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Moto X leaks again and again. This time is about the Nano-SIM tray of the Moto X. It was leaked earlier in an Asian country, Hong Kong. It looks like Moto X is available in different parts of the world.
The image above revealed that the Nano-SIM tray of the Moto X while the device itself was placed exactly beside the Moto X device. From the size of the SIM card, it is indeed the Moto X uses Nano-SIM card. Moto X and iPhone 5 are going to use the same Nano-SIM card. This means, those using Micro-SIM devices need to change a whole new SIM card.
Google and Motorola have their own reasons for the adoption of Nano-SIM card ahead of Micro-SIM card. This leak is a good one as it gives warning to those interested in the Moto X and get ready to change new SIM card.
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4 April 2011 By Stephen Colebourne
I've known about TestNG personally for some time, and use it in JSR-310/ThreeTen. However, recently we at OpenGamma decided to move the platform from JUnit 4 to TestNG 6.0.1, so it seemed like a good opportunity to document the experience.
The OpenGamma application stack is a broad platform for the financial risk analytics industry. In structure terms, OpenGamma contains many of the elements of a typical enterprise system - utility code, persistence in multiple databases, integration with message oriented middleware, a binary protocol (Fudge), authorization, a compute grid and business logic. Testing these different components is obviously a complex affair, with a combination of unit and integration tests being needed.
For example, I've helped develop a number of REST-style data access objects, known as the "masters", which are coded in such a way that they can be used against multiple different databases. Our default database choice is Postgres, however we have also used HSQL, Apache Derby and Vertica, with a simple approach to add code to support others. Ensuring that the code is tested against each database requires the same, or very similar, tests to be run against each.
The testing issues are compounded as we are coming up to the open source release of OpenGamma, where anyone will be able to take a look and see what we have been up to. There won't be an instance of Postgres or Vertica available for downloaders to connect to, thus some tests would fail (HSQL is a local database, so will work fine). However, what this means is that we need to have a greater configurability in the tests, allowing OpenGamma employees to run against Postgres and HSQL, while allowing open source downloaders to only run HSQL.
The choice to use JUnit 4 as the test framework occurred before I joined. In many ways, JUnit is still the "standard" choice which is often taken without considering the alternative. However, OpenGamma has clearly reached the point now where TestNG makes sense.
The main reason to use TestNG is the greater focus on broader testing, rather than just "unit" testing. This support is shown in parameterization (running tests based on external data), groups of tests (allowing a subset of all the tests to be run) and parallelization (to test concurrency and to reduce the length of testing).
TestNG also uses the modern Apache License v2 rather than the outdated and slightly controversial CPL.
To switch OpenGamma to TestNG involved converting all the existing test classes and integrating with the broader toolset. For the basic features, the two frameworks, JUnit 4 and TestNG, are relatively similar (JUnit 4 adopted the annotation approach from TestNG). However, there are subtleties in the conversion. This table includes the main annotations that a typical conversion will see.
Use case | JUnit 4 | TestNG | Comment |
Method is a test | @Test | @Test | Simply change the import |
Class is a test | N/A | @Test | We decided to stick with per method annotations in the end |
Test is disabled | @Ignore | @Test(enabled=false) | @Ignore on the class disables all tests in the class, whereas @Test(enabled = false) on the class doesn't override @Test on a method |
An exception is expected | @Test(expected=IOException.class) | @Test(expectedExceptions=IOException.class) | Simple spelling change |
Test timeout | @Test(timeout=20000) | @Test(timeOut=20000) | Simple spelling change |
Run before/after each test method | @Before/@After | @BeforeMethod/@AfterMethod | Clearer annotation name |
Run before/after each test method | @BeforeClass/@AfterClass | @BeforeClass/@AfterClass | JUnit requires a static method, TestNG allows either a static or an instance method |
Run before/after each entire test suite | N/A | @BeforeSuite/@AfterSuite |
With @Test, I decided after experimentation to stick with using it at the method level. This is because any @Test(enabled = false)
at the class level does not override an @Test
at the method level. This makes it quite hard to disable a whole class. The latest Eclipse plugin features an quick fix (Ctrl-F1) that can pull the @Test up to the class level or push it down to each method which is useful if you want to try both approaches.
A key feature of TestNG for the conversion task is an Eclipse-based automatic conversion tool. You simply right-click on part of your codebase and let the tool do the work. During the process of converting OpenGamma, I worked with Cedric Beust to refine the tool. With the recent enhancements it successfully converted the vast majority of the OpenGamma codebase without issues. Obviously no automatic conversion tool is perfect, but this one is now good enough to be genuinely useful.
A key goal of the conversion was better support for parameterization, such as running different kinds of database tests. TestNG supports two types of parameterization - fixed values from the setup and dynamically created ones from code.
File-based parameters can be supplied by name using @Parameters({"fooFile","barFile"})
. The values are read from the file that controls the tests, typically testng.xml
, but this may also be a YAML format file now.
Code-based parameters are suppiled by data providers. A method, annotated with @DataProvider(name="foo")
, is written that returns an Object[][]
. This is then used by one or more test methods @Test(dataProvider="foo")
. The data provider may be shared between multiple classes by making it a static method and using an additional atribute @Test(dataProvider="foo", dataProviderClass=org.baz.Bar.class)
During the OpenGamma conversion and based on my suggestion, Cedric enhanced the parameterization support. The previous @Factory
annotation was a little clumsy requiring extra classes and methods. However, @Factory
can now be used on a constructor where it takes a data provider. Bringing these together, here is an example:
public class CachingTest { // the data provider, returning an array of object arrays, // where the inner array is the arguments to a method call @DataProvider(name = "cacheHints") public static Object[][] data_cacheHints() { return new Object[][] { {CacheSelectHint.allPrivate()}, {CacheSelectHint.allShared()}, {CacheSelectHint.mixed()}, }; } // setup by @Factory, new instance created for each factory value private final CacheSelectHint _filter; // setup by @BeforeMethod before each test private WriteBehindViewComputationCache _cache; // a new instance is created for each value returned by the data provider @Factory(dataProvider = "cacheHints") public WriteBehindViewComputationCacheTest(final CacheSelectHint filter) { _filter = filter; } // this method is called before each test method @BeforeMethod public void init() { _cache = new WriteBehindViewComputationCache(_filter); } @Test public void getNew() { ... } @Test public void getExisting() { ... } }
Thus, three instances of the CachingTest
class are created, each with a different value of CachingSelectHint
. The two test methods, each preceeded by a call to init()
are called three times each, once for each instance of the class. That gives six invocations in total. This approach is useful when sharing a single larger object, such as a more heavyweight object, between multiple tests.
