Jenjie

no questions because, to be honest, my head is screwed. that was one killer of an episode. the only thing i got from it is the island is hidden by some sort of radioactive force-field which causes things to shunt around in time, but only their consiousness, not the body. and i think, that because Des got to speak to Penny, he's now safe & his time travel has stopped. but OUCH OUCH OUCH my head hurts. What I want next is an episode which flows nice & uncomplicatedly with some answers & no more questions or head-wrecking things oh, and i loved the end where he got to talk to Penny, that was cool

I want some answers godamnit :angry:

Specially for Ian, some more questions. I suppose I ought to start answering the ones I've posted previously as the answers come up too :stunned: Answers? What does future Jack want future Hurley to keep secret? Possibly that Aaron isn't Kate's baby but was Claire's. Or maybe that it was Jack that save everyone? Or that more than 8 survived the crash itself? (I'm sure they mentioned 8 original survivors in the court, but I'll have to check) We now have 4 Oceanic survivors: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid. Who are the last 2? Is Aaron number 5? Whats with all Ben's random passports? And why the secret room with all the clothes & identities? Has to be some sort of master criminal for Miles to think it was worth trying to extort $3.2 million from Ben Okay, so I answered 3 questions with more questions :confused: and I have new questions New Questions What happened to the helicopter? Is the toddler, Claire's Aaron, or has Kate had a baby and called him that? Why would Jack not want to see Aaron? Going back to the above question possibly because a) he feels guilty that Claire went with Locke & something happened to her or b) he thinks/knows its Kate's baby and thinks the Dad is Sawyer? Why is Locke becoming more and more like Ben? Some of the things he said & did this episode seem very Ben-like Thats about it from this episode. Didn't seem to be any earth-shattering revelations except possibly at the end, and not many questions answered either.

Arsenal striker Eduardo suffers serious leg injury LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Arsenal striker Eduardo da Silva sustained a serious leg injury in the Premier League match against Birmingham City on Saturday. The match was stopped for nearly eight minutes as the Brazilian-born Croatia international was treated on the field before finally being carried off on a stretcher. Birmingham City defender Martin Taylor was given a straight red card for his challenge on Eduardo in the third minute. Arsenal's players wandered around the pitch looking distraught and Sky television said they would not replay the incident because the pictures were too horrific. Eduardo was taken straight to hospital and medical staff at the ground were also reported to be shocked at the seriousness of the injury. (reporting by Brian Homewood, Editing by Justin Palmer) http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-7331681,00.html

Eduardo Da Silva’s Euro 2008 dreams lie in tatters after he suffered a horrific leg break just four minutes into Arsenal’s clash with Birmingham. The Croatian striker’s foot was planted as Martin Taylor dived into the challenge, resulting in a nasty injury that left several of Arsenal’s players visibly distressed. Medical staff have taken Eduardo directly to hospital, where it is suspected he will need to undergo instant surgery. Gunners physio Gary Lewin was one of a number of medical staff who were also left disturbed by the nature of the injury, which rules the striker out for the rest of the season. Unfortunately that means Eduardo will also miss Euro 2008, after scoring 10 goals to lead Croatia into the tournament at England’s expense. Birmingham defender Taylor saw red for the challenge. http://www.setantasports.com/en/Sport/News/Football/2008/02/23/Prem-Eduardo-leg-break/?facets/great-britain-locale/sport-space/football/

the Hurley bit was in a flash forward, once they'd left the island, so i guess i'm asking what happens between this episode and them leaving which would make Jack right after all.

but then if you know you may need to answer your phone whilst driving, you should wear a hands free kit or get a bluetooth. i never take a hands free kit out because i have no intention of answering my phone whilst driving. its in my bag under my seat so i couldn't reach it if it tried. if its important, they can leave a message and i'll respond once i finish driving

So its question time again: We now have 4 Oceanic survivors: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid. Who are the last 2? Or are there 2, because would Ben count? Hurley apologised to Jack for not going with them initially, so is he the only one of Locke's ganag who made it off the island? Could they really be so evil as to kill off the baby? With Sawyer saying he wanted to stay, will that mean that some of them get to stay and don't have to die? Who were the people that Sayid was killing? Why was he killing them? Why are The Rescuers each looking for different, none Oceanic, people? (Ben, Desmond) What happened to Walt & Michael? Did they ever get away? Whats with all Ben's random passports? And why the secret room with all the clothes & identities? Why was Desmond at the beach? I thought they had all split between Jack & Locke? Was he there on his own? Or are there more of them at the beach? Why does the magic house keep moving? Why, when the missile took over half an hour longer to reach the island than it should have done, would the phones be answered almost immdiately?

