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Big Heart Artichoke and Parmesan Soup
David Myers's simple soup, with its intensely earthy artichoke flavor, makes the most of exemplary Big Heart artichokes. It's also a great way to use leftover Parmesan rind: Myers tosses it into the soup while it simmers, then discards it before pureeing.
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- 1/2 lemon
- 4 Big Heart or globe artichokes (1 pound each)
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 3/4 pound Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 4 large shallots, halved
- 3 large garlic cloves, halved
- Salt
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 4 cups chicken stock or broth
- One 4-ounce Parmesan rind, plus 1/2 cup of shavings, for garnish
- 12 thyme sprigs and 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns, tied in cheesecloth
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup pure olive oil
How to make this recipe
Fill a large bowl with cold water and squeeze the lemon half into it. Working with 1 artichoke at a time, snap off the outer leaves. Using a sharp knife, trim the stem and base of the artichoke and cut off the top two-thirds of the leaves. With a spoon or melon baller, scrape out the furry choke. Rub the artichoke heart all over with the lemon half and add back to the water. Repeat with the remaining 3 artichokes. Cut 3 of the artichoke hearts into 1-inch pieces and return them to the water.
In a large saucepan, heat the extra-virgin olive oil until shimmering. Drain the artichoke pieces and pat dry. Add them to the saucepan along with the potatoes, shallots and garlic; season with salt. Cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are lightly browned and barely tender, about 20 minutes. Add the wine and cook until nearly evaporated, about 7 minutes. Add the chicken stock, Parmesan rind and thyme bundle and bring to a boil. Cover partially and cook over moderately low heat until the vegetables are tender, about 30 minutes. Discard the thyme bundle and Parmesan rind.
Working in batches, puree the soup until smooth. Return it to the saucepan. Add the heavy cream and season with salt. Keep the soup warm.
Drain the whole artichoke heart and pat thoroughly dry. Thinly slice the heart on a mandoline. In a medium skillet, heat the pure olive oil until shimmering. Add the sliced artichoke heart and fry over high heat, stirring occasionally, until golden, about 1 1/2 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the fried artichoke slices to paper towels to drain; sprinkle lightly with salt.
Ladle the soup into bowls. Mound some Parmesan shavings in the center, top with the fried artichokes and serve.
Suggested Pairing
Artichokes are notorious wine-killersfor one thing, they contain cynarin, a chemical that enhances the perception of sweet flavors. Yet in this rich soup, the artichokes are balanced by Parmesan and heavy cream, so an aromatic, lushly fruity white like Viognier pairs nicely with it.

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31-08-1997 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 319
International Committee of the Red Cross, Annual Report 1996 , ICRC, Geneva, 1997, 352 pp.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Annual Report 1996 , Geneva, 1997, 56 pp.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, World Disaster Report 1997 , Geneva, 1997, 173 pp.
Besides giving information, the present report proposes strategies and options for all those dealing with disasters.
Olivier Corten and Pierre Klein, Droit d'ingérence ou obligation de réaction ? , 2nd edition, Collection de droit international, Éditions Bruylant/Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, Brussels, 1996, 310 pp.
The first edition of this book was reviewed by Denise Plattner in IRRC , No. 298, January-February 1994, p. 83. In the foreword to the second edition the authors wri te: "Le caractère inutile d'un "droit d'ingérence" apparaît encore plus clairement aujourd'hui" (The uselessness of the concept of a "droit d'ingérence" [right to intervene/right to interfere ] is even more clear today" — ICRC translation).
Richard J. Grunawalt, John King and Ronald S. McClain (eds), Protection of the environment during armed conflict , Vol. 69, International Law Studies, Naval War College, Newport R.I. (USA), 1996, 720 pp.
This is a compilation of the reports presented at the symposium on the protection of the environment during armed conflict and other military operations, held at the Naval War College (United States) in 1994.
René Provost, "Problems of indeterminacy and characterization in the application of humanitarian law", in Mortimer Sellers (ed), The new world order.Sovereignty, human rights and self-determination of peoples , BERG, Oxford/Washington D.C., 1996, pp. 177-236.
The author explores the characterization of facts, its nature and the difficulties caused by it insofar as it affects the applicability of international humanitarian law in situations of armed conflict.
Zhu Wen-Qi, Outline of international humanitarian law , Peter Chan Publishers, Ltd., Hong Kong/Shanghai, 1997, 182 pp. — in Chinese (with a summary in English).
This is the first introduction to international humanitarian law in Chine se, written by a Chinese author, a former senior legal officer at the Department of Treaty and Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, and published at the invitation of the ICRC Regional Delegation for East Asia. The book also includes a general introduction to the Red Cross Society of China and a short presentation of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Jenny Kuper, International law concerning child civilians in armed conflict , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997, 283 pp.
This book claims to be the first major international legal text to focus exclusively on children in armed conflict, insofar as they are members of the civilian population. The problems related to child soldiers are not discussed in this context. The author examines the existing law and tests its effectiveness, on the basis of several case studies.


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State, Kittanning police reports
The following reports were issued by state police:
ARMSTRONG TWP. (Indiana County) — Jonathan A. Zimmerman, 59, of Indiana, was placed in the Indiana County Jail after he failed to put down a .22 caliber rifle that he had pointed at a state trooper during an incident which occurred at 55 Yellow Bird Lane at 12:42 p.m. Thursday, state police said. According to police, the trooper told Zimmerman to put the rifle down, but instead Zimmerman dared the trooper to draw his own weapon. Zimmerman is being held in lieu of $25,000 bond on a charge of aggravated assault.
BETHEL — State police are investigating a burglary in which 12 firearms, including pistols, rifles and shotguns, were taken from a Lakeview Road home between 7:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday. Timothy G. Neale, 52, reported that his home was entered through an unlocked door and other items, including cash, jewelry, digital camera and a video recorder, were taken. Two of the stolen guns were a Browning 10 gauge pump shotgun featuring a walnut stock with a turkey carved on one side and geese carved on the other, and an 1879 Winchester 32/40 lever action rifle with an octagon-shaped barrel. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 724-543-2011.
HARMAR (Allegheny County) — No one was injured when a car driven by Kayla Erin Shanor, 25, of Leechburg, collided with the rear of a car driven by Joseph James Ambrose, 17, of Cheswick, along Route 28 at 7:09 a.m. Sept. 30. Ambrose's car then struck the rear of a pickup truck, driven by Patrick Lee Cavanaugh, 57, of Lower Burrell.
RICHLAND (Clarion County) — Amanda M. Thompson, 20, of Parker, was injured when her car struck a utility pole along Route 478 at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday. She had swerved to miss a deer that had run onto the roadway before striking the pole. The car then traveled an additional 50 feet before coming to rest.
MAHONING — Rachel Gruver, 20, of Rimersburg, was cited for careless driving after she lost control of her car along Route 28/66 at 6:02 p.m. Saturday. Police said Gruver was sending text messages on her cell phone at the time. Her vehicle went off the road and struck a guard rail and cement bridge abutment.
PLUMCREEK — A 2004, 20-foot, Big-Tex flat bed trailer, owned by Mascaro Construction of Pittsburgh, was taken from the Keystone Power Plant between 3 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Monday. The trailer, bearing the license number XY-37734, had been parked at the time of the incident.
MANOR — Tammy Cigola, 46, of Kittanning, reported that someone removed a Playstation 3 video game system from a room in her home where her 15-year-old son was sleeping between 1 and 7 a.m. Monday.
MANOR — An unknown driver pumped $20 worth of gasoline into a vehicle at the CoGo's, along Route 422, at 1:10 p.m. Sunday, and left without paying.
The following reports were issued by the Kittanning Borough Police Department:
• A computer was stolen from the Kittanning Public Library while the library was open for business between Sept. 19 and Sept. 25.
