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Skip to comments.Iranian Alert - February, 2 2006 - Iran: The good news and the bad
Posted on 02/02/2006 12:17:09 PM PST by DoctorZIn
Top News Story
Iran: The good news and the bad.
Bush's SOTU Speech provides his strongest support for the Iranian people and condemnation of the regime.
- The White House published the text of President Bush's State of the Union Address. We highlighted relevant comments on Iran.
Iran ignores international warnings.
- Yahoo News reported that Iran's leading nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani said: "Reporting Iran's dossier to the U.N. Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy."
- Reuters reported that the IAEA confirmed that Iran had begun preparing for nuclear enrichment.
- Reuters reported that Iran threatened to halt snap U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and resume uranium enrichment, if it was reported to the U.N. Security Council.
But, Iran no longer threatens to cut off oil exports.
- The Financial Times reported that Iran's oil minister said Tehran would not halt its oil exports because of growing tensions over its nuclear program.
The Good News.
- Reuters reported that British Prime Minister Tony Blair said world powers had sent a strong signal to Iran by agreeing to involve the U.N. Security Council.
- The Wall Street Journal reported that some of the world's largest finance and energy companies are severing ties with Iran.
The Bad News.
- Debka Files reported that Russian FM Sergei Lavrov told the five permanent UN Security Council members that Russia believe Iran is now capable of carrying out its first nuclear test.
- Andrei Piontkovsky, The Jerusalem Post predicts that in the beginning of March Iran will "reluctantly" agree to Putin's proposal for Iranian uranium enrichment on Russian territory. The world will sigh relief but the nuclear danger from Iran will loom larger than ever.
- Mehran Riazaty reported on the threats by Iran's terrorist allies' plans to create another Vietnam for the US in the Middle East.
US Gives Support to the Striking Tehran Bus Workers.
- USInfo.State.gov released a statement that the US government expressed support for Iranian workers and their right to protest for better working conditions. The statement specifically mentions bus drivers in Iran.
- SMCCDI reported on the US Government Statement on the Tehran Bus Strike.
- Libcom.org provided an update on the Tehran bus workers strike.
More Support for Regime Change in Iran.
- Robert Kagan, The Washington Post argued that the US needs to reorient of strategy towards Iran by start supporting liberal and democratic change there.
- Mansoor Ijaz, National Review Online argued that nothing will change the mindset and determination of a regime intent on holding the world hostage to its nuclear blackmail and that regime change is the only solution.
More Analysis.
- Alan Peters, Anti-Mullah considered the question: Can the USA Avoid Attacking Iran? Can We Attack Successfully?
- William R. Hawkins, National Review Online examined China's role as protector of the two remaining "axis of evil" regimes.
- Michael Ledeen, National Review Online examined the hard reality that universally, people often freely choose tyranny.
- Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, FrontPageMagazine reported that HAMAS' triumph is an important springboard towards the establishment of the Caliphate – a global Islamic state.
Here are a few other news items you may have missed.
- Deutsche Welle Online reported that despite claims that Ahmadinejad lives in an apartment, they claim he lives now lives almost exactly in the same spot cleared by his predecessor, in North Tehran.
- SMCCDI reported clashes rocked a suburb of the western City of Sannandaj.
- And finally, Eyeranian.net published: I want you to attack Iran!
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Heck, I thought the good news was going to be that someone wiped Iran off the face of the earth.
Watch that. The Iranians want freedom just as much as anyone.
I guess they just don't know how to go about getting it.
Some of them may. But over the last 25 years I've seen video footage and pictures of vile, angry throngs of them calling for "Death to America", burning our flag, kidnapping and killing our people, hijacking our planes and boats, feeding the Iraqi insurgency and giving a great deal of help to international terrorism. If the Iranian people in general were against this sort of thing I don't see how all of this could happen for so long and with such great frequency. Islam has always been a threat to the rest of the world and Iran is no exception.
Freeper freedom44 has pictures of a candlelight vigil that was held in Iran immediately after September 11th, in honor of the US terror victims. It is really moving to see the photos.
See the photo here:
Watch that. The Iranians want freedom just as much as anyone.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Are you sure? I meet plenty of people here in these United States who have no use for real freedom and, in fact, consider me a nut case when I try to awaken them to the fact that much of our precious freedom is already lost. Too many people are all for their own definition of freedom which bears little resemblance to the freedom for which our forefathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. Real freedom involves huge responsibilities and many only want to pay lip service to it while being delivered from the real thing.
We saw the same thing with the Iraqis. Saddam was always voted back in office, etc. It's amazing how many people will "turn out" to chant "death to America" when they fear for their jobs, their lives or the lives of those they love. There is nothing like a Dictator and his Shredding machine to motivate folks to show their support openly.
I imagine it's different when you've never known liberty. You get 70% voter turnout, purple fingers, that sort of thing.
Hey, you can do whatever you want to in America....as long as you buy a permit.
Thank you. Sorry for the ignorance. *shaking head*
I think that it would be fair to say that "some" Iranians want freedom.
Hey, you can do whatever you want to in America....as long as you buy a permit>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Most things now done with a permit were done in the past without a permit, of course things are wonderamously better now that we can spend money on a permit. The permits that really count are the special exemptions that can only be obtained by those who have money and friends in high (or low depending on your vantage point) places.
I think that it would be fair to say that "some" Iranians want freedom. >>>>>>>>>
I'll go along with that.
IMO, there is no point in negotiations or discussions with Ahmadi and his gang. You can't reason or negotiate with terrorists, isn't that what our politicians tell us too?
A far more effective way to address this 'end of the world' saga, which has created so much fear, is to help facilitate regime change in Iran. IMO, the U.S. needs to support regime change in Iran and not only or necessarily thru a military strike. It is up to the Military strategists to work out the best plan with most efficient and effective results, which can be implemented in a relatively short period of time. Prior planning is a key element, so is the surprise element.
News coming out of Iran strongly indicates that, at least, 80% of population are against this theocracy and want a secular, democratic regime. We don't hear about this in the mainstream media. What we DO see is the mainstream media promptly give large scale coverage to rent-a-crowd Mullah gang when they sing "Death to America". Why don't the mainstream western media expose the 'other' side of the story?
The regime brutally suppresses any demonstrations in Iran by any group including students. Most of the leaders who organise demonstrations against the regime in Iran are in jail or are executed. Students are attacked at night or when they least expect. There are THOUSANDS of students and ordinary civilians in notorious prisons in Iran. They are tortured and silenced. This is what should be covered in the Western Media but it isn't! The latest silence from Western Media was about the striking bus drivers and how their children and wives were beaten and abused. This has nothing to do with idiotic utterances about Mehdi by Admadinejad. It is a diversion, IMO, to further kill innocent Iranians who aren't infidels either! (Eventhough am sure the Mullahs will find a way to twist matters and justify their actions on this issue as well).
Regime change in Iran to a secular, democracy is critical. It will significantly contribute to the elimination of radical fundamentalist Islam in the region and around the world. It will stop Mullahs' financial and moral support to groups such as HAMAS. Regime change in Iran must happen sooner than later. But, I am hoping that the West has a sense of timing and a solid strategy and plan to deal with it. And this strategy and plan should not be a debate on Islam or its derivatives with Mullahs either - that, IMO, will be absolutely useless.
I am for freedom everywhere, Iran included. But there are too many muslims there and our ideologies will never do anything but clash.
"East is east and never the twain shall meet".
Don't ask me for a solution, I don't have one. Other than destroying the enemy before the enemy destroys us.
"Other than destroying the enemy before the enemy destroys us."
I also think that the most effective way of destroying an enemy is going for the locus/source of the problem.
The locus, is this case, being those who incite violence and instil fear in others by using various ideologies as a tool or vehicle. Be it east or west.
Unless, because of ideological differences, we propose to commit mass genocide. That wouldn't make us very intelligent and certainly wouldn't differentiate us from those we hate.
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Hulu has been getting a lot of attention for its pranks recently. We even let you in on our last one. But one in-office prank this year took April Fools Day to a new level—and maybe a higher level of consciousness. We thought we should let you know about it. – Ed.
