US Military Shoots Down Dark Knight's Flying "Bat" Idea

When the Dark Knight rises to defend Gotham once more, he literally takes to the skies in a flying vehicle known simply as the Bat. The new nonlethal weapon in Batman's arsenal can hover like a helicopter and pull off aerial maneuvers worthy of "Top Gun" fighter jets ? a combination that may seem almost too good to be true.

That amazing spectacle should come as no surprise in a Hollywood film about a billionaire superhero with access to top-secret military technology. But making the Bat fly in today's reality would prove a lot trickier, said Mitchell Burnside Clapp, a program manager for the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

"The problem with a vehicle like the Bat is that it's going to have to generate enough thrust to hold itself off the ground," Burnside Clapp said. "The main thrust appears to come from the belly rotor while the other devices seem to be applied more to maneuvering."

Burnside Clapp looks to the future of aircraft technology as manager for DARPA's Disc-Rotor Compound Helicopter program. He previously served as an Air Force Reserve instructor at the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and worked at several private aerospace companies. In this case, he has also seen "The Dark Knight Rises" (Warning: plot spoilers ahead; no character spoilers).

Making the Bat fly

Downward thrust from the Bat's belly rotor must at least equal the weight of the Bat to achieve the hover effect, Burnside Clapp explained. Helicopters create such lift by having long rotor blades extending well beyond the main aircraft body ? the blade sections close to the main rotor hub do not create much lift because they don't move very fast relative to the air.

But helicopter lift also depends on accelerating air downward through their spinning rotor blades. That becomes a problem if the rotor sits underneath an aircraft such as the Bat (although Lucius Fox, Batman's gadgets master in the Christopher Nolan film trilogy, mutters something about solving air recirculation issues in the Bat's design).

Putting the main rotor beneath the Bat also leads to some stability problems ? "think of the problem of balancing a broomstick on your palm" to get an idea, Burnside Clapp told InnovationNewsDaily. By comparison, rotors act as a restoring force for stability when they sit on top of helicopters. [V-22 Osprey: Controversial Dream Machine]

Assuming the Bat weighs about as much as modern helicopters, the Bat's rotor would still need to have "enough air to push a several thousand pound vehicle upwards," Burnside Clapp said. Such force would easily knock a standing person down, which would have changed certain "Dark Knight Rises" scenes in a fairly dramatic fashion.

Leaping the technology gap

Still, some technologies could make hovering vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft work in the confined urban canyons of Batman's Gotham City. Shrouded rotors distributed around the Bat vehicle could prevent the downwash from flattening everyone around it, Burnside Clapp said.

Enough power can make almost anything fly (maybe even a prohibitively expensive flying aircraft carrier). Helicopters represent a power-efficient way of providing lift, followed by the less efficient "vectored thrust" aircraft such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

By comparison, the Bat's unusual design would lead to huge power demands ? but perhaps not unsolvable demands, according to the technological leaps of fancy in "The Dark Knight Rises."

"The Bat, in the film, would need an unbelievable amount of power," Burnside Clapp said. "Now if you had a fusion reactor big enough to power a city that was small enough that you could carry it around in a medium truck, then ?"

This story was provided by InnovationNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience. You can follow InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer Jeremy Hsu on Twitter @ScienceHsu. Follow InnovationNewsDaily on Twitter @News_Innovation, or on Facebook.

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Uganda's army denies supporting Congo rebels

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has denied allegations its army was providing support to the M23 rebels fighting against the Kinshasa government in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), joining Rwanda which has also refuted similar accusations.

Congo's President Joseph Kabila said on Saturday his government had requested an explanation from Ugandan authorities after persistent rumours that its soldiers were backing the M23 group.

Fighting between the Congolese government and the rebels has displaced 470,000 people since April.

"General Aronda called on the Congolese government to prevail over those who are passing on such idiotic rumours against the government of Uganda and the UPDF," Uganda's military chief, General Aronda Nyakairima, was quoted as saying in a statement issued by Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF).

