack mentioned his dad before, but we never saw or heard from him. Worth noting.
10:36 -- "Do you have any idea what I've been through?" -- Jack. Yeah, I think we do.
10:37 -- Another mention of Jack's dad, but we don't actually see him.
10:38 --It just hit me: this is all like the plot of "Return of the Jedi." One team takes out the shield (in this case, the jammer), while the other team destroys the Death Star(or uses the satellite phone).
10:39 -- "Yeah dude, I told you. I saved them all." -- Hurley. Don't mess with Hurley.
10:40 -- "So much for fate." -- Charlie. Wouldn't light the victory cigar yet.10:41 -- Penny?
10:42 -- Who is Naomi?" -- Penny. Uh oh, Henry Gale may have been telling the truth. And what is that banging?
10:43 --Mikhail lived -- again -- and now he has a grenade. Charlie slams shut the door to the communications room, trapping him self inside and keeping Desmond awayfrom Penny. And now, it's happening ...
10:44 -- I don't know what to do with myself. The words I have been longing to type and I can't bring myself to do it. Aw hell, yeah I can!
10:45 -- R.I.P.Charlie.
10:46 -- "Charlie just got us rescued." -- Naomi. Oh, really? Maybe Naomi doesn't quite know who she works for.
10:48 -- "We're here." -- Rousseau. Whenever those words are said on "Lost," cool shit usually happens next.
10:49 -- "I'll celebrate when we're home." -- Jack.
10:50 -- Locke to the reverse rescue!
10:51 -- Even if Locke shoots Jack, he's still going to have everyone else to deal with. Don't know how he's planning to pull this off.
10:52 -- Man they are setting this up to end really, really badly for the Losties.
10:53 -- What's with all the maps, Rockbottom Jack? Who died? When is all this happening? Who is he calling? Juliet maybe? Penny? Kate?
10:54 -- Who's in the car? I am dying here!!!
10:55 -- Kate, I knew it. Damn she looks good. Being able to shower on a daily basis really does wonders.
10:56 -- "Still pulling people out of burning wreckage?" -- Kate.
10:57 -- "Because I want it to crash, Kate." -- Jack.
10:59 -- "We made a mistake ... We were not supposed to leave." -- Jack.
11:00 -- "We have to go back!" -- Jack. So the whole point of Jack's flash-forward was to show us that Henry Gale was right -- whoever Naomi is with are the bad guys.
I kind of like the idea of showing us everything leading up to Jack making the rescue call, and then showing us that it all went to hell, without actually seeing any of whathappened in between. Since every season had a theme (the crash, the hatch, the Others), you have to assume that season four will be about whoever was on theother end of that phone. While there may not have been any "major" questions answered -- the numbers? Jacob? Michael and Walt? -- We did learn why Henry Gale does whathe does. Why does he jam communications off the island? Why does he keep such a tight hold on information? Why doesn't he let people off the island? Becausepeople are looking for the island and they want to destroy it. I've said it once and I'll say it again -- you have to trust Henry Gale when the chips are down. Hedoesn't lie about the important stuff. He's always right. Other than that, I am just going to start throwing out thoughts as they come to me: -- "Lost" was 120 minutestonight. Let's take away 30 for commercials, leaving us with 90. Of said 90 minutes, Locke was in two of them. Not a good ratio. -- Oh, and Jacob was in none ofthem.-- Are we done with flashbacks? Are flash-forwards the new thing? Or was this a one-time deal? Feels like just a one-time thing. -- Charlie, we've had a long history.Wish I could say I was sad to see you go, but after all the buildup, you literally had to. At least you went out on a high note. See you in another life, brutha.-- As forCharlie's death, a few people asked me, "Why did he close the door? Why didn't he swim out the window?" Because Desmond told him he had to die for everyone to besaved. He wanted Desmond's vision to come true, down to every last detail.-- I wish Richard was more prevalent tonight. Here's to hoping we see more of him nextseason.-- Can Mikhailever be killed? -- Jack referred to his dad a lot in the future. Is he alive? -- Is Kate with Sawyer in the future? Was Henry Gale the one who died?Who else made it off the island? This episode felt to me like it was such a setup for next season, I don't even feel like I could give it a grade. It would be like talking about"Kill Bill Vol. 1" without making mention of "Vol. 2."This episode felt more like a season premiere than a finale. That said, obviously it was amazing. So it's over, huh?Where did the time go? But don't worry, I'm not taking eight months off like "Lost" is. Over at TheLostDiary.com, I am going tore-watch Season 1 (and probably 2 as well)and post new Diaries for them every Thursday. I haven't seen any of the episodes since they originally aired, so I think it will be interesting to watch them again. Meanwhile,on Mondays, I'll be posting the Q&;A columns -- and I imagine this week's will be crazy. E-mail your questions to )
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May 24, 2007 -- Theinaugural SA Poker Open, held for the first time in South Africa at the luxurious Montecasino, was a raving success with various All Africa pokerchamps, veterans and international online qualifiers fighting it out.
PokerTime player, Ryan S from the US, won his all expenses paid trip to sunny South Africa and SA Poker seat earlier this month in the final online SA Poker Main Qualifier. After abad beat resulted in his unexpected exit from the Tournament he transformed from a poker pro into an overwhelmed tourist.
Not only did the VIP PokerTime team show their player from the US the best party spots in South Africa but they also took him on a tour to Soweto where he ate Africancuisine and visited Nelson Mandela's house. It was, however, the African horse back safari and the lion tour that was the highlight of Ryan's trip. "I'd definitely comeback to South Africa for the next poker tournament and bring my family with", said Ryan just before he boarded the plane for his long flight back to the US.
With 105 players taking part in the SA Poker Open the prize pool came to R2 million and the first 10 players came in the money. A Roaming television crew and a TV tablecaught all the action and provided close up shots of the final table that took eight hours to finish.
It was a battle between chip leader Danny K and previous All African runner-up Jaime Vilela that finished in the final showdown when Vilela's four of a Kind crowned him the2007 SA Poker Open Champion.
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