• Police are investigating a report of a theft which occurred when vendors for an event at Riverfront Park gave vending fees to a Kittanning female and the female failed to turn the fee money in to event organizers. The incident was reported on Sept. 25.
• Robert Walker, 47, of Kittanning, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, accidents involving damage to unattended vehicles and several other traffic violations after officers heard a crash along Reynolds Avenue at 9:33 p.m. Sept. 25 and observed the vehicle Walker was driving. Walker was found to be intoxicated and was taken for blood tests.
• Two unknown females walked into Fitzgerald's Store on Vine Street at 3:05 p.m. Sept. 28 and removed a No. 34 Pittsburgh Steelers jersey. The females fled in a silver vehicle.
• Vivian Sye, 41, of Kittanning, was charged with simple assault and harassment after she assaulted a female while in the 100 block of Market Street at 3:20 p.m. Sept. 28.
• Charges are pending against two male juveniles after they were observed spray painting several garages in the area of the 1300 block of North Grant Avenue at 8:20 p.m. Sept. 28.
• A 15-year-old female faces charges of disorderly conduct after police were called to Kittanning Senior High School for a student making unreasonable noise, using profanity and threatening language at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 1.
• Kim Faber, 29, of Kittanning was cited for harassment after she struck Jennifer Martz of Chicora at 8 p.m. Oct. 1.
• Terri Lemon, 41, of Butler, was arrested for public drunkenness after she was found passed out in front of George's Laundromat, along North Grant Avenue, at 1:40 a.m. Friday.
• Sona Murphy, 41, of Ford City, was charged with five counts each of forgery and bad checks after she passed stolen checks to a local business in July. The incident was reported to police on Friday.
• Jason Anderson, 31, of Worthington, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and several traffic violations after the vehicle he was driving crashed in the 400 block of Montieth Street at 2:26 a.m. Saturday. Anderson was found to be intoxicated when police arrived.
• Ronnie Bassett of Kittanning reported that someone entered his home by breaking the front door between 7:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday. Cash was taken in the burglary.
• Carly Lasher of Kittanning reported that her vehicle was entered and several items and cash were stolen while it was parked on Hawthorne Avenue between 9 p.m. Friday and 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
• Jerry George, 39, of Kittanning, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and several traffic violations after he was stopped for a traffic violation at 1:14 a.m. Sunday and was found to be intoxicated.
• Police are investigating a theft from a vehicle in which items, including a credit card, were taken as the vehicle was parked along Ridge Avenue in Applewold on Sept. 29. The credit card was then used to make purchases at several businesses. The theft was reported to police on Monday.
• David Uplinger of Kittanning was cited for disorderly conduct after police were called to a residence on Queen Street for an intoxicated male who was breaking things at 11:35 p.m. Monday.
• Robert Fair of Kittanning was cited for public drunkenness after police were called to the 100 block of South Water Street for an intoxicated male at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.


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-Fire weather
-Widespread frost and freeze
-Weekly Weather Potpourri
-MPR listener question
-Almanac for September 16th
-Past Weather
Topic: Fire weather
The spread of the Pagami Creek Fire in the BWCA this week was certainly assisted by the weather. A dry air mass with dewpoints only in the 20s and 30s F (15-20 degrees less than normal for this time of year) dominated the landscape earlier this week. Then modest southerly winds turned to strong northwesterly winds with gusts from 30 to 40 mph, allowing flames to jump gaps in the forest and ignite other canopies and understory materials. Fortunately light rains over the 13th and 14th abated faster and further spread of the fire, still one of the largest (over 100,000 acres) in Minnesota history.
The MODIS sensor aboard NASA's Terra Satellite captured the Pagami Creek Fire as it grew earlier this week and produced some pyrocumulonimbus cloud forms. You can view the images at...
Topic: Widespread frost and freeze on September 15th, and again on the 16th
The dry air, cloudless sky, and low wind dropped the temperatures Thursday morning to record setting values in many Minnesota communities. Some new records were set or tied, including:
19 degrees F at International Falls
19 degrees F at Embarrass
19 degrees F at Wannaska
23 degrees F at Waskish
24 degrees F at Park Rapids
28 degrees F at Browns Valley
25 degrees F at Bemidji and Fosston
28 degrees F at Crookston (tied record low)
20 degrees F at Hibbing
23 degrees F at Kabetogama
24 degrees F at Orr
21 degrees F at Crane Lake
22 degrees F at Tower
36 degrees F at MSP Airport (tied record low)
31 degrees F at Forest Lake
29 degrees F at Eau Claire, WI
27 degrees F at Little Falls
31 degrees F at Rochester
26 degrees F at Wadena
28 degrees F at Waseca
29 degrees F at Zumbrota and Theilman
The reading of 19 degrees F at International Falls, Wannaska and Embarrass is only 2 degrees F warmer than the statewide record for September 15th of 17 degrees F at Bigfork in 1964. That reading was also lowest in the nation for September 15th. Because of the number of record setting low temperature values it is safe to say that September 15, 2011 was one of the coldest in Minnesota history (along with 1873, 1964, and 1984).
Light to calm winds and clear skies over northern sections of the state allowed record low temperatures to occur again on the morning of Friday, September 16th. Those reporting new record lows included:
Hibbing with 22 degrees F
Crane Lake and International Falls with 23 degrees F
Ely, Kabetogama, and Orr with 23 degrees F
Bigfork with 25 degrees F
In addition observers at Ely and Dultuh reported traces of snowfall on September 14th, very early at both locations.
Weekly Weather Potpourri:
NOAA scientists announced this week that globally August of 2011 was the 8th warmest since 1880. this combines the land and ocean temperature records. Exceptions were Scotland and Northern Ireland which recorded one of their coolest months of August. You can read more at...
NOAA-National Hurricane Center was tracking Hurricane Maria well off the coast in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was perhaps expected to bring heavy rains and winds to coastal Canada early in the weekend. In the western Pacific Ocean Tropical Storm Roke was producing winds up to 60 mph with sea waves of 18 ft over the waters south of Japan. Another Tropical Storm (Sonca) was producing winds up to 70 mph and sea waves up to 14 ft in the waters southeast of Tokyo. It was expected to dissipate early next week.
The BBC reported this week that Karachi, the commercial hub of Pakistan, and surrounding areas were hit by torrential monsoon rains and flooding this week. Millions of people have been displaced by the floods. You can read more at...
NASA scientists reported this week that a meteor, probably between the diameter of a baseball and a basketball, was the cause of a beautiful light show witnessed by many observers across the southwestern USA on Wednesday night (Sept 14) this week. The meteor exhibited some brilliant blue, green, and orange colors as it burned up in the Earth's atmosphere. You can read more about it at...
MPR listener question: Is it unusual to have serious wildfires in Minnesota during September?
Answer: Actually, many of our worst historical fires have occurred during the fall season. The great Hinckley Fire of 1894 was in September, and the great Cloquet Fire of 1918 was in October. In the Pioneer Era wildfires were common in the fall season as the prairie grasses dried out. But in the modern era the frequency of wildfires in Minnesota is highest during April and May and then tails off through the summer, picking up again in October. Fall wildfires are far more common in years with summer-long drought. This year northern St Louis, Lake, and Cook Counties have been in drought all summer long. During the months of December, January and February wildfires are almost non-existent.
Almanac for September 16th:
The average MSP high temperature for this date is 71 degrees F (plus or minus 9 degrees F standard deviation), while the average low is 52 degrees F (plus or minus 8 degrees standard deviation).
MSP Local Records for September 16th:
MSP weather records for this date include: highest daily maximum temperature of 94 degrees F in 1955; lowest daily maximum temperature of 50 degrees F in 1916; lowest daily minimum temperature of 38 degrees F in 1873; highest daily minimum temperature of 74 degrees F in 1955; record precipitation of 1.97 inches in 1997; no measurable snowfall has been recorded on this date.
