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How to Design a Contact Centre for Impatient Customers
Filed under - Customer Service Strategy, Call Routing, CallMiner, Editor's Picks, Handling Customers, IVR Solutions, Service Level
Here are our suggestions for making sure that the contact centre is better equipped to deal with impatient customers.
1. Ensure That Service Levels Are Being Met… Across all Channels
Just because the customer isn't using the phone doesn't mean that they are not in a hurry. In fact, many will start on another channel, grow impatient, and then end up switching to the voice channel.
So, make sure that service levels are being met across all channels, as not only will this better satisfy irritable customers, it will also reduce duplicate and unnecessary contacts.
This is according to Mandy Holford, Director of Customer Services at Echo-U, who says it is also important not to neglect the importance of meeting service levels on emerging channels, which include messaging apps like WhatsApp and Messenger.
In fact, Mandy says that "these channels all need to be managed very quickly and incredibly well. Consumers press 'send' and expect immediate responses. So, SLAs of 30 minutes to reply just won't work.
"Businesses need to continue to recognise that time is so important to consumers; they don't want to wait to be served and want to be able to continue with other tasks while trying to sort their query with our businesses."
So, make sure that service levels are being met across all channels, including the back office. Many contact centres forget about back-office contacts and move staff from the back office to the contact centre when the latter is busy. But then these back-office calls end up bouncing onto the contact centre floor anyway, frustrating customers in the process.
The traditional service levels for six key contact centre channels are highlighted below:
2. Offer a Call-Back Option for Lengthy Queues
Many contact centres are now introducing a call-back option on their IVR systems when the contact centre experiences an unexpected surge in contacts and there is a long queue.
Steve Hindley
This, according to Steve Hindley, the Creative Director at iNarratorOnHold, is "where a customer entering a long queue has the option of leaving their phone number and hanging up, and an advisor calls them back once they have reached the front of the queue.
"So, despite hanging up, the customer gets to keep their place in the queue." This allows the customer to get on with any other tasks they may have without being "tied" to the phone and listening to "that" hold music, which can rile an impatient customer.
Taking this into account, when designing a contact centre for impatient customers, it could be a good idea to add a message on the IVR that offers a call-back alongside the traditional "waiting on the line" alternative.
As suggested in the article "How to Write an IVR Script – With an Example", try implementing a message similar to the one below:
"I'm sorry about the wait, but we have two options for you. First, you can continue to hold and wait for an advisor. Or, I can keep your place in the queue for you and one of my team will call you back when you reach the front of the queue. So, press 1 for me to queue on your behalf and wait for one of our team to call you back as soon as possible, or press 2 to stay on the line and hold for the next advisor."
3. Route the Call-Back to the Last Advisor the Customer Spoke To
Instead of the traditional direct routing, where a customer phones a sales number to get to a sales advisor, contact centres are now using more innovative ways to route callers, so they don't grow impatient.
One method that we discovered on our visit to the Vax contact centre in Droitwich was to route the customer back to the same advisor they had spoken to before if their previous contact was within the last 30 days.
This helps to calm the customer, as they hopefully already have rapport with that advisor and the customer may begin to feel as though they have a dedicated advisor working for them on the "inside" of the business.
Another creative routing strategy that we picked up from Vax was to allow low-satisfaction customers to bypass the IVR and speak directly with an advocate advisor.
For more on this topic, read our article: The Top 10 Call Routing Strategies
4. Set Expectations About Waiting Time Right From the Outset
Customers will grow increasingly impatient if they are waiting on hold without any indication of how long it will take to get through to an advisor. This is why many contact centres offer an estimated queue time from the outset.
Frank Sherlock, VP International at CallMiner, says that "if this is less than they're prepared to wait, then they'll probably join the queue. If instead you start with an announcement that all advisors are busy or just play the on-hold music, they are more likely to hang up because they are unsure how long it will take."
The benefit of informing customers about waiting time is that it will create a clear expectation. And, according to Frank, "research shows that if this expectation is exceeded (i.e. the IVR message says it will take ten minutes, but an advisor answers the call after five minutes), it is likely to create a positive customer reaction."
Research shows that if this expectation is exceeded (i.e. the IVR message says it will take ten minutes, but an advisor answers the call after five minutes), it is likely to create a positive customer reaction.
Frank Sherlock
However, if expectations are not set, it is likely to increase frustration, as the customer may become agitated and negative contact centre connotations start to spring to mind.
As Frank says, "not only does this not create a good customer experience, but it also makes it much harder for the agent to deliver a good call outcome."
5. Send Customers Updates via SMS or Email
Customer frustration grows if, after their initial conversation, they are not kept in the loop as to the progress of their query. As far as the customer is concerned, the contact centre may not have even started trying to handle their request.
This is where outbound messages can really help to ease the mind of the impatient customer and can demonstrate to them that the organisation is being proactive.
Mandy Holford
Mandy Holford says that: "We need to be proactive and notify consumers of changes and updates through text messaging, app notifications or emails.
"Let's enable that email or text to become a 'channel' in its own right, so consumers can interact with you with one click."
These messages can be particularly good when a customer is expecting a delivery on one particular day. This is because an SMS at the beginning of the day alerting the customer as to when to expect the delivery, e.g. between 2pm and 3pm, will allow them to organise their plans around this time, instead of having to "wait by the door".
6. Don't Replay Apology Messages in the IVR
With the IVR system being a primary source of frustration for many customers, it is important to know what to avoid when it comes to designing the system and the script.
According to Steve Hindley, one of the key things to avoid when designing an IVR is to have repeated apologies "for the wait", when the customer is in the queue.
Why? Well, Steve says that when a contact centre "apologises all the time, in every message the caller hears, it wears thin very quickly."
Remember that apologies should always be authentic, just as when an advisor is talking to the customer in person. Make sure that automated apologies don't convey a robotic tone, which is often a key source of customer exasperation in the contact centre.
7. Review Dead Ends in the IVR System
Another tip to enhance the IVR system and prevent customers from growing impatient, is to review "dead ends", according to Mandy Holford.
In fact, Mandy suggests undertaking a "review of 'dead ends' in your IVR plans, to see how you can open these up to enable more self-service, redirection to other channels and/or prioritisation based on the value of that customer. It is all possible."
It's also important not to forget to provide an exit route from the IVR system. This is because a customer may press the wrong option, especially if they are in a hurry, causing frustration to set in.
To find other examples of IVR errors, read our article: 43 Things You Should NOT Do With Your IVR Messages
8. Find Ways to Better Support Customers with Off-Peak Time Schedules
I think simplicity is the answer; offer a wide range of contact channels, a great range of hours/days in which you service those channels and make sure you have knowledgeable experts answering the queries.
While many of these suggestions have included technology implementation, it is also important to think about the basic ways to greater satisfy customers and lower impatience.
Mandy Holford makes this point, stating: "I think simplicity is the answer; offer a wide range of contact channels, a great range of hours/days in which you service those channels and make sure you have knowledgeable experts answering the queries."
Having a great range of hours/days is arguably the most basic ploy to limiting customer impatience, but many contact centres don't have the resources to open for longer hours, so what else can they do?
When we visited DPD's contact centre in Birmingham, we found out that they put in place a strict 90-minute period at the beginning of each day for advisors to call back customers who had called in while the contact centre was closed.
This a good way of ensuring that the contact centre provides the best possible service to customers who have offbeat time schedules.
Another way to do this, depending on the company's strategy, would be to outsource a channel, such as webchat, to ensure that it offers 24-hour service.
By doing so, a message can be added to the IVR, so that when customers phone in during "closed-hours", they can be directed to the webchat channel for immediate support. If the contact centre has a self-service channel, that could work instead of outsourcing live chat, for certain call types.
9. Discover the Source of Impatience and Remove It
Often, customers grow more impatient on certain call types than others and vent their frustration at advisors. Therefore, the team may be able to tell you which call types and processes are causing the most irritation.
Frank Sherlock says that "phrases such as, 'finally, I've been waiting for ages…' or, 'your IVR was so confusing I just pressed the first option…', will not only indicate a customer's impatience but also the problems with your systems or processes that may further contribute to it."
So, use advisors as a Voice of the Customer (VoC) resource and talk to them about instances that repeatedly cause customer frustration. But also ask them to bring solutions, talk to them about the successful things that they have done to minimise impatience for the customer at these points and share these solutions around the contact centre.
Keeping this in mind, it may be useful to introduce initiatives that can support regular communication with the frontline, whether this is something like a suggestions box or an advisor focus group.
Another way to discover sources of impatience during a call is to implement an interaction analytics solution. Frank endorses this, stating: "If you use interaction analytics technology, you can perform automatic root cause analysis of language, acoustics and other metadata to uncover the possible sources of customer impatience, such as long waiting or on-hold times, silence, repeat contact drivers or unnecessary transfers."
Once the contact centre has uncovered these sources of impatience, either through speaking with advisors or by using interaction analytics, it can focus on improving the "moments" causing impatience, to make the process more efficient.
To find out more on this subject, read our article: Involve Agents in Operations and Strategy
What else can be done to design a contact centre around impatient customers?
To share your ideas, please use the comments section below.
Published On: 17th Jan 2018 - Last modified: 19th Sep 2019
Read more about - Customer Service Strategy, Call Routing, CallMiner, Editor's Picks, Handling Customers, IVR Solutions, Service Level
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Aucasaurus był o około 30% mniejszy od innego teropoda z grupy abelizaurów – karnotaura, który mierzył około 7,6 m długości. Był do niego bardzo podobny morfologicznie, miał jednak m.in. niższe i dłuższe kość dziobową oraz okna przedoczodołowe, słabiej wykształcony wyrostek kruczy, stosunkowo dłuższe kończyny przednie, a zbudowane z kości czołowych rogi nad oczami były znacznie mniejsze. Szewrony z grzbietowo otwartymi kanałami naczyniowymi są interpretowane jako autapomorfia Aucasaurus. Według przeprowadzonej przez Corię i współpracowników analizy filogenetycznej najbliższym krewnym aukazaura jest karnotaur – rodzaje te tworzą klad, któremu autorzy nadali nazwę Carnotaurini. Późniejsze badania wsparły hipotezę o bliskim pokrewieństwie Aucasaurus i Carnotaurus.

