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Over the past four years, the American steel industry has undergone a dynamic transformation that has yielded a competitive, strategic, technologically advanced and environmentally progressive industry. As most AMM readers who follow the industry know, the crisis period spanning 1998 to 2003, during which cheap foreign steel was illegally dumped on U.S. shores, led to many bankruptcies and layoffs. During the breathing space afforded by the Section 201 tariffs imposed by the Bush administration, America's steel industry underwent extensive consolidation, forged new labor-management agreements and developed a more effective cost structure.
Out of this period of dramatic change, a revitalized domestic steel industry emerged just as global demand for steel surged, primarily due to massive industrial expansion in China and other parts of Asia. The transformation isn't over. Overdue investments in advanced technologies occurred during the Section 201 period and have continued at a brisk pace, producing impressive gains in the environmental arena and in productivity. Even today, consolidation and its associated efficiencies continue.
Moving forward, the American Iron and Steel Institute's leadership believed that the crisis period had left lingering negative perceptions of the industry among an audience critical to the industry's future Washington policymakers. To determine whether this premise was correct, the AISI commissioned research by Harris Interactive in March 2006 to determine the extent to which policymakers viewed the American steel industry in outdated or unfavorable terms.
Interviews were conducted among 302 politically active opinion elites living within the Washington metropolitan region, who for research purposes served as a surrogate policymakers' group. The benchmark research showed that a plurality of respondents viewed the steel industry as old, dirty and outdated rather than modern, high-tech, clean and globally competitive. Most respondents (62 percent), however, were found to be in the middle—meaning there was ample room to change opinions.
As AISI's board of directors considered how best to address misperceptions, changing opinions became a central objective because doing so would position the steel industry more positively in terms of its public policy agenda. AISI's board determined that an educational campaign aimed at Washington policymakers would complement the industry's aggressive public policy efforts. AISI's leadership conjectured that the industry could not expect sound and fair public policy from Congress or from the Bush administration if government decision-makers didn't know the facts that demonstrate the domestic steel industry is technologically advanced, globally competitive and strategic to America's future.
AISI's New Steel campaign was launched in June 2006, targeting Washington policymakers and focusing on a platform of global competitiveness, emphasizing that America's steel industry is the backbone of U.S. manufacturing, that we're reducing our environmental footprint and that the steel industry is vital to America's economic and national security.
One of the unique things about the campaign is that it's designed to address a knowledge gap, not to push a specific piece of legislation. Having Congress and other policymakers understand the facts about our industry and the rationale in regard to our positions helps us bolster our case for seeking sound public policy that will support maintaining a healthy, viable domestic steel industry in the United States.
Since the launch of the campaign, we have unveiled five print advertisements and four radio spots that mirror the print ad messages. All of the ads focus on the key messages of the campaign 1) we are a strategic industry, essential to America's economy and national security; 2) we are committed to sustainable development; 3) we are a high-technology industry; and 4) we are a globally competitive industry.
The ads to date include "The Backbone of America," which discusses the industry's economic importance and impact; "The Clean Little Secret," which highlights the industry's positive environmental story; "America's Job Engine," focusing on the people behind the industry; "The Brains Behind the Brawn," touting the industry's technological advancements; and "Setting the Standard," which highlights the industry's environmental leadership and suggesting that other steelmakers around the world need to shoulder their fair share of the responsibility, since global problems require global solutions.
The print and radio ads are appearing throughout the Washington area in publications and on radio stations frequented by our target audience Washington policymakers. The campaign also features online ads, which the AISI has leveraged by placing Web site banners featuring the campaign images and messages on our own Web site (www.steel.org). In addition, our print ads are displayed inside the Washington Metro System's subway cars and in the large-scale dioramas that appear throughout the underground stations. We selected stations most frequented by those making or influencing policy to display our campaign ads as a very cost-effective element of the campaign.
We also have focused on aligning our key messages among our 20 U.S.-based AISI members who are underwriting the campaign. To achieve this, we identified a task group of senior company executives who provide input on all the creative efforts, have been actively involved in reviewing and giving feedback on copy points and continue to serve as an important team for proper coordination.
Another way the messages of the campaign are being extended is through the headquarters offices of our member companies. We have sent out to our members supporting the campaign poster-sized versions of the ads suitable for framing. Many have told us they have had positive feedback from employees, customers and community leaders who have visited their offices. In addition, AISI members are using the materials we have developed to reaffirm our campaign messages when they meet with congressional representatives.
These materials include our "Backbone Kit," which was created to be used as an educational tool as industry spokesmen talk about today's clean, modern, high-tech steel industry. Included in the kit are copies of our print ads, article reprints about the campaign and supporting fact sheets. The kits have been especially useful in face-to-face meetings with congressional press secretaries and with reporters we have talked specifically to about the campaign and its key messages.
In evaluating the success of the campaign, there are four areas that we are focusing on 1) media and online coverage; 2) outreach on Capitol Hill; 3) research results; and 4) what people are saying. Since the launch of the campaign, major media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the National Journal, have published significant stories profiling the campaign and its objectives. Our online ads also garnered favorable coverage on www.washingtonpost.com and www.nationaljournal.com, achieving more than 10 million impressions this year.
In terms of a campaign presence on Capitol Hill, we believe that common and unified messaging has provided higher impact briefings and testimony. In 2006 and 2007, more than 150 members, congressional staff and federal officials attended Capitol Hill briefings held by the AISI and its member companies on a variety of policy issues, and more than 50 face-to-face meetings took place with press secretaries and legislative aides specifically to review key messages of the campaign. Since Capitol Hill is a key demographic of our target audience for this campaign, gaining exposure on the Hill is an important aspect of changing the outdated perceptions some policymakers have about our industry.