VP of Distribution Pete Distad is known for many things: his ability to manage the complexities of business negotiations, his down-to-earth sensibilities, and his terrific sense of humor. Sadly, the one thing he's terrible at is following through on performing pranks. As seen in the recent Hulu blog post regarding our history, Pete claimed "This year, the joke's on them." But April Fool's Day has come and gone, and Pete has made no attempt to prank those of us who, year after year, convert his desk into any number of ridiculous settings (golf course, tin-foil palace, kid's balloon party).
So this year, we decided to raise the bar a bit and see what new and interesting things we could do to Pete's desk. One challenge, however, was that he, like the rest of our executive staff, no longer work in offices. Virtually everyone at Hulu now resides in open-space cubes. While this helps further our goals of expanding and preserving the Hulu culture, it makes it pretty difficult to come up with a good office-based prank. Ideas were thrown around, but nothing seemed to work. One idea was too expensive, another was too messy, and another wasn't feasible in a short amount of time.
But then, the bar was raised to a whole new level.
Suggested by former Hulugan Zack Seely, who used to work on Pete's team, a group of about 20 folks stayed extra late on Thursday night to convert Pete's desk into the Secret Zen Garden you see above, complete with Buddhist Prayer Flags, floating hand-crafted paper cranes, and roughly 1,000 pounds of sand. River stones now provide the texture his desk as missing, and the soft music of a store-bought Zen CD now fill the moments. (As we like to say at Hulu, we sweat every pixel. But in this instance, it's safe to say that we sweat every grain of sand.)
This endeavor, which totaled about three hours of late-night work, was worth every moment, as Pete wasn't so much shocked at the sight of his desk, but amazed at the craftsmanship of the prank. So much so, in fact, that he's decided to keep the desk as-is for now. In fact, maybe that's the prank Pete had planned all along – that we'd convert his desk into something he'd really enjoy, and rather than spend the time doing it himself, he'd find a way to get us to do it.
Regardless of Pete's potentially nefarious intentions, we'd like to thank Pete for being such a good sport all these years. Maybe next year he'll surprise all of us at our desks; but until then, we'll be quietly generating ideas ourselves. I hear fake snow is easy to purchase this time of year…


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A benefit reading
($50) of the play by Eric Bentley
Mon, 7 pm, Oct. 25
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
Symphony Space, Broadway and 95th Street,
Craig Smith and Elise Stone with children Tesfahun and Hakima.
McCarthy era lessons more relevant than ever
New theater company resurrects Bentley play
By Jerry Tallmer
THE CHAIRMAN: [J. Parnell Thomas, R-N.J.]: Any real American would be proud to answer the question, Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party? any REAL American!
MR, LARDNER [scriptwriter Ring Lardner, Jr.]: I could answer it, but if I did, I would hate myself in the morning.
from the transcript of a hearing before the House Committee on Un-American Activities [HUAC], October 30, 1947, and from the 1972 play by Eric Bentley, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
Craig Smith and Elise Stone, actors, husband and wife, got tired of hating themselves in the morning. And thats why, with three people theyve worked with over the years at the Jean Cocteau Repertory Company Jason Crowl, Angela Madden, Michael Surabian they are now founding a company of their own, the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble.
On Monday, October 25, 7 p.m., at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre of Symphony Space, 95th and Broadway, there will be a reading of Eric Bentleys Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, a time capsule of the HUAC and blacklist era, with proceeds ($50 a ticket) to go toward start-up of the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble.
Playwright Bentley will narrate. Michael Surabian will direct. Craig Smith will be one of the actors. Elise Stone will produce.
Smith and Stones connection with Eric Bentley go way back. Counting off on their fingers the other day, they came up with the following Bentley translations/adaptations from Brecht, Wedekind, et al. in which they have starred, one year or another, at Cocteau Rep: Mans a Man, Woyzeck, Leonce and Lena, Lulu, Edward II, and Elise Stone terrific in the title role Mother Courage.
Are you fellows going to invite John Ashcroft?
Good idea.
Before there was an Are You Now . . . for theater there was Bentleys 900-page 30 Years of Treason.
(Viking Press, 1971; Nation paperback).
The play is drawn 97 percent from that big book, Eric Bentley said the other afternoon in his rambling Riverside Drive apartment. When I was working on the book, I was impressed by the fact that many of the passages in it read like theatrical dialogue.
I typed up a long version and read it to some friends one Sunday evening. It took five hours. Tony Kushner can hold people for five hours, but . . .
Dry pause. So I started shortening it. Now its down to a bit more than two hours, but not much.
The first production of Are You Now . . . was by the Yale Repertory on November 8, 1972, the day after Nixon was reelected. It was subsequently done at Riverside Church and other venues in Manhattan, before triumphant journeys abroad.
We had a gimmick, here in New York, said Bentley.
We cast a different star in the role of Lillian Hellman each week. We started with Liza Minnelli.
Halston came to the theater every night. He told her: You shouldnt be in a play like this. Its very dangerous.
Lillian Hellman (I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this years fashions) has been herself cut out of the present version, but crawling Larry Parks and defiant Paul Robeson and clowning but furious Lionel Stander and bewildered Abe Burrows and name-namer Jerome Robbins and self-hating Sterling Hayden and self-justifying Elia Kazan are all there.
I have done the state some service, and they knowt, said Othello. Robeson had done mankind some service great service black mankind but also every other kind, and his anger, his contempt of the red-baiters, and his pure guts, however Stalinistically misguided, make a fitting close to Bentleys piece for the stage.
Craig Smith showed up at the door of the Cocteau in 1973 and reached for a broom. A tall gangling fellow from Beltrami, Minnesota actually Craig was born near Fertile, Minnesota, his wife would like the press to know Smith has played every possible part a male could play with that company in some 200 productions, always with distinction, clarity, generosity, and has been its leading man for the past 20 years.
Elise Stone, a dark-haired flaming beauty born and bred in the Bronx, came to the Cocteau in 1985. She has been that theaters forceful, flexible leading lady since soon thereafter.
They were married in 1989, and have lived forever in the East Village. They recently acquired became the parents of two children, with a third on the way. All my children are born in Ethiopia, said Elise Stone Smith. They are Tesfahun, a boy who is now 7; Hakima, a girl, 5; and we hope by Christmas Kerim, a boy, 10.
For Elise Stone, for Craig Smith, the time for departure from Cocteau Rep finally snapped into place this summer, some five years after the arrival of a new efficiency-minded producing artistic director in the person of David Fuller.
We havent really totally worked out an answer to why we quit, said Smith. I want to be truthful about it. David Fuller had kind of marginalized all of the senior company members. But beyond that, the Cocteau began to become something other than it -
pretended, his wife threw in.
Than it presented to the outside world, said Smith. In our opinion, anyway, the quality of the work had gotten flat. Every company has peaks and valleys, but the Cocteau of late has had hardly any peaks.
The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble is looking toward new peaks. Craig Smith and Elise Stone and Eric Bentley are now and have ever been mountain climbers.
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Super Crisp Font Anti-Aliasing In Photoshop With Sub-Pixel Hinting
Working with font in Adobe Photoshop can be incredibly frustrating at times, especially when working with small font using anti-aliasing. Creating consistent letterforms and crisp characters can be a bit troublesome given the default anti-aliasing options.
To catch some of you up, anti-aliasing is a technique for rendering smooth fonts. This is best illustrated with a simple example:
By adding semi-transparent pixels to a font, our type loses jagged edges found in aliased font, and create a more accurate representation of the actual letterform. Typically, anti-aliasing is handled by whatever program is displaying the font (ie: your browser and operating system determine how the font in this article is being displayed), but in Photoshop, the user determines how anti-aliasing is used.
The Problem
The problem for Photoshop users becomes this: When working with anti-aliased font in Photoshop, especially at small sizes, there simply aren't enough pixels per character to render super crisp letterforms.
