Fla. officer in Obama motorcade struck, killed

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? A motorcycle police officer who was part of President Barack Obama's motorcade to a campaign event in Florida died Sunday after being struck by a pickup truck.

Officer Bruce St. Laurent, 55, was a 20-year veteran of the Jupiter Police Department and one of several officers from agencies across Palm Beach County helping with security for the president's visit.

He was ahead of the motorcade on Interstate 95 preparing to shut down the highway when he was hit by the Ford F-150, Palm Beach County Sheriff's spokeswoman Teri Barbera said. He was taken to nearby St. Mary's Medical Center and was pronounced dead.

Jupiter Police spokesman Sgt. Scott Pascarella, told The Palm Beach Post (http://bit.ly/QdMZwr ) he trained St. Laurent when he was a new officer.

"We didn't lose a co-worker. We lost a friend," Pascarella told the newspaper. "He would do anything for anyone."

Barbera said an investigation was ongoing and no charges had yet been filed against the driver.

Obama was on the second day of a bus tour through the key swing state and made a campaign appearance Sunday at the Palm Beach County Convention Center.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said the president didn't see the accident, but he was notified of the officer's death and said "our thoughts and prayers are with the officer's family."

The Post also reported that St. Laurent had been a motorcycle officer for 18 years and in 2005 he earned a Distinguished Service Award by the Traffic Safety Committee of the Palm Beaches.

The newspaper reported that tn 2001, he was injured when a vehicle he was chasing suddenly stopped and he rammed into it. The two occupants were later arrested, one on a charge of driving with a revoked license and the other for having an outstanding warrant for reckless driving.

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Metallic blue fruit shines brightest of all

Don't judge a book by its cover. These fruit may be more intensely blue than anything in biology, but they contain no blue pigment at all. What's more, their inviting appearance hides a dry seed-filled centre that offers little nutritional value to hungry animals.

The berry-like fruit of Pollia condensata?? a forest plant from sub-Saharan Africa?? has an iridescence similar to that seen in some butterflies and scarab beetles.

All owe their colour not to pigments, but to the way light reflects off tiny structures on their surface, says Beverley Glover at the University of Cambridge. This structural colour is more intense in P. condensata than anything else.

"We measure intensity by looking at what proportion of the light arriving at the surface of the material is reflected back," says Glover. "Previously the Morpho butterfly won this competition, but our Pollia does better."

Because the colour comes from its structure, it remains vibrant long after the fruit has fallen. "Even [fruit] that is over 50 years old is as blue and shiny as ones growing today," says Glover.

Fresh or not, the fruit is barely worth eating. It contains no sweet and juicy pulp, just hard seeds. The intense colour may be an adaptation to trick birds into eating the fruit and dispersing the seeds, Glover's team suggests.

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The Nation September 10, 2012 1:00 am

Though the proportion of advertising expenditure via digital media seems to be limited, Mindshare Thailand, a leading marketing and media network company, says many local companies are trying to figure out how to find the optimal mixture for this new platform.

"Given this trend, we expect to see advertising spending via the digital media platform increase to Bt9.3 billion in the next three years," said Katika Saiseni, head of digital at Mindshare Thailand.

He said local and international advertisers in Thailand were considerably split on how they allo-cated their budgets in the digital |segment. Most international advertisers have a mixture of display media, social media and search engines in their digital-marketing budget.

Meanwhile, local advertisers have different mixtures that vary according to their familiarity with digital platforms.

For example, a local brand that is in the early stage of digital-ad spending will skew its budget towards display media. But one that has already gained experience with digital media for a year or so will adopt a broader mixture.

He said the market leaders in digital ad spending were among FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) brands, automobile companies and the property industry.

This year, digital-ad spending is forecast to reach Bt2 billion, accounting for 2 per cent of the advertising-industry total of Bt100 billion. Next year it will reach Bt3.3 billion, or 3 per cent of an estimated Bt121 billion. By 2014, digital spending could hit Bt5.44 billion, or about 4.5 per cent of overall media spending forecast at Bt121 billion, while the forecast for 2015 is about Bt9.31 billion, accounting for 7 per cent of projected ad-industry total of Bt133.1 billion.

Apart from these developments, Thais are changing their behaviour related to watching television. A good example was the recent London Olympic Games.

In the "London Olympic Audience Review", Napaporn Jeatawattana, head of Mindshare's trading arm The Exchange, reported that TV remained the platform |for about 82 per cent of Thai audiences viewing the Games, or about 45 million people. But during the Beijing Olympics four years ago, the company found that 87 per cent of Thais, or about 44 million, watched via TV.