The most important evaluations of campaign success, however, are research results and what people among, or influencing, our target audience are saying, because these evaluate whether or not we've actually changed perceptions. In April 2007 and again in October, Harris Interactive conducted research to compare progress of the campaign against the original benchmark survey findings from March 2006. What Harris found was that there has been a definite overall shift of opinion about the industry, with a plurality of respondents now identifying the industry as modern, clean, high-tech and globally competitive, and the number of those viewing the industry as old and outdated significantly decreasing. And a growing number of people are starting to recognize the message about steel being the most recycled material in the world, with a seven-point improvement in this area.
Further, comments from congressional staff members indicate that the ads are conveying our key messages and further supporting our broader goal of shifting perceptions about the industry. For example, a press secretary on the House side commenting on the "Clean Little Secret" ad said "I see that this ad is trying to win our new Congress' support by educating them about the advancements that their industry has made, proving that they are worthy of congressional support."
While all of these evaluations of the campaign's success are encouraging, there is still work that needs to be done. Shifting perceptions about an industry takes time, and thus perseverance over an extended period. It's a fact that innovation and technology have transformed America's steel industry into one of the world's most competitive, sustainable and environmentally progressive, with the sector ahead of Kyoto greenhouse gas emission goals by 240 percent. But if policymakers do not understand this and fashion policy that disadvantages us in the global marketplace, our domestic steel industry could be a thing of the past. As policymakers continue to come to understand the modern profile of America's steel industry, they can better shape sound public policy that recognizes steel as an industry strategic to America's national and economic security.
Andrew G. Sharkey III is president and chief executive officer of the American Iron and Steel Institute, Washington.
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How Will Obama, Romney Spend Election Day?
A day of campaigning and basketball is in store for the presidential candidates. Laura Meckler and Sara Murray joins Lunch Break from the Romney and Obama camps. Photo: Getty Images.
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… the amazing, dangerous, and beautiful things you can do with the proper application of chemistry and physics? Mad Science 2, by Theodore Gray, collects short articles explaining the concepts behind more than thirty projects, including incinerating a diamond and cutting steel with bacon. This book covers everything from how carbide miner's lamps worked to charging a cell phone using an apple and pennies.
Each article has a brief description of the experiment and the scientific principles involved, an overview of how it was done, several amazing photographs, and the warnings. They are very serious warnings because many of the projects displayed in this book are extremely dangerous. You, yes you, could do these experiments with the proper training (and/or supervision) and the right equipment. If you don't have that, enlist the help of someone who does. While you're working on that (or if you don't mind getting your excitement second hand), read this book and pick out your favorite experiment — turning a frozen turkey into a fireball, sticking your hand in liquid nitrogen, creating a shower of sparks, freezing mercury…. There are so many cool things that it's hard to pick one.
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Amiga, Inc.'s role in the Amiga world of today is a rather unclear one - even after following the Amiga community for a quite a while now, I'm still not entirely sure what Amiga, Inc. actually does, other than hold the Amiga trademark and associated intellectual property.
As far as I know, the complicated history kind of goes like this. In 1982, Jay Miner founded Hi-Toro, later renamed as Amiga Corporation. In 1984, Commodore International bought Amiga Corporation. Then, in 1994, Commodore International went belly-up, selling all its assets to a German computer company called Escom, which in turn went under in 1996. Gateway 2000 then bought the Amiga brand, but they had to sell it again in 1999 to Amino Development for 5 million USD. Gateway retained ownership of Amiga's patents.
By the way, those patents are probably worth a damn fortune at this point - you could sue pretty much every single computer company (hard and software) with that stuff, since the Amiga pioneered on both the soft and hardware front. The fun part? The Amiga patent portfolio is currently owned by... Acer. Gateway 2000 is currently an Acer subsidiary, so if Acer ever feels the need to litigate because they can't compete... Well, computer world, hold on to your panties.
Amino Development was Bill McEwen's company, and still is today, renamed as Amiga, Inc. The original press release for Amino's purchase of the Amiga trademark is... Cruel. Just... Cruel. Heartbreaking. "Yee-haw " said Bill McEwen in that press release, "This is a very exciting day, and now an even more exciting tomorrow. Now we can finish the job that was started 15 years ago." Yeah.
And that's where we're at now. Amiga, Inc. never produced anything, and as far as I know, its role in the Amiga world was to not respond to requests to give out licenses for Amiga hardware. This changed about a year ago when Hyperion (developers of AmigaOS 4) and Amiga, Inc. settled their lawsuit.
Amiga, Inc.'s last act was to license the Amiga hardware brand to Commodore USa, the rather comical outfit who decided to threaten us with legal action in this year's largest lolwut?-story on OSNews. And now Bill McEwen is selling the Amiga trademark and related IP (as said, that's without patents, those belong to Acer).
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Windows Azure Active Directory( AAD ) provides identity management and access control capabilities for your cloud applications. The AAD graph API will let you access the information in the directory through a very simple RESTful service. The AAD graph service is built upon Web technologies like HTTP, JSON and OData and thus it is platform and device independent. You should be able to build your application using your favorite platform whether it be .Net, PHP, Java script, Java etc and should be able to consume the Graph API in a simple manner. There are several classes of cloud applications and the specific needs for these are vastly different. We will try to provide samples and walk throughs for some end to end scenarios on different platforms using Graph API through this blog.
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A Design Star's Small Space: Daniel & Dasha's 375 Sq.Ft. Manhattan Hideaway
You may remember Daniel Grady Faires, the furniture maker voted "Fan Favorite" from Season 5 of HGTV's Design Star. And you may remember his cool, reclaimed-industrial style... but did you know that he has a tiny Lower East Side apartment that's just as cool?
