CTAN has a new package: spot

[CTAN Announcements]

This should be at your local mirror.

Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: spot
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Anders Hendrickson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/beamer-contrib/spot
Summary description: Spotlight highlighting for Beamer
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This package allows dramatic highlighting of words and
phrases by painting shapes around them.  It is chiefly
intended for use in Beamer presentations, but it can be used
in other document classes as well.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer-contrib/spot
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/spot
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .