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8 slices tomato
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1/4 cup diced red or yellow bell peppers
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Disclaimer: I don't own Reign of Fire
This is also partially fantasy oriented, so if you don't like witchcraft in your stories, this isn't the best story for you. There will definitely be more chapters.
Chapter One: Dragon Heart
Her hair fell down in a long braid down the middle of her back. It swung like one of their tails, a slow rhythmic movement that matched the ticking beat of a clock. Quinn stared, unsure of who this girl was, of where she came from, and of what she was capable of. It had been three months since they had killed the male dragon, and it was considerably noticeable, the change in attacks, and the number of dragons that flew the skies looking for food. Quinn knew that there would be no more to hunt them down, no more to run from, and no more to fear in sleeping and waking dreams.
But this girl. This new creature, as she seemed, still baffled him. Never had Quinn seen anyone like her. Dark tan skin tone and a body built from years of running and hunting and fighting, red and gold tattoos smoothed over her noticeable curves. With golden hair that shinned in the dark and was the color of wheat, she wore it in a long braid though the tangled unruly curls showed through. The innocent face of an angel and yet the eyes of a dragon, the eyes of a creature that burned and brought death. She was a totally different monster, he knew this, and she was afraid of his knowledge. When asked where she was from, the girl merely pointed to the sky a smirk playing on her lips.
He couldn't explain this one, when men and women alike loved her and nobody wished to anger her for her eyes were like that of a dragon. He stared at her, and her at him, both perplexed by the existence of the other.
"So," he began, "Where are you really from, then?"
She pointed to the sky, red and black tattoos of unintelligible symbols travelled down her arm and up her neck. She smiled innocently at Quinn, only wishing to disarm his suspicions. She didn't like questions, and didn't like people suspecting her for absolutely no reason. She had lived her entire life as the pariah and unofficial leader of her little village of Bellavine. She was suspected from birth for her odd coloring, they thought she was a witch, even in the twenty-first century, that town was far behind. It was gone now, and they suspected her of that as well.
"It felt like fire," she said quietly, they were the first words she ever spoke to him.
"It felt like fire. It burned, but they made me drink it anyway. And I became like them."
"What did they make you drink, and who were they?" Quinn's curiosity was tinged with a hint of concern.
"I want to tell you a story." And she began.
"The sound of their wings flapping in the night sky haunted me until I was mad. I never thought of a life that didn't involve their constant threat and presence. I never thought.
I was seven when the first one was found beneath the London streets. It cast an eternal shadow over my little town's roads. It blackened my streets with fire and burned our houses to dust and ash. I wasn't in London at the time…my mother had promised to take me there later that day. It never happened.
When they finally released to the press what the "cause" of the recent fires was, it was too late. Half the world's major cities had been destroyed, and entire countries disappeared beneath their destructive fires. I was in our cellar when one of them soared over Bellavine. My home was under their siege. A town that size had no defenses and absolutely no way fighting the beasts off, we were run down under ground until the flames on top died back down.
It was a sight to see, like a city after it had been bombed, all that was there to greet us few that made it to the underground shelters was scorched earth and ash. Few bodies scattered the land even though many had died at the wing of a dragon. It snowed, grayish black. It came down in lightweight flakes that weighed down any soul. We knew it wasn't the trees that rained down softly on our heads. It wasn't the debris from disintegrated buildings; it wasn't the thin layer of fire burnt scales from their rough backs. We knew that it was our families, our friends, our loved ones; it was their bodies, their death floating gently down from heaven.
It didn't take them long to grow, reproduce, and destroy and in three years they had easily wiped out sixty-eight percent of the entire population of the world. They never got to tally the numbers but that is what I figured. Then again I was never any good at math.
We hid underneath the village at night, but we knew that they were getting restless, smarter, and hungrier. Our people were tired of living beneath our rotting town. At night the children cried black tears. The soot and grime and ash had infected their eyes. It ran down their face, yellow and black, puss oozed from the tear ducts and the sting of the death snow, as we had come to call it, hurt them and their infectious tears made it hurt more.
One mother, whose child suffered endlessly decided it was time to end little Anna's suffering. She was burned by smoldering debris, it collapsed after the first attack, it used to be her home. When it fell in, large pieces of wood smoldered into her flesh, making a popping sound. It had been so hot that the wood acted as metal burning her, searing her arm to her clothing. She screamed in terror, not pain, the heat was so intense that it felt like a cool breeze on her arm, side, and legs. She screamed at the sight of her flesh slowly melding to the wool sweater she wore.
I was there; I pulled her from beneath the white hot beam that used to support her home. I thought it was ironic, I thought it was queer, the idea that she was to suffer for the one thing she had left in this world. Her father was part of the death snow. I burned me hands getting her out, but I didn't feel it, it felt like a cool breeze on my hands. I got her out from beneath the fire. Her mother, Elizabeth her name was, cried and thanked me for her daughter's life. I was in shock, they told me later, and I ended up hurting Elizabeth's feelings because I didn't respond to her praise.
I watched as Elizabeth slit her own daughter's throat. I was in shock again, I suppose, because I couldn't move. It was in slow motion for me, that's the only way to describe it. I saw her weeping over the girl whose eyes were bright with fear, and something else. An understanding, a calm that comes with the knowledge that something bad was about to happen and she was prepared for it. I saw Elizabeth's hand reach into a deep pocket in her purse and she pulled out what I thought to be the longest knife in the history of the world. I remember thinking, Why does she need all that knife, the girl doesn't have that much neck! I saw the rush of people crashing smashing into one another to get closer to the action, either curious or cautious of the woman with the miniature machete in her hand. I looked on, still as a pillar of salt as she dug the blade into her daughter's neck. Blood was like the fire above
ground, consuming the little girl's sweater and swallowing the pink bows on her arm. It spread and finally stopped flowing all together.
Later that night, they held a trial for the grieving Elizabeth and she was sent out into the wilderness to fend for herself, and to fight off the dragons and their hunger. I wept for her. I wept for Anna. I wept for Bellavine. It wasn't long after Elizabeth was thrown into the streets of London that one of them found us, found our underground city and decided that we had lived without too much death for much too long.