Daniel and his lovely wife, Dasha, have turned a small, dark space into a cozy haven of creativity using largely found items and Ikea basics. Yet their home looks anything but basic. A large chalkboard wall is scribbled with messages from friends. Exposed brick is bathed in candlelight, flea market treasures are displayed throughout, and everywhere there's evidence of Daniel's custom furniture and DIY projects. If that weren't enough, there's even a patio — strung with lights, sprinkled with plants and ever ready to receive the multitude of friends that often visit the couple...
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It isn't hard to convince kids to join in the fun of making holiday cookies. After all, the reward is dozens and dozens of cookies, as well as a bonanza of icing, frosting or powdered sugar to decorate them. But not every cookie recipe is a good choice for children; some are too fussy, others combine flavors most kids won't appreciate. These 10 recipes use kid-friendly flavors, include interactive steps that are fun for little hands — chocolate-dipping! sugar-dusting! — and don't require any special techniques.
• 1 Two-Bite Nutella Chocolate Cookies: Tint the icing red and add a little mint extract to transform this Halloween treat into a candy-cane-striped cookie.
• 2 Gingerbread Christmas Tree Ornaments: Pretty, sturdy gingerbread cookies that can be hung on the tree or eaten once frosted.
• 3 Peanut Butter & Fudge Oatmeal Cookies: Peanut butter oatmeal cookies with a dollop of chewy, melting chocolate fudge on top that are so simple to make, they don't even require a mixer.
• 4 Holiday Snowballs: A glittery riff on Mexican wedding cookies.
• 5 Brown Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting: Made with a touch of whole wheat flour, these cut-out cookies are irresistible with a big dollop of cream cheese frosting on top.
• 6 Super-Soft Snickerdoodles: A cinnamon-spiced classic.
• 7 Sensational Peanut Butter Cookies: Our version of the no-flour, no-butter recipe that has taken the Internet by storm.
• 8 Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies with Cherries and Pecans: Chunky cookies that are easy to adapt with whatever add-ins your child wants — or doesn't want.
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Marcus agrees with Jack. "We have to go back!" to Lost Season 4 on Blu-ray
Previously on Lost...
Flight 815 is on its way to LA from Sydney when it disappears. We discover that the plane has crash landed on a mysterious island that appears to be a paradise, but turns out to be far more. Throughout season one, the survivors of 815 come up against polar bears, ghosts of their dead relatives, a batty old French woman and also discover a hatch hidden underneath the ground. All this and Walt (Malcolm David Kelley), a young boy who survived the crash is kidnapped by the islands original inhabitants, the Others. 'We're gonna have to take the boy.'
Into season two and after opening said hatch to discover the first of many Dharma stations (Dharma apparently being a research organisation that used to be based on the island) our losties get roped into pushing a button every one hundred and eight minutes or potentially the world will end. On top of that, the threat of the Others increases and there's the added drama of discovering there are also survivors from the tail section of the downed plane. On top of all this there are ongoing visits from people or animals or objects that should not be on the island and seemingly have connections to the 815 survivors' lives before they came to the island and then to put the cherry on the top of this already dramatic cake, John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), 815's used to be in a wheelchair but can now walk guy has a crisis of faith, doesn't push the button and the sky goes purple. 'I was wrong.'
Season three, and Jack (Matthew Fox), the doctor who has to fix things, Kate (Evangeline Lilly), the killer on the run and Sawyer (Josh Holloway), the con man, have been captured by the Others and are all being held in another of the Dharma stations. The island, which incidentally is no longer invisible to the outside world, gets even more mysterious and we really begin to get a history of what this island may have been used for in the past—mainly through the back story of the Others' leader, Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson). We discover women cannot carry a full term of pregnancy on the island no matter how much the, 'is she a goodie/ is she baddie?' Juliette (Elizabeth Mitchell) tries in her research to fix the problem. We also get our first meetings with the mysteriously ageless Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell) and a glimpse at who we're told is the master of ceremonies on the island, Jacob (man I wish I knew who played this guy), who is proper spooky.
The big cliff hanger for the season three, which left many a Lost fan chomping at the bit for more, involved making contact with a freighter just off shore, apparently there to rescue the losties, though many an islander feared the freighter is there for more heinous reasons. Countering all of that was a messed up Jack Shepherd, all whacked out on pills, bearded and trying to contact someone on the phone. This initially felt like a flashback story, which up to this point is how the show works episode by episode in order to fill us in on the islanders' lives before they were islanders. However, the cliff hanger came with Jack finally getting in contact with who he was after and arranging to meet them at the airport. The person he contacted turns out to be Kate, another of 815's survivors, and the realisation sets in that this was not a flashback at all. This was a flash forward and shows us that at least two of our losties managed to get off the island—even though Jack is insisting 'we have to go back'.
So into season four and our islanders wait patiently for rescue, but Lost being Lost means this isn't simple. For starters we immediately kick off in the future in an episode titled 'The Beginning of the End' where we meet up with another 815 survivor who has seemingly got off the island. I won't say who it is as I know that Lost has quite a strong following of viewers who hold out for the complete experience on box set (I salute you for your patience), but they are arrested by the cops after a high speed car chase and whilst being restrained rant on about how they are one of the Oceanic 6. So yes, season four is already a whole new Lost experience. Not only do you go into each episode not sure if we are getting a flashback or flash forward but the first half of the season uses the new flash forward technique to let us know who these 'six' characters are who managed to leave the island are as well as worrying for those who seemingly haven't. It's actually a bloody good little television trick. Using the current story on the island with the losties waiting/fighting for rescue, countered with the many hints in the flash forward future stories that the events leading up to the rescue weren't exactly ideal and even a bit of nightmare, you find the drama of the show turned up to eleven as the thirteen episodes play out.
