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Dr. Drew Alton
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Dr. Alton has been a member of the faculty since 2006, teaching courses across the physics curriculum. As a particle astro-physicist, his research deals with nature's fundamental forces and interactions. Dr. Alton is a collaborator on DarkSide, a dark matter experiment located at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy and collaborates with CUBED at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Homestake Mine near Lead, S.D. Along with his students, he has also examined older experimental data looking for dark matter candidates. Funding for this work has been obtained from Research Corporation, the State of S.D., and the National Science Foundation, among other sources. Dr. Alton is also the Augustana representative for the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium. Dr. Alton received his undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. from Kansas State University. He was a postdoctoral fellow for the University of Michigan at FermiLab for six years on the D0 experiment.
Dr. Amy Engebretson
Adjunct Professor
Froiland Science Complex #392
Dr. Engebretson has been a member of the faculty since 2005, and has previous experience teaching at Minnesota State University Moorhead. She teaches "Introductory Physics" for life science students. She received her undergraduate degree from Carleton College, and earned her Ph.D. from Michigan State University, where she studied condensed matter physics, specializing in tunneling in thin films.
Dr. Nathan Grau
Associate Professor
Froiland Science Complex #391
Dr. Grau joined the faculty in 2010. Specializing in nuclear and particle physics, he is a member of the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory and is a past member of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Dr. Grau obtained his undergraduate degree from Millikin University and received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University. More recently, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University's Nevis Laboratories, where he also served as an adjunct faculty member in the physics department. Dr. Grau has taught "Modern Physics," "Astronomy," "Thermal and Statistical Physics," "Atoms to Stars," and introductory programming courses. Recent highlights from Dr. Grau's research work include the observation of dijet asymmetry from quark-gluon plasmas and the publication of an article (co-authored with an Augustana student) exploring a new method of searching for tetraquark states. Dr. Grau research work is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Eric Wells
Froiland Science Complex #389
Dr. Wells has been at Augustana since 2003, where he has taught numerous physics courses. His research is in the area of atomic, molecular and optical physics. He has published around 35 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including twelve with 21 different Augustana student co-authors. Current work involving Augustana undergraduates involves using ultrafast lasers to control molecular fragmentation and rearrangement of molecular bonds. This research is part of a long-standing collaboration with the J.R. Macdonald Laboratory at Kansas State University. He has received funding from NASA, Research Corporation, and multiple grant awards from the National Science Foundation. His educational background includes an undergraduate degree from Hastings College, a Ph.D. from Kansas State University, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Karel Vander Lugt
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Vander Lugt did his undergraduate work at Hope College and received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 1967. He was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. He began his career at Augustana in 1968 and retired in 2006. His scholarly work includes publications ranging from solid state physics to galactic halos to an analysis of how faculty salaries correspond to tuition at small private schools. He was a visiting scholar at Cornell University and the University of Arizona. Professor Vander Lugt taught across the physics curriculum, but was particuarlly fond of teaching general education courses. He developed the current astronomy course and the popular "Atoms to Stars" class, which is a qualitative introduction to physics and the history of science based upon Thomas Kuhn's book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." He developed and taught special courses in acoustics, chaos, and war and peace in the nuclear age.


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For international aid workers trying to reach cyclone survivors in Burma (Myanmar), it's a race against time to reach up to 1.5 million stricken people. To Burma's reclusive military rulers, though, the calculus of aid looks very different, and the goal remains to keep absolute control over a cowed population.
Capricious, unworldly, and often guided by soothsayers, Burma's aging clique of generals have centralized decisionmaking to such an extent that most civilian state agencies are empty shells. And decades of self-imposed isolation have bred an extreme suspicion of outsiders in a brittle, dysfunctional junta that clings to power by crushing all opposition, say Burmese and Western analysts who have studied the group for years.
That deep-seated distrust was reflected Sunday as the junta, while accepting aid, continued to bar most foreign aid workers with expertise in massive aid distribution. Burma's leaders said they wanted to manage the delivery of aid themselves, despite aid agencies' urgent warnings of escalating threats that could sharply increase the death toll.
The United Nations reported progress in getting some aid through, with roads being cleared and the piped water supply partly restored in Rangoon. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said three planes had delivered 14 tons of shelter material, and another seven flights were to arrive Monday with mosquito nets, jerry cans, and other equipment. A US cargo plane was scheduled to deliver aid on Monday, while France was set to deliver 1,500 tons of rice by midweek.
But thousands have yet to receive aid more than a week after the cyclone struck, killing as many as 100,000 people, according to some estimates.
The logistical challenges of distributing that aid, however, especially without the guidance of experts, are enormous. A boat bringing in some of the first aid sank in the Irrawady delta, according to the IFRC, perhaps after hitting a submerged tree. At refugee centers, people lined up to receive rations of oil and rice, while others simply waited along roads, asking for handouts.
Little change in attitude
Thus far, however, little has proved effective in getting the junta to budge.
Known since 1997 as the State Peace and Development Council, the 11-member junta nominally represents the military's service branches and regional Army commands. State media dutifully list the top brass in attendance at every official function, filling pages of newsprint. In recent days, state media have broadcast images of generals delivering international aid with their own names written over those of the donors, according to the Associated Press, eclipsing the pleadings of foreign aid agencies for greater access.
By far the loudest, and most hawkish, voice belongs to Senior General Than Shwe, the regime's paramount leader since 1992. Reportedly in ill health, and steeped in the Army's post-colonial myth as the nation's divinely unifying force, Than Shwe is seen as the biggest obstacle to any political compromise. A leaked video of his daughter's jewel-encrusted wedding in 2006 infuriated Burmese.
Having purged his rivals, most recently pragmatic Prime Minister Khin Nyunt in 2004, Than Shwe has begun acting more like a Burmese monarch than a military leader, says Sean Turnell, who edits an economic journal on Burma at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. A new capital carved into remote central hills is in the footsteps of Burmese kings who often moved their courts. "It's not really a junta now. It's just one man pretending to be a junta," says Mr. Turnell.
The concentration of power in Than Shwe's hands may be lessening as the post-cyclone crisis gathers pace. Last week, a US military plane in neighboring Thailand was given permission to fly in supplies, an order that was later rescinded, part of a possible tug of war between junta factions. "There are some officers who are fed up with the situation, but they can't do anything," says Win Min, an exiled Burmese who lectures at Chiang Mai University in Thailand.
In an echo of Maoist China, analysts say fearful aides to junta leaders also shield them from the grim realities of Burma, one of Asia's poorest countries. The move to the new capital with luxury villas, pagodas, and parade grounds has walled off a regime that believes its own shrill propaganda of national might, says Aung Naing Oo, an exiled analyst in Thailand.
"They live in their own cocoon. It's another planet. They don't grasp the magnitude of the (post-cyclone) situation. That's why they're holding out," he says.
On Saturday, a national referendum on a military-drafted constitution was held in unaffected parts of Burma, defying a last-minute call by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to put aside politics for now. Analysts say Than Shwe's determination to ram through the controversial charter amid claims of vote rigging is one factor in its closed-door policy for most aid workers. A second round is due May 24.