but then if she was paying attention she would have been able to attempt to miss him, he wouldn't be dead and she could take him to court for causing an accident

Transformers 9/10

Juno 10/10

I've got a vague idea of what's going on, but never having learnt about the american political system, I'm still a little in the dark. What exactly is Super Tuesday? Is this the day the country decides who'll be in the Presidential elections?

he did look a lot like him. i'm also intrigued about Richard (one of the others)

nooooo stoopid ian, the haitian

Credit cards are to be withdrawn from 161,000 Egg customers who it believes pose an unacceptably "high risk". The internet bank is writing to 7% of its customers to give them 35 days' notice of the withdrawal. Cardholders will be able to continue making minimum monthly repayments on their balances but will not be able to spend any more after the deadline. The move follows a "one-off" review after Egg was bought by US-based Citigroup for £575m last year. In a statement, the bank said it was not demanding immediate repayment of balances or making any changes to customers' terms and conditions or their interest rates. The 35-day notice period starts on receipt of the letter, which also provides details of how to appeal against the decision. Risk profile Letters will be followed up with e-mails to customers. Egg was sold to US banking giant Citigroup in May 2007 by life insurer Prudential. It prompted the review, which picked out customers considered to have "a higher than acceptable risk profile". Angela Knight, chief executive of the British Bankers Association, said that Egg's action was "a sensible way of looking after a business". "Whilst it is lovely to spend, it is the paying back that is always the difficulty. It might seem a bit hard to say to people 'You do need to stop spending' but it does actually make real sense so to do." The 161,000 customers whose cards are being withdrawn had had a deteriorating credit profile since they signed up, according to Egg spokeswoman Rachel Roe. This could include those who have missed repayments or exceeded their credit limit. But the description has angered some customers who told the BBC that they had received a letter informing them of the withdrawal, despite having an excellent credit history They claimed that by making repayments strictly every month, Egg was not making a profit from them in interest. Gillian Cox, of Farnham, Surrey, said she was "absolutely furious" to learn that her credit card had been cancelled in what she described as an "unbelievable arbitrary action". Mrs Cox said she and her husband are "retired, no mortgage, no debts" and "always paid the balance off in full each month". She added that she had contacted Experien who informed her that she was marked as having an "excellent" credit rating, "thus totally negating Egg's claim that this measure is about credit risk". Egg's decision could be a signal of the tightening credit market, with consumers facing more difficulty in repaying debts and cutting spending. But Ms Roe said the appraisal was the result of an unusual set of circumstances owing to the change of ownership last year. "There are no plans for a future review," she said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7222336.stm

A speeding motorist who was sending a text message when she crashed into a teenage cyclist was convicted yesterday of causing his death by dangerous driving and was told that she faces a jail sentence. Jordan Wickington, 19, who had not been wearing a cycling helmet, died in hospital later that day. The court was told that Kiera Coultas, 25, did not see him at a busy junction on February 7 last year because she was sending the text at the time. She was replying to a message from her estranged husband. Coultas, a hotel manager, admitted that her BMW was doing 45mph in a 30mph limit when she drove on to the junction in Southampton shortly after 7am. She told Southampton Crown Court that she had received three fixed penalty tickets for speeding ? two of the offences were committed on a road leading to the junction. Mr Wickington, a scaffolder, of Netley Abbey, Hampshire, had stopped at the traffic lights but then went through them when they were red and was about two-thirds across the junction when the BMW hit him. Police initially could not understand why Coultas had not seen the cyclist but checks on her phone later revealed she had just received a message from her estranged husband whom she was on her way to meet. Judge Jeremy Burford QC adjourned sentence until February 29 and warned her that she faced a jail term, saying: “Custody is the likely sentence for an offence of this sort.” He ordered her to surrender her passport, not to travel outside England and Wales, and to live at a hotel in Hythe until sentence. The judge also imposed an interim driving disqualification. Coultas, of Hythe, had denied causing death by dangerous driving. Speaking after the hearing, Mr Wickington’s sister, Laura, said that the past year had been extremely hard. “The loss of Jordan is a pain that will stay with us for ever,” she added. “He was a bright, intelligent and beautiful person who will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him. “We are pleased with the outcome of this trial and hope Jordan’s death will prevent or deter others from using their mobile phones whilst driving.” Alison West, of Hampshire Constabulary’s road death investigation team, recommended that drivers switched “ off their mobile phones during journeys. “It's pretty routine nowadays at the scene of these serious or fatal accidents to seize drivers’ mobile phones, and to have them analysed to see if the phone has had anything to do with the driving standards involved,” she said. “In this particular incident, it transpired from a phone analysis that there was phone use close to the time of the incident.” Last year a teenage driver who knocked down and killed a milkman while sending a text message to a girlfriend was jailed by Bournemouth Crown Court for four years. Motorists who use mobile phones while driving can be jailed for up to two years under new guidelines published by prosecutors in December. Endangering others while using a handheld mobile phone, satellite navigation system or iPod at the wheel can now be treated as dangerous driving rather than careless driving. The change means that drivers face up to two years in prison, the maximum penalty for dangerous driving, instead of the £5,000 and penalty points under a careless driving prosecution. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3292540.ece

