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In the News (Mon 21 Dec 09)

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Penelope Cruz

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Hugh Jackman

	Swimming -- Starring Lauren Ambrose of HBO's Six Feet Under
		But he finds a mesmerizing presence in Ambrose, a terrific young actress who carries the film without a second of showiness, confident in her ability to simply embody a character who keeps her true feelings under wraps.
		Content to do little more than illuminate Ambrose's small corner of the world, Swimming has a sense of proportion that's rare and refreshing for an American film, which may explain why it languished without a distributor for two years.
		Though Carter is a terrible waitress, her charms are not lost on Ambrose, whose growing infatuation with the newcomer edges into uncomfortable territory and opens up a rift with the jealous Lowe.
	www.swimmingthemovie.com /to_press.html (392 words)

	deseretnews.com It's a Small world: Journeyman finds success in New York
		Macy Small, who had been watching her husband's games on the office computer of the church where she works as a part-time secretary, came to New York for the first time after that, going to Yankee Stadium for a weekend series against the Los Angeles Angels.
		NEW YORK — Aaron Small had just beaten the Red Sox, listening to 55,000 fans at Yankee Stadium cheer as he walked off the mound in a crucial win for New York.
		Small showed up one day, started winning, and hasn't stopped — the first pitcher to win his first eight decisions with the Yankees since Doug Bird in 1980-81.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,605155429,00.html (892 words)

	Bruce Willis WebPage
		Instead of achieving a sense of peace in the small town, he finds himself embroiled in negotiations to save his wife and daughter.
		Please note I am not Bruce Willis, I don't know what his email address is. if you would like to leave Bruce a message, you can try posting it on his official website here.
		Jan.8, 2004, LOS ANGELES — As Bruce Willis dives into new projects, an upcoming movie role (Hostage) and a producing credit on a USA cable series (Touching Evil, premiering in March), the actor still plans to revisit an old one via Die Hard 4.
	www.geocities.com /Colosseum/3831 (257 words)

	Countryside
		This novel follows his mixed fortunes on the small Suffolk farm that he finds derelict and reclaims.
		PHEASANT, PARTRIDGES and GROUSE - Steve Madge and Phil McGowan - This guide brings together for the first time within a single volumn, a comprehensive review of all the world's pheasants, partidges, quail, grouse, turkeys, guineafowl, buttonquail, sandgrouse and the enigmatic Plainswanderer - over 250 species in all.
		The story runs from 1884 to 1938, reflecting the momentous changes in the agriculture of the time.
	www.harby.co.uk /countryside.htm (257 words)

	Universe Today - Small Telescope Finds a Huge Planet
		A newfound planet detected by a small, 4-inch-diameter telescope demonstrates that we are at the cusp of a new age of planet discovery.
		Although the small telescopes of the TrES network made the initial discovery, follow-up observations at other facilities were required.
		"It's almost paradoxical that small telescopes are more efficient than the largest ones if you use the transit method, since we live in a time when astronomers already are planning 100-meter-diameter telescopes," says lead author Roi Alonso of the Astrophysical Institute of the Canaries (IAC), who discovered the new planet.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/small_telescope_finds_huge_planet.html?2482004 (257 words)

	Small is Beautiful (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
		If you’re the kind of Unix geek who uses software by djb whenever possible, or finds a sort of abstract beauty in being able to do great things from small programs, or tries to write small and elegant programs instead of big and powerful ones, I need your help.
		It discusses the Unix model of small one-task tools, simple human-readable formats, etc. not just listing the requirements, but arguing for them in a tight and witty style.
		Whether it’s in writing some stuff, editing what I’ve written, or just reading it and telling me what you think, any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
	www.aaronsw.com /weblog/000826 (163 words)

	Why some small caps stay upright amid whitecaps csmonitor.com
		In his database of 105 small caps, he finds 30 up for the year, some of them substantially, such as Eclipse Small Cap Value (16 percent) and Babson Enterprise (14 percent).
		Since the small firms included tend to be more domestic than global, they avoid many of the currency and geopolitical gyrations that can imperil returns from giant US export-oriented firms.
		If small caps have been down, they have been down less than most other stock categories.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0708/p16s03-wmpi.html (654 words)