While the regime fears foreign soldiers because of the threat they pose to an unpopular dictatorship, aid workers are seen as potential spies or allies of activists. Even before the cyclone, foreign groups faced stifling controls that kept aid low. "As far as the generals are concerned, we are the enemy," says Derek Tonkin, a retired British ambassador to Southeast Asia. "So when the enemy wants to hand over some gifts, not only are they inherently suspicious," he adds, but the initial reaction is hostile.
Sanctions reinforce hard line
Some analysts say that US and European sanctions, designed to pressure the regime into reforms, have reinforced its mind-set of isolation and privation. In recent years, natural gas exports to Thailand have swelled the nation's international reserves by more than $3 billion, and new pipelines are being laid to China, says Mr. Turnell.
Little of this trickles down: some 70 percent of average income goes to food. This vulnerability spurred protests last year over fuel-price hikes last September that drew support from Buddhist monks before being violently suppressed.
After gaining independence from Britain in 1948, Burma struggled to hold together against internal strife. In 1962, the Army seized power, expelled foreigners, and introduced socialism. A failed uprising in 1988 brought in this junta, which liberalized parts of the economy and rebuilt ties with neighbors. But as countries like Indonesia and Thailand have shed their military rulers and modernized, and Vietnam and China have promoted entrepreneurship, Burma has become the weak man of the region.
The 400,000-strong Army faces challenges, though, that the cyclone aftermath may test, says Win Min. The Irrawaddy Delta is a key recruitment area, and the devastation will hurt morale among poorly paid soldiers, widely unpopular for firing on protesters last year. Up to 3,000 soldiers desert every four months, and more underage men are being pressed to serve, he says.
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Kerry and Iran's FM seek to break deadlock on nukes
With a Sunday deadline looming to seal a deal on its nuclear program, Iran may have softened its position on a crucial stumbling block during a meeting Monday with Secretary of State John Kerry in Vienna.
Iran has offered for the first time to reduce its nuclear enrichment capacity, not by reducing any of the 9,600 centrifuges it has running, but by slowing down the machines so they produce less enriched uranium that can be used to fuel reactors or bombs, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed participants in the talks. The report could not be confirmed.
The size of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and how long a comprehensive agreement would last remain the major sticking points.
"We are in the middle of talks about nuclear proliferation and reining in Iran's program. It is a really tough negotiation," Kerry told U.S. Embassy staff during a break.
The agreement that set the stage for the negotiations aimed at preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon in return for the lifting of economic sanctions allows for a six-month extension if an agreement is not reached by Sunday. In a Washington Post op-ed this month, however, Kerry said the talks will not be extended if the current round shows no progress.
Some progress has been made in the ongoing talks, including plans to convert Iran's enrichment facility at Fordo into a research and development site, and to modify the heavy water reactor at Arak so it would produce much less plutonium, a byproduct that could be used to fuel a bomb. Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful to produce energy and medical purposes.
But "significant gaps" remain, Kerry said Sunday before meeting with Iran's foreign minister, Mohammed Javad Zarif.
The United Kingdom's foreign secretary, William Hague, said Monday: "It's very important for Iran to be more realistic about what is necessary in order to reach agreement."
Iran has installed 19,000 centrifuge machines for producing fuel that can power reactors or bombs, with about half of them running. The U.S. has said the number of machines running has to be reduced by about half for at least 10 years.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the final arbiter of Iran's nuclear program, alarmed many observers when he said in a defiant speech July 7 that Iran needs the equivalent of 190,000 of its most primitive centrifuge machines, or separative work units (SWU), to produce enough fuel to power its nuclear reactors.
"This may not be our need this year, or two or five years from now, but this is the decisive need of the state," Khamenei said.
Ali Akbar Salehi, director of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency, later said Iran would need that capacity in eight years, when Iran's contract for obtaining fuel from Russia expires.
Zarif has said international monitors would ensure that Iran's program remains peaceful. But nuclear proliferation experts, such as David Albright, of the Institute for Science and International Security, say that with such a large enrichment program, Iran could easily hide enough machines to produce highly enriched uranium for a bomb.
"Clearly it's not a positive sign," said Robert Einhorn, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who helped develop the Obama administration's approach to nuclear talks with Iran, including acceptance of a limited Iranian enrichment program.
With the announcement to expand rather than minimize the enrichment program coming so close to the deadline, "it's hard to imagine them walking back from 190,000 SWUs, considering the supreme leader is out there" talking about it, Einhorn said.
Other analysts see opportunity for compromise in Khamenei's speech and Salehi's explanation of it.
"On its surface this appears to be a show stopper, but the caveats in their language point to where the negotiations will have to focus if they want to compromise," said Colin Kahl, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense during Obama's first term.
Before entering the current round of talks, Iran and world powers agreed that Iran's nuclear capacity would be monitored and limited for an unspecified amount of time to show that the program is as peaceful as Iran claims.
"After that point Iran will be treated like any other member of the NPT" (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty), Kahl said. "So part of the negotiation is how small does the program need to be" during the comprehensive agreement, and "and the second part of the negotiation is how long do those constraints last."
Albright, who consults with Western diplomats involved in the negotiations, said the ball is in Iran's court.
"It all sort of hinges on is Iran going to reverse itself on these centrifuges," he said.
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The Oregon Garden Brewfest in Silverton, OR. This was our first time at this festival and at The Oregon Garden. Located 40 minutes southeast of Portland, The Oregon Garden is a hidden gem featuring 20 beautifully sculpted gardens throughout its 80 acres. Last night, we stayed at the Oregon Garden Resort and attended the Brewer's Tasting Dinner (compliments of festival organizers). Both the main lodge and the rooms were beautiful, and to put it simply–very cozy! We enjoyed our short stay at the resort and plan to visit again.
Back to business... We entered the Brewfest as it opened at noon. Attendance was light for the first hour or two (as you can see in picture below), but then it started to fill up. My wife mainly sampled hard ciders and I stuck to beer. One of her favorites was Fox Barrel's Blackberry Pear Cider. I sampled and enjoyed Anthem's Hop Cider. It's a semi-dry apple cider that's dry-hopped with Cascade hops. The hops didn't add bitterness, but provided a nice citrus aroma that is unusual in hard ciders.
I also tasted Seven Brides Brewing's Abbey's Apple Ale, a beer / cider hybrid. This is a beer with apple juice added during primary fermentation. In the end, it tastes like a cross between a beer and a hard cider. As odd as it sounds, I liked it. I may have to make beer / cider hybrid one of these days!
Block 15's Wandelpad and Nebula were, as expected, great! Wandelpad is a Belgian-style blonde ale with plenty of fruity and spicy aromas. Light and refreshing, it's a perfect choice for summer. Nebula is a rich oatmeal stout loaded with coffee and notes of chocolate. Gigantic Brewing is getting ready to open their doors for business. I tasted their IPA, which will be a year-round offering. It was quite hoppy, as you might expect, but was still nicely balanced. I look forward to tasting more of their beers!
While Portland has plenty of beer festivals, the inclusion of cider and the stunning venue make this festival unique. Instead of my usual beer pictures, I've included some shots of the amazing scenery. So if you didn't visit on Friday, you will have one more chance to attend! The Brewfest will be open from noon - 11pm on Saturday, April 28. Don't miss the beer and the views!
