Star Trek 2 Sets Official Start Date, Shooting Locations, and More

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Production on the tentatively-titled Star Trek 2 was at one point scheduled to begin by either Spring or Summer 2011. However, due to factors like an extended screenwriting process and (primarily) director J.J. Abrams being busy putting the finishing touches on Super 8, filming on the sci-fi sequel ended up being delayed.

Jump ahead to late 2011 and the sci-fi sequel has (finally) officially been pushed back to an unspecified 2013 release date. On the plus side: an actual production start date has been announced, along with additional information concerning the state of the highly-anticipated film?s script, and some of the shooting locations that may serve as various (exotic and Earth-bound) locales of the Star Trek universe.

Trekmovie has learned that principal photography on Star Trek 2 is scheduled to get going by January 15th, 2012 ? more than four years after filming began on Abrams? original reboot. Nonetheless, the news is sure to be welcomed by many a fan who has been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the U.S.S. Enterprise?s next cinematic adventure.

When Abrams officially committed to directing the Star Trek sequel, it was mentioned that scribers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof would soon have a shooting script (based on their 70-page plot outline) ready to go. However, Orci informed Trekmovie that the Star Trek 2 screenplay has actually been complete ?for a while? and that he and his fellow scripters are currently revising their 3rd draft; apparently, the only writing work left to be done involves making sure the film will meet the budget Paramount has settled on. The original Trek reboot came with a $150 million price tag, so it stands to reason that the sequel is being designed to cost a (relatively) similar amount.

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The U.S.S. Enterprise will return to action in 'Star Trek 2'

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has already begun working on certain digital effects shots (ex. starships, planets) in Star Trek 2 that will not incorporate any live-action elements, so as to ensure that post-production on the film can be completed in a timely, but not hurried, manner. Likewise, most of the practical sets and elements used in the 2009 Trek flick (ex. the ?renovated? Enterprise interior, Starfleet uniforms) have been preserved and are going to be re-used in the followup.

The majority of Star Trek 2 will be shot on sound stages on the Paramount lot. However, Abrams is currently scouting real-life locations to ?play? the following:

  • A ?jungle planet? that bears a resemblance to the undeveloped regions of Hawaii (that?s where Abrams traveled recently)
  • A ?famous Star Trek location? that looks to be brought to life by a museum in Los Angeles

While there are no substantial rumors yet about what worlds or locations may show up in the Star Trek sequel, the film (as a whole) is described as being much ?bigger? in scope and scale than its predecessor. So, rest assured, there will be plenty of cool new extraterrestrial eye candy on display.

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The rebooted 'Star Trek' crew

A lot of Trek fans have (understandably) been frustrated with the relatively slow-as-molasses pace that Star Trek ?has?had making its way down the production pipeline at, especially in comparison to many other blockbuster sequels.

It is nonetheless assuring to hear that the film?s screenplay has been thoroughly reworked and refined to (hopefully) perfection, the complex CGI and important visual effects aren?t being rushed through development, and that pretty much all the same ingredients (cast, creative team, even sets/costumes) that worked well in the Trek reboot are being used again in the followup. So, all in all: things are looking quite good right now.

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We will continue to keep you posted on the status of Star Trek 2, and let you know when it has both an official title and theatrical release date.

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Nyko Charge Base 3 (for PlayStation 3)

Wireless controllers have made gaming much more convenient, but there's the small matter of keeping them charged up. For the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, this means plugging the controllers into the consoles, bringing us back to our tethered roots. Nyko?s $24.99 (direct) Charge Base 3 for the PlayStation 3, helps by keeping two controllers charged and ready thanks to magnetic adapters.