However, the decreasing TV audience did not imply that the popularity of the Olympic Games was declining, she said. In fact, there were more choices in terms of viewing platforms, such as YouTube and smart mobile devices.

In regard to print-media consumption among Thais, Suresh Ramalingam, managing director of Nielsen Thailand and Vietnam, said Thai consumers still preferred physical hard-copy versions of books, newspapers or magazines rather than electronic ones. More than one-third of Thais claimed to have purchased or subscribed to hard copies via online channels, while only 18 per cent had done so for electronic reading materials.

Nielsen Thailand believes that Thai consumers still prefer online content to be free of change, in contrast to the paid hard-copy version. Therefore, coupled with the long-instilled habit of reading on printed paper, the concept of paying for subscriptions or making a purchase of an electronic book, newspaper or magazine is still far from prevalent among Thais.

"Therefore, we are optimistic that we will see a migration of the mode of reading preference in the near future," Suresh concluded.

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    There are rules, and there are rules.??????? Some, writers may break or ignore, as I suggested in ?Seven Grammar Rules It is Safe to Ignore?When Needed? (http://michaelrcollings.blogspot.com/2012/09/seven-grammar-rules-it-is-safe-to.html).Others, writers ignore at their peril. Breaking these rules??words to watch,? actually?can carry serious consequences.For about twenty years, I regularly taught Business Communication at Pepperdine, sandwiched with composition courses, literature courses, and Creative Writing. I had the opportunity to speak with presidents of businesses about the importance of writing and particularly of effective writing. Here are a few of the words they identified as crucial.Its,? It?s, and Its?:Confusing these three can be a death warrant in writing. One business leader I spoke with simply said that if these were not used properly on a resume, there was no chance the writer would be invited for an interview. As an editor, I respond much the same way. One misapplied term, and I am willing to accept it in a manuscript as a typo. Another, and I begin to question the writer?s skill. A third, and the manuscript faces major revision and re-writing, at the least.In fact, these words are not complicated, confusing though they might seem.Its is a possessive pronoun: ?The bear raised its snout and growled.? Bear is treated as neuter since its sex is irrelevant in the sentence; and the pronoun referring to it is it. No problem there. The difficulty arises from the fact that in English, almost all possessives require an apostrophe: ?This is the boy?s book.? The apostrophe indicates that letters have been omitted. In this case, the omitted letter(s) actually disappeared centuries ago, when English shifted from being a synthetic language (meaning determined by word-endings; word order in part irrelevant) to being an analytic language (word endings largely irrelevant; meaning determined by word order). Much like Latin, Old English had a number of endings to indicate whether a word functioned as subject, possessive, object, indirect object, etc.; whether it was grammatically masculine or feminine, which had little to do with gender; whether it was singular or plural.Most of these endings have dropped from the language. Most words retain the simple ?s or ?es to indicate plural: tree/trees, box/boxes. We generally do not have endings to differentiate subject from object: ?Mary hit the boy,? ?The boy hit Mary.? Word order alone identifies hitter and hittee.The one place where endings remain is in showing possession. Almost all nouns require the apostrophe, frequently replacing an Anglo-Saxon ?es? ending, as in st?n (the stone) and st?nes (of the stone or the stone?s). The following ?s has nothing to do with plurality; it is a remnant of older two-letter possessive endings. Thus, today we have a kind of linguistic dinosaur in our midst, the possessive apostrophe.Except for one small class of words: pronouns.Pronouns stand for nouns, so one might reasonably assume that they would have similar grammars, including the possessive apostrophe. That assumption leads to the mistake: It?s instead of Its.Actually, the opposite is the case. While nouns are notorious for changing form and meaning over the centuries, the pronouns have remained remarkably stable. And none of them take the possessive apostrophe: my, mine, his, hers, yours, theirs, ours, and?perhaps regrettably, considering the number of writers who seem to wish it different?its. Few writers slip the apostrophe into any of the other possessive pronouns; its seems singled out for that dubious honor.I think the reason is that its compatriot word is more common than those formed by the other pronouns. We do not have contractions for he is or she is, but we do have one for it is?it?s.Therein lies the problem. It?s looks like a possessive noun, even though it is not.? It is a contraction for several phrases: It is, It has, It was. The first is the most common by far, but I?ve seen all three. They all have in common missing letters: the i- in is, the ha- in has, and the wa- in was. In each case, the missing letters and the empty space between the words have been replaced by a non-possessive apostrophe.The best test to make sure whether its or it?s is appropriate is to speak the phrase or sentence containing it aloud, saying ?it is? rather than ?its? or ?it?s?: ?The book is mine. It?s/It is mine, I say!? Makes sense, and the form chosen is correct. ?That is my book. It?s/It is cover is missing??makes no sense, so the form chosen is incorrect and should be replaced with Its.As to the third?Its?. This one is a dead giveaway, since it does not exist in English. It is a fabricated structure that does nothing more than tell readers that the writer has no idea what is going on. I suppose that if one examined it for meaning, it would come closest to being the plural possessive of a singular pronoun; but even if that were somehow intended, the word would have to be spelled Its?s and pronounced ?It-zez.?Back