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I'm listening to "Boys Don't Cry," released by The Cure in June 1979. Next is "Comfortably Numb." Before playlists, we had mixtapes, thanks to the Walkman. What's on your 1979 mixtape? Remember, you've got 45 minutes per side.
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OK. That below zero shit was not cool. Do you hear that, mysterious malevolent force that always sends me bad weather? I know what you are doing, and it is not funny.
We had the bitter cold too. I dislike when the mid-20s starts to feel "reasonable." That's just..... wrong.


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Big Lots CEO Steps Down Amid SEC Probe
The Securities and Exchange Commission launched an inquiry into a $10 million sale of stock by Big Lots Chief Executive Steven Fishman before the company announced news that sank its stock. Colin Barr reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Bloomberg.
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Ruby Julian celebrated her 96th birthday on Feb. 21.
She was honored with flowers and a dinner on Feb. 23 in Walnut Hill Baptist Church.
Julian is the wife of the late Homer Julian of Harriman.
She is the mother of Homer Julian Jr. and Tom Julian and his wife, Pat.
She has four grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Johnnie "MaMaw" Rains celebrated her 90th birthday on Feb. 15 with a party given by her children, Jerry, Susan and Mike, in Victory Baptist Church, Kingston.
She celebrated with relatives and friends and thanks those who attended to make it a special day.
Rains has eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Bradley Shane Lewallen and Lindsey Elizabeth Evans, together with their families, announce their forthcoming marriage.
The ceremony will be at 2 p.m. March 22 in Rockwood First Baptist Church.
All relatives and friends of the couple are invited to attend.
The bride-elect is the daughter of Thomas R. "Butch" and Hyda Evans of Rockwood.
She is a registered nurse at Parkwest Medical Center, Knoxville.
The prospective groom is the son of Ray Lewallen and Cynthia Reynolds of Huntsville.
Caydence Darnell LaSalle was born at 8:29 a.m. Feb. 8 in Turkey Creek Medical Center, Knoxville.
He weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces, and was 20 1/2 inches long.
He is the son of Felicity Erin LaSalle of Kingston.
Grandparents are Layla LaSalle and Tony LaSalle, both of Kingston.
Great-grandparents are Debbie Aiello and Tony Aiello, both of Kingston.
William C. "Bill" Guettner of Kingston will celebrate his 90th birthday with a gathering from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 22 in New Midway Baptist Church fellowship hall.
All relatives and friends are invited. No gifts are requested.
Guettner was born on Feb. 22, 1924, to Christie H. and Nanny Tutterow Guettner.
He was married to Josephine Soward Guettner from 1948 until her death in 2001.
He has a daughter and son-in-law, Wanda and Russ Limburg; a grandson, Nathan; and a great-grandson, James William Limburg.
Mildred Parham, seated, of Crossville, formerly of Roane County, recently spent time in Harriman as the matiarch of five generations of her family, including, from left, great-grandson Colyn Scarbrough holding great-great-grandson Link, grandson Greg Scarbrough and daughter Jeanetta Scarbrough.
Glen and Nadine Kinser will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary during a reception hosted by Jack and Diane Woolum.
The reception will be at 4 p.m. Feb. 2 in Pentecostal Lighthouse Church, Harriman.
All relatives and friends are invited. The couple requests no gifts.
The Kinsers were married on Feb. 3, 1944, in Harlan, Ky. He is now 90, and she is 89.
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Matthew Roberts Oliver and Chasity Lynn Lively, together with their families, announce their forthcoming marriage.
The ceremony will be in spring 2015.
Zackary Culleton turned 6 years old on Dec. 5.
He celebrated on Dec. 8 with a panda party attended by 30 relatives and friends in Children's Museum of Oak Ridge.
He is the son of Holly Culleton and Shawn Culleton.
Grandparents are Len and Gina Jackson of Harriman, and Connie and Dave Pulk of Knoxville.
Billie and Chuck Beach of Oliver Springs are described by Zackary's Grandmother Jackson as his "almost grandparents."
Zackary has a 10-year-old brother and best friend, Josiah.
Addie "Mac" Robbins turned 101 years old on Dec. 1.
She celebrated her birthday Thanksgiving weekend with family at Jamestowne Assisted Living, Kingston.
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12 Drinks to Mix for Your Super Bowl Party
As you plot your Super Bowl party, you're probably thinking about wings and dips, nachos and chili, potato skins and of course, a most importantly, a fridge full of beer. But it's nice to have a pitcher of cocktails—and an non-alcoholic option—ready as well. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
Bitter Salty Perro
We're all about citrus this time of year. For this pitcher drink, tart pink grapefruit juice is front and center, paired with herbal silver tequila or a joven mezcal. The result is awesome for sipping early in the day...or into the evening. The acidity of the grapefruit, the bright tequila, and the bitter bubbly tonic with salt will cut through a plate of nachos or 7-layer dip like nothing else.
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The Ultimate Bloody Mary
The key to a winning Bloody Mary is punching up the savory side with umami-rich ingredients like Worcestershire sauce and soy sauce, plus freshly grated horseradish and a little Frank's hot sauce. As for the vodka, any decent cheap brand will do: the flavor isn't going to be that apparent once you mix in all your tomato juice and other flavorings.
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Frozen Lime Margaritas
This is the best recipe we know for frozen margaritas: tart, refreshing, cooling, and easy to make ahead. The secret: placing your homemade margarita 'mix' in the freezer overnight. Try to use decent tequila here; we recommend seeking out Tapatio, which was recently introduced in the US. It's a steal at around $34 for a liter bottle.
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Northern Spy's Celery Tonic
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Hibiscus Rum Cooler
We always recommend making drinks by the pitcher for a party, and this one's a really nice presentation with fresh mint and a gorgeous magenta hue. Think of it as a spiked lemonade, that's super-easy to make, especially if you use Tazo tea bags.
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Fresh Watermelon Margaritas
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Panela Limeade
Panela, unrefined cane sugar that is often sold in solid discs, has a full-bodied, robust molasses-like flavor. It needs to be chopped up and dissolved in hot water before being used in a drink, but the resulting deep, caramely flavor is totally worth the small amount of extra effort.
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Fair enough. ^^ There's a point in there though, there's a lot of people that enjoy the full experience a story provides. Sure, spoilers don't have to reveal the events leading up to the "surprise", but the fact that the spoiler exists removes an element that people might not have expected. Even for people so out of touch as to not know a famous boat sank.
I'm not one to be bothered by spoilers (I'm pretty good at guessing them anyway), but I appreciate it when people do try to keep them under wraps - at least until it's general knowledge. I don't think treading carefully until it's made clear that most people know what happened and are openly discussing it is a bad thing. After that though, I'm also not sympathetic to those who join a discussion late expecting *not* to be spoiled.
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Granted, a moderator can make a mistake, but it won't be another moderator who will fix the mistake. It will be brought to the attention of the original moderator in question, and that moderator will decide for his/herself how to act on it.
We are a pretty tightly knit group. Good thoughts by the way!
