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1. Re: jBPM 3.2.1 and App Server (AS) 4.2 - Web Consolekukeltje Jul 6, 2007 6:43 PM (in response to burrsutter)
jBPM does not create the schema's runtime (yet) there is a jira issue for this. So it is more of a problem of finding them. Do you use the same db as with the starterkit?
And with regard to 'getting different errors', please post them so I can try to help finding the cause.
2. Re: jBPM 3.2.1 and App Server (AS) 4.2 - Web Consoleburrsutter Jul 7, 2007 11:04 AM (in response to burrsutter)
I'll try to clearly specify my steps for the next person who will wish to attempt this trick. My ultimate goal is to make the console with with the jBPM embedded in the ESB 4.2 but for now I'm just shooting for AS 4.2.
- Plain vanilla AS 4.2 instance (no Messaging, no ESB, etc)
- jBPM 3.2.1 jPDL Suite download
1) Copied jbpm-console.war from the jbpm-jpdl-3.2.1\server\server\jbpm\deploy directory to my AS 4.2 default\deploy directory
2) removed the JSF & EI jars from the WAR's WEB-INF\lib
3) Copied jboss-backport-concurrent.jar from the jbpm-jpdl-3.2.1\server\server\jbpm\lib to my AS 4.2 server\default\lib directory
4) Copied jbpmDB.* from jbpm-jpdl-3.2.1\server\server\jbpm\data\hypersonic to
AS 4.2 server\default\data\hypersonic directory
Note: also tried building the schema by using the sql scripts found in jbpm-jpdl-3.2.1\db
5) Copied jbpm-ds.xml from jbpm-jpdl-3.2.1\server\server\jbpm\deploy to
AS 4.2 server\default\deploy
6) Start the AS instance via "run" from the bin directory.
7) Dig through the server.log to find:
ERROR [org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.BasicLazyInitializer] Javassist Enhancement failed: org.jbpm.taskmgmt.log.TaskAssignLog java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
So I need to modify the Hibernate related items in the jbpm-console.war it seems.
Or perhaps this is just going down the wrong path all together?
3. Re: jBPM 3.2.1 and App Server (AS) 4.2 - Web Consoleburrsutter Jul 7, 2007 11:38 AM (in response to burrsutter)
I decided to "cheat" and went back to CVS. The build script for the console makes a 4.2 compatible WAR where the primary differences seem to the following:
jsf-impl-14.jar (gone)
jsf-api-14.jar (gone)
el-ri.jar (gone)
el-api.jar (gone)
javassist.jar (gone)
gravel-14.jar is now gravel.jar
So, that tells me this information is not completely accurate:
I suspect this was accurate for 3.2.0 but I can't verify that at this moment.
Another tip for anyone trying this at home:
Modify your AS login-config.xml to include the following -
<application-policy name = "jbpm"> <authentication> <login-module code="org.jboss.security.auth.spi.DatabaseServerLoginModule" flag="required"> <module-option name="dsJndiName">java:/JbpmDS</module-option> <module-option name="principalsQuery"> SELECT PASSWORD_ FROM JBPM_ID_USER WHERE NAME_=? </module-option> <module-option name="rolesQuery"> SELECT g.NAME_ ,'Roles' FROM JBPM_ID_USER u, JBPM_ID_MEMBERSHIP m, JBPM_ID_GROUP g WHERE g.TYPE_='security-role' AND m.GROUP_ = g.ID_ AND m.USER_ = u.ID_ AND u.NAME_=? </module-option> </login-module> </authentication> </application-policy>
But the results of my adventure basically show me that I need to go to CVS, build the console and use the 4.2 version of jbpm-console.war.
I've found 3 copies of jbpm-console.war in the jbpm-jpdl-suite-3.2.1 download. All have the gravel-14.jar which seems to be a problem.
I'm guessing this is related to Java version number and I'm running on JDK 1.5.
4. Re: jBPM 3.2.1 and App Server (AS) 4.2 - Web Consolekukeltje Jul 9, 2007 6:51 AM (in response to burrsutter)
Bur, interesting topic, I'll try to verify this tonight (CET) with a fresh 4.2 download and the 3.2.1 and 3.2-cvshead
5. Re: jBPM 3.2.1 and App Server (AS) 4.2 - Web Consoledeadrow Jul 13, 2007 8:19 AM (in response to burrsutter)
I am getting the same error... any clue?
6. Re: jBPM 3.2.1 and App Server (AS) 4.2 - Web Consolekukeltje Jul 13, 2007 8:44 AM (in response to burrsutter)
sorry, I was not able to give this a try
7. Re: jBPM 3.2.1 and App Server (AS) 4.2 - Web Consoleburrsutter Jul 13, 2007 9:22 AM (in response to burrsutter)
If you don't wish to "build from source", I would suggest another trick (though untested). If you follow all the various steps outlined in this thread you'll note that I believe the problem is finally with gravel14.jar. If you go to jboss.org you can download gravel by itself and replace gravel14.jar with gravel.jar which I believe to be JDK 5 friendly.
8. Re: jBPM 3.2.1 and App Server (AS) 4.2 - Web Consolemputz Jul 13, 2007 10:48 AM (in response to burrsutter)
@burr, just replacing gravel14.jar with gravel.jar isn't enough, it's also jbpm4jsf-14.jar that has to be replaced with jbpm4jsf.jar IMO
I'll do some more testing and put it up on a wiki when I'm through.
9. Re: jBPM 3.2.1 and App Server (AS) 4.2 - Web Consolemputz Jul 26, 2007 7:31 AM (in response to burrsutter)
FYI, I have updated http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=DeployJbpm3.2WebAppUnderJBoss4.2.x to include some information that apply to deploying jBPM 3.2.1 on JBoss 4.2.x.
10. while running jbpm-console example im getting below mentionesatyagkk Nov 15, 2007 1:33 AM (in response to burrsutter)
ERROR [JDBCExceptionReporter] Table not found in statement [select top ? job0_.ID_ as ID1_26_, job0_.VERSION_ as VERSION3_26_, job0_.
ERROR [JobSession] org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not execute query
ERROR [JobExecutorThread] exception in job executor thread. waiting 5000 milliseconds
mException: couldn't get acquirable jobs
rg.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not execute query
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February 18, 2011
I'm not the first to observe that Clint Eastwood does a consistently solid job of making a very old-fashioned kind of movie. Here, the director plays a cranky, gun-wielding widower whose only connection with the neighbors in his increasing Asian neighborhood involves growling at them to get the hell off his lawn. Gradually, he comes to the aid of a young Hmong boy and instructs him (sigh) in the peerless art of how to be a man. This mostly, of course, consists of teaching him how to insult other men's ethnicity with an odd mixture of gruffness and delicacy. Eastwood presents us with a racist saviour, a man of violence who meets a Christ-like end, and while these are hardly revolutionary moves, the film also has a gift for skipping away from easy categorization just as I was about to condemn it for self-satisfied conservatism.
The greater flaw here is how half-hearted the film seems in some of its crucial moments. The scene in which Clint destroys his own kitchen in a rage is one of many ill-rehearsed if not ill-conceived examples of this, as is just about any scene involving a priest who has just stepped earnestly out of a 40s melodrama. Eastwood at his actorly best is always a paragon of barely restrained violence and intensity. What we get here is something different from this taut restraint: a film pulling its punches.
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ChamberEXAMPLARY QUARTET PLAYING IN MARIN GARDEN CONCERT
by Terry McNeill
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Taped video concerts have pretty much dominated the recent fare for classical music fans, but sporadic live music making can still be found in the North Bay with outdoor chamber music. Of course with the obligatory social distancing and often decorative facial masks. Four San Francisco Opera Orc...