As Lost has one of the most spoiler sensitive audiences out there and not everyone has seen the season I won't give anything else away, but what I will say is this is one hell of a season. I'm not scared to admit that at this point in time I am a complete Lost geek and have been for a very long time. I went into the first season with very little background knowledge of the show other than knowing Charlie from Party of Five was in it joined by one of the hobbits and that funny tache'd guy from Millennium. A couple of episodes in and I was more intrigued than I have been with a TV show since the X-files and my only concern was that this couldn't possibly sustain itself. I picked up the US season one boxset about midway through its run on UK's airing schedule (yes I'm impatient) and over a weekend my wife and I blitzed through it. It became compulsive viewing and much more than just a show about castaways.
Despite being a little under whelmed with the season one finale, season two got me forever hooked. I adored everything there was to adore about the show and still regard it as my favourite of the seasons so far, if not of all television shows in general. The Dharma initiative stuff was a genius move and once again I'll admit my geekiness but season two bought about my love of hitting forums after every episode and seeing the many Easter eggs and clues peppered throughout the episodes, whether it be the Dharma logo on a shark's tale or Marvin Candle (François Chau) having a prosthetic arm and even a background ornament you see in the hatch that happens to also be in Kate's flashback. Seriously I get great amounts of joy out of this stuff and there may be something wrong with me.
Season three wasn't quite the same experience. As many a Lost fan will tell you, it had some problems, mainly due to scheduling and having huge chunks of weeks off during its run. It felt a little disjointed and really struggled to find its feet, especially when it came to what do with the losties on the beach camp, who played very much as second fiddle to the Others vs. Jack, Kate and Sawyer. However it was still by far the best show on television and when I re-watched it as a whole on DVD the problems I had with it initially were almost unnoticeable - as is the joy of TV boxset viewing.
As you can probably tell by this stage I am one of 'those' Lost fans. The ones who can talk with friends about the most farfetched of theories for hours and take great amounts of joy seeing if our theories play out or indeed don't, which in all honesty is just as much fun. Lost just shines quality, out of a TV schedule that can sometimes feel a little flat and safe, relying on repetitive threads and refusing to push characters or indeed its audience forward. The fact that Lost gets lumped in with the likes of Heroes in the media infuriates me and is somewhat of an insult considering the un-chartable chasm in quality storytelling between the two shows.
With season four, I feel that Lost yet again managed to step up a gear. The show has an uncanny knack of upping its game and reinventing itself and with its makers officially confirming that the show would end in its sixth season, going into season four with an end in sight was sick-exciting. The season's events really came with the feeling that we were finally getting the answers we'd been promised. I am so entwined in these characters fates at this point, that every little moment plays out perfectly, whether it be a knowing glance from Ben, a rash decision by Jack, or Locke blowing something else up. The fact the Lost creators feel confident enough to throw an episode like The Constant (which without giving anything away, is as kooky as it is genius) is a credit to the show's bravery.
Everything just feels perfectly natural and believable and important to the bigger story, which coming out of season four's beautifully constructed thirteen episode run fills me with confidence that the impossible might happen and a TV show might deliver something more than just a convenient underwhelming conclusion that stifles many a classic TV show. Lost looks like it might actually go out on the super rewarding high that everyone involved in the show seems so adamant to uphold. I for one am on board and after coming out of my umpteenth viewing of season four, I'm filled with every confidence this will happen.
This was my first voyage into Lost in HD and it was immediately impressive. A big chunk of Lost is shot in exterior locations on a brightly lit Hawaiian beach and in dense tropical style forests so to say that it was made for an HD transfer isn't too far a stretch.
Lost's style comes with that slightly seventies look grain to the film stock which really makes the show looks every bit as good as a movie. What's immediately apparent is just how sharp and detailed the image is. Skin tones are not only well presented but their textures are also very well captured. Jack's grey stubble looks incredible as well as Ben's blood soaked face clogging in every wrinkle. The grains of sand on the beach look amazing against the rich blue ocean and all in all anything that's based outside looks nothing like I'd seen Lost ever before. It really was impressive.
It's not all great though. Lost has never handled too well in darker scenes—never did on TV and never did on DVD. It does a better job on Blu-ray but it's still problematic. The really dark areas of the frame can look a little muddy but never terrible and in some of the interior scenes that are low lit detail can suffer ever so slightly. That said, these are minor issues at best and I came away very impressed with the Blu-ray presentation of Lost. It's just a shame that there seems to be no signs of the previous seasons hitting the format anytime soon.
Lost sounds great here. For a show based heavily on dialogue and with a fantastic score to sell its story and emotion, this mix does a very good job. Noticeable highlights include the use of the surround speakers when there are a lot of people in the scene. There was a real sense that many of the small pockets of surrounding characters were talking amongst themselves whilst the main dramatic dialogue was happening as the main focus. The atmospheric noises within the forests, underground bunkers and the freighter were all very well used within the surround speakers and quite frankly the smoke monster has never sounded so good but being in what seems an aggressive state probably helped that along its way.
Lost has built up a quite a stable of sounds unique to its storytelling over its four seasons and I'm glad to report that this has been thought about when all of these season box sets have been put together as it's every bit as important as the other elements that makes this show so good.
First let me say that I've loved all of the Lost season boxset menu designs thus far and I'm glad they've stuck to the style. For those who may not have seen them, they use locations from the show and have the options dotted around the frame. It's all very much in keeping with the shows visual style and I for one think more shows should take this much care and attention. Anyway, with this Blu-ray, there are even smoother and quicker transitions and the menu selections are even more enjoyable to skip around.
