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|By Douglas Lyon
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|March 7, 2018 12:30 PM EST
Deployment Methodology
1. Problem Statement
We are given a desktop platform with Java 8 or Java 9 installed and seek to find a way to deploy high-performance Java applications that use Java 3D and/or Jogl without having to run an installer. We are subject to the constraint that the applications be signed and deployed so that they can be run in a trusted environment (i.e., outside of the sandbox). Further, we seek to do this in a way that does not depend on bundling a JRE with our applications, as this makes downloads and installations rather long.
The novel javapackager command (included in the JDK versions 8 and 9), produces the program installation packages in the range of sizes from 57 to 202 Megabytes approximately.
2. Motivation
We have a long history of making use of Java 3D applications in the software engineering community. Since the introduction of Java 3D in 1998, a number of open-source projects have sprung up to help preserve it (including Jogl). These projects were needed because the Sun Corporation's development of Java 3D had discontinued in 2004. At that point, it was released as a community-driven open source project. By 2008, Java 3D was put on hold in favor of the JavaFX framework with 3D support. JavaFX contains many proprietary software components whose code has not been released to the public. Moreover, switching from Java 3D to JavaFX is generally accepted as non-trivial.
There are now approximately 10 million Java developers. ("The 2009 Global Developer Population and Demographics Survey, conducted by Evans Data Corporation, reports the Java-developer population equals 9,007,346.") If just 1% are using Java 3D and must rewrite their code as a result, that is 100,000 impacted developers with programs of unknown sizes.
I possess 493 java files in my 3D project with 42,936 lines of code for an average of just over 87 lines per file. If each of the Java 3D developer's code exhibits just 1% of my project's file size, this implies the 429 lines of code times 100,000 developers or almost 43 million lines of code. If it takes just $15 to write a line of code, (some estimates are as high as $40) the costs are between the $645 million and the $1.7 billion dollars [Koopman].
3. Approach
Our approach to the deployment of the new Java 3D libraries is to create a single extension to the JNLP resources, called the "jogl.jnlp". This deployment strategy makes a direct reference to the bundled native libraries as well as the Java 3D jars. The listing of the "jogl.jnlp" file follows:
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://show.docjava.com:80/book/cgij/code/jnlp/">
<title>Java 3D</title>
<vendor>DocJava Inc.</vendor>
<homepage href="http://www.docjava.com"/>
<description>Java 3D library</description>
<jar href="libs/jogl/j3dcore.jar" download="eager"/>
<jar href="libs/jogl/j3dutils.jar" download="eager"/>
<jar href="libs/jogl/vecmath.jar" download="eager"/>
<jar href="libs/jogl/jogamp-fat.jar" download="eager"/>
The j3dcore.jar, j3dutils.jar, and vecmath.jar are pure Java code. They compose the Java 3D library. The required native methods (JNI) for the standard platforms (Windows 64, Windows 32, Linux 64, Linux 32, and the Mac) are all found inside the jogamp-fat.jar library. A JNLP file that launches a Jogl application follows:
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://show.docjava.com:80/book/cgij/code/jnlp/">
<vendor>DocJava, Inc.</vendor>
<homepage href="http://www.docjava.com"/>
<icon href="http://show.docjava.com:80/consulti/docjava.jpe"/>
<j2se version="1.8+" initial-heap-size="64m" max-heap-size="384m" java-vm-args="
<extension name="Java3D" href="jogl.jnlp"></extension>
<jar href="joglquad.jar"/>
<application-desc main-class="j3d.JOGLQuad"/>
Here we present the common extension for Jogl support, <extension
name="Java3D" href="jogl.jnlp"></extension>. This extension enables
the common deployment strategy to all Java 3D and Jogl based programs.
Furthermore, critical to the proper operation is the j2se tag.
<j2se version="1.8+" initial-heap-size="64m" max-heap-size="384m" java-vm-args="--add-exports=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED
The "--add-exports" is a part of the new-style module arguments. For example:
follows the pattern:
--add-exports <source-module>/<package>=<target-module>
where <source-module> is "java.base", <package> is "java.lang" and <target-module> is "ALL-UNNAMED". The "ALL-UNNAMED" enables all modules to access all classes in java.lang. In the case of legacy code, all the modules will be unnamed.
The extension loading may be perceived as a separate program that the user needs to allow to run immediately after the first part of the program has been deployed to the user's platform.
As WebStart applications must be signed before the modern Java will run them, I have authored a collection of articles that guide the reader through the signing process [Lyon, 2004a, b, 2008].
The signed jar files are all available from tinyurl.com/signedJars.
A deprecation warning has been announced for the JNLP deployment in the future release of JDK. "Java Applet and WebStart functionality, including the Applet API, The Java plug-in, the Java Applet Viewer, JNLP and Java Web Start including the javaws tool are all deprecated in JDK 9 and will be removed in a future release." [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/9-deprecated-features-3745636.html]
The open source WebStart replacement IcedTea offers further options to run the JNLP files and the application itself in the sandbox even if the application is signed with a trusted certificate. IcedTea offers the optional safety limitations of the application's functionality. The following two pop-up windows captured in the OpenSuSE Linux demonstrate this aspect of the user's experience.
Figure 1. Security Approval Dialog
Figure 2 - IcedTea Warnings, JNLP file execution
A developer working in Windows with Oracle JDK 9 and the standard WebStart, has the option to decrease the local security by adding an exception in the Exception Site List, part of the Configure Java panel. The local security exception for the "file:/" protocol should be entered, which allows the execution of any local self-signed jar files during the development phase - the least security level allowed by the WebStart in JDK 9.
The series of commands required for self-signing follows.
keytool -genkey -keystore myKeystore -alias myself
keytool -selfcert -alias myself -keystore myKeystore
keytool -list -keystore myKeystore
jarsigner -keystore myKeystore test.jar myself
A JDK 8 keytool requires an upgrade by issuing a single-line command:
keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore myKeystore -destkeystore
myKeystore -deststoretype pkcs12
The Mac and Linux users may encounter a bug - the Oracle Java control panel window may refuse to show itself and disallow adding any security exception in this manner.
The JNLP deployment is a delicate matter that takes into account the Manifest attributes, deployment rulesets, and signing. Developers may benefit from writing the JNLP files manually as shown because the various integrated development environments do not produce the JNLP files accurately enough.
4. Results
We have been able to deploy to the Windows 7, Windows 10 and the Mac platforms. The WebStart applications that utilize the Java 3D library are available free to run at the author's web page (http://www.docjava.com). The binaries for deployment are the easiest way to reproduce the results and are available from the author's website. To view the results of the work without running any code, there is a YouTube video available at tinyurl.com/j3dAndJogl.