	Freeze Dried Movies Dot Com
		The opener "Shore Leave" finds 8-year-old aspiring filmmaker Brendon being branded a "bad influence" by the father of Brendon's best friend and filmic collaborator Melissa.
		In the subsequent episode "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do", Brendon's grandmother Doris horns in on the boy's latest video project, "Innocent But Proven Guilty." "Four's Company" is an elaborate, all-stops-out takeoff of the old TV sitcom Three's Company, while "Guitarmageddon" sends up the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night.
		The season's final episode, "Coffins and Cradles", ended up being shown as the first installment of the fourth season, but is still designated as a season three effort in the rerun package.
	www.freezedriedmovies.com /film.php?id=631 (177 words)

	Amateur Finds New Nebula with Small Telescope
		So no one was more surprised about the discovery of a new nebula than the amateur who stumbled upon it with his small backyard telescope.
		In an era of huge ground-based telescopes, clever robotic sky scanners and powerful observatories in orbit, there are few deep space objects in our galaxy that escape notice by professional astronomers.
		These have ranged from 2" refractors, 6" reflectors, a home-made 8" reflector, a Cooke 4.5" refractor and my current telescope, which is a 8.5" SCT by Celestron.
	www.atsnn.com /story/34626.html (177 words)

	A small telescope finds a big planet
		U.S. astronomers using telescopes not much larger than the spyglass Galileo wielded 400 years ago have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a bright star some 500 light-years from Earth.
		It is the first planet to be discovered by an international network of astronomers using telescopes no larger than those sold at Wal-Mart.
		Torres is one of 12 astronomers from six institutions that collaborated to find the planet.
	www.freep.com /news/nw/planet26e_20040826.htm (177 words)

	NCDA & CS Plant Industry Division-Small Hive Beetle
		In response to these and subsequent finds, a quarantine was enacted to limit the movement of the small hive beetle in infested hives.
		Small hive beetle adults and larvae infest beehives, feeding on stored pollen and honey until combs are damaged.
		As the beetle population grows, the honey ferments and bubbles out of the cells.
	www.agr.state.nc.us /plantind/plant/apiary/hivebe~1.htm (177 words)

	Tradewings Travel
		The scrub around the Hotel is interesting and Black-hooded Oriole, Black-headed Cuckoo-Shrike, Ashy Drone and Small Sunbird all common.
		In the rice-paddies near the new Konkan Railway one finds Pied, White-throated, and Common Kingfisher, Indian Cliff and Red-rumped Swallows, Black Drongos and Rufous-backed Shrike were everywhere as were Black and Brahminy Kite.
		In the eastern area of Goa, one can see a good variety of birds, Common Woodshrike, Golden and Black-hooded Oriole, Rufous Treepie, Scarlet and Small Minivet, a single Ashy Woodswallow, Jungle Babbler and plenty of Greenish Warblers.
	www.tradewingstravel.com /goa/gwildlife.jsp (618 words)

	Goldsmith: Killing off small farms in Brazil.
		Of course, the Ministry only finds citrus canker on the surviving small family farms; most of the small family farms have already had their citrus trees destroyed, while on the very big plantations there is little more than a token destruction of very small areas.
		Worse still, the Ministry considers that anything done on a small scale is unhygienic and that the food we produce would be unsafe to consume unless we took very special measures to comply with their preposterous hygiene requirements.
		The Ministry of Agriculture, which works closely with the big producers, uses a quite clever device for killing off our small nurseries, one that was exploited successfully in the state of Parana as far back as the 1970s and that they tried to apply in the 80s in Rio Grande del Sul.
	www.edwardgoldsmith.com /page136.html (1665 words)

	Small Faces
		A cut is made to Lex's face -- it was with his eyes that we had witnessed this -- and though the face is small, it contains the suffering and disillusionment of the world.
		And it's captured in Small Faces with a luminous concreteness of detail and the sweeping narrative of myth.
		At its most powerful, though, Small Faces goes beyond narrative and drama to attain the stasis and sublimity of poetry.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/movies/reviews/08-22-96/SMALL_FACES.html (778 words)

