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ONLINE Intensive Elementary Arabic I and II
This is an ONLINE COURSE. It is an intensive course of elementary Arabic that covers two semesters long (fall and spring) of the face-to-face classes. The course syllabus, directions, and materials will be posted to an online course website. Students will be expected to access the documents at this course site and participate regularly in the online forum as well as interactive live discussions through web-conference at the meeting times listed. Technology requirements may be found at: //http://online.sas.upenn.edu// This is the beginners' course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
No prior knowledge is required. It will introduce you to the speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in the standard means of communication in the Arab World. The course is proficiency-based, implying that all activities within the course are aimed at placing you, the learner, in the context of the native-speaking environment from the very beginning. We anticipate that by the end of this course students will range in proficiency from Novice High to Intermediate Low on the ACTFL scale; in other words (using the terminology of the government's Foreign Service Institute), from 'incipient survival' to 'full' survival' in the native-speaking environment.
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Defense Documents
David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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(E) Suppression of contradictory evidence: testimony of Theo Miller.
1. Irving had no chance to interview Mehnert, who had died in the late 1950s or early 1960s.136 But Irving corresponded with Theo Miller, a member of the Dresden Clearing Staff [Aufräumungsstab]. In his first letter of February 1965 Miller described his work to Irving (in English):
In a second letter of 25 February 1965 Miller gave more detail to his book keeping.
At the wall of my bunker [the Staff Quarter in the bunkers under the Brühl'sche Terrasse] I had pinned up a big map of the town. Every evening the commanders of rescue units had to report on the figures of corpses found and on the shelters which had been cleared of deads [sic]. The streets and shelters which had been cleared of corpses I marked with red colour in my map. Furthermore, I had to keep book on the figures of deads [sic]. In the middle of March, 1945, our task was almost completed. The town was free of corpses. I then received the order to return to my division in Latvia.
Soon after the attack we heard in the radio Joseph Goebbels reporting on the attack on Dresden. He spoke of 300,000 deads [sic]. In your book you mention the figure of 135,000 victims. My records at the Clearing Staff showed 30,000 corpses. If you assume the amount of deads completely burnt etc. would reach 20%, the total figure of victims will not exceed 36,000. Still this figure - two full divisions - is terrible enough.137
In a second letter of 25 February 1965 Miller gave more detail to his book keeping.
2. He first outlined how, in an attempt to prevent double book-keeping, army logistics had confiscated all brandy and cigarette stocks in Dresden and offered SS salvage teams 15 cigarettes and a half-bottle of brandy if they reported their figures to the army team.
One day General Mehnert visited our Staff. I had seen the general the last time in summer 1939 when he had inspected our battalion. In March 1945 he looked like a very old, broken man. He asked me for the figures of deads [sic] and I showed him my book-keeping, and the map showing the freed areas. He shook his head and said: These figures are much too low, I do not believe them, it must be much more, I have seen them." Well, he was an old man and completely desperated [sic] like we all, but generally nobody, no police man, no civilian believed my figures. Maybe only the Lord in Heaven knows whether my figures were right or wrong. However, I had figures to count based on the reports of all salvage units and my counterparts only estimated figures. Their figures, so I believe, were an expression of the dantesque pictures of horror they saw everywhere on their ways through the town.