A key area of difference between JUnit and TestNG is the assertions. JUnit specifies the expected value followed by the actual value, whereas this is reversed in TestNG. However, TestNG supplies a class called AssertJUnit
where the methods match the order of JUnit. This class is used in the auto-conversion, and OpenGamma intends to continue writing assert statements this way around.
Personally, I find the different ordering of the frameworks confusing. As I switch between projects I frequently get it wrong! Thus for OpenGamma it definitely made sense to keep the JUnit style, so other team members didn't have to change their test writing habits.
A further key feature of TestNG is the ability to integrate with other tools. TestNG itself supplies a full-featured Eclipse plugin, with test runner, quick fixes and the auto-conversion described above. TestNG also includes integration with Ant.
The integration also includes the ability to generate an XML file in the same format as that which JUnit would produce. This can then be used as input into a variety of other tools, including the JUnit report runner (TestNG has its own HTML report as well).
At OpenGamma, we successfully integrated TestNG with Ant, Bamboo and Clover.
Now that the conversion is complete, the whole OpenGamma team can start using the more advanced features and reap the benefits of the conversion.
Tests can have dependencies. It is possible to setup the tests so that a failure in one test causes other tests to be skipped. This avoids having the tests take a long time to run when a key element has been broken.
Tests can be grouped. The groups attribute allows a test to be allocated to a group, such as "fast" or "database". The configuration can choose which groups to run, allowing a subset of the full suite to be easily accessed. Dependencies between groups can be setup allowing a quick "smoke test" to be created that is run before the longer more complex tests.
Tests can be run multiple times. The same test can be run multiple times, potentially in parallel. This can be linked to a success percentage, which could be used to handle a test occasionally failing due to a network issue.
The conversion from JUnit to TestNG was successful and relatively painless. This was greatly helped by the rapid response of Cedric to questions and issues that were raised. That assistance was vital to the conversion - thanks again Cedric!
Hopefully all users of TestNG will benefit from the bug fixes and enhancements that were recently added. I certainly think the @Factory
changes are very useful! I'd recommend other projects that have a need for large-scale testing beyond simple unit tests to consider whether switching to TestNG might be beneficial. And if you're starting a new project, perhaps you should consider using TestNG from the start!
This is the developer blog of OpenGamma. For more posts by the OpenGamma team, check out our main blog.


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Universal Energy is a vital life force throughout nature. It is also called "Prana" in Sanskrit. Its major constituent is a form of Solar Energy. All living things- human beings, animals, plants and micro-organisms must have Universal Energy to vitalize their life functions. It operates on a holistic, system, organ and cellular levels.
Visually, Universal Energy or Prana is very subtle but visible as a light with wavelengths of blue above and red below. Normal light obscures Universal Energy but cobalt, blue blocking filters, enable ordinary people to see Universal Energy and Auras.
Filter fitted cameras are used to take photographs of energy emanating from human hands and feet. These are called "Kirlian Photographs". The Institute for Scientific Photography of West Germany has 80,000 documented Kirlian photographs.
Breathing Exercises or Meditation stimulates the "Opened" Chakras to assimilate the Universal Energy to process and distribute it throughout the body. Programmed Universal Energy continually flows through the body to vitalize and revitalize body tissues.
In 1960s, Physician Walter Kilner, using a color screen treated with the chemical dicyanine, has taken photographs of human aura, plant aura and Universal Energy over topographical masses. Delawarr Laboratories also developed a camera that photographs radionic (universal energy) in animals and human organisms. In 1930s Dr. Harold Burr, Professor of Biology at Yale University, Psychiatrist Leonard Ravitz, College of William and Mary, conducted a detailed study on vital energies of living organisms and their abilities to organize, direct and hold together the complex chemical interchanges which accompany biological processes. Dr Burr published 'Evidence for the Existence of an Electrodynamics Field in Living Organisms'. Ref: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. XXV(April 1939), pp184-288.
"It is possible that there are human emanations of which we are ignorant. You remember how skeptical everyone was about electric currents and invisible waves? Science is still in its infancy"
—-Albert Einstein, to his biographer, Antonia Valentin.
If it works, accept it, because science will catch up and reveal how it works later.
It has always been the way, science will discover how it works after it is seen working.


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GNU Compiler for Java
Developer(s) | The GNU Project |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Type | Compiler |
License | GNU GPL |
Website | http://gcc.gnu.org/java |
The GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) is a free compiler for the Java programming language and a part of the GNU Compiler Collection.[1][2]
GCJ can compile Java source code to Java Virtual Machine bytecode or to machine code for a number of CPU architectures. It can also compile class files and whole JARs that contain bytecode.[3][4]
The GCJ runtime-libraries original source is from GNU Classpath project, but there is a code difference between the libgcj
libraries. GCJ 4.3 uses the Eclipse Compiler for Java as a front-end.[5]
In 2007 a lot of work was done to implement support for Java's two graphical APIs in GNU Classpath: AWT and Swing.
As of 2013 there have been no new developments announced from GCJ[6] and the product is currently in maintenance mode.
Software support for AWT is still in development. The next planned support feature after AWT support is a software support for Swing.[7]
The compilation function in GCJ should have a faster start-up time than the equivalent bytecode launched in a JVM when compiling Java code into machine code.[8]
CNI (Compiled Native Interface)[edit]
The CNI (Compiled Native Interface, previously named 'Cygnus Native Interface') is a software framework for the GCJ that allows Java code to call, and be called, by native applications (programs specific to a hardware and operating-system platform) and libraries written in C++.
CNI closely resembles the JNI (Java Native Interface) framework which comes as a standard with various Java virtual machines.