Most of the features are housed on disc five, but there are a few splattered throughout. Of course we get new spangled 'season play' where you can come and go from watching Lost and the disc plays back from where you left it. There's a great little feature that was used to get people up to speed before the season aired on TV called 'Lost in 8:15', which gives you an eight minute catch up of everything that came before what you are about to see. I love stuff like this and it's done with some wit to make it fun for even the most hardcore Lost fan who knows all this stuff already.
There are a handful of commentaries dotted about some select episodes, that come from cast and crew and all somehow manage to remain informative and fun. I especially dug Evangeline Lilly's (Kate) goofing about with Jorge Garcia (Hurley) on the opening episode's commentary track, it's nice to hear actors having fun on a show and not taking it all too seriously.
Moving onto the big ol' disc five features disc, I started with the Mobisodes or 'Lost Missing Pieces' (31:22). These were shown online and sent to mobile phones in the thirteen week build up to season four's opener and turned out to be far more interesting than many gave them credit for. Essentially they are small moments that happened between the events of the last three seasons but rather than just being used as a way to let people catch up (which some are) the Lost creators actually laid down some incredibly big things to think about. The mobisode showing the Other's reaction to what seems to be Walt's apparent 'powers' when he was taken is staggering and the final mobisode featuring a spooky Christian Shepherd moments before Jack woke up in the season one opening scene is very exciting stuff. Basically what could have been mere fillers turn out to be every bit as involving and thought out as the actual show.
'Lost on Location' (41:54) which is split into eight chapters, focuses on the making of the episodes and is a great watch. There are interviews and a look at set ups and a lot of on-set footage showing how they do what they do—a great set of featurettes.
'The Island Backlot: Lost in Hawaii' (17:53) looks at the real island of Oahu in the South Pacific which the show is made on. This really shows off the magic of film making and just how diverse this island is. Every location in the show, no matter what country the story is set in, is recreated here. Iraq, Germany, England, you name it, they've built it. The set designers really do make miracles happen seamlessly and when they show off some of the CGI work that really sells the location, it's incredibly impressive and more so unnoticeable (in the good way).
'The Right To Bear Arms' (11:15) initially feels like it might be a bit of a throwaway piece about the weapons of Lost, but once again it's a featurette that really shows off how much thought goes into the show. This actually charts the journeys of what started out as a limited batch of guns in season one throughout the show's run. Who had them, who they've ended up in the hands of and the poor guy that actually has the job of keeping a log about this sort of stuff and how he's become the bane of the writers' lives when he questions "which" gun they are referring to in their scripts. It's a great watch.
'Soundtrack of Survival' (16:07) is three live recordings of the fantastic Lost score. This features the pieces: Character, Conflict and Crash and all in front of an audience.
'Lost Bloopers' (3:22) and deleted scenes (9:11) are all a lot of fun to look through. The nine deleted scenes all add a little weight to smaller moments within season four and are usually only cut for time reasons rather than being choppable fluff.
'The Oceanic Six: Conspiracy of Lies' (21:16) was a brilliant surprise. Rather than another featurette about who the six are, which wasn't what I expected, this is actually a fake TV style documentary about how the Oceanic Six's story may be perceived in the real world. Told with a hokey voice over and featuring opinions from experts about the realism of the Oceanic 815 wreckage and how it could have been faked or discussing why none of these six survivors hair hadn't grown or why they hadn't lost weight is brilliant. There's even a hint that these six may have eaten Boone, Libby and Charlie to stay alive and this is their big bad secret. This really is one for the fans and a nice addition to the reality of Lost.
The Freighter Folk (12:40) introduces us to the shows newbies, Miles, Daniel, Frank, Keamy and Charlotte and 'Off Shore Shoot' (7:50) shows us the complications that came with filming on a freighter in the middle of the ocean.
Now you'd think that would be enough, but Lost season four has more up its sleeve. 'Course of the Future: The Definitive Interactive Flash Forwards' is a great little addition to help us along with this new way of telling the story. We get a small intro from the show runners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof (2:27) then a little game in which we have to put the flash forward scenes into chronological order. As someone who prides himself on following this stuff closely, I had a few issues with a couple of the scenes. This was the first game on Blu-ray or DVD that I'd played that didn't have a series of pauses and annoyance between selections. It flows seamlessly and is very playable given the fact you can do multiple things at the same time without the disc having to catch up.
Anyway once you've cracked that you get the opportunity to watch all of the flash forward scenes in a number of ways—either one long run, which actually solidifies these events nicely or you can follow any of the characters who got off the island (again I won't name them to save the surprises). On top of this you can watch them with script and story excerpts from the Lost writers.
There's meant to be a whole batch of Easter Eggs as is usual with Lost but I've not found any at the time of this review.
Phew, Lost season four watched again with all the features was a blast. Lost works well enough on TV but watching it back to back at your own pace is always a great way to revisit the best show out there.
I am a huge fan of Lost, so I've probably responded to all of this with a heightened sense of reward, but there's no denying that what we have here is a show that takes advantage of its Blu-ray possibilities as well as catering for its fans with a wealthy set of informative and interesting features and there's nothing more you can ask for as a fan of Lost (except, maybe more Marvin Candle).
Oh, and what's even better is season five begins January 21st 2009 in the US and hopefully not long after in the UK.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Marcus Doidge
VisualTinker Member Join Date: September 2008 Location: Taiwan, Republic Of China Posts: 5
Awesome review dude, as usual spot on and very informative.
I need more time to take everything in. I love Lost but had my doubts about watching it again and again, however it appears I was wrong and this is indeed a great Blu Ray to add to the collection. I'm now looking forward to some time off over Christmas and rewatching as much as possible before the next series hits!