My counting system was very simple. I used a thick book like that of a book-keeper. In this book I wrote down exactly the names of the reporting unit, the name of the reporting officer, the figure of corpses found and the areas of the town, where they had been collected, and the place they had been buried. When I left the Staff on about March 20 with the order to return to my tank-division in Latvia, I handed this book over to another officer. My last figure of deads was about 30,000 - this figure I remember well, because after my return to my division I was asked by many of my comrades, who were born in Dresden and did not know anything about their relatives.138
3. Miller added 'P.S. By the way, the figures of deads [sic] were reported every day to a Central Air Defence Staff. This authority was in Berlin.'139 In a postscript typed a day later Miller wrote:
P.S. I have again to come back to the high figures of victims which I deny as far as they overgo 50,000. It is a fact that all corpses found have either been buried or burnt on the Altmarkt. Now we come to mathematical problems: Do you believe it possible to burn in about three weeks 110,000 corpses on a fire-grate of railway rails with a dimension of about 70 x 10 meters?140 In fact we started collecting corpses not before February 17 when the town stopped to burn and enough transport media had been brought together from other cities. The burning of corpses started about February 21 (one week after the air raid) and only on the hermetically closed Altmarkt because we feared the reaction of the population. The burning was finished to the best of my knowledge about March 15. When you can find out how long corpses are burning you will believe that a maximum amount of 10,000 - rather 7,000 - has been burnt. For the transportation of the deads we had only horse-drawn carts (Panjewagen) and some rickety trucks which run with producer gas (Holzgasgeneratoren) due to the lack of diesel oil or gasoline. This poor transport capacity could not transport the gigantic figures of deads overgoing 100,000 which are mostly reported. You must check again this problem as one of logistics. But can anybody really imagine what also 40,000 corpses mean? If you put them down in a line foot by head it is a street of 42 British miles! The inner district of Dresden has only a dimension of 2 times 4 miles! So the streets of Dresden looked to the frightened population like overfloated with corpses, and as a normal human reaction the survivors reported gigantic figures out of their phantasy.141
4. Here was a lucid, sober, and detailed account by a witness who had obviously taken some time and care to recollect his activities following the bombings. Miller, like Voigt, had apparently occupied a key position in the attempts to record the death roll, and was therefore ideally suited to give an estimate, albeit like Voigt from memory, of the numbers killed. Miller's figures corresponded roughly to those given by the East-Germans, by the engineer Feydt, and to Voigt's minimum. He had given apposite information on Mehnert's state of mind, information that at the very least needed to be judiciously weighed against Funfack's, at the most invalidated it. He gave a perfectly plausible explanation of why some eye witnesses exaggerated the figures. Moreover he had raised some telling points about the sheer logistics of any death roll put at higher than 50,000.
5. Irving may have had a sound reason to ignore Miller's testimony, but if he did it is not apparent from his microfilmed records. As it was, Miller, his testimony, and his criticisms remained unmentioned. TB 47 was obviously too compelling to be questioned.
136. DJ 35, Max Funfack to Irving, 19 March 1965.
137. DJ 35, Theo Miller to Irving, 7 February 1965.
138. DJ 35, Theo Miller to Irving, 25 February 1965.
139. Ibid.
140. As a result of the Die Welt article Dr. Dieter Struss received a letter from an eyewitness who claimed that the police director had told him that 110,000 bodies had been burnt on the Altmarkt. See DJ 35, Walter Klätte to Dr. Dieter Struss, 12 February 1965; Walter Klätte to Irving, 23 February 1965.
141. DJ 35, Theo Miller to Irving, 26 February 1965.
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ARGELES-GAZOST, France -- As his team hoped, Vincenzo Nibali demonstrated he's the "boss" of the Tour de France. Just don't compare him to the last rider to regularly bear that sobriquet at cycling's greatest race, Lance Armstrong.
In a tour de force on Thursday, Nibali blew away the peloton on a Pyrenees ascent too tough to be rated in Stage 18, all but locking up victory when the race ends in Paris in three days.
Nibali has combined racing smarts, skill at bike-handling, and powerful climbing legs to methodically piece together a lead of more than seven minutes, gaining seconds "here and there," as he put it after his fourth stage win.
That margin, if it holds, would be the second largest in 25 years: Jan Ullrich won by more than nine minutes in 1997. Armstrong won five of his seven titles from 1999 to 2005 by more than six minutes, but those victories were stripped after he was exposed as a doping cheat.
The last Italian to win the Tour was "The Pirate," Marco Pantani, in 1998. Nibali too knows about nicknames.
His family calls him Enzino. An attacking rider, he's been known as the "Shark of the Straits" in reference to the Strait of Messina off Sicily. One from his boyhood re-emerged on Thursday after the win at Hautacam resort: "Flea of the Pyrenees" -- a nod to its first bearer, Vincent Treuba of Spain, decades ago.