5. Literature Cited
Full texts of the below articles cited are available from the author's website at http://www.docjava.com.
[Koopman] Better Embedded System SW by Phil Koopman. https://betterembsw.blogspot.com/2010/10/embedded-software-costs-15-40-per-line.html. Last accessed 1/12/18.
[Lyon 2004a] Project Initium: Programmatic Deployment by Douglas A. Lyon, Journal of Object Technology, vol. 3, no. 8, September-October 2004, pp. 55-69.
[Lyon 2004b] The Initium X.509 Certificate Wizard by Douglas A.
Lyon, Journal of Object Technology, vol. 3, no. 10, November-December 2004, pp. 75-88.
[Lyon 2008] I Resign! Resigning Jar Files with Initium, by Douglas A. Lyon, Journal of Object Technology, vol. 7, no. 4, April-May 2008, and pp. 9-27.
[Oracle] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/9-deprecated-features-3745636.html. Last accessed 1/12/18.
Appendix A. Problems and Workarounds
The Impending Java 3D End-of-Service?
With the arrival of JDK 9, most developers have noticed that their programs do not function anymore. If your program utilizes the Java 3D library (j3dcore.jar, j3dutils.jar, and vecmath.jar), the program depends on the Jogl library as well. You can find the Jogl library in the jogamp-fat.jar file. Please obtain the standard versions of the library files from:
https://jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-current/fat/ https://jogamp.org/deployment/java3d/1.6.0-final/
Both libraries were made with older versions of JDK and can be compiled with JDK 8 (v1.8.152) nowadays.
If you initially succeed running your program under the JRE 9, you may notice a series of warnings such as these:
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by javax.media.j3d.JoglPipeline (file:/ j3d/j3d-core/build/jars/j3dcore.jar) to method sun.awt.AppContext.getAppContext()
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of javax.media.j3d.JoglPipeline
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
These warnings cannot be removed, but they will not prevent you from running your program either. In the case of JNLP deployment, the particular VM arguments are necessary:
These arguments do not change the way the program executes otherwise, as in the case of a program running as an executable jar file.
Reportedly, you may encounter such warnings when you refer to or otherwise use a field, method, or a class in the Java runtime library that has been marked as private in some sense or that is disappearing due to the JDK redesign or code deprecation. Let us consider a sketch. You may wish to list the loaded native libraries by using the command
LIBRARIES = ClassLoader.class.getDeclaredField("loadedLibraryNames");
Seemingly, there is no private field access involved here and accessing one in a trivial manner would be impossible by design. However, as you follow the line of code execution, you will discover that you are trying to get the list of loaded libraries from the private static Vector<String> loadedLibraryNames in the ClassLoader class. This methodology of listing the loaded native libraries functions well, but it will not function in the future.
If you want to redesign the Java 3D library to compile under the JDK 9, you may do so quickly by erasing a few functionalities that raise critical errors. For example, you would need to remove the references to the package sun.applet. If you wish to solve the next 100 warnings as well, the amount of rewriting required is much higher. It is faster to compile it with the JDK 8 and include the library as such in your application. Still, the problems lurk ahead.
Your Java 3D program will require a few tweaks to get going.
System.setProperty("sun.java2d.noddraw", "false"); System.setProperty("sun.awt.noerasebackground", "true");
You may use the Swing framework and display the graphics contents in a JFrame, but you cannot use the JavaFX.
If you want to display the progress of the native libraries loading, you should tweak the Jogl library.
System.setProperty("jogamp.debug.JNILibLoader", "true");
The native libraries are unpacked and loaded from the temporary directories, so embrace yourself for the lengthy output.
The chances are that the current versions of Java 3D 1.6 and Jogl 2.3.2 (Oct. 2015) won't allow you to use them on the Macintosh computers with the JDK version 9, and on certain Linux computers, notably on the VMware virtual machines (depending from the specific hardware details) due to the Mesa graphics driver-related bug. The libraries can run on the Windows 10 computers with JDK 9, on the Ubuntu 16 distributions with the Oracle JDK 9, and so forth.
By extensive testing, we came to notice the possible workaround for the bug that affects the Macintosh computers so that now they should be able to run the Java 3D and Jogl libraries in the Java 9 runtime environment. The Jogamp community (that maintains the Jogl library) has suggested the Mesa driver-related bug fix for the next release of the Jogl library.
Avoiding the GLCanvas-related JVM Crash
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00000001190a80cc, pid=49353, tid=775
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (9.0+11) (build 9.0.1+11)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (9.0.1+11, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, g1 gc, bsd-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libosxapp.dylib+0x20cc] -[NSApplicationAWT sendEvent:]+0x179
The error shown above occurs on the Macintosh computers featuring the latest version of the MacOS X as well as the earlier editions, given that these computers have the Java 9 installed and your application uses the Java 3D and/or Jogl libraries. One might assume that the Java AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit) contains a bug, but the explanation is largely incomplete. You could setup your environment (i.e. execute this command in the terminal) to print the AWT debugging info:
export JAVA_AWT_VERBOSE=1
Nonetheless, you will not be able to properly run and debug the program. We cannot claim who is responsible for the bug ultimately, but it is possible to point at the Jogl library usage.
Let us consider a Java class JoglTest that implements the GLEventListener from the package com.jogamp.opengl. Any such class needs to implement the necessary methods that draw graphics visuals to a GLCanvas. We shall ignore the details and focus on the Frame or JFrame to which we add the GLCanvas in order to display the graphics animation.
GLCanvas canvas = new GLCanvas();
JFrame jFrame = new JFrame("Jogl Drawing");
Animator animator = new Animator(canvas);
canvas.addGLEventListener(new JoglTest ());
The problem occurs at the very moment when you close the Frame or JFrame. The default on-close operation is hide-on-close, which does nothing particularly useful anyways. You need at least to set the exit-on-close operation.
If you close the jFrame, you crash the JVM 9. Further, the typical usage scenario is to attach a window adapter to the Frame or JFrame that stops the animator and disposes the window.
jFrame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
jFrame.dispose(); // JVM 9 CRASH
The code above makes the previously mentioned exit-on-close operation irrelevant and shows where the JVM crash occurs specifically. Therefore, in order to avoid the crash, you need to eliminate the command jFrame.dispose() and replace it with the command to exit the program altogether, System.exit(0).
Seemingly, without any negative effect, we allow the user to use the application safely and exit. It is safe to assume that there is a memory leak associated with the step in which we avoid disposing the jFrame. Disposing the window can still be performed on the computers other than the Mac.
if (!System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().contains("mac os")) jFrame.dispose();
Next, the developers should avoid any similar situations in which the frame may be disposed of.