Average dew point for September 16th is 49 degrees F, with a maximum of 71 degrees F in 1992 and a minimum of 29 degrees F in 1937.
All-time state records for September 16th:
Scanning the state climatic data base: the all-time high for this date is 101 degrees F at Montevideo (Chippewa County) in 1891. The all-time record low for this date is 17 degrees F at Karlstad (Kittson County) in 1973. The all-time record precipitation amount for this date is 7.07 inches at Red Wing (Goodhue County) in 1992. No measurable snowfall on this date in Minnesota.
Past Weather Features:
Temperatures were in the 20s and 30s F on September 16, 1873. There were multiple killing frosts that month, bringing an early end to the growing season in southern Minnesota counties.
A September heat wave dominated the state on September 16, 1891. Many communities reported temperatures in the 90s F, including 92 degrees F in the Twin Cities. Montevideo saw 9 consecutive days with high temperatures of 90 F or greater (Sep 15-23), including 101 degrees F on the 16th and 100 degrees F on the 18th. It was their hottest September on record.
A 4-day heat wave gripped the state over September 15-18, 1955. Many observers reported temperatures in the 90s F during the day and lows in the 60s and 70s overnight. Fortunately by the 19th temperatures fell off into the 40s and 50s F.
Between 4:00 and 5:00 am on the morning of September 16, 1962 two tornadoes touched down in Olmsted County. The first struck near Rochester, and was on the ground for 1 mile. It destroyed four homes and damaged seven others, leaving 34 people injured. This tornado was rated F-4 (winds 207-260 mph). The second, weaker tornado (F-2, winds 113-157 mph) struck near Pleasant Grove in Olmsted County. It was on the ground for 4 miles and destroyed five barns, while damaging two homes. These storms were very unusual for the early morning hours.
Freezing temperatures invaded northwestern Minnesota counties on September 16, 1973. Many observers in the Red River Valley reported temperatures in the teens and 20s F. Fortunately most of the rest of the state was under cloud cover and spared from any frost.
Two rounds of thunderstorms brought flash flooding to eastern parts of the state on September 16, 1992. Red Wing reported over 7 inches of rainfall, Farmington over 6 inches, and Hastings over 5 inches. Many other observers reported 4-5 inches of rainfall which flooded roads and some basements.
Word of the Week: Calm
A demeanor of the atmosphere around us that produces no perceptible wind. For well over a century the definition of a calm was when smoke is observed to rise vertically or the sea surface is mirrorlike. In the modern context with instrumentation to measure wind speed, a calm is generally defined by a wind speed of less than 3 knots (3.5 mph).
In the Twin Cities calm conditions comprise but a small fraction of the annual wind distribution, less than 7 percent of all observations show calm conditions. The peak time for calm conditions occurs at night. During the summer months, calm conditions may prevail from midnight to 6 am about 20 percent of the time or 1 day in 5. However, during the other seasons overnight calms occur only about 10 to 15 percent of the time. During the daytime hours, calms are very infrequent, most often less than 5 percent of the time.
Increasing cloudiness and warmer temperatures over the weekend. There will be a chance of showers and thunderstorms late Saturday and into Sunday. Mild much of next week with a chance for showers Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has signed an official order making the song Do You Realize?? by The Flaming Lips as the state's official rock song.
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Henry announced the executive order last week after a House resolution to codify the official state rock song failed by three votes.
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Pokemon FireRed Version
Review by Yoh_of_Izumo
"With Color, Without Class"
After about a decade has passed since the release of the original Pokemon games, they have been remade, and now in detailed color. When original Pokemon fans used to play the game that was the only thing that was lacking in their opinions if only it had color. And lo and behold, we have the remakes of the game and they are now in color, but is it the same game or has the classic remembered gameplay of the originals lost?
Unfortunately, yes. With the addition of 32-bit color, the original game that Pokemon fans loved such as being the character of the television series, experiencing the glitches of an awesome world, and enjoying a simple world have been lost in this game. I mean if they were going to destroy the entire classic setup of the game, why did they have to dispose of the defining elements, but keep pouring salt into the wounds? Technology has progressed with the release of a truly colorized portable world, but with this color comes responsibility. A game cannot just merely plaster color onto its predecessor, but needs to add specifications that make it unique for all gamers to say, this is a classic Pokemon game, and not the ya, let's keep beating this dead horse oh wait it's not even dead it's a skeletal horse.
That is how bad this game has become. While other games attempt to change with the times, such as a progressing Mario game or Zelda game changes, Pokemon stays with the exact say schematics with only fluffy color to change the equation. If it weren't for the color, all the difference would be is more Pokemon and a more mundane world to explore. It's as though after the first Harry Potter book was written she just decided to add more adjectives into the sentence to increase its length by another 100 pages. Utterly silly, but yet, Pokemon continues to follow this path of the children do not mind. And no they do not. Unfortunately unlike true gamers, young children do not understand the immaturity of such a setup and how the gaming corruption is totally milking their desire, while there are other far superior games out there. But hey, it takes a while to learn, and it is quite embarrassing once they figure out how they were so easily conned.
Nonetheless, onto the review
Gameplay: 5/10
Harsh for Pokemon well it's the truth. The gameplay is simplified, but so simplified it is downright depressing. When I played Pokemon Blue on my Gameboy Color, my first game ever, it had the exact same gameplay setup as this game has today. I mean come on, when technology advances, there needs to be some change in gameplay. I mean when a person plays Super Mario Land and Super Mario 64, there have the same motives, but the gameplay is so different that had it been a different storyline, you would have never even knew that such similarities existed. In Pokemon though, despite a decade of technological advancement in portability, I get the same gameplay that I got ten years perfect for the outdated Gameboy Original, but when a company decides to use it in future gaming, it is utterly pathetic. Let us start with one of the most important factors in a role-playing game and that is battle configurations. Well again it is simple, but so simple it does not even take an ounce of advantage of the portable system. Once again, you have the four option display, but when you wish to pull a move on a Pokemon, you are still limited to a pitiful four attack limit. They did not even increase it to five or six moves. How illogical is that? When I look at the dogma of the Pokemon world, the anime series, and see that the Pokemon are capable of delivering eight to ten moves, and my Pokemon can only choose from four moves, it is utterly crippling and saddening that despite so much advancement in the memory systems of portable gaming, Game Freak fails to take advantage of this and immerse the gamer in a world in which they connect with the anime series and gaming series. The only noteworthy difference in the battle system is that sometimes a player is given the option to have a double Pokemon battle of 2 vs. 2, which hardly adds any flavor to the game, but is merely another adjective in the same book. Enough with in-game battle gameplay and let us move to other fields in the game. Of course since this is a Pokemon game, one of your goals is to catch all of the Pokemon some 350+ Pokemon. I mean it was enough when a person had to catch 151 Pokemon, but now 352 356 I do not know, the number keeps going up. I do not mind the ever increasing number in the Pokemon world, but when the game designers use there ever increasing greed to satisfy this goal, it is quite pathetic. In order to collect all the Pokemon in this game, you need not just the complementary game of it, LeafGreen, but also Sapphire, Ruby, and Emerald, and if you really want to pour it on you could continue to advance with the mundane same world of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. I always found it a flaw in the original Pokemon games that Game Freak could play such a gimmick where if a person wanted to complete the entire Pokedex, he or she needed to trade with another user. What makes it even worse is that even if a person does manage to complete the supposedly visible Pokedex, he still lacks unknown Pokemon that can only be obtained through cheating or through a Pokemon convention. Well if you do not live in New York City or Los Angeles, you are pretty much out of luck unless your parents are willing to spend a $1000 on you just to send you over to get the 4 or 5 Pokemon that are unattainable it is sad and ludicrous. And if you found that funny, this remake grinds you even worse after taking out the clear classic glitches of missingno and m'. That is what made the game so worth while. Friends could battle each other on the equal level 100 and worry more about skill than of level or cheats. But nonetheless, I understand that removal, but why must the display continue to be from the boring birds eye view. With such leaps in technology, surely some camera panning could add more flavors to the gameplay experience. Nonetheless I am utterly disappointed with this remake, and even though it was a game I imagined when I first played Pokemon Blue almost a decade ago, had I known back then what I know now, I would not have been as yearning. The gameplay lacks innovation, the simplicity is depressing, and any additions such as HMs and TMs and the ever so often berry bush and contests are only superficial when it comes to the heart of the true Pokemon world. If only Pokemon could imitate the gameplay action that is seen in the anime series, it could definitely earn a place in my list of classics, but as it continues to dwell on its past successes, it only continues to feel me with distain about its development.
Story: 3/10
Haha, just because it was a remake, you think I was going to give it the exact same score as the originals? Well, definitely not. The story is the same in the sense that you collect Pokemon, level up, defeat the eight gym leaders, conquer the Elite Four, and become Pokemon Champion and master, but as a remake, I wanted it to live up to that ideal a remake. It however destroys that essence, because even though as a player, you start off in the good old land of Pallet Town, you are not Ash Ketchum any more and your rival is no longer Gary. And without that connection between the television episodes and the game, it totally destroys my drive to go through a storyline that just lacks in connection. It is empty and meaningless, and when I defeat the Elite Four, it is not the same as had Ash defeated the Elite Four, because then I know that as it would be in the anime series but is not yet, it would bring closure to the epic long anime series. The great feelings of connecting to the show such as defeating Brock in Pewter City, crushing Misty in Cerulean City, and defeating Giovanni and his gang of Team Rocket thugs is lacking and it hurts to see how the classic original has been butchered and not improved upon. It is an utter failure, and still makes me wonder how Pokemon could be one of the best selling most popular games out there, when the quality of gaming is mediocre and banal. The only hope that I see for a noteworthy storyline in the game is to continue to mirror the Pokemon series and not try to make games that storylines do not seem to correlate at all with the anime series. I hardly see a Pokemon episode anymore, but I still see Ash and his Pikachu along with his companions and the ever lurking Team Rocket. I do not see some person I have no clue is, and wish not to form a connection with a made up character if that made up character is a made up character that does not even exist in a cartoon episode that is in a made up world. It is pathetic that the gaming corporation wishes to water the game down to such an extent. Oh sure, they added a few islands to the game, but what difference does that make. I wanted the original and I wanted it to be improved upon, and instead I got a game that claimed to be a remake of the original, but instead got a perverted version of it.
Graphics: 5/10
Now of course, the graphics are the exact same as those of the original with only color added to them. Well you know what? Color is not enough for a game when the game is capable of producing Pokemon Stadium-like graphics during a battle scene, and that is wait Pokemon FireRed failed to deliver upon. Of the things that could have hurt the graphics score, this is the one that totally annihilated it. I expected the color yes, but then I expected the technological innovation of a game that could port Pokemon Stadium if it wanted to. But no, I didn't even get that. The battle setup is the exact same with only color and an experience bar to show when your Pokemon is about to level up. What is worse is that the moves are as cheesy as ever with some actually that have regressed from their previous original game. What I point to is moves such as Thunder where it was most likely my most favorite move in the original Pokemon games, but is actually watered down in this game to some blah experience. When I see other role-playing games of the Gameboy Advance era such as Golden Sun capable of having spectacular battle scenes on such a little screen and then I have to witness this mundane and spectacular-less battle scene in the Pokemon world, it just makes you wonder why. I mean I can understand that there are no summons in the Pokemon world, but please, change the battle scene setup. I mean, I can make a role-playing game with better graphics and move sets on my own computer thanks to RPG Maker, than can this game ever deliver. Unfortunately, change my take longer than expected as even though I dislike the graphics heartily, people continue to buy the game and continue to make Pokemon's fad popularity sore, and until such slows and falls, change is not something Game Freak will even consider to make.
Sound: 7/10
Eh sound quality is the same as it was for Pokemon Sapphire, Pokemon Ruby, and Pokemon Emerald. After a while it starts to get tiring and most people will turn down the volume or turn off the sound completely not only to conserve battery power, but also to preserve their ears from the prosaic sounds that issue forth from the speaker of the Gameboy. When I look back at the music from the original Pokemon games and listen to the music of the current generation, I will admit that it has improved, but in retrospect to other Gameboy Advance role-playing game music, it is only average and could drastically be improved. They say quality over quality. Well even though it lacks the quantity, because the same music can be heard in basically every scene, it lacks the quality, because it is obviously so synthesized it hurts the ears. I mean is it really necessary to only have one world-music exploration track, couldn't they have at least made two or three to make exploring the world a more enjoyable experience? Well, no, they did not, but at least the sound aspect of the game, is one of its best aspects.
Replayability: 5/10
The game of course lasts longer than the original games where it was possible to breeze through the game in one sitting if done properly, but it just lacks in replayable content. The fact that it fails to deliver forth the classics of the originals to a higher step, totally knocks the stuffing out of the replay factor. If there were one thing that saved it from an utterly bottomless score it would be the fact that players can link in multiplayer battle to try out their parties with each other. Though it is necessary to find a friend with a complementary game and with a link cable, if such objectives can be fulfilled, you can enjoy increased game life. Not only does this add flavor to the game, but also the fact that some Pokemon can only be gained through trade-evolution also requires camaraderie between friends. Unfortunately though, with those limiting factors that are needed for multiplayer encounters, chances like such are far and few between. Of all my encounters with other people with the Pokemon game, I can say there might have been about ten to fifteen times where I could have linked with them and battled and traded. That is only about once every year where such an event arises, and even then, usually older players are ashamed to play an immature game that has failed to mature over the passing years. Would I replay this game again, no. But to a fledging Pokemon gamer, it is a game that could prove interesting a few more times through.
Using my rating system for Gameboy Advance RPGs:
20% Gameplay, 30% Story, 20% Graphics, 7.5% Sound, 22.5% Replayability
Overall Game Rating: 4.55
Suggested Action: Do not rent and do not buy, not worth a person's time.
Final Comments: This game is a disgrace to the Pokemon series, and I sincerely wish that the game creators would learn that its quality over quantity. Instead of trying to release the exact same game ever 2 years, why do they not actually spend 4 or 5 years and actually make something decent, in which all people will look at it and not snicker at the young innocent child who cannot tell a decent game from an utterly disgraceful game. Will Pokemon continue to just release dud games in my opinion? Well we'll see. I continue to try these games, and now I am prepared. I am prepared for utter garbage, but what makes this good, is that when Pokemon actually makes a game that is not truly rubbish, I will enjoy every minute of it. Will it take another ten years before Pokemon finally changes its tune well, we'll see. Other than that, I request that you do not even try to play a few minutes of this game in the store, because to be even seen trying to waste your time with such a game, is just wasting your time when you could be trying other games that are far superior to it.
Reviewer's Rating: 2.5 - Playable
Originally Posted: 07/19/07
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text: Am 19.02.2012 17:06, schrieb Vladimir Panteleev: > On Sunday, 19 February 2012 at 15:31:32 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote: >> Which dmd version should I use to build DustMite? >> I tried 2.055 and 2.058 but DustMite crashes half way through the >> reductino process without a message (I'm using windows) > > I've never heard of a problem like this. Is the DustMite crash > reproducible? Yes, it never crashes at the extact same reduction step, but it always crashes somewhere in between. I assume that it is a segfault because it does not print a stack trace. I could however only test it on 1 machine so it could be machine specific.


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Are you ready to pay more to heat your home?!
If not, we need you to contact your Senators and ask them to oppose HB 185. This bill, already passed by the House, will increase the tax on home heating oil by 25%!