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In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and Allah wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
This is the warm-up act ...the dress rehearsal. Allah wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity..
And no matter how *bad* things are in your life, there is always something *good* you can *thank Allah* for.
Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? am I going to be driven by Allah's purposes (for my life)?


Back in the 80's, when I was a teenager, growing up in the border of Laredo, TX. I discovered the wonderful world of long distance radio, better know as DXing.
I used to get in my father's car at sunset and stayed there for hours moving the dial little by little, looking for the farthest signal possible.
Laredo has a great location to hear distant stations either on FM but specially in AM.
In FM it was common to hear stations from San Antonio and McAllen, TX although, one night I heard one all the way from the state of Oklahoma!
To the south, because of the geography, I only heard stations from Monterrey, México.
Hearing the news about Norway's FM made me feel nostalgic and sad at the same time.
I really hope that will never happens in the US. You could say that if Video killed the Radio star, then the Internet killed the video star.
Unfortunately, because of the Internet, I do not spend hours in my car trying to capture the faint signal from a distant station, all I have to do is grab my phone and fire up one of those radio apps like TuneIn to listen to any station in the world with the clarity of a local FM station.
Yes, I miss those romantic days, no wonder one of my favorite songs is Queen's Radio Gaga.
Radio, someone (now living in CA) still loves you.


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Oļegs Burovs (born 8 August 1960, in Riga) is a Latvian politician who was the mayor of Riga from August 2019 to February 2020. He is a member of the Honor to serve Riga party and a member of the Riga City Council.

Born in Riga in 1960, Burovs received a secondary medical education degree as a feldsher at the Riga 4th Medical School (now – RSU Red Cross Medical College) and a higher education diploma from the Academy of Labour and Social Relations in Moscow. After the restoration of the independence of Latvia he worked in the Ministry of Finance, the Privatisation Agency, municipal supply company Rīgas ūdens and various other private, municipal and state agencies and enterprises.

Burovs first entered politics in 2001 when he unsuccessfully ran in the Riga City Council elections that year as a member of Latvian Way, which he left in 2004. at the same time Burovs served as the head of the Property Department (Real Estate Department) of Riga City Council first from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2017. In 2013 and 2017, Burovs was elected to the City Council as a member of Honor to Serve Riga on the Social Democratic Party "Harmony" ticket, although he gave up his mandate both time to continue in leading his department.

When Deputy Mayor Andris Ameriks resigned in 2018, he was replaced by party colleague Burovs. Subsequently, after the resignation of Mayor Nils Ušakovs in April 2019, he became Interim Mayor on 5 April 2019. After Dainis Turlais was elected mayor on 31 May, Burovs returned to the Deputy Mayor post, but after the sacking of Turlais, became Interim Mayor once again on 20 June 2019.

On 19 August Burovs was elected as the new Mayor of Riga, as which he served until the City Council was temporarily dissolved on 24 February 2020, by the Saeima and the President of Latvia after a request of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development (lv). An interim administration was appointed the next day.

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Living people
Politicians from Riga
Latvian people of Russian descent
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Honor to serve Riga politicians
Deputies of the 14th Saeima
Mayors of Riga


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import com.amazonaws.AmazonWebServiceRequest;

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from __future__ import absolute_import

__author__ = "ross"

import os
import unittest

from pychron.core.test_helpers import (
    isotope_db_factory,
    massspec_db_factory,
    get_data_dir as mget_data_dir,
)
from pychron.entry.export.mass_spec_irradiation_exporter import (
    MassSpecIrradiationExporter,
    generate_production_ratios_id,
)

# from pychron.entry.loaders.irradiation_loader import XLSIrradiationLoader
from pychron.mass_spec.database.massspec_database_adapter import PR_KEYS

DEBUGGING = True
LOGGING = True
# automatically disable debugging if running on a travis ci linux box.
import sys

if sys.platform != "darwin":
    DEBUGGING = False
    LOGGING = False

DEST_NAME = "massspecdata.db"
SRC_NAME = "pychrondata.db"

if LOGGING:
    from pychron.core.helpers.logger_setup import logging_setup

    logging_setup("irrad_loader", use_archiver=False, use_file=False)

def get_data_dir():
    return mget_data_dir("pychron/entry/tests/data")

def dest_factory(name, remove=True):
    path = os.path.join(get_data_dir(), name)
    db = massspec_db_factory(path, remove)
    return db

def source_factory():
    db = isotope_db_factory(os.path.join(get_data_dir(), SRC_NAME))
    p = os.path.join(get_data_dir(), "irradiation_import.xls")