Minimal Corrections of Java 3D Library
When you use the Java 3D library, the presence of the Jogl bug is much more cryptic to read from the error output. In order to initiate a Java 3D application, developers needs to create a GraphicsConfiguration by using the template known as the GraphicsConfigTemplate3D.
GraphicsConfigTemplate3D tmp = new GraphicsConfigTemplate3D();
GraphicsConfiguration graphicsConfiguration = getLocalGraphicsEnvironment()
The JVM 9 crash occurs when trying to obtain the graphicsConfiguration, in the second line of the code shown above. The bug can be further traced to the GraphicsConfigTemplate3D class in the package javax.media.j3d. There, a single line causes the crash.
GraphicsConfiguration graphicsConfiguration = (GraphicsConfiguration) testCfg;
Next, we can trace the bug in the JoglPipeline class in the package javax.media.j3d, in the method:
GraphicsConfiguration getBestConfiguration(GraphicsConfigTemplate3D gct, GraphicsConfiguration[] gc)
in the line canvas.doQuery(). Finally, in the doQuery() method we can see the two lines of code that exhibit an immediate effect on the JVM 9 crash.
Removing these lines of code annuls the crash. In addition, the JoglPipeline class contains another potential source of crash, the line glContext.destroy(), which we can remove as well.
You can download the Java 3D library with these minimal changes included, from the http://www.docjava.com web site. You can search for the comment lines that contain the warning: "Potential JVM 9 CRASH occurs here on MacOS" to guide yourself to the locations of interest.
The package jogamp.opengl in the Jogl library contains the class GLContextImpl that implements the method destroy(). The Java 3D library calls this method when the crash occurs, so if you omit the method, you avoid the crash.
However, the details remain fuzzy. The method can run in its entirety without causing any crash in a test program that does not use the Java 3D library. At startup, the method runs once on the main thread. When the window is closing and specifically the method dispose() is invoked, the JVM crashes. Prior to the crash, the method destroy() prints a message claiming that it ran again on the AWT-EventQueue-0 thread. Further testing will be required.
Notes on Building Jogl and Java 3D
The instructions for building Jogl can be found at the following address.
http://jogamp.org/gluegen/doc/HowToBuild.html. Compiling the project on Windows may prove to be flakey. Use the MinGW-W64 compiler version 4.9.x as the starting point. The Gluegen project may require you to run the ant process twice to get through the dll test error. The Jogl project may require you to have a newer compiler such as the gcc x86_64-win32-sjlj-rev1 7.2.0 due to the missing include files. A Cygwin's version of the same compiler just might be of use, if you edit the file gluegen\src\native\windows\WindowsDynamicLinkerImpl_JNI.c and replace
typedef int intptr_t;
typedef __intptr_t intptr_t;
Other platforms should give you less trouble compiling the project by using the latest gcc compiler and JDK 8. However, you must repeat the build procedure on different platforms to build all the library jars.
The Java 3D is easier to build. First, clone the repositories.
git clone git://github.com/hharrison/vecmath
git clone git://github.com/hharrison/java3d-core j3d-core
git clone git://github.com/hharrison/java3d-utils j3d-utils
mkdir jogl-v2.3.2
wget http://jogamp.org/deployment/v2.3.2/jar/gluegen-rt.jar
wget http://jogamp.org/deployment/v2.3.2/jar/jogl-all.jar
mv gluegen-rt.jar jogl-v2.3.2
mv jogl-all.jar jogl-v2.3.2
If you possess a custom-built Jogl and Gluegen library jars, include them in these two lines, found in the build.xml file, in the j3d-core directory.
<property name="jogl.lib" location="../jogl-v2.3.2/jogl-all.jar"/>
<property name="gluegen.lib" location="../jogl-v2.3.2/gluegen-rt.jar"/>
Next, run the ant in the vecmath and j3d-core directories (or, ant clean, if needed).
Your application will require the freshly produced libraries (j3dcore.jar, j3dutils.jar, and vecmath.jar) and the original jogamp-fat.jar. In the case that you do build your own custom Jogl and Gluegen projects, you can include the produced jars such as gluegen-rt-natives-windows-amd64.jar, gluegen-rt.jar, jogl-all-natives-windows-amd64.jar, and jogl-all.jar, whose exact names depend from the platform you are working on.
The authors are very thankful for the help of Julien Gouesse for his work in supporting JOGL and its hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 41.08 points, or 0.3%, to 14799.40, after a morning of choppy trading. The Dow ended the week 1.8% lower, its second consecutive weekly drop.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the benchmark tumbled 560 points, its biggest two-session slide since November 2011.
The week's reaction in the bond market was even more stark. Treasury prices, which move in the opposite direction of yields, fell for a fifth session in a row. On Friday, the yield on 10-year Treasury notes topped 2.5%, marking the biggest weekly selloff in more than a decade.
Earlier this year, as stocks notched record after record, many investors pointed to the Fed's $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program as the principal driver. Now, investors are becoming increasingly worried that stocks will struggle to continue their ascent without that support, especially as U.S. growth remains relatively sluggish.
Compounding those concerns is the rise in Treasury yields, which many expect to result in rising borrowing costs, possibly crimping the economic expansion.
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While some investors are still looking to buy into weakness on down days, "the number of institutional orders to buy on the way down isn't nearly as high as it used to be," Mr. Yu added, indicating general nervousness.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index added 4.24 points, or 0.3%, to 1592.43 Friday. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 7.39 points, or 0.2%, to 3357.25 amid weakness in that sector.
On Wednesday, Mr. Bernanke gave guidance on when he thought the Fed could start winding down the bond purchases, which inject money into the economy. The stimulus program, which traders have dubbed "quantitative easing," or QE, could be ended altogether by mid-2014, Mr. Bernanke said in a new conference following a meeting of the Fed's policy-setting committee. His words sent ripples across markets around the world.
"You're really seeing a pure liquidation of trades that were put on for QE," said Sean Murphy, Treasurys trader at Société Générale. "Whether it's gold, whether it's equities. Obviously, Treasurys bear the brunt of it."
European markets fell, erasing earlier gains, after Greece's moderate Democratic Left party said it would withdraw from the coalition government. That raised concerns over financing of the country's bailout program amid reports that some euro-zone central banks were balking at rolling over Greek debt. The Stoxx Europe 600 slid 1.2%.
Asian markets ended mostly lower on the back of U.S. losses, but off their worst levels. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average reversed an early decline to rise 1.7%, helped by weakness in the yen. China's Shanghai Composite pared an early loss of as much as 2% to slip 0.5% as the financial stress in the country's banking system showed some signs of easing.