The Charge Base works by putting small USB connectors (compatible with the Sony DualShock 3 and Sixaxis controllers, but not third-party gamepads or the PlayStation Move controllers) over the ports on the PS3 controllers, then putting the controllers on the base. Magnets keep the controllers aligned and charging, while letting players just stick them on and pull them away with little effort. The charge base holds the controllers vertically, making them look like they?re neatly mounted on a rack instead of just lying on their backs, like the previous version, the Charge Base 2, did. The Charge Base 2 also retails for $5 more, giving the Charge Base 3 even more value over the last model. Indicator lights above the charging ports light up when a controller is connected, after a second delay. Unfortunately, the charging adapter blocks the player indicator lights with awkwardly angled clear plastic, so while you can see that some red is glowing to indicate the controller is on, you can?t easily tell which controller is assigned to which player.

As a charger, the Charge Base 3 does exactly what it says it does. Just plug in the adapter and put the controller on the base, and that?s all you need to do. It?s simple, elegant, and more convenient than the typical mini-USB cord that charges the gamepad. Since it doesn?t change the batteries on the PS3 controller or make any claims beyond simply making the connection to a power source, it doesn?t have much room where it can go wrong without trying. It plugs into a wall outlet, which can be good; on one hand, plugging the charger into the wall means you can keep the gamepads charged even when the console is turned off. On the other hand, you need to have an empty power outlet nearby.

The Nyko Charge Base 3 has the two minor trade-offs of requiring an open power outlet and not being able to charge your controller while you play, but these issues are worth the $25 and the convenience and ease of being able to just stack your controllers neatly on their charger and pull them out with ease. Taking away a USB cable or two from the front of the PS3 and making your home theater a little less cluttered is just a bonus.

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    Penn State assistant coach says he "shaken" by scandal (Reuters)

    STATE COLLEGE, Pa (Reuters) ? An assistant football coach at Penn State who told a grand jury he saw Jerry Sandusky raping a boy in a shower in 2002 said on Tuesday he was "shaken" by the turmoil the scandal at the university.

    In a short interview with CBS News broadcast on Tuesday, Mike McQueary said his emotions were "all over the place, just kind of shaken ... like a snow globe."

    In March 2002, when he was a graduate student at Penn State, McQueary allegedly walked into a training facility one night and found a naked boy, whom he estimated to be 10 years old, in a shower "with his hands up against the wall, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky," according to a grand jury report.

    McQueary went to see Penn's State's legendary head football coach Joe Paterno the next day and told him what he had seen, according to the grand jury report. Paterno, in turn, told his boss.

    Sandusky, who was once considered a likely successor to Paterno, now faces charges he sexually abused eight young boys over nearly a 15-year period.

    The investigation that resulted in those charges began in 2009, when the mother of a young man who participated in a youth charity Sandusky founded went to police with her concerns about Sandusky's behavior.

    The subsequent two-year investigation by police and the grand jury uncovered the 2002 incident at Penn State as well half a dozen other alleged assaults on children by Sandusky between 1994 and 2009.

    McQueary, who went on to become an assistant coach at Penn State, has been put on administrative leave by the university.

    Others, including Paterno and former University President Graham Spanier, have been fired. Two other officials have been charged with failing to report the 2002 incident.

    (Reporting by James B. Kelleher; Editing by Greg McCune)

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    The energy, and expense, of bringing water to the Southland

    Reporting from Chiriaco Summit, Calif.?

    The aqueduct stretched across the desert like an endless blue freight train, carrying its cargo of Colorado River water to a concrete building at the base of a craggy-faced mountain.

    Inside the plant, adorned with the seal of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a set of massive pumps hoisted the water 441 feet high, disgorging it into a tunnel and the final leg of its journey from the Arizona border to a Riverside County reservoir.

    The Julian Hinds Pumping Plant is one of the hydraulic hearts of California's vast water supply system, built early in the last century to push water from where it is to where it isn't, no matter how many hundreds of miles of desert, mountains and valleys are in the way.

    Defying geography on such a grand scale takes energy. A lot of it. It's also expensive. And it's going to become more so, driving up Southern California water rates and forcing the region to consider more mundane sources closer to home.