It smoked us out, literally breathing fire into one of the air vents created to keep clean airflow throughout the catacombs. Many ran out into the daylight only to be engulfed in a raging fire, that or eaten alive. I saw my brother torn before my eyes. I saw the dark brown beast rip his limbs clean from his body, and I hated it for taking the last connection to the past and my old life away.
After it had its fill, it torched the remaining structures, just in case I suppose. I was inside one of them. That's how I got these marks. The healed the burns and to disguise my injuries they tattooed them red and gold. They would call me warrior of the dragons. My cute little superstitious Bellavine."
Her voice was like a piano slowly playing out its aria. When she finished, Quinn slipped back into himself after being drawn into her lulling voice. He saw a single tear roll down her angelic face and it was almost as if he had known her forever the way he began trying to comfort her.
"I'm sorry that you had to go through all that."
She nodded to his comment.
"It's tragic that you had to see everything that you did at such a young age."
Another nod.
"If you ever need to talk-"screams cut him off. He ran outside to see what the noise was for and found himself face to face with a rather large, angry looking female dragon. It was fire red with large claws that hovered neatly above the rocky earth.
"It can't be!" he shouted as the dragon's angry call shook his very core. A blinding white light captured his attention and he turned to see the girl with wheat colored hair standing in front of one of the few remaining flood lights calling out to the dragon.
"Gaia tovarine! Gaia monieasho!" she screamed above the roar, forming every word into a howl. The dragon charged at her only to be caught between the eyes with a large curved blade. It fell lifeless on the ground and the girl climbed from beneath its dead weight. She walked over to Quinn holding the dragons heart in two hands and smiling lightly.
"Post it near the door. They won't come around for a while when they catch a whiff of this." It was Quinn's turn to nod. He took the heart on either side, trying not to let it touch his clothing, the thing stunk to high heaven. He handed it off to one of the reconstruction worlers and walked over to the girl. her head was hanging as she stood over the dead figure of the dragon.
"Are you alright?" he asked. She looked up at him smiled and collapsed on top of the huddled dragon.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed the First Chapter, there will be more to come as soon as I get some downtime. Who knows, maybe there is more to this chick than people are allowed to know? Ahh, forget it, I'm not going to leave with that much of a cliffhanger. XD


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After years of legal wrangling that culminated in a landmark Supreme Court decision, a federal judge ruled today that Arizona police can start enforcing the state's immigration law.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton formally lifted the injunction that she originally placed on the law in 2010, just a day before it was scheduled to go into effect. Now, all the state's police officers can carry out the parts of the law that survived.
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The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (SB 1070) was passed by the Arizona's Republican-controlled Legislature in 2010, and signed into law by the state's Republican governor, Jan Brewer. The governor and sponsors of the law argued it was necessary to combat the flow of illegal immigrants pouring into Arizona, and the law made "attrition through enforcement" its central tenet.
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Opponents, including the National Council of La Raza, argued that it created an environment where Hispanics would be racially profiled. The Department of Justice argued that it would lead to a "patchwork of state and local policies that would seriously disrupt federal immigration enforcement."
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with that argument, in part. The court ruled that three sections of the law targeting illegal immigrants went too far. One section made it a state crime for illegal immigrants to fail to carry government registration papers, and a second made it a crime for illegal immigrants to solicit work.
But the court ruled that the main component could stand, arguing that it was impossible to know if it would be misused by police officers before going into effect.
"There is a basic uncertainty about what the law means and how it will be enforced," the opinion read. "At this stage, without the benefit of a definitive interpretation from the state courts, it would be inappropriate to assume (Section 2(B)) will be construed in a way that creates a conflict with federal law."
After the decision, Brewer declared the ruling "a victory for the rule of law." Her office has said it was ready to implement the law as soon as the injunction was lifted.
Others were disappointed to hear of Tuesday's ruling.
"Laws requiring people to be judged by the color of their skin have no place in the U.S. Not today and not ever," said Pablo Alvarado, director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. "While courts have yet to stop all of SB 1070, all of us who believe in human rights and cherished constitutional values have an obligation to do everything we can to ensure that Arizona's current lawmakers are on the losing side of history."
Karen Tumlin, managing attorney for the National Immigration Law Center, has another lawsuit ongoing to prevent the law enforcement section of the law from going into effect. She said they will also be watching closely for cases of people being racially profiled by Arizona police offices.
"Obviously, we're extremely disappointed," she said. "It's a sad day for Arizona and the country."
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On Monday, September 10, the college and monastic community celebrated the blessing of the fifth abbot of Saint Anselm Abbey, The Right Reverend Mark Arthur Cooper, O.S.B. Below are his thank you's and homily.
I extend a special thank you to Bishop Peter Libasci. Your presence as presider at this ceremony is most appreciated by our Abbey and College communities. Since 1888 when the 1st Bishop of Manchester, Bishop Denis Bradley, invited the Benedictines of Newark, New Jersey to come to this city to found a college, we have enjoyed an excellent relationship with our bishops, our friends and collaborators the diocesan clergy, and the laity of this diocese. It is a relationship we cherish.
Thank you Bishop Joseph for celebrating this Mass and Blessing. Your participation means more to me than I could ever properly express. For those who may not know Bishop Joseph is my uncle. He has always been for me and for my family gathered here, a constant example of goodness, wisdom, and true Christian joy - always a smiling presence and special grace in our family.
In the interest of full disclosure, I must relate one incident regarding Bishop Joseph going back to 1957. I was 8 years old. Several members of the family were playing a game called Pokeno. Late in the game, of the couple of hundred pennies at stake, I had won most of them. The Bishop, down to just a few pennies, suggested we all throw our total winnings in and, in a final game, the winner would take all. I protested that I had already won most of the pennies. He countered, "Yes, but you've been winning almost every game - so you will likely win everything." At 8 I was new to the ways of the world (and the laws of averages) so I agreed . I will not name the individual who won, (with great glee), but his initials are Bishop Joseph.