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The way I see it, there seems to be some sort of special fist time seeing it experience, for them.
I don't know, something to do with it's overall presentation? maybe.
I somewhat get the feeling even if it's pretty damn bad and they hate it they might like to watch it and somewhat take pleasure in watching it; even if it is like I said, horrible. At least that's how I understand it from the people continously explaing how bad spoilers are. It doesn't make too much sense to me, it's not like someone else is thinking for you or your not the one taking in the same grane of information, but they're clingy to that way of thinking so I don't really feel like arguing over it. (there's not a lot of good that would do anyway)
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|2008-09-05, 03:51
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Please respect the wishes of other people even if their viewpoint doesn't match yours.
In this case we are taking about the concept of spoilers, so please take into account that some people do not like to be spoiled for any reason. What's more, we even have specific rules here in AnimeSuki about spoilers so it really doesn't matter what your personal viewpoint is on the issue, we specifically ask that spoilers are not posted under certain circumstances.
The issue here isn't if you think spoilers matter or not. For some reason some posters seem to think that is the purpose of this thread is to justify why spoilers do not matter. It really doesn't matter if you think spoiler rules are needed or not, we specifically ask for spoilers not to be posted in certain threads.
For some (many I suspect), if they are about to watch a new movie, they would not like to be told "everyone dies in the end" (or whatever the final plot turns out to be) before they actually get a chance to watch it for themselves. During the course of the movie, it is possible to "get involved" in the plot and form an opinion as to how it might end, you might form an emotional attachment to certain characters and enjoy (or maybe not) how the story progresses and concludes. To be told beforehand (for example) that a character dies can spoil, for some, the enjoyment of the build up, of the experience.
Now if spoilers do not effect you, good for you! But please have some consideration for others who may not share this viewpoint. Like most things, different people like different things. Some find spoilers objectionable, others do not. We have defined some rules concerning spoilers here ate AnimeSuki and just like any of the other rules we request that posters respect the rules of the forum.
And as a reminder, please read our Spoiler Policy before posting in this thread At least be familiar with the topic under discussion.
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I've must have missed the personal notification sent out to all the forum members when the spoiler tag options were implement back so long ago or they weren't placed in a noticeable place.
I was trying to find my post regarding member X wailing on member J for putting an ending spoiler in Tales of Abyss when the member J did, in fact, put the spoiler in tag.
Ok, I got common sense when it comes to spoilers, however I was not aware about the "in-depth" Spoiler Policy. I was actually was surprised, confused, and panicky when I found out Xris deleted my post. I actually had to fully read the policy and then think about it for a minute. I've been using spoilers tags often but not properly since I always forget to fill in the tag. I've been with AS for quite awhile now hence my "spoiler type" free infraction. I'm amazed really how I haven't gotten a ton of infractions yet. Looking back now, wow a lot of my older post really borderline in breaking the Spoiler Policy.
Can a mod can clip a copy of the detailed spoiler policy and paste in Keitaro's section about spoilers so that it's more clearly visible and noticeable to past and future forum members?
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Policy should be put on Keitaros's section in the fansub forum sticky right where #6 rules is and not a hyperlink.
|2008-10-17, 12:57
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Then again, a notice to all members is not a bad idea either.
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Anyway, it goes to show that we had all but forgotten the Fansubs Forum Guidelines thread when we created the new Spoiler Policy.
We did post a Spolier Policy Announcement on the 4th May but it was up for only a while. So yes, you more than likely did miss the original announcement (not only the announcement but this sticky as well).
|2008-12-22, 22:34
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My suggestion is that you try to avoid things that would be blatant spoilers in any case, because not everyone who reads your posts would be familiar with the material in question, and unless you only ever post in that one thread/section, you may spoil people unintentionally (keep in mind that your avatar appears in every post retroactively). That being said, you should apply common sense here too -- someone could try to argue that showing any scene from any manga/anime could be considered a spoiler to people who haven't read/seen that property yet, but it really comes down to how bad it would be if that scene was given away.
All that to say, don't seriously spoil people in your avatar or signature. If it's a serious spoiler -- serious enough that it'd normally need spoiler tags -- then don't. You can always PM a mod with a specific example if you're not sure (but please don't abuse that privilege either).
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text: About Ayn Rand's Life How do you pronounce the name "Ayn"? "Ayn" rhymes with "mine." What is the origin of the name "Ayn Rand"? Ayn Rand, born Alisa Rosenbaum, based her professional first name on a Finnish one (see Letters of Ayn Rand). Archival research suggests that "Rand" may have been an abbreviation of her Russian surname. (The story claiming that the name was borrowed from her Remington Rand typewriter is incorrect.) Where can I find out more about Ayn Rand's life? Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, February 2, 1905. She died in New York City, March 6, 1982. She is buried in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, next to her husband, Frank O'Connor (who died in 1979). Learn more about her here or watch a free, online documentary-style course tracing Rand's life from the perspective of her goal to become a fiction writer, Ayn Rand: A Writer's Life. How can I find out more about Ayn Rand's intellectual and artistic development? A few suggestions: Journals of Ayn Rand Letters of Ayn Rand Ayn Rand: A Writer's Life Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (documentary film) Ayn Rand and the "Atlas Shrugged" Years: Reminiscences and Recollections Who is Leonard Peikoff? Dr. Leonard Peikoff is Ayn Rand's legal heir. For the last thirty years of Rand's life, he was her student, associate and friend. Today he is the foremost authority on her philosophy. Learn more at his website.


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For many years, Francis Goodman's archive of negatives was held in store awaiting rediscovery and staff research time. We knew the collection contained portraits of a young Lucian Freud and other key twentieth-century figures including Henry Moore and Ian Fleming, but much of the archive was unlabelled and mixed with Goodman's travel work. However, the possibility of staging a mini retrospective to mark the centenary of Goodman's birth allowed me to find out more about the life and work of this photographer whose name has since been largely forgotten.
Goodman's work first came to the National Portrait Gallery's notice when it bought from him a small album in 1988. Mostly consisting of contact prints from the 1940s, it hinted at some of the contents of his negative archive, which he subsequently bequeathed in 1989. Sitters in the album included film star Anna May Wong, crime writer Margery Allingham at home, and Phyllis Calvert and Michael Rennie in Capri during the filming of the Golden Madonna (1949). There was also a letter from the editor of the Tatler and Bystander in 1947 thanking Goodman for his work that year. However, it was only through recent research into vintage copies of the magazine that we could see how these portraits were used.
Alongside a commercial context, personal stories also unfold when researching a photographer's archive. In Photography magazine in 1954, Goodman commented: 'People and places have always interested me most. I am far more interested in the people I photograph than in the pictures I take of them'. And this connection with people is clear. Some names appear repeatedly among his negative packets, suggesting long-lasting associations. Recent contact with Goodman's descendants has brought fascinating new insights and the surviving sitters I have been fortunate to contact often remember him warmly as 'Franzie' and a 'great friend'.
Fellow photographer Robin Cracknell recalled becoming 'good friends immediately' on their first meeting and arranging to take Goodman's portrait in his Knightsbridge flat soon after. He recently kindly donated this photograph to us which, taken shortly before Goodman died, is a counterpoint to the several earlier self-portraits already in our collection.
