Bradley Cooper Departs Jane Got a Gun

It?s difficult not to root for Jane Got a Gun, the independent Western being produced by and starring Natalie Portman, which has been absolutely plagued by problems in the months leading up to ? and following ? the scheduled start of filming. A major casting change took place shortly before the film went into production, when Michael Fassbender walked away from his role as Jane?s ex-lover, leaving Joel Edgerton to switch parts in order to take his place, with Jude Law eventually being cast in the role formerly occupied by Edgerton.

The real drama began when director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) failed to show up for filming and left Jane Got a Gun with a fully assembled cast and crew, but with no one at the helm. Gavin O?Connor (Warrior) was speedily brought on as a replacement, but by that time Jude Law had followed Ramsay off the project and Jane Got a Gun no longer had a villain.

Things seemed to be on track for a little while when A-list star Bradley Cooper signed up for the part most recently occupied by Law. Now, however, Deadline reports that Cooper, who was the third actor to be cast in the role of villain John Bishop, has also dropped out of the film and left the producers once more scrambling to find a replacement for one of their leads. Cooper has stated that he was very much looking forward to working on Jane Got a Gun, but scheduling conflicts with David O. Russell?s new film American Hustle?- possibly caused by the delays in filming that occurred as a result of the Boston bombings ? meant that he couldn?t commit to both films. Cooper is also currently engaged with promoting The Hangover Part III, which is another drain on his time.

Just as last time, the filmmakers have disclosed a wishlist of actors to replace Cooper, including earlier target Tobey Maguire and new hoped-for stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hiddleston. Out of those, Gordon-Levitt would probably be the best choice; Maguire just isn?t a good fit for a villain role (as his stint as ?Bad Peter Parker? in Spiderman 3 demonstrated), and while Hiddleston has received much acclaim for his portrayal of Loki in Thor and The Avengers, Gordon-Levitt is arguably the better casting fit for a rugged Old West bandit. Even more so if they reinstall his Bruce Willis face prosthetics from Looper.

For a mainstream studio film these problems would be bad enough, but Jane Got a Gun is an independent production with a limited budget, which has no doubt already lost thousands of dollars to the delays and setbacks. There?s still enough talent attached to keep the movie going strong ? and potentially to draw extra backing from financiers ? but if the producers can?t collect together a primary cast and keep them tethered to the film, then the ramifications could start to get serious. Portman might even have to join in with the current trend of resorting to a Kickstarter campaign.

Clap your hands if you believe in Jane Got a Gun, and this film just might get back on track without too much further hassle.

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Ore. shooter bought 6 boxes of ammo before attack

File--In this Dec. 19, 2012, file photo, a note memorializing two victims is surrounded by flowers and balloons at the Clackamas Town Center mall entrance in Portland, Ore., a week after a gunman opened fire in the mall, killing the two people and himself. Law authorities released a 950-page report, Wednesday, May 1, 2013, on the shooting where a gunman blazed away with a military-style semiautomatic rifle as people did their Christmas shopping. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)

File--In this Dec. 19, 2012, file photo, a note memorializing two victims is surrounded by flowers and balloons at the Clackamas Town Center mall entrance in Portland, Ore., a week after a gunman opened fire in the mall, killing the two people and himself. Law authorities released a 950-page report, Wednesday, May 1, 2013, on the shooting where a gunman blazed away with a military-style semiautomatic rifle as people did their Christmas shopping. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)

File--In this Dec. 19, 2012, file photo, flowers, balloons, stuffed animals and other remembrances cover the sign at the Clackamas Town Center mall entrance in Portland, Ore., a week after a gunman opened fire in the mall, killing the two people and himself. Law authorities released a 950-page report, Wednesday, May 1, 2013, on the shooting where a gunman blazed away with a military-style semiautomatic rifle as people did their Christmas shopping. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)

File--In this Dec. 19, 2012, file photo, two women deliver flowers and a balloon to the Clackamas Town Center mall entrance in Portland, Ore., a week after a gunman opened fire in the mall, killing the two people and himself. Law authorities released a 950-page report, Wednesday, May 1, 2013, on the shooting where a gunman blazed away with a military-style semiautomatic rifle as people did their Christmas shopping. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)