    # add a production ratio
    db.add_irradiation_production(name="Triga PR", K4039=10)

    loader = XLSIrradiationLoader(db=db)
    loader.open(p)
    loader.load_irradiation(p, dry_run=False)
    db.verbose = False
    dbirrads = db.get_irradiations(order_func="asc")
    irrads = [i.name for i in dbirrads]

    levels = {}
    for di in dbirrads:
        levels[di.name] = tuple([li.name for li in di.levels])

    return db, irrads, levels

class MassSpecIrradExportTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    """
    Test exporting irradiations from Pychron to MassSpec
    """

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        cls.exporter = MassSpecIrradiationExporter()
        src, irradnames, levels = source_factory()
        cls.source = src
        cls.irradnames = irradnames
        cls.levels = levels

    def setUp(self):
        dest = dest_factory(DEST_NAME)

        self.exporter.source = self.source
        self.exporter.destination = dest

    @unittest.skipIf(DEBUGGING, "Debugging")
    def test_export_chronology(self):
        name = self.irradnames[0]
        self.exporter.export_chronology(name)

        dest = self.exporter.destination
        chrons = dest.get_chronology_by_irradname(name)
        self.assertEqual(len(chrons), 2)

    @unittest.skipIf(DEBUGGING, "Debugging")
    def test_export_irrad(self):
        self.exporter.do_export(self.irradnames)

        dest = self.exporter.destination
        names = tuple(dest.get_irradiation_names())

        self.assertTupleEqual(names, ("NM-1000", "NM-1001"))

    @unittest.skipIf(DEBUGGING, "Debugging")
    def test_levels1(self):
        self.exporter.do_export(self.irradnames)

        name = self.irradnames[0]
        dest = self.exporter.destination
        names = tuple(dest.get_irradiation_level_names(name))

        self.assertTupleEqual(names, self.levels[name])

    @unittest.skipIf(DEBUGGING, "Debugging")
    def test_levels2(self):
        self.exporter.do_export(self.irradnames)

        name = self.irradnames[1]
        dest = self.exporter.destination
        names = tuple(dest.get_irradiation_level_names(name))

        self.assertTupleEqual(names, self.levels[name])

    @unittest.skipIf(DEBUGGING, "Debugging")
    def test_positions(self):
        self.exporter.do_export(self.irradnames)
        dest = self.exporter.destination
        iname = self.irradnames[0]
        pos = dest.get_irradiation_positions(iname, self.levels[iname][0])
        self.assertEqual(len(pos), 3)

class ProductionRatiosTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.db = dest_factory("massspec_pr.db", remove=False)

    def test_production_id(self):
        oidn = -1578996229
        pr = self.db.get_production_ratio_by_id(oidn)
        vs = [getattr(pr, k) for k in PR_KEYS]
        idn = generate_production_ratios_id(vs)
        self.assertEqual(idn, oidn)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()
    # generate_pr_db()
# ============================== EOF =====================================
# def generate_pr_db():
# def quick_mapper(table):
# from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
#
#         Base = declarative_base()
#
#         class GenericMapper(Base):
#             __table__ = table
#
#         return GenericMapper
#
#     def copy_record(src, dest, pid):
#         from pychron.database.orms.massspec_orm import Base
#         from sqlalchemy import Table
#
#         meta = Base.metadata
#         with src.session_ctx() as sess:
#             meta.bind = sess.bind
#
#             table = Table('IrradiationProductionTable', meta, autoload=True)
#             nrec = quick_mapper(table)
#             columns = table.columns.keys()
#
#             q = sess.query(table)
#             q = q.filter(table.c.ProductionRatiosID == pid)
#             record = q.one()
#             data = dict([(str(column), getattr(record, column)) for column in columns])
#             with dest.session_ctx() as dsess:
#                 dsess.merge(nrec(**data))
#
#     dest = dest_factory('massspec_pr.db')
#     src = MassSpecDatabaseAdapter(host='localhost',
#                                   name='massspecdata_crow',
#                                   username='root', password='Argon')
#     src.connect()
#
#     copy_record(src, dest, -1578996229)


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I will have to see if anyone I want got reprinted then.
Well, plus side, I had a $26 Target GC... so, I only spent about $17 on cardboard today. Going to make my way through Zelda again, and gonna eventually go for the end of Champion's Ballad.
my full amazon order came in today!
Picked up a copy on No Man's Sky for $6. Heard it was getting a VR mode this summer, and really didn't want it physically, but I flat out refuse to pay anything over $15, and digital they still want $60? Sooo cheapo used copy it is. Never played back in the day, had strong assumptions it would come out underwhelming or unfinished, and it seemed to be both! However, I've heard the updates made it a lot better, soooo we'll see.
... about time I picked that up.
One Fighters Pass for Smash Ultimate get.
I noticed that Best Buy, GameStop Online, and New Egg, are sold out of Cold Steel PS4 Decisive Edition here in the US (or dropped the item listing completely in new eggs case) and I am trying to figure out if I should pull the trigger on it before its gone.
So, they started getting games ready to go at GameStop tonight, about 8:45? One of the employees behind the register, "Think anybody will show up for Switch?".
... I was slightly surprised to find somebody a few people behind me picking up the Switch version as well.
... I am ready for Zelda.


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He appeared in a recurring role as a fictionalized version of himself in the Danish sit-com Klovn, playing one of the main characters Frank Hvam'''s colleagues, a stand-up comedian.

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Q: Hibernate 4.2 Infinispan 5.1 directory provider issue We are developing a web application which uses hibernate search with lucene indexing. First we used Windows Filesystem directory to store lucene index files. For clustering we are changing from FS to Infinspan to store indexes. I followed the infinispan and hibernate search manual but the below mentioned exception is displayed continuously.
JPA persistence.xml details are,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
    <persistence-unit name="inov8">

        <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
        <jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/inov8bDS</jta-data-source>

        <properties>
            <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect"/>
            <property name="hibernate.max_fetch_depth" value="3"/>

            <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="false" />
            <property name="hibernate.default_batch_fetch_size" value="10" />
            <property name="hibernate.jdbc_fetch_size" value="10" />
            <property name="hibernate.jdbc_batch_size" value="10" />

            <property name="hibernate.id.new_generator_mappings" value="false" />

            <!-- The following line is what's used in Hibernate 4 instead of a TransactionManagerLookup class -->
            <property name="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform" value="org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.JBossAppServerJtaPlatform" />

            <property name="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache" value="true" />
            <property name="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache" value="true" />

         <!--    <property name="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class" value="org.hibernate.cache.infinispan.JndiInfinispanRegionFactory"/>  -->