Cataloguing of the archive continues and brings more discoveries, including the recently found negatives for Goodman's sittings with Francis Bacon and David Hockney, located in unlabelled packets. I would love to hear from others with memories of 'Franzie' or of being photographed by him. The display of Goodman's work can currently be seen in the Room 31 showcases. More of Goodman's work can be explored on our website here.
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Top left: Margery Allingham by Francis Goodman, published 23 February 1949 in The Tatler and Bystander, NPGx195047 © All Rights Reserved
Top right: Phyllis Calvert during the filming of 'The Golden Madonna' by Francis Goodman, published 1 December 1948 in The Tatler and Bystander, Private Collection © All Rights Reserved
Bottom left: Self-portrait by Francis Goodman, June 1961, NPG x131107 © National Portrait Gallery, London
Bottom right: Francis Goodman by Robin Cracknell, spring 1989, NPGx137367 © Robin Cracknell
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We will try to provide periodic updates here this week from the Memphis Boot Camp, but you can follow everything that is going on at www.Memphis2014.com and at #membootcamp.
We will start the week by posting an op-ed by the Mayor of the city of Memphis, A.C. Wharton, Jr..
Last week, Smart Growth America released "Measuring Sprawl 2014," a report examining development in 221 major metropolitan areas in the U.S. and evaluating development on a national index. With a score of 71, the greater Memphis region ranks near the bottom of the list at number 196 out of 221. Furthermore, Memphis ranks as the sixth most sprawled large metropolitan area.
While these findings are disappointing, they are not surprising. The Memphis region has shown a pattern of sprawled development over several decades. Between 1970 and 2010, the city of Memphis population increased by 4 percent (619,757 to 645,237), while the geographic area of the city increased by 55 percent (208 square miles to 323 square miles). This is why the work we've done over the last few years, starting with Sustainable Shelby, to create a more sustainable city and region is so important for our future.
Since 2010, Memphis officials have worked to improve conditions for persons using bikes and have embarked on an ambitious process to create new bike infrastructure throughout the city. The result of 71 new miles of dedicated bike lanes, shared-use paths, and bikes are increased bicycle usage (double the usage in 2008) and improved safety (number of accidents reduced by 35 percent since 2008). Most of these new miles were achieved through coordination with ongoing repaving projects and did not require any new budgetary considerations in order to create on-street bicycle lanes. With an understanding of projects planned for the next three years, Memphis is expected to once again double the miles of bicycle-specific infrastructure within its limits by 2016.
The city achieved national recognition for its rapid progress towards becoming more bicycle friendly. In 2012, Bicycling magazine named Memphis the "Most Improved City for Cycling" after naming it to the "worst" list in both 2008 and 2010.
The city of Memphis is a partner with Shelby County government on the Mid-South Regional Greenprint and Sustainability Plan, a tri-state planning effort to connect green space and bike infrastructure across four counties in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. This ambitious effort not only calls for 400 miles of new trails over the next 25 years, but serves as a framework for managing growth across the region by placing an emphasis on balancing our most critical ecological areas with our population and employment centers to achieve the greatest value from infrastructure investments.
The need for this connection between housing and employment can be seen clearly in the Airport City area surrounding the Memphis International Airport. Considering that the Airport City area is Memphis' largest employment center, Memphis developed a master plan for the area to encourage businesses and residents to locate closer to this center of commerce.
The plan provides recommendations that demonstrate the benefits of the last mile connectivity for manufacturers and distributors. For those who work in the area, the plan provides recommendations for greater opportunities for decent, affordable housing so individuals can have choices to live near where they work.
The city of Memphis, through the Mayor's Innovation Delivery Team, is focused on using data to identify those areas in the core of the city where small, tactical investments generate a high return. This has been seen in the revival of Broad Avenue in Binghampton, South Memphis, Overton Square, Crosstown and other citizen-led creative placemaking efforts. Over the past two years, Memphis is cleaning up our older neighborhoods and investing our time and money in our core city neighborhoods that generate high returns. For example, city investments in Crosstown, Overton Square and Broad Avenue are returning people to the core of the city where we have seen a 40-50 percent reduction in vacancy rates in these areas.
These initiatives work in concert with a host of other programs being implemented throughout the region. As we finalize the plans for the Blueprint for Prosperity, a program to reduce the number of Memphians in poverty, initiatives targeted towards reducing sprawl will play an integral role in ensuring that all Memphians have access to jobs and resources. This administration is highly committed to reversing the negative trends of the past decades.


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From a leading rotorcraft OEM to premier owners and operators worldwide, the industry has taken notice of BLR Aerospace and its game-changing FastFin® System. Despite a challenging economy, BLR logged record sales in 2011, with FastFin leading the way.
Available for a range of Bell medium helicopters, FastFin is a simple modification that delivers big performance advantages. As a result, Bell Helicopter is now installing FastFin on factory-new Bell 412s, as are high-profile operators such as the New York Police Department and a range of other notable commercial and military operators.
FastFin is certified for Bell 204, 205, 212, 412, Huey II, and most UH-1 derivatives as an aftermarket upgrade that delivers measurable gains in payload and stability. Depending on conditions, some Bell 412 operators could realize useful load increases up to 1250 pounds (more than 90 percent). Additionally, FastFin installation can reduce operating costs by up to 45 percent or more.
The FastFin system modifies the tail boom with two parallel stall strips, known as Dual Tail Boom Strakes, and a reshaped vertical fin, optimizing airflow around the tail boom for dramatic improvements in tail rotor efficiency and wind azimuth tolerance. With these simple changes, operators can do—and earn—more than ever before.
BLR is focused on developing the highest performance aerodynamic solutions in the industry. BLR, now in its 21st year, holds patented technologies for both fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, and has certified over 70 Supplemental Type Certificates. BLR remains focused on the development of products that increase gross weight and landing weight, reduce critical V-speeds, increase cruise speeds, reduce fuel burn, increase hover loads and improve handling qualities. BLR Aerospace is a NASA Technology Transfer Licensee.
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By Paul Anderson
I remember as a kid I was fascinated with phones. The idea that you could pick up the phone, dial it, and talk to someone on the other end was pretty neat. And… at the time, a phone was an elegantly designed electro-mechanical work of art, and it was fun to take them apart to try and figure out how they worked. I could understand how the phone itself worked, but as a kid, what happened after those two wires headed off to the pole was somewhat of a mystery to me. Eventually I came to understand the massive infrastructure that allowed reliable telephone service into the home to be possible. Hats off to Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.
When you think of a basic phone, it seems like such a simple thing. It can receive, it can transmit, and it can provide bidirectional signaling. Receiving and transmitting is obviously important, and it took a while for folks to figure out how to do both simultaneously without a bunch of extra wires and things. Signaling is equally important. The user of the device needs to know when someone is trying to contact them, and to be able to establish contact with someone else out on the network. A phone is actually a very clever thing, particularly when one thinks of what people did with what they had at the time, particularly in a world before the transistor.