ChamberVIDEO CHAMBER MUSIC FROM LINCOLN CENTER IN GREEN'S BROADCAST
by Terry McNeill
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Along with hosting its resident the Santa Rosa Symphony, Weill Hall has contracted to produce sporadic virtual programs of classical music, and began Oct. 17 with a charming three-part concert from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Hosted with comely introductions by CMSLC di...
SymphonyTHRILLING SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY PERFORMANCE IN AN EMPTY WEILL HALL
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Sunday, October 11, 2020
Viewers of the Santa Rosa Symphony's inaugural socially distanced YouTube concert on Oct. 11 could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled upon a performance of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" (A Masked Ball), given that the string players in the opening shot all wore black masks. The sole excepti...
SymphonyBROWN VIDEO GALA LAUNCHES SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY SEASON
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Saturday, September 12, 2020
Similar to many North Coast musical organizations the Santa Rosa Symphony has scheduled a series of virtual concerts on video, spotlighting sections of the orchestra and the exuberant activities of its conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong. However, as an introduction to the season, a Sept. 12 gala vide...SONGS AND ECHOES OF HOME IN AIZURI QUARTET CONCERT
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Sunday, March 8, 2020
From the first richly layered harmonies of Dvořįk's Cypresses, the Aizuri Quartet held the March 8th audience at Mt. Tamalpais Methodist Church in thrall. The church was more than half full, a good crowd considering present anxiety about the spread of the coronavirus. Taking precautions, the M...COLORFUL BORN BACH AT AGAVE BAROQUE'S SCHROEDER HALL CONCERT
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Friday, February 28, 2020
Bach's obituary records that "Johann Sebastian Bach belongs to a family that seems to have received a love and aptitude for music as a gift of Nature to all its members in common." Agave Baroque presented their Feb. 28 concert, Born Bach, as a partial musical story of several generations in this rem...ECLECTIC VIOLIN AND PIANO WORKS IN VIRTUOSIC MILL VALLEY RECITAL
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Sunday, February 23, 2020
Blending virtuosity with sublime artistry, violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky and pianist Wu Qian gave the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society audience many thrills February 23, performing four muscular and soulful works by four composers from four countries: de Falla, Schumann, Stravinsky, and Grieg. T...PREMIER OF KAIZEN AND DRAMATIC MOZART HIGHLIGHT ECHO CHAMBER CONCERT
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Sunday, February 16, 2020
As concertgoers took their seats in San Anselmo's First Presbyterian Church for ECHO Chamber Orchestra's February 16 program, they were surprised to see at center stage two bass drums, a tom-tom, bongos, high hat and cymbals. It was the occasion of the world premiere of "Kaizen," composed and perf...BEETHOVEN'S VALENTINE'S DAY GIFT IN RAC SEBASTOPOL RECITAL
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Friday, February 14, 2020
Continuing a season of Redwood Arts Council successes, the Kouzov Duo performed an eclectic Valentine's Day concert in Sebastopol's Community Church before an audience of 125. Beethoven's charming Op. 66 Variations on Mozart's "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from the opera the Magic Flute was a bouncy ...LUSH BACH PERFORMANCE IN DENK'S WEILL HALL RECITAL
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
Memorable artistic interpretations of musical masterpieces are often at extremes, and with the Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (WTC - Book I) that Jeremy Denk played in Weill Hall Feb. 13, the pianist was only sporadically at unique or ebullient musical ends. But his playing wasn't exactly at opposite...
CONDUCTOR PLAYOFFS BEGIN IN SANTA ROSAby Steve Osborn
Sunday, October 8, 2017
The Santa Rosa Symphony is calling 2017-18 "a choice season" because the next few months offer the audience and the symphony's board of directors a chance to choose a new conductor from a pool of five candidates. Each candidate will lead a three-concert weekend set this fall and winter, with a final decision expected next March.


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Best of 2012: The Best and Worst of Fashion
WSJ's Christina Binkley looks back at the best and the worst in fashion in 2012, including Kate Middleton mania, Raf vs. Hedi, Balenciaga's firing of a cult designer, pink hair and fuzzy faces (beards go wild).
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... had a bumpy ride in two thousand and twelve ... Kim Carr dash in was the most searched person on the internet ... when I say more ... worse yet Kate Middleton got caught topless ... and happily got caught by analysts ... and this during what must've been the most conservative year in fashion since nineteen fifty nine ... skirts reliable necklines high ... the librarian look was the ... and our fascination with move on its passions transparent weirdly ... to her school age for starters ... Europe's luxury houses became enamored with newly minted billionaires in Asia ... that cause jealousy among many Americans ... the quest and the rise of an American designer Alexander Wang at the Paris based luck cherry house of bounce the idea ... now let's get the gig because his parents are from Taiwan and ... is on the American Empire in a note ... it already happened ... Occupy forces ... with their ... Tiberio attitude helps make logo handbags and stylish ... but there was a backlash ... ultra luxe tree goods took off like there was no ninety nine percent ... with no major scandals to talk about fashion insiders focused on the Nidal federal level rivalry ... between two rising designers ... wraps Edmunds the Christian Dior in eighties the main its own row ... after a football in which remain seated eight with shares in the third row and a spring collection ... the score was one one ... advantage sentence ... and with no apparent relationship to the mid century clothing fashions that dominated ... rebellion was a camper here ... women's hairstyles when shore and with an emphasis on pink ... or purple ... min Gu hair all over ... shaggy beards render the hosted a list celebrities and recognizable ... what were we thinking ... I can hardly wait for two thousand thirteen ... this is Christina Binkley for The Wall Street Journal ...


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We simply cannot get enough of Kroy Biermann and Kim Zolciak's family.
We may or may not (we totally do) stalk Kim's Instagram for our daily dose of cuteness – and now we look forward to the return of Don't Be Tardy so we can see the family in action. Love her or hate her, you cannot deny that Kim Zolciak makes beautiful children.
Above: Kim shared, "First date night in 2014! I love this man more than life!! He grabbed my hand to hold it… made me giggle!" Kim's a better wife than me. Six kids – two infants and two who are young and probably clingy – I would not want to be touched for a few hours. LOL
Peek below for two videos of KJ singing. As well as a bunch of recent pictures of Brielle, Ariana, KJ, Kash, and twins Kane and Kaia – including a family trip to the beach and Brielle's prom.


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If, light years from now, people ever want a snapshot of youth and young manhood in 2011, they need look no further than Chicago trio Smith Westerns, for to listen to their music is to experience vicariously the reckless thrills and irrepressible energy of a new generation, distilled to its purest and most vital essence. Hell, even the title of their lustrous sophomore album "Dye it Blonde" – set for release in the UK on May 2 – manages to capture its touchstone signifiers in three easy words, almost as much a playfully potent and authoritative slogan as it is a glorious statement of intent.
Even more appropriately, the beginnings of Smith Westerns were fomented while the trio of Cullen (guitar, lead vocals) and Cameron Omori (bass) and Max Kakacek (guitar) were still in high school. "We were all going to school together, so we started playing together", Cullen Omori says of their formative years in Kakacek's basement. "It was very punk rock, very straightforward stuff; we didn't really try that hard at the beginning. It was really raw, music-wise, stage-wise, everything, then we just started playing gigs around Chicago". Around this time, they were introduced to the halcyon era of glam-rock by one of Omori's parents' old friends, opening their eyes to David Bowie, Marc Bolan, T-Rex. The resultant self-titled debut – released in 2009 – was a revelation, with the trio showing remarkable facility in assimilating influences belying their age group, while also hardwiring them to a stomp and swagger entirely their own.