Alexandre Vinokourov, general manager of Nibali's Astana team, said the Kazakh squad wanted the rider to show he deserved another. "We said, 'We need to show that there's a boss,' " Vinokourov said on French TV, recalling the team's game plan before Thursday's stage. He said the stage victory was "not by chance."
But Nibali wasn't impressed by the comparisons to the disgraced Armstrong.
"I came to the Tour with a good preparation and a good team. But I'm not a boss like Lance Armstrong was," he said through a translator. "Let's leave the past behind us. I'm very clear about myself."
As a "flag-bearer of anti-doping," he notes his career ascension has been gradual. He won the 2010 Spanish Vuelta and the 2013 Giro d'Italia, putting him on track to become only the sixth rider ever to win all three Grand Tours.
The Italian has worn the yellow jersey for all but two days: That was last achieved by Armstrong nine years ago.
On the big, final climb, Nibali broke out of the peloton, chased down breakaway riders, and rode solo in front for the last eight kilometers (five miles) uphill.
The emphatic win in the 145.5-kilometer (90-mile) leg from Pau to Hautacam, where Nibali padded almost two minutes to his lead, essentially reduced the race drama to who will join him on the podium on the Champs-Elysees.
"I didn't want to lose command. My goal was to win here," Nibali said.


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Meridian's Temple Theater featured a live silent film show Saturday night in which live music was performed both before and during the show.
A musician played a theater organ before the show and someone played a grand piano during.
Two of the three comedies played Saturday are new offerings written and directed by young filmmaker, Rex Harsin. He says his films area throwback to the 1920's. He hopes audience members appreciate the entertaining experience.
"We want to help Meridian to have a unique experience going to the films. It's unlike anything else. We have live music. So the chance to see live music with a film is very rare. We want to provide that unique experience," says Harsin.
Harsin hopes to have the film show more often at the Temple.
Temple Theater owner, Roger Smith, says one of his goals is to foster growth of downtown by encouraging young artists like Harsin. But he said community and business support is also needed for the effort to be successful.
"I am 110% certain that if we do not bring the youth to the downtown area of Meridian then we will never thrive or rebound. We have to embrace the artistic abilities of the young people if we are going to call this a city where music started and a place for the arts. We need to embrace the young artistic minds and draw them downtown and make them feel welcome," explains Smith.
The third film is a 1924 film, "Sherlock Junior", starring Buster Keaton.


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Manhattan Apartment Buying May Not Be Great Deal
For Manhattan residents, the rent may not be too damned high, at least compared to the cost of buying an apartment.
A study released Friday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York says apartment prices have grown considerably faster than rents have increased in recent years in Manhattan. The divergence raises serious questions about the outlook for housing prices in the borough.
"Manhattan price-rent ratios, although off their 2008 highs, are still up dramatically over the past two decades, suggesting less financial 'value' today in an apartment purchase there," writes New York Fed economist Jason Bram, in the latest edition of the bank's Current Issues in Economics and Finance.
The economist said apartment sales are in part driven by "speculative factors" that cause the market to move in different ways that the rental sector, which is driven to a greater degree by classic supply and demand dynamics.
That said, the substantial increase in buying costs relative to rentals raises questions about "the sustainability of current prices," Bram wrote. He observed that although they are below their 2008 levels, "price-rent ratios in the borough are more than twice as high as they were in the mid-1990s," he wrote.
For current Manhattan prices to make sense relative to rental costs, mortgage rates and property taxes, prices would need to appreciate by at least 4% a year, Bram said. If other costs are added in, the rate of price appreciation may need to be even higher.
The paper's findings are based on a comparison of rental and ownership prices for Manhattan one-bedroom apartments between 1989 and 2011. Bram noted some recent information suggests that over this year, Manhattan apartment prices have stabilized, while rent-price gains have accelerated.
The New York Fed analyst wrote that a study of Manhattan's real estate market is aided by its relative homogeneity. Whereas in many other cities there are big differences in what people rent and what they purchase, Manhattan has "a large luxury rental market and renters and owners often live side by side." This unique environment somewhat simplifies the question of true cost of renting versus buying, the analyst said.