But, what is a phone really? It is a service gateway. In its most simple form, it provides telephone service. That service then allows connectivity to other services, like the ability to call the plumber when your sink gets clogged, or order a pizza. Quite amazing! The phone as a communication gateway gave way to a great number of services being offered, including the ability for the average person to communicate information digitally across a vast worldwide communications network. Wow… that's really cool too.
Fast forward now to modern times. Thanks a few little inventions like the transistor, the integrated circuit, and storage technology, we now live in a word where there is network connectivity, and the ability to access a wide variety of information and services from this thing called The Cloud. Now you can get on-demand movies with the push of a button, or have your refrigerator figure out you are getting low on milk and order more for you. Imagine trying to explain that to our friend Alex, the Phone Guy!
The ideas of services that could be offered from the cloud to an endpoint are coming fast and furious. During this disruptive phase, it is very difficult for equipment manufacturers, carriers, and service providers to stay current. Right now, there is only so much a cable modem, set top box, or digital television can do. And, in the commercial world, retrofitting communications gateways is expensive and time consuming. The missing link is a standards-based smart services gateway that is flexible enough to be able to serve the quickly changing world around us. Without this missing link, it will be difficult to realize the next evolution of services available to us.
Wind River has recognized the need for smart services gateway technology and has developed Wind River Platform for Gateways. This platform allows equipment manufacturers to quickly build smart service gateways for consumer, and M2M applications in the networking, medical, and industrial and other sectors. With Wind River Platform for Gateways, equipment makers have a platform they can use right away to develop service gateways that easily manage connected devices and services at the network edge and also scale to meet the demands of new services.
It will be hard to imagine what will happen next, but one thing is for sure, the service gateways will play a key role in whatever is to come.
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Nokia just blew our minds with the Pure View announcement. A Symbian powered device, the 808 features an astonishing 41MP sensor allowing photos to be taken in 5MP, 8MP and 38MP variants.
Photos can also be saved in special formats to allow easy sharing over social networks, email, etc. which will be important due to their potential size. The 808 is expected in May for an estimated 450 Euros.
Of course the big news is Nokia obviously plans to eventually bring this kind of tech our way to Windows Phone. But the OS will need to support that and we bet it won't happen till Apollo this Fall. But you can bet that will be a killer Windows Phone. Kudos to Nokia for the technological leap here.


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STOMP Celebrates American Heart Association's 'Go Red for Women' on Fox & Friends Today
See Stomp on "Fox & Friends" today, February 4 as they celebrate The American Heart Association's Go Red For Women campaign. Women have been fighting heart disease - the No. 1 killer of women - both individually and together as part of the Go Red For Women movement for 10 years. To date, more than 627,000 women's lives have been saved, but the fight is far from over. Women need the right information, education and care, in order to treat, prevent, and even end heart disease. Stomp, the international sensation and long running New York stage hit, wants to help to "Stomp out Heart Disease."
Created by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, Stomp is currently playing in New York, London's West End, on North American and European tours. In addition to the stage shows, Stomp has been an overwhelming success marked by rave reviews, numerous awards, an Academy Award nomination, four Emmy nominations and one Emmy Award for their acclaimed HBO special Stomp Out Loud, noteworthy TV appearances including The London 2012 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony, The Academy Awards (produced by Quincy Jones), Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and a series of award-winning international commercials. Stomp is the winner of an Olivier Award for Best Choreography (London's Tony Award); an Obie Award; a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatre Experience, and a Special Citation from Best Plays.
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HILLSVILLE — People from all over the region gathered at the Hillsville VFW on Saturday to celebrate the first-ever Christian Family Fun Day.
The event, sponsored by dozens of churches in the Twin Counties and beyond, kicked off with a parade at 10:30 a.m., followed by free food, games and entertainment from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
People smiled from their decorated vehicles while others followed on foot and distributed pamphlets for their respective churches along the parade route.
The children on the floats sang hymns and threw candies to the crowd as they passed.
After the parade, festivities began outside the VFW with a balloon release sponsored by Twin County Funerals. The crowd stood in the form of a cross and, on cue, released 500 red balloons into the sky.
The purpose of the event was for Christians to celebrate together and take time to appreciate their personal relationships with God.
"So many times, life gets ahead of us and we take our salvation for granted," said Twin County Funerals director Stephanie Rinehart.
Every aspect of the event was free, including the games, food and entertainment. The local churches set up booths that offered hot dogs, popcorn, snow cones and more. Bouncy castles, chalk drawings, dunking booths and hayrides were among the many different activities available.
Three stages were set up for various acts throughout the day. The preachers' stage inside the VFW featured speakers Austin Caviness, Vickie Viars, Marty Wood, Theron Phillips and Cas Horton. Each had a special message to share with the audience.
"We live in a world where, if we don't have [God's] strength to lean on, we won't make it," said Caviness, a news anchor with WXII Channel 12 in Winston-Salem, N.C. He explained that faith was something that must be exercised, and that "if you don't use it, someone will make you lose it."
The two outdoor stages featured music, drama, skits and dance acts. Music performers included The Alleys, Twice Born, Ben Tidwell (with Donna Godwin), Mount Zion Holiness Choir, Emily Arnold, Tremayne Blair, The Hillsville Homecoming Choir and Jeff Pickett.
Dramas and skits were performed by Woodlawn and Galax Pentecostal Holiness churches, Liberty Hill United Methodist Dance, Mount Zion Holiness Drama, Firesteppers, Cliffview Church of God, Hillsville First Baptist, Alpha Y Omega Drama and Coulson Church Puppet Ministry.
Seventeen businesses and organizations, along with several anonymous donors, lent a hand to help make the event possible. These included Twin County Funerals, Race Inn, Bert's Garage, Red Hill General Store, Carroll County Recycling, Hanks Insurance, Hills Trucking, New River Tire Recycling, Southern States of Hillsville, Mile High Burger, Lyons & Mitchell Attorneys, Webb Pharmacy and Hardee's restaurants of Mount Airy, N.C., Hillsville, Galax and Wytheville.
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When Adam McKay was announced, and then unannounced, as a contender to direct "Ant Man," moviedom's hive mind began racing at the possibilities. Did that mean Will Ferrell could potentially star as the insectoid hero? Could John C. Reilly could play his inevitable sidekick? Or maybe even Zach Galifianakis could play the title character's antagonist, a can of Raid.
Alas, we'll never know what a McKay "Ant Man" might have yielded, because the comedy director pulled out soon after. Still, Marvel has been reaching pretty far afield with its director choices lately. Which makes us wonder — what if some of them brought their past collaborators to their new adventures? After all, Marvel is all about reviving and redefining careers.
Here, then, are Marvel cast versions you could end up with if the studio really followed through and let the directors go wild.
Scott Derrickson, "Dr. Strange": Keanu Reeves, who played Klaatu in Derrickson's remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still," would make a fine Dr. Strange, the ex-neurosurgeon turned Sorcerer Supreme. Imagine, if you will, Reeves' Dr. Strange first obtaining his mystical powers and then delivering the actor's trademark "whoa." Then take a look at Reeves' resume: Supernatural experience? Yep, as a demon hunter in "Constantine." Action-movie bona fides? Sure, "The Matrix" trilogy. Ever played a doctor? Don't tell us you've already forgotten "Something's Gotta Give" or his dental turn in the indie "Thumbsucker."