"... We cannot infiltrate the DRC and we will not do that."

Although Uganda's relations with DRC have markedly improved in recent years, the two neighbours were not seeing eye to eye in late 1990s and early 2000s after Uganda, alongside Rwanda, invaded the giant nation twice.

Uganda justified its invasion by saying it wanted to root out a rebel group, Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has bases in eastern DRC and is opposed to the Kampala government.

The M23 rebellion takes its name from a 2009 peace accord the rebels say was violated by Kinshasa.

It has been swelled by hundreds of defectors from the Congolese army who walked out into the bush in support of fugitive Congolese General Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges.

The leaders of Congo and Rwanda agreed to allow a neutral force to be deployed in Congo to defeat each other's rebels, but the plan's details have not been announced yet.

Kampala is scheduled to host regional leaders between August 5-8 to discuss the conflict after an interim report by the U.N.'s panel of experts accused Rwanda of backing the rebels.

Kigali has strenuously denied this, and in turn accused the international community of using Rwanda as a scapegoat for the chaos in eastern Congo.

Donors including the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Germany have all suspended some of their financial aid to Rwanda over the accusations that it is backing the rebels.

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Remembering Faulkner, six books at a time - The Shelf Life

The trio of north Mississippi towns where William Faulkner was born, lived and died form a triangle on territory the reading world knows as Yoknapatawpha County.

faulkner.jpegFaulkner was born in New Albany in 1897. When he was 5, he moved with his family to Oxford, where he lived and wrote until he died of a heart attack in a Byhalia sanatorium in 1962, 50 years ago this month.
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To mark the date of his death on July 6, the town of Oxford staged an eight-hour reading of his last novel, "The Reivers" on the steps of his home, Rowan Oak. The following day, the 39th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi began a five-day run. The town newspaper, The Oxford Eagle, published a supplement called "Remembering Faulkner," which included William Styron's account of the author's funeral published in Life magazine.

?"People say that Oxford didn't care anything about Bill Faulkner, and that's just not true," Styron quoted The Eagle editor of that time protesting. Richard Howorth, co-owner of Oxford's Square Books, notes in his contribution to the newspaper supplement that townspeople resented Faulkner's writerly air, referring to him as "Count No 'Count."

A dense and entertaining site called William Faulkner on the Web maintained by Dr. John B. Padgett, says residents of Oxford regarded Faulkner as "a kind of harmless eccentric" until his novel "Sanctuary," about a "fast" Ole Miss coed who ends up in a Memphis brothel, piqued their ire. But the town was ready to forget Faulkner's self-described "potboiler" by the time he received the Nobel Prize in Literature 20 years later. Styron quoted from a full-page paid tribute in The Eagle on that occasion: "We want to tell people everywhere -- Oxford, and all of us, are very proud of William Faulkner, one of us, the Nobel Prize winning author."

fury.jpegBut the most lasting tribute to mark the half-century since Faulkner's death is the Random House publication of new hardcover Modern Library editions of his work, including "As I Lay Dying," "The Sound and the Fury," "Absalom, Absalom!" "Short Stories," "Light in August" -- which comes out in August -- and "Snopes," three novels about the grasping family of that name "here joined together, as (Faulkner) had always hoped and planned they would be," George Garrett writes in his introduction.

Backgrounds on the dust covers resemble fading and distressed wallpaper, reflecting the atmosphere of fading and distressed glory that pervades these stories about the South and its uneasy compact with its history. The suffering visited on the folks of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County has its source in the fraught psychological ties of family. The Compsons, fallen local aristocracy; the dirt-farming Bundrens; the Sutpen and Snopes arrivistes, all are doomed by family history.

Acclaimed contemporary writers contribute inventive forewords to these Faulkner classics.
Marilynne Robinson writes of "The Sound and the Fury" that Faulkner's tale told by an idiot, first published in 1929, arrived when the movement to sterilize mental defectives had such powerful supporters as Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger. "So when Faulkner enters into the mind of Benjy Compson and finds it full of love and passionate memory, a repository of everything that was ever good in the life of his family, he is offering a moving objection to the idea that such a life can be without value."