Manhattan's real estate market is further distinguished by the fact it largely sidestepped the ongoing crisis in home prices that continues to play out in the rest of the nation. The borough's space constraints and business environment helped it largely sidestep the house price bubble implosion that generated the worst recession since the Great Depression.


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Terry R. Taber joined Kodak in 1980. In January 2009, he was named Chief Technical Officer. The Board of Directors elected him a corporate vice president in December 2008, and then a senior vice president in December 2010. He reports to Chief Executive Officer Jeff Clarke.
Dr. Taber was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Kodak's Image Sensor Solutions (ISS) business, a leading developer of advanced CCD and CMOS sensors serving imaging and industrial markets. Prior to joining ISS in 2007, Dr. Taber held a series of senior positions in Kodak's research and development and product organizations. During his 30+ years at Kodak, Dr. Taber has been involved in new materials research, product development and commercialization, manufacturing, and executive positions in R&D and business management.
Dr. Taber's early responsibilities included research on new synthetic materials, an area in which he holds several patents. He then became a program manager for several film products before completing the Sloan Fellows program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He returned from MIT to become the worldwide consumer film business product manager from 1999 to 2002, and then became an Associate Director of R&D from 2002 to 2005, followed by a position as the director of Materials & Media R&D from 2005 to 2007.
Dr. Taber received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. He also received an M.S. in General Management from MIT as a Kodak Sloan Fellow. In 2003, he was elected to the Board of Trustees at Roberts Wesleyan College and Northeastern Seminary. Dr. Taber is a Board Member of the Innovation & Material Sciences Institute and serves on the Executive Advisory Board of FIRST Rochester (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Rochester Business Alliance, and the New York State Business Council.


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In QCad Version 126.96.36.199-Free-1 [Community Edition] running in up-to-date Debian Squeeze, select Draw > Circle > Center, Point. The Center appears to be accepted. Then the command displayed is Radius. It should be Point. Why is "Radius" displayed when "Point" should be? If I attempt to snap to a point, no circle is drawn.
Is this a bug? Can a circle be specified by center and point? If so, how?
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The U.S. Interior Department cancels two future offshore leases in Chukchi and Beaufort seas and will refuse requests from oil companies to renew existing leases.
The U.S. Interior Department cancels two future offshore leases in Chukchi and Beaufort seas and will refuse requests from oil companies to renew existing leases.
A planned modernization of Gazprom´s Prirazlomnya platform will increase production capacity from 22,000 tons to 100,000 tons per day.
About 200 million rubles have been stolen from Zvezdochka, the Northern Fleet yard in Severodvinsk.
Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Northern Fleet's "Admiral Kuznetsov", has finished repairs and is ready to leave the port of Murmansk. According to a Russian news agency, the vessel will sail to Syria.
A century and a half ago, Norway was home to roughly three thousand brown bears, the majority of bears in all of Scandinavia. By 1930, the bears were virtually extinct. Decades of aggressive management tactics and bounties had wiped out one of the area's most iconic species.
Microplastics, the tiny plastic particles that are accumulating in marine waters and big lakes around the world, are now showing up in the Arctic waters south and southwest of Svalbard, Norway, a new study says.
Russia's far northern Nenets Autonomous Okrug boosts debts to cope with a quickly growing deficit.
But all plans for expansion at the Severny-Gluboky mine are put on hold, company Kola GMK informs.
REYKJAVIK: The climatic changes taking place in the Arctic are a call to action for the world. We must answer with more international cooperation and more research, says Tore Hattrem, State Secretary of Norway's Foreign Ministry.
"Partnership should and shall shape the development of the Arctic, therefore cooperation is the starting point for our Arctic policy," Vladimir Barbin, Senior Arctic Official and representative to the Arctic Council, said at the Arctic Circle 2015 assembly.
Tromsø International Film Festival tours Russia with a unique concert production of the 1927 Soviet silent film Bed and Sofa.
August 9th, the Barents Region celebrated the UN International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. The day was commemorated in several parts of the region, including Karasjok in Northern Norway and Teriberka in Northwestern Russia.