File--In this Dec. 19, 2012, file photo a memorial note graces the marquis at the Clackamas Town Center mall entrance in Portland, Ore., a week after a gunman opened fire in the mall, killing the two people and himself. Law authorities released a 950-page report, Wednesday, May 1, 2013, on the shooting where a gunman blazed away with a military-style semiautomatic rifle as people did their Christmas shopping. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? The man who killed two people and wounded another at a suburban Oregon mall bought more than 100 rounds of ammunition in the days before the December attack as well as four high-capacity ammo magazines for the semi-automatic AR-15 rifle he used, according to a sheriff's report released Wednesday.

Jacob Roberts, 22, fired into crowds of people at the Clackamas Town Center outside of Portland before killing himself on Dec. 11.

Also detailed in the nearly 1,000-page report are the first moments after sheriff's deputies from the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office responded to the mall.

A bystander, Nicholas A. Meli, armed with a handgun, waved deputies over and told them that a man was firing into crowds when either his magazine ran out of rounds or his rifle jammed.

Meli told police after the shooting that he had a clear shot at Roberts, but was afraid he would miss and shoot someone else.

"I didn't want to draw attention to myself because if I was to miss ... I didn't want stray (bullets) to go into where they were," Meli told police in an interview later.

A toxicology report showed Roberts had marijuana and residual levels of cocaine in his system when he died.

Cindy Yuille and Steven Forsythe were killed, and 15-year-old Kristina Shevchenko was injured. Roberts also fired 13 rounds that did not hit anyone.

Roberts' roommates discovered empty boxes of ammunition in his room. They looked online and found that the ammunition matching the boxes could be used for an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. At about 7 p.m. on the night of the shooting, one of the roommates called the sheriff's office tip line and said they believed Roberts was the shooter.

Roberts got the gun from a friend, Sean Cates, according to previously released court documents.

Cates woke up a half-hour after the shootings, went to work at 5 p.m. and learned of the attacks at about 7 p.m. He ran to a pay phone and called 911 to report the rifle stolen.

The attack came three days before Adam Lanza, 20, killed 20 children, six staff members and himself at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

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5-year-old shoots 2-year-old sister in Kentucky

BURKESVILLE, Ky. (AP) ? In southern Kentucky, where children get their first guns even before they start first grade, Stephanie Sparks paid little attention as her 5-year-old son, Kristian, played with the rifle he was given last year. Then, as she stepped onto the front porch while cleaning the kitchen, "she heard the gun go off," a coroner said.

In a horrific accident Tuesday that shocked a rural area far removed from the national debate over gun control, the boy had killed his 2-year-old sister, Caroline, with a single shot to the chest.

"Down in Kentucky where we're from, you know, guns are passed down from generation to generation," Cumberland County Coroner Gary White said. "You start at a young age with guns for hunting and everything."

What is more unusual than a child having a gun, he said, is "that a kid would get shot with it."

In this case, the rifle was made by a company that sells guns specifically for children ? "My first rifle" is the slogan ? in colors ranging from plain brown to hot pink to orange to royal blue to multi-color swirls.

Kristian's rifle was kept in a corner of the mobile home, and the family didn't realize a bullet had been left in it.

"It's a normal way of life, and it's not just rural Kentucky, it's rural America ? hunting and shooting and sport fishing. It starts at an early age," said Cumberland County Judge Executive John Phelps. "There's probably not a household in this county that doesn't have a gun."

In Cumberland County, as elsewhere in Kentucky, local newspapers feature photos of children proudly displaying their kills, including turkey and deer.

Phelps, who is much like a mayor in these parts, said it had been four or five years since there had been a shooting death in the county, which lies along the Cumberland River near the Tennessee state line.

"The whole town is heartbroken," Phelps said of Burkesville, a farming community of 1,800 about 90 miles northeast of Nashville, Tenn. "This was a total shock. This was totally unexpected."