Of course, every hero needs a villain, so why not also recruit Eric Bana, of Derrickson's upcoming "Deliver Us From Evil," to play the demonic creature Dormammu. Before you protest that Bana already played the Incredible Hulk, keep in mind that was back in 2003 — an eternity in Marvel years. Besides, Dormammu is a supernatural being with a flaming head, so he'd surely be rendered via CGI. All Bana would have to do is lay down a sinister growl and let Marvel's digital wizards do the rest.
James Gunn, 'Guardians of the Galaxy': Sure, the film is a long shot and ready to come out. And from the looks of things, Chris Pratt as the everyman hero Peter Quill-turned-Star Lord, Zoe Saldana as the green Gamora and Bradley Cooper as the battle tactician — and raccoon named Rocket — will prove an interesting mix, to say the least.
But c'mon, Pratt's already done the chosen-one thing with "The Lego Movie," Zoe Saldana has been down this intergalactic-fighting road before and Cooper, well, one could see him as a panther, maybe, or a wolf, but a raccoon?
What if, at least in the sequel, Pratt's pilot was someone Gunn worked with that you'd never expect? Like really never expect. Like Freddie Prinze Jr. never expect. Prinze starred in the big-screen "Scooby-Doo," which Gunn wrote. Everyone loves a comeback. And F-stop never really did get the shake he deserved in action blockbusters. Plus it's not like he has no experience in myth-heavy movies. Surely you'll recall "Delgo," in which, per Wikipedia, "After having left their own world due to a loss of natural resources, the winged humanoid Nohrin settle on Jhamora with the permission of the ground-dwelling Lokni." Just for being associated with that sentence he should get another shot.
And why not take Elizabeth Banks from Gunn's "Slither," who is always relegated to second banana in "The Hunger Games" but could go green as well as Saldana. Plus in "Slither" she was named Starla. Boom.
Meanwhile, Cooper's strategic duties could be handled by—who else--Rainn Wilson, star of Gunn's superhero satire "Super." Wasn't he always planning battle tactics against Jim on "The Office" anyway? Or at least potato-farm yields. Either way, unleash a little Dwight Schrute on the aliens and humanity will never go extinct.
Anthony and Joe Russo, "Captain America: Winter Soldier." Yes, they had the biggest opening of the year. But all that talk about surveillance and American relativism gets so dark after a while. Wouldn't it be great if the movie had a little more levity in it? Say, the kind of levity found in the Russo brothers' previous "You, Me & Dupree"?
Matt Dillon could star as hero Steve Rodgers, partnering with Kate Hudson's Agent Natasha Romanoff to fight threats on behalf of America. All seems well on their new counter-terrorism mission when the team is attacked by a mysterious killer named the winter soldier. It turns out the soldier is a combatant long thought gone from the American screen: Owen Wilson. Wilson's soldier is a deadly character, who brings victims to their untimely ends by delivering drawling lines and entering bedrooms unannounced. All is resolved, though, when Rodgers and Romanoff realize that all the winter soldier wants is a little love and friendship of his own.
It's not too late, Hollywood; comedic remakes of superhero movies could be a thing.
Alan Taylor, "Thor: The Dark World": You might be shocked to learn there aren't really any credible candidates to play Thor, the hammer-wielding Norse demigod, among the casts of "Palookaville," "Kill the Poor" or "The Emperor's New Clothes."
That being the case, we're going to have to cheat a bit and pull from Taylor's TV background, drafting Nikolaj Coster-Waldau from "Game of Thrones." He's a buff, blond Scandinavian hunk (Danish to be exact), and you could probably swap him in for Chris Hemsworth in "Thor 3" without many people even noticing.
But the real coup would be swapping out Christopher Eccleston as the malevolent Malekith. Yes, yes, the classically trained British actor has chops, but if you really want to mix it up, consider Taylor's "Palookaville" collaborator Vincent Gallo as Thor's antagonist. A proud provocateur, Gallo would surely relish knocking the Asgardian hero down a peg or two. He's an outsider like Malekith (the banished Dark Elf) and a trickster like Loki (Thor's troublesome half-brother), and he has already committed the ultimate act of cinematic villainy — he made "The Brown Bunny." Turning in an evil performance should be easy.


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Kymeta uses metamaterial technology in new ultra-thin satellite broadband receiver
Cloaking devices that render aircraft invisible to the naked eye remain in the realm of science fiction, for now, but the metamaterials research on which they may be based could enhance inflight connectivity on business and regional jets and commercial airliners in the next couple of years.
Kymeta Corp., a Redmond, Wash.-based start-up backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is using metamaterials research to develop a new software-defined satellite aperture aimed at fixed, mobile and portable high-speed Ka-band broadband applications in the aeronautical, maritime and land-based markets.
A spinoff of Bellevue, Wash.-based patent-mining company Intellectual Ventures (IV), Kymeta was founded by Nathan Kundtz, a leading researcher in the field of metamaterials who has spent the past decade studying the technology. Along with Gates—Kymeta's largest financial backer and a member of the board—co-investors Liberty Global and Lux Capital helped close a $12 million round of financing last summer to launch Kymeta after the company gained exclusive license from IV for satellite applications of metamaterial surface-antenna technology.
In addition to developing a laptop-sized portable satellite hot-spot device to access high-speed Internet service absent Wi-Fi or mobile broadband signals, Kymeta plans to leverage the coming wave of satellite-based Ka-band broadband with a new fuselage-hugging surface antenna that has no moving parts, is roughly the size of a pizza box and uses only a tiny fraction of the power typically needed for phased-array antennas.
Known as the Aero Antenna, the satellite receiver relies on microscopic synthetic structures carefully engineered to embody properties not found in nature that can be used to manipulate and bend incoming electromagnetic radiation, such as light or radio waves.
Kymeta Chairman and CEO Vern Fotheringham says the ultra-thin structure of the surface antenna's waveguide is designed through a blend of circuit-board manufacturing, chip-fabrication and liquid crystal display techniques. In the case of the Aero Antenna, metamaterial surface elements are tuned to electronically point and steer a radio signal to low, medium or geostationary orbit, providing a continuous broadband link between satellite and aircraft.
Unlike mechanically steered gimbal apertures that are typically large, cumbersome, heavy and prone to wear, the Aero Antenna is a small, low-profile aerodynamic receiver that could be ideal for business jets and other light aircraft. Compared to phased-array antennas, which can require more than a kilowatt of power to drive the aperture, Kymeta expects to achieve comparable performance using just 0.5 watts to drive the beam. And because the antenna's metamaterial elements can be manufactured through lithographic printing techniques, the final product is expected to be low in cost.
"We think this is going to open up a lot of opportunities in the smaller aircraft market—single-aisle and business jets—and ultimately commercial aviation will find a lot of applications that could not be served due to form-factor and cost considerations," Fotheringham says.
Last November, Kymeta entered into an exclusive two-year engineering contract with Inmarsat, an opportunity that will link the emerging technology to the new all-Ka-band Global Xpress satellite network slated to launch this year.