Comparison of language use[edit]
the authors of CNI claim for various advantages over JNI:[9]
" | We use CNI because we think it is a better solution, especially for a Java implementation that is based on the idea that Java is just another programming language that can be implemented using standard compilation techniques. Given that, and the idea that languages implemented using Gcc should be compatible where it makes sense, it follows that the Java calling convention should be as similar as practical to that used for other languages, especially C++, since we can think of Java as a subset of C++. CNI is just a set of helper functions and conventions built on the idea that C++ and Java have the *same* calling convention and object layout; they are binary compatible. (This is a simplification, but close enough.) | " |
CNI depends on Java classes appearing as C++ classes. For example,[10] given a Java class,
public class Int { public int i; public Int(int i) { this.i = i; } public static Int zero = new Int(0); }
one can use the class thus:
#include <gcj/cni.h> #include <Int> Int *mult(Int *p, int k) { if (k == 0) return Int::zero; // Static member access. return new Int(p->i * k); }
See also[edit]
- GNU Interpreter for Java (GIJ)
- Excelsior JET (Excelsior Java native code compiler)
- IcedTea
- Kaffe
- SableVM
- JamVM
- Apache Harmony
- Jikes
- C to Java Virtual Machine compilers
- Free Java implementations
- JavaNativeCompiler (seemingly abandoned)
- ^ http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
- ^ Campbell, Bill (2013). Introduction to Compiler Construction in a Java World. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-4398-6088-5. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
- ^ http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4860
- ^ http://freecode.com/projects/gcj
- ^ "gcj to use Eclipse compiler as a front end". 2007-01-08. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
- ^ GCJ: News
- ^ The GCJ FAQ - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- ^ GCJ: The GNU Static Java Compiler
- ^ The GCJ FAQ - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- ^ The example comes from: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcj/Objects-and-Classes.html#Objects-and-Classes
External links[edit]
- GCJ Homepage
- GCJ Manual
- About CNI section of GCJ Manual
- LWN: GCJ - past, present, and future - the article discuss some history of GCJ.


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GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A disabled war veteran traveling across the country in his Volkswagen Beetle has reached Dallas.
Scott Hicks is road tripping across the country to raise awareness for veterans with PTSD and depression. He is also trying to spread the word about veterans not getting the care they need when they return from combat.
Hicks left his home in Grants Pass on June 27 to embark on the 10,000 mile journey. He will be making his first speech at a car show in Dallas on Sunday and wants people listening to take away a message.
"I want them to understand that 23 veterans a day commit suicide in this country, and that the majority of those people have PTSD or depression, and they are not getting the services they are promised by the government," said Hicks.
From Texas, he will press onward to Louisiana and South Carolina. Hicks said he was able to make the trip a reality thanks to the support of his friends and family. He is expected to complete his trek and arrive back in Oregon on August 23.


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Malware on dotTech, Part 2: Possible solution – need feedback please!
Posted By Ashraf On January 25, 2010 @ 7:26 PM In Announcements | 52 Comments
As mentioned earlier today [1], I have gotten numerous complaints by dotTechies about "malware being on dotTech", specifically related to advertisements and/or page redirections. Since I have not been able to reproduce these problems myself, I have diagnosed these problems to the best of my ability and have applied a possible solution. So what I need now is the help of all dotTechies. As I mentioned, I have not experience any malware problems myself so I don't know if my solution has worked or not. So, please, please tell me if from now on your anti-virus or anti-spyware or anti-malware or whatever security software comes up with a warning when you visit dotTech. Please tell me if you are redirected to any other page (scumware page or otherwise) when you visit dotTech. Please tell me of any other unusual behavior when you visit dotTech.
Furthermore, if you are one of the people that experienced malware/redirection problems when visiting dotTech, please make sure your computer is clean because it may be that your computer is infested and dotTech is just an innocent bystander. So, do a full computer scan with your computer software; if you don't have security software, get some [2]. Also, clean your browser cache and cookies with CCleaner [3]. Both these steps should mitigate the chance of the problem being on your end.
On a similar note, me and a few other dotTechies have noticed dotTech hanging/loading slowly/lagging recently. If the hanging and malware problems are related, dotTech should no longer be lagging. If you still experience slow loading, please let me know.
If all the problems stop happening, then we know that all the problems are from the source I suspect. If the problems still occur, then I am wrong and will continue to try to get this fixed.
Thanks for everyone's help and understanding.
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Lonesome Cowboys (1968)
Viva [after filming the rape scene]: "Get Ultra Violet for the part. I quit!" (L&D288)
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Lonesome Cowboys was shot at the end of January 1968 in Tucson Arizona - on location in Old Tucson and at the Rancho Linda Vista Dude ranch 20 miles outside the city where some John Wayne movies had been filmed. (L&D285)
It was edited by Andy while he was recuperating from the gunshot wounds inflicted by Valerie Solanas on June 3, 1968 and won Best Film at the San Francisco Film Festival in November. Unable to find a major commercial exhibitor, Warhol rented the Garrick Theatre where it opened on May 5, 1969. According to Morrissey, the film grossed $35,000-40,000 during its first week, with only $9,000 spent on advertising. It was also booked at the 55th Street Playhouse at the same time where it broke the "single-day housemark", taking in $3,837 at $3.00 per ticket. In the same day it made $2,780 at the Garrick. It also ran for twenty weeks at various art houses in Los Angeles, and 2 1/2 months in San Francisco under distribution by Sherpix. (JOE63)
Andy Warhol shooting Lonesome Cowboys
(Photo: Bob Broder/Eric Firestone Gallery)The film was originally conceived as a western version of Romeo and Juliet called Ramona and Julian. (JOE52) In Autumn, 1967, while on a lecture tour in Tucson with Warhol, Paul had also mentioned to the press that their next film would be a western filmed on location in Tucson and would be called The Unwanted Cowboy. (L&D285)
Both Brigid Berlin and Ondine were supposed to be in Lonesome Cowboys but, according to David Bourdon, "failed to show up, presumably because of their skepticism about Arizona's amphetamine supply. Brigid was to have played the leader of a rival gang of cowboys, and Ondine had been slated for the role of Padre Lawrence, described in the scenario as a 'degenerate and unfrocked priest who tries to hide his addiction to opium-laced cough syrups.' (John Chamberlain was offered Ondine's role, but turned it down. He was also invited to play the father of the cowboy brothers, but declined that part, too, on the grounds that he wasn't old enough.)" (DB271)
There are different versions of the film. One version includes a title track by Bob Goldstein during the opening sex scene between Viva and Tom Hompertz who was an art student that Andy had met the previous year while lecturing at an art school in California. This version also has opening credits after this scene. In another version, there are no credits and no song - just an assortment of extraneous sounds during the opening scene. (JOE53)
An ad for the film in the 26 June 1969 issue of the Village Voice attempted to explain the "Warhol phenomemon" to New Yorkers:
Village Voice ad, 26 June 1969