August crude-oil futures fell 1.8% Friday to settle at $93.69 a barrel. The dollar rose against both the yen and the euro.
Among single-stock movers, Oracle fell after reporting a second consecutive quarter of essentially flat revenue.
Facebook rose after UBS raised its investment rating on the social-networking company to "buy" from "neutral," citing its plan to begin selling video and higher mobile-revenue forecasts.
The broad-based selling in stocks this past week had some fund managers looking for bargains. Mitch Rubin, who oversees about $200 million as chief investment officer at RiverPark Advisors LLC, said he has been "cautiously adding" to shares of companies with long-term earnings prospects in recent days.
"To us, in the long run, stock prices follow earnings," Mr. Rubin said. "While there's some small input to earnings from interest-rate policy or whatever, at the end of the day, it's the health of the business trends, and the quality of the business and the quality of management. At the end of the day, I believe in that to the core."
—Cynthia Lin contributed to this article.
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Ganges (găn´jēz) or Ganga (gŭng´gä), river, c.1,560 mi (2,510 km) long, rising in the Gangotri glacier in the Himalayas in Uttarakhand state, India, and flowing generally southeast through NE India across a vast plain to the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh; the most sacred river of Hindu India. The fertile Ganges plain is one of the world's most densely populated regions; rice, grains, oilseed, sugarcane, and cotton are the main crops. Because of its location near major population centers, however, the river is highly polluted.
The upper Ganges supplies water to extensive irrigation works. The river passes the holy bathing sites at Haridwar, Allahabad (where the Yamuna River enters the Ganges), and Varanasi. Below Allahabad the Ganges becomes a slow, meandering stream with shifting channels.
The lower Ganges is joined by the Brahmaputra River W of Dhaka, Bangladesh, to form the Padma, its main channel to the sea. The united rivers branch into many distributaries, forming the vast and fertile Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, which stretches from the Hugli River on the west to the Meghna on the east. The delta region covers roughly 25% of India's total territory and supports upwards of 300 million people. The delta's southern fringe, a great wilderness of swamp, dense timber forest, small islands, and tidal creeks, is known as the Sundarbans; it has been the site of land reclamation projects. This low-lying area has repeatedly suffered great devastation from cyclones and coastal flooding. Kolkata, India, and Chittagong, Bangladesh, are the delta's main seaports.


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Finding a great job in today's market can turn into a full-time position in itself, but you don't have to dedicate 40+ hours per week to your search in order to be successful. The adage "work smarter, not harder" applies to a job search as well. A key to working smarter is effective time management, whether you are unemployed with ample time on your hands or currently employed and need to be more strategic with your free hours.
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Before beginning your job search, make sure your resume and references are up to date and have cover and thank you letter templates on hand to customize per application. Brush up on your interviewing skills, update your social media profiles, and create accounts on major employment sites as well as niche boards. Be ready for all opportunities that come your way.
Once your tools are in place, get a calendar to use specifically for your job search. Set a realistic date for landing your next position and use it as a basis for planning your overall strategy. Give yourself quantifiable goals (10 applications per day, 5 follow-up calls per week, 3 networking events per month, etc.) and prioritize your tasks appropriately. Have several interviews on Monday but zero on Tuesday? Plan to spend Tuesday applying to new positions, following up on applications, or researching upcoming events. Use your time wisely.
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Actors might want to start thinking about not using the word "rape" when not referring to anything other than sexual assault. In the past few years alone both Kristen Stewart and Johnny Depp found themselves in hot water when they used the term to describe being photographed and had to later apologize for using the term. Now screen legend Kim Novak has uttered the PR-nightmarish word, but instead of referring to getting her picture taken, she's talking about Michel Hazanavicius using the score from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo in The Artist.
Deadline has learned that Novak recently watched a screener of Hazanavicius' movie and was horrified to discover that the filmmaker made use of Bernard Herrmann's music from the Hitchcock classic. "I want to report a rape," Novak said in an official statement. "My body of work has been violated by The Artist. This film took the Love Theme music from Vertigo and used the emotions it engenders as its own." The actress believes that the recent film uses the music to "unconsciously or consciously" bring back feelings felt by audiences watching Hitchcock's film and feels that it's a form of cheating. She does recognize that Herrmann is given credit at the end of the film, but feels that a bigger principle is at play. "It is essential that all artists safeguard our special bodies of work for posterity, with their individual identities intact and protected," Novak said.
Following the comments, THR reached out to Hazanavicius for comment and he responded by saying that The Artist as a whole is a love letter to old Hollywood, and his way of showing "admiration and respect" for classic films. "I love Bernard Hermann and his music has been used in many different films and I'm very pleased to have it in mine," Hazanavicius said. "I respect Kim Novak greatly and I'm sorry to hear she disagrees."
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Use these free sewing project instructions to sew unique decor. Decorate for a fall fete with a festive bohemian-inspired embellished lantern.
Cut a 27" square from the organza. Vertically fold the square in quarters; pin to secure the layers. Designate one short edge as the lower edge. Mark the lower-edge center, and then mark each side 5" from the lower edge. Connect the center mark to each side mark to create a V shape. Cut along the lines through all layers (1). Unpin and unfold the fabric.
Draw five evenly spaced 1 1/4"-diameter circles along the fabric horizontal center. Cut out the circles.
To stabilize the fabric and protect the work surface, fuse the freezer paper waxy side to the fabric wrong side using a warm iron.
On the fabric, draw a horizontal line 3 1/2" above the circles. Draw a line 2" above and parallel to the first horizontal line, and then draw a line 1/2" within each horizontal line to mark the painting guidelines. Repeat to mark painting guidelines 3 1/2" below the circles (2).
Using a flat paintbrush, fill each 1/2" horizontal line with teal glitter paint, and then fill in each center horizontal line with silver glitter paint. Refer to the photo at TK for color and design placement.
Using purple glitter paint and the flat paintbrush, paint a 1/2"-wide line around each circle perimeter. Paint a 1/2"-wide purple line above the fabric lower edge. Allow the paint to dry, and then repeat if desired for more coverage.
Center a stencil over the left lower V-shaped fabric section. Using an angled paintbrush and orange fabric paint, fill the stencil, and then remove. Repeat to stencil a flower or medallion on each remaining V-shaped section, alternating the hot pink and orange fabric paint. Allow the paint to dry.
Using the heat-setting tool, adhere crystals over the flower or medallion designs in a random pattern, following the manufacturer's instructions. Refer to the photo at TK for placement inspiration.