Phelps said he knew the family well. He said the father, Chris Sparks, works as a logger at a mill and also shoes horses.

The family lives in a gray mobile home on a long, winding road, surrounded by rolling hills and farmland that's been in the family since the 1930s. Toys, including a small truck and a basketball goal, were on the front porch, but no one was home Wednesday.

There's a house across the street, but the next closest neighbor lives over a hill.

Family friend Logan Wells said he received a frantic call telling him that the little girl was in an accident and to come quickly.

When he got to the hospital, Caroline was already dead. "She passed just when I got there," Wells said.

White said the shooting had been ruled accidental, though a police spokesman said it was unclear whether any charges will be filed.

"I think it's too early to say whether there will or won't be," Trooper Billy Gregory said.

White said the boy received the .22-caliber rifle as a gift, but it wasn't clear who gave him the gun, which is known as a Crickett.

"It's a little rifle for a kid. ... The little boy's used to shooting the little gun," White said.

The company that makes the rifle, Milton, Pa.-based Keystone Sporting Arms, has a "Kids Korner" on its website with pictures of young boys and girls at shooting ranges and on bird and deer hunts. It says the company produced 60,000 Crickett and Chipmunk rifles for kids in 2008. The smaller rifles are sold with a mount to use at a shooting range.

Keystone also makes guns for adults, but most of its products are geared toward children, including books and bright orange vests and hats.

"The goal of KSA is to instill gun safety in the minds of youth shooters and encourage them to gain the knowledge and respect that hunting and shooting activities require and deserve," the website said.

No one at the company answered the phone Wednesday.

According to the website, company founders Bill McNeal and his son Steve McNeal decided to make guns for young shooters in the mid-1990s and opened Keystone in 1996 with just four employees, producing 4,000 rifles that year. It now employs about 70 people.

It also has a long list of testimonials from parents who talk about how grateful they are to be able to go shooting with their children.

Sharon Rengers, a longtime child advocate at Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, said making and marketing weapons specifically for children was "mind-boggling."

"It's like, oh, my God," she said, "we're having a big national debate whether we want to check somebody's background, but we're going to offer a 4-year-old a gun and expect something good from that?"

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Associated Press writer Janet Cappiello in Louisville contributed to this report.

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Leap2 Raises $1.6M For A More Social And Image-Centric Approach To Mobile Search

Search startup Leap2 is announcing that it has raised $1.6 million in new funding. It's also releasing new versions of its iOS and Android apps. Building a better search experience than the existing players is a pretty tall order. In Leap2's case, it sounds like the focus really is on the experience, incorporating more images and social updates into a unified search result. Mixing different media into one list of links may not sound particularly new, but founder and CEO Mike Farmer told me via email that Leap2's goal is to give you "the whole answer," so there's one result with all the content you're looking for, and you don't have to visit a number of different sites to piece things together.

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Bug's view inspires new digital camera's unique imaging capabilities

May 1, 2013 ? An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created the first digital cameras with designs that mimic those of ocular systems found in dragonflies, bees, praying mantises and other insects. This class of technology offers exceptionally wide-angle fields of view, with low aberrations, high acuity to motion, and nearly infinite depth of field.

Taking cues from Mother Nature, the cameras exploit large arrays of tiny focusing lenses and miniaturized detectors in hemispherical layouts, just like eyes found in arthropods. The devices combine soft, rubbery optics with high performance silicon electronics and detectors, using ideas first established in research on skin and brain monitoring systems by John A. Rogers, a Swanlund Chair Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his collaborators.

"Full 180 degree fields of view with zero aberrations can only be accomplished with image sensors that adopt hemispherical layouts -- much different than the planar CCD chips found in commercial cameras," Rogers explained. "When implemented with large arrays microlenses, each of which couples to an individual photodiode, this type of hemispherical design provides unmatched field of view and other powerful capabilities in imaging. Nature has developed and refined these concepts over the course of billions of years of evolution." The researchers described their breakthrough camera in an article, "Digital Cameras With Designs Inspired By the Arthropod Eye," published in the May 2, 2013 issue of Nature.