I need more time to take everything in. I love Lost but had my doubts about watching it again and again, however it appears I was wrong and this is indeed a great Blu Ray to add to the collection. I'm now looking forward to some time off over Christmas and rewatching as much as possible before the next series hits!
Blue-Kal-El Member Join Date: October 2006 Location: United States Posts: 602
Great review...but I can't seem to get pass season 1...
Bouncy X Member Join Date: March 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,931
cant wait to see this in blu-ray. i have the first two season on dvd but then they announced the end so i decided to stop and would just collect the eventual complete series collection. and since seasons 3 and 4 are blu (5 and 6 are sure to be as well), i'm sure eventually the rest will be too. i'm a sucker for box sets so i can only imagine what they'll make it look like.
anyway this season was great, weird and out there....i would have never imagined the show becoming this way based on season 1 but i love it, it fits and it works. cant wait til january.
anyway this season was great, weird and out there....i would have never imagined the show becoming this way based on season 1 but i love it, it fits and it works. cant wait til january.
shatnerfan Member Join Date: June 2008 Location: United States Posts: 71
I watched Season 1 and 2 faithfully, but at times after that, I got the distinct impression that J.J. and crew were making stuff up as they went along, so I only watch here and there.
All I have to say is: after all the hours the faithful have devoted to the show and talking about it, I sure hope the big secret at the end is worth it (taking into account, of course, the massive hype leading up to it). Personally, I can't see how they can wrap it up without taking huge liberties with logic, science, continuity, etc.
All I have to say is: after all the hours the faithful have devoted to the show and talking about it, I sure hope the big secret at the end is worth it (taking into account, of course, the massive hype leading up to it). Personally, I can't see how they can wrap it up without taking huge liberties with logic, science, continuity, etc.
They've already taken a massive leap with science but backed it up with enough logic within the continuity to allow the audience to go with it wholeheartedly.
Sam Spade Member Join Date: January 2007 Location: United States Posts: 2,032
So ready for the new season.
Trailer for the new Season
Sam Spade Member Join Date: January 2007 Location: United States Posts: 2,032
Marcus1138 wrote: Trailer for the new Season
Seen it, thanks. Looks "revealing."
Seen it, thanks. Looks "revealing."
Absolutely. Looks like they're hinting at a lot of filling in of gaps. Great stuff
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Disc Details
Release Date: 20th October 2008
Discs: 5
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Italian, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish, DTS 5.1 Italian, DTS 5.1 Spanish, PCM 5.1 English
Subtitles: English, English for th Hearing Impared, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Portuguese, Dutch
Extras: Commentaries, Featurettes, Deleted Scenes, Gag Reel, Inereactive Flash Forwards, Series Play
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jack Bender, Paul A. Edwards, Stephen Williams, Eric Laneuville, Stephen Semel
Cast: Matthew Fox, Michael Emerson, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Henry Ian Cusick, Terry O'Quinn
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi and Thriller
Length: 598 minutes
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Carbon nanotubes to replace silicon: IBM
October 29, 2012
IBM scientists have precisely placed and tested more than 10,000 carbon nanotube devices in a single chip, using standard semiconductor manufacturing processes — paving the way for carbon technology to replace silicon in future computing and allowing further miniaturization of computing components. The development promises to lead the way for future microelectronics, with controlled placement of individual nanotubes at a density of about a billion per square centimeter.
Silicon transistors are approaching a point of physical limitation. Their increasingly small dimensions, now reaching the nanoscale, will prohibit any gains in performance due to the nature of silicon and the laws of physics. Within a few more generations, classical scaling and shrinkage will no longer yield the sizable benefits of lower power, lower cost and higher speed processors that the industry has become accustomed to.
Carbon nanotubes represent a new class of semiconductor materials whose electrical properties are more attractive than silicon, particularly for building nanoscale transistor devices that are a few tens of atoms across. Electrons in carbon transistors can move easier than in silicon-based devices allowing for quicker transport of data. The nanotubes are also ideally shaped for transistors at the atomic scale, an advantage over silicon. These qualities are among the reasons to replace the traditional silicon transistor with carbon — and coupled with new chip design architectures — will allow computing innovation on a miniature scale for the future.
The Road to Carbon
Carbon nanotubes are single atomic sheets of carbon rolled up into a tube. The carbon nanotube forms the core of a transistor device that will work in a fashion similar to the current silicon transistor, but will be better performing. They could be used to replace the transistors in chips that power our data-crunching servers, high performing computers and ultra fast smart phones.
Earlier this year, IBM researchers demonstrated carbon nanotube transistors can operate as excellent switches at molecular dimensions of less than ten nanometers — less than half the size of the leading silicon technology. Comprehensive modeling of the electronic circuits suggests that about a five to ten times improvement in performance compared to silicon circuits is possible.
Sorting out the semiconductors
There are practical challenges for carbon nanotubes to become a commercial technology notably, as mentioned earlier, due to the purity and placement of the devices. Carbon nanotubes naturally come as a mix of metallic and semiconducting species and need to be placed perfectly on the wafer surface to make electronic circuits.
For device operation, only the semiconducting kind of tubes is useful which requires essentially complete removal of the metallic ones to prevent errors in circuits. Also, for large scale integration to happen, it is critical to be able to control the alignment and the location of carbon nanotube devices on a substrate.
To overcome these barriers, IBM researchers developed a novel method based on ion-exchange chemistry that allows precise and controlled placement of aligned carbon nanotubes on a substrate at a high density — two orders of magnitude greater than previous experiments, enabling the controlled placement of individual nanotubes with a density of about a billion per square centimeter.