Physically speaking, there are not enough pixels. Since anti-aliasing will alter the opacity of pixels, smaller fonts sometimes won't have enough room for both the 100% opaque pixels and the semi-transparent pixels. The result is blurry, fuzzy type.
In the example above, the "T" and "j" seem especially out of focus. There are very few 100% opaque pixels in several of the letters since there are not enough physical pixels to render into.
It may seem like your only option is to increase the font size so there are more pixels to use, but what if there was a way to actually add more physical pixels?
Adding More Physical Pixels With Sub-Pixels
Every pixel on your monitor is made up of 3 sub-pixels (some newer display technologies may actually have 4). Ignoring these 4-channel displays, every pixel on your monitor has a Red, Green, and Blue sub-pixel. You're probably already very familiar with the concept that a pixel takes it's overall color and brightness by combining the brightness of these 3 sub-pixels (and for some displays, such as plasma, the ability to completely turn off pixels for very deep blacks).
Smashing Magazine has explored this concept, and more regarding anti-aliasing in their post The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing.
Essentially, sub-pixel rendering allows us to use each sub-pixel of the monitor as a pixel in the letterform. The resulting character may have subtle color fringing, but also more desirable definition.
The difference is often subtle, but definitely perceivable. Unfortunately, there is no sub-pixel rendering anti-aliasing option in Adobe Photoshop.
Using Sub-Pixel Rendering In Photoshop
Photoshop smooths fonts by doing anti-aliasing in greyscale. We want photoshop to anti-alias font by blending different color channels though. To do this, we can manually create 3 separate text layers, each only showing a certain color channel (via advanced blending options), and then manually moving the layers barely to the right and left of each other. That's awfully complex though.
Instead, Thomas Maier has created a Photoshop Action that will automatically do all of the work for you. The action takes your input type layer, duplicates it 3 times (while setting each layer to blend only a specific channel), and does all of the translating to simulate sub-pixel rendering.
To use the action, download it from Thomas's website, and load it from Photoshop's action window (Window → Actions). From the Actions tab, select "Load Actions" from the dropdown menu.
Load the Photoshop Action file that you downloaded from Thomas Maier's website. Select the type layer you want to apply the action to. From the action tab, select the "subpixel-hinting" action, and click "Play selection".
Some Notes
This technique is really most useful in creating concepts in Photoshop. When you're working on a website layout in Photoshop, and want an accurate representation of what a font is going to look like in your content body, this action really will do a fantastic job displaying well defined type. Outside of conceptual design, there aren't many applications for this.
Also, as Thomas notes, running this action will create 3 separate type layers. This means that whenever you want to edit type that's been run through this action, you'll have to edit that type 3 times. This can be simplified by duplicating the layer once, hiding one of the duplicate layers, and then running the action on the other. If you have to change something in the future, simply delete the 3 layers, make changes to the hidden layer, and run the action again.
Finally, if you want to learn more about antialiasing, sub-pixel rendering, and pixel hinting, you really should give The Ails of Typographic Anti-Aliasing a read.
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Add point Subtract pointPhotoshop Tutorials (5 Points)
Good solution, I know this frustrates a lot of people that aren't familiar with photoshop.
Well done.
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An excellent solution for a frustrating problem!!!Flag as inappropriate
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Hey, another solution to the 3 separate layers issue, is create a script that does the following:
1. Create a smart clip from the live text layer
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3. apply your layer styles
This way users would just need to edit the smart object, and it would automatically update all the other layers. Voila!Flag as inappropriate
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I miss the "fractional widths" option in this tutorial. Deactivating this option makes same characters look consistent wherever they appear. Very important to know, imho.Flag as inappropriate
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How people could think that this is an 'accurate representation of what a font is going to look like in your content body'?
It depends on your OS and your browser, with cleartype on or off, etc.Flag as inappropriate
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Pulitzer Prize winning historian Alan Taylor, Ph.D., will deliver a keynote address on the War of 1812 and fighting on the Niagara Frontier, Thursday, June 14, at 8 p.m. in the Castellani Art Museum on the campus of Niagara University. The event is free and open to the public.
Taylor is a 1977 graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He is currently a history professor at the University of California, Davis.
Taylor earned his Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for "Mr. Cooper's Town: Power, Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995). Other works by the acclaimed historian include "Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: the Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier 1760-1820" (University of North Carolina Press, 1990); "America Colonies" (Viking/Penguin, 2001); "Writing Early American History" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); and "The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).
In Taylor's most recent work, "The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), Taylor tells of the struggles by similar but disparate peoples that would define national identities.
In an interview released by Knopf Doubleday, Taylor comments on why the War of 1812 is frequently overlooked in the American consciousness.
"The War of 1812 looms small in American memory, forgotten as insignificant, because it apparently ended as a draw that changed no boundary and no policy," he says. "At best, Americans barely recall the war as a handful of patriotic symbols: for inspiring the national anthem, for the victories of a warship dubbed 'Old Ironsides,' for the British perfidy in burning the White House and the Capitol, and for the payback taken by Andrew Jackson's Tennessee riflemen at the Battle of New Orleans. This highly selective memory recasts the war as a defense of the United States against British attacks, and screens out the many defeats suffered by American invaders in Canada."
For Niagara University, host of the lecture, this is a unique opportunity for American and Canadian residents of the Niagara Frontier to challenge conventional beliefs on a war that helped define the character of the place they call home.
"We are very pleased to host this conference, which will lend academic insight to one of the most unique and impactful periods in our region's history," comments Dr. Bonnie Rose, Niagara University's executive vice president. "I would like to express the university's gratitude to Professor Taylor for sharing his expertise with us and also thank our partners for making this opportunity possible."
The lecture by Taylor is a principal part of the June 14-16 conference on New York state history, sponsored by the New York State Historical Association in collaboration with the New York State Archives Partnership Trust. The conference is additionally co-sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Niagara University.
For more information, visitwww.nysha.org, call 888-547-1450, ext. 453, or email [email protected].
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This software is simply used to defish images taken with a fisheye lens. Hence the name. One of it's goals was to demonstrate usage of technology already known before fisheye patents were "invented".
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Video: Mitered Shoulder Dovetail
When building the Monticello Bookcases for the June 2011 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, I used through-dovetails with a mitered shoulder to join the cases. This joint gives a nice finished look to the front edge of the boxes, yet it is easier to do than some other similar joints, including the secret mitered dovetail.
While I know that some woodworkers will be put off by the mitered section of this joint, I encourage you to try it in scrap to see how simple it is. If you can make a regular through-dovetail, this joint is only a couple extra saw cuts.
The trick is to cut the miter freehand and right up on your line. Then, when you assemble the joint, you can tighten up the dovetails by sawing through the miter with a thin-kerf saw. Every cut will tighten the joint at the baselines of your pin board.
I prepared a sample joint this morning and filmed the process.
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By Sharon Begley
NEW YORK (Reuters) - By 2012, Eastman Chemical seemed to be perfectly positioned when it came to producing plastic for drinking bottles. Concerns about a widely used chemical called bisphenol A (BPA) had become so great that Walmart stopped selling plastic baby bottles and children's sippy cups made with it and consumer groups were clamoring for regulators to ban it. Medical societies were warning that BPA's similarity to estrogens could disrupt the human hormone system and pose health risks, especially to fetuses and newborns.
Eastman, a specialty-chemicals company headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, had been selling Tritan, its trademarked hard, clear plastic, as an alternative to BPA for five years. It told prospective customers that Tritan was free of BPA and any other chemical that mimicked human hormones like estrogens. To support the claim, the company pointed to "independent third-party testing," whose results were reported in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, which is published by Elsevier.
As more manufacturers and retailers abandoned BPA, some wanted to make absolutely sure that Eastman's safety claims for Tritan had been reviewed independently. The Austin, Texas, office of upscale grocer Whole Foods, for instance, asked Eastman if it funded "any of these labs" that determined Tritan had no estrogenic properties, according to an email from Eastman chemist Emmett O'Brien and disclosed in a lawsuit.
"I mentioned that we did not and they were happy with the answer," O'Brien said in the email.