Click here to find your Senator and their contact information and tell them you oppose this tax increase!
The war in our state on energy consumers continues. Clearly there are too many in Concord who care more about growing state spending than growing our economy.
As too many working families and businesses struggle to make ends meets, the state keeps driving up the costs of basic services. The House has also passed measures to make it more expensive every time you turn on your lights or put gasoline in your vehicle. Now they want to make it more expensive to heat your home.
Contact your Senator today and ask them to oppose HB 185 and the 25% increase on the tax on home heating oil.
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Winter Challenges for Fayette Aging Commission
The weather this winter has created a challenge for the Fayette Commission on Aging.
Cheryl Stockwell of the Commission says they have had great difficulty with Meals on Wheels. Ordinarilty, they only hand out 3 emergency "blizzard bags" of food each winter, but are already on 7 this winter.
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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Trading Standards is warning computer users to be aware of an increase in spam emails.
Many of the spoof or malicious emails claim they are from customers' internet banking services, or other organisations such as eBay or PayPal.
Senders attempt to gain access to personal details, or bring the name of the company whose email address they use into disrepute.
Jackie Eldridge, education and information officer at Buckinghamshire Trading Standards, said: "People should always check the email address from which the email has been sent. If it looks suspicious, then it probably is.
"Most companies who send personal emails will address you by first name, last name, or business name, and not by dear user', or dear member'."
Mrs Eldridge added: "People should also ignore emails claiming to be from a company that asks you to follow links to a site to confirm your security and membership details.
"Check on the real website before you do any of this.
"The online companies you regularly deal with already have your personal details and would not normally request them again."
People are advised to check online company websites for sections on malicious or spoof emails.
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SEATTLE — There was no prancing around the field in celebration or loud, passion-filled postgame interview lighting up social media. Richard Sherman slowly jogged off the field with his left arm pinned against his chest, just how it had been for most of the fourth quarter of Sunday's NFC championship game.
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Duck Dynasty met Super Bowl XLVIII on Thursday. And you just knew colorful Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman was part of the fun. But who would have thought Peyton Manning would play along, too? Sherman was discussing Manning's throwing ability about a month ago and praised him for the most part.
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Budget of around £300-£350, used mostly for photo editing on the go and general web browsing so GPU performance isn't important at all.
Need at least 8GB memory and a decent high quality screen, I'll put an SSD in it myself so not that fussed about what sort of drive it comes with as it will be taken out.
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Verizon needs to get out of handset businessmsturgis Nov 3, 2012 12:13 PM
Verizon is NOT a handset manufacturer, yet it sells handsets. The ones Verizon sells are the ONLY ones that work with its network. This model is 100% geared towards total control at the expense of consumer satisfaction. On the other hand, GSM carriers allow ANY compatible handsets to be used with their network. If they can do it, why not Verizon? By Verizon getting into the handset selling business, this is what we get:
1. Extremely limited handset selection: Verizon decides what models we get to choose from. At a time, it's a handful of 25-30 devices. GSM subscribers have hundreds and hundreds of device choices.
2. Limiting features: Verizon can and does limit various features of the handsets it sells. Verizon has a history of being a total control freak to force customers to pay to use its own services instead of device capabilities. Back in the day, Verizon forced its customers to use its picture mail service to share pictures by locking down Bluetooth capabilities.
3. Bloatware: Where do I begin with this. All the handsets they sell come with performance eating buggy bloatware that you can't remove.
4. Devices are one cycle behind: There is no argument that all the newest and the greatest features are made available to the unlocked GSM handsets and we have to wait sometimes a full cycle to get the same features simply because manufacturers have to get the signal from Verizon.
5. OS updates: Screen the forum and how many hundreds of threads with the title "Where is my update? do you see"? Verizon holds up the updates for each and every single handset it sells. Non-carrier branded phones get the updates directly from the manufacturers without much delay.
6. Service and support: Verizon's handset support is one of the worst in the industry. Why? One reason: the people you go to for support are pressure-driven towards sales and every minute they spend on you not selling is a minute wasted by not selling. In countries where manufacturers directly sell phones to consumer have a full infrastructure for after sales support. Every major manufacturers have walk-in support store where you can have your phones repaired under warranty or by paying for repair services (just like apple stores in the US).
Now one can try to make a point on the cost of unlocked handset costs. First of all, no contract price of phones that Verizon sells are WAY higher than unlocked GSM phones of same level. Not only the off-contract prices of Verizon handsets are insanely inflated, but also their contract price is quite high. For example, the Droid Razr's retail price is near $600, on contract it's $200-$300. Yet, the latest and the greatest UNLOCKED LG Nexus G is selling for $300 retail in the Play Store. So, Verizon is sticking it to us again by inflating the "retail" price and then giving us phony discounts to make it look like we are getting a deal.
The Bring Your Own Device revolution has already started in this country. There are SO MANY advantages to this model for consumers. Once everyone buys device off contract and directly from manufacturers, manufacturers DIRECTLY compete for your business, quality goes up, prices come down. Not to mention, no carrier bloatware, timely updates and more cutting edge features.
If other carriers worldwide can do it, why not Verizon? Verizon is not even CLOSE TO BEING the largest carrier in the world - it's currently ranked 18th in the world, with the #1 carrier having 6 times more subscribers than Verizon. If they can do it, why not Verizon?


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It's not a freesound thing, but some here might appreciate it.
I made a mash-up of "Hit" by the Sugarcubes and The James Bond Theme.This is my first attempt at mashup...
Bjork vs Bond
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Happy birthday, Joe
Fraser recognizes longtime builder with proclamation
By Nico Rubello
Posted December 17, 2012
FRASER — The Fraser City Council recently recognized the 90th birthday of longtime city resident Joe DiStefano with a special tribute during its meeting.
During a ceremony replete with memorable stories, DiStefano, surrounded by family members, received a certificate of recognition from the City Council and a state proclamation from state Rep. Marilyn Lane, D-Fraser, and signed by Gov. Rick Snyder.
"We have a great deal to thank you for, not only as individuals, but as a community," said Fraser Councilman Bill Morelli.
DiStefano was born on Dec. 7, 1922 in Sicily. At the age of 27, he moved to Detroit, where he ran a poultry shop for years, earning the affectionate nickname Chicken Joe.
DiStefano also can claim responsibility for helping develop the city of Fraser from the ground up; beginning in the 1970s, he worked as a builder, developer and real estate broker.
His touch lies in everything from residential neighborhoods to the Fraser Industrial Complex at 15 Mile and Kelly. When he first came across it, the land on which the industrial park now lies was an untapped swampland.
"You have been a true example of what the potential is for anyone who comes to this great country," Morelli said. "In addition to that, you learned about the building industry. In addition to that, you bought absolutely terrible land and you made it into one of the greatest industrial parks around."
Mayor Doug Hagerty said the industrial park delivers a significant percentage of the city's tax base, so "much of what we have in the city of Fraser, we would not be able to afford if it wasn't for this industrial base that got built by this industrialist."
"Because of your investments and time and energy, that industrial park is one of the reasons that, as a city, we've been able to sustain through these hard times with the amount of revenue to keep things going," added Councilman Paul Cilluffo.
Morelli additionally read a letter from Lane, who recalled Christmas treats of wine and cheese with "Papa Joe." Longtime business associate Oskar Immler, of Deluxe Development, also recalled how DiStefano talked him into moving to Fraser before getting him into the building industry.
DiStefano has been a consistent staple in Fraser city affairs since 1971, spending countless hours at zoning and planning meeting, and stepping up to the microphone to offer some words of neutral levity to a heated City Council debate.
"I always try to be patient and understanding," DiStefano said. "The story never ends. Life can be a great pleasure."
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"What's blocking us right now is sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that, frankly, I was hoping to overcome in 2008. And in the midst of crisis, I think the other party reacted -- rather than saying now is the time for us all to join together, decided to take a different path.