            <!-- TODO [clustering] need to change index location -->
            <property name="hibernate.search.default.exclusive_index_use" value="true"  />
            <property name="hibernate.search.default.directory_provider" value="infinispan" />
        <!--    <property name="hibernate.cache.infinispan.cachemanager" value="java:jboss/infinispan/hibernate"/>   -->
            <property name="hibernate.search.infinispan.configuration_resourcename" value="C:\dev\Java\lib\hibernate-search\hibernate-search-4.2.0.Final\project\hibernate-search-infinispan\src\main\resources\default-hibernatesearch-infinispan.xml" />
            <property name="hibernate.cache.infinispan.cachemanager" value="java:jboss/infinispan/container/hibernate" />
            <property name="hibernate.search.default.data_cachename" value="LuceneIndexesData" />
            <property name="hibernate.search.default.metadata_cachename" value="LuceneIndexesMetadata" />
            <property name="hibernate.search.default.locking_cachename" value="LuceneIndexesLocking" />
            <property name="hibernate.search.infinispan.cachemanager_jndiname" value="java:infinispan/myup-hibernatesearch"/>
            <property name="hibernate.search.default.chunk_size" value="33554432"/>

            <property name="key2StringMapperClass" value="org.infinispan.lucene.LuceneKey2StringMapper" />
            <property name="hibernate.search.default.indexBase" value="C:\dev\deploy\inov8b\lucene"/>
            <property name="hibernate.search.lucene_version" value="LUCENE_36"/>

        </properties>

    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

Error Stack Trace:
17:23:38,474 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 54) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.persistenceunit."inov8.war#inov8": org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.persistenceunit."inov8.war#inov8": org.hibernate.search.SearchException: HSEARCH000103: Unable to initialize IndexManager xx.inov8.domain.innovation.InnovationComponent
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl$1.run(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:103)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122) [jboss-threads-2.1.0.Final.jar:2.1.0.Final]
Caused by: org.hibernate.search.SearchException: HSEARCH000103: Unable to initialize IndexManager xx.inov8.domain.innovation.InnovationComponent
    at org.hibernate.search.indexes.impl.IndexManagerHolder.createIndexManager(IndexManagerHolder.java:230)
    at org.hibernate.search.indexes.impl.IndexManagerHolder.buildEntityIndexBinding(IndexManagerHolder.java:102)
    at org.hibernate.search.spi.SearchFactoryBuilder.initDocumentBuilders(SearchFactoryBuilder.java:414)
    at org.hibernate.search.spi.SearchFactoryBuilder.buildNewSearchFactory(SearchFactoryBuilder.java:222)
    at org.hibernate.search.spi.SearchFactoryBuilder.buildSearchFactory(SearchFactoryBuilder.java:146)
    at org.hibernate.search.event.impl.FullTextIndexEventListener.initialize(FullTextIndexEventListener.java:130)
    at org.hibernate.search.hcore.impl.HibernateSearchIntegrator.integrate(HibernateSearchIntegrator.java:83)
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:303)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1742)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.<init>(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:94)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:905)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:890)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:74)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:200)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.access$600(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:57)
    at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl$1.run(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:99)
    ... 4 more
Caused by: org.hibernate.search.SearchException: Unable to find directory provider implementation class: org.hibernate.search.infinispan.impl.InfinispanDirectoryProvider
    at org.hibernate.search.util.impl.ClassLoaderHelper.classForName(ClassLoaderHelper.java:257)
    at org.hibernate.search.util.impl.ClassLoaderHelper.instanceFromName(ClassLoaderHelper.java:107)
    at org.hibernate.search.store.impl.DirectoryProviderFactory.createDirectoryProvider(DirectoryProviderFactory.java:74)
    at org.hibernate.search.indexes.impl.DirectoryBasedIndexManager.createDirectoryProvider(DirectoryBasedIndexManager.java:232)
    at org.hibernate.search.indexes.impl.DirectoryBasedIndexManager.initialize(DirectoryBasedIndexManager.java:100)
    at org.hibernate.search.indexes.impl.IndexManagerHolder.createIndexManager(IndexManagerHolder.java:227)
    ... 19 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.search.infinispan.impl.InfinispanDirectoryProvider from [Module "deployment.inov8.war:main" from Service Module Loader]
    at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:190) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.CR1]
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:468) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.CR1]
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:456) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.CR1]
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:398) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.CR1]
    at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:120) [jboss-modules.jar:1.2.0.CR1]
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:266) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at org.hibernate.search.util.impl.ClassLoaderHelper.classForName(ClassLoaderHelper.java:287)
    at org.hibernate.search.util.impl.ClassLoaderHelper.classForName(ClassLoaderHelper.java:254)
    ... 24 more

17:23:38,693 ERROR [org.jboss.as.server] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) JBAS015870: Deploy of deployment "inov8.war" was rolled back with the following failure message:
{"JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.persistenceunit.\"inov8.war#inov8\"" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.persistenceunit.\"inov8.war#inov8\": org.hibernate.search.SearchException: HSEARCH000103: Unable to initialize IndexManager xx.inov8.domain.innovation.InnovationComponent
    Caused by: org.hibernate.search.SearchException: HSEARCH000103: Unable to initialize IndexManager xx.inov8.domain.innovation.InnovationComponent
    Caused by: org.hibernate.search.SearchException: Unable to find directory provider implementation class: org.hibernate.search.infinispan.impl.InfinispanDirectoryProvider
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.search.infinispan.impl.InfinispanDirectoryProvider from [Module \"deployment.inov8.war:main\" from Service Module Loader]"}}
17:23:38,693 INFO  [org.jboss.weld.deployer] (MSC service thread 1-15) JBAS016009: Stopping weld service for deployment inov8.war
17:23:38,709 INFO  [org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan] (MSC service thread 1-15) JBAS010282: Stopped inov8.war#inov8.org.hibernate.cache.spi.UpdateTimestampsCache cache from hibernate container
17:23:38,709 INFO  [org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan] (MSC service thread 1-15) JBAS010282: Stopped inov8.war#inov8.org.hibernate.cache.internal.StandardQueryCache cache from hibernate container
17:23:38,709 INFO  [org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport] (MSC service thread 1-15) ISPN000080: Disconnecting and closing JGroups Channel
17:23:38,724 INFO  [org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport] (MSC service thread 1-15) ISPN000082: Stopping the RpcDispatcher
17:23:38,802 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBAS015877: Stopped deployment inov8.war (runtime-name: inov8.war) in 119ms

default-hibernatesearch-infinispan.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2012, Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates or third-party contributors as
 * indicated by the @author tags or express copyright attribution
 * statements applied by the authors.  All third-party contributions are
 * distributed under license by Red Hat, Inc.
 *
 * This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
 * copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
 * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * along with this distribution; if not, write to:
 * Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
 * Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
  -->
<infinispan
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="urn:infinispan:config:5.1 http://www.infinispan.org/schemas/infinispan-config-5.1.xsd"
    xmlns="urn:infinispan:config:5.1">

    <!-- *************************** -->
    <!-- System-wide global settings -->
    <!-- *************************** -->

    <global>

        <!-- Duplicate domains are allowed so that multiple deployments with default configuration
            of Hibernate Search applications work - if possible it would be better to use JNDI to share
            the CacheManager across applications -->
        <globalJmxStatistics
            enabled="true"
            cacheManagerName="HibernateSearch"
            allowDuplicateDomains="true" />

        <!-- If the transport is omitted, there is no way to create distributed or clustered
            caches. There is no added cost to defining a transport but not creating a cache that uses one,
            since the transport is created and initialized lazily. -->
        <transport
            clusterName="HibernateSearch-Infinispan-cluster"
            >