Remove the freezer paper from the fabric.
With right sides up, pin the boning along the fabric upper edge. Stitch along the boning upper edge using a zipper foot. Double-fold the fabric upper edge toward the wrong side, completely encasing the boning. Topstitch along each fold.
Push 1 1/4" of the boning plastic beyond one boning short end; trim to allow for stitching the lantern back seam.
Stitch a French seam to enclose the lantern back seam raw edges. Fold the fabric in half lengthwise with wrong sides together. Stitch the long open edge using a 1/4" seam allowance; press open, and then trim the seam allowance to 1/8". Turn the fabric wrong side out, and then stitch the seam again using a 1/4" seam allowance, enclosing the previous seam allowance.
Cut the ribbon in half widthwise. Thread the ribbons through the D-ring, evenly aligning the ribbon ends. Tightly wrap Perle cotton or embroidery floss several times around the ribbons just below the D-ring; tie off.
Turn the lantern right side out, and then quarter-mark the upper edge using pins. Align one ribbon end with each pin-mark on the lantern right side, lapping the ribbon end 3/8" over the lantern upper edge. Stitch each ribbon end in place.
Position the 1/2"-wide trim or ribbon along the lantern right-side upper edge, aligning the trim ends with the lantern seam. Adhere the trim using permanent fabric tape, following the manufacturer's instructions.
Evenly position the square mirrors along the silver painted lines. Adhere the mirrors with permanent fabric tape, following the manufacturer's instructions.
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This is the first of a couple day-by-day updates that I'll be doing during my trip to Seattle/Portland. I thought it would be cool to keep you guys up to date as to what I'm up to and what tee I am wearing! If you want to checkout the tee that I wore just click on the orange links.
Arrival/Day 1 T-Shirt of Choice: It's A Plaid Nation/Super Soaker by ReThink Clothing
Things got off to interesting start with one of my friends missing their flight from Honolulu to Washington but that's okay because he arrived earlier than I did! This was because he was able to get a direct flight when his original flight was delayed. Our third friend, who was coming from Boston and flying Delta Airlines found out that his luggage never made it to Seattle. Poor guy, he would not receive until two days later.
Our first full day in Seattle was spent driving up to Mount St. Helens, a good 3 hour drive from Tacoma, Washington. But it turned out to be a let down since it was very, very cloudy and rainy up at the top Johnston Ridge Observatory. We got to learn a ton about the history of the 1980 eruption but unfortunately we weren't able to see the crater. Lame!
Later that night we met up with our friends from Seattle, whom were getting married that weekend. We checked out The Parlor Billiards & Spirits at the Bellevue Entertainment Center, an upscale billiards parlor frequented by many Microsoft employees (booo!). And in case you were wondering, Microsoft owns a ton of buildings in the Seattle area – I saw Microsoft plastered everywhere. My worst nightmare.
Day 2 T-Shirt of Choice: American Apparel Poly-Cotton 3/4 Sleeve Raglan Shirt
Day 2 we planned to hit up the typical Seattle tourist spots. This meant visits to the Seattle Space Needle and Pike Place Public Market. I've been to both before so I knew what to expect. What I really looked forward to was eating at The Crab Pot located at the Seattle Waterfront. If you plan to be in the Seattle area then The Crab Pot is a must visit destination. They serve up amazing seafood that's dumped directly on to your table, including, Alaskan King Crab, Dungeness Crab, Snow Crab, Shrimp, Steamed Clams, Pacific Mussels, Ouille Sausage, Corn on the Cob and Red Potatoes. We ordered four buckets full of seafood goodness!
This is The Seattle Gum Wall! I love this alley way in the back of Pike's in Downtown Seattle. A wall filled with chewed gum – so ewww but so cool!
Later that evening we decided to do the Seattle Underworld Tour, which is a variation of the family friendly Seattle Underground Tour. Seattle is a city built on top of the original city. The great fire of 1889 burnt the original city of Seattle down and a new city was erected on top of the original. Because of this, the original city still exists one story below ground level. This certianly made for an interested tour that consisted of tales of sex, whores, opium and debauchery. Great stuff! Oh, and did I mention that you get to drink during this tour, well, at the end of it anyway, a free cocktail on the house!
We wrapped up the evening by consuming even more beer, but at a different location, The Ram, which is located in the University district. We had good beers and talked up a storm. Basically caught with what had been going on in each others lives for the past year. Good times.


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Final tally taken as 2012 gold rush begins
Gold strike … The Art Museum of Southeast Texas held the annual "Go for the Gold" fundraiser last week, and it was a golden success. More museum supporters attended the reverse drawing than ever before. Dynamic duo and GFTG chairs Carla Allen and Linda Foutz did a fantastic job rounding up so many folks to attend this terrific event. "Texas Country Reporter" Bob Phillips and KFDM anchor Kelli Phillips did a super job entertaining the crowd and keeping ticket-holders on the edge of their seats throughout the evening, as each losing ticket was pulled from the hopper. Two Magnolias prepared a gourmet meal of brisket sliders and barbecue chicken with brownie bites as the mouthwatering dessert. Go for the Gold winners were Roger McCabe with first place ($10,000 in gold coins), Hervy Hiner in second place ($1,500 in gold coins) and Mike Albanese in third place ($1,000 in gold coins). Michele Smith sold the winning tickets, therefore receiving a free ticket for next year. Judy Ware won the 2012 Go for the Gold ticket in the $1 raffle and Katherine Fouts guessed closest to the correct number of gold coins in the vase to also win a 2012 Go for the Gold ticket. Seen in the mix were Judy Dishman, Judy and James Black, Barbara and Bob Quinn, Christina Delgadillo, Tam and Tom Keihnhoff, Carlo Busceme, Marcia and John Stevens, Gillian and Will Jenkins, Gloria and Charles Locke, Tammy and Scott Crutchfield, Susanne Garrett, Shirley Donnelly, Mitch Smith, Betty Wells, Earl Brickhouse, Mildred Hall, Jeanette Greer, Colene and Bob Hansen, Katie and Drew Barnes, Beverly Collie, Kathleen Morgan, Pride and Richard Parr, Dean Terrebone, Margaret Wheelus, Rusty Chimeno and too many more to mention. A grand time was had by all!