The process starts with carbon nanotubes mixed with a surfactant, a kind of soap that makes them soluble in water. A substrate is comprised of two oxides with trenches made of chemically-modified hafnium oxide (HfO2) and the rest of silicon oxide (SiO2). The substrate gets immersed in the carbon nanotube solution and the nanotubes attach via a chemical bond to the HfO2 regions while the rest of the surface remains clean.
By combining chemistry, processing and engineering expertise, IBM researchers are able to fabricate more than 10,000 transistors on a single chip.
Furthermore, rapid testing of thousands of devices is possible using high volume characterization tools due to compatibility to standard commercial processes.
As this new placement technique can be readily implemented, involving common chemicals and existing semiconductor fabrication, it will allow the industry to work with carbon nanotubes at a greater scale and deliver further innovation for carbon electronics.


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Left/right politics aside — if you've read my books you know that the Republicans and Democrats are just two sides of the same New World Order coin — Mr. Root in this article raises some very important and probing questions. He also makes a good case for why President Obama's school records are still sealed. I would only question his contention that a door was "magically opened for a foreign student." As we all know, there is no such thing as true magic. Considering that Obama, or Barry's, mother worked with the father of now Sec. of Treasury Timothy Geithner for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, it is more likely that young Barry was picked up, groomed and supported along his way by some U.S. Government alphabet agency. Today, as leader of the Free world, he is under tight control by those who know this little secret which goes a long way in explaining why Barack Hussein Obama has failed to deliver on every one of his campaign promises.
Obama's College Classmate Speaks Out: The Scandal At Columbia That Ends The Obama Presidency
By Wayne Allyn Root
Personal Liberty Digest
August 9, 2012
Hello, I'm Wayne Allyn Root for Personal Liberty. And have I got a story for you. I am President Obama's college classmate from Columbia University, Class of '83. And I've got a hunch on the scandal that ends Obama's hopes for a second term. No, it's not his birth certificate. The scandal that takes down Obama's Presidency happened 30 years ago at Columbia University. This is the smoking gun.
This also ties into Harry Reid's hunch about Mitt Romney's tax records. You see Senator Reid opened up Pandora's box. He made it OK for any of us to play a guessing game. If Harry can guess about Romney's taxes, without a shred of evidence… then a citizen and taxpayer and former college classmate of Obama has the standing to do a little educated guessing of my own.
You see my background is one of a kind. I'm one of the most accurate Las Vegas oddsmakers and prognosticators ever. Accurate enough that I was awarded my own star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars – one of 60 legends in the history of Vegas to be honored with a 180 pound granite star in the sidewalk on Las Vegas Blvd. Gut instinct is how I've made my living for 29 years since graduating Columbia. My gut is almost always right. I became a self-made millionaire based on my gut instincts. And I smell something rotten in Denmark. Obama has a big skeleton in his closet. And it's hidden in his college records at Columbia.
But first let's examine the game being played to distract us from the real scandal. It's a diversion… subterfuge. I call Obama's scheme "Weapons of mass distraction." Obama and his infamous strategist David Axelrod understand how to play dirty political hardball, the best its ever been played. They learned on the vicious, dirty streets of Chicago, where the mob appears downright nice compared to the politicians. Team Obama has decided to distract America's voters by condemning Mitt Romney for not releasing enough years of his tax returns. It's the perfect cover. Obama knows the best defense is a bold offense. Just keep attacking Mitt and blaming him for secrecy and evasion, while accusing him of having a scandal that doesn't exist. Then ask your lapdog Senator Harry Reid to chase the Frisbee. The U.S. Senate Majority Leader is now making up stories out of thin air, about tax returns he knows absolutely nothing about. It's a cynical, brilliant and vicious strategy. Make Romney defend, so he can't go on offense and attack the real Obama scandal.
This is classic Axelrod. Obama has won multiple elections in his career by slandering his opponents and leaking sealed court documents. Not only do these insinuations and leaks ruin the credibility and reputation of Obama's opponents, they keep them on the defensive and off Obama's trail of sealed documents. And Obama spends millions to armies of lawyers to keep them sealed.
By attacking Romney's tax records, Obama's team of Chicago hit men creates a problem that doesn't exist. And they even have the U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in their pocket… leading the charge… thereby assuring that the media will cover it and put Romney on the Defensive. The U.S. Senate Majority Leader joins a scheme to defame a squeaky clean opponent with the record of a choir boy. Romney is the guy you want to marry your daughter. Religious. Brilliant. Family man. Never cheated in his life. Harvard Law and Harvard Business. Donates millions to charity. So you get Harry Reid to make up stories out of thin air to frame an innocent man… and you get the biased liberal media to go along with the execution of an innocent man. But the reason for this baseless attack is what is so interesting… such brilliant but disgusting cynical strategy it could only come from Chicago… the point of this deception and distraction is to make Romney defend, so he can't go on the offensive… to dirty his perfect reputation up… and to give the media something to talk about… something other than the real scandal they should be investigating.
But I have the answer for Romney. A challenge that shuts up Obama forever.
It's time to call Obama's bluff. Romney should call a press conference and issue a challenge in front of the Nation. He should agree to release more of his tax returns, only if Obama unseals his college records. Simple and straight-forward. Mitt should ask "What could possibly be so embarrassing in your college records from 30 years ago, that you are afraid to let America's voters see it? If it's THAT bad, maybe it's something the voters ought to see." Suddenly the tables are turned. Now Obama is on the defensive.
My bet is that Obama will never unseal his records, never… EVER. Because they contain information that could destroy his political career. Once this challenge is made public, my prediction is you'll never hear about Mitt's tax returns ever again. End of story.
But why are the college records, of a 51-year-old President of the United States, so important to keep secret? I think I know the answer.