The album release won them instant buzz (with Todd Killings of Hozac Records even picking it up and giving it a proper release) and staunch support from the influential likes of Pitchfork and NME, and, in short order, they hit the road (with the likes of Girls and Los Campesinos!), left college, and signed with Fat Possum Records. "In late 2009, midway through touring, that's when we definitely felt like something was happening", Omori admits. "It felt like all our hard work was finally paying off. The tour we wound up with Girls, we were playing big venues, it was really exciting".
When it came to recording their next album however, the band – frustrated with the lo-fi tags that had been hastily and carelessly slapped on their debut ("I felt like we did the best we could with shitty equipment and no money, we weren't deliberately trying to sound like that") – were intent on pushing it to the next level as much as possible. "Fat Possum wanted us to record it super lo-fi but we knew we wanted something a lot bigger than the last album" Omori says. "They gave us this advance and we didn't even use it to pay ourselves at all – it all went towards making this record".
To that end, the band recruited producer Chris Coady, already feted for his work on some of the most canonised records of recent years, among them Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Fever to Tell", TV On the Radio's "Dear Science" and Beach House's "Teen Dream". It was a union that was borne, quite simply, out of mutual admiration. "We wanted to work with someone whose work we liked also, and Chris has made so many records we really loved, like the Cold Cave record ("Love Comes Close"). Once he came in everything was pretty quick. We recorded it in 20 days and mixed it in 10 days. We knew what we wanted, and we just went for it".
What they wanted, to judge from the end result, was a lush, layered wall of sound, complete with back-up vocals, phasered guitars, rich synths, and an effortlessly universal, ageless, peerless feel. "It was definitely a conscious thing that we worked towards", Omori agrees. "For a while everything was so bare bones, lo-fi, badly recorded, and we wanted something that sounded kind of timeless – like music in the 60's. Really big choruses, really clean sounding.That was the kind of sound we were aiming for". Indeed, some of the unabashedly anthemic choruses and full-bodied melodies seem designed expressly to be sung along to in arenas, lighters aloft, with some songs even vaguely recalling another well-known stadium act from this side of the pond. "Yeah, I actually listened to a lot of Oasis while we were making the record", Omori confesses. "You can kind of hear it with songs like "Smile", where we rip them off a little bit".
Make no mistake; "Dye It Blonde" is an album destined to soundtrack hot, hazy summer days and a million house parties, driving along the open road with the top down or even rowdy nights in. When asked where the ideal place for Smith Westerns to play however, Omori plays it admirably cool. "We'd love to play at big arenas, eventually. But for now we'd just like to play in clubs to great crowds who know all the words to our songs. It's starting to happen now, I think".


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NASA's Nicholeen Viall has developed a new visualization technique for studying the Sun's temperature fluctuations — and the eye-catching results are startlingly beautiful. Each color-coded area in Viall's composition represents the star's temperature shifts over the course of a 12-hour span. The new method could help scientists better understand the mechanisms required to drive the Sun's temperature and the movements of the corona.
Viall was able to do this by analyzing the data collected by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Her heat map uses red, orange, or yellow to indicate an area that has cooled, and a blue or green color if the area has heated up. The exact shade is determined by how much time it took for the temperature change to occur.
In essence, the map is a visualization of the lag time required to heat up or cool down a specific area of the Sun.
Looking at the map, the wealth of reds, oranges, and yellow indicate that, over the 12-hour span, the isolated area went through a cooling phase. But given that there isn't an exclusively one-way temperature slide, Viall has concluded that heating must be quick and impulsive — a process that happens so fast that it doesn't show up in her videos. This may provide further evidence to the theory that the Sun exhibits "nanobursts" of energy to heat up the corona.
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Montana Leans to McCain; Obama Battles for Big Sky
-- Montana's three electoral votes lean in Sen. John McCain's favor but Sen. Barack Obama won't give up Big Sky Country without a fight.
In the last ten presidential elections, Montana has show it's left leanings only once: in 1992, when it voted for then-Gov. Bill Clinton over President George Bush.
McCain's story, military service and ties to the Western regions of the country will likely resonate with Montana conservatives but Obama's efforts in the state have been consistent.
Obama won Montana's Democratic primary by a margin of 57 percent to Sen. Hillary Clinton's 42 percent in June and clinched his party's presidential nomination when the state's delegates were added to his tally.
On his fourth visit to the state over July 4, Obama spent the holiday in Montana campaigning with his family and has launched an aggressive advertising campaign there.
The National Rifle Association recently took the charge against Obama in Montana, characterizing the Illinois senator as a threat to gun owners in the state.


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Captain America and X-Men: First Class keep on adding castmembers. Edgar Wright explains how Ant-Man will bring the funny. There are clips from J.J. Abrams' Undercovers, and fresh Bioshock hints. Plus The Last Airbender, Breaking Dawn, True Blood and Supernatural.
Captain America:
Another day, another heavily rumored actor officially joins the movie. Dominic Cooper is definitely playing the young Howard Stark, Tony's dad. [Marvel]
X-Men First Class:
This movie is really starting to pick up steam. Fresh off securing Michael Fassbender as Magneto and getting Alice Eve in talks to play Emma Frost, there's news of yet another casting choice. Caleb Landry Jones, probably best known from his work as Jimmy Adler on Friday Night Lights, is apparently the top choice to play the Irish mutant Banshee. [Latino Review]
Speaking of Marvel superhero movies we're dying to see... apparently this movie is still happening. Director Edgar Wright has been busy with Scott Pilgrim, so he hasn't revised the script since Marvel liked the first draft. But he offers some hints:
What Marvel really liked, is that it's funny, but it's a genre film. It's about the level of comedy that Iron Man has. The idea is to make a high-concept genre film where it's within another genre. His suit and its power is the big gadget and it takes place in the real world. I just wanted to do something that was slightly different than the superhero origin film. I felt that between that and the various mad scientist, crazy doctor films that we've all seen, this would be a way into an origin that was slightly different.
[Box Office Magazine via JoBlo]
The Last Airbender:
According to 12-year-old star Noah Ringer, the movie is all about family: "Every line, every sentence of this movie is all about family and how it can get stronger. I'm the peacemaker." Dev Patel said he had to dig deep to play his villainous character, and he had to quickly jettison his assumption that he was just playing a cartoon character when he met with M. Night Shyamalan.
Fire Nation leader Aasif Mandvi, otherwise known for his stellar if shouty work on The Daily Show, explains why his character is bad but doesn't think he is: "He is doing things to protect the world that he sees needs protecting and he believes that he and the Fire Nation are the only people that can protect the world in that way."