"My thinking was after we beat them in 2012, well, that might break the fever (laughter) -- and it's not quite broken yet. (more laughter.) But I am persistent. And I am staying at it.
"And I genuinely believe that there are actually Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they're fearful of their base and they're concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them, and as a consequence, we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government and inhibits our progress."
Obama told the crowd he's no longer running for office, but then he complained about people who are "interested in winning elections," as Obama himself was just a few months ago:
"So the bottom line is this -- everybody is here to support the DNC, and I very much appreciate that. But I want everybody to understand that my intentions over the next three and a half years are to govern, because I don't have another race left.
"If we've got folks on the other side who are prepared to cooperate, that is great and we are ready to go. On the other hand, if there are folks who are more interested in winning elections than they are thinking about the next generation, then I want to make sure that there are consequences to that."
According to Obama, "One of the benefits of a second term is you start taking the long view. And what I know is, is that as long as we are pointing towards that true North, that eventually we'll get there. That's what this country has always done. That's what I expect will happen this time as well."
Obama did not mention the various scandals that have erupted in his second term -- including reports that the IRS targeted conservative groups for heightened scrutiny; the Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of AP reporters; and continuing revelations about the Benghazi "talking points" and apparent coverup.Speaking to wealthy donors in New York City Monday, President Obama mentioned the "hyper-partisanship" that he says is blocking his agenda, and he did so with a dig at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh:


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Chris Newman wouldn't be able to tell you much about his 18th game.
He might know slightly more about his 118th, if his memory was jogged, and even more about his 218th, which was round four this year.
One thing is for certain, though. Newman knows they weren't finals.
Nick Vlastuin's 18th game, if he is selected, will be against Carlton at the MCG on Sunday.
It will be a final.
''All the boys have been saying that, how lucky I am,'' Vlastuin said, when asked to comment on his fairytale start compared to the hardships some of his veteran teammates, such as Newman, have endured.
''I followed Collingwood growing up as a kid, so there was a lot of finals,'' he said. ''But Newy has been waiting 13 years, I think, to play a final. [Ed: 12 actually after playing his first game in 2002.]
''I couldn't imagine that. So I know how fortunate I am, coming straight into it.''
Vlastuin is nothing special in that respect. He is not the first teenager with enough talent to hold down a spot in a finals team in his first year, and he certainly won't be the last.
But he is a rare breed of Tiger. By playing on Sunday, the 19-year-old would be only the fourth Richmond player to contest a final in the same season in which they earned a Rising Star nomination.
Those at Punt Road, and the Tiger army, would have no complaints, either about Vlastuin's rookie year and the club's decision to take him as a first-round draft selection.
''I think he's been a great pick,'' said Tigers assistant Mark Williams, one of Vlastuin's mentors.
''He's played contested footy right from the start and he's got a great professional work ethic for a young kid.
''If you bring that to the table right from the start, you are going to succeed pretty quickly.''
While his form in the NAB Cup made it clear he was ready, Vlastuin was made to wait until round five to debut, or ''earn my strips'' - a phrase he picked up at Tigerland.
But since doing so, the young gun they call ''Tigger'' [as in the Winnie the Pooh character] has only missed one other game.
On Wednesday, his play was recognised by coming fifth in this year's Rising Star won by Gold Coast Suns' Jaeger O'Meara.
His season stat line - an average of 16 disposals and three tackles and a total of nine goals - pays further testament.
Beyond expectations? ''Definitely,'' Vlastuin said with a smile on Wednesday.
But the whole journey has been far from easy.
''My body is pretty battered and bruised,'' he said.
And the bar will be set even higher next year, with Williams comparing Vlastuin to one of his former Port Adelaide charges, Michael Wilson, who won the Rising Star in 1997.
''Nick plays very much like him, he's tough and hard and can play both ends of the field,'' he said.


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- Course Number:
- Course Title:
- Decimals
- Credit Hours:
- 1
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 20
- Lab Hours:
- 0
- Special Fee:
- $6.00
Course DescriptionCovers the use of decimals to write, manipulate, interpret and solve applications and formulas. Introduces concepts numerically, graphically, symbolically, and in oral and written form. Scientific calculator required. The PCC math department recommends that students take MTH courses in consecutive terms. Prerequisites: (ABE 0782 or placement into MTH 20) and (RD 80 or ESOL 250). Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
- Use mathematical and other problem solving strategies to formulate problems, solve problems using multiple approaches, and interpret results for problems that include decimals.
- Choose and perform arithmetic operations involving decimals in a variety of situations with and without a calculator.
- Present results numerically, symbolically, graphically, and in written and oral form.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Assessment may include, but is not limited to:
- At least two in-class examinations; decimal testing without calculator, no more than 50% of any test can be multiple choice,
- One in-class, proctored, individual cumulative final exam,
- At least one written explanation of a mathematical concept,
- At least one contextual project of any length, or real-world application activity" and
- At least two of the following additional measures:
- Take-home examinations
- Graded homework
- Quizzes
- Group projects
- In-class activities
- Attendance
- Portfolios
- Individual projects
- Individual student conference
- Community-Based Learning
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
1. Rational arithmetic operations in context
2. Appropriate use of technology
3. Application of critical thinking skills to solve mathematical problems
4. Data analysis
- Master decimal vocabulary
1.2 Solve numerical and application problems with decimals
1.3 Arrange numbers in numerical order
1.4 Determine whether an inequality statement involving two numbers is true or false
1.5 Perform order of operations accurately using decimals; evaluate expressions
1.6 Evaluate expressions containing exponents and square roots
1.7 Apply operations with decimals in a variety of contexts
1.8 Develop skills in estimation and number sense
1.9 Calculate the average of a set of decimals
1.10 Round a number to a specified decimal place
2.1 Use a calculator to evaluate decimal expressions including exponents and square roots.
3.1 Write answers to application problems as complete sentences.
The Mathematics SAC recognizes that how one presents the steps to a problem that lead to the desired goal is as important as the answer itself. We want all of our students to recognize this fact; thus an instructor will need to emphasize the importance of how to write mathematics properly. All students in a Math 26C course should consistently write proper mathematical steps; students must adhere to correct use of syntax. A portion of the grade for any problem, when applicable, should be based on mathematical syntax.
The primary purpose of the Course Content and Outcome Guide is to provide faculty a SAC approved outline of the course. It is not intended to replace the Course Syllabus, which details course content and requirements for students.


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Ted Simons: Coming up next on "Arizona Horizon," long-time CBS newsman Bob Schieffer is the winner of the 2013 Cronkite Award for Excellence in journalism. Hear what Bob Schieffer had to say about his career in journalism and working with Walter Cronkite. That's next on "Arizona Horizon."
Announcer: "Arizona Horizon" is made possible by contributions from the Friends of Eight, members of your Arizona PBS station. Thank you.
Ted Simons: Good evening and welcome to "Arizona Horizon," I'm Ted Simons. Each year ASU's Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication honors a leading journalist with the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. This year's award went to Bob Schieffer, host of CBS' "Face the Nation." Bob Schieffer has been at CBS News since 1969. He's one of the few journalists to have covered the White House, Congress, the State department and the Pentagon. He's also moderated major political debates including a 2004 Presidential debate held in Tempe. Here now is Bob Schieffer's acceptance speech at the Cronkite Award luncheon in downtown Phoenix.
Announcer: This year's Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism recipient, Mr. Bob Schieffer.
Bob Schieffer: Thank you all, please. My heavens! What a day. I told some people at dinner last night, there have been some wonderful journalists and some greats in broadcasting that have accepted this award. But I truly believe none of them could have appreciated it as much as I do, because Walter truly was, when I was a young reporter, my hero. I wanted to be like him, I still want to be like him. To have an award with his name on it is just something that it is just -- I'm over -- I'm truly overwhelmed and I'm not easily overwhelmed. Thank you all very much.