If anyone should have questions about Obama's record at Columbia University, it's me. We both graduated (according to Obama) Columbia University, Class of '83. We were both (according to Obama) Pre-Law and Political Science majors. And I thought I knew most everyone at Columbia. I certainly thought I'd heard of all of my fellow Political Science majors. But not Obama… or as he was known then, Barry Soetoro. Can you imagine…the President of the United States had a different name 30 years ago. How bizarre is that? You think you know him? You don't even know his name.
But here's where the mystery gets really strange. I knew everyone in the political science department. But I never met Obama in my life. Never saw him in my life. Never even heard of him in my entire four years at Columbia. And none of the classmates that I knew at Columbia has ever met him, saw him or heard of him either.
But don't take my word for it. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2008 that Fox News randomly called 400 of our Columbia classmates and never found one who had ever met Obama.
Now all of this mystery could be easily and instantly dismissed if Obama released his Columbia transcripts to the media. But even after serving as President for 3 1/2 years he refuses to unseal his college records. Shouldn't the media be as relentless in pursuit of Obama's records as Romney's? Shouldn't they be digging for Obama's dirt with the same boundless enthusiasm as Mitt's? Doesn't something smell rotten here?
So let's down and dirty to figure out the scandal. The first question I'd ask is, if you had great grades, why would you seal your records? So let's assume Obama got poor grades. Why not release the records? He's President of the free world, for gosh sakes. He's commander-in-chief of the U.S. military. Who'd care about some poor grades from three decades ago, right? So then what's the problem? Doesn't that make the media suspicious? Something doesn't add up.
Secondly, all of Obama's old classmates and buddies at Occidental say he was a poor student there…spending lots of time smoking pot and attending radical meetings. His grades were awful they say. Again, we can't prove it because Obama's records are sealed. So if he had poor grades at Occidental, how did he get admitted to an Ivy League university in the first place? Do you know how hard it is to transfer into an Ivy League university – it's almost impossible. And if his grades at Columbia were awful, how'd he ever get into Harvard Law School? So again those grades must have been great, right? So why spend millions to keep them sealed?
Third, how did a poor kid pay for all these fancy schools? If he had student loans or scholarships, don't American students need good grades to maintain student loans?
I can only think of one answer that explains all of these mysteries…
So here's my gut. I believe Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. That's a fact. His mother made him an Indonesian citizen. But… did his mother ever bother to change him back to a U.S. citizen? I'm betting not. He was abandoned by his mother and sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. No one was paying much attention to young Obama, so his citizenship was never changed back. But suddenly as he nears college-age and starts thinking of how to get into college with lousy grades and no money… Obama learns that foreign students have a much easier path being admitted to U.S. universities. And even more amazingly, they get loads of aid and scholarships to attend college for free – something unavailable to U.S. citizens. It's a completely different path – a path so easy that even a kid with no father… no mother to be found… no money… and lousy grades can get admitted to the best colleges… as a poor foreigner with an exotic background.
So a plan is hatched. Obama uses his Indonesian passport and citizenship to get into college. Suddenly even Ivy League Columbia University is a possibility for a foreign student from Indonesia. And it's all paid for by the taxpayers.
That would explain how a poor student who rarely attended class and got mediocre grades, and with no money, was able to get accepted and pay for Occidental, Columbia and Harvard Law. The door magically opened for a foreign student. Every college needs one or two bright exotic foreigners to create "diversity."
Now the sad reality is there is some U.S. student — a Valedictorian of his or her school — who never got to go to Columbia or Harvard Law because Obama fraudulently took their place.
That would also explain the great mystery of how in the summer of 1981 Barry Soetoro was able to travel to Pakistan when no U.S. citizen was allowed to travel there. An American couldn't make that trip…but no problem if you're an Indonesian citizen using an Indonesian passport?
Of course, here's the wrinkle…a foreign student isn't qualified to serve as President of the United States. So that secret had to be sealed and covered up for the rest of all time. In 2007 everything happened so fast no one could even ask questions…ask Hillary! She never imagined Obama could beat her and never did any serious digging. Next thing you know, Obama is President. But with a massive secret threatening his legacy every second of every day. That explains why a sitting President of the United States would spend millions of dollars in legal fees to keep his past sealed.
If you could unseal Obama's Columbia University records I believe you'd find that:
Lastly, why do his classmates at Columbia not remember Obama? Was he a ghost? Did he never show up at class? My educated guess is that he was too busy smoking pot, attending Marxist meetings, and plotting the destruction of the U.S. economy and the overthrow of capitalism. Don't laugh. It's working.
If you think I'm "fishing," then prove me wrong. Open up your records Mr. President. What are you afraid of? Cat got your tongue? If all we'll find is a few C's and D's… then show us the records. If it's OK for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to go on a fishing expedition about Romney's taxes (even though he knows absolutely nothing about them), then I think I can do the same thing. But as Obama's Columbia Class of '83 classmate, at least I have more standing to make educated guesses.
It's time for Mitt to go on the attack and call Obama's bluff. Oh and one more thing, Mitt. Tell Harry Reid you'll release all of your tax returns when Harry Reid releases all of his. Inquiring minds want to know how Harry Reid entered the U.S. Senate with no assets and became one of the wealthiest United States Senators, now worth millions, and living at the Washington, D.C. Ritz Carlton? I'm not saying he did anything wrong, but just like Mitt's tax returns… shouldn't Harry have to prove he did nothing wrong? We all want to see Senator Reid's tax returns to solve the second biggest mystery in Washington DC… behind only Obama's scandal at Columbia.
Source: http://personalliberty.com/2012/08/09/obamas-college-classmate-speaks-out-the-scandal-at-columbia-that-ends-the-obama-presidency/?eiid=


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