E.L. Doctorow writes in his foreword to "As I Lay Dying," first published in 1930, that the Bundren family doesn't merely represent the South of the Great Depression. As they transport their matriarch's putrefying corpse 40 miles in a mule-drawn wagon, the Bundrens tell a story of biblical and Shakespearean proportions, cruel in its magnificent and petty details.

Father Anse takes his daughter's abortion money to buy false teeth. "Anse also takes away Jewel's beloved horse to trade for meals, his team having last been seen in the flooded river, their legs sticking into the air. And if consigning Darl to the state asylum will save the family legal trouble, no one thinks twice. Bundren family life, like the weather, like the land and the water, is elemental and merciless," Doctorow writes.

In a foreword to "Absalom, Absalom!", John Jeremiah Sullivan confronts and criticizes Faulkner's use of the racial slur so charged this newspaper doesn't print it: " ... a writer with Faulkner's sensitivity to verbal shading might have been better tuned to the ugliness of the word, and not a useful or truth-revealing ugliness, as has a rightful place in art, but something more like gratuitousness, with an attending queasy sense of rhetorical power misused." Still, Sullivan writes, the novel "has been well described as the most serious attempt by any white novelist to confront the problem of race in America. There is bravery in Faulkner's decision to dig into this wound."

And digging into this work takes bravery as well, Sullivan notes. "I wish you luck in there," he says, calling the book ambiguous, frustrating, upsetting. What makes it worth the effort? "The South escaped itself in this book and became universal."

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New Zealand city aims for 'college campus' feel in rebuilding area quake reduced to rubble

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A convention center, sports stadium and performing arts complex are among the big projects planned for a new-look downtown Christchurch after the New Zealand city was reduced to rubble by an earthquake last year.

Essentially given a blank slate, government planners on Monday unveiled a blueprint for the city that replaces office towers with green spaces, urban apartments and innovation "hubs" they say will give the city the feel of a college campus. Under the plan, the city will be smaller, the buildings lower in height and constructed to higher earthquake standards.

The plan has been eagerly awaited. It has been nearly 18 months since the magnitude-6.1 quake struck, killing 185 people and irreparably damaging 1,400 downtown buildings including the century-old Anglican cathedral in the city center.

"It will be safe, modern, green and will leave a legacy that makes Christchurch one of the best places in the world to live and work for many generations to come," Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker said in a statement.

Many residents have become frustrated at the slow pace of recovery in Christchurch. Hundreds of substantial aftershocks have hampered progress and made insurers skittish, while government and city officials, including Mayor Parker, have been accused of dithering and bickering. Even before the plan was released, some wondered if they would end up footing a chunk of the bill through rate hikes.

Yet for many, the plan is a welcome step forward. Some see it as a unique chance to correct problems in the city, such as an excess of older-style office space that was evident even before the earthquake. The plan also comes as the aftershocks appear to be finally abating.

Government officials have not yet identified an overall cost for the rebuild or specific funding sources for all the new projects. Nick Bryant, a spokesman for earthquake recovery minister Gerry Brownlee, said Monday that the funding will come from a variety of sources, including local councils, private investors, insurance payouts and from the central government, which has so far set aside 5.5 billion New Zealand dollars ($4.4 billion) for the recovery efforts.

Under the plan, the city would be bordered with green spaces and the overall design would give more emphasis to the winding Avon River. An earthquake memorial would be given prominence, as would a Maori cultural center. The central city square would be divided into a number of smaller public gathering spots.

The city would be broken into a series of hubs featuring related activities. For instance, there would be a health precinct anchored by a hospital, a justice precinct with courts and a police station, and a retail precinct with stores.

The plan identifies sites for big infrastructure projects including a prominent library and a convention center with the capacity to hold 2,000 people that would overlook the river. There would also be a covered sports stadium seating up to 35,000 people built in the city's southeast and an indoor aquatic and recreation center built in the southwest.