Maybe the best quote comes from Twilight actor Jackson Rathbone, who plays Sokka. He says: "I get to fight with a boomerang and tackle and kick people. There are really funny situations, like tiffs with your sibling. But then you have these really serious situations." Because when I think "serious", the first things that pop into my head are a boomerang and some tackling. [IGN]
The Twilight Saga
Eclipse is now more or less released, and as the reviews begin to pour in (the early consensus: it's more of the same, except maybe a bit better), there's only one thing for us to do: start talking about the next one! Make that next two, actually, as Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final book that features vampire scuba-diving and super-intelligent babies who fall in love with werewolves (or something like that) has been split into two movies. When interviewed for the premiere, the cast and crew didn't seem to know too much yet, although Kristen Stewart says they're looking at a six-month shoot from October to next February. Everyone is very excited about working with new director Bill Condon. And Robert Pattinson might not bother to regrow his freshly cut hair, arguing that vampires can get haircuts and it might be fun to do the last movie with a shaved head. (He's a fool, you know - Robert Pattinson is pretty much Samson, except instead of superhuman strength his hair gives him the undying adoration of teenage girls. Don't throw it all away, Rob!) [Cinematical]
True Blood:
New character Debbie Pelt won't be as crazy as her counterpart in the books, at least not at first. Actress Brit Morgan says she'll be relatively restrained at first, but she's got a serious grudge with Sookie and is going "on a rampage" against her. [TV Guide]
Mitch Pileggi is set to return for multiple episodes as the Winchester brothers' supposedly dead grandfather. His appearance will help reveal several secrets about their family history, specifically their mother's side of the family. The show is also looking for a forty-ish actor to play Christian, a capable and competent person who has a "special relationshp" with the brothers. Also, the season six premiere is called "Exile on Main Street." [Ausiello Files and Spoiler TV]
Stargate Universe:
Executive producers Brad Wright and Rob Cooper promise the new season will be very dark, with Louis Ferriera's Everett Young in particular dealing with a lot of pain as he processes all he's been through — and the worst for him won't arrive until the beginning of season two. Part of making a more realistic show where the characters sometimes lose is a willingness to take them to darker places than was possible on the earlier shows. Also, the younger cast members will have more to do this season. [Digital Spy]
No word on who and in what capacity, but the new season will feature appearances by various alumni of both the original Stargate: SG-1 show and the followup series Stargate: Atlantis. [GateWorld]
We've got a bunch of videos from J.J. Abrams's new spy-fi show. There are two clips, some thoughts from Abrams, and a promo for the show.
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Gore Verbinski still really wants to make this movie happen, but the budgetary concerns are still a big issue. Basically, they want to remain true to the source material, which means an R-rated movie (and a hard R at that), but it's almost impossible to make a big-budget R-rated movie. He's still working with director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to figure out how to reduce the budget while still making a decent movie. [IGN]
Final Destination 5:
Normally, we wouldn't bother covering this, but (a) it's kind of a slow day for spoilers and (b) this is too inane to pass up. Apparently the next movie is now called...wait for it...5nal Destination. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think they just managed to out-stupid The Fast and the Furious franchise when it comes to sequel titles. Oh, and apparently the opening disaster involves a collapsing suspension bridge. But seriously...5nal Destination? That's just too awesomely ludicrous for words. [Bloody Disgusting]
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Editor's note: On CNN's "State of the Union," host and chief national correspondent John King goes outside the Beltway to report on the issues affecting communities across the country.
Neal Williams has installed both high- and low-tech security as crime has risen in his neighborhood in decline.
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- Neal Williams carefully picked his house 14 years ago with his wife and children in mind.
"Just a nice neighborhood," is how he recalls it. "A lot of comfortable people to be around. Enjoyable nights ... walk around and walk down the street and say hi, talk to people."
Not any more.
"I have sat in my upstairs windows and watched kids trying to break into a house next door," Williams laments.
One of his windows was recently broken, and he came home one day to see evidence someone had tried to kick in his door. He has installed new security systems, some high-tech, and also taken a low-tech precaution of deliberately not applying oil to a gate hinge.
"This is my infamous squeaky gate," he tells a recent visitor. "That is one of my alarms."
Las Vegas is in many ways ground zero of the nation's housing crisis. "Bank Owned" signs are visible all over town -- so many foreclosures, in fact, that local real estate brokers have set up bus tours to take potential buyers and investors around town.
Some agents are beginning to see evidence of progress. They report that inventory is down some and that more properties now bring multiple offers.
Williams, however, says all he sees are the downsides.
There are many vacant homes in his neighborhood because of foreclosures, and others have been rented out by banks that can't sell them. And with renters, he says, the sense of community has given way to more trash, graffiti and worse.
"There was a shooting just recently a couple of doors down," Williams said. "We've been robbed on several occasions."
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"I'm scared to look -- really scared to look," Williams says. "I know it has gone down quite a bit. My wife says more than half. I honestly don't know."
His neighbor of just six months is moving, at a big loss, because of the rising crime. But not Williams.
"Do I want to put up with the embarrassment of people saying, 'You look like you live in a prison?' Yeah I'll deal with that embarrassment, but I know that I am safer and that is how I look at it."
Why not move?
"Well I'm a stubborn son of a gun. This is my house. This is where I am staying."
Only a few miles away is what you might call the flip side of the foreclosure fallout.
Donald Leffert and his wife, Robyn Eddy-Leffert, just moved into their first home.
"It was pre-wired for stuff --- networking," Donald said. "It was in a location we wanted. There was very little that needs to be done."
They had been looking at condos, but the crash in housing prices made bigger homes within reach. While checking out the yard, Donald found the stunning evidence: The real estate brochure from when the house was on the market two years ago.
It is identical to his brochure, with two exceptions.
The list price then: $400,000. Now: $179,000.
"Everything else on the paper is exactly the same," Donald says as he puts the papers side by side. "The only difference is the date and the price."
A few small toys they found while preparing to move in makes them mindful their joy comes at the expense of some other family's foreclosure.
"It's pretty sad when you think about the people who have lost their homes," Eddy-Leffert said. "You can't go into a house thinking of it being someone else's house or someone's home."
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Dave Oremland of Professional Bartending School in DC, alerted me to the fact that Google Places is now apparently going so far as to request a business license from some businesses to verify their authenticity. In this Google Places forum post the Commonwealth Sunoco of Boston asked:
I received an email from firstname.lastname@example.com. They are requesting a scanned copy of my business lisence. They sent the request to my business email and not to the email I used to create my listing.
I just want to know if this is a legitimate request and not some scam.
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Just to confirm: Yes, that request is from the Google Places support team.
This is the first report of Google going so far as to ask for a business license. The reasons for the action are unclear. Was there a question of a guideline violation or was it to settle a dispute as to who actually controls the listing? I have no idea.
I am of two minds about the procedure. I am a big proponent of Google cleaning up the index and this is certainly a way to do that. In the case of wildly abused industries like the Locksmith business it makes complete sense. But it is perhaps too intrusive and makes certain assumption about what is a business and might throw too much wheat out with the chafe.
Dave Oremland of felt strongly that this was incredibly intrusive and inappropriate:
I found this stunning, again as a business operator and as one with current issues with g places…and essentially its black hole non responsiveness.
A police or govt. official might ask for a business license. One incredibly unhappy customer out of thousands might do it. If you were in court it might be requested. Nobody else ever asks to see it. We have over 100 years of business ownership for our several businesses.
Nobody asks for it. Google, from its engineering cocoon, disconnected from the real world, and unwilling to establish direct contact through people, is using its power to force businesses to do something nobody else would do. Not all businesses can scan information, not all businesses will have a license.
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DONETSK, Ukraine — Driven out of their key stronghold in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russia separatists regrouped Sunday in the city of Donetsk, vowing to renew their fight against the government in Kiev before thousands of cheering supporters at a rally.
Ukrainian troops on Saturday forced the rebels out of Slovyansk, a city of about 100,000 that had been the center of the fighting. The government's success there suggested it may finally be making gains in the months-long battle against the insurgency.
President Petro Poroshenko said, while it was not a total victory, purging Slovyansk of the armed insurgents had "incredible symbolic importance."
It was not yet clear, however, whether the rebels have been permanently crippled and their setback will also increase pressure on Russia to do more to help them.
Rebel fighters from Slovyansk and other towns taken over by the Ukrainian army moved freely Sunday around central Donetsk, a city of 1 million and the capital of a region where the separatists have declared independence in the name of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The insurgents control the regional administration building and checkpoints on the city outskirts, but Ukrainian forces demonstrated their superior firepower in repelling a rebel attempt to take control of Donetsk airport in late May. That battle left dozens of rebel fighters dead.