Cloverfield - Times Review On Monday I thought Cloverfield was a brand of butter, or a mock-Tudor retirement home in South Wales. The film is actually an old-fashioned monster movie that has been retuned into an unexpected - sometimes unwatchable - sensation. Cloverfield is a reality-TV chiller, written by Drew Goddard, who cut his teeth on Buffy, Alias and Lost, about the most ferocious monster attack on New York since King Kong slipped his chains in 1933. It is also the first horror film that has given me motion sickness. An hour in I started to sweat. I couldn't look at the grim stroboscopic lighting effects in the final reel, and I nearly threw up trying to make sense of the increasingly chaotic and frightening scenes of the gripping climax. On a giant cinema screen like that of the Empire in Leicester Square the discomfort is rude and disorientating. Matt Reeves's apocalyptic thriller is a genuine scare. The film begins with a stuttering romance between a young city hunk (Michael Stahl-David), and his shapely squeeze (Odette Yustman). It then plummets into an appalling piece of chaos when an earthquake buries plans for sex in heaps of dust and rubble. The real stroke of genius is the visceral sense of increasing panic. There is no warning of just how demonic this flesh-eating monster actually is when it is glimpsed by drunks from the balcony of the hero's flat. The film is recorded like a diary piece on Stahl-David's camcorder. The luckless cameraman is a fabulously useless jock called Hud (T.J. Miller). It is Hud's precarious forefinger on the “record” button that makes the footage of this film such a stop-and-start marvel. The horror begins with tremors in central Manhattan. The expensive and jaw-dropping stunts that are carved into this cheap camera are extraordinary. This is horror unplugged. A monster is trashing New York - God knows why - but it's one of those films where you feel obliged to suspend every ounce of disbelief. The devastation looks like a fireworks display. Skyscrapers and bridges are shredded. The torpedo might of the US Air Force merely eggs the monster on. The severed head of the Statue of Liberty is tossed down the street. The young heroes seek refuge in underground stations crawling with spidery, flesh-eating aliens. This is almost a biblical interpretation of 9/11. The panic is exquisite. The unnerving novelty about Cloverfield is the quality of shock. Fantastic. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article3277480.ece

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! too many questions after episode 1, and I don't think a single one from the end of last season was answered. Why did only 6 get off the island? If Jack, Kate & Hurley are 3 of them, who are the other 3? Of those 6, whose funeral was it that Jack & Kate were at? Why did Hurley find Jacob's house? Why does future Hurley regret choosing to go with Locke? Is Charlie really dead or was he a figment of future Hurley's conscience? What does future Jack want future Hurley to keep secret? Who & how many were left on the island? What happened that it eventually makes Jack turn to drink? Who are the people on the boat if they're not with Penny? Why did Naomi lie for the Lost ones? What does Ben know about it all? Why does Hurley want to hide out in the mental hospital? We'll see how many, if any, of those are answered!!!