55 years later I'm still holding on to this - I'll have to work on that.
I express my gratitude to Abbot Matthew who has been most gracious and eager to be of assistance to me since the election. Our monastic community is indebted to him for his 26 years of service to us and to the College community.
I thank also the Joan of Arc sisters who have always been for me a tremendous inspiration. Their work and prayer among us on this campus for 80 years helped to make the abbey and the college what they are today. We are all grateful for your decades of service. I am profoundly moved by your presence here today.
My gratitude to my fellow Benedictines especially those who did so much to make this ceremony and day a very special time, and, in particular, Fr. Martin who traveled from California to be here and whose exquisite craftsmanship fashioned the crozier I have just received.
I am grateful as well to our College community. Many departments assisted with great talent, effort, time, and generosity as well as great patience and good humor, all of which contributed to this memorable day.
A very special thanks to our students who assisted as ushers, servers, and members of our choir. You are the reason we are all here, and, in you we take great pride.
Thanks to my family and friends, especially those who came from a great distance to be here today.
I single out one among us for special mention - my father, Arthur Cooper, who with my mother (who has been gone now for 10 years) gave me the gift of life. I am grateful as well to providence who in August of 1943 directed the aim of a German anti-aircraft gunner, keeping it a bit short of perfect, thus bringing down, but not destroying, my father's B-17 bomber. Having survived almost two years in prison camps near Berlin and Munich, my father is with us today just a few months shy of his 96th birthday.
The sad new for me, as my family will tell you, is that at almost 96 my father, a very special man, has better hair, more energy, better sense, and would make a better abbot than I.
Finally, in the name of the community I thank all who join us today, making for such a special celebration.
Abbot Mark Cooper's Remarks
This ceremony asks a blessing on one individual called to serve as abbot of this over one hundred year old monastic community. But in a much wider sense I believe all who witness and participate in this ceremony are called and encouraged to serve. The readings, the Eucharist itself, the example of our Lord, challenge everyone present, everyone listening, that there is work to be done, sacrifice to be offered, service to be given, so that we too might assist in answering Jesus' most earnest prayer to the Father, Ut Omnes Unum Sint, That All May Be One.
Jesus saw with his own eyes what we see today. He knew in His heart what we have come to know - that there is so very much in our world that needs healing. There are endless circumstances (some that make us shudder and leave our minds reeling...) that we see or hear of every day, that call for prayer, sacrifice, and hard work. There are natural disasters, and there are, as well, disasters that originate in the hearts and will of everyone of us. Anger, greed , fraud, murder, laziness, selfishness, misunderstanding. All of these impede our unity. But we believe Our Lord not only prayed that all may be one, our faith is that He died and rose, that it might be so.
2700 years ago, in a magnificent moment of inspiration and prophecy, Isaiah foretold that the difficulties and the dark things of life on earth, would one day be overcome by a great light. He prophesied:
Then the wolf will be a guest of the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.
The lion shall eat hay like the ox.
The baby shall play by the cobra's den, and the child lay his hand on the adder's lair.
There shall be no harm or ruin on all his holy mountain;
For the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the Lord, as water covers the sea.....
On this mountain he will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, the web that is woven over all nations;
He will destroy death forever.
The Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces.
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The report refers to valuation and management issues but reiterates that both sides are convinced about the strategic fit of the joint venture.
Today's report follows the one last week which stated that high valuation following the interest shown by private equity had caused Reliance to pull out. Both sides are of course mum and one can only speculate if Reliance will finally succeed in going global.


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Spice Girls are said to be in talks with Victoria's Secret to star in its upcoming raunchy campaign.
Hot on the heels of their reunion, new album, highly anticipated world tour, planned history TV documentary, and their being signed as the new faces of supermarket chain Tesco, Spice Girls reportedly are in top-level talks with lingerie giant Victoria's Secret to pose in the brand's lingerie for its upcoming promotional campaign.
Group members, Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Melanie C, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, are all said to be terrified about stripping down to their lingerie and have embarked on strict diet and exercise regimes in an attempt to look their best.
Mirror.co.uk quoted a source as saying, "The girls are working out like crazy to ensure there's no need for any airbrushing afterwards." Another source, elsewhere, revealed "The shoot wouldn't be tacky in any way and each girl would wear lingerie appropriate to their character."
The photo shoot deal has come after the band signed an 8 million pound sterling contract with the US lingerie giant to sell their new 15-track "Greatest Hits" album through the stores. Should the all-girl group and the company come to term of agreement, the photos will be released on November 15th, just before the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at Hollywood's Kodak Theater.


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Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is finally breaking his silence on the scandal involving his racial remarks, which led him to be banned from the NBA for life.
In an interview with Anderson Cooper for his CNN show, AC360, the 80-year-old reveals it was his "one mistake" and "I'll never do it again."
Anderson called in to On Air with Ryan Seacrest on Monday morning to give some of the details of his exclusive one-on-one that airs tonight.
"He says this is not who he is," explains Anderson of his hour-long conversation with Sterling. "He says he's taken responsibility for it. A few sentences later, he's also pointing the finger at this woman, V. Stiviano, saying he was kind of goaded into making these comments … that he hasn't said anything like this in the past. There a lot of people obviously who will disagree with him."
Anderson adds that Sterling also has a lot to say about retired Los Angeles Lakers star Magic Johnson, whose Instagram photo with Stiviano prompted Sterling's rant.
"He's great," says Sterling about Magic in a clip from his AC360 interview. "But I don't think he is a good example for the children of Los Angeles."
What does Anderson think Sterling meant with that comment? "He goes a lot farther than that … I'm not really clear [what Sterling means]. He clearly has some sort of issue with Magic Johnson. He claims Magic Johnson called him up and talked to him twice in the course of all this since the tapes were released . He clearly has an issue with some part of the discussion."
As for whether or not Sterling was genuine with his apology for what he said, Anderson is going let viewers decide.