            <!-- Note that the JGroups transport uses sensible defaults if no configuration
                property is defined. See the JGroupsTransport javadocs for more flags -->
        </transport>

        <!-- Note that the JGroups transport uses sensible defaults if no configuration property
            is defined. See the Infinispan wiki for more JGroups settings:
            http://community.jboss.org/wiki/ClusteredConfigurationQuickStart -->

        <!-- Used to register JVM shutdown hooks. hookBehavior: DEFAULT, REGISTER, DONT_REGISTER.
            Hibernate Search takes care to stop the CacheManager so registering is not needed -->
        <shutdown
            hookBehavior="DONT_REGISTER" />

    </global>

    <!-- *************************** -->
    <!-- Default "template" settings -->
    <!-- *************************** -->

    <default>

        <locking
            lockAcquisitionTimeout="20000"
            writeSkewCheck="false"
            concurrencyLevel="500"
            useLockStriping="false" />

        <!-- Invocation batching is required for use with the Lucene Directory -->
        <invocationBatching
            enabled="true" />

        <!-- This element specifies that the cache is clustered. modes supported: distribution
            (d), replication (r) or invalidation (i). Don't use invalidation to store Lucene indexes (as
            with Hibernate Search DirectoryProvider). Replication is recommended for best performance of
            Lucene indexes, but make sure you have enough memory to store the index in your heap.
            Also distribution scales much better than replication on high number of nodes in the cluster. -->
        <clustering
            mode="replication">

            <!-- Prefer loading all data at startup than later -->
            <stateTransfer
                timeout="480000"
                fetchInMemoryState="true" />

            <!-- Network calls are synchronous by default -->
            <sync
                replTimeout="20000" />
        </clustering>

        <jmxStatistics
            enabled="true" />

        <eviction
            maxEntries="-1"
            strategy="NONE" />

        <expiration
            maxIdle="-1" />

    </default>

    <!-- ******************************************************************************* -->
    <!-- Individually configured "named" caches.                                         -->
    <!--                                                                                -->
    <!-- While default configuration happens to be fine with similar settings across the -->
    <!-- three caches, they should generally be different in a production environment.   -->
    <!--                                                                                -->
    <!-- Current settings could easily lead to OutOfMemory exception as a CacheStore     -->
    <!-- should be enabled, and maybe distribution is desired.                           -->
    <!-- ******************************************************************************* -->

    <!-- *************************************** -->
    <!--  Cache to store Lucene's file metadata  -->
    <!-- *************************************** -->
    <namedCache
        name="LuceneIndexesMetadata">
        <clustering
            mode="replication">
            <stateTransfer
                fetchInMemoryState="true" />
            <sync
                replTimeout="25000" />
        </clustering>
       <loaders>

   <loader class="org.infinispan.loaders.jdbc.stringbased.JdbcStringBasedCacheStore" fetchPersistentState="false" ignoreModifications="false"
purgeOnStartup="false">
      <properties>
         <property name="stringsTableNamePrefix" value="ISPN_STRING_TABLE"/>
         <property name="idColumnName" value="ID_COLUMN"/>
         <property name="dataColumnName" value="DATA_COLUMN"/>
         <property name="timestampColumnName" value="TIMESTAMP_COLUMN"/>
         <property name="timestampColumnType" value="BIGINT"/>
         <property name="connectionFactoryClass" value="org.infinispan.loaders.jdbc.connectionfactory.PooledConnectionFactory"/>
         <property name="connectionUrl" value="jdbc:h2:mem:string_based_db;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1"/>
         <property name="userName" value="sa"/>
         <property name="driverClass" value="org.h2.Driver"/>
         <property name="idColumnType" value="VARCHAR(255)"/>
         <property name="dataColumnType" value="BINARY"/>
         <property name="dropTableOnExit" value="true"/>
         <property name="createTableOnStart" value="true"/>
      </properties>
   </loader>
</loaders>
    </namedCache>

    <!-- **************************** -->
    <!--  Cache to store Lucene data  -->
    <!-- **************************** -->
    <namedCache
        name="LuceneIndexesData">
        <clustering
            mode="replication">
            <stateTransfer
                fetchInMemoryState="true" />
            <sync
                replTimeout="25000" />
        </clustering>
      <loaders>

   <loader class="org.infinispan.loaders.jdbc.stringbased.JdbcStringBasedCacheStore" fetchPersistentState="false" ignoreModifications="false"
purgeOnStartup="false">
      <properties>
         <property name="stringsTableNamePrefix" value="ISPN_STRING_TABLE"/>
         <property name="idColumnName" value="ID_COLUMN"/>
         <property name="dataColumnName" value="DATA_COLUMN"/>
         <property name="timestampColumnName" value="TIMESTAMP_COLUMN"/>
         <property name="timestampColumnType" value="BIGINT"/>
         <property name="connectionFactoryClass" value="org.infinispan.loaders.jdbc.connectionfactory.PooledConnectionFactory"/>
         <property name="connectionUrl" value="jdbc:h2:mem:string_based_db;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1"/>
         <property name="userName" value="sa"/>
         <property name="driverClass" value="org.h2.Driver"/>
         <property name="idColumnType" value="VARCHAR(255)"/>
         <property name="dataColumnType" value="BINARY"/>
         <property name="dropTableOnExit" value="true"/>
         <property name="createTableOnStart" value="true"/>
      </properties>
   </loader>
</loaders>
    </namedCache>

    <!-- ***************************** -->
    <!--  Cache to store Lucene locks  -->
    <!-- ***************************** -->
    <namedCache
        name="LuceneIndexesLocking">
        <clustering
            mode="replication">
            <stateTransfer
                fetchInMemoryState="true" />
            <sync
                replTimeout="25000" />
        </clustering>
    </namedCache>