Hot Fuzz 9/10 - it was awesome/ alot of people appeared to have a lot of fun making that film

Office workers and students may have to look for new ways to procrastinate, because one of the world’s most popular online games could soon be shut down. The makers of Scrabble have asked Facebook to remove Scrabulous, a popular version of the game, from its website. In a move that has drawn protests from online fans of the game worldwide, the toymakers Hasbro and Mattel are pressuring the social networking site to ditch Scrabulous because, they argue, it infringes their copyright. The Facebook application – which users can add to the personal profiles they create on the site – is hugely popular. About 600,000 users play the game online every day. Thousands of players joined a “save Scrabulous” group on Facebook within hours of the news breaking. Many pointed out that they had bought the board game after playing the game online. One student at a British university wrote: “Shameful as it is, I’ve headed out to buy a Scrabble set as a direct result of Scrabulous.” Many, including the promoters of Scrabble tournaments, have credited Facebook with prompting a renaissance of the word game among young people. Another Facebook user, from London, wrote: “How ridiculous! Scrabulous had massively raised the profile of Scrabble, rendering it actually quite cool (where it was once seen as rather geeky).” Some Facebook users posted the contact details of the toymakers on a message board, urging fans to inundate them with complaints in an effort to get the decision overturned. Scrabulous is one of Facebook’s ten most popular applications. According to the Scrabulous website it has 594,924 daily users – about a quarter of the number that have signed up to play it. The request to remove the game came from both Hasbro and Mattel, as ownership of the Scrabble trademark is split between the two companies. Hasbro owns rights to the game in the US and Canada, and Mattel has rights for the rest of the world. In a statement, Mattel said: “Letters have been sent to Facebook in the United States regarding the Scrabulous application. Mattel values its intellectual property and actively protects its brands and trademarks. “As Mattel owns the rights to the Scrabble trademark outside the United States and Canada, we are currently reviewing our position regarding other countries.” Yesterday users could still play the game online. Facebook told news agencies that it had no comment to make on the manufacturers’ request. The Scrabulous add-on was not built by Facebook but was created for the site by Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, software developers based in Calcutta. Admitting that the pair were earning $25,000 (£13,000) a month from advertising on the application, Jayant Agarwalla told Fortune magazine: “They sent a notice to Facebook about two weeks ago. The lawyers are working on it.” Stewart Holden, from the Association of British Scrabble Players, said: “We are very keen to see anything which gets young people playing Scrabble for the first time. Nothing has done that over the past five years better than the Scrabulous application on Facebook. Many of our members use it. “We understand the legal reasons for it [the request], but the effect the site has had on the game is undeniable. It would be a shame if that had to come to an end.” Applications such as Scrabulous are regarded widely as one of the key reasons for the popularity of Facebook. The site is thought to have about 39 million members worldwide, and accounts for 1 per cent of all internet traffic. The application has helped to spawn many “Scrabble cheat” websites for those players desperate to win at all costs. Websites such as Scrabblesolver provide users with an almost guaranteed victory. The sites can work out the best moves by allowing players to see every possible word combination with the letters they have in their hand. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3200527.ece