Mardi Gras for a cause … Last Saturday evening, the Holiday Inn ballroom was the setting for the fifth annual Ubi Caritas Mardi Gras Dinner and Dance. Betty and Hal Clarke chaired this year's soiree with the help of Sandra Benski, Mike Peyton, Richard Swope (who out-bid me on a perfect chocolate cake), Nancy Grove, Jan Blessing, Pat Ritchie, Kathy Doane, Lauren and Brent Rahe, Denice Thomas, Cara Shrontz, Chris Stedman, Laurel Shrontz and several more. Gumbo, salad and other southern treats certainly filled up the tummies of the rowdy and generous merrymakers. David Lowell, president of Ubi Caritas Board, welcomed guests and Nancy DeForest said the invocation. Becki Burton led the Doo Dah parade and bidding was high for the creative and delicious cakes. Ann Butler announced the 2011 royalty court as Peyton Jones and David Grove represented St. Mark's and Julie Scott and Tim Schreck represented St. Stephen's Church. Partygoers kept the dance floor packed to the sounds of Mid-Life Crisis. Finally came the crowning of the Mardi Gras 2011 King and Queen Tim Schreck and Julie Scott. Congrats on a having a party that supports such a worthy cause!
The annual Beaumont caravan to New Orleans Mardi Gras did not disappoint in what according to my calculations is the 15th year of merrymaking. Friday night, guests sipped on the famous Pimm's Cup cocktails at Napoleon House followed by a traditional Bourbon Street stroll. Taking part in the festivities were Mickey Phelan, Ellen and Danny Phelan, Lexie and Stephen Mouton, Gillian and Will Jenkins, Ashley and Tab Bryan, Mitch Smith, Stephanie and Bernie Daleo, Geri Christopher, Jennifer and Bart Nichols, Gina and Dean Halbert, Monica and Jimmy Broussard, Christi and Rocky Lawdermilk, Lisa and Bryan Mathews, Jeff and Mandy Oliverio, Mandy and Brian Mazzola, Rob Mayfield, Mark and Denise Smith, Melynda Hurst, and Dave and Tamara Spell. Saturday called for beignets by the "Mighty Mississip," oysters for lunch, French Quarter shopping and the highlight of the weekend, Galatoire's Restaurant!
Afterwards, a few rounds around the piano at the Hotel Monteleone Carousel Bar and this crew had hit it all. Indistinguishable from the locals, these visitors were celebrating NOLA top-shelf style!
Storkmarketing … Congratulations to Sarah and Mark Frasher on the birth of their baby girl Anne Collette Frasher.
Candles and cakes … B-day wishes to Bonnie Tortorice, Debra Johnson, Nancy McGrade, Phoebe Dishman, Ashley Bryan, Brian Sattler, Cecile Burandt, Mike Jenkins, Andre Cokinos, Dana Reaud, Rob Mayfield, Hope Serio, Foss Bean, Madison Martin (sweet 16!) and Jimmy Simmons.Until the next RSVP!


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As an early Valentine's Day present to you, my faithful eight readers, here is an important current event about a 12-year-old in California who recently found a candy heart that said "Nice Tits!":
A 12-year-old girl says she found a naughty adult message on a piece of kids Valentine's Day candy.
"I thought it was kinda shocking," said Ciara Bush, "I was reading them and I brought it to my mom after I saw it."
Her parents were stunned at what they saw.
"Nice Tits," said Derrick Deanda, reading the message printed on the small piece of candy that referred to a woman's chest.
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George Clooney Marries Amal Alamuddin in Italyby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
It's official: George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin are now married! The two exchanged vows at the Aman Canal Grande resort in Venice, Italy on Saturday, Sept. 27.
People reports that the two were married by a friend of Clooney's, Walter Veltroni, who once served as the mayor of Rome.
The wedding was attended by several high-profile guests, including Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Cindy Crawford, Anna Wintour, Bono and Bill Murray. Guests were escorted to the wedding by riding vintage water taxis on the Venice Grand Canal.
The newlywed couple and the guests will be feasting tonight on a five-course banquet prepared by Italian chef Riccardo De Pra, reports Us Magazine.
It's been a relatively quick trip to the altar for Clooney, who over the years, was often regarded as "Hollywood's Most Eligible Bachelor." Clooney, 53, and Alamuddin, 36, became engaged in April after word got out that they began dating in October of 2013.
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Connor McCreaddie, pictured with his mother above, is a pleasant 8-year-old boy who lives north of London. British authorities are so concerned about Connor's 218 pound weight that they are considering taking the child into protective custody unless mom "improves his diet." (FoxNews.com)
An unnamed health official was quoted as telling The Sunday Times that taking custody of Connor would be a last resort, but said the family had repeatedly failed to attend appointments with nurses, nutritionists and social workers.Child abuse? Now, I admit, I don't know all the details on this case (other than what is in this article). But, child abuse? I know that this boy is overweight. I would even agree with classifying him as clinically obese, but characterizing this as child abuse? I think that's a little of a stretch, don't you think?
"Child abuse is not just about hitting your children or sexually abusing them, it is also about neglect," the official was quoted as saying.
Dr. Colin Waine, the director of the National Obesity Forum in Nottingham, England, called Connor's lifestyle "extremely dangerous," adding he is at risk of developing diabetes in his early teens, and cardiovascular and nervous system problems in his twenties. "He's really at risk of dying by the time he's 30," Waine said.Now, don't get me wrong. I am not endorsing this style of parenting (or lack of parenting). And, again, I have to give the disclaimer that I am not a parent myself. But, if childhood obesity equals child abuse leading to taking a child away from a parent, can you imagine the volume and amount of protective custody cases that would take place in the United States?
Pediatrician Dr. Michael Markiewicz agreed. "I'm not saying they can't care for him, but what they are doing is through the way they are treating him and feeding him, they are slowly killing him," he said.
According to the Institute of Medicine, NINE MILLION children in the United States over six years old are considered obese. From what I understand, the foster care system is overloaded right now. To add another nine million children would add chaos to chaos.
One more thing to think about. What if childhood obesity was changed to childhood asthma? And, the childhood asthma was caused by secondhand smoke, say, from the parents? According to the American Lung Association, "An estimated 400,000 to one million asthmatic children have their condition worsened by exposure to secondhand smoke." Would you consider this child abuse? Are parents "slowly killing" their children as the pediatrician suggests above?
Sorry for the diatribe, but here's my point. Yes, this is an unfortunate situation for this young man. But, for the government to get involved in this situation is riduclous. There has to be another way to solve this other than to separate a mother from her son.
Update (3pm eastern time): Apparently British authorities have backed away from their position to try to remove Conner from his mother - For now...
I also posted a video blog on this same commentary. Check out my sidebar and click on the link to my livevideo site. Videoblogging is still tough, but a new challenge that I'm working on.


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For millions of people who witnessed the Apollo 11 mission, watching on television or following it on the radio as humanity improbably, literally walked on the moon, the event perhaps did not feel quite real until, more than two weeks later, LIFE published its definitive account of the epic journey.