Igor Girkin, the defense minister of the separatist republic, told the Russian television channel Life News on Sunday that he would keep up the fight from Donetsk.
"We will continue the combat operations and will try not to make the same mistakes that we made in the past," said Girkin, a Russian also known by his nom de guerre, Igor Strelkov. Ukrainian authorities have identified him as a veteran of the Russian military intelligence agency.
At the rally Sunday afternoon on a square in Donetsk, people waved flags from Russia and the Donetsk People's Republic.
"We will begin a real partisan war around the whole perimeter of Donetsk," Pavel Gubarev, the self-described governor of the Donetsk People's Republic, told the crowd. "We will drown these wretches in blood."
But he said the insurgents could easily die in Donetsk if Russia did not come to their aid.
They were forced to flee Slovyansk because several commanders had betrayed Girkin and left his forces vulnerable to attack, Gubarev said.
Despite the bravado in the city, the mood was dire Sunday at a rebel checkpoint on the outskirts of Donetsk.
"We will fight to the end because we have nowhere left to retreat," said one of the masked fighters, a 32-year-old former coal miner who would give only his first name, Artyom, due to fears of retaliation. "I don't want to fall into the hands of the Ukrainian authorities, those fascists."
He said the insurgents still hope for help from Russia "but the hope grows weaker with every day."
Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of fomenting the insurgency by sending troops and weapons, including tanks and rocket launchers. Moscow has denied providing soldiers or military equipment, saying that Russians fighting in the east are private citizens. The insurgents have shot down Ukrainian aircraft, but the military has a clear superiority in firepower.
Rebel leaders have pleaded with the Kremlin for military assistance, and some prominent Russian nationalists have taunted President Vladimir Putin for failing to send troops to the Russian-speaking area.
Putin has so far resisted, wary of having more Western sanctions slapped on Russia.
Nina Yakovleva, a 45-year-old accountant and resident of Donetsk, said she expected nothing good to come of the convergence of rebels in the city.
"We are afraid that Donetsk will be left in ruins like Slovyansk," she said. "The rebels have brought us war and fear."
Pro-Russia insurgents also have been fighting Ukrainian troops in the neighboring Luhansk region, which, like Donetsk, sits along the border with Russia.
The insurgency began in mid-April after the ouster of Ukraine's pro-Moscow president in February and Russia's annexation of Crimea in March.
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WASHINGTON, PA, Aug. 5, 2014 -- Piercewave Hanover, who already owned the national season's record for 2-year-old gelding trotters on a five-eighths-mile track, lowered that mark with a facile front-end victory in 1:56.1 in Tuesday's Pennsylvania Sires Stake at The Meadows.
The $233,008 event, known as the Florida Pro, was contested over four divisions, with Billy Flynn, Lima Pride and Walter White taking the other splits. Dave Palone enjoyed a stake double with Piercewave Hanover and Walter White among his five wins on the 16-race card.
Piercewave Hanover established the former mark in a July 15 PASS split at The Meadows, when he was ahead at every call. He duplicated that feat Tuesday, meaning that he never has been behind in his two-race career. Will the son of Donato Hanover-Passionate Glide be as effective off the trot? Palone thinks he will be.
"Every time you ask on him, he's got more trot for you," Palone said. "I think he'll be even better chasing. He's very lethargic on the lead -- you have to talk to him the whole way. But he's always willing to give you more. The first time he has to track down a really good horse, he'll love it. Big future, I think."
Explosive Drama was 1-1/2 lengths back in second, with Keystone Bodacious third. Chris Oakes trains Piercewave Hanover for Hauser Brothers Racing and J&T Silva Stables.
Billy Flynn extended his career unbeaten streak to four when he jogged on the front end for Brett Miller in 1:56.4, 3-1/4 lengths better than My Cousin Vinnie. Bighandsbiggloves earned show. As is his custom, Billy Flynn bore out in the stretch, but Staffan Lind, who trains the son of Cantab Hall-Zeta Jones for Bender Sweden Inc., continues to regard that as a non-issue.
"He still had the ear plugs in. This was easy for him today," Lind said. "He trots perfect. When we get on a big track, we'll gear him a little bit differently, and he'll be straight."
Lima Pride atoned for a break in the Arden Downs when he vaulted to the lead for trainer/driver Ake Svanstedt and triumphed in 1:57.2. Shoot The Thrill was second, 1-1/2 lengths in arrears, with Pierre third.
"I don't know why he broke last race," Svanstedt said, "but in his first race, he hit the sulky, and I thought he did the same last race. So today we had a higher and wider bike, and he didn't hit it."
Top Ten Racing Stable owns Lima Pride, a son of Muscle Massive-Pacific Legacy who has captured both his PASS starts.
In the $20,000 Winners Over $10,000 Life/Preferred Handicap Trot, converted claimer Boytown made it four straight with a 9-1, Lightning Lane victory for Aaron Merriman and owner/trainer Chelsey Wibert in a career-best 1:52.4. Tall Cotton finished second, 1/2 length back, while Better Caviar completed the ticket. The 5-year-old American Winner-P Town Girl gelding now boasts $254,658 in lifetime earnings.
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EXECUTIVE EDITOR ROGER HART: The Cayenne Turbo is certainly an entertaining monster, but the S model--with merely 400 hp--is certainly no slouch. Fitted with Pirelli Scorpion snow tires, this thing handled the 10 inches of snow and two inches of ice like a Siberian husky training for the Iditarod. It was no problem at all. The Cayenne's electronics sorts out which wheel is getting the most traction and even on icy roads, the combination of snow tires and electronic AWD gives the driver the kind of confidence necessary to head out into the worst of what winter can hand out.
Even with all the horsepower underfoot, these snow tires bit in and offered superb traction; they're among some of the best I've ever experienced. If ever there was a time and place for snow tires, it was this past winter. And as I said, couple the tires with AWD and stability and traction control.
Speaking of that, Porsche's system allows for a little more slippage than with some other cars, and you have a very dynamic driving experience even on treacherous roads. The Cayenne remains one of the most comfortable, and certainly among the most fun, SUVs on the planet.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR JONATHAN WONG: That certainly was a more telling experience than the night I had in the Cayenne Turbo that we had a few weeks back during the first big snowstorm. My stint in this S model luckily came after the big mess from the latest storm was taken care of by our local road commission. First thing I'll say is that 400 hp is plenty for this SUV, but the 500 ponies under the hood of the Turbo, I'm sure, would have been a ball if I had ribbons of clear and nonslick roads at my disposal.
No matter, let's get back to this S model. I rolled around for most of my two nights with it set in sport mode, which holds onto gears longer and returns snappier shift. Again, the suspension accompanied by the Cayenne's weight loss with the new-generation car is clear when you toss it around some, even with winter tires installed. Body roll is minimal, and the car doesn't behave like a vehicle that weighs in at more than 4,500 pounds with a higher center of gravity. It's quite a feat that Porsche has been able to accomplish with the Cayenne. Steering heft and the Porsche-quick steering response is satisfying, and the brakes are strong with a nice sold pedal feel.
The interior is also a comfortable place to be with supportive front seats, and the center stack and console look nice and are fairly easy to navigate. There are a lot of buttons and switches in there, but anyone will be able to pick it up fairly quickly.
I'm not the biggest SUV fan out there, but if I had to get one for a daily driver and had a fair amount of disposable income, a Cayenne S would be at the top of my shopping list. Of course, if I had a lot of disposable income, then I would make mine the Turbo.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR--AUTOWEEK.COM BOB GRITZINGER: I find it hard to believe this vehicle weighs 4,553 pounds--it sure doesn't drive like it. The wicked acceleration, the tight handling, the Porsche-feel steering all make the car seem like it's a lot lighter and far more of a sports car than a sport-utility. Even though the key fob is a little overdone, I like that Porsche still provides an appropriate spot to insert it right where it's supposed to be on the left-hand side of the steering wheel. True to its roots, this ute.