The controversial rape scene in Lonesome Cowboys occurred when Viva (as Ramona) ordered the boys off her ranch. The boys attacked Viva as she pleaded, "you're hurting me... please." She screamed out to both her fellow actors and the tourists who had gathered to watch the filming, "oooh, make them stop! Oh, Andy!" as the boys continued to molest her. At the end of the scene she yelled "Disgusting pigs! Look at all those children shocked out of their minds," referring to the onlookers. (JOE57)
Because of the filming, Andy Warhol was put on surveillance by the FBI on 23 February 1968 in response to a complaint by the the public. The FBI were investigating the event in order to see if there were grounds to arrest Warhol for interstate transporting of obscene material, ie if he had taken a film of a rape from Arizona to New York. (L&D288) He was never charged. However, in August 1969, Lonesome Cowboys was seized by authorities during its third week playing at a cinema in Atlanta, Georgia, and the manager of the cinema arrested. (JOE62)
According to Victor Bockris, "a thickset young stud from San Diego known as Joey had been flown in to stay with Andy." during the filming. (L&D286) On the second morning in Arizona, "Warhol awoke to the acrid stench of gas in his cabin and sprang out of bed to discover that Joey, who only the previous afternoon had lain tranquilly next to him in bed holding hands over the covers as Viva drew their portrait, had tried to commit suicide." Fred Hughes got rid of him immediately, putting him on a plane. (L&D287)
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The wolverine is real, and it's not a baby wolf
Half-way through their journey, the Ramblers Bone guys made a stop in Jackson, Wyoming, late last week to meet up with our friends at the Wolverine Foundation. Back in Rockford we had the chance to talk with Jeff Copeland, founding director of The Wolverine Foundation, as he traveled to his next research location. With more than 20 years of research under his belt, Copeland knows a thing or two about the wolverine and was generous enough to share some insight on this mysterious animal with us.
You have dedicated your life to researching the wolverine – what motivates you?
Introducing folks to the animal. There is an amazing amount of misunderstanding of what the wolverine is – that it's just a mythical creature or a "baby wolf." We start from the basic position that the wolverine is a real and rare animal. We try to develop an understanding of what the wolverine is – the more we know about the wolverine the more we can come to appreciate it.
Why is the wolverine so misunderstood?
The reason we know so little about the wolverine is because it's an animal that doesn't have any need to associate with humans. Most species that we know a lot about we have regular interactions with; wolves eating livestock, hunting as sport, bird watching, et cetera. We develop our associations with animals based on our interactions with them.
The wolverine is an alpine weasel that lives at high altitudes in extremely cold conditions and deep snow. Historically, these are places where humans couldn't and wouldn't want to go, especially in winter. And the wolverine doesn't live there because we forced them to; it's adapted to live there. The wolverine also has a very low density population even in high population areas.
Most of what we thought we knew about the wolverine came from North Country trappers, which focused on their tenacity, ferocity, cunning and durability, which also fit with the descriptions of the wolverine in myths and legends.
Has anything changed concerning the wolverine in recent years?
In recent years, with the gain in popularity of extreme winter sports like heli-sking, backcountry skiing and snowmobiling, people have begun to play in wolverine habitat even in the winter. These formerly remote areas are no longer truly remote, which is cause for concern about the potential effects of human presence on wolverines.
How is this interaction part of the Wolverine Foundation's current project, the Central Idaho Wolverine and Winter Recreation Research Study?
This project is the first attempt to address the issue and come up with an understanding of the interaction between wolverines and humans.
Female wolverines move to reproductive dens in late February, which are located at high elevation under deep snow that insulates the offspring from the cold and hides them from predators. In these dens, the female wolverine will have two or three kits that will remain in the den for 9-10 weeks. During this time, wolverines may be sensitive to human presence or direct disturbance, which may result in den abandonment or displacement from important habit but how a wolverine responds to human presence is not well understood.
We've asked recreationists to carry small GPS units to record their winter movements, and a team of researchers is live-trapping wolverines to fit them with GPS collars. From this, we hope to gather a large enough sample of tracks to help us evaluate the relationship between wolverine and human activity.
What is most exciting about this project? What implications will it have?
What we're most excited about is that we've been able to team up with recreationists right from the beginning and they've been very supportive of the project. There is no pretentious atmosphere; we both care about the land and want to have good sound science to understand the relationship between humans and wolverines.
As far as implications, we need a large sample size before we generalize across the population. We need to sample enough of the population to make a broad statement, and because wolverines live in such remote areas and there are so few of them, it's difficult to get a good sample. This is the fourth year of field research for the project, and we'd really like to another four or five years so we can determine consistent trends in the way humans and wolverines interact.
To learn more about the Wolverine Foundation visit wolverinefoundation.org or the Wolverine Foundation's Facebook page.
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Bobby Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana, has a lot of people who would like to see him as John McCain's running mate in November. He's described by some of his fans — see Rush Limbaugh's take on him — as a true conservative, something they think McCain is not. He may soon be tested by the Louisiana Science Education Act, a bill that, in the language of its authors, "promotes critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories being studied including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning." The bill passed the Louisiana House 94-3 this week. The state Senate already approved an almost identical version 35-0. The courts will presumably vote later. Opponents see it as a "stealth creationism bill." Barbara Forrest, a philosophy professor who has been fighting the bill, writes, "The Louisiana legislature tried to force creationism into public schools in 1981, and they lost in the U. S. Supreme Court. The Discovery Institute, a national creationist organization, and the Louisiana Family Forum are using the same old tricks, but with new labels. In Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District in 2005, I showed that intelligent design was cooked up as a new name for the same old creationist arguments, and the strategy behind this bill is no different. Despite their denials, even the bill's backers know that SB 733 is a creationist bill written in creationist code language." More HERE from our Baton Rouge affiliate, WBRZ-TV, which shares resources with the Baton Rouge Advocate. The bill adds that its language "shall not be construed to promote any religious doctrine, promote discrimination for or against a particular set of religious beliefs, or promote discrimination for or against religion or nonreligion." To see what the Discovery Institute says about all this, take a look at this POST (and several preceding) by John West, their VP for Public Policy. You'll recall that the institute is the main proponent of the Intelligent Design movement. To see where Gov. Jindal is on this — well, please let us know if you hear anything. He spoke forcefully in the past in favor of Intelligent Design, against abortion, and against funding of research on stem cells that would involve the destruction of embryos, but has mostly steered clear of this particular bill. At some point, though, it may well come to his desk for a signature.