Today, in the age of 365/24/7 media consumption, learning that any publication had the confidence—or the audacity—to wait for two hours, much less two weeks, before publishing its take on arguably the signal event of the 20th century might strike some as close to unbelievable. But for a magazine like LIFE, which had earned its reputation as the de facto chronicler of the Space Race not through dumb luck, but through years of hard work, phenomenal photography and inspired reporting, waiting two weeks was simply the price one paid for getting it right.
One look through the page spreads in this gallery (we recommend viewing all of the slides in "full screen" mode) makes it clear that, with this special issue, LIFE did what it set out to do: the magazine created not only the best first draft of history around the 1969 lunar landing, but produced an astonishingly comprehensive, coherent and, at times, poetic account of what LIFE's editors called "history's greatest exploration."
As Neil Armstrong and his fellow astronauts Buzz Aldrin and command module pilot Michael Collins reached out for destiny all those years ago, 500 million people around the world watched in awe as the grainy black-and-white television footage beamed back to Earth from the cold surface of the moon—and it seemed then, for America, that anything was possible. In a sense, LIFE magazine shared in that triumph, as it had rigorously followed and reported on the soaring successes and the tragedies of America's space program since well before President John Kennedy, in 1961, challenged the country to set foot on the moon.
Less than a decade after JFK's bold proclamation, America did just that. This is what it looked like, and what it felt like, to be a part of it—for the three men who flew, and for the countless others on Earth who watched, and marveled, and willed the trio safely back home.
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Dame Helen Mirren has come a long way since she bared more than her soul as an Australian girl who poses for painter James Mason in "The Age of Consent". Now an Oscar winner for "The Queen", Mirren, who has appeared in 100 film and TV shows, has been virtually rediscovered in the last few years.
Now starring as the often-melodramatic wife of Leo Tolstoy in "The Last Station", another Oscar nomination is a real possibility, following her recent Golden Globe nod. Mirren talked to Paul Fischer in this exclusive interview.
Question: Now, I understand that one of the attractions for you to do "The Last Station" was the fact that it had – within this passionate drama, a great sense of humor.
Mirren: Yes. It does, it's funny. Most of all, it's funny. Without being gag-driven, or comedic in that sense. It's just very funny about real life. And that's the kind of comedy I always enjoy the most.
Question: Could you identify at all with any facet of this character, or this marriage?
Mirren: No, I mean, I'm so not like Sofya. I wish I was more like Sofya. Instead, I get quiet and resentful and cry and angry and sulk. You know, Sofya does not do that. She lets it all out immediately. And I wish I had more of her characteristics. I'm certainly not like her, in that sense. But I think that anybody who's married – of course, they're not confronted with the same kind of problems as Sofya and Tolstoy were at the end of their marriage. Those sort of massive problems. But every marriage goes through those moments of conflict and disagreement. Even quite fundamental disagreement. And – you know, you fight your way through it. One of the most wonderful lines in the film is when Tolstoy says to Sofya, you know, "Yes, I love you. But, why do you make it so hard?" And she says, "Of course it's hard. What do you expect?" She said, you know, "You are that – you're the work of my life. I'm the work of your life. That's what love is." And I think that's a wonderful description of love.
Question: Is that the theme of this film?
Mirren: I think that is the theme of this film. And it deals with young love, with the relationship with Valentin and Masha, to use their characters' names. That's young love. It deals with earthiness and nature as opposed to sort of intellectualism and philosophies and ideas. The world of the body, versus the world of the mind.
Question: Now, is this it based on a particular event in Tolstoy's life?
Mirren: It's very close to what happened. You know, in that era, period of their life, everyone was writing diaries. Jay Parini, who wrote the book that the film script was written from, took all those diaries. And he did a very clever thing, which was – a sort of Rashomon type of thing, where you see the same incident from all these different points of view. Each of these people are writing their diaries. So it's based in a lot of truth. A lot of what happened. She did try to – you know, she did throw herself into the pond. She did smash the – she tried to – you know, took poison. He did finish up in the station. She did finish up in a train outside, that actually, she'd rented. And they wouldn't let her in to see her. There was this conflict about the estate. All of that was true, absolutely true. Sofya was that kind of person, who was that volcanic, emotional person. Tolstoy was fed up with it by then. So – Valentin existed, Masha existed, Bulgakov existed. All of that is absolutely true.
Question: Did you find it necessary to immerse yourself in research? Or do you think it was pretty much there on the page?
Mirren: I thought it was there on the page. I didn't feel the need to – sometimes research, funnily enough, can take you up the wrong alley, because the director, and indeed the writer of the book, this was their vision, if you like, and their interpretation of the facts. If I'd come along and said, "Oh, I don't see it like that. I think she would have done this, or I think that happened." I think it would have muddied the waters. At some point, you have to say, "Okay, this is your vision." And my job is to interpret it. And that's what I did.
Question: You're in an extraordinary period in your life, where it seems that the older you get, the richer the role. I'm wondering how surprised are you that at this time in your life – you're now an Oscar winner. The last time I spoke to you, you were not an Oscar winner. Are you kind of surprised by that? How picky are you, in the kinds of films that you take on?
Mirren: I'm not very picky.
Question: Oh, really?
Mirren: Not very picky. I mean, I am picky. But my reasons for picking things are somewhat random, and not very intellectual. It's like, who's it with? Is it different from what I've just done? Does it look like fun? All of those sorts of things. Sometimes – I mean, I just did Phedre in London at the National Theatre, for most of last year. I was doing theatre. That was a conscious decision. Time to do theatre. I'd done a lot of films back to back. It was time to do some theatre, and I did that. All of those films that I did before Phedre are just about to come out. So it looks as if I've been working in nothing but movies, but that's not actually the case.
Question: Now, when your husband comes up to you and says, "Look. I want you to play a brothel madam in the new movie I'm directing, Love Ranch," what does that say about your marriage?
Mirren: [LAUGHTER] It says that he's an absolute doll, to find a lovely role for me. And – you know, and fight like hell to get the film made. Then fight like hell to get the film finished, and battle every inch of the way, just so as we can work together. And that's what it says, to me.
Question: And this is a real-life Nevada brothel-madam, right? Isn't she?
Mirren: Yes. Based on a true story – the story of Joe and Sally Conforte. But very loosely based. We really – you know, the Tolstoy story is closer to the reality than our story is. Although it's very much based in what actually did happen.
Question: Was it fun to play that character?