	Small Faces (1996)
		The film shows an artist boy who is somewhat out of place in the world he finds himself living in.
		There is a younger brother in this family who becomes more of a central character as the film progresses.
		The violence, the course language and the way the young 'gangs' live and breathe on machismo and fights.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0114474 (330 words)

	Eric Van Wyk
		Although it is but a small extension to standard higher-order attribute grammars it provides some of the modularity features we would like in implementing extensible programming languages.
		A model checker finds all nodes in a model that satisfy a given formula, and thus provides an automatic mechanism to find where optimizations can be made.
		Model checking algorithms can then be used to tell which nodes satisfy a given temporal logic formula and thus provide a mechanism to tell which nodes in the model of an object program are candidates for an optimizing transformation.
	www.cs.umn.edu /~evw (330 words)

	A Small Killing - PopMatters Comic Book Review
		A Small Killing is the story of a man who, unwillingly, goes on a journey down memory lane and finds out.
		In A Small Killing, Alan Moore, a master of meticulously structured plots of dizzying complexity, produced what is arguably his simplest, most personal work, briefly after Watchmen.
		Moore constructs A Small Killing as a stream-of-consciousness narrative.
	www.popmatters.com /comics/small-killing.shtml (820 words)

	artbomb.net
		The gem in the line was A SMALL KILLING, by Alan Moore and illustrator Oscar Zarate, to that point chiefly known for his visually arresting graphic novel adaptations of Shakespeare.
		A SMALL KILLING was part of a short graphic novel program run by literary publisher Victor Gollancz ten or twelve years ago.
		A SMALL KILLING is the beginning of Moore the mature writer.
	www.artbomb.net /brainpowered.jsp?col=06 (925 words)

	one small voice
		The sample size is small, but Arnold Kling finds a correlation between years out of academia and respect for economic freedom among commentators on the dismal science.
		The wave is the meter; rhythm arises from the different arrangements of the tones on the wave.
		This playing with the wave by the tones, this shaping of the substance of the wave; the conjunction and opposition of two components, their mutual tension and continuous adjustment to each other -- this, in music, we experience as rhythm.
	www.saint-andre.com /blog/2004-02.html (925 words)

	Biblio: Small World: An Academic Romance by David Lodge: Details
		Set in literary conferences held at universities, SMALL WORLD finds Persse flying all over the world after Angelica as she goes from conference to conference, culminating at the annual MLA conference in New York.
		While SMALL WORLD is infused with a strong satiric flavor, Lodge also draws on the legend of the Fisher King in portraying a sterile, stagnant academic world consumed with greed and feeding off itself.
		"'Small World' is a three-ring circus of academic drollery...in this devilishly sophisticated entertainment...the reader need not be a professor of English to get the jokes.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/29813116.html (925 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		Small Time Crooks never attains the diffidence of the last three, but at times it comes awfully close.
		Small Time Crooks may conclude quite conventionally that money can’t buy you everything, but most of it flirts even more conventionally with the opposite premise.
		After they split up, she finds herself bankrupted by crooked accountants, and he decides to steal a necklace at a party with the help of May.
	www.chireader.com /movies/archives/2000/0500/000519.html (1155 words)

	Articles - Cambrian Explosion
		The so-called small shelly fauna of the ensuing Tommotian period included Cloudinia and its kin.
		Prior to the discovery of the Burgess Shale, fossil finds showed life on Earth consisting only of single-celled organisms or simple diploblastic fauna (two-layers of cells, allowing every cell to be in contact with its watery mineral-rich environment).
		Notable among these are trace fossils in the form of imprints of animals and their activities, such as burrows in mud, produced by animals that paleontologists call the Ediacaran fauna.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Cambrian_Explosion?mySession=4441939c8ca57f706c8af39757d3ab0a (828 words)

	The GCM RPG Conversion Rule Changes for Big Eyes, Small Mouth 2ed
		The Tri Stat rule system used in the fan popular Big Eyes, Small Mouth and is designed to replicate the fast paced, not so serious, laugh a minute funny anime that has been overlooked by most companies who think anime-based means giant robots.
		The Big Eyes, Small Mouth rulebook is vital for character creation and the combat system and the inventive GM can get by with just that.
		For example Stick Bernard believes that all humans are actively against the Inbit, though he later finds out this is not the case and even the ones who say they are like Colonel Wolf might be lying.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~cyc01/besmrule.htm (828 words)