Eastman did not make O'Brien available for comment. Because an employee of Whole Foods "is under subpoena in this case," said spokeswoman Libba Letton, "we can't comment on it."
In fact, the four labs that tested Tritan for the peer-reviewed paper in the Elsevier journal received funding from Eastman that was not publicly disclosed. Also not reported by Eastman's marketing materials or the paper: The lead author of the study, who analyzed the data from the four labs, was paid by Eastman for that work.
The financial relationships Eastman had with four "independent" labs emerged from discovery in a lawsuit brought by the company against two chemical testing and consulting firms that challenged the safety of Tritan. In the case, which began this week in Austin, Eastman alleged that PlastiPure Inc and CertiChem Inc falsely portrayed Tritan as having hormone-disrupting properties similar to BPA in an effort to market their own services.
It isn't clear how or whether Eastman's role in sponsoring its pro-Tritan study will figure in the case. But the connection between Eastman and scientists who produced the favorable study raises questions among some scientists and businesses about the company's description of the research as independent.
Eastman spokeswoman Maranda Demuth said that although the company commissioned the labs to do the studies, it "had no role or input on the analysis of the tests or the results."
Elsevier confirmed to Reuters that prior to publication the paper's lead author and his co-authors - scientists from the four labs - disclosed to the editors that Eastman paid them to conduct the analysis and write it up. But the paper carried a note saying that the "authors declare no conflict of interest," and there was no "acknowledgements" section, where researchers typically indicate who funded their work.
As a result, readers had no way of knowing about the Eastman connection, information that scientists typically use to judge the merits of a study's methodology and conclusions.
The reason for the nondisclosure, said Tom Reller, vice resident of global corporate relations for Elsevier, was that "they (the authors) felt there was no conflict as Eastman had no part in the design, analysis or data interpretation." He said the journal's editors, who declined to comment to Reuters, accepted the authors' declaration, but he declined to explain whether it is authors or editors who get the final say in whether information about funding is disclosed via a "conflict" statement. It is not apparent how frequently conflicts of interest are reported in Elsevier journals.
The approach of letting authors decide if they have conflicts of interest that should be disclosed is embraced by some less prominent science and medical journals. The leading scientific journals, in contrast, tell authors that any financial relationship with an interested party in the research must be disclosed to readers. U.S. law requires that scientists disclose ties with pharmaceutical companies when they present research.
"It's not for authors to decide what a conflict is," said Dr. Jerome Kassirer of Tufts University, former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine and a longtime leader of journals' efforts to disclose such conflicts to their readers. (He is not involved in the Eastman lawsuit.)
"A conflict exists when there is a dual loyalty," said Kassirer, who believes both journal editors and authors are on the hook for being as transparent as possible regarding funding. Disclosing payment from an interested party and then telling the journal such compensation is not a conflict of interest "is a highly unusual way of doing things," he said.
CertiChem and PlastiPure, both founded by neuroscientist George Bittner of the University of Texas, published a paper in 2011 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) reporting that many non-BPA plastics such as Tritan have estrogenic activity, especially after being exposed to sunlight or washed with detergent. EHP is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Tritan is a polymer made of three molecular building blocks; none are BPA.
The authors disclosed that they are employed by, own stock in and have other financial ties to CertiChem and PlastiPure, as shown on the first page of the paper.
On the heels of this study, PlastiPure, a consulting firm that advises companies on ways to synthesize new or existing plastics to make them hormone-activity-free, told clients and asserted in brochures pitching its services that, based on the research reported in EHP, Tritan is not estrogen-activity-free.
Eastman's contrary claim, that Tritan is not estrogenic, was bolstered by the 2012 study in Food and Chemical Toxicology. Based on tests from two university and two commercial labs, the authors concluded that the three molecules from which Tritan is made "do not pose an ... estrogenic risk to humans."
Court documents show that Eastman paid lead author Thomas Osimitz, a toxicologist at consulting firm Science Strategies, $10,000 to assemble the data and write the paper. The remaining authors were scientists at the labs, and all received payment from Eastman, the company's lawyer Rick Harrison said in a pretrial hearing. The total value of the four lab contracts, which funded the scientists to conduct tests on Tritan, could not be determined.
"There are statements by the ... authors that they were funded by Eastman in participating and writing the paper," Harrison told Judge Sam Sparks. "Those have never been made public."
Gary Sayler, a co-author of the Food and Chemical Toxicology paper and director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Tennessee, one of the labs that provided data on Tritan, said Eastman had sponsored the testing that produced the data for the Osimitz study. Eastman acknowledges this.
"The work was done under contract to our research center," Sayler told Reuters. "Just normal salary and supplies. Nobody was supported in anything above their normal salary rate."
Researchers from the other three labs declined comment, citing the ongoing litigation, or did not respond.
Despite efforts by U.S. lawmakers and scientists to make research more transparent, how researchers, journals and companies interpret disclosure requirements varies widely, members of the research community say.
"Many journals don't even ask about conflict of interest," said Sayler, who is himself the editor of an environmental studies journal. "Normally if you just report the funding for research that's sufficient ... It's not a fiduciary responsibility on my part. We're not going to be enriched by this."
Documents in the Austin trial suggest that Eastman was involved in designing the Osimitz study even though it was conducted far from its headquarters and despite the authors' claims to the contrary. According to an expert report that he submitted to the Texas court, Eastman toxicologist James Deyo worked with one lab to "develop the proper dosage levels" of Tritan monomers to give to lab animals in the test, the goal of which was to determine whether Tritan mimics human hormones.
Asked about the discrepancy between Deyo's statement and Eastman's characterization of the research as "independent," spokeswoman Demuth said the company "is not providing additional comments beyond what is publicly available."
Deyo also said that he helped work out the "protocols" for the study - essentially, how it would be conducted. Both dosage levels and protocols can affect an experiment's outcome.
Eastman maintains that because the four labs are not part of the company per se, their work can accurately be described as independent and "third party."
Three days before the start of the trial, Osimitz told Reuters that the Elsevier journal's disclosure forms were "very confusing." He declined to comment further on the pre-publication vetting process, but said that he had just submitted to the journal a correction to the statement that "the authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest."
"Eastman paid for the work," he said. "There is no question about that."
(Reporting by Sharon Begley; editing by Prudence Crowther)


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Understanding our deepest fear
NOT for the first time, I am aware that one thing leads to another when thinking about subject matter for a column.
For no reason other than desperation, my search for ideas led me back to a talk I gave at a Fairholme College fundraising breakfast in September 2006.
I've long forgotten what the money was for or why an early start on a Saturday morning was thought to be a good idea.
The principal in those days was Stan Klan, Stan the Man, who apparently now lives on long-distance European trains although that certainly was not the reason for the fundraising.
I keep a record of all these little talks, about 500 of them, on my computer and will probably transfer them to my lovely new iPad as soon as I have mastered the necessary gestures....
My stuff at the breakfast included dubious Latin quotes and references to a snobby English girls' school adjacent to my own snobby English boys' school. Access to the snobby girls was achieved by misdirecting a discus thrown during testosterone-fired training sessions, with the subsequent need for retrieval when their snobby principal was looking the other way.
I'm sure it's not like that at Fairholme, but it did provide me with the basis from which to talk about the importance of encouraging the very brightest in our community to cherish and nurture their brightness.
In retrospect, some of what I said then was actually surprisingly good, especially with challengingly early bacon and eggs and the prospect of a long weekly shopping trip ahead of many of us.
I finished my stuff by saying:
"It's incredibly important we care for those with disabilities, those with learning difficulties and those who achieve marvellous progress and outcomes despite those difficulties. However, it is equally important that we recognise the needs of the intellectually most able among us....and 'license people to be outstanding'.
"We need to tell people that it's okay to be bright, okay to be smarter than the average, just as it's okay to be the best at netball, or swimming or caring for people. Being given the 'freedom' to be really excellent at anything can be incredibly scary."
I then made the mistake of trying to be clever.
I read them what I described as a famous quotation from former President Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address.
It's the one that begins: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
Unfortunately I now know that Nelson Mandela never said that, brilliant though he was. Many people, luckily including my audience that morning, think he did so I got away with it.