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DHS 'Constitution Free' Zones Inside US Ignored By Media
Posted By admin On August 6, 2013 @ 4:49 am In Featured Stories,Prison Planet,Tile | Comments Disabled
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August 6, 2013
In what should be front page news blasted out nationwide as a breaking news alert, the DHS has openly established extensive 'Constitution free zones' in which your Fourth Amendment does not exist.
It's not 'conspiracy' and it's not fraud, the DHS has literally created an imaginary 'border' within the United States that engulfs 100 miles from every single end of the nation. Within this fabricated 'border', the DHS can search your electronic belongings for no reason. We're talking about no suspicion, no reasonable cause, nothing. No reason whatsoever is required under their own regulations. The DHS is now above the Constitution under their own rules, and even Wired magazine [1] authors were amazed at the level of pure tyranny going on here.
This 'border' even includes where the US land meets oceans in addition to legitimate borders with Mexico and Canada. As a result, you have over 197 million citizens suffocated in these 100 mile 'border zones' that include major cities like New York City, Houston, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. Checkout the graphic below for a visual representation, with the orange area representing the Constitution free zone as designated by the DHS:
What's even more amazing, is that this has been going on since 2008. That's about 5 years of absolute unconstitutional abuse of power by the Department of Homeland Security that the media fails to even document. That's 197 million citizens living without a Constitution as far as the DHS is concerned, and apparently the Department of Justice (DOJ [2]) must be pretty content too. Amazingly, no one has challenged this besides the ACLU [3], which was contacted following the case of a man who was actually detained within the 100 mile 'border' area.
Not only was this man's laptop searched for no reason, as is 'allowed' under DHS code now, but they ended up finding pictures designated to be linked up with 'terrorist' groups. In response, the man was thrown in a cell while DHS agents went through every piece of data on his entire laptop. The ACLU is now suing over this event, but there's no telling how the case will go with such limited media exposure. The DHS is literally gutting the Constitution and declaring itself higher than the law of the land by doing this, and it spells out major trouble for the entire Bill of Rights at large.
Because if the DHS can simply 'overrule' the Fourth Amendment for 197 million citizens, it can also 'overrule' the First and Second Amendments as well. What's stopping them? It's highly illegal under the Constitution, but it appears they truly don't care. And to demonstrate just how little they truly care, they have even gone and 'reviewed' themselves for their own actions following outcry from some legal experts.
To break it down: back in 2008 there was outrage from those who actually value the Constitution and understand how the bloated DHS entity works, so the DHS promised to prove within 120 days that what they were doing was constitutional and legal. Years later, the report came out [4] to reveal that the DHS actually reviewed itself and determined that it was acting 100% properly. It also founds that everything it was doing was 'constitutional' because it was not actually removing the Constitution from United States soil, only the 'border'.
The 'border' that expands 100 miles and includes 197 million people.
This news should be on the front page of every single news organization in the world, but the sad reality is that it's not. It's up to the alternative news, the real news, to report on this. It's up to me to make videos about this, it's up to the alternative news to syndicate it out, and it's up to you to share this. It's time to reclaim our Constitution and tell the DHS we won't live in Constitution free zones any longer.
This post originally appeared at Story Leak [5]
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[1] Wired magazine: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/electronics-border-seizures/
[2] DOJ: http://www.justice.gov/
[3] the ACLU: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-immigrants-rights-national-security/dhs-releases-disappointing-civil
[4] report came out: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_pia_cbp_laptop.pdf
[5] Story Leak: http://www.storyleak.com/dhs-constitution-free-zones-us/
[6] Social Media Giants Set Up "Free Speech Zones" to Censor Dissent: http://www.prisonplanet.com/social-media-giants-set-up-%e2%80%9cfree-speech-zones%e2%80%9d-to-censor-dissent.html
[7] NRA: Another Dangerous Flip-Flop on Gun-Free School Zones: http://www.prisonplanet.com/nra-another-dangerous-flip-flop-on-gun-free-school-zones.html
[8] "Free Speech Zones" Killing Free Speech Across Orwellian America: http://www.prisonplanet.com/free-speech-zones-killing-free-speech-across-orwellian-america.html
[9] Rahm Trying to Circumvent New IL Concealed Carry Law with Bogus Gun Free Zones: http://www.prisonplanet.com/rahm-trying-to-circumvent-new-il-concealed-carry-law-with-bogus-gun-free-zones.html
[10] City of Sydney to introduce homophobia-free zones: http://www.prisonplanet.com/city-of-sydney-to-introduce-homophobia-free-zones.html
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Boy, don't we love Kourtney's style? The star looked très chic as she stepped out in Paris, showing off the right way to rock one of the hottest hemlines of the season — the midi skirt! SHOP here to try the trend just like the stylish star.
Kourtney Kardashian, (along with the whole Kardashian crew), definitely sets trends — and she loves showing off hot new looks! That's exactly what she did in Paris on May 22 while shopping with her sister at the Christian Dior store, where the 35-year-old showed off one of the hottest styles of Spring 2014 — the midi skirt!
Kourtney Kardashian's Skirt In Paris:
Kourtney fit right in in the fashionable city as she sported her ASOS polka dot midi skirt with a white crop top. Hemlines have definitely dropped for spring and summer, which was evident on the runways — and now the stars can't seem to get enough of the trend! Whether you're looking for an effortless style for a summer work day or want to look cute on date night, you can't go wrong with this get-up. Dress it up with heels or wedges, (like Kourt), or pair it with flats or low sandals for a more casual vibe. However you decide to rock it, there's no denying the fact that it's one summer trend that's here to stay.
We really like the idea of pairing the midi skirt with a crop top. Not only does it allow you to show some skin and balance out the longer hemline, but it also adds such a chic vibe to the crop top trend.