Everything inside is laid out in perfect dual-cockpit form, with all the necessary controls close at hand, including the easy-to-click paddle shifters on the steering wheel, right where they're supposed to be so you can pilot the car and shift while keeping both hands on the wheel. Power is amazing, and the eight-speed automatic is so refined that shifts are barely perceptible.
The audio system is superb; I'd argue that it rivals some of the Audi sound we've experienced in the likes of the new A8, but with a stronger bass presence. Really rockin'.
I loaded all four seats and fit in ski gear for a quick power run to the snow, and the Cayenne performed flawlessly. Skis fit easily in the pass-through without intruding on back-seat passenger room, and the rest of the gear (boots, poles, ski clothes) was readily swallowed up by the cargo hold.
If you're going to do a nearly four-hour drive, followed by a day of skiing, followed by a nearly four-hour drive home, seating needs to be comfy. In that area the Cayenne was excellent, even without the overstuffed kind of seats typical of most luxury utes. With the adjustments available, the seats were perfect for a lot of driving in one day.
At the same time, for a vehicle aimed at the sportier end of the sport-utility scale, the Cayenne was a pleasant long-distance driver--straight and true, not oversprung, easy to point and shoot down the highway. And when the conditions turned snowy and slick, the Pirellis on this baby grabbed like Velcro and kept us rolling on when lesser rubber might have forced us to queue up behind a long line of white-knuckle drivers.
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Harris Academy Purley is a co-educational 11-18 Academy for 1,100 students which opened in September 2009. Harris Academy Purley opened a £20 million new building in September 2012. Harris Purley offers specialisms in Enterprise and Sport using its extensive playing fields. The Academy was judged to be Outstanding by Ofsted in December 2011. Student progress is in the top 10% nationally.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - Houses were set ablaze on Tuesday as fighting erupted between Philippine security forces and Muslim rebels occupying five districts of the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga, witnesses said.
Fire fighters were prevented from getting to the houses by sniper fire, a Reuters witness said.
On Monday, hundreds of heavily armed Muslim gunmen landed in coastal districts of Zamboanga, took 30 hostages and had planned to march to the city hall to raise their flag and declare an independent state.
But security forces stopped them from reaching the city centre and a naval blockade prevented hundreds of gunmen from neighbouring Basilan and Jolo from reinforcing their comrades, setting off a sea battle that killed seven rebels, a navy spokesman said.
"We lost one of our boys but we got seven of them when our sea patrols intercepted a boatload of gunmen heading for Zamboanga," Commander Gerard Fabic told reporters.
Schools, shops and offices remained closed as the standoff entered the second day. Ferry and air services were also suspended.
Security officials say the rebels belong to a rogue faction of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) rebel group, which entered into a peace agreement with government in 1996 and ran a Muslim autonomous region on southern Mindanao island.
Five years later, the faction, led by former university professor Nur Misuari, broke away, claiming the government had not fully implemented the deal.
Misuari opposed the deal signed last year by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in which the group agreed to a new autonomous region that would give it greater political powers and more control over resources.
Four decades of conflict in the south killed 120,000 people, displaced two million and stunted growth in the poor but resource-rich area of the mainly Roman Catholic country. Last year's deal spurred hopes of an economic revival.


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- Make It So
- John Freeman on new features.
- The Best of All Worlds
- Royal premiere for Star Trek: First Contact.
- BBC showing Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek Night.
- Growth of Star Trek: Continuum.
- Star Trek 30: One Weekend on Earth.
- In Memoriam: Bibi Besch.
- In Brief...: Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond, CIC lose interactive distribution rights, Emmy Award for Voyager, Marvel Comics.
- DS9: "Nor the Battle to the Strong", "The Assignment".
- VOY: "The Chute", "The Swarm"; Lisa Klink interview.
- Interview – William Shatner – "A Hero Reborn"
- by Pete Hull
- Competition to win The Ashes of Eden in audio and graphic novel form.
- Designing the Federation
- Lou Anders talks to Rick Sternbach about his work.
- Preliminary designs for USS Voyager are seen, as well as designs for the type 2 phaser and phaser rifle.
- Catherine Hicks: A Whale of a Time!
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- Interview – Ethan Phillips – "Cooking with Comedy"
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- Pamela Sargent & George Zebrowski: A Fury Born
- Paul Travers speaks to the authors.
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- Pocket TNG: A Fury Scorned.
- A Fistful of Data
- Age of USS Enterprise, Gates McFadden's name change, Klingon blood.
- From the Replicator
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- On Screen: Original Series rerelease volume 1.7, Deep Space Nine volume 4.13, Voyager volume 2.11.
- Read Out: The Joy Machine, Kahless, Infiltrator, The Soldiers of Fear, Time's Enemy, The Final Fury; Joe Nazzaro interviews James Gunn on The Joy Machine.
- Interactive Update: Star Trek Generations, Voyager adventure game, Star Trek: Borg.
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Lasers have become common since their invention in the 1960s. We use them every day to read optical media like DVDs, to see if our shelves are level, measure distances, or just to point at things. There are lots of medical and industrial uses for lasers too, but what we really want to know is how we can use them to defeat alien and Cylon invaders. Here are some ways the military is (and will be) using lasers on the battlefield.
We're still a long way from laser blasters disintegrating enemy forces, but the military has quite a few lasers in the field, and a lot of research (and money) devoted to making them better, smaller and more powerful. Military uses for lasers fall into a few distinct categories.
Communications – Lasers can be used to establish high bandwidth communications between distant locations without laying down any kind of infrastructure. The "shooter" sends laser pulses to the receiver, which interprets them as binary input to be deciphered by computers. In one test, the Navy transmitted live video between two moving ships that were nine nautical miles apart. There are limitations due to atmospheric interference and targeting accuracy, but this is still a pretty awesome communications tech.
Blinding enemies – If you shine a laser in someone's eyes, it really screws with them. If you shine a strobing series of lasers in someone's eyes, it can seriously disorient them. And if you shine a powerful laser in someone's eyes, you can blind them permanently. It is actually considered a war crime to intentionally blind enemy soldiers, and a 1980 treaty specifically forbids laser weapons that cause permanent blindness (it's ok to kill them, though).
Nevertheless, laser weapons offer a non-lethal way to incapacitate enemies at long range. The military calls this type of weapon a Dazzler. I don't know if they named it after the Marvel comics character, but I desperately hope so. They have a prototype called the PhaSR, which is a ridiculous acronym but still kind of cool for sci-fi fans. It was obviously intentionally designed to look like a science fiction weapon.
Designating targets – You've probably heard of laser-guided missiles and bombs. They are able to strike with extraordinary precision by honing on reflected laser light that's being shined on the target by another unit such as a spotter aircraft. These lasers emit light in the infrared portion of the spectrum, so the target typically doesn't know it's being "painted" by a laser. The laser is also pulsed at a specific frequency, which makes it resistant to laser jamming. A much simpler version of this technology is the laser sight found on some military guns, which allows the shooter to see the exact spot where the gun is aiming.
Laser jamming – This works a lot like blinding a human target with a laser, but it's used as a countermeasure against the enemy's own laser-based or optical systems. This has been used against the U.S. several times – the U.S.S.R. used their Terra-3 laser to illuminate the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984, which reportedly caused some problems for the shuttle's systems and crew. In 2006, China shined a laser on a U.S. imaging satellite. Although the Pentagon denied that the satellite suffered any harm, the potential to incapacitate satellite optical systems with a laser is certainly there.