The quote is actually by a fascinatingly complicated woman called Marianne Williamson from her book A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles.
The full quote, still brilliant, can be seen at aetw.org/mandela and I recommend it.
Anyway, I've actually come full circle in my search for subject matter. Truth to tell, I had originally decided to write about Nelson Mandela. He's one of my greatest heroes and he is fighting to recover and retain his health.
An African National Congress activist, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1962, spending 27 years in prison before being released in February 1990. He was the first black African president of South Africa, from 1994-1999.
During his presidency, the ANC's chief whip in parliament and subsequently the premier of the Eastern Cape, Makhenkesi Stofile, was a huge Mandela friend and supporter. I sat next to Premier Stofile at a dinner for him during his visit to USQ some years ago.
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This is Day 3 of Automobile Magazine's 2014 Compact Sedan Comparison Review, a comparison test that is meant to help you find an affordable, compact, multipurpose sedan that you'd be happy to drive to work, to the pick-up zone at school, or to the big-box store for a weekend errand.
As we noted in our Day 1 introduction, we put together eight of the best compact sedans and drove them at the same time on the same roads. We made our notes and organized our facts. Then we argued about the results.
The way we see it, these are the best compact sedans in America right now. We've tried to ensure that our test vehicles represent a useful level of features – nicely equipped, as they say — yet don't cost too much. Given the practical realities of acquiring so many test vehicles at the same time, they aren't all priced exactly the same, but we did our best.
The cars we're testing are the Chevrolet Cruze, Dodge Dart, Ford Focus, Honda Civic, Kia Forte, Mazda 3, Toyota Corolla, and Volkswagen Jetta. To make our comparisons as direct as possible, we organized a scheme wherein we matched the vehicles in brackets, just as you would see in an athletic tournament (think March Madness). The losers will be knocked out one by one until the winner presents itself.
As we did yesterday on Day 2 of this comparison, we will present an accounting of four vehicles, and two contenders will be eliminated. Tomorrow, on Day 4, we'll present excerpts from our test notebook on the final four and will select our two finalists. On Friday, for Day 5, the two finalists will go head to head, and we will declare a winner.
Today's match-ups:
- 2014 Chevrolet Cruze vs. 2014 Volkswagen Jetta
- 2013 Honda Civic vs. 2014 Toyota Corolla
2014 Chevrolet Cruze vs. 2014 Volkswagen Jetta
2014 Chevrolet Cruze 1LT
When the Chevrolet Cruze first appeared as a 2009 model, it knocked us out. Compared with the small, coarse sedans that Chevrolet had produced dating back to the Cavalier (and even the Vega of the 1970s before that), this car seemed like a miracle of international breeding, combining the best of a European chassis, a Korean drivetrain, and American styling, not to mention American development and manufacture. But, tough luck, the Ford Focus stole the spotlight.
Nevertheless, the Cruze has turned things around for Chevrolet in the compact sedan segment, and the appearance of the 2014 Cruze diesel shows how serious General Motors is about this small car. We have liked the Cruze in general because it handles so well (really), delivers such good fuel economy (really), and makes so many features available for so little money (really).
Compared with the other sedans in our comparison, the 2014 Cruze 1LT aspires to be a large car, not a small one. It wants to be refined and sophisticated, a Chevy that has been to charm school.
More than you expect
When you put the 2014 Chevrolet Cruze next to the 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, there's more to it than you might expect. There's more to the styling, that's for sure, although we'd argue that Chevy's corporate twin-grille look makes it seem as if there are about three grilles too many. More surprising is the sheer size of the Cruze. It measures 181.0 inches in overall length on a wheelbase of 105.7 inches and has a total passenger volume is 95 cubic feet. Front-seat passengers get most of the benefit, with 42.3 inches of legroom; rear-seat passengers get 35.4. (Probably this is the right proportion, since kids will be the ones to occupy the back seat most often.)
The interior presentation is pretty stylish in terms of architecture, but the execution depends on the model that you pick. This particular test car didn't make us feel particularly charmed, and we picked it apart as a result. The short bottom cushions of the front seats made us feel as if we were in a small car, not a large one. The array of electronic features and connectivity options was pretty good, but most of us couldn't get along with the Chevrolet MyLink interface, as the lack of haptic feedback made the system feel unresponsive and clumsy, no matter how quickly the electrons raced around.
Less than the big car we were promised
As compact sedans go, the Cruze actually feels sporty rather than big, and its lively responses and balance in the corners set it apart from most of the competition. If you set the Focus as a standard, the Cruze's suspension calibration helps it feel better isolated from cracked pavement even as it delivers a reassuring balance of grip from the front and rear tires in the corners.
For all this, however, we didn't get the big car benefits that we hoped for from this $23,540 Cruze 1LT. We could hear the road too well even through the flaccid tires, and the ride never delivered the gracefulness that we to find in any car, large or small. The 138-hp, turbocharged 1.4-liter engine felt coarse at anything other than cruising speed, perhaps because the slow-shifting, six-speed automatic transmission seemed to conspire against performance. The powertrain seems meant for freeway cruising, where the engine's 148 lb-ft of torque proves adequate. This powertrain is EPA rated at 26 mpg city/38 mpg highway.
The 2014 Chevrolet Cruze didn't make any enemies during our drive to Kalamazoo and home again, but neither did it make any friends.
–Michael Jordan
2014 Volkswagen Jetta SE
When the 2011 Volkswagen Jetta came ashore from Germany, it promised both more and less. Its stretched exterior dimensions promised more interior passenger space than the Jetta of the previous generation, and a stripped-down complement of features and trim (plus the promise of U.S.-based manufacture in Tennessee), meant a lower price. Sadly, we felt that lowering the bottom line resulted in less car, as the Jetta no longer drove with the European spirit that had formerly made it stand out from its competitors.
But three years along, the 2014 Volkswagen Jetta seems like a different proposition. The new 1.8-liter turbocharged four-cylinder makes this car feel far more powerful than you might expect from 170 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque. It is mated to a six-speed automatic transmission and delivers an EPA-rated 25 mpg city/36 mpg highway. (Oddly enough, this is better fuel economy than you can get from the 115-hp, normally aspirated, 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine.)
Ach, it looks so German
Compared with some of the smaller, snappy-looking sedans in our test group, the 2014 Jetta comes across as big and square-rigged, more like the mid-size VW Passat than an affordable compact sedan. When the bodywork is stripped of its adornment, this is not such a good thing, as the Jetta looks like something that you might find at a taxi stand in Frankfurt. Fortunately, Volkswagen of America has backed off some of visual austerity (or maybe we're just getting used to it) in this $23,985 Volkswagen Jetta SE (with connectivity and sunroof).
On the other hand, there are some advantages to looking like a taxi, because the VW Jetta feels very spacious when you're behind the wheel. Partly this is because the passengers are packaged fairly upright, as the car's overall height of 57.2 inches suggests. Partly this is because rear-seat passengers have 38.1 inches of legroom. And partly this is because the car is pretty big, offering 94.1 cubic feet of interior passenger volume.
But then when you look at the largely unadorned dashboard, you're right back there in taxi-land. That said, VW has made some strides in its array of features for electronic connectivity, and indeed the connector for the MDI cable has at long last made its way from the glovebox to the center console.
And it drives German, too
Now that the former five-cylinder engine has been replaced by the turbocharged four-cylinder, the drivetrain feels smoother than before, and the Jetta cruises effortlessly on the highway. Strangely, the engine feels like a diesel, because the six-speed automatic has been programmed to shift smoothly (although slowly) to ride the wave of torque at low rpm. It even sounds a bit like a diesel, thanks to a resonator box behind the dash that enhances engine sounds from this otherwise very quiet car.
The Jetta rides and handles like a big car. A wheelbase of 104.4 inches delivers reassuring straightline stability, and the long-travel suspension smoothly strokes up and down over the bumps in the road. There's plenty of body roll in the corners, yet there's never a loss in composure. Oddly enough, the multi-link independent suspension helps the car respond to steering inputs with more liveliness, and you don't mind the new electric-assist steering system at all.