</infinispan>

Any pointers or guidance will be really helpful.
Regards,
rams

I moved a bit. The jar files [hibernate-search-infinispan.jar, infinispan-lucene-directory.jar and infinispan-core.jar] were not in classpath. That was the reason for previous error. I cleared it but facing new Error while trying to store infinispan created indexes in DB using JDBC cache store..
I checked the jar file dependency this time.. when i copy infinispan-cachestore-jdbc-5.2.1.Final.jar file to classpath it is piling countless error messages.. The error stack trace is,
17:46:08,301 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 55) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.persistenceunit."inov8.war#inov8": org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.persistenceunit."inov8.war#inov8": org.hibernate.search.SearchException: HSEARCH000103: Unable to initialize IndexManager xx.inov8.domain.innovation.InnovationComponent at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl$1.run(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:103) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122) Caused by: org.hibernate.search.SearchException: HSEARCH000103: Unable to initialize IndexManager xx.inov8.domain.innovation.InnovationComponent at org.hibernate.search.indexes.impl.IndexManagerHolder.createIndexManager(IndexManagerHolder.java:230) at org.hibernate.search.indexes.impl.IndexManagerHolder.buildEntityIndexBinding(IndexManagerHolder.java:102) at org.hibernate.search.spi.SearchFactoryBuilder.initDocumentBuilders(SearchFactoryBuilder.java:414) at org.hibernate.search.spi.SearchFactoryBuilder.buildNewSearchFactory(SearchFactoryBuilder.java:222) at org.hibernate.search.spi.SearchFactoryBuilder.buildSearchFactory(SearchFactoryBuilder.java:146) at org.hibernate.search.event.impl.FullTextIndexEventListener.initialize(FullTextIndexEventListener.java:130) at org.hibernate.search.hcore.impl.HibernateSearchIntegrator.integrate(HibernateSearchIntegrator.java:83) at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.(SessionFactoryImpl.java:303) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1742) at org.hibernate.ejb.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:94) at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:905) at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:890) at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:74) at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:200) at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.access$600(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:57) at org.jboss.as.jpa.service.PersistenceUnitServiceImpl$1.run(PersistenceUnitServiceImpl.java:99) ... 4 more Caused by: org.hibernate.search.SearchException: Unable to initialize directory provider: xx.inov8.domain.innovation.InnovationComponent at org.hibernate.search.store.impl.DirectoryProviderFactory.createDirectoryProvider(DirectoryProviderFactory.java:87) at org.hibernate.search.indexes.impl.DirectoryBasedIndexManager.createDirectoryProvider(DirectoryBasedIndexManager.java:232) at org.hibernate.search.indexes.impl.DirectoryBasedIndexManager.initialize(DirectoryBasedIndexManager.java:100) at org.hibernate.search.indexes.impl.IndexManagerHolder.createIndexManager(IndexManagerHolder.java:227) ... 19 more Caused by: org.infinispan.config.ConfigurationException: org.infinispan.CacheConfigurationException: Unable to instantiate class org.infinispan.loaders.jdbc.stringbased.JdbcStringBasedCacheStore at org.infinispan.configuration.parsing.Parser.parse(Parser.java:168) at org.infinispan.configuration.parsing.Parser.parse(Parser.java:130) at org.infinispan.manager.DefaultCacheManager.(DefaultCacheManager.java:368) at org.infinispan.manager.DefaultCacheManager.(DefaultCacheManager.java:340) at org.infinispan.manager.DefaultCacheManager.(DefaultCacheManager.java:327) at org.hibernate.search.infinispan.CacheManagerServiceProvider.start(CacheManagerServiceProvider.java:93) at org.hibernate.search.engine.impl.StandardServiceManager$ServiceProviderWrapper.startVirtual(StandardServiceManager.java:178) at org.hibernate.search.engine.impl.StandardServiceManager.requestService(StandardServiceManager.java:124) at org.hibernate.search.infinispan.impl.InfinispanDirectoryProvider.initialize(InfinispanDirectoryProvider.java:86) at org.hibernate.search.store.impl.DirectoryProviderFactory.createDirectoryProvider(DirectoryProviderFactory.java:84) ... 22 more Caused by: org.infinispan.CacheConfigurationException: Unable to instantiate class org.infinispan.loaders.jdbc.stringbased.JdbcStringBasedCacheStore at org.infinispan.util.Util.loadClass(Util.java:90) at org.infinispan.util.Util.getInstance(Util.java:208) at org.infinispan.configuration.parsing.Parser.parseLoader(Parser.java:546) at org.infinispan.configuration.parsing.Parser.parseLoaders(Parser.java:524) at org.infinispan.configuration.parsing.Parser.parseCache(Parser.java:295) at org.infinispan.configuration.parsing.Parser.parseNamedCache(Parser.java:254) at org.infinispan.configuration.parsing.Parser.doParse(Parser.java:211) at org.infinispan.configuration.parsing.Parser.parse(Parser.java:154) ... 31 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.infinispan.loaders.jdbc.stringbased.JdbcStringBasedCacheStore at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:266) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17] at org.infinispan.util.Util.loadClassStrict(Util.java:127) at org.infinispan.util.Util.loadClass(Util.java:88) ... 38 more
Any examples for configuring jdbc cache store or pointers would be really helpful.
Thanks and Regards, rams

A: Following the guide in the hibernate search docs, I have done this by adding the hibernate search modules (v4.3 was the closest I could find to the v4.2 that ships with AS7.2) from the file hibernate-search-modules-4.3.0.Final-jbossas-72-dist.zip into JBoss AS7's modules directory, then added in the war file's jboss-deployment-structure.xml
   <jboss-deployment-structure>
      <deployment>
          <dependencies>
              <module name="org.hibernate.search.orm"/>
          </dependencies>
      </deployment>
  </jboss-deployment-structure>

I used the workaround here https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-1632, adding
<module name="org.infinispan.cachestore.jdbc"/>
into the file modules/system/layers/base/org/infinispan/main/module.xml
In JBoss's standalone-ha.xml, I added a new cache-container element with three replicated-cache elements below it:
<cache-container name="hibernateSearch" default-cache="repl">
    <transport lock-timeout="60000"/>
<replicated-cache name="LuceneIndexesMetadata" mode="SYNC"  >
 <binary-keyed-jdbc-store datasource="java:/db/[datasource in JNDI]"
          passivation="false" shared="true" purge="false">
    <property name="createTableOnStart" >true</property>
    <binary-keyed-table>
        <id-column name="ID_COLUMN" type="VARCHAR(255)" />
        <data-column name="DATUM" type="BLOB"/>
    </binary-keyed-table>
 </binary-keyed-jdbc-store>
</replicated-cache>

<!-- Above replicated-cache section additionally repeated for
name="LuceneIndexesData",name="LuceneIndexesLocking"   -->

</cache-container>

and added the following to persistence.xml
<property name="hibernate.search.infinispan.cachemanager_jndiname" value="java:jboss/infinispan/container/hibernateSearch" />
<property name="hibernate.search.default.directory_provider" value="infinispan" />

I did not include any core hibernate or hibernate search jars in my deployed war because they are provided by JBoss, so I updated the war POM to exclude them:
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-search</artifactId>
    <version>4.2.0.Final</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
... and so on for all other hibernate jars