Like the look? Get it HERE. Not only did Kourt look so luxe, but we were thrilled to find out her polka dot find from ASOS cost $76 — we love trendy looks that are also attainable, too!
Other celebs such as Taylor Swift, Miranda Kerr and Eva Mendes have been spotted sporting their own midi skirts, so what are you waiting for?
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In computing, a pizza box is a style of case for computers or network switches. Cases of this type tend to be wide and flat, normally one or two rack units (1U or 2U, 1¾ or 3½ inch, 4.4 or 8.9 cm) in height, thus resembling pizza delivery boxes.
The first computers generally referred to as pizza box systems were high-end desktop systems, such as Sun Microsystems workstations sold in the 1990s, most notably the SPARCstation 1 and SPARCstation 5. Other notable examples have been among the highest-performing desktop computers of their generations, including the SGI Indy, the NeXTstation, and the Amiga 1000, but the form factor was also seen in budget and lower-end lines such as the Macintosh LC series.
The original SPARCstation 1 design included an expansion bus technology, SBus, expressly designed for the form factor; expansion cards were small, especially in comparison to other expansion cards in use at the time such as VMEbus, and were mounted horizontally instead of vertically. PC‑compatible computers in this type of case typically use the PCI expansion bus and are usually either a) limited to one or two horizontally placed expansion cards or b) require special low-profile expansion cards, shorter than the PCI cards regular PCs use.[1]
The density of computing power and stackability of pizza box systems also made them attractive for use in data centers. Systems originally designed for desktop use were placed on shelves inside of 19‑inch racks, sometimes requiring that part of their cases be cut off in order for them to fit. Since the late 1990s, pizza boxes have been a common form factor in data centers or industrial applications where rack space and density are critical. Servers in this form factor, as well as higher-end Ethernet switches, are now designed for rack mounting. Rack mount 1U computers come in all types of configurations and depths.
The pizza box form factor for smaller desktop systems and thin clients remains in use, though it is increasingly being superseded by designs that embed the already size-reduced computer into the keyboard or display monitor.
- ^ "Low-Profile PCI". PCI-SIG Frequently Asked Questions. PCI-SIG. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
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HMS Software has had an integration with Microsoft Project since 1995. With every version of Project desktop since version 4.1, the TimeControl integration has been upgraded and extended making the link between these two products one of the most enduring in the industry. The combination of TimeControl and Microsoft Project for the desktop, whether it is Project Standard or Project Professional, extends from project planning to project tracking and management.
When you use TimeControl in conjunction with Microsoft Project, you allow updates from all project team members to flow from the timesheet back to the schedule. TimeControl integrates with Project Desktop bi-directionally, bringing in Projects, Tasks, Assignments, Resources and even user defined field information. End users then fill in their timesheet. They can optionally see their Microsoft Project assignments and then fill in the hours and estimate to complete information on their tasks. TimeControl's extensive approval mechanism ensures that the data that is collected meets the organization's standards and tracks it for both project management and finance.
TimeControl then sends back to Project the hours, costs, expense costs and progress including the estimate to complete for the assignment and the overall tasks.
TimeControl provides the auditable financial controls that a project scheduling timesheet typically would not. Linking Project Desktop to TimeControl allows an integration of both project scheduling and financial functions such as payroll, human resources, billing, cost control and earned value. And, if and when you decide to extend your project planning functionality to include Microsoft Project Server, TimeControl is already there. TimeControl and Project
When TimeControl is integrated with Microsoft Project, some of the functionality within TimeControl that becomes of particular interest includes: Business Validation Rules - You can create an unlimited number of validations rules to test timesheet data integrity before it is ever released for approval. Rules for hours per day or week, overtime, sick leave, appropriate rates and more can be established for selected users or all. Support multiple Project versions - TimeControl can integrate simultaneously with multiple versions of Project Standard and Professional, Project Server Desktop and other scheduling tools. Need a single timesheet when you have Project Standard 2007 and Project Professional 2013 at the same time? TimeControl can do that. Multiple Rates - TimeControl includes extensive Rate Table functionality with an unlimited number of rates and rate values per person. Need to charge a different rate for one project vs. another? TimeControl does that easily. Matrix Approvals - TimeControl includes both supervisor and line item approvals in a unique trademarked process Manage banks of personal time - TimeControl allows you to track vacation time, sick leave, personal time and other banks of time including banked overtime. Vacation Approvals - TimeControl's TimeRequestTM function allows the request for future time off to be approved, tracked and put right into the timesheet. And - much, much more...
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The soft-spoken, 24-year-old Chicagoan, who looks like a youth-hostel regular with his bandana, flip-flops, green duffel bag, guitar, and jug of water, has spent months traveling the country vagabond-style. (He has a seasonal job in Alaska, he explains, that makes epic summer trips possible.) And of all the cheapo buses and trains and hostels he's found during his North American wanderings, nothing quite compares to what he discovered in South Miami-Dade.
He didn't learn about it in Lonely Planet or Let's Go, didn't even hear about it from a fellow backpacker. He came upon it himself, in the parking lot of the Florida City Super Wal-Mart.
"I was just riding the bus system heading as far south as I could. I rode it to the end of the line," he explains, wistfully recalling his discovery of the wondrous bus. "Greyhound is more than 30 bucks to Key West from Miami," he says as he prepares for his second ride to Margaritaville. Lesch attributes his find to serendipity just good traveler's karma.
But actually his cheap transit is thanks to government gifts. Since June 2000, Miami-Dade County, with state and federal support, has subsidized a fleet of Keys-bound buses run by the Julia Garcia Transit company (JGT). And last fall, Monroe County got into the spirit, creating a southern leg to the Keys shuttle program. Total cost to all government entities involved: close to one million dollars this year.
The subsidized bus service, though not aggressively advertised, is apparently getting noticed. Five years ago 100 people were making the daily trip to the Keys, says Manny Palmeiro, spokesman for Miami-Dade Transit (MDT). Now the number is more than 700.
Initially, after you reach the buses' home port on the north side of the Super Wal-Mart parking lot in Florida City, and pay $1.85 for the first leg of the trip to Marathon the Dade-Monroe express seems the transit equivalent of 7-Eleven's Big Gulp. The accommodations rival Greyhound spacious reclining seats, generous air conditioning, plenty of elbow room. The bilingual driver, chatty in a school-bus kind of way, competently navigates the side streets of Florida City. There are about 25 people on board, and everyone has a seat; some are sprawled out over two.