Mirren: It was fun – you know what was really good fun, and we rarely get to do as women on film sets? It was great to be on a film set with lots of other girls. Lots of other women. All the girls playing the girls were just so fabulous, and – and sweet, and hard-working, and committed, and great in their roles. So, that was great about that. And also, I got to work with the great Joe Pesci. who, to me, one of the great icons, legends of the film industry.
Question: That was the first time you've worked with your husband since White Nights.
Mirren: Since '84, yeah. A long time, yes.
Question: Now, , when I was talking to Christopher Plummer a few weeks ago, he was laughing about the fact that you were playing Prospera in The Tempest.
Mirren: Yes. [LAUGHTER] Because he's about to play Prospero, I know. Isn't that great, that Chris and I have played the same role? I love it.
Question: How do you do that?
Mirren: Well – I mean, every time you do a Shakespeare role, it's reinterpreted for the era, for the time, for the period, for your own personality. That's why you can have 20 Hamlets in a year, and never see the same one. I play it as a woman. A while ago, I was watching the play in its traditional form with the great Derek Jacobi playing Prospero. And I was watching it and loving it, and he was wonderful. I was thinking, "A woman could play this." We hardly changed a line of dialogue. The only thing you have to change is the back-story at the very beginning. And even that fits perfectly. Instead of being a Duke, she's a Duchess who's been dethroned. Thrown out.
All the relationships, with Ariel, with Caliban, with Miranda, with Ferdinand – all are absolutely – you do not change a word. It changes the shift of your understanding of the relationship with Miranda, when it's a mother-daughter, as opposed to a father-daughter. Actually, I believe for the better. Because it becomes less patriarchal. The relationship with Caliban and Ariel becomes very interesting, because of the sort of undercurrent of sexuality with Caliban, and air versus earth, which is what the Caliban-Ariel relationship's about. So, it was really, really interesting.
While I was doing it, I discovered – which is probably well-known with Shakespearean scholars. But one of the most famous speeches in The Tempest is actually lifted almost word for word from a play about Medea, by Sophocles. So, it's a woman's speech. It's a speech written for a woman. Also, at that era in Shakespeare's time, witches were a much more prevalent cult, or understanding, than warlocks. You know, witches were constantly being burnt at the stake, and being – you know, Joan of Arc was thought of as being a witch. You know, they were much more – women were much more associated with the world of magic than men were. I think he only wrote it as a man, because of the accepted – you know, social conventions. Anyway, it fits very easily as a woman. It's interesting.
Question: You also play an Israeli spy hunter in an upcoming film?
Mirren: The Debt, the Israeli film. About hunting a Nazi doctor, yes. Mossad, yes… I play a retired Mossad agent.


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A U.S. District Court judge this morning rescheduled the sentencing of Floyd Lee Corkins II, the Virginia man who pleaded guilty in February of attempting to commit a mass shooting at the Washington headquarters of the Family Research Council (FRC), a conservative Christian organization and lobbying group.
Corkins, of Herndon, Va., pleaded guilty to committing an act of terrorism while armed, assault with intent to kill while armed, and interstate transportation of a firearm and ammunition for the shooting attempt, during which he injured security guard Leonardo Reno "Leo" Johnson of Washington. Corkins is the first defendant to be charged and convicted under the District of Columbia's Anti-Terrorism Act of 2002, which prosecutes actions committed with the intent to "intimidate or coerce a significant population of the District of Columbia or the United States."
Corkins remains held without bond as he awaits sentencing, which has been rescheduled to July 15.
At Monday's status hearing at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Richard Roberts heard a motion from Corkins's defense attorney, David Bos, calling for an order that would authorize the probation office to release records related to Corkins's mental health by May 2. According to a sentencing memorandum submitted by the government April 19, Corkins has been receiving ongoing mental health treatment, which includes prescription medications and periodic counseling sessions.
"Although the defendant appears to suffer from bouts of severe depression and unidentified 'psychosis,' there is absolutely nothing to indicate that the defendant did not fully comprehend what he was planning and sought to accomplish in the shooting perpetrated at the FRC," prosecutors argued in the sentencing memorandum. "Instead, the detailed nature of his planning and execution reveal the deliberate and clear-headed manner in which the defendant acted in this case."
Corkins, who briefly served as a volunteer receptionist at The DC Center, the city's LGBT community center, purchased a semiautomatic pistol that he later converted from a 22-caliber pistol into a 9-millimeter firearm, and planned his trip to FRC headquarters.
On Aug. 15, Corkins entered the Family Research Council headquarters, posing as a prospective intern. He then pulled the pistol from his backpack and pointed it at Johnson, the security guard. Johnson charged Corkins and the two struggled as Corkins fired three shots, striking Johnson in the arm. Johnson eventually subdued Corkins and handed him over to law enforcement. For his actions in protecting the FRC staff, Mayor Vincent Gray (D) awarded Johnson with the inaugural Mayor's Medal of Honor at an Oct. 22, 2012, ceremony.
Police later discovered two fully loaded magazine clips, 50 rounds of ammunition, a handwritten list of anti-gay organizations, including FRC, and 15 wrapped Chick-fil-A sandwiches on Corkins's person or in his backpack. Corkins later told investigators he was an activist and had planned to "kill as many people as I could" and smear the Chick-fil-A sandwiches on their faces afterward. Chick-fil-A has received attention for supporting anti-gay organizations through an affiliated foundation.
Corkins told investigators he identified FRC as an anti-gay organization from a list of "hate groups" on the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Corkins's April 29 status hearing followed the FRC posting two videos last week on YouTube, one showing footage of Corkins shooting and struggling with Johnson; and another showing FBI investigators questioning Corkins, in which Corkins mentions SPLC. Following the release of the videos last week, as it had in August following the shooting, FRC singled out the SPLC as being "connected" to the Corkins case due to the organization's categorizing of the FRC as a hate group.
When FRC first initially linked SPLC to the shooting, SPLC President Richard Cohen responded in a Sept. 13, 2012, post on the SPLC website.
"Contrary to what the FRC has repeatedly claimed, we do not list the FRC as a hate group because of its opposition to gay marriage or because of its religious beliefs," Cohen wrote. "Instead, we list the FRC because it engages in baseless, incendiary name-calling and spreads demonizing lies about the LGBT community."


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Cross over one of the three bridges and reach all of the things that make Bradenton and Sarasota Area unique. If you like to shop, then Ellenton Outlet Mall and the famous St. Armands Circle are your places to go. Looking for a bargain, Red Barn Flea Market is calling your name. Within a short distance you can visit Mote Marine Laboratory and touch a sting-ray, meet some Manatees and Sea Turtles. Art is abounding in Bradenton and Sarasota, whether it is the Ringling Art Museum or Village of the Arts.
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