When it comes to compact sedans, there are small, sporty ones and big, comfortable ones, even though this is frequently a matter of tuning rather than simply the car's physical dimensions. The 2014 Volkswagen Jetta is a big, comfortable one, and we prefer the way it goes about its business compared with the Chevrolet Cruze LT1, which has similar aspirations.
– Michael Jordan
Winner: 2014 Volkswagen Jetta
2013 Honda Civic vs. 2014 Toyota Corolla
2013 Honda Civic EX
Everyone knows about the Honda Civic. When you're behind the wheel, the view seems familiar, since Honda has carefully formatted the driving position to make the car as easy and natural to drive as possible. You know that you'll get where you're going with great fuel economy along the way. This is what makes the Civic the segment's bestselling car year after year, including 2013. Recommend a Civic to someone and there's never a question about it; they just give you a thumbs-up and set off for the nearest Honda dealer.
Such trustworthiness has its downside, though. When Honda tries to change the Civic, people resist. After the introduction of the current-generation Civic for 2012, a kind of scandal brewed when Honda enthusiasts worried that the car's presentation had been compromised in the name of a cheaper price. Honda responded quickly, and the 2013 Civic sedan incorporated not only nicer interior trim but also acoustically insulated glass for the windshield and front windows, higher quality dampers, and a chassis reinforced to withstand new federal standards for crashworthiness. Enthusiasts were satisfied.
Déjà vu all over again
For better or worse, climbing into the Civic is like traveling back in time. Honda's design maxim has long been "Man Maximum, Machine Minimum." So it's no surprise that the Civic sedan feels roomier than any other car in this comparison, even though its interior passenger volume of 94.6 cubic feet is much the same as its rivals. It's remarkably easy to see the road from the driver's seat, which is quite an accomplishment in an era of demanding crash standards that create thick roof pillars and thick doors. Thanks to a perfectly flat floor, even an adult who forgets to call shotgun and is exiled to the back seat can ride in relative comfort.
All this good design comes with hardly a lick of style, though. Even after the 2013 interior makeover, the plastic surfaces still look a lot like, well, plastic. The driver's seat is one of the most comfortable in the test but wears cheap-looking fabric that, according to one of us "screams 1993." Most important, the era of the Apple iPhone seems to have passed by the Civic, whose digital instrument panel appears to have been inspired by an Atari video-game console of the 1980s. None of us could get comfortable with the two-tier display, which always seems to obscure the speedometer readout behind the rim of the steering wheel, no matter how tall or short you might be.
Transcendental meditation at 65 mph
The Civic remains one of the easiest cars to drive in the compact class, but it has lost much of the zippiness that import tuners loved in the 1980s and '90s. The 143-hp 1.8-liter four-cylinder sings smoothly at any rpm. The 2013 Civic we drove still had a five-speed automatic, but it doesn't matter—the Civic cruises quietly on the highway and achieves 32 mpg, combined. (The 2014 Civic now uses a CVT, which improves to 33 mpg combined).
The steering is sharp and quick for effortless around-town maneuvering, but it doesn't offer much feedback. The ride from the Civic with its 105.1-inch wheelbase is surprisingly supple for a Honda, yet this isn't a lively car — we sometimes found ourselves zoning out behind the wheel. Still, we're mature enough to realize most of the people who buy compact cars are not enthusiasts. The $21,605 Honda Civic EX is perfect for most of them, as it has been for decades. As West Coast editor Michael Jordan says, "This car still expresses all the Honda values – simplicity, reliability, fuel economy." He's so old that he remembers when the Civic was invented, so probably he should know.
– David Zenlea
2014 Toyota Corolla S Plus
Akio Toyoda, the CEO of Toyota Motor Company, has talked a lot about making mainstream cars more exciting and youthful. Sounds great to us, since we're the crowd that believes in "No Boring Cars."
The 2014 Corolla promises newness, including a new look inside and out, a roomier passenger package, a more fuel-efficient powertrain, and a livelier personality with some fizz. At the same time, the Corolla is also a car with traditional values – QDR, or quality, durability and reliability. This is the eleventh generation of this nameplate, and it celebrates more than 40 million Corollas sold since 1966. Some 1.1 million versions of the Corolla are built around the world every year, including in a new U.S. assembly plant in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Altogether, this business of making compact sedans reminds us of the cola wars; the repackaging of a familiar formula for a new generation. But whereas Honda has distilled the Civic to its essence, like Coca-Cola in a classic glass bottle, the 2014 Toyota Corolla tastes a bit like a can of New Coke.
Déjà vu all over again, but not in a good way
The first word that comes to mind in describing the new 2014 Corolla is "confused." The exterior design has lots of overdone details, but the basics are bland. Meanwhile, the interior design architecture is a mess of randomly intersecting, cheap-looking plastics. "The door panels have, like, fifty different lines," observed associate web editor Jake Holmes.
Still, there are some nice elements in the interior, notably in Corolla models with the more expensive trim, such as our test car. One of us raved about the flat, horizontal instrument panel, and a few editors liked the yellow stitching on the seats. Nevertheless, these elements don't coalesce into an attractive whole, and the Corolla looks conspicuously old, not new. "How did all this get past the final design committee?" wondered deputy editor Joe DeMatio.
Really, they meant well
Fortunately, somewhere under all of this is a pretty good small car, now with a wheelbase stretched to 106.3 inches to afford an impressive 97.5 cubic feet of passenger volume, including 41.4 inches of rear-seat legroom. The backseat is roomy and easy to climb into. Slim A-pillars provide excellent forward visibility.
The engineers probably intended excitement. The CVT has been electronically calibrated to do a good impression of a seven-speed automatic, and this Corolla S Plus even has shift paddles on the steering wheel. But there's only so much the transmission can do with the 1.8-liter four-cylinder's anemic 132 hp and 128 lb-ft of torque. As the noisy protests from the CVT make clear every time you get serious about acceleration, the mission here is fuel efficiency, not fizz. At least the Corolla S Plus delivers efficiency with 29 mpg city/39 mpg highway.
Entry-level versions of the Corolla don't aspire to much, but this $22,870 Corolla S Plus adds rear disc brakes and 17-inch wheels, so it's trying. Sadly, the combination of a torsion-beam rear suspension and 45-series tires noticeably compromises comfort, the suspension calibration feels floppy, and the electric-assist steering requires lots of attention to keep the car from wandering. Asking the engine to work hard just seems wrong, even with just 2865 pounds to pull. "I don't get the sense that I'm in control of the car," said Jake Holmes. "It's all over the road," added road test editor Christopher Nelson.
Time has caught up with the Toyota Corolla. The others cars in this comparison are no longer pushovers that can offer only tasteless generic-brand flavor. These days, everyone has got fizz. The Toyota Corolla takes a half-hearted stab at repackaging its familiar formula and fails to deliver.
—David Zenlea


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This is the cleverest platformer I've seen in a long time – apologies if it's already made the rounds in your circle. It's an ascii art platformer, done in flash with Megaman sounds. It's called Jineseiowata no Daibouken, or 'life-ending adventure,' and it's absolutely brilliant in the ways it plays with platform game conventions, especially the oldschool ones. I guarantee it'll trip you up a number of times. It had me laughing and cursing out loud. That happens basically never. Do give it a play through!
Thanks to chaz for finding it. X is shoot, Z is jump, R is retry. If you're feeling weak, you can check out a youtube video of a pretty well completed quest, but trust me, it's a lot more fun to discover for yourself. I've heard tell that the creator is updating the game continually, so…well…somebody needs to give this person some money.
As a final note, if you start getting obsessive about this (not like me, I hasten to add), check out his test/proving ground page for a bit of an intro to the mechanics.


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Eric Jean-Guillaume, the two-time Northeast-10 Player of the Year, scored 17 points to lead Franklin Pierce University to an 80-63 rout of New Haven in the semifinals of the NCAA East Regional Division II Men's Basketball Tournament at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester Sunday.
In the semifinal opener Dion Waiters scored 18 points including a go-ahead lay-up with 43 seconds left as the University of Bridgeport defeated Assumption 58-56.
Bridgeport will meet Franklin Pierce for the tournament championship on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at SNHU.
Franklin Pierce, on 57-percent shooting from the field (17-for-30), held a commanding 44-19 halftime lead against New Haven and never looked back.
Guillaume was 7-of-10 from the field in 33 minutes of action.
He was one for four starters to finish the game in double-digit points. Adrianos Vourliotakis Perdikaris, Ellis Cooper and Ryen Vilmont were all instrumental in preventing New Haven from mounting a comeback in the second half.
The Ravens roared out of the gates on a 16-0 run for a 20-4 lead just eight minutes into the game.
Ellis dominated that spurt with two lay-ups, a three-point basket and a free throw before Jean-Guillaume capped it with a three-point field goal.
Ryen Vilmont scored five straight points to keep the margin at 16, before the Ravens went on a 17-5 run over the final 5:10 of the first half. Jean-Guillaume hit another three-pointer for a 30-14 lead and his lay-up with 48 seconds remaining made it 42-17.
Jean-Guillaume was just heating up. He opened the second half with a lay-up and a three-point shot to extend the Ravens' lead to 49-24. FPU maintained a 25-point lead seven minutes into the second half, 59-34.
New Haven couldn't close the gap because Ellis and Adrianos Vourliotakis Perdikaris were matching them point for point. The two players combined for eight points during an 8-2 mini run that extended FPU's lead from 65-42 to 73-44 with 9:03 left. Cooper retired to the bench for the remainder of the game at that point and Jean-Guillaume was pulled with 7:24 remaining.
A lay-up and two free throws from Tim Beinert had given Assumption a 56-55 lead with 54 seconds remaining. After Waiters made his lay-up, Assumption played for the last shot, but Beinert missed a jumper with seven seconds remaining.
Jo Jo Swift of Bridgeport was fouled with four seconds left and made one free throw for the final margin of victory. A desperation three-point shot by Assumption's Kevin Donahue missed the mark for the potential win. Beinert tallied 18 points to lead the Greyhounds.


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Job Chapter 36
1. Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2. Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
3. I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4. For truly my words shall not be false:he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
5. Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any:he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6. He preserveth not the life of the wicked:but giveth right to the poor.
7. He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous:but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
8. And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
9. Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
10. He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
11. If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12. But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13. But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath:they cry not when he bindeth them.
14. They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15. He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
16. Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
17. But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked:judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18. Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke:then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
19. Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20. Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21. Take heed, regard not iniquity:for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
22. Behold, God exalteth by his power:who teacheth like him?
23. Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
24. Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
25. Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
26. Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27. For he maketh small the drops of water:they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
28. Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
29. Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
30. Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
31. For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
32. With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
33. The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.
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Cotton Incorporated has announced it is working with Gap to conduct the Cotton From Blue To Green denim drive in about 1,000 Gap stores across the United States.
The program began March 5 and will continue until March 14. Until the program ends, consumers across the country can donate used denim at their local Gap. All donated denim will then be given a "new life" by being converted into UltraTouch Natural Cotton Fiber Insulation, and donated to help build houses for communities in need. Consumers who donate their denim will receive a 30 percent discount off new denim purchases at Gap.
"Cotton Incorporated is delighted to team with Gap on the Cotton From Blue To Green nationwide denim drive," said J. Berrye Worsham, president, and CEO, Cotton Incorporated. "Year after year, this program continues to gain momentum, building positive consumer impressions for cotton, and this collaboration with Gap will build on the program's success over the past five years." Since the program began, the Cotton From Blue To Green denim drive has recycled enough denim to create natural cotton fiber insulation for more than 540 homes.
The denim drive is part of Gap's "Recycle Your Blues" event, where customers who donate denim will receive 30 percent off new denim purchases from Gap, GapKids or babyGap through March 14.
For more information about Cotton Incorporated's Cotton From Blue To Green denim drive program, visit http://www.CottonFromBlueToGreen.org.
The Cotton Research & Promotion Program continues to work in all areas of cotton's pipeline — from the field to the consumer — to keep cotton the No. 1 fiber choice in the U.S. For more information about the Cotton Board and the innovative activities stemming from the program, visit http://www.cottonboard.org.
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Better than expected yields in most cotton-producing states has increased the size of the estimated 2006 U.S. cotton crop by 2 percent from last month to 20.7 million bales, according to USDA's Oct. 12 crop production report. USDA also estimated record soybean production.
U.S. cotton production is still down 14 percent from last year's record high production, according to USDA. Yield is expected to average 774 pounds per acre, up 12 pounds from last month but down 57 pounds from last year. October harvested area is expected to total 12.8 million acres, unchanged from last month but down 7 percent from 2005. The higher production forecast is a result of better than expected yields throughout the Delta and parts of the Southeast.
Average yields increased or stayed the same as last month for every cotton-producing state except Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico. Significant yield increases from last month were reported for Florida, 115 pounds; Louisiana, 78 pounds; and Virginia, 84 pounds.
U.S. rice production in 2006 is forecast at 192.3 million hundredweight, down about 1 million hundredweight from last month. Harvested area remains projected at 2.82 million acres, down 16 percent from a year earlier. Average yield is estimated at 6,811 pounds per acre, down 35 pounds from last month.
Long-grain production is projected at 142.9 million hundredweight, 700,000 hundredweight below last month, while combined medium- and short-grain production is estimated at 49.4 million hundredweight, down 300,000 hundredweight.
Soybean production is forecast at 3.19 billion bushels, up 3 percent from the September forecast and up 4 percent from the 2005 crop. If realized, this would be the highest production on record. Based on Oct. 1 conditions, yields are expected to average 42.8 bushels per acre, up 1 bushel from September but down 0.2 bushel from last year's record high yield.
Compared with last month, yield forecasts are unchanged or higher in all states except South Dakota. States with the largest expected increase from September are Illinois and Virginia, both up 3 bushels from last month. Timely rains and cooler temperatures improved yield expectations in the central and northern Corn Belt.
USDA reported acreage updates in several states and soybean planted area stands now at 75.6 million acres, up 1 percent from June and up 5 percent from 2005. Expected area for harvest, at 74.5 million acres, is up 1 percent from September and 5 percent above 2005.
U.S. corn production is forecast at 10.9 billion bushels, down 2 percent from both last month and 2005. Based on conditions as of Oct. 1, yields are expected to average 153.5 bushels per acre, down 1.2 bushels from September but 5.6 bushels higher than last year. If realized, the yield would be the second largest on record, behind '04.
Forecast yields are lower than September across the central Corn Belt as early harvest results revealed that the hot, dry summer conditions had reduced yield potential more than anticipated. However, producers in the northern and eastern Corn Belt reported better than expected yields due mainly to timely rainfall during the growing season.
Expected yields across the northern and southern Great Plains are unchanged from last month. USDA also reported acreage updates in several states bringing total corn planted acres to 78.6 million acres, down 1 percent from June and 4 percent lower than '05.


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1984: Orwell wrote a cautionary tale. George Bush mistook it for a manifesto.
The Idaho Senate's New Right Wing
The Idaho State Senate changed control last election. The change did not manifest itself overtly or immediately. The change evolved with the session, with a couple self serving factions coming together for mutual gain in tapping majority power. The change happened recently by way of a a
When the secretary took the roll, Senators Hagedorn, Bayer, Goedde, and Nuxoll were in attendance plus Rep. Anderson from Priest Lake. Each of these senators voted nay on the education budget forcing the extended session. The connection between Goedde and Anderson is well known, but Goedde and Hagedorn don't often hang, yet shared a private conversation at the arrival of Goedde and Anderson. Like Anderson, Goedde is reviewed typically as a moderate but no stranger to ideological extremism, especially when education is concerned. Of major interest was Taliban Barbie who dominated the center of the group. Yet the ring leader appeared to be Phil Hardy, who once famously said that "regressive is the new progressive". Mr. Hardy was recently let go after an unfortunate tweet on his boss's twitter account (Congressman Raul Labrador) which stated "Me likey Broke Girls" during the Super Bowl which was airing a risque ad.