"I can't tell what's in somebody's heart," he explains. "I wanted to give him a fair platform, I wanted to ask him the tough questions, but I wanted to allow him to speak, and so many people have spoken about him, have sold recordings of him, that I just thought it's fair to let him speak."
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Norway's government said on Wednesday it had agreed to work with Britain in developing a system for injecting carbon dioxide emitted on land into oil fields under the ocean floor in the North Sea.
Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy Odd Roger Enoksen and his British counterpart Malcolm Wicks agreed at a seminar in London that their countries should "take bilateral steps to explore possible areas of co-operation to encourage injection and permanent storage of CO2 in geological structures beneath the seabed".
The procedure of injecting CO2 into submarine oil fields would help push out more oil and at the same time limit emissions of the gas that causes climate change.
The solution has been regarded as attractive in Norway, which is the world's third largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia and Russia and has signed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
The method is, however, for now considered too costly and too risky.
Last April, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate concluded in a report that the method was not yet viable due to the fact that it calls for large volumes of CO2 "at the right place and at the right time", high transport costs as well as a long line of expensive changes made to the platforms themselves.
Norway is one of the countries in Europe emitting the most CO2 per inhabitant, largely due to its booming offshore oil and gas production.
An alternative to pumping CO2 into existing oil fields would be injecting the greenhouse gas into fields that have already been depleted.
These technologies could cut C02 emissions from power stations by up to 90 percent.
"It is estimated that we have the capacity under the UK Continental Shelf to store our total carbon emissions for decades to come. The UK, Norway and surrounding North Sea rim countries have tremendous potential for injection and permanent storage of CO2 waste which will go a long way to help us cut harmful emissions," Wicks said.
Britain aims to reduce its emissions by 20 percent by 2010 and by as much as 60 percent by 2050. Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday hinted that the country may relaunch its nuclear power program in order to meet these targets.All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.


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Stephen Ward - the scapegoat for Britain's infamous Profumo sex scandal in the 1960s - was a casualty of Britain's worst uncorrected miscarriage of justice, Geoffrey Robertson, QC, says.
However, Ward's life and death also hold a warning for modern times, the celebrated lawyer and activist argues.
At times of ''moral panic'', when the establishment or the media stir up a storm of public passion, one cannot always rely on the course of justice to hold true, he says.
On Monday, Mr Robertson launched a book making the case for Ward's innocence, and a campaign to overturn his conviction for living off immoral earnings.
Mr Robertson told Fairfax Media the case warranted re-examination following the Jimmy Savile scandal and the fact that many other prominent figures, including Australian entertainer Rolf Harris, were facing accusations and charges of sexual assault.
''We need to overturn this grotesque miscarriage of justice. First, to acknowledge that it happened, but the second reason is to ensure it never happens again.
''Jimmy Savile molested so many children, and in the wake of that a number of people, including Rolf have been arrested. It is essential the courts ensure they have a fair trial,'' Mr Robertson says.
Ward, an osteopath, was a society figure in London in the early 1960s. He became the scapegoat for the Profumo affair, which brought down prime minister Harold Macmillan in 1963 and, the next year, the Conservative government, Mr Robertson writes in Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK.
John Profumo, the Minister for War, had a brief affair with Ward's housemate Christine Keeler, whom he met at a party hosted by Ward.
When rumours of the affair began to leak, the Labour opposition seized on Keeler's dubious claim that she had also slept with Soviet naval attache Yevgeny Ivanov, who had attended the same party as the cabinet minister, and who some people claimed was a spy.
Profumo denied the affair in parliament, but Ward exposed his lie and he was forced to resign, amid a welter of salacious newspaper exposes about Ward, Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, who lived with them and shared their freewheeling lifestyle.
The establishment exacted its revenge by making Ward a scapegoat for the scandal, Mr Robertson says. ''Many thought the moral fabric of family life was under real threat from this explosion of sexual scandal. The choice of Stephen Ward for the role of scapegoat was made by Home Secretary Sir Henry Brooke, who summoned the head of MI5 and the police commissioner and requested them, in effect, to 'get Ward' for any offence he could possibly have committed.''
Ward's telephones were bugged, his home and consulting rooms put under 24-hour surveillance, and his patients questioned by police.
Keeler was interviewed 24 times ''in desperate attempts to implicate Ward in something felonious,'' Mr Robertson writes.
Ward was charged with pimping and procuring women, and he endured a seven-day trial that Mr Robertson calls a ''farce''. Evidence of his innocence was hidden, and the trial judge directed the jury to convict him on mere speculation, he says.
''This shameful spectacle remains the worst unrectified miscarriage of justice in modern British history,'' Mr Robertson writes. ''At a time of moral or political panic … laws and legal procedures could be manipulated to produce an unjust result.''
Ward attempted suicide by drug overdose the night before his conviction, in despair at the unfairness of the trial. He fell into a coma and died several days later.
Mr Robertson says he has identified 12 errors of law in the Ward trial, and says the legal establishment has tried to cover up its shameful behaviour by refusing to release the official transcript of the trial.
His book will be lodged with Britain's Criminal Cases Review Commission, which has the power to overturn Ward's conviction and order the transcript's release.


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The Luneburg lens is a powerful imaging device, exhibiting aberration free focusing for parallel rays incident from any direction. However, its advantages are offset by a focal surface that is spherical and thus difficult to integrate with standard planar detector and emitter arrays. Using the recently developed technique of transformation optics, it is possible to transform the curved focal surface to a flat plane while maintaining the perfect focusing behavior of the Luneburg over a wide field of view. Here we apply these techniques to a lesser-known refractive Luneburg lens and implement the design with a metamaterial composed of a semi-crystalline distribution of holes drilled in a dielectric. In addition, we investigate the aberrations introduced by various approximations made in the implementation of the lens. The resulting design approach has improved mechanical strength with small aberrations and is ideally suited to implementation at infrared and visible wavelengths.