in the bad old days of handwritten essays, I frequently came across a fourth permutation on the words:? It?, with the comma strategically placed over the s, presumably so that I could put it wherever seems most appropriate to me. Fortunately, with computers, that one has pretty much died a well-earned death.The problem with these three is analogous to the difficulty with the It-family. They look pretty much the same; they sound the same; but they mean entirely different things.Their, like its, is a possessive pronoun: ?This my side of the road; that is their side.? As with all possessive pronouns, it never takes an apostrophe, even when it is completed with an ?s: ?This is my side of the road; that is theirs.? One mnemonic device that might be useful is to note the appearance of heir within the word. Both their and heir relate to people.There is an adverb of place: ?He?s searched here and there and still not found his machete.? As the sentence indicates, it is frequently used to define a place further from the speaker than ?here.? And the mnemonic for this word is even simpler than the one for their. There contains here; both refer to place only, not to people.They?re, like It?s, is a contraction, this time for they are or they were. The mnemonic?simply replace the term used with the full phrase they are and see if the sentence makes sense. ?They?re/they are coming at noon? as opposed to ?I will meet you they?re/they are.? The first is meaningful; the second is not.These two are often confused inadvertently, as accidental typos or because they sound quite similar in speech. As with each of the others discussed, however, they can change the meaning of a phrase or sentence if misused.Then is an adverb of time: ?They will meet us then.? The mnemonic is based on the similarity in spelling and pronunciation between then and when. If then can be replaced in a sentence with when, and the result is a grammatically and syntactically proper question, the word has been used correctly. Using the example above: ?They will meet us then? may be transformed into a legitimate question??When will they meet us?? Than is one of those words that can perform several functions. It is most commonly misused, however, when it appears in comparisons: ?The whole is greater than the sum of its parts? often becomes ?The whole is greater then the sum of its parts,? a sequence of words that makes no sense. Again, in spoken language, then and than would generally sound almost identical in these examples, and that similarity carries over into written language, causing the error. There is a mnemonic for than, although it is less direct than most of the ones suggested so far. The principle indicator of comparisons in English is as, in phrases such as ?as far as,? ?as much as,? ?as rich as?.? Both as and than are comparators?and both contain the letter a. Not very witty perhaps, but it sometimes helps writers remember. The prime difficulty with these two words is conceptual rather than grammatical; they frequently appear where they simply have no justification for appearing. Usually, the sentences in question are truncated attempts at definition.?What is freedom?? someone asks, and most common answers begin either ?Freedom is where?? or ?Freedom is when?.? Actually, freedom is neither when nor where. When and where, in this context, denote either ?time when? or ?place where,? and freedom is defined by neither. In fact, the more accurate definition would begin, ?Freedom is a state of being in which?.?We find much the same kind of misuse when writers approach generalizations and idealizations. ?Democracy is when,? or ?Democracy is where?; actually, democracy is a form of government in which?.?What looks to be a rather wordy, certainly more formal statement, is necessarily so to complete a valid definition. When and where are not designed to do the job. The key to effective usage: Remember that when and where rarely do other than what they claim. When tells time: ?When should we meet?? ?Meet me at ten o?clock.?Where tells place: ?Where should we meet?? ?At the corner of Fifth and Main.?The proper phrase is two words: ?All right.? It is adverbial, indicating something about the accompanying verb: ?All right, the genetically-engineered slime monster is dead!? The trick is that this form finds itself most at home in formal prose, in edited writings that attempt to present the speaker at his/her best.When writing dialogue, however, writers frequently slip into a secondary spelling, alright. The spelling is little more than a century old, developed most probably by analogue with similar-looking words: altogether, albeit, already. In a sense, this is the preferable form for certain moments in dialogue, since we can more easily envision the victorious monster-slayer stabbing the air with a fist and screaming, ?Alright!??probably pronounced more like awwright?than we can imagine the same person, rather finically enunciating two words.One of these phrases is possible in English; the other is not. Formally, a lot may indicate a vacant stretch or land or a place where one might buy a Christmas tree or a used car. Informally, it may indicate a superfluity, an excess. Alot, on the other hand, does not exist, except in weak or careless writing.There is no mnemonic here. Just never use alot.English can be tricky. Any number of words come with baggage that makes them difficult. The words discussed here are? not particularly cumbersome or unusual; in fact, their commonness and the frequency with which they appear are in part underlying causes of the problems they create. Fortunately, a little thought, a bit of careful proofreading, and most of the false starts can be easily removed.It?s easy?more or less.Michael R. Collings is the Senior Publications Editor for JournalStone Publishing; an Emeritus professor of English from Pepperdine University; author of the best-selling horror novels The Slab and The House Beyond the Hill, as well as other novels and collections of short fiction, poetry, and literary essays; and an inveterate fan of all things grammatical and syntactical. His writing are available here, at starshineandshadows.com, at journalstone.com, and at hellnotes.com.