In a release, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, who grew up in Christchurch, said it was important to identify sites for the major new projects so that private developers could begin planning hotels, restaurants and stores to complement them.

"I am delighted to see this plan for new development and to know that construction will soon be underway to rebuild my old hometown," he said.

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Mobile Marketing: How to Add a Boost to Your Business | New Blood ...

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We are all aware that more and more people are accessing the Internet ?on-the-go? with the use of their mobile devices. People gain access to the worldwide web via their mobile devices (day in and day out) to do pretty much anything and everything which the Internet allows them to (check out their social networking accounts, do online banking, browse their favorite websites, go online shopping, etc. ). The explosion in the number of Internet-enabled mobile devices or mobile technologies concurred equally with the dramatic boost in mobile internet users worldwide.? Of course, the business world was one of the first to embrace the strength and power of mobile technologies online.

With the inception of internet business marketing campaigns via mobile devices, entrepreneurs have found a faster and more accessible way to reach their target market. If you think about the fact that most people feel incomplete without their mobile devices, then a business can surely find a way to promote and market its products or services via mobile media. The steady shift in how many consumers access the Internet will become an advantage for many entrepreneurs to help them gain leverage, close sales, and increase revenues.

Marketing for business via various mobile technologies has proven to be a goldmine for many large-scale companies. Although small in coverage compared to large businesses, small-scale business can still benefit from the powerful marketing technique which mobile technologies have provided.

Yet, a number of small-scale entrepreneurs still need more convincing for them to accept, support, and employ mobile marketing for their business (or for some, creating their mobile presence). So, how can mobile marketing give small businesses a boost?

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There are some small businesses that haven?t created their mobile presence yet. They haven?t completely realized how consumers are changing the ways they purchase products and services online these days. Of course, many of these entrepreneurs don?t know how mobile marketing works and how effective it is to increase their business productivity and profitability.

Let?s take a look at current mobile internet stats. These statistics may motivate more small business entrepreneurs to strengthen their use of mobile technologies for mobile marketing and inspire other small-scale businesses to put up their mobile presence.

  • Smartphone sales bigger than PC sales. The increase of smartphone users also created an equal increase in the demand for access of business information and access. The massive growth of Internet-enabled mobile technologies, along with various software and applications, provided: a. employers easy medium of communication and collaboration to employees, b. customers to reach businesses, and c. businesses to communicate with customers and market products and services to potential clients.
  • 86% of adults have cell phones and nearly 1 in 2 adults now use mobile internet. In first quarter of 2012, many reports have shown that online cell phone internet browsing is at its all time high. Many consumers are spending more of their time on their mobile phones than their PCs. As mobile devices improve, users accessing the Internet via cell phones and other mobile devices will become more common than ever.
  • 62% of smartphone Internet users have gone online via their phone every day. The domination of smartphones and other mobile devices as medium for Internet access has become more evident.
  • Mobile internet use will become more than double. Many studies disclosed that mobile internet devices will reach up to billions by next year. This means mobile internet use will increase resulting to more activities on online shopping and blogging, as well as increase access to business applications and software.

With these statistics alone, it is impossible for those small-scale businesses not online to jump on the bandwagon and experience the benefits of creating mobile presence. And for those who already have, regular strengthening of their mobile marketing strategies will definitely help a lot more.

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Without the various Internet-enabled mobile technologies, mobile marketing can?t prosper until today which has brought about increases in business profitability. Mobile technologies have also helped businesses to increase their productivity.

The mobile technologies available today have definitely opened a new dimension in advertising and marketing of business globally. Potential customers and clients can now immediately notice or spot business using their smartphones and other mobile devices. Entrepreneurs can make use of various mobile marketing techniques such as mobile websites, mobile applications, banner ads, SMS (text) messaging, etc.

There are many opportunities to thrive in the business world through mobile marketing. Entrepreneurs can use the following to boost their mobile marketing strategy and increase the awareness of their business among their target audience.

