October 29, 2008 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Top Stories constitutes the most severe since records started being taken in the US Senator Ted Stevens More teenagers attracted to early 1990s. convicted on 7 counts computer crime, say experts United States Senator Ted Security experts warn more and The study by scientists of Stevens of Alaska was convicted more teenagers are now into hi- University College London has Monday on seven counts of failing tech computer crime. Alarmingly been published in the journal to report gifts. large number of teenagers are Geophysical Research Letters. The Stevens, a senior found peddling credit card work provides the first definitive United States numbers, phishing kits and proof for overall decrease in Arctic Senator from Alaska cracking tips in some Internet ice volume, claim the authors. and the longest forums. The young offenders are serving Republican very likely to get caught and The researchers have found that in the Senate, had prosecuted due to their inferior last winter's ice thickness been accused not reporting tens technical skills, claim experts. represented a decrease of an of thousands of dollars worth of average of 26 centimeters below gifts from the VECO Corporation Wikipedia Current Events the 2002-2008 winter average. including free house remodeling. The greatest decline of 49 At its PDC, Microsoft delivers a centimeters was in the western pre-beta release of Windows 7 to Homes of six Minnesota Arctic, which could explain the developers, and announces plans politicians vandalized region's becoming relatively ice- to release a full Windows 7 beta An unknown person or persons free this summer, allowing it to be early in 2009. wrote graffiti and vandalized the open to shipping for the first time exterior of homes •North Korea issues a statement in 30 years. The record low of ice belonging to six declaring that it will turn South thickness during summer members of the Korea into "debris" if the South happened when the weather was United States does not stop all "confrontational not abnormally warm. congressional delegation from the activities". state of Minnesota late last “About five years ago, the average •Iran opens a naval base in the Monday night or early Tuesday projection for the sea ice town of Jask, just outside the morning. disappearing was about 2080. But Strait of Hormuz entrance to the the ice minimums, and this Persian Gulf. Acting teacher and director evidence of melting, suggests that Milton Katselas dies at age 75 we should favor the models that Acting teacher and director Milton Arctic ice thickness decreasing, suggest the sea ice will disappear Katselas died Friday at age 75, suggests satellite data study by 2030-2040, but there is still a after suffering from heart failure A recent study based on satellite lot of uncertainty.” —Dr Seymour at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in radar altimetry indicates drastic Laxon, University College London Los Angeles, California. He began thinning of Arctic ice during the the Beverly Hills Playhouse in winter of 2007. It was found that Katharine Giles, the lead author, 1978 and taught acting classes the ice thickness had been fairly points out that the study used there to noted actors including constant for the five previous satellite data sets, which had a George Clooney and Gene winters. The researchers were able number of advantages over other Hackman. His book Acting Class: to highlight widespread ice methods. Previous studies have Take a Seat was published earlier thinning in areas covered by both used measurements from drilling, this month. old and young ice. This thinning or submarine and airborne If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Wikinews Page 2 surveys. These studies could be noted actors including George premise: successfully get an acting severely limited by time and Clooney and Gene Hackman. role within six weeks or leave the space. The present study utilized Katselas is survived by a sister and course. continuous, all-weather, day-and- two brothers. night radar altimeter data from the He grew up in Pittsburgh, European Space Agency's Envisat Katselas directed an off-Broadway Pennsylvania to parents who had satellite. The study measured ice production of Edward Albee's The immigrated from Greece, and thickness from October to March, Zoo Story, and received a Tony graduated from Carnegie Mellon. 2007, over more than half of the Award nomination for his 1969 He studied acting with Lee Arctic. direction of Butterflies are Free. Strasberg in New York at the Actress Blythe Danner won a Tony Actors Studio, and received advice There has been considerable Award for her role in Butterflies from directors Joshua Logan and uncertainty over the causes of ice are Free under Katselas' direction. Elia Kazan. loss in the Arctic. It has been He moved to California to direct debated that ice could have been the film version of that play, and Katselas was a prominent piled up against the coast, thus went on to direct films and Scientologist, and a July 2007 reducing the sea ice extent. television movies. Actress Eileen profile on Katselas in The New Measurements of the ice thickness, Heckart received an Academy York Times Magazine observed as in the present study, give Award for her role in the film that some of his students stopped definite proof for ice melting. "So version of Butterflies are Free. taking courses at the Beverly Hills this means melting; it doesn't Playhouse because they felt they mean that the ice has just been Katselas directed the San had been pressured to join the pushed up against the coastline," Francisco and Los Angeles Church of Scientology. According remark Seymour Laxon, co-author productions of the play P.S. Your to the article, Katselas credited of the paper. Cat Is Dead! by playwright James Scientology founder L. Ron Kirkwood, Jr. In his author's notes Hubbard "for much of his success The conclusions of the study can in the publication of the script, in life", and one of his students help predict what could happen Kirkwood acknowledged Katselas, works at Scientology's Celebrity with the ice cover in future. and wrote that the plays were Centre. The article commented Deflection of sunlight by the Arctic "directed with incredible energy that some in Los Angeles view the ice cap could be reduced, leading and enthusiasm by Milton Beverly Hills Playhouse as "a to larger areas of water, which can Katselas, to whom I am extremely recruitment center for absorb heat. Warmer indebted". Scientology". temperatures will in turn promote more ice melting. "About five Katselas directed the television Katselas met L. Ron Hubbard after years ago, the average projection movie Strangers: Story of a moving to California, and began for the sea ice disappearing was Mother and Daughter, and actress studying Scientology in 1965. The about 2080", said Dr Laxon. "But Bette Davis received an Emmy New York Times Magazine reported the ice minimums, and this Award for her role in the movie. that he had reached the level of evidence of melting, suggests that Katselas taught many famous "Operating Thetan, Level 5, or O.T. we should favor the models that actors including Michelle Pfeiffer, V." in 2007. According to The New suggest the sea ice will disappear Richard Gere, Robert Duvall, Jack York Times Magazine when by 2030-2040, but there is still a Lemmon, Al Pacino, Goldie Hawn, Scientologists proceed up the "The lot of uncertainty." Christopher Walken, Burt Bridge to Total Freedom" they Reynolds, George C. Scott, learn the story of Xenu, and that: Acting teacher and director Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, "75 million years ago the evil alien Milton Katselas dies at age 75 Alec Baldwin, and Patrick Swayze. Xenu solved galactic Acting teacher and director Milton Katselas was credited with being overpopulation by dumping 13.5 Katselas died Friday at age 75, able to nurture actors with raw trillion beings in volcanoes on after suffering from heart failure at talent so that they could develop Earth, where they were vaporized, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los strong Hollywood careers. He scattering their souls." A Church of Angeles, California. He began the utilized innovative techniques in Scientology publication, Source, Beverly Hills Playhouse in 1978 his courses - one course called lists Katselas as reaching O.T. V. and taught acting classes there to "Terrorist Theatre" had a simple in 1989. If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Wikinews Page 3 “He is brilliant, and knows me so Anne Archer was introduced to Katselas, for his insights, wisdom, well as a person and an actress Scientology while studying at the and inspiration, which have helped that he gets the most out of me.” Beverly Hills Playhouse, as was make me the actress that I am." —Jenna Elfman former Scientologist and now outspoken critic actor Jason “I really care about the craft of Though some actors felt pressured Beghe. Beghe told Roger Friedman acting. It's absolutely necessary to to join the Church of Scientology of FOX News in April 2008 that "He take the time and patience to after taking courses at the Beverly [Katselas] gets kickbacks", and really develop an actor.” Hills Playhouse, at least one that he was brought to a —Milton Katselas individual felt Katselas was not Scientology center by fellow active enough with the Beverly Hills Playhouse classmate Katselas authored two books: organization. Actress Jenna Elfman Bodhi Elfman, Jenna Elfman's Dreams Into Action: Getting What left the Beverly Hills Playhouse husband.