Let me also say, you must be and should be very, very proud of what has been accomplished here at the Walter Cronkite School. It is truly unique, there is nothing like it in America today. And it is so wonderful yesterday to come here to see it.
I want to tell you also, I had no idea how many people were going to be here today. I knew it was going to be a big crowd, and I was sitting back here and I was thinking, it reminded me -- and I always think of this -- many years ago when not very many people came to see me speak, I was invited to a little school in Louisiana called Louisiana College. It was deep in the bayou country. And it was a beautiful spring day and we walked into the school auditorium. They had all the windows up, there was no air-conditioning. There was a kid in every seat in the place. The balcony was filled up. There were students sitting in the aisle between the two sides of the auditorium. They had raised the window and they were these big windows. There were kids sitting in the windowsills. I looked out the window right next to the podium and three boys had climbed into a tree and were sitting there looking in. I said, you know, I have to tell you on a beautiful spring day like this, I am absolutely -- I'm just -- my breath is taken away that you would find the time come here and listen to me. I'm truly honored. A kid in the front row said, "It's mandatory." [laughter] So I don't know why you came but I'm proud to see you here today. [Applause] That's a true story.
I want to talk to you just a little bit today about something serious. I thought this would probably be a good place to say it. You know, as we say in the news business, here is the lead. We are in the midst -- and there's no other way to put it -- we are in the midst of a communications revolution. But at the same time we're in the midst of a crisis in journalism. News is traveling faster than it ever has in the history of man, and yet the road for newspapers, which have been the backbone of American journalism, the road is more uphill and rougher than it has ever been. With digital technology, we can now transmit news around the world in a second, faster than ever. And when I say we, I don't mean the traditional distributors of journalism. I mean we, everyone, as in anyone who has an iPhone, anyone who has computer. We used to say, you needed a barrel of ink and a printing press and anybody who had those two things could be a publisher. Well, forget the barrel of ink and forget the printing press. You don't need any of that now with the new digital technology. The system that had produced great newspapers and broadcast outlets. We got up in the morning and read the newspaper, we came home at night and watched television. It was all very orderly. But that was then and this is now. Forget all of the things that you used to need to publish a newspaper.
We have discovered because we're all publishers now, that there are many smart new voices out there. But we have also discovered there are a lot of people out there who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. We get more information now, we have access to more information than any people in the history of the earth. But access to information does not always equate with wisdom. The good news about the web, news does travel fast. Those with a grievance can make others aware of it. A revolution no longer needs a charismatic leader as we saw in the Egyptian revolution. The bad news is the deranged can now find each other. Today, even those with the most outrageous, horrible, demonic views can find someone on the web who agrees with them. Fanatics of every stripe are able to connect. This ability to connect has turned our culture inside out and our journalism upside down. What we are relearning is that changes in technology always happen before we are able to figure out what to do with them, and how to bring them under control. Think about this. How many men, how many soldiers died before the generals understood that the way to attack a machine gun was not to march men head-on directly into machine gun fire? It's always that way with technological advances. They happen and then we figure out what to do with them. As we try now to understand how best to use the new technology that affects journalism and communications, it is well to understand how much it has already changed the society in which we live. It has totally redefined our definition of privacy. It has changed the way we do almost everything from buying and selling things, to purchasing restaurant tickets, restaurant tabs. But it has also created -- and we must be aware of this -- new dangers and portioned our manners and dialogue with one another. The cloak of anonymity the web provides has made it easier for stalkers and others to prey on the innocent. It has brought, as well, a new vulgarity to our dialogue. I cannot imagine that many people who write to me on the web would use the same obscenities and hateful words to my face that they feel free to use in their anonymous email. As the cartoon goes, on the internet, no one knows you're a dog.
But that is just an annoyance as we deal with these new communications breakthroughs. Far more serious to contemplate is the explosion of news outlets and the impact that has had. Again, good and bad news. We can now get the news delivered from every conceivable point of view, conservative, very conservative, liberal, very, very liberal. I suppose if you had a need for it you could find some news channel that delivered the news from a vegetarian point of view. But the other side is, many tend now to rely only on the stations or the channels that I call the validation places, the channels that validate your preconceived notion. The result of this is we are not all getting the whole story. In the old days most people got their information from the same sources. Now we're basing our opinions on information gathered from thousands of sources. We are not all basing our opinions on the same data. I think that is one of the reasons, not the only reason by a long shot, but one of the reasons our politics today are so toxic and the partisan divide is so wide and the government remains in what we have come to think of as an eternal gridlock.
It is the impact that this explosion of news outlets is having on newspapers that is of the most concern. As advertisers have drifted to the web, the ads that were the lifeblood of many of the nation's newspapers, great and small, has slowed to a trickle. Many are on life support. We spend a lot of time these days in journalism worrying about whether newspapers will continue to be printed on paper. I believe that is the wrong question. The question is not whether we are going to get the news written down on paper or on our wristwatch, but the content that we receive. What will the information we get in the future be? Will it be accurate? Will it be vetted as we have normally and have now come to expect from mainstream journalism? Will it be true? Will it be information that we can trust? All of us, especially in journalism, need to be thinking about newspapers and we need to support them in every way that we can, because if we reach the point in this country that some entity, either newspapers, broadcasters, the web, if we reach the point that some entity does not do what newspapers have traditionally done -- and that is keep a watch on local government -- we will see corruption in this country as we have never seen it before.
One of the things I have done as all of this shakes out is urged local broadcasters to take on the slack if the newspapers in their community begin to cut back. I think one of the things they can do is simply hire the best investigative reporters that the newspaper has, put them to work. They will learn the television part quickly. A good reporter is a good reporter. To some, the challenges -- [Applause] Thank you. To some, the challenges to newspapers has led to the belief that journalism is a dying industry. That is wrong. Journalism is changing, but the need for journalism is greater than ever. And here is why. A democracy as we know it cannot exist unless citizens have access to independently gathered information that they can compare to the government's version of events. Unless you can have that, our democracy, our government cannot exist as we know it today. The access to accurate, independently gathered information is as crucial to the Democratic form of government as the right to vote. I think sometimes we forget that, but it is very true. [Applause]
So what do we do? And what's going to happen in the future? I think that someone is going find a way to distribute news and do it at a profit, because these cannot be charities. They cannot be government institutions. Journalists don't work for the government, we watch the government. But here is what leads me to think that journalism is going to survive. You know, nobody ever became plumbing contractor because they thought it was a glamorous profession. They became a plumbing contractor because they had figured out a way, at a profit, to give people something that they had decided they needed: Indoor plumbing. So it will be in journalism. Someone is going to find a way to do this. Because when societies need something, they find a way to get it. That person is not going to be someone who thinks in the past. We have had the sale of some of our great newspapers in this country to people who tried to run them by the old business model. They spectacularly failed. The person who figures out how to provide this need to communities is going to be someone who is thinking forward, not backward. Someone who is an innovator. I think that someone maybe like the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, who recently bought the Washington Post. He is an innovator, a master of marketing who understands the role that newspapers play. He figured out a whole new way to sell books and that has revolutionized the way we sell almost anything. Can he figure out a profitable way to distribute news? And it has to be profitable. We are not charities. I hope he can. But the rest of us in journalism can't wait around to see what he comes up with.
Social media is fine. Tweets and such are nice. But journalism is not about scratching the surface. It is about going beneath the surface and finding the truth. [Applause]
I would also say this: We should never let anyone in government think they have an exclusive on wisdom. By the same token, we must also remember, neither do we. So let me repeat what I have said before. Journalism is not a dying industry, it is more necessary and more needed than ever, because it is a more complex world that we are dealing with.