Almost 5000 asylum seekers have crossed the Norwegian-Russian border since the European migrant crisis arose. The Norwegian government decides to toughen the asylum regulations.
Norway's Foreign Minister Børge Brende has asked Russia for an explanation to the high number of asylum seekers coming to Norway via Russia. Syrian refugees that have lived in Russia for a long time, will be stopped on the border and sent back.
Regional identity is on the priority list of the new Russian Barents Council chairmanship along with cross-border transportation, climate, culture and tourism.
A series of high-level talks were held in the run-up to today's session in the Barents Euro-Arctic Council.
With the Arctic becoming an object of steadily growing attention, Murmansk Oblast establishes the "Arctic University" to prepare Barents students for jobs in Arctic oil and gas projects.
As Syrian refugees in the hundreds cross over from Russia, capacities in Kirkenes reach the limits. Now an abandoned military compound is turned into refugee reception center.


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This museum is a replica of the first McDonald's restaurant opened by Ray Kroc on April 15, 1955. View an array of memorabilia, from the original kitchen equipment to the 1950s classic cars parked on site.
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Knitter's Review
October 13, 2005
Circular needles are the problem children of the knitting world. No matter what you do, they end up in massive tangles with their mates.
It can get even more frustrating. The sizes aren't marked consistently and often rub off with use. To find the needle you want, you have to untangle the whole mess and put each needle through a sizer to figure out its size.
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SAN JOSE -- San Jose State is close to completing one of its best seasons on the road in recent history.
The Spartans (7-2, 3-1 Western Athletic Conference) haven't lost a road game since the season opener at Stanford and are seeking their first five-game road winning streak since 1986.
"That's a big deal for us," SJSU coach Mike MacIntyre said.
A victory Saturday at New Mexico State (1-8, 0-4) would mark the eighth time in school history the Spartans have won five road games in a season.
SJSU accomplished that feat four times during the 1980s, but this would be the first time since 1987.
With tough home games against BYU and Louisiana Tech to follow, the Spartans know the importance of adding to their win total.
"We'd definitely like to go down there and get a W, and come back home 8-2 and hopefully have two unbelievable Saturdays in a row," MacIntyre said.
MacIntyre has often said the team wasn't talking about the possibility of being bowl eligible leading into last Saturday's game at Idaho, a 42-13 win. Once a reality, he conceded it was worth a moment to reflect.
"I did make a few phone calls right after the game, thanking people that gave me an opportunity here that meant a lot to me," MacIntyre said. "I called my parents. It meant a lot. I sat there for a minute and thought about all the players that we've had here the last two years that have put in a lot of sacrifice."
Four teammates (Travis Johnson, Vince Buhagiar, Bene Benwikere and Cullen Newsome) have won the defensive player of the week honor, and Tyler Ervin earned the special teams award earlier this year.
Lopez is one of three kickers in the country who are perfect on field goal attempts. He's 13 for 13 with a long of 43 yards.
Lopez already has set several SJSU records. His 76 points is a record for points scored by a freshman, and his 13 field goals are the most consecutive makes in school history. He kicked four field goals in SJSU's 12-0 win over Navy to tie a school record for field goals in a game.
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San Jose State (7-2, 3-1 WAC) at New Mexico State (1-8, 0-4), 12:30 p.m.


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Child killing trial delayed again
Published: Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 8:46 p.m.
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A hearing to determine the competency of a man accused of beheading his son has been pushed back a third time.
Jeremiah Wright, 31, of Thibodaux, must be deemed mentally competent before he can stand trial on charges he decapitated 7-year-old Jori Lirette last year.
The hearing, originally scheduled for Thursday, was moved to Jan. 29, prosecutors said.
Wright's defense attorneys asked for the extension, court records show.
Wright remains in the Lafourche Parish jail on a first-degree murder charge in lieu of a $5 million bond.
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Word of thanks: Jan. 17
Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 8:26 a.m.
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I have been a volunteer at Pardee Hospital for 17 years but had never experienced being a patient there until recently. I would like to express my complete satisfaction with the care I received for the procedure, all the way from the lady who greeted me at the Out Patient Day Surgery to the volunteer who wheeled me out after it was over.