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ELLIPSE ARTS CENTER
¶ 2:11 PM
The Ellipse Arts Center has reopened!
Please come visit us. We missed you!
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Friday 11am–7pm; Saturdays 11am–2pm
Location: Ellipse Arts Center, one block West of the Ballston metro
4350 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22203
http://www.arlingtonarts.org/ellipseartscenter.htm
¶ 12:04 PM
Crossing Glances: Regards Croisés Exhibition Reviewed in the French Media
¶ 11:18 AM
Photographer John Babineau on the Arlington Weekly News
Crossing Glances: Regards Croisés Exhibition on the Arlington Video Network
Crossing Glances: Regards Croisés reviewed in the Washington Post
Click here to read the exhibition review written by Michael O'Sullivan for the Washington Post Weekend Section.
Crossing Glances : Regards Croisés reviewed in the Falls Chruch News Press
Click here to read the review written by Kevin Mellema for the Falls Church News Press, Northern Virginia Art Beat.
Crossing Glances, Regards Croisés; Arlington & Reims : Sister Cities
The evening of January 22, 2009 was opening night for the long-awaited exhibition Crossing Glances, Regards Croisés; Arlington & Reims : Sister Cities.
Exhibition book author Didier Rousselet writes, "two cities glance at each other, or rather each city invites one of its artists to serve as its eye on the other. A photographer comes from Reims to glance at Arlington; another comes from Arlington to do the same in Reims. And each of them returns home with his or her rich crop of photographs revealing overlooked features and hidden truths."
Artist John Babineau (right) speaks about his experience in Reims.
Artist Cécile Bethléem posing in front of her compilation of photographs, "Topology Fragment #15"
"Crossing Glances" author Didier Rousselet
Barbara Favola Chair of the Arlington County Board (left) and Norma Kaplan, Division Chief for Arlington Cultural Affairs (right).
Charles Daris, Head of Arlington Sister City Association (left) with ASL volunteer Sarah Ivory (right).
Anne Carpenter, Arts Management Specialist for Arlington Cultural Affairs (left) and Geoffrey Aldridge, Assistant Curator of Public Art for Arlington Cultural Affairs (right).
Please join us at the Ellipse for our upcoming events:
Copyright Basics for Professional Artists with John D. Mason of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts on Thursday, February 5 from 7-9pm.
Book Signing and Discussion with Photographer John Babineau and Exhibition Book Author Didier Rousselet on Thursday, March 5 from 7-9pm.
Crossing Glances Opens at the Ellipse Arts Center
Arlington Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Office of the City of Reims, France are pleased to present:
CROSSING GLANCES | REGARDS CROISÉS
Arlington & Reims : Sister Cities
Friday, January 23 - Saturday, March 28, 2009
Photographers: John Babineau of Arlington, Virginia and Cécile Bethléem of Reims, France
Image of Reims, France by John Babineau
Image of Arlington, Virginia by Cécile Bethléem
Location: Ellipse Arts Center, one block West of the Ballston metro.
http://ellipseartscenter.blogspot.com
EXHIBITION PROGRAMS Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 22, 6-9pm; exhibition remarks begin at 6:30PM
This event is an Art Eyes program and ASL interpreters will be present. Art Eyes is designed to create dialogue, art critique among peers and interpretation of artworks. Their mission is to empower the deaf community to become move involved in the visual arts. Targeted audiences include all artists, art lovers and art-curious.
Copyright Basics for Professional Artists with John D. Mason of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts: Thursday, February 5, 7-9pm
Presented by Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, this workshop will cover the basic legalities of copyrights, trademarks and contracts for visual artists. John D. Mason is a Washington DC / Maryland based art and entertainment and intellectual property attorney. His practice focuses on copyright and trademark matters, litigation, contracts and commercial matters. He works with writers, artists and creative people and companies to protect and exploit their work and is also a literary agent. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Washington Lawyers for the Arts. The website for his new firm, The Intellectual Property Group, PLLC, is www.artlaws.com.
Book Signing and Discussion with Photographer John Babineau and Exhibition Catalogue Author Didier Rousselet: Thursday, March 5, 7-9pm
Didier Rousselet is an actor, stage director and writer. He holds a doctoral degree in theatrical studies. He founded and directed LE NEON French-American Theatre in Arlington for 17 years. Since 2004, Mr. Rousselet, who has taught history and geography, has been combining travels and writing projects.
John Babineau, is a fine art photographer specializing in street photography and a resident of Arlington, Virginia. After a three-year enlistment in the US Army in the late 1960s, John attended the New England School of Photography and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, graduating with a degree in photography and art education. He has taught photography to various age groups and skill levels. John has also exhibited in a variety of photographic venues including the Atlanta, Boston, New York and Washington, DC areas.
Individual Artist Spotlight Grant Program For Visual, Media, Literary and Performing Artists: FY 2010 Grant Deadline: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 9:00PM
Spotlight Grants are intended to encourage Arlington-based visual, media, literary and performing artists to develop and present innovative new arts projects or programs that benefit Arlington County and its residents, increase access to an involvement in arts experiences for Arlington residents and to respond to diverse community needs.
Eligibility and Basic Guidelines for Spotlight Grants:
For legal residents of Arlington County, aged 18 or older.
For performing, literary, visual and media artists.
Total funding is $15,000, offering three grants for $5,000.
At least one public presentation is required during the 12-month grant period.
January 27th, 2009 is also the FY 2010 deadline for Challenge Grants (for small- and mid-sized arts organizations) and Festivals, Performances and Community Events Support.
For more information on Arlington Commission for the Arts and Arlington Cultural Affairs grant opportunities please visit http://www.arlingtonarts.org/cultural_affairs/funding.htm.
One block West of the Ballston metro
Phone: 703.228.7710 TTY: 703.228.1855
ellipseartscenter@arlingtonva.us
Gallery hours: Wednesday-Friday 11am-7pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.
Garage parking: weekdays $3 with validation.
Garage parking is free & open late during evening events. All events are free and open to the public.
Ellipse Arts Center is a 3,000 square foot visual arts facility managed by Arlington Cultural Affairs. Our mission is to provide a diverse schedule of high quality programs in the visual arts, provide opportunities for visual artists and develop an engaged and appreciative audience. The Ellipse Arts Center will make accommodations for individuals with disabilities upon request (two weeks prior to the start of the program) and is accessible to people in wheelchairs.
Uncommon Beauty Artist Mary Coble in the Washington Blade
Check out the Washington Blade's November 14th, 2008 Out in DC feature of Uncommon Beauty artist, Mary Coble, titled Skin Deep by Shauna Miller. To find the review on line, follow this link, then click the icon/coverpage, go to page 48 and zoom in.
Here/now Artscape: Uncommon Beauty
Watch the Here/now Artscape broadcast of Uncommon Beauty, with interviews by Juror, independent curator, critic, and ART in Embassies Program Curator, Sarah Tanguy, and artists, Jason Horowitz and Kay Chernush.
Arlington Public Art Upcoming Projects and Events
Reception and Presentation: Corridor of Light Public Art Project Models by Artist Cliff Garten
Thursday, December 4, 7PM, at the Rosslyn Spectrum Theater, 1611 N. Kent Street, Rosslyn. 2 blocks from the Rosslyn Metro; Free parking in the building garage accessed from Arlington Ridge Road.
The public is invited to a reception at which artist Cliff Garten will be on hand to unveil the model for his "Corridor of Light" proposal of illuminated sculptures and light fixtures for Rosslyn's North Lynn Street corridor, sponsored by the Rosslyn Business Improvement District. This event is free and open to the public.
Lecture: In Sight, In Mind, The Art of Sustainable Public Works
Speaker: William Morrish, Planner and Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia.
Introduction: Maurice Cox, Director of Design, National Endowment for the Arts
Thursday, December 4, 8PM, Rosslyn Spectrum Theater, 1611 N. Kent Street, Rosslyn. 2 blocks from the Rosslyn Metro; Free parking in the building garage accessed from Arlington Ridge Road.
William Morrish will be the keynote speaker at the Americans for the Arts conference on public art master planning and he will kick off the Planet Arlington and Architectural Speaker Series with a lecture on public art and the future of infrastructure design. He is the co-author of the "Phoenix Public Art Master Plan", a seminal work in the field of public art master planning. He will be introduced by Maurice Cox, director, Design, National Endowment for the Arts. This event is free and open to the public.
Ellipse Arts Center is a 3,000 square foot visual arts facility managed by Arlington Cultural Affairs, Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resourses. Our mission is to provide a diverse schedule of high quality programs in the visual arts, providing opportunities for visual artists, as well as developing an engaged and appreciative audience.
Name: Ellipse Arts Center
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One of the more exciting trends in the last few years has been the significant uptick in artsy fartsy horror productions. Our last two Movie of the Year selections for this site, for instance, were It Follows & The Witch, with plenty of titles like It Comes at Night, Raw, The Babadook, and The Neon Demon filling out the ranks below them in what's starting to feel like a legitimate low budget horror renaissance. With this embarrassment of riches on hand, it's easy to lose track of the few stray successes that have cropped up in mainstream horror production, since it's easier now than it has been in a very long time to favor the underdog pictures over their major studio competition. The most recent adaptation of Stephen King's 10,000 page novel IT is an excellent wake-up call to the value of mainstream horror filmmaking done right. IT is an Event Film dependent on the jump scares, CGI monsters, and blatant nostalgia pandering (even casting one of the Stranger Things kids to drive that last point home) that its indie cinema competition has been consciously undermining to surprising financial success in recent years. What's impressive is how the film prominently, even aggressively relies on these features without at all feeling insulting, lifeless, or dull. Even more so than well-received franchises like The Conjuring, Sinister, and Insidious, IT fulfills the major studio promise that big budget horror filmmaking can still be intense, memorable, and above all else fun. While indie filmmakers search for metaphorical & atmospheric modes of "elevated" horror, IT stands as a declarative, back to the basics return to mainstream horror past, a utilitarian approach with payoffs that somehow far outweigh its muted artistic ambitions.
Seven middle school dorks suffer the worst summer of their lives when their problems balloon larger than the usual abuses laid on them by bullies & villainous adults to include a hundreds-of-years-old curse that haunts their small, suburban town. IT converts the childhood nostalgia pangs usually reserved for the 1950s to a more currently appropriate 1980s setting. Inconsequential references to New Kids on the Block, "Where's the beef?" commercials, and Tim Burton's Batman slightly update the material's Scary Stand By Me aesthetic, but its sense of small town Americana feels timeless, mostly untouched by then-contemporary pop culture. The Losers Club avoids contact with their school's feral teen bullies and their homes' emotionally & physically abusive adults by hiding out at The Quarry or in the library. Their inner circle is a protective shield against the evils of bigotry, sexual trauma, physical violence, etc. that haunt the larger world, but struggles to stand up to the more metaphysical evil that drives those real world terrors, the titular "It." A centuries-old demonic force responsible for generational catastrophes that befall the same town's children every few decades, "It" shows itself in this 1980s context in the form of missing, abducted children. Adults remain in a daze as their children disappear, content to paper over each "missing" poster with the next one down the line, showing no enthusiasm for determining the source of the epidemic. As the ancient evil creeps closer to abducting their own members, The Losers Club are compelled to defeat "It" on their own without the help of clueless adults in a climactic Good vs. Evil showdown. They even find a physical manifestation of "It" they can focus their energy on destroying: a sewer-dwelling birthday clown named Pennywise.
Pennywise The Dancing Clown (a heavily CGI'd Bill Skarsgård) crystallizes The Loser Club's childhood fears into more tangible iconography than the larger-looming traumas that haunt their private & public lives: clowns (duh), basements, darkness, isolation, and so on. His individual scares work with the routine precision of a rotary dial. Children slowly approach personalized manifestations of their respective fears with a cautious, quiet curiosity until a jump scare releases the tension and the rotary wheel is dialed back for another tense build. IT is a collection of haunted house attractions (sometimes literally) in this way, relying more on the thrill of individual scares & set pieces than overall atmospheric dread. The demonic clown that personifies these horrors with a familiar, if grotesque face is an excellent anchor for its more general, community-wide evils that would usually take several hours of mini-series sprawl or (in King's case) hundreds of pages of exposition to fully cover in a satisfying way. Smartly, IT doesn't afford much screentime to mythology outside some light library research & examination of old town maps. Instead, it builds the collective friendships & flirtations of The Losers Club as a single group unit and then cyclically breaks down their ranks into weakened, individual members through the routine of its jump scares. There's an impressive efficiency in this approach that allows room for isolated scares to properly breathe without sacrificing the pace of the group narrative, with Pennywise's Evil Clown antics & red balloon calling card serving as an essential lynchpin to the whole enterprise. As fascinating as the more intangible horrors of IT can be, it really helps that the story is also streamlined as a Children vs. Killer Clown narrative to keep things relatively grounded.
While director Andrés Muschietti does succeed in boiling a strange, sprawling narrative into a manageable mainstream horror package, he also allows himself to indulge in IT's more surreal, intangible menace in the background details. Pennywise's drifting irises, the paradoxical positioning of background extras, and a peripheral television broadcast that encourages children to play in the sewers with their friends all subvert the more routine, by the books horror thrills of the jump scares in the foreground. One scene involving a malfunctioning slide projector in particular fully delivers on Pennywise's potential as a metaphysical being, allowing "It" to take an outsized physical form through a distorted beam of light in what has to be one of the most striking images from any feature film this year, mainstream or otherwise. The movie also impresses in its R-rated willingness to deliver on its children-in-peril threats, tearing out young tykes' limbs and sinking knives & fangs deep into their flesh. This onscreen violence nicely counterbalances coming of age hallmarks like a flirtatious skinny dipping sequence & a team-building housecleaning montage lifted directly from IT's 80s reference points to create something both warmly familiar & genuinely dangerous-feeling. While certainly a straightforward, mainstream horror affair built more on elaborate scare mechanisms than artsy fartsy atmosphere, IT doesn't just function as a middle school-set slasher featuring a creepy clown with endless rows of sharpened teeth & red balloons. The movie's more adventurous, unnerving touches may lurk in the background, but they're essential to the overall effect. Its Scary Stand By Me veneer is deceptively simple, but highly effective, leaving plenty of room for more ethereal horror to creep in at the edges. If nothing else, IT is a succinct, revitalizing argument that Big Budget Horror might be dormant, but is neither toothless nor obsolete.