A Luneburg lens is a gradient index (GRIN) lens with a spherically or cylindrically symmetric index distribution that exhibits aberration-free focusing of light incident from any direction onto a spherical or cylindrical surface [
In the transformation optical design methodology, a desired distortion of the space that an electromagnetic wave travels through is achieved by introducing a spatial variation of the electric permittivity and magnetic permeability tensors over some region [
In the flattened Luneburg lens reported by Kundtz
The index profile for a standard Luneburg lens of unit radius is given by [
In the present refractive Luneburg design, the index value at the lens boundary is determined by the minimum allowed separation of the holes, which is in turn determined by fabrication and mechanical strength constraints.
Once a profile for the untransformed refractive Luneburg lens is obtained, a coordinate transformation is applied that flattens one surface of the lens [
Once a profile for the untransformed lens is obtained, the degree of flattening, and thus the field of view, of the lens is determined by the index of the host dielectric. As the degree of flattening increases, the maximum required index also increases. Since the maximum index cannot be larger than the host dielectric's index, a second constraint on the index variation of the medium is introduced. The achievable degree of flattening may be increased by introducing multiple material regions so that a low index substrate is used at the outer boundary of the lens and successively higher index materials are used as the prescribed index exceeds those of the outer materials. As is typical for the transformations used to develop transformation optical devices, the transformation applied here extends slightly beyond the boundary of the lens, resulting in some variation of the free space index outside the lens. In addition, the transformation also introduces spatial regions where the refractive index takes values below unity. Values of refractive index less than unity are undesirable, as they imply frequency dispersion and hence introduce bandwidth limitations. Fortunately, approximating these regions by setting their index value to unity has little effect on the focusing behavior of the lens, as will be discussed below.
Once a continuous index profile has been determined, a method for translating that index profile into a distribution of holes must be employed. The resulting distribution should meet several requirements. First, the holes should be uniformly sized, as this greatly simplifies fabrication where drilling or lithography techniques are used. Second, in order for the index to be accurately defined over as small a region as possible and to reduce Rayleigh scattering, the hole distribution should have crystalline symmetry [
Several techniques that meet these requirements have been introduced previously. Note that the present flattened Luneburg design is a transformation of an existing gradient index profile, and so the transformation itself cannot be used to arrive at a regular crystalline distribution, as has been done in other transformation optics designs [
To investigate the performance of the flattened refractive Luneburg lens, we chose to fabricate and characterize an implementation designed to operate over a broad range of frequencies in the microwave range (at least spanning the 8–12 GHz band measurable in our apparatus). The untransformed lens had a diameter of ten free space wavelengths at our central frequency. The transformation was truncated at the transformed lens boundary. The lens was machined from a slab of Emerson&Cuming ECCOSTOCK HiK polymer-ceramic with index of
In this implementation of the flattened Luneburg, two approximations of the index distribution prescribed by the transformation were made. Because the transformation ideally extends through all space, the free space index outside the untransformed lens is also modified. In order to perfectly preserve the behavior of the Luneburg, the entire transformation should be implemented, but to make a reasonably sized lens the transformation should be truncated close to the transformed lens's boundary. The deviation from unity index decreases with distance from the lens, but at some point the transformation must be truncated and the index set to one. Thus the first approximation is to set the transformation index to one beyond some radius, as shown in
The second approximation has a slightly more severe effect. For regions at the edges of the flattened region of the lens, the transformation indices take values less than one. To avoid using resonant metamaterials, these indices must be approximated as one, as shown in
The effect of these approximations can be better quantified by performing ray traces through the transformed lens and calculating the optical path difference (OPD) and spot diagrams. Similar ray tracing analysis has been used to compare three dimensional quasi-conformal transformations, which require anisotropic index of refraction, and their isotropic approximations [
When the
In addition to aberrations introduced by these two approximations, distortion aberrations are also present. This is an interesting effect caused by the transformation itself, and indeed is present in the full-transformation lens as well. In order to preserve orthogonality in the quasi-conformal transformation, the x-coordinates are allowed to 'slip' on the flattened boundary,
The performance of the lens was quantified by analyzing the far-field patterns of the lens, shown in
In conclusion, we designed and fabricated a lens which exhibits focusing over a field of view of ±30° with very little aberration. The design utilizes a refractive Luneburg which has been flattened using a quasi-conformal transformation to produce a flat focusing surface appropriate for planar detector/transmitter arrays. Using the refractive Luneburg as a starting point for our design allowed the lens to be implemented with a semi-crystalline distribution of holes drilled in a dielectric. The design and fabrication approaches are well suited for scaling transformation optical structures to IR and visible wavelengths. The two approximations made in this implementation—the approximation of indices outside the lens and indices less than one as one—have been investigated using ray tracing and were found to introduce only small aberrations.
This work was supported through a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, sponsored by the Army Research Office (Contract No. W911NF-09-1-0539). N. Kundtz would like to acknowledge the IC postdoctoral fellowship program.
Out of plane electric field for a source located on the flattened focal plane that produces a plane wave propagating at 30 degrees for the
The two approximations made to the transformed Luneburg lens index profile.
The OPD of rays focused through a transformed Luneburg lens for different size transformation regions. The lens has an aperture size of ten wavelengths and rays are incident along the optical axis of the lens. The legend indicates the radius of a circle, concentric with the lens, beyond which the transformation index is set to one as shown in
Spot diagrams of 33 rays focused through a complete and an approximate transformed Luneburg lens for different angles of incidence. In the approximated lens, all indices less than one have been approximated as one. The lens has an aperture size of ten wavelengths and angles of incidence are measured from the optical axis. Though the lens has a field of view of ±40°, in the approximated lens rays travel through the approximated
Far-field radiation patterns for the continuous permittivity lens and the experimental lens at


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The Role Of The Tertiary Sector In The Growth Of Economic Competitiveness
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After months of rumors and hint-dropping, pop icon Britney Spears revealed what she called her "(not-so-)secret" news — she's heading to Las Vegas.