Everyone was fast, friendly and efficient and made me feel that they really cared! I was aware that our CEO, Jay Kirby, has been working very hard to make many favorable changes to our hospital, and in my opinion he has accomplished that goal.
Everyone in Flat Rock and Hendersonville knows Pardee is our closest hospital and should not hesitate to go there when the need arises. You might be pleasantly surprised!
Lavinia Zimmermann
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WALNUT CREEK -- Across the country Friday, communities gathered to mourn those who lost their lives in a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Residents in Walnut Creek were no exception.
A group of roughly 20 mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers gathered at the corner of City Hall, lighting candles and hugging each other not to fight off the cold, but to grieve and to try to understand why someone would walk into a school and kill 26 people, most of them children.
"There are no words for this kind of thing," said vigil organizer and Walnut Creek resident Ashleigh Montgomery. "When one heart bleeds, all our hearts bleed."
As the group expressed their condolences aloud to those families who lost a loved one in the Sandy Hook school massacre Friday, some also discussed how they could keep their own children vigilant should a tragedy like that in Newtown happen locally.
Walnut Creek resident Debbie Zuniga said she did not hesitate to talk to her children about what had happened.
Zuniga said she wants her children to be careful and to be aware of what is going on around them, even if it means texting her daughter during school hours to remind her to talk about something Zuniga read in the paper or got in an email alert from her daughter's school.
Zuniga read a prayer during the vigil, trying hard to hold back tears that eventually just flowed down her cheeks as she expressed her sorrow for those who had lost their own children in Newtown.
"I just sat in my car and cried for half an hour, I couldn't stop crying," she said. "I wanted to go to my kids' schools and pick them up and just hug them."
And while many said mass shootings have happened far too often this year, those at the vigil Friday did not bring up the topic of gun control.
It just was not the time, said Pleasant Hill resident Jim Tolles.
"This does show the darkness that can be in some of our hearts," he said of the massacre, "but we need to take a pause. Because the next step we need to take is to forgive. If we can't forgive, this will just viciously continue."
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Our intrepid explorer Youssef Rakha heads to the mall in the footsteps of ibn Battuta.
The journalist Abu Said ibn Rakha recounted as follows:
My trip from Abu Dhabi to Dubai took place at a later hour than planned on Monday, the 22nd of the month of Dhul Qi'dah, in this, the 1429th year after the blessed Hijrah. My object was to roam inside the Emirates' newfangled monument to my venerable sheikh of Tangier – honest judge of the Maliki school of Sunni jurisprudence, associate of Temur the Tatar and Orhan the Ottoman, and divinely gifted savant of his day – Shamsuddin Abu Abdalla ibn Battuta. He is the author of the unsurpassed Rihla (you may know it as The Travels of ibn Battuta), the glorious account of his three decades' Journey around the world, dazzling pearl on the bed of our literary sea, which he dictated before he died in 770 or 779 and whose style I now humbly emulate.


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Knitter's Review
March 27, 2003
We have many hand-dyed yarn sources here in the United States, but we certainly don't own the patent on color.
We have exquisite colors from Colinette in the U.K., Koigu in Canada, and Noro in Japan, to name just a few. This week I'll introduce you to a source from Australia.
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700th singles win!
Roger eased into the fourth round of the French Open with a 6-4 6-0 6-4 win over German qualifier Julian Reister today, earning his 700th singles victory!
"With my own form, I'm very happy. I'm ready to mix up my game playing aggressive," said Federer. "I'm not sure today if I had to face break points. "I'm getting very few breaks, and that's obviously always a good thing looking ahead." It was Roger's 700th career singles wins on the ATP Tour, making him only the 10th player ever, and only active pro, to have won 700 or more singles matches.
Reister managed to keep up with Roger's pace in the first set, especially as Roger was unable to convert the first seven break points he had. Once Roger broke for a 5-4 lead in the first set it was plain sailing for number one seed. Roger raced through the second set in just 18 minutes, completing a 'bagle'. It took one more break in the third set before Roger wrapped up the match after 93 minutes with a regulation forehand.