And there are no chickens (as is typical in, say, exceedingly affordable Guatemalan buses). As the JGT bus rolls onto South Dixie Highway and speeds through the Everglades, many of the passengers doze off.
It's puzzling at first that none of them seems ready for scuba diving, snorkeling, bone-fishing, or margarita-drinking. None, in fact, are even wearing shorts. The passengers have the sober, workerlike expressions you'd find on a New York City subway.
So this isn't the Fun Bus to the Keys.
Minutes after crossing Jewfish Creek, there are some signs of a possible hitch to this bus deal. At 11:31, the bus halts at a Key Largo Taco Bell to let out a young man. At 11:37, it parks across the street from the Dairy Queen. Then at 11:45, some ladies holler to the driver not to miss their exit. Was the JGT going to stop at every single fast-food joint on the Overseas Highway?
At noon, an hour and 30 minutes into the trip, a small, wiry man wearing a Kmart badge wakes up. Fifty-four-year-old Richard Franjul of Florida City is in no hurry; he's going to the end of line Marathon.
Franjul slowly explains he's been taking the nearly two-hour commute to Kmart for only one week. "I hate the bus," says Franjul, frowning and with a matter-of-fact tone, "but the job is ten dollars an hour." He adds that this Kmart gig is only temporary; in addition to being Richard Franjul, he is also "Dino." He smiles broadly when talking about his stage name. He sings ballads with his wife (stage name "Astrid") in four languages (Italian, Spanish, English, and Portuguese). Franjul's plan: Make enough money roughly $1500 to buy a karaoke machine. "Not because of karaoke, but because I sometimes forget the words."
Franjul has been using the JGT bus for only a short time, but his sister, who also lives in Florida City, has been making the trip to Marathon for a year.
Across the aisle there's Gerald Honore, a tall, bespectacled thirtyish Haitian man who has been going from Florida City to work at Islamorada's Lorelei Resort for three years. Honore said he doesn't mind the ride. "I sleep."
Franjul and Honore are among the Miami-Dade residents who make the trek down to the Keys daily. JGT buses depart seven times daily, seven days a week, beginning at 5:15 a.m. and ending at 11:15 p.m. "The Keys has loads of service jobs," Palmeiro says. "These are people who have jobs because of this bus route. Hotels, motels, restaurants."


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The University of Colorado's Division of Continuing Education has come a long way from its humble beginnings in young Macky Auditorium where burlap bags separated staff space in 1912 and the division offered 28 correspondence courses in 11 fields. Today, Continuing Education partners with CU's academic departments to offer flexible credit courses representing 35 departments and multiple programs granting nontraditional students and community members access to campus.
The University of Colorado Boulder is hosting a world premiere shared staging of all three versions of William Hogarth's "Rake's Progress" in September and October.
Exhibitions of the original Hogarth artwork and prints by David Hockney, as well as the staging of Stravinsky's opera, will provide a multidisciplinary interpretation of this seminal work in Hogarth's career.
An interdisciplinary team of student and faculty engineers from the University of Colorado Boulder has won a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for its proposal to develop a solar-biochar toilet for use in developing countries throughout the world.
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LONDON— For the second consecutive Olympic Games, there will be a University of Colorado student-athlete in the finals of the 3,000-meter steeplechase as senior Emma Coburn easily advanced on Saturday morning.
She follows in the footsteps of former Buff Jenny (Barringer) Simpson who finished ninth in the event at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Michael Radelet, professor of sociology, is an expert on the use of the death penalty in Colorado and the United States. He has documented all of Colorado's executions and notes that Colorado abolished the penalty between 1897 and 1901, came within one vote of abolishing it again in 2009 and has executed only one person since 1967. "We've always debated the death penalty in Colorado, and the general thrust of our history is in the direction of abolition," he said.
Kenneth Foote, professor of geography, studies how events of violence and tragedy are memorialized and remembered. He has visited hundreds of sites that have been scarred by incidents of violence or tragedy in the United States and abroad, and is the author of the book "Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy." He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 303-641-3346.
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Morici: Unemployment Falls As Many Quit Looking for Work
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The U.S. Labor Department reported stronger gains for February, 236,000 jobs from the January figure of 119,000. Employees were added in significant numbers in most sectors, with construction adding a quite impressive 48,000 jobs.
Unemployment fell to 7.7% from 7.9% in January. Despite strong jobs gains, most of the reduction in unemployment resulted from fewer adults looking for work. Although the adult population increased 165,000, the labor force decreased 130,000 as about 295,000 additional adults chose not to look for work.
First-quarter growth appears a bit stronger than expected earlier in the winter. However, the expectations of some businesses continue to lag economists' readings and their hiring remains constrained. Whereas the consensus forecast for 2013 growth is 2.4%. Honeywell (HON), for example, sees the U.S. economy expanding at a 1.9% pace and continues to trim U.S. jobs through attrition, while expanding headcount abroad.
Most of the reduction in unemployment from its 10% peak in October 2009 has been accomplished through a significant drop in the percentage of adults working or looking for work. Were the participation rate the same as when President Obama took office, it would be about 10.9%. Adding in part-time workers who would prefer full employment but can't find it, the unemployment rate becomes 14.2%.
Prospects for stronger growth remain constrained because the January increases in payroll taxes and rates on wealthier households subtracted $150 billion from disposable income, and sequestration removes another $42 billion from spending through October. On the supply side, increased business regulations, rising health-care costs and mandates imposed by Obama Care, and much higher tax rates on small businesses, imposed by both the federal government and states like Maryland and California, significantly raise the cost of capital. The puzzle of reducing federal deficits to sustainable levels and accomplishing stronger growth and jobs creation, because the $500 billion trade deficit on oil and with China continues to drag on demand and a tighter regulatory climate makes businesses cautious about investing in the United States. Limits on U.S. oil production from offshore resources and in Alaska, the failure of the Administration to address China's undervalued yuan, and to rethink Dodd-Frank and the avalanche of other new business regulations, despite unintended negative fallout, make a genuinely robust recovery far from likely. The economy would have to add about 13 million jobs over the next three years -- about 361,000 each month -- to bring unemployment down to 6%. That would require GDP growth in the range of 4% to 5%, as past recoveries indicate that pace is attainable. Presidents Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan faced comparable difficulties -- unemployment peaked for Obama at 10% in his first term and crested for the Gipper at 10.8%. Since recovery took hold in mid-2009, GDP growth has averaged about 2.1%, whereas at the same point in the Reagan recovery, the pace was 5.3%. Without better tax, regulatory and trade policies, it is simply not possible to accelerate growth, create enough jobs and bring down federal deficits all at the same time. Follow @pmorici1 This article was written by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Christopher Plummer's six-decade stage and screen career is mind-boggling. The Canadian born Shakespearian actor has portrayed King Lear, Mike Wallace, an eyepatch-clad Klingon, General Chang, and a peasant-bearded Tolstoy. At 82, Plummer shows no sign of slowing down.