BBC Pics Crash Site

A formal investigation is under way to find out what led one of the safest aircraft in the world to crash land at Heathrow airport this afternoon. Passengers aboard the BA38 from Beijing were reflecting on their lucky escape, after all 136 were safely evacuated when the stricken aircraft tore into the tarmac. Only three suffered minor injuries. The stricken Boeing 777 reportedly approached the southern runway of Europe's busiest airport at an unusual angle, plunging beyond the runway. It finally came to a halt 1000m from an aircraft carrying the Prime Minister and 25 senior business executives, including the Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson and the Olympic gold medallist, Dame Kelly Holmes, who were departing for a five-day visit to China and India. It is not yet known what caused the emergency landing although one BA worker, who asked not to be named, said the captain told him the plane lost power without warning. He told BBC Radio Five Live: "They just told me that the aircraft just shut down and everything. He lost all his power and everything and that was it. He glided it across, lifted the nose up, and managed to get it in, and it's gone on to the grass. "He said to me he had no warning , absolutely nothing at all. It's just suddenly, boom, it's just lost everything. "It's a miracle. The man deserves an absolute medal as big as a frying pan." Neil Jones, a witness who has a general aviation pilot’s licence, said he had seen the plane making a “very, very unusual approach” to Heathrow. He said: “The engine noise sounded louder than normal and it was that that first attracted my attention. “The aircraft was banking to the left and it was coming in very low over the surrounding houses. The plane was significantly lower than it would normally be. “I could see the undercarriage was down and the wing flaps were down. I don’t know how many engines were working. “You could see the pilot was desperate, trying to get the plane down. The aircraft hit the grass and there was a lot of dirt. The pilot was struggling to keep the plane straight. I think he did a great job.” Paul Venter, who was on board flight BA38, said the aircraft hit trouble just as it was about to land. “We had a good flight, we came in to land, I could hear the undercarriage come out and the next moment the plane just dropped,” he said. “The wheels came out and went for touchdown, and the next moment we just dropped. I couldn’t tell you how far. “When everything came to a standstill, I looked out of the window and the undercarriage was gone and the plane was on its belly. “I didn’t speak to the pilot, but I saw him, and he looked very pale, but there was no communication in the cabin." Mr Venter said that, after evacuating the plane, the passengers were met by police and medical staff and taken to the terminal building for treatment and security processing. “You’ve got some pale faces here, but I would say the mood is good,” he said. Six passengers were taken to the nearby Hillingdon Hospital with minor injuries, a London Ambulance spokeswoman said. Jerome Ensink, a passenger who was evacuated from the plane, said: "I'm beginning to realise we have had a close call. I'm a bit shaken, but feeling quite lucky. There seems to have been no major injuries. "Everything seemed like a normal landing, until we hit the tarmac very roughly, but it wasn't until we were coming off the grass, that we realised the entire undercarriage was missing. We landed on the grass about 100 ft from the runway. "The oxygen mask were coming down and the neon lights came up." Mr Ensink added that the incident would not prevent him from flying British Airways in the future. "BA have been dealing with the situation very well," he said. The incident left the airport, which has 67.7 million passengers passing through every year, without any fire cover, bringing air traffic to a standstill. The Prime Minister's flight finally took off for China, after a 55-minute delay. Television footage showed the plane stranded at the end of the runway, with all of its emergency chutes inflated. Two of the plane’s giant wheel units were ripped from the craft during the landing and were visible on grass near the runway. Kieran Daly, from Flight International magazine, said he was shocked by the incident, given the aircraft, airline and airport involved. “The 777 is pretty much state of the art at the moment, even though it has been around for quite a long time. “It’s very difficult to understand what might have gone wrong. “We’re talking about one of the most advanced aircraft in the world, operated by one of the most safety-conscious airlines in the world, flying into one of the safest airports in the world. “It’s quite a surprise." In a press conference this afternoon, Willie Walsh, the BA chief executive, said a formal investigation was being carried out by the air accident investigation branch of the Department of Transport. He said: "It would be inappropriate for me to speculate as to the likely cause of this incident today." Mr Walsh went on to praise the efforts of the flight crew and the emergency services, who helped avert a much more serious disaster. He said: “We are very proud of the way our crew safely evacuated all 136 passengers on board with only three minor injuries. "He added that there were three flight crew and 13 cabin crew on board." The northern runway was closed for more than an hour after the aircraft made it's emergency landing at 12.42pm The south runway remains closed, while the airport struggled to deal with the backlog of traffic. Three flights were diverted to Stansted, four to Luton, and 12 to Gatwick. Heathrow has two runways, serving four terminals. A fifth is currently under construction. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3204607.ece

Norovirus epidemic exposed as myth Norovirus infections this winter were no higher than in the previous two years, the Health Protection Agency said. The agency’s figures of confirmed cases up to the end of last year show a sharp fall. If there is no second peak, then the duration of the outbreak will have been shorter than in 2002, the worst year recorded. Steve Field, the chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said that the scare over the virus may have helped to reduce its spread by encouraging good hygiene. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3187576.ece

I did consider that fact that the Daily Mail might be getting over-excited, simply because no other sites had any mention

Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spewed clouds of ash and hurled fiery rocks on Thursday, forcing more than 700 villagers to leave their homes. Experts have warned the volcano is poised for a major eruption within a matter of days or weeks. Tungurahua, which means "throat of fire" in native Quichua language, is located 130 km (80 miles) south of the capital Quito. The volcano has been active since 1999 and last erupted in August 2006. Tungurahua has been rumbling and belching up smoke and ash this week. "Around 700 people are being asked to leave," said Marcelo Villagomez, the head of emergency services in the province of Chimborazo, who traveled around the base of the volcano encouraging villagers to evacuate. "It's a voluntary evacuation and many refuse to go and that has kept us worried. I'm telling them about the value of life," Villagomez said in a phone interview. "You can feel the ground shake out here." In 2006, the volcano spewed ash and molten rock that buried hamlets located near the crater, killing four people and forcing thousands to leave their homes. Local volcanologists expect more activity from Tungurahua because it is in the middle of an eruption cycle that began in 1999 after decades of inactivity. The volcano's crater is about 1.6 km (a mile) south of the tourist resort town of Baños, where 17,000 residents were forced to evacuate in 1999 after loud explosions and plumes of ash billowed out of its crater. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=507694&in_page_id=1811