I want to close this today with a story, my favorite story. Somebody asked me last night, what is your favorite story about Walter Cronkite? And this is the one I told at Walter's funeral. It helps you to understand how I feel about Walter. The year was 1976. I was the White House correspondent, President Ford was President, our first unelected president. He was running trying to win the office in his own right against Jimmy Carter. The election was the biggest story of the year. As the other big story was, the flu shot. The government had just developed these flu vaccines and they were not working too well. Those were the big stories we were concerned with. As we went one day, the White House Press Corps, with President Ford up to New York where he was being interviewed by Barbara Walters that afternoon, she was going to run the interview the next morning on the "Today" show. Barbara could make you believe it when she said something like this. Barbara said, "Anyone who interviewed the President before her interview aired the next morning would be killed." As I said, Barbara had a way of making people believe that.
Here we were being reporters, we immediately began trying to figure out a way to bust Barbara's exclusive. I went to the White House press secretary. I said, "Could we--?" He said, "No, out of the question, we've given Barbara our word we wouldn't do this." I went next to the White House Chief of Staff, 32 years old, I called him Dick in those days. Later I would call him Mr. Vice President, Dick Cheney. I said, "Dick, this is really putting us in a bind." He said, "Oh no, Bob, I'm sorry, we've given Barbara our word, we're not going to let the President be interviewed by anybody else." Then, to make matters even worse I get a call from New York, and who is it? Walter Cronkite.
"Bob," he said, "I understand the President is going to be up at Yonkers a little later today. Is there any way I could get up there?"
I said, "Of course, Walter." What was I going to say? "No, you stay there in New York."
"Bob, would you see if I could get just a brief interview with the President?"
I said, "Well, Walter, that's going to be kind of hard. I don't know if I can, but let me get to work." So I go back to Dick Cheney. I said, "Dick, now Walter is coming up he wants to interview the President." He said, "We can't do that, we gave our word to Barbara." I said, "Let me ask you this: Could you sort of let Walter sneak in the back door and just shake hands with the President? I know the President likes him and it would be a thrill for Walter." He said, "Well, I guess we could do that." I said, "You don't mind if I bring a camera crew in there just to record that?" He said, "Bob, I'm just telling you, he's not going do any interview."
I said, "I understand completely." At the appointed hour Walter arrived and the camera crew was there and there was a sound man. Walter took the microphone from the sound man and put it in his left hand. When he opened the door he walked right up to the President and said, "Hello, Mr. President! Are you going take your flu shot?" And Ford knew exactly what was going on and he almost burst out laughing. He said, "Well, Walter, as a matter of fact I am. This is a good thing and I think people ought to do it and I think I should set the example."
Well, I want to tell you, that evening 6:30, the CBS News went on and it went just like this: "Good evening, President Ford told me in an exclusive interview on the campaign trail today that he would take his flu shot." And then we proceeded to run that entire interview, all nine seconds of it. And I want to tell you, from that day forward Walter Cronkite, nobody loved a scoop more than Walter Cronkite, especially when it was his own scoop, and especially when he had scooped Barbara Walters. Walter never forgot that and took care of me from that day forward. Thank you all! [Applause] Thank you.
Ted Simons: Bob Schieffer is the 30th journalist to receive the Cronkite Award. That is it for now, I'm Ted Simons, thank you so much for joining us. You have a great evening.


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Where The Fun's At
Where The Funs At from Andrew on Vimeo.
Announcing "Where The Fun's At", a show that Andrew Hyde and myself will be making. WTF@ for short. This sprung from the both of us wanting to make more videos. Andrew I'm sure needed to justify last week's purchase of the Canon 5D Mark II (After only a short time hands-on, it's my favorite gadget of the last year. Jared has one you can play with on the cheap, don't touch it unless you're serious though, the check will start to write itself for you.) There's a few reasons as to why I'm involved. I want to be more comfortable on video. I'm looking to improve my writing. I'm learning to be a more effective communicator. I have a few ideas that are perfectly suited for a video show. Making videos is a great way to accomplish these. WTF@ is tongue in cheek enough and sounds more interesting than "The Jeremy and Andrew Show" So there is is. We have a lot of ideas as to what the show will become, but before that,
What would you like to see?
PostScript: Andrew's Thoughts on the matter…
Tags: andrew hyde, Canon 5d Mark II, video, Where The Fun's At, wtf@


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Case Name
Explosion in the workroom to fill explosives with press
April 16, 1996
Edajima, Hiroshima, Japan
Explosives factory
An explosion accident occurred in the press workroom of an explosives manufacturing factory. Three employees who were in the work room were killed. When PBX press work for manufacturing blasting fuses or exposal preparation work of waste explosives and defective goods were being conducted, explosives kept there exploded. The progress of the accident was presumed as following: Sensitive explosives ignited and exploded during preparatory work for disposing of waste explosives and defective goods because of slight impact or static electricity. In addition, the explosion expanded to explosives stored in the vicinity, and a large explosion occurred.
PBX: A kind of explosive, abbreviation of Plastic Bonding Explosive.
Explosives being kept in a press workroom exploded, and three workers in the workroom died. Refer to Fig2.
Individual Process
High explosive
Type of Accident
1. What kind of work being carried out in the press workroom was not known, because all of the workers in the workroom were killed. It was presumed that manufacturing of blasting fuses by PBX pressing or preparatory work for disposal of waste explosives and defective goods were being carried out.
2. Workers left the office of the explosives section on April 16th at 08:15 and arrived at the press workroom at 08:20. Then work started. The explosion occurred at 08:35.
3. In the testimony of a nearby employee, there were three explosions, and white smoke and flames were seen when the first explosion sound was heard. The flames grew after the second explosion, and flames rose to about one and a half times as high as the workroom at the third explosion.
1. The cause of the accident was difficult to specify because all of the workers in the press workroom were killed, and the workroom was completely destroyed. A scenario to the large explosion was presumed as follows: Sensitive explosives ignited and exploded due to small impacts or static electricity during preparatory work for disposing of retained waste explosives and defective goods. Then, explosives kept in the vicinity exploded one after another, and a large explosion occurred
2. Damage expanded because a large amount of gunpowder such as waste explosives and defective goods were kept in the workroom. They were not necessary for work on that day.
1. Strengthening safety countermeasures for explosives that are highly sensitive to impact and static electricity.
2. Improving the manufacturing safety manual.
3. Strengthening safety management such as inspection of the operating manual by the explosives manufacturing protection manager and safety inspection of the field-work.
4. Strengthening safety education.
Knowledge Comment
Explosives kept in workrooms are limited to the necessary minimum for the work, in particular, when sensitive explosives are manufactured or are handled. Otherwise, protection measures are taken.
1. The explosives management system of the office had become stereotyped.
2. Usually the manager in the office did not sufficiently grasp the field-work.
Reason for Adding to DB
Example of accident due to an insufficient check on the work by an executive safety staff
Primary Scenario
Organizational Problems, Poor Management, Slackness of Management, Poor Value Perception, Poor Safety Awareness, Inadequate Risk Recognition, Usage, Transport/Storage, Storage, Malicious Act, Rule Violation, Act Violation, Secondary Damage, External Damage, Explosion, Bodily Harm, Death, 3 person died, Loss to Organization, Economic Loss, 15 buildings damaged
Outline of significant accidents in 1996, Safety yearbook, p.244
The explosive pressure workroom of C powder Co., Ltd. E factory accident investigation committee. Research report on accident in the fourth explosive press workroom f C powder Co., Ltd. E factory.(1997)
Number of Deaths
Physical Damage
Complete collapse of a workroom. The roofs and the windows of 15 other workrooms were damaged. Destruction of an oil hydraulic press, a movable air press, a movable Numarocc press, an automatic explosives press, and worktables. About 2.8 kg of low explosives and about 1.9 kg of high explosives were dispersed.
Multimedia Files
Fig2.Photograph of damaged situation
Chemicals and Plants
OGAWA, Terushige (Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)