While embracing two very different roles in 2011, Plummer—still fitted with that narrow yet fluffy stare—retains his post as one of film's undisputed paterfamilias. In Mike Mills's Beginners, for which Plummer received a Golden Globe nomination, he plays Hal, a widower who comes out to his grown son Oliver (Ewan McGregor) late in life. Hal emits incredible warmth and vim, and meets a new lover, Andy, played by Goran Visnjic. Visnjic also joins Plummer in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. As retired Swedish industrialist Henrik Vanger, the grieving though suspect family patriarch is steely, and yet devoted—don't expect any von Trapp trappings here.
We spoke to Plummer from his home in Connecticut about his impressive year, casts, and directors. We also revisited his 2008 memoir, In Spite of Myself—a detailed life and times of the actor, written with Ahab-type dramatic exclamation, as if Plummer too had dipped his quill in Vesuvius's crater.
GQ: It was your birthday yesterday, Happy Birthday! How did you celebrate?
Christopher Plummer: Oh well I try to forget my birthday so I just had a quiet dinner somewhere. Just two of us.
GQ: I've been reading your memoir, and your recollections, especially from your childhood growing up in Montreal, are so vivid. Do you keep a journal?
Christopher Plummer: Nope. No I have just a very good memory. It comes to you. It snowballs; one story feeds on the next story. I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time writing down life instead of living it.
GQ: You're having a great year—Beginners and now, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Both Mike Mills and David Fincher have very distinct and different voices and visions, and yet they clearly know what they want and how to get it. Their work is incredibly idiosyncratic. What was it like working with both of them?
Christopher Plummer: Yes. Mike, who really, his feature film career is quite brief, this is only his second feature, though a really well known and talented graphic designer. I was knocked out and completely taken—he behaved in such a way that you felt he'd done a hundred motion pictures. He was an old veteran. He was so relaxed because he was so confident that he would get what he wanted. He knew exactly what he wanted. We didn't need to have another rewrite, it was the same script on set that I read when I was offered the role. He stuck to his guns all through. And I just felt he created an atmosphere on set of such freedom and there were no rules, you just had to have fun doing this picture. And that's the best kind of direction you could possibly get, because we were a family. Both these directors have one quality in common, and that is they cast very well. They know how to cast a picture. Once they cast it, in both cases, they trust us. They trust us to be our creative selves. They don't direct you particularly, they just suggest. Both have the qualities that the best directors in the world have—to cast well.
GQ: And working with Daniel Craig and Ewan McGregor...
Christopher Plummer: Daniel is a sweetheart. I think he's a terrific actor, far beyond his James Bond image. He was extremely good, muted and yet still very warm in this strange rather cold creature.
GQ: He has a boyishness to him...
Christopher Plummer: Yes, I know. And thank God because it would have been too turgid otherwise. I hope I work with him again. Now Rooney Mara—a revelation! I mean, totally. God, I don't know how old she is, but she's very young, and to have that courage to go all out like that in a very dicey film. Being this young serious actress, she's just magical. She's scary but also terribly vulnerable.
GQ: A superhero...to a degree
Christopher Plummer: Exactly. And I know that David Fincher worked with her an awful lot. But the talent is there to work with. And in Beginners, I mean Ewan is a pal. So generous as an actor and so giving. We just had an absolute ball. And so does Michael—the three of us just had a whale of a time.
GQ: Speaking of Mills, did the autobiographical elements of Beginners present any worries for you as an actor interpreting the character of Hal?
Christopher Plummer: He was so modest and humble about me portraying his father, which in some directors' hands could have been awful, so I said, "You're not going to get at me all the time are you?" He said that was absolute nonsense and that I should go do what I wanted to, because I was now [his] father! "Have fun," he said. And we did.
GQ: The cast just won Best Ensemble at the Gotham Awards. Does your background in theater attract you to the camaraderie of ensemble casts?
Christopher Plummer: Well you know, you don't have to have camaraderie. I've done a lot of pictures that are ensemble, and I've not always liked the people I was working with, but that doesn't make any difference because you do the job, and often it turns out to be a great ensemble even if you didn't particularly really like anybody. Not so in these two films. But maybe it's me, maybe the older I get, the more pussycat I become.
GQ: Stage or film, does one cast or actor stand out to you as a particularly treasured working experience?
Christopher Plummer: Well I think acting with people like, oh my god, Dame Edith Evans, who when I was at the Royal Shakespeare theater playing Richard III and she was Queen Margaret, I mean there was one of the great actresses of English history. She is one of the greatest high comediennes that has ever walked the stage. She was 70 then, and she went on to do more and more theater before she died. Here's a woman that George Bernard Shaw wrote two or three of his plays for her. I mean, she worked with William Poel—Shakespearean round theaters before Stratford-upon-Avon was invented! To act with her was like acting with someone terribly young. Her energy and her humor, and her extraordinary spirit made you think you were working with a teenager. That was certainly one of the most remarkable experiences.
GQ: Your memoir is dedicated to your wife and your dogs—your family, "with all its loyalties and dysfunctions." And your love for animals begins and ends the book. In Beginners, your character's Jack Russell terrier, Arthur, stole the show in some scenes.
Christopher Plummer: Usually Jack Russells are my least favorite dog, but this one was particularly affectionate and warm, although he was terribly professional. He knew how to take breaks and become a human dog. He was rather adorable. He wasn't as feisty as most of the Jack Russells I've encountered.