  1. Optimize Websites for Mobile. Of course, websites have been a great help for most online business. However, sometimes websites can look crappy when viewed on smartphones and other mobile devices or takes a long time to load. If that happens, customers or potential clients will start to look elsewhere. Entrepreneurs must make sure that their websites are optimized for mobile browsing. If not, you can create a mobile site out from scratch. A business can?t afford to lose business opportunities which a mobile presence can provide.
  2. Signing up in social sites. Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google Places, and other social sites have revolutionized an avenue where businesses can spread their online presence to reach their market. Since many people check out their accounts in various social sites via their smartphones daily, businesses can take advantage of the free advertisement. People usually check out new businesses through these portals.
  3. Running promotions through mobile messages. This is a strategy which can guarantee entrepreneurs that they can reach their target market. Compared to email marketing which can?t be read or even treated as spam, SMS (text) or MMS messages will surely be read. Mobile promotions can be a great and creative way to engage for customers to spot a business.
  4. Creating a mobile app. The possibilities are endless for a business that has a mobile app. Entrepreneurs can create mobile apps providing services related to their business. It is a new, creative, and innovative way of getting discovered and staying in the minds of potential customers.

Business mobile marketing can seem like a shot in the dark. But for those who have already started on their mobile business campaigns, mobile marketing has proven to be a very powerful tool to grow a business and gain more customers.

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Jeremy is an entrepreneur and leading manager of New Blood, Inc. Excited about all things Internet related, Jeremy spends much of his time project managing custom web applications and directing advanced search engine optimization efforts.

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Student charged with threats against Kent State

CLEVELAND (AP) ? Police have arrested and charged a 19-year-old Kent State University student who posted a message on Twitter saying he planned to "shoot up" the campus.

WEWS-TV reports (http://bit.ly/NCLevo ) that William Koberna was arrested at his parents' home in Brunswick Sunday afternoon. He's been charged with inducing panic, a felony, and aggravated menacing.

A university spokesman said Sunday night the tweet was posted July 25.

Koberna is to be arraigned in court on Monday. He also faces hearings that can result in his suspension or dismissal from the university.

Kent State University President Lester A. Lefton said in a statement, "Our students, employees, and all those who come to campus should know that their safety is our top priority. Any threat to our campus community is taken seriously and immediately investigated."

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Blizzard Agrees With Valve About the Impact of Windows 8 For PC Gamers

BlizzardIn a recent interview with Valve CEO Gabe Newell, the outspoken unofficial head of PC Gaming leveled some pretty damning criticism on Windows 8. Using words such as ?catastrophe?, the internet instantly lit up with story?s and comments that for the most part, were largely supportive of his radical stance. It could easily be argued that his comments are largely self-serving since Microsoft is setting itself up in direct competition with Valve?s Steam store, but people will have to decide for themselves. Why bring up old wounds you ask? Valve has a new supporter.

Rob Pardo, Executive Vice President of Game Design at Blizzard took to Twitter to rally behind Newell, adding simply ?not awesome for Blizzard either?. ?Not Awesome? and ?Catastrophe? are most certainly not the same thing, but it does point out a growing ground swell of rebellion by some of PC Gaming?s top developers.?

Love or hate the new Windows 8 UI, we have to admit we are slightly confused as to why they feel so threatened. Microsoft has proven time and again with Games for Windows Live they are completely incapable for executing in this space, and a Metro version of Steam and the Blizzard launcher might actually make for an interesting portal. Windows RT for ARM is a much more closed down ecosystem, however developers shouldn?t have much to fear from Windows 8 for traditional desktops. It if will run on Windows 7, chances are it will run on Windows 8.

It is possible Valve and Blizzard are fearing users will flock to Mac OSX en-mass as a result of the changes, though Microsoft will likely respond with a Windows XP style extension for Windows 7 if the wind of change turn into a hurricane, and they need to make a rapid about face. ?

Is all the hate justified? Let us know in the comments below.

Source: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/blizzard_agrees_valve_about_impact_windows_8_pc_gamers

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