    The volume of water propelled uphill on one recent day at Hinds weighed the equivalent of more than four World Trade Center towers and required six 12,500-horsepower motors driven by electricity, much of it from Hoover and Parker dams on the Colorado.

    But the federal contract that allocates more than a quarter of Hoover Dam's hydro-generation to the MWD expires in 2017. The water agency expects to lose 5% of its Hoover electricity under a new pact that will accommodate additional customers by trimming sales to longtime users.

    The MWD will have to buy additional power on the open market, at higher prices. And the state's upcoming cap-and-trade program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could require the district to purchase expensive pollution allowances to offset the energy it gets from fossil-fuel power plants.

    Agency officials predict that the double whammy will boost the aqueduct's energy costs, which amounted to nearly $49 million last year, by 80% over the next decade.

    For similar reasons, the district could face even steeper price hikes from its other water source, the State Water Project, which brings supplies from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the Southland. That system is the single biggest power user in California.

    Costs there are expected to climb by $20 million a year after the Department of Water Resources drops its ownership interest in a coal-fired Nevada power plant in 2013, and replaces it with cleaner electricity sources.

    The twin forces of energy prices and climate-change regulations are threatening Southern California's long love affair with imported water, increasing the allure of local sources such as groundwater, rain and recycled supplies.

    "It will further encourage retail water suppliers to use less imported water," said Edward Osann, a former federal water official who is a policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council. "It's that simple."

    The 242-mile-long Colorado River Aqueduct is a monument to 20th century grandiosity, when Southern California's power brokers thought nothing of rearranging nature to serve their urban ambitions. It was constructed in the 1930s, when the region realized Los Angeles' Owens Valley supplies weren't enough to sustain its explosive growth.

    The aqueduct was named a modern "civil engineering wonder" in 1955 by the American Society of Civil Engineers "because of its unprecedented cost, length, pumping rate and lift" as well as difficult construction conditions.

    Unlike the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which relies on nothing more than gravity to send supplies from the Owens Valley to L.A., the long straw that the MWD dipped into the Colorado River needs a boost.

    To provide it, the Whitsett, Gene, Iron Mountain, Eagle Mountain and Hinds pumping plants were carved into mountainsides along the aqueduct's eastern portion. They lift the river water, in stages, 1,617 feet to keep it moving across the relatively flat desert.

    On a September day, nearly 900 million gallons flowed from the aqueduct into Hinds, 150 miles east of Los Angeles. Built in the Art Moderne style, with a red tile roof, terrazzo floor and elegant light fixtures reflecting the agency's aspirations of watering a modern metropolis, the plant houses nine pumps.

    Each is several stories tall and so finely calibrated that one of the original engineers boasted: "You can stand a nickel on end when I get done," said Alan Cross, an MWD pump plant specialist. "That's true today," he added, balancing one on a shiny green pump housing.

    The State Water Project's California Aqueduct, which extends 444 miles from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, relies on a series of pump stations to carry Northern California supplies to the Southland.

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    SACRIFICE Frontman To Guest On New CANCER BATS Album

    Guitarist/vocalist Rob Urbinati of Canadian thrash metal veterans SACRIFICE has issued the following update:

    "Earlier this week, I got a call from none other than Eric Ratz, who engineered our 'Apocalypse Inside' album. He is presently recording the new album from Toronto band CANCER BATS, who invited me down to do a guest spot. Friday night we got together and put some vocals on the awesome track 'R.A.T.S'.

    "To the guys in CANCER BATS, and Eric, good luck with the rest of the recording. See you soon."

    CANCER BATS was nominated in the "Rock Album of the Year" category at the 2011 Juno Awards (the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy Awards). The band faced off against fellow Canadians DIE MANNEQUIN, FINGER ELEVEN, HAIL THE VILLIAN and MATTHEW GOOD.