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    Movies suffer worst box-office slump in a decade

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The North American box office hit a slump at the weekend, with top earner "The Possession" taking in less than $10 million and what could be the gloomiest overall haul since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

    With only a couple of new releases to tempt movie fans, horror movie "The Possession" pulled in an estimated $9.5 million in the United States and Canada.

    That's the first time since 2008 that no film took $10 million or more at the domestic box office.

    Early September is historically sluggish. After blockbuster releases over the summer, Hollywood studios reserve their big films for the November and December holidays.

    But revenues for the three-day movie-going weekend were particularly low, with the total gross for all films expected to be $65-$68 million.

    If the numbers hold when final figures come in on Monday, it could make the weekend the worst since September 21-23 2001 - two weekends after 9/11 - when revenue topped out at $59.7 million.

    "It is pretty scary when the top movie comes in at only $9.5 million," said Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst at Hollywood.com.

    "This is one of the worst-grossing weekends of the last 10 years. In the summer, single movies had opening weekends bigger than this entire weekend gross," he added.

    However, Dergarabedian said hope was on the way next week with the next installment of the "Resident Evil" horror franchise and the re-release of Disney/Pixar's 2003 family film "Finding Nemo," this time in 3D.

    This weekend's lows follow a mixed summer that saw blockbusters like "The Dark Knight Rises" and "The Avengers" but a number of flops that led to a 5 percent drop in summer ticket sales in North America compared to summer 2011.

    But in the year to date, the domestic box office is up more than three percent in revenue compared to the same point in 2011 and currently stands at $7.7 billion, with a 2 percent increase in attendance.

    'OBAMA'S AMERICA' GAINS GROUND

    Among the few notable spots was the anti-President Barack Obama documentary "2016: Obama's America." It boosted its cumulative total to more than $26 million to become the second-biggest political documentary since liberal filmmaker Michael Moore's 2004 anti-war indictment, "Fahrenheit 9/11."

    New thriller "The Cold Light of Day" flopped with just $1.8 million. Lions Gate spokesman Paul Pflug, whose studio released the movie along with "The Possession" and "The Expendables 2," said the studio "went into the weekend with modest expectations."

    "The Cold Light of Day," stars Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver in a story about a Wall Street trader whose family is kidnapped during a sailing trip in Spain.

    It cost $20 million to produce. Distributor Summit Entertainment, a division of Lions Gate, reduced its risk through a co-financing arrangement with Intrepid Pictures, pre-sales of foreign rights and a production tax credit in Spain.

    "The Possession," about a young woman possessed by a demon and starring Kyra Sedgwick, out-sold Prohibition-era crime drama "Lawless," which took in $6 million.

    The only new movie to make the top 10 was romantic thriller "The Words," which earned $5 million. It stars Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana in the story of a writer who finds a manuscript in a 1940s briefcase and considers passing it off as his own. The film was produced for $6 million and acquired by CBS Films, a unit of CBS Corp, for $2 million.

    Rounding out the top five, action movie sequel "Expendables 2" grossed $4.7 million domestically. Another action sequel, "The Bourne Legacy," rung up $4.0 million.

    Lions Gate Entertainment released "The Possession" and "Expendables 2." "The Words" was distributed by CBS Films, a unit of CBS Corp. The privately held Weinstein Co released "Lawless." "Bourne Legacy" was distributed by Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast Corp.

    (Reporting By Lisa Richwine and Jill Serjeant; Editing by Eric Beech and David Brunnstrom)

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