Given Senator Goedde's turf battle caused the legislative session to go long, at the expense of the taxpayer, the celebratory atmosphere seemed untoward, particularly since little changed from the education budget this group rejected. Yet these were lawmakers, who wouldn't otherwise socialize together, sharing drinks with extremist Senator Nuxoll and a stakeholder for some of the most socially conservative issues facing Idaho and the country. Senator Goedde proved his point, that he matters, and power brokers better salve his ego, if they want government to work. But the cost of this alliance has yet to materialize. The social conservatives have not yet been paid for their fealty to Goedde's revolt, which might be as small as a tax exemption, or as big as a full frontal assault on Roe v. Wade. Of more interest to some, is whether Phil Hardy is becoming a power broker in his own right, or still working for Labrador, as Labrador ponders a run for Governor, in an attack from the right.
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. . . we aren't really surprised, are we?
My thanks, too, for the rundown!
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KAUFMAN, Texas – Law enforcement is beefing up security for prosecutors in Texas following the killing of a district attorney and his wife.
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were found shot to death Saturday in their home near Forney, about 20 miles east of Dallas. Their deaths come two month's after one of McLelland's assistant district attorneys was gunned down in a parking lot near his courthouse office.
Authorities haven't said much about their investigation into the latest killings. But prosecutors have confirmed they're taking steps to better protect themselves and their staffs.
Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson said he accepted the Houston sheriff's offer of 24-hour security for him and his family. Tarrant County District Attorney Joe Shannon declined to discuss specific steps his staff has taken.


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The New Orleans Saints have released DT Remi Ayodele, QB Luke McCown, TE Jake Byrne, WR Marques Clark, OT Hutch Eckerson, OG Paul Fenaroli, C Brian Folkerts, WR Kevin Hardy, CB Kamaal Mcllwain, DT Swanson Miller, WR Derek Moye, CB Cord Parks, DE Donavan Robinson, LB Aaron Tevis and S Johnny Thomas.
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The New York Jets agreed to terms with undrafted rookie free-agent OL John Cullen (Utah), LB Marcus Dowtin (North Alabama), CB Donnie Fletcher (Boston College), DL Damon Harrison (William Penn), QB G.J. Kinne (Tulsa), TE Brian Linthicum (Michigan State), DB D'Anton Lynn (Penn State), CB Ryan Steed (Furman), LB Donovan Robinson (Jackson State) and LB Brett Roy (Nevada). Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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SETTING: A girl's bedroom.
(A Girl is getting ready to go to sleep, and she still has her big glasses on. Her front tooth is blackened, so it looks like it is missing.)
(Mom comes in to tuck her daughter in.)
Mom:You were such a brave girl today, taking out that tooth! I think somebody might be getting a visit from the Tooth Fairy tonight!
I'm putting my tooth under my pillow now so she can give me money for it. Mommy, do you think the Tooth Fairy will really come?
Mom:If you believe in her, she will come!
Girl:I love the Tooth Fairy.
Mom:Good night sweetheart!
Girl:Night Mommy!
(Girl puts the tooth under her pillow and switches off the light. Mom kisses her on the forehead. After Mom leaves, the Girl grins a toothless grin and lets out a mischievous cackle as she rubs her hands together.)
Heh, heh, heh!
(As the Girl slowly falls asleep, the Tooth Fairy enters the bedroom and starts to take the tooth from under the pillow, when suddenly the Girl wakes up.)
Girl:Ah yes, the Tooth Fairy! I've been expecting you. Hmm...I didn't think you'd be a boy.
Tooth Fairy:Listen, kid. You never saw me. Just go back to sleep.
Girl:I have some questions for you.
Tooth Fairy:I'm not here. You're actually dreaming! Shhhhh. Shhhushhie shush shushhie.
I thought you were supposed to be a girl.
Tooth Fairy:And I thought you were supposed to be asleep! Now shut your eyes and go back to snorey snore-snore land.
Girl:What do you do with all the teeth?
Tooth Fairy:Come on, could you just go back to sleep?
Girl:I want to know why you're buying all these teeth!
Tooth Fairy:We sell them. We've got a business. You know those Styrofoam peanuts that you find in boxes? Those are made out of kid teeth. Okay?
Girl:Ewww! Gross!
Tooth Fairy:Hey, it's a living. Now go to sleep. Please.
Girl:Okay, let's get serious. How much money do you have for me?
Tooth Fairy:A quarter! Everybody gets a quarter.
Girl:A quarter? I don't think you're following the most recent tooth exchange rates.
Tooth Fairy:Oh no?
(The Girl pulls out a "Tooth Pricing Chart" and a pointer.)
Girl:The European Euro tooth has been strong against the American Buck Tooth, but our dental market has been on the rise. Molars and bicuspids will run you about a quarter nowadays, but you've got a central incisor right there. That's gonna run you at least a dollar.
Tooth Fairy:Oh boy.
Girl:The dental inflation rate is increasing the price of teeth, but you should enjoy the current tooth economy while you can. These are just baby teeth. Wait 'til my wisdom teeth start coming in! Then we're talking serious cash! A dollar is nothin'!
Tooth Fairy:(Dejected.)
Alright. A dollar sounds fair. I guess.
(The Tooth Fairy gives the Girl a dollar.)
Girl:Pleasure doing business with you. And when you leave, tell the next person waiting I'm ready to see them.
Tooth Fairy:Good night.
(The Tooth Fairy, defeated, leaves the room. He meets the Easter Bunny on the way out of the bedroom.)
Tooth Fairy:Watch yourself in there. This girl is TOUGH!
(The Easter Bunny shrugs.)
(The Easter Bunny enters the room. As the door shuts, we hear the Girl's complaining voice.)
Girl:Ah yes, I've been expecting you. WHAT was with those hollow chocolates you gave me this year! Chocolates shouldn't be filled with air, they should be filled with CHOCOLATE! And another thing, those pastel colors are SO 1986...
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The role of acoustic communication in the foraging success of bowhead whales
Arctic Research Initiative
2007 Funded Project
The ecology of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) is closely associated with Arctic sea ice, and continuing changes in summertime ice conditions due to Arctic warming will undoubtedly affect bowhead whale foraging behavior. Baleen whales have been hypothesized to use acoustic communication to cooperatively find and exploit food resources, but obtaining simultaneous observations of vocalizations and foraging behavior have been difficult to obtain. If bowhead whales use acoustic communication to cooperatively forage, then changes in sea ice conditions may make those communications more difficult. As sea ice retreats and open-water prey resources become more widely distributed, bowheads are expected to increase their range over the continental shelf, thus increasing the distance between individual whales. Coordinated foraging via acoustic communication over these longer distances may be more difficult, resulting in reduced foraging success. Moreover, as the extent of open water increases, industrial activities such as oil and gas development, shipping, and commercial fisheries, are anticipated to increase. In addition to posing direct threats to whales via ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements, these activities will likely increase ambient noise levels, making acoustic communication more difficult for the whales.
In August 2007, we will begin a federally sponsored, interdisciplinary research project on bowhead whale feeding ecology that will include a study of foraging behavior. We will deploy suction-cup attached archival tags to bowhead whales to monitor their diving behavior while simultaneously measuring oceanographic conditions and prey distribution with a profiling instrument package. We plan to augment this study with ARI-sponsored deployments of an array of small hand-deployed buoys designed to (1) track the movements of the tagged whale in three dimensions in real time and (2) record and localize the calls of the tagged whale and other whales inside and near the buoy array. With these observations, we will be able to directly assess the foraging behavior of the tagged whale as well as its response to the vocalization behavior of nearby whales (within a few kilometers). We will test the hypothesis that bowhead whales use acoustic communication to cooperatively find and exploit prey resources. The study will provide baseline observations that can be used in the future to study the affect of changes in sea ice, oceanographic conditions, prey distribution, and ambient noise on bowhead whales, an important top predator in the Arctic ecosystem.


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