    CANCER BATS's third studio album, "Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones", sold around 600 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 95 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

    "Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones" was made available on April 13, 2010 via Good Fight Music. CANCER BATS also released a digital EP containing "Scared to Death" and its take on the BEASTIE BOYS classic "Sabotage". The EP is available on iTunes.

    Source: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=166020

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    Want The Chance To Work At Instagram? Solve This Photo Shredder Puzzle

    Screen Shot 2011-11-12 at 4.02.48 AMCoding puzzles have been part of the Silicon Valley hiring process and lore since the days when Fizzbuzz was just a gleam in some HR recruiter's eye. Blue chip companies like?Microsoft, Google and Amazon all use questions like, "Write a function that takes a string consisting of numeral characters and returns all possible alpha character strings of same length as input that correspond to the keypad of a typical telephone," to separate skilled coders from the chaff. ?Come to think of it, that function would really come in handy if you want to create customized phone numbers like 247-PIZZA really quickly (but I digress ...).

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    Logitech has a Come to Jesus meeting, says Google TV 'cost us dearly'

    Logitech Revue

    Kinda no way to sugar coat this: Logitech views the Revue and Google TV as a big fat failure, with CEO Guerrino De Luca telling investors and analysts this week that it "cost us dearly" -- to the tune of some $100 million in profits.

    In a long and winding statement, De Luca tells of the pain of being an early adopter along with the rest of us. He sums it up nicely with this quote:

    To make the long story short, we thought we had invented slice bread and we just made them. We’ve made commitment we just build a lot because we expected everybody to line up for Christmas and buy these boxes $300 that was a big mistake. I would do it again, I would definitely want to have Google establish Google TV, but with a significantly smaller and more prudent approach. It’s always the case people will tend to overestimate the short-term and underestimate the long-term.

    Google TV or a child of Google TV or the grandchild of Google TV will happen. The integration of television in Internet is inevitable. But the idea that it would happen overnight in Christmas 2010 was very misguided and that also [cost] us dearly. As you know, we dramatically reduced the price of the box to what we thought the consumers valued it and actually doing fine.

    While Logitech didn't quite give Google TV the middle finger, it's certainly taking its ball and going home (or, more accurately, focusing on its other products for now). It's unclear what other partners might step up for Google TV. Sony's been less than enthusiastic, and the lone Samsung TV we saw nearly a year ago remains just that -- a lone Samsung TV we saw nearly a year ago.

    Source: Logitech, Seeking Alpha transcript (1, 2); via The Verge

    Update: The $100 million referenced was for costs beyond the scope of just Google TV and the Revue. We've changed the headline and struck through the text to reflect.

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    Nano car has molecular 4-wheel drive: Smallest electric car in the world

    ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2011) ? Reduced to the max: the emission-free, noiseless 4-wheel drive car, jointly developed by Empa researchers and their Dutch colleagues, represents lightweight construction at its most extreme. The nano car consists of just a single molecule and travels on four electrically-driven wheels in an almost straight line over a copper surface. The "prototype" can be admired on the cover of the latest edition of Nature.

    To carry out mechanical work, one usually turns to engines, which transform chemical, thermal or electrical energy into kinetic energy in order to, say, transport goods from A to B. Nature does the same thing; in cells, so-called motor proteins -- such as kinesin and the muscle protein actin -- carry out this task. Usually they glide along other proteins, similar to a train on rails, and in the process "burn" ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the chemical fuel, so to speak, of the living world.

    A number of chemists aim to use similar principles and concepts to design molecular transport machines, which could then carry out specific tasks on the nano scale. According to an article in the latest edition of science magazine "Nature," scientists at the University of Groningen and at Empa have successfully taken "a decisive step on the road to artificial nano-scale transport systems." They have synthesised a molecule from four rotating motor units, i.e. wheels, which can travel straight ahead in a controlled manner. "To do this, our car needs neither rails nor petrol; it runs on electricity. It must be the smallest electric car in the world -- and it even comes with 4-wheel drive" comments Empa researcher Karl-Heinz Ernst.

    Range per tank of fuel: still room for improvement

    The downside: the small car, which measures approximately 4x2 nanometres -- about one billion times smaller than a VW Golf -- needs to be refuelled with electricity after every half revolution of the wheels -- via the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM). Furthermore, due to their molecular design, the wheels can only turn in one direction. "In other words: there's no reverse gear," says Ernst, who is also a professor at the University of Zurich, laconically.

    According to its "construction plan" the drive of the complex organic molecule functions as follows: after sublimating it onto a copper surface and positioning an STM tip over it leaving a reasonable gap, Ernst's colleague, Manfred Parschau, applied a voltage of at least 500 mV. Now electrons should "tunnel" through the molecule, thereby triggering reversible structural changes in each of the four motor units. It begins with a cis-trans isomerisation taking place at a double bond, a kind of rearrangement -- in an extremely unfavourable position in spatial terms, though, in which large side groups fight for space. As a result, the two side groups tilt to get past each other and end up back in their energetically more favourable original position -- the wheel has completed a half turn. If all four wheels turn at the same time, the car should travel forwards. At least, according to theory based on the molecular structure.

    To drive or not to drive -- a simple question of orientation

    And this is what Ernst and Parschau observed: after ten STM stimulations, the molecule had moved six nanometres forwards -- in a more or less straight line. "The deviations from the predicted trajectory result from the fact that it is not at all a trivial matter to stimulate all four motor units at the same time," explains "test driver" Ernst.

    Another experiment showed that the molecule really does behave as predicted. A part of the molecule can rotate freely around the central axis, a C-C single bond -- the chassis of the car, so to speak. It can therefore "land" on the copper surface in two different orientations: in the right one, in which all four wheels turn in the same direction, and in the wrong one, in which the rear axle wheels turn forwards but the front ones turn backwards -- upon excitation the car remains at a standstill. Ernst und Parschau were able to observe this, too, with the STM.

    Therefore, the researchers have achieved their first objective, a "proof of concept," i.e. they have been able to demonstrate that individual molecules can absorb external electrical energy and transform it into targeted motion. The next step envisioned by Ernst and his colleagues is to develop molecules that can be driven by light, perhaps in the form of UV lasers.

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    1. Tibor Kudernac, Nopporn Ruangsupapichat, Manfred Parschau, Beatriz Maci?, Nathalie Katsonis, Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan, Karl-Heinz Ernst, Ben L. Feringa. Electrically driven directional motion of a four-wheeled molecule on a metal surface. Nature, 2011; 479 (7372): 208 DOI: 10.1038/nature10587

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    Utah mayor used alias to double as news reporter

    This image provided by the West Valley City, Utah website shows Mayor Mike Winder Aug. 26, 2010 in Utah. West Valley City mayor Winder admitted recently to creating a false persona, Richard Burwash, and wrote more than a dozen stories for area publications promoting his city. (AP Photo/West Valley City)

    This image provided by the West Valley City, Utah website shows Mayor Mike Winder Aug. 26, 2010 in Utah. West Valley City mayor Winder admitted recently to creating a false persona, Richard Burwash, and wrote more than a dozen stories for area publications promoting his city. (AP Photo/West Valley City)

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? The mayor of Utah's second-largest city is acknowledging he used a fake name to write freelance stories for Utah news outlets because he says the municipality needed more "good news."

    West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder quoted himself in some of the stories he wrote for the Deseret News, KSL-TV's website and a community weekly.

    Winder tells The Associated Press his career as a news reporter using the name Richard Burwash lasted several months until he decided to come clean this week. He says getting stories published was as easy as setting up a Gmail account and Facebook page under the alias.

    Winder says he wanted to offer balance to what he saw as bad news coverage of his city. He complains that the media devotes too much time to covering crime.

    Associated Press

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