The 31-year-old pop star confirmed a two-year residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. "Britney: Piece of Me" will debut Dec. 27, just in time for Las Vegas' massive New Year's crowds. Spears announced 16 dates, but she will perform 50 shows each in 2014 and 2015.
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A poem a day may not "keep the doctor away," but reading poetry on a regular basis can do wonders for your soul! Thanks to this compact anthology, you'll be prepared to face the coming year with more than three hundred carefully selected verses from Maya Angelou, John Berryman, Anne Bradstreet, Rita Dove, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, Nikki Giovanni, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wallace Stevens, and dozens of other acclaimed poets. Though not dated individually, the entries are arranged by month and theme. Whether you read one each day or browse to select those that suit your mood, Poem-a-Day is a wonderful way to enrich the new year! (KG)


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Peploe painting expected to fetch up to £500,000
A painting by the Scottish colourist Samuel Peploe that was once bought for just £500 is expected to fetch up to £500,000 when it goes under the hammer this week.
Still Life With Roses in a Blue and White Vase was painted in the early 1920s at the height of Peploe's career, and has resurfaced after remaining with the same family for nearly 50 years. It was bought in 1965 by the Scottish collector Major Herbert Dunsmuir, scion of the Dunsmuir & Jackson engineering business.
It will be sold at Christie's Modern British Art evening sale in London on Wednesday.


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GM Recalls More Than Half-Million Camaro Cars
(Detroit, MI) -- General Motors is recalling more than a half-million Camaro cars because the driver's knee could knock the key fob and turn off the car.
The company said today it is aware of three crashes related to the issue, but any injuries are believed to be minor.
GM says the issue is unrelated to the earlier recall of more than two-and-a-half million smaller cars due to faulty ignition switches. That issue has been linked to more than a dozen deaths.


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An Israeli Orthodox sage who infuriated Holocaust survivors and other Jews by claiming the Shoah was God's punishment for their abandonment of the Torah, has received an indirect rebuke from the Lubavitcher rebbe.
"All who perished in the Holocaust — man, woman and child — were holy and pure. They died solely because they were Jews. Each and every one was a righteous martyr," declared the rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson.
He spoke to about 3,000 disciples at Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn on the Tenth of Tevet, a day of fasting and mourning when Jewish suffering, during both the Temple period and modern times, is remembered.
His message, broadcast around the world, seemed intended as a response to the sermon delivered last week to yeshiva students in the Israeli township of Bnei Brak by Rabbi Eliezer Schach, dean of the Ponovezh Yeshiva and spiritual mentor of the Orthodox Degel HaTorah party.
Schach, 94, advanced the idea that the Holocaust was a result of cumulative divine wrath over the Jewish people's wholesale abandonment of Orthodoxy under the influence of the enlightenment, socialism and Zionism. He denounced secular Jews for eating pork and failing to observe the Sabbath and religious festivals.
Schach is a theological foe and longtime critic of the Lubavitcher rebbe, the Hasidic leader whose Chabad movement tries to draw secular Jews back to religion.
Schneerson was especially vociferous in his attack on the notion, expounded by Schach, that further retributive suffering might befall the Jewish people if they fail to abide by Jewish law.
"This suggestion is unconscionable," the rebbe declared, without mentioning who had made it. "The future bodes only well for the Jewish people. There will never be another Holocaust. There will be redemption and joy."
Schach maintained that "God is long-suffering but eventually, when a point of saturation is reached, he wreaks his punishment."
According to the rebbe, however, "the tragedy of the Holocaust is an unanswerable question. There is no human rationale whatsoever that can explain such indescribable suffering.
"Indeed, God's words to his prophet that, 'My thoughts are not as your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways' (Isaiah 55:8), is all that can be said."
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Beagle 2 was taken to Mars on board another spacecraft, but was lost when it tried to land on Christmas Day 2003.
Now Professor Colin Pillinger says new photos show that Beagle 2 did land, but didn't send a signal back to Earth.
He thinks the craft may have struck the surface of the planet too quickly, damaging its communication devices.
Professor Pillinger has spent the last two years studying photos of Mars looking for evidence of what happened to Beagle 2.
Not everyone who has seen the images believes they are Beagle 2, but he thinks it's unlikely so many unusual features would be seen so close together otherwise.
A Nasa mission to Mars in 2006 will photograph the Red Planet in amazing detail, so could prove what happened to the mission.


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WASHINGTON -- On election night in Chicago two months ago, President Barack Obama triumphantly pledged to fight for a middle class he'd appealed to relentlessly -- and successfully -- on the 2012 campaign trail.
"I believe we can build on the progress we've made and continue to fight for new jobs and new opportunity and new security for the middle class," Obama said. "I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard ... you can make it here in America."
The central challenge of Obama's second term is whether he can keep that founder's "promise" to working Americans. It won't be easy, and in an era of divided government and amid cries for austerity and budget cuts, it does not seem likely that the president will offer sweeping new proposals to do so. The administration has said that its top two priorities at the outset of its second term are immigration reform and gun control. Despite an ongoing jobs crisis, creating quality jobs seems to have fallen a few slots on the president's to-do list.
As Obama implicitly acknowledged, the American middle class has fallen on hard times, saddled with historic levels of debt, skyrocketing health care costs and flat wages. By most accounts, middle-class Americans are no better off than they were when the president took office in 2009, in the wake of an unprecedented financial crisis and in the midst of the Great Recession.
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Where does the bread plate go? When do I put the napkin on my lap? When is it appropriate to use salt and pepper at the table? With holiday meals just around the corner, these are questions that may concern hosts and guests alike.
Good table manners are a matter of common sense and should reflect the most logical choices. One of the most important things to remember at the table is to be natural, without drawing attention to yourself. Consider these dining tips.
Posture. When eating, sit close enough to the table that each bite can be brought to the mouth without having to lean forward. Sit straight at the table without being stiff.
Elbows. Elbows should not be placed on the table, but kept close to the side so they don't interfere with those sitting next to you. When a hand is not in use, place it in your lap, or if it is more comfortable, rest your forearm on the edge of the table.