Direct weapons – Will we have soldiers running around battlefields vaporizing enemies with lasers? A man-portable laser with enough power to accomplish that is probably decades off. Research is moving in that direction, though. Early efforts were focused on chemical lasers, which can be incredibly powerful but require huge stores of highly toxic chemicals to function. You could barely fit one on a large plane. Modern military laser weapons are based on solid state lasers, which, to greatly simplify a complex process, use ionized materials like ruby or garnet to amplify the input light beam, which might come from an LED.
The threshold for a useful military laser has long been considered 100 kilowatts, a goal surpassed by Northrop Grumman in 2009. That kind of power won't cut a tank in half, or even a human (unless you shine it for quite a long time), but in demonstrations it has proven capable of destroying incoming missiles, mortars and drone aircraft. The weapons are still pretty big – current efforts aim at mounting them on planes and mobile anti-aircraft units. But at this point the technology exists, and the traditional process of improving it will no doubt march on. They'll get more powerful, smaller, have more efficient cooling, need simpler power sources and eventually fit into a backpack.
Emery, Daniel. "Anti-aircraft laser unveiled at Farnborough Airshow." BBC News.
Office of Naval Research. "Laser Communications Fact Sheet."
Rincon, Paul. "Record power for military laser." BBC News.
Schactman, Noah. "Military Laser Hits Battlefield Strength." Wired.


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Welcome to Somerset East, home of the Walter Battiss Art Museum, this is where you will find all you need to know about Somerset East, as well as the neighbouring towns of Pearston and Cookhouse. Together these towns make up the Blue Crane Route.
On this website we list up to date information about all Somerset East accommodation, B&Bs and self catering, whether luxury, budget, or somewhere in between. We also list upcoming events, local information, news, history, and what to see and do in this area.
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On the fringes of South Africa's Karoo in the malaria free Eastern Cape lies the interesting, attractive and historic little town of Somerset East, which invariably charms all who visit it. The pretty town with its many gardens forms a green oasis, under the iconic Boschberg Mountain.
Located as it is, a short distance from the N10 main highway between Port Elizabeth and South Africa's interior, as well as being on one of the main routes to Graaff-Reinet, Somerset East is both a convenient and a natural place to stop over.
Those who do stop here will not be disappointed. The town of Somerset East is picturesque, friendly, and quiet, with little traffic, making it easy to explore on foot. You will find restaurants, coffee shops, and places to relax, to suit your needs, in Nojoli Street, the main street of Somerset East.
For those who are interested in history, the town owes much of its early years to the British military and settlers as well as the Afrikaners who were farming the area prior to the arrival of the British. This history can be explored both in the town and the surrounding area. (The controversial Slachter's Nek rebellion took place in the district). The Slachter's Nek Exhibition in the Somerset East Museum is of great interest. Another popular drawcard for the town is the Walter Battiss Art Museum, housing the largest collection of this great artist's work to be found in Africa. Battiss was a son of Somerset East, and donated an extensive collection of his work to the town in 1981, which is housed in the old Officer's Mess, a building once run as a private hotel by the Battiss family.
Many of Somerset East's houses and buildings reflect this heritage with lots of houses still standing which date from the early 1800's. A walk down Paulet Street is a trip into the past, especially in November when the many Heritage roses planted in Paulet Street are in full bloom.
The countryside around Somerset East is quite varied with impressive mountains, rich farmland, forest and open Karoo veld, all within a short drive of the town.
There is a fine variety of accommodation in Somerset East and its surrounds, ranging from the luxurious to value for money. Visitors wanting to find out about the various options will find them all listed on this website; from the various hotels, guest houses, B&Bs, and self catering accommodation, back packers, farm stays and game farms, camping and a caravan park on the banks of the Little Fish River.


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An executive of the Russian song-downloading Web site AllofMP3.com insists his site is legal, despite admitting it has never paid royalties from sales directly to artists.
Instead, it has paid 15 percent of its song revenues to the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS), but British and American record labels have refused to accept the money, said Vadim Mamotin, director general of Mediaservices, the parent company of AllofMP3.com.
Mamotin made those claims through a translator during a press conference Tuesday. His answers to journalists' questions were posted on the company's Web site.
AllofMP3.com is defending itself against music piracy lawsuits by record industry groups including the British Phonographic Industry and similar charges by music labels Universal Music Group, Warner Music, SonyBMG Music Entertainment and EMI Group.
"What more is AllofMP3 [to] do?" Mamotin said. "We operate under Russian law, we pay taxes in Russia and we pay royalties to ROMS, the official licensing agent in Russia. ROMS has offered to pay the record companies the royalties they collected but been rebuffed. Clearly, the record industry is trying to gain additional leverage before entering into direct negotiations with either us or ROMS."
Disgruntled artists are free to ask ROMS to remove their songs from AllofMP3.com, but only a few have done so, he said.
An umbrella group of record labels disputed that point, according to a statement by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI): "Copyright societies representing hundreds of thousands of composers, authors and music publishers around the world have written to ROMS making it plain that ROMS has received no such rights from them. ROMS does not have the mandate from any of the relevant copyright owners."
International courts are now weighing the debate, said Alex Jacob, an IFPI spokesman in London. "We believe they are illegal in Russia and outside. There are two court cases in Russia right now being brought by the prosecutor. There is an injunction against them in Germany and the Italian site [allofmp3.it] has been taken down. Our view is that they are illegal," Jacob said.
In response to being charged with running a pirate Web site, Mamotin insisted that AllofMP3 was a better safeguard of artists' interests than commercial record companies.
"Let's start with the fact that the record companies have little regard for the majority of musicians. They are concerned with making money for themselves, not the artists. In our opinion, we and the artists would be better off dealing directly with each other," Mamotin said.
He did not explain why artists would choose to draw their 15 percent royalties on AllofMP3's low prices. The site charges US$2.69 for Justin Timberlake's album "Future Sex/Love Sounds," far less than the US$13.99 charged by some U.S. retail sites.
Rather, it is the record companies who are starving their artists, resulting in a recent lawsuit by the band Cheap Trick against SonyBMG for shortchanging them on royalties due from sales on iTunes, he said.
"It is not up to us to determine value. We price our music based on the Russian market. To us, who love music, all music is priceless," Mamotin said.


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Study: Clear Environmental Benefits From Using Recycled Paper in National Geographic, Other Magazines
Washington, DC -- March 20, 2013—Using recovered fiber in place of virgin fiber for magazine paper has a benefit in 14 of 14 environmental impact categories studied, according to a life-cycle assessment (LCA) issued today by ENVIRON International Corporation. The study debunks any myths promoted by magazine and paper industries that question the environmental benefits of using recycled fiber in publication-grade paper. The production of magazine paper in the U.S. emits the equivalent of over 7.2 million metric tons of CO2 each year, or approximately the annual greenhouse gas emissions of over 1.5 million cars.
The National Geographic Society and a number of NGO stakeholders including Green America, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and World Resources Institute (WRI), collaborated on this multi-year study. The results can be found at: http://www.greenamerica.org/better-paper-project/
As a result of the study, National Geographic is now exploring recycled paper options for their publications. If National Geographic does begin using recycled paper in their magazines, they will join a growing list that includes large and small publications such as Fast Company, Audubon, YES!, and Ranger Rick— all of which have been using recycled paper for a long time.
In a public statement National Geographic released today, Chief Sustainability Officer Hans Wegner stated, "The information gleaned [from the LCA report] will further inform our own paper manufacturing purchasing practices, which are developed around the criteria of quality, performance, availability, affordability and environmental impact."