	Sleeping Dogs Lie (1998)
		from Chesterfield, VA Great period piece that leads us through many twists and turns as it presents what might have really happened to Ambrose Small.
		Through clever story telling, the audience finds itself running down all the blind alleys, second guessing "who did it", and sometimes even rooting for the bad guy!
		Mystère d'Ambrose Small, Le (Canada: French title) (TV title)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0164895 (235 words)

	Small is Beautiful (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
		If you’re the kind of Unix geek who uses software by djb whenever possible, or finds a sort of abstract beauty in being able to do great things from small programs, or tries to write small and elegant programs instead of big and powerful ones, I need your help.
		It discusses the Unix model of small one-task tools, simple human-readable formats, etc. not just listing the requirements, but arguing for them in a tight and witty style.
		Whether it’s in writing some stuff, editing what I’ve written, or just reading it and telling me what you think, any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
	www.aaronsw.com /weblog/000826 (235 words)

	WPL: The History of Maine
		Since 1893 the number of libraries has steadily increased, and the opening of the centennial year finds Maine with 212 public libraries, 113 of which are entirely free and 99 require a small fee.
		Albion Woodbury Small - President of Colby College
		As illustrative of the extension of public libraries under this act the State Library report of 1894 enumerated 34 free public libraries and 44 not free, whereas the report of the U.S. Bureau of Education for 1876 listed 17 social and 8 public libraries, only 3 of which were free.
	www.waterborolibrary.org /histme.htm (7488 words)

	Small Arms Proliferation Jeopardises Global Development - New Report
		Small arms proliferation and misuse jeopardise human development in many of the world's most underdeveloped nations, a new report finds.
		The report documents a range of development-related impacts of small arms availability, including a rise in the incidence and lethality of criminality; the collapse or erosion of social services; a decline in economic activities; and threats to development interventions.
		The Small Arms Survey 2003: Development Denied, the third annual global analysis of small arms issues (published by Oxford University Press), was released today at the United Nations, during the Biennial Meeting of States on Small Arms (July 7-11).
	www.jointogether.org /gv/news/alerts/reader/0,2061,564954,00.html (481 words)

	CDI - Center for Defense Information - Security Policy Research Organization
		At the core of military reform is the issue of understanding the nature of the conflict one finds oneself in, and finding ways to prevail.
		In a piece that appeared as the lead commentary in the Nov. 14 issue of Defense News, Straus Military Reform Project Adviser Charles Pena explains how the approach proposed in the administration's newly released “National Intelligence Strategy” combines no-brainer nuts and bolts with a fundamentally dangerous strategy.
		The Bush administration is failing, thus far, to fill the breach in aid needed desperately and immediately for the earthquake victims, especially children, Kashmir, Pakistan.
	www.cdi.org (399 words)

	IANSA Report
		The report comes as member states meet in New York to review progress towards implementing the UN Programme of Action to combat illicit trafficking in small arms.
		A new IANSA report published on Monday July 6th finds that two years after a UN agreement on stopping gun proliferation, few governments have made much progress.
		The report is reproduced here in full in both full colour and black and white versions.
	www.iansa.org /documents/03poareport/index.htm (205 words)

	Turner Classic Movies - Movie News
		Who will be Andy's date at the Christmas Eve country club dance in good old Carvel, U.S.A? That's the crux of the plot in Love Finds Andy Hardy (now on DVD from Warner Video), with irrepressible Mickey Rooney in his fourth of 16 outings as the quintessential small-town American teenager.
		The latter was a popular radio series in the thirties and the episode on this disc includes an extended audio clip from Love Finds Andy Hardy and two musical numbers from the film.
		The Hardy pictures were a regular showcase for up-and-coming young actresses at MGM, and in this case there was Lana Turner as a teenage temptress invited to the dance by Andy.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /MovieNews/Index/0,,78261,00.html (613 words)

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