Aimed at the business aviation market, the Aero Antenna will be available only to Global Xpress users, providing an alternative to antenna hardware provided under an exclusive agreement signed last year with aerospace supplier Honeywell, valued at $2.8 billion over the next 20 years.
"Honeywell prides itself on advanced technology and innovation and is pleased to support this research endeavor," says Jack Jacobs, vice president of marketing and product management at Honeywell. "We are continuously looking to help deliver the most efficient and affordable connectivity products to the industry."
On April 5, Kymeta tested the first link between a geosynchronous satellite and one of the company's metamaterial antennas using a receive-only aperture pointed at a Ka-band feed from a DirecTV satellite in geostationary orbit.
"It was the first time for a flat-plate, holographic, beam-forming, electronic software-defined antenna to actually see a signal from a satellite," Fotheringham says of the test, which comprised eight of 32 subchannels that will eventually make up a full-scale aperture. "But the fact that it was seeing all the carriers and providing sufficient confirmation of link margin was a big deal."
In the coming months, the company plans to refine the antenna's design and increase performance, culminating in a first transmission demonstration later this year.
"What we are working on now is to assemble a full-sized panel and actually close the link with a satellite," Fotheringham says, adding that some of the challenges associated with metamaterial antenna technology have to do with efficiency, which improves at higher frequencies.
"The practical realities of scale direct us toward X-band and above," he says. "We could build an S-band or L-band version of this. It'd just be really big, and there are better ways to do that at those frequencies."
In addition to mobile, fixed and portable ground receivers, Fotheringham says Kymeta will explore the potential to develop metamaterial antennas for use on spacecraft. "We are exploring reconfigurable beams on satellites looking at the ground as well as links between satellites as we grow into maturity here," he says.
Kymeta's first contract was a study initiative awarded last year by start-up fleet operator O3b, which this year will launch the first eight satellites of an initial 12-satellite constellation in medium Earth orbit designed for Ka-band broadband applications in the oil and gas exploration, cellular backhaul, maritime, military and cruise ship markets.
"The project involved providing them a tracking antenna solution to get them an alternative to mechanically steered infrastructure," Fotheringham says. "The work study project came to conclusion a few months ago, and we're actively engaged with them to work to a prototype development here shortly."
The company is also discussing the potential for metamaterial surface-antenna technology to extend the life of on-orbit satellites with Luxembourg-based SES, the world's second-largest telecommunications satellites fleet operator by revenue. Near the end of a satellite's service life, the gradual loss of onboard propellant leaves it circling in an inclined orbit from which ground tracking can become a challenge.
"Because most satellites still have plenty of performance left in their solar panels, we're thinking about the ability to allow a satellite to continue its useful life with a low-cost ground segment that can track the inclined orbit," Fotheringham says.
In the meantime, Kymeta is expected to deliver the Aero Antenna to Inmarsat by November 2014, and separately plans to release its commercially available laptop-sized portable satellite receiver in the first quarter of 2015.
"We're getting a lot of pressure to go faster, but we're disciplined enough to stick to our plan and take a crawl-walk-run approach to becoming a viable contributor to the community," Fotheringham says.
Watch an animation of Kymeta's antenna at work on our On Space blog: http://ow.ly/kaeqM


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For the past five years or so, I've struggled with a pretty intense case of survivor's guilt.
It may sound silly, but I feel guilty because I was born in the United States of America to white, middle-class Christian parents, a fact that—through no merit of my own—has provided me with a more comfortable and privileged existence than most people in this world.
While I count calories in order to trim my waistline, hundreds of thousands of little children go to bed without enough food to eat. While I complain about too much clutter in my home, entire families are left homeless. While I worry about deadlines to meet and friends to see, many of my neighbors are sick, lonely, and forgotten. While I take things like plumbing and fresh water for granted, people around the world are barely surviving.
I spent a few years being mad at God about the situation.
Then I spent a few years being mad at The Church.
Now I'm just mad at myself, for not committing more time and resources to those in need.
I was talking with my parents about this the other day at the Chinese restaurant (yes, I see the irony!) and my dad gently asked me how much I would have to give away before I felt better, before my conscience was eased. If all I had left was a single crust of bread, would I feel guilty for not giving it away?
I said something about how Shane Claiborne would probably give his crust away.
Dad reminded me that not everyone can be Shane Claiborne because Shane Claiborne is pretty radical, then I reminded Dad that Jesus was radical too, then Dad reminded me that someone had to fund Jesus' ministry, and then I reminded Dad that the apostle Paul urged early Christians to pursue "equality" (2 Corinthians 8:13-15).
I spent the ride home from the restaurant grumbling to Dan about expensive church sound systems, all-you-can-eat buffet lines, and Republicans. I was convinced I was in the right—so why was I so miserable?
Now, God doesn't exactly speak to me the way he seems to speak to other people. As I've mentioned before, I don't get play-by-play directions from him, and I don't hear his voice very often. But that afternoon, the famous lines from 1 Corinthians 13 came suddenly to my mind:
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing (1 Corinthians 13:1-3).
I realized that I was giving out of guilt, not love. And according to Paul, even the greatest, most dramatic acts of charity will leave me feeling empty if I do them out of self-interest (easing my conscience) rather than out of love (easing other people's burdens).
[Note that Paul says that, "I gain nothing." For a kid in desperate need of clean water, a well is a well—regardless of whether a donor gave out of love or guilt. I firmly believe that giving out of guilt is better than not giving at all, and that sometimes our acts of faithfulness must precede (or do without) our pure motives.]
So lately I've been asking God to show me how to give out of guilt rather than love. A few things have come to mind:
- First of all, I've got to stop measuring the amount of love in my life by the amount of money/publicity I give to my favorite non-profit organizations. The truth is, it's easier for me to love people I have never met (kids with AIDS in Africa) than it is to love people I have met (that hard-core conservative down the street who always gives me flack about my politics). It's easier for me to have compassion on the widows I spent a week with in India than the women I see every day. It's easier for me to say I am intellectually committed to Jesus' teaching that we are to love our enemies than it is for me to let go of the bitterness I carry around from people who have wronged me. In other words, if I have no compassion for my friends and neighbors, what I give to strangers is just charity—not love. But if I can become more patient, kind, understanding, forgiving and compassionate toward those around me, what I give to those in far away places will come from the overflow of love already in my heart.
- Secondly, I've got to stop looking at the "poor and needy" as mere objects of my charity and actually form interdependent relationships with the people around me—where I am a part of their community and they are a part of my community. It's so much harder, yet so much more authentic and rewarding, to give to people I know than it is to give to people I keep at arm's length. It's even harder (for me) to make it reciprocal, to accept their help and friendship in return. My pride likes to keep me in the position of giving rather than receiving.
- Finally, my favorite trick for easing my conscience is to judge people who don't give as much or care as much as I do. But this is not love. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. The best way to inspire others to give more is not to tell them to give more, but to live as an example—without judgment, without pride, without envy, without (gulp) cynicism. (Looks like I'm going to have to meditate on this passage a bit more!)
But even with all these things in mind, I still struggle almost every day with guilt, so I need your help.
How do you overcome guilt and start giving out of love?
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