"We are very glad that National Geographic is using the results of the ENVIRON study to prioritize recycled paper use in their magazines," says Frank Locantore, director of the Green America Better Paper Project. "Many other large magazines and smaller periodicals can feel confident about the substantial environmental benefits if they begin using recycled paper in their magazines. And, the Better Paper Project is happy to help them all find the best paper that meets their needs."
Categories studied in ENVIRON's LCA include total CO2-equivalent emissions (i.e. global warming potential), carcinogenicity, eutrophication, wood use, and other elements. The stakeholder group identified four key areas where data variability and assumptions might affect results, namely (1) the amount of energy used in pulping, (2) the fuel mix used in pulping, (3) the environmental impact characterization method used in the model, and (4) the method for allocating recycling benefits in the model. The LCA shows that, even considering the range of possible values for these key areas, using recovered fiber reduces negative environmental impacts for the majority of the environmental impact categories studied.
"This study confirms that the best way for publishers to reduce the environmental impact associated with the paper they buy is to increase recycled content," says Darby Hoover, senior resource specialist, Natural Resources Defense Council. "We hope that National Geographic, as one of the nation's top producers of nature publications, takes immediate steps to incorporate the highest recycled content into their magazine and other paper purchases, and sets goals for continued improvement in its paper attributes over time."
"Keeping mature trees alive and absorbing carbon from the atmosphere is crucial to protecting us from the worst effects of climate disruption, and using recycled paper reduces the pressure to log more trees," said Rod Arakaki, audience development director at YES! Magazine. "Compared to National Geographic, Condé Nast, Time, and Hearst, Yes! is a small circulation publication, and we have a long history of using recycled paper in our magazine. If we can do it, so can they. We encourage them all to begin using recycled paper and to help motivate the rest of the magazine industry to follow."
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Beings of death are ancient and powerful, and it is dangerous to meddle in their realm. When Odyn peered into the Shadowlands, he saw some of its inhabitants: souls in torment, the husks of the dead, ghostly wraiths with no face, and others with no form, all made of death itself. This was enough to frighten even him.[41] Several races in the Shadowlands, such as the kyrian of Bastion, are souls of deceased mortals who have been transformed to serve a new purpose. If one of these former mortals is killed in the Shadowlands, they die permanently. Other creatures—such as dredgers and stewards—are endemic to the Shadowlands and are naturally born from the magic of death to serve the different realms and help facilitate the process of the afterlife. If one such creature of death is killed, their energy is recycled back into the Shadowlands, and eventually another member of the same race will manifest to take the place of the one that was killed.[42][43]
For the first time since the release of World of Warcraft in 2004, Shadowlands will involve a level reduction ("level squish"), with player characters at level 120 (the level cap in Battle for Azeroth) reduced to level 50, with level 60 being the new level cap (as it had been in the original game). In what Blizzard has called a "New Game+ experience", newly-created characters will have an updated starting experience on an island called "Exile's Reach", which will introduce them to the game and its systems. For players new to World of Warcraft, characters who finish the starting experience on Exile's Reach will proceed to Battle for Azeroth content, while veteran players who create new characters can choose the expansion experience they wish to play through to level 50, at which point they would proceed to the Shadowlands.[6][7]
Certain playable races will receive new customization options (for example, humans will be able to customize their ethnicities, dwarves and trolls will gain tattoos, and undead will be able to show varying degrees of decay). The Death Knight class (added in Wrath of the Lich King) is being opened up to pandaren (added in Mists of Pandaria) and to all allied races (added in Legion and Battle for Azeroth); players who pre-ordered Shadowlands received access to death knights for these races with the release of Patch 8.3.0, Battle for Azeroth's last major content patch, on January 14, 2020.[7]
The spell called "spiritual projection" or "astral projection" brings the caster to the Twisting Nether instead of the Shadowlands;[65] and the Twisting Nether is also referred as "realm of ghosts".[66] However, both planes don't appear to be related, as Outland is floating on the Twisting Nether,[65] but the Shadowlands can be reached in Outland in The Burning Crusade.
Spirit healers decide when it's time for a mortal soul to pass into the Shadowlands.[5] When a mortal dies and their soul crosses the veil between life and death, it is shepherded by the kyrian to Oribos so that they can be judged by the impassive Arbiter.[6] All of the soul's contents—deeds, misdeeds, thoughts, accomplishments, and failures—are instantly laid bare before the Arbiter, who then judges in a mere instant and sends the soul off to one of the infinite realms of the Shadowlands, each of which is ruled over by a powerful Covenant.[3][5] The Covenants are ancient and powerful orders who have existed since the Shadowlands were shaped long ago, and who bear sacred duties to help maintain the afterlife's ecosystem. Not every soul is filtered into the main four Covenants.[5] Each soul brings with it a vital force known as anima, the product of all of the soul's experiences and actions in life. Anima is the lifeblood of the Shadowlands, making trees grow and rivers flow and is the source that's drawn upon to conduct the magic of death. Great souls—both good and evil—have a lot of anima, while those who have lived humbler lives have less.[3][5] Four of the realms—Ardenweald, Bastion, Maldraxxus, and Revendreth—are especially vital to the functioning of the Shadowlands. However, there could be infinite afterlives, some small and tailored to a single person while others are vast and full of either splendor or torment. Between each realm is a cloudy space which was once rich with streams of anima connecting the different domains, but the current anima drought has caused the realms to become cut off from one another, breeding fear and mistrust among the inhabitants.[7]


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algaeăl´jē [key] [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that lack true roots, stems, leaves, and flowers). More recently, most algae have been classified in the kingdom Protista or in another major group called the eukarya (or eukaryotes), which includes animals and higher plants. The algae have chlorophyll and can manufacture their own food through the process of photosynthesis. They are distributed worldwide in the sea, in freshwater, and in moist situations on land. Nearly all seaweeds are marine algae. Algae that thrive in polluted water, some of which are toxic, can overmultiply, resulting in an algal bloom and seriously unbalancing their ecosystem.
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Mathew Krentz (born 21 April 1982; age 38) is a visual effects artist who worked as a Digital Compositor for ILM on J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. [1]
Born in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, Krentz attended the Center for Digital Imaging and Sound in Vancouver and graduated after two years in 2002. He joined the Rainmaker company and worked on films such as the family movie Good Boy! (2003), the comic adaptation Garfield (2004), the science fiction thriller I, Robot (2004, with James Cromwell and Bruce Greenwood), Rob Bowman's action film Elektra (2005, with Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), the crime thriller Firewall (2006, with Virginia Madsen), Ron Howard's mystery thriller The Da Vinci Code (2006), the comedy sequel Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006), and the comedy Blades of Glory (2007), as well as on the television series The Collector (2004), Stargate: Atlantis (2004, with regular Paul McGillion), and Stargate SG-1 (2004).
In 2007 he joined the company CafeFX and worked as a digital compositor on Frank Darabont's horror thriller The Mist (2007, with William Sadler) and the adventure movie Nim's Island (2008), followed by a current connection with CIS Vancouver and projects such as Clint Eastwood's Changeling (2008), the horror thriller Case 39 (2009), the science fiction film Space Buddies (2009, starring Diedrich Bader), and the fantasy film They Came from Upstairs (2009). Beside Star Trek, Krentz worked also as digital compositor for ILM on Steven Spielberg's action sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008, with Pavel Lychnikoff and Alan Dale).
Krentz was part of the VFX team which earned an Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Series for the Stargate: Atlantis episode Rising and received a Leo Award for Best Visual Effects in a dramatic Series for The Collector and a VES Nomination for Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture for the Da Vinci Code.
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