Table settings. An attractive table setting makes the food look appetizing and it gives the host/hostess an opportunity to express creativity. It also gives guests the chance to see the effort that has been made in their behalf.
Place settings. Each place setting should consist of the main plate in the center, with the forks placed on the left (salad fork goes on the outside) and knives on the right with blade pointed in. Spoons are placed to the right of the knives, and the water glass is placed at the tip of the knife. A second beverage glass would be placed to the right of the water glass. The bread and butter plate belongs at the tip of the forks, and the salad plate goes to the left of the forks and a little above. When no bread and butter plate is used, the salad plate may go at the tip of the forks. The napkin is placed directly to the left of the forks and dinner plate, but if the table is crowded, it may be placed under the forks, directly on the plate or in the center of the place setting.
Napkins. When seated at the table, wait until the host or hostess places the napkin on his or her lap or when he or she asks the guests to proceed. When the host or hostess picks up his or her fork, you may pick up yours and begin to eat. The napkin remains in your lap until after the meal and should then be placed loosely gathered on the table next to the plate. If you need to leave the table during the meal, the napkin should be placed on the chair and then back in your lap after you return to the table.
Utensils. Silverware is placed in order of its use. Always remember to begin with the silverware on the outside of the place setting and work from the outside in. If in doubt, watch the hostess or someone else at the table who is confident in using the utensils. Cut up food as it is eaten, not all at once. When finished eating, place the used fork and knife on the plate, sharp side of knife facing in and the fork next to the knife.
Beverages. Wait to sip beverages until your mouth is empty and has been wiped with a napkin. The only exception is when your mouth has been burned with food — then it is appropriate to drink with food in the mouth. Do not gulp or guzzle drinks.
Conversation. When talking at the table, there should never be food in your mouth. Chew with your mouth closed, without talking. Guests should not draw attention to themselves by making unnecessary noise with their mouth or with silverware.
Seasonings and condiments. Guests should always taste the food before asking for salt and pepper so they do not offend the cook. When you use the condiments on the table, place a portion of each condiment desired on the plate beside the food, not directly on the food itself, i.e., cranberry sauce is placed on the dinner plate, not on the meat. If there are no condiments on the table, it is not polite to ask for them.
Formal service. Guests are usually served from their left, and plates are cleared from their left. Drinks are served from the right and cleared from the right.
Informal service. When a serving dish is passed around the table instead of being served individually, it should be passed counterclockwise. You should take a reasonable portion and never take more than can be finished.
Reaching. Guests may reach for food that is close to them, as long as they do not have to stretch for it and do not reach across another guest. If the food is across the table, ask politely for it to be passed.
Finger food. Some foods may be eaten with the fingers. If you are not sure if it is acceptable, follow the example of the host or hostess or use the neater and easier way to eat the food. When finger foods are served, take the food from the serving dish and place it on the plate before eating it.
Removing food from mouth. If a piece of food must be removed from the mouth, do it the same way that it was put in and place it on the plate. A pit or small bone should be removed with fingers. The most important thing to remember when removing food is to do it with as little show as possible.Natural table manners take practice, and the best place to practice is at home. Once good table manners become automatic, you will feel more relaxed and comfortable, and the conversation and food will be the focus of the meal, not manners.
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Unfortunately, if you had the mt DNA test done on the grand daughter of Sarah Chicora Lumpkin, it would test the mother's (Steele) line and not the Lumpkin line. It doesn't actually test for the Stelle surname either, just the mother's mother's mother's, etc. lineage.
Did Frank Andrew Lumpkin have any male heirs who had male heirs on which you could do a Y DNA test? In other words, the male line has to go from male to male to male without any female interference. This person would still have the surname Lumpkin(s)unless it was changed for some reason. This is actually what I'd like to compare with my Lumpkins DNA.
You could still do the mt DNA test on the grand daughter of Sarah Chicora Lumpkin, but you would not get "Lumpkin" mt DNA. It may not match the mt DNA of my Lumpkins sample because the female side for me was a Johnson.
I thank you for your willingness to offer a test though.
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In The Aviator, Leonardo DiCaprio takes a step closer to being a leading man. But, as Simon Hattenstone finds, there is still a bit of the reluctant teenager about him.
When Leonardo DiCaprio emerged in the early 1990s, he seemed a natural successor to De Niro and Pacino, Brando and Dean. Still an adolescent, years away from his first shave, he looked as if he was going to be the great American actor of the next generation. In films such as This Boy's Life, The Basketball Diaries, What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Romeo and Juliet , he showed a maturity beyond his years - he could play vulnerable and tender, psychopathic and damaged. He portrayed junkies and gay French poets and autistics, he flipped and wept and snot-gobbled in a way that suggested both a total immersion in his art and a precocious knowledge of life.
Then something strange happened. He starred in the most successful film ever, Titanic, and he became a different actor. In Titanic, The Man in the Iron Mask and The Beach he went commercial, played safe and pretty, didn't give anything of himself. He turned into something the movies hadn't seen for years, perhaps had never seen to this extent - a teen idol, a poster boy, Hollywood's Donny Osmond or David Cassidy. By this stage he was in his mid-20s, but he looked just the same.
Now he is well into the third stage of his career. The comeback started in 2002 with the release of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York and Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can. The leading boy was turning himself into the leading man. The choice of directors suggested a new pragmatic DiCaprio trying to win back edgy credibility with Scorsese, while keeping the mass market happy with Spielberg. In the Spielberg film, playing a professional hoaxer, a boy-man with no true identity, he was fine. In the Scorsese, playing a man of substance, he was woeful.
Now he's back with his biggest role, one for which he picked up the best movie actor award at last week's Golden Globes. In Scorsese's The Aviator he plays inspirational, troubled multi-millionaire Howard Hughes. DiCaprio initiated the project when he read a biography of Hughes. He saw him as a flawed American hero, and for the past eight years he has developed the idea, first with Michael Mann and eventually with Scorsese. It was named best film at the Golden Globes.