Eyes in arthropods use compound designs, in which arrays of smaller eyes act together to provide image perception. Each small eye, known as an ommatidium, consists of a corneal lens, a crystalline cone, and a light sensitive organ at the base. The entire system is configured to provide exceptional properties in imaging, many of which lie beyond the reach of existing human-made cameras.

The researchers developed new ideas in materials and fabrication strategies allowing construction of artificial ommatidia in large, interconnected arrays in hemispherical layouts. Building such systems represents a daunting task, as all established camera technologies rely on bulk glass lenses and detectors constructed on the planar surfaces of silicon wafers which cannot be bent or flexed, much less formed into a hemispherical shape.

"A critical feature of our fly's eye cameras is that they incorporate integrated microlenses, photodetectors, and electronics on hemispherically curved surfaces," said Jianliang Xiao, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at University of Colorado Boulder and coauthor of the study.

"To realize this outcome, we used soft, rubbery optics bonded to detectors/electronics in mesh layouts that can be stretched and deformed, reversibly and without damage."

The fabrication starts with electronics, detectors and lens arrays formed on flat surfaces using advanced techniques adapted from the semiconductor industry, said Xiao, who began working on the project as a postdoctoral researcher in Rogers' lab at Illinois. The lens sheet -- made from a polymer material similar to a contact lens -- and the electronics/detectors are then aligned and bonded together. Pneumatic pressure deforms the resulting system into the desired hemispherical shape, in a process much like blowing up a balloon, but with precision engineering control.

The individual electronic detectors and microlenses are coupled together to avoid any relative motion during this deformation process. Here, the spaces between these artificial ommatidia can stretch to allow transformation in geometry from planar to hemispherical. The electrical interconnections are thin, and narrow, in filamentary serpentine shapes; they deform as tiny springs during the stretching process.

According to the researchers, each microlens produces a small image of an object with a form dictated by the parameters of the lens and the viewing angle. An individual detector responds only if a portion of the image formed by the associated microlens overlaps the active area. The detectors stimulated in this way produce a sampled image of the object that can then be reconstructed using models of the optics.

Over the last several years, Rogers and his colleagues have developed materials, mechanics principles and manufacturing processes that enable classes of electronics that can bend, twist, and stretch like a rubber band. This device technology has been used in fields ranging from photovoltaics, to health/wellness monitors, to advanced surgical tools and digital cameras with designs of the mammalian eye.

"Certain of the enabling ideas build on concepts that originated in our labs a half dozen years ago," Rogers remarked. "Ever since, we have been intrigued by the possibility of creating digital fly's eye cameras. Such devices are of longstanding interest, not only to us but many others as well, owing to their potential for use in surveillance devices, tools for endoscopy, and other applications where these insect-inspired designs provide unique capabilities."

The other co-lead authors of the paper are Young Min Song, Yizhu Xie, and Viktor Malyarchuk, all of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Co-authors include Ki-Joong Choi, Rak-Hwan Kim and John Rogers at Illinois; Inhwa Jung of Kyung Hee University in Korea; Zhuangjian Liu of the Institute of High Performance Computing A*star in Singapore; Chaofeng Lu of Zhejiang University in China and Northwestern University; Rui Li, of Dalian University of Technology in China; Kenneth Crozier of Harvard University; and Yonggang Huang of Northwestern.

The research was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation.

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1. Young Min Song, Yizhu Xie, Viktor Malyarchuk, Jianliang Xiao, Inhwa Jung, Ki-Joong Choi, Zhuangjian Liu, Hyunsung Park, Chaofeng Lu, Rak-Hwan Kim, Rui Li, Kenneth B. Crozier, Yonggang Huang, John A. Rogers. Digital cameras with designs inspired by the arthropod eye. Nature, 2013; 497 (7447): 95 DOI: 10.1038/nature12083

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Oslo Journal: Oslo Copes With Shortage of Garbage It Turns Into Energy

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Oslo, where roughly half the city and most of its schools are heated by burning garbage, is forced to import garbage to supply its waste-to-energy incinerating plants.

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