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Braxton Lee Homestead Open House and Bake Sale Set for April 13
The Braxton Lee Homestead Foundation is inviting the public out to the Homestead on April 13.
Between 1 PM and 4 PM, guests can tour the historic home and enjoy the view from the property's highest point. A large bake sale will also offer a variety of homemade treats available for purchase.
"We hope you will be inspired to be a part of history and help leave a legacy," event coordinators say.
In the event of inclement weather, a rain date is set for April 27.
The historic home is located at 117 Smith Street in Ashland City.
More information can be found at braxtonleehomestead.org.
The History Behind the Home
According to the foundation's website, the Homestead was purchased in 1796 and the home, reputed to be one of the first inhabited homes in Cheatham County was built in 1811.
The home was made from large red cedar, ash, and chestnut trees which were plentiful in the area. The logs are still intact and the original kitchen and smokehouse are still standing.
Braxton Lee was a very prominent early settler of middle Tennessee, having moved west from Virginia in 1776. He operated a large plantation and provided supplies and food to riverboards on the Cumberland River. He was a former Justice of the Peace of (then) Davidson County, and was commissioned a Captain in the 20thTN Regiment in Davidson County in 1807.
This homestead was one of the voting locations when they first voted to form a new county out of parts of Davidson, Robertson, Montgomery and Dickson Counties. The initial vote failed but it was later passed in 1856.