More than a decade on from his film debut, and now 30 years old, DiCaprio is a little broader but largely unchanged.
He's talking about Hughes, and the joy of playing a "multi-dimensional fascinating man". Hughes was certainly that - film producer, inventor, record-breaking pilot, recluse. Like many Hollywood actors, DiCaprio is happier talking about his character than himself. He lists Hughes' many attributes, and calls him the greatest Casanova of his time, but doesn't mention the fact that he was as fond of seducing men as women (as, indeed, the film doesn't). "He made a laundry list of all the things he wanted to accomplish and he fulfilled all his dreams."
Did DiCaprio make such a laundry list when he was a child? "No, I never did." He says that as a child he didn't even realise he could make a living from acting. "I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor. I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to - until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life."
By 13 he was starring in commercials, by 15 he headed up a TV series and by 19 he had starred in This Boy's Life with De Niro and had an Oscar nomination for What's Eating Gilbert Grape .
I tell him I saw a recent quote in which he said he wanted to make a stash of money so that, ultimately, he could use it to help, in his own little way, to improve the world. "Right!" he says. "Right! Well hopefully some day I can do that but I'm going to do all that by being an actor."
What one thing would he like to fix now? "Well, you know I do work a lot on environmental issues and I've been pretty heavily involved in getting the word out about issues like global warming. I did a documentary when I interviewed President Clinton in the late '90s, and I also went out and campaigned for John Kerry because I felt he was a much better environmentalist than George Bush was."
So many people despise everything Bush stands for, I say. He smiles noncommitally. How does he feel about him? "Erm, ultimately now it's hard to talk about because the people have spoken and we have to kind of make the best of it."
He answers politely, if slightly sullenly. He looks to the floor as he bats a question away. He ums and ahs as he thinks through the political implications of an answer. It is as if he sees every question as a threat, and weighs up potential answers in the form of tomorrow's headline.
So many people have the same reaction when I tell them I'm going to see DiCaprio: "Ask him why he's not made a good film since Gilbert Grape." I'm desperate to get a reaction out of him by now, so decide not to phrase it as politely as I probably should. I ask him if I can be honest.
He leans forwards. "Sure, yeah, why not?"
OK, I'm being really honest now, and I tell him I love those early films but think those from his middle period were a bag of shite. He grins. A big, genuine grin. I think, "We're going to get on now". I've seen him say pretty much the same thing before. So he'd agree with that assessment? "No, I would not be able to agree with that," he deadpans. Really? "The early ones are very special to me. But if you're asking me to critique or put down some of the movies I've done, I'm not comfortable with doing that because there are so many other people involved and just for the sake of an interview I don't put anyone down."
It's not for the sake of an interview, though. It's for the sake of an opinion, of him saying something about the value he attaches to his work. But for DiCaprio, interviews are not about opinions or truths, they are about selling products.
So would he say that films such as The Man in the Iron Mask and The Beach were as important to him as Gilbert Grape and This Boy's Life? "There are some that I definitely like more than others, so we'll just put it that way," he eventually concedes. "A lot of them happen to be in my earlier career and some later, too."
Maybe Titanic both made and broke you, I suggest - you can't have envisioned being a teen idol. "It certainly wasn't my intention. Nobody knew it would be that kind of success and I couldn't foresee what would happen to me in my career after that."
Did the film's success change his sense of who he was? "No, it didn't. It just made everything around me change. My daily life, my private life, the perception that people had of me."
What was that perception? "I honestly don't put that much thought into it, but I know after Titanic it became something different than I'd ever intended it to be, which was you know ... you know."
Does he wish the film had been less successful? "Ermmmm, interesting question," he says. "Aahhhhh, well, no, because I think it's cool that a movie penetrated that many people, and for me to be able to use that to my advantage is a great feeling."
Hughes is a demanding role, and DiCaprio almost pulls it off. He's good when Hughes goes off the rails, but it's hard to believe him as a man of strength and vision. One problem is that he looks like a boy. Another is that he acts like one. He is good at the technical stuff, but emotionally he has petrified.He seems to call on experiences he doesn't have, approximating and imitating characters rather than inhabiting them. When De Niro and Pacino started out, their experiences were etched on their faces. Perhaps DiCaprio succeeded too early.
Has he ever wished he was less pretty? Well, perhaps, it would be easier to be convincing in rougher, more hirsute roles, I suggest. "Do I feel it limits me as an actor? You're talking about people's perceptions again, which are hard to talk about, y'know. I don't see it as a disadvantage. Y'know, you always have make-up too."
Which, of course, is true. But there's a more fundamental problem here. When Scorsese employs DiCaprio, the studio is investing in his beauty, and it doesn't want this marred halfway through a movie. So in Gangs of New York and The Aviator, Scorsese, the brutal realist of American cinema, is forced into such a compromise that DiCaprio emerges from a machete attack and a fiery plane crash (respectively) almost unscathed.
Recent interviews have suggested that DiCaprio found it easy to empathise with Hughes because he also suffered a milder form of obsessive compulsive disorder. Is that true? He shakes his head. No, he says, all he'd said was that everyone has their own rituals and superstitions.
So do the media just make this stuff up? "They write loads of crap about almost everybody who's in the limelight. Happens all the time," he says wearily.
Well let's go through the things you're supposed to have done and set the record straight, I say. Is it true that he became a bit of a tearaway after Titanic ? "False." Is it true that he and his friends called themselves the "pussy posse"? "Totally false. I'm sorry that I'm not giving you more to write about."
Don't worry, I say, we're still setting the record straight. "You don't need to," he laughs desperately.
I ask DiCaprio if he fancies going into politics. "No," he says, "because I like acting." Has he ever considered taking time out and going to college? "I'm very happy with the way things have gone." He says he's getting a fine education doing movies, and learning about the lives of great people. But I think he's got a bit more learning to do yet.
Before I can say goodbye or shake his hand, DiCaprio stands up, eyes to the floor, and walks out of the room.
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