In the round of the last eight, Roger will meet Stanislas Wawrinka on Sunday. It is the first meeting between two Swiss players at a Grand Slam tournament in the last ten years.
GOOD LUCK today against Stan once again.
I believe in you and your beautiful tennis and I know it well, you will try do do only your best.
Just play your game and we will be waiting for your smile at the end.
One match at a time.....
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Gray Areas in Part II of the Google vs. FTC Settlement: Patents
By Jessica E. Lessin and Shira Ovide
Google dodged having to make major changes to its search business, after the Federal Trade Commission cleared it of antitrust violations and preserved the status quo in Web search. But the industry implications of a second piece of the settlement – which relates to wonky mobile patents –is murkier.
Google agreed to limit the instances in which it would try to block competitors' products based on patents related to wireless standards. These "standard essential patents," which tend to cover communication capabilities as opposed to design or interface features, are a controversial topic in the tech world.
Microsoft and Apple, which has sued a number of phone makers that run Google's Android operating system, have argued to regulators that Google-owned Motorola Mobility and Samsung Electronics shouldn't be able to use those patents to try to block their products at all because owners agreed to license them on fair and reasonable terms. Google and Samsung, however, consider them valuable weapons in the escalating patent wars over mobile technology, which Apple and others provoked.
As part of the settlement, Google said in a blog post that it would try to resolve issues relating to those patents through a neutral third party before seeking injunctions.
The FTC, which led its overall settlement press release with the patent provision, used seemingly stronger but vague language saying that Google had agreed not to sue any "willing licensee" based on those patents.
Some lawyers following the case say the agreement could be good news for Apple and Microsoft given it is likely to limit the circumstances in which Google could seek injunctions.
But the fact that Google stops short of agreeing to never doing so makes it unlikely to placate its rivals, people familiar with the matter said.
The status of existing patent litigation involving Google may be another gray area. There are several ongoing patent suits between Google's Motorola unit and Microsoft and Motorola and Apple, and in some of the cases Google is asking courts to block sales. Google could argue that it will follow through on its promise to the FTC by not obtaining an injunction until a third party – in this case a federal court judge – determines a fair and reasonable price for Microsoft to license Motorola's patents. If Microsoft is still unwilling to pay up, Google could move ahead with an injunction.
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North Port Fire Rescue wins chili contest - again
Published: Monday, October 28, 2013 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 12:03 p.m.
North Port Fire Rescue again took first place in the annual chili cook-off hosted by Morton's Market in Sarasota.
The recent event raised money for the Sarasota County Firefighters Benevolent Association. Visitors paid $5 to taste a variety of chills made by fire station crews from across the county.
Chief Michael ROman created the winning recipe, which received first place in both the People's Choice Award and the Judges Award. This was the third time North Port firefighters won the People's Choice Award and the second time they won the Judges Award.
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No I.D. has spent the last two decades producing classics alongside Common ("I Used to Love H.E.R."), Jay-Z ("D.O.A."), and Kanye West ("Heartless"), but you wouldn't recognize him even if he was sitting in your studio session.
Maybe that's because he doesn't have a publicist and he doesn't chase fame. Born Dion Wilson (No I.D. is an inversion of his first name), the former president of G.O.O.D. Music has been called the "Godfather of Chicago Hip-Hop" and "Kanye's mentor"—but he never claimed those handles.
However, there is one title that he did covet: Executive Vice President of A&R at Def Jam, and last year the 40-year-old Chicago native landed his dream job at the house that Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin built.
Complex got with No I.D. to discuss what advice Jay-Z gave him about running things at Def Jam, his role in the making of Watch the Throne, and the negative impact of Nas' Illmatic.
As told to Insanul Ahmed (@Incilin)
This feature appears in Complex's February/March 2012 issue.
On His Job At Def Jam
How did you end up as the Executive Vice President of A&R at Def Jam?
I've done music for a while, but I was always an introvert doing music. I never had a PR person, ever. I never really did a lot of interviews. When I started working with G.O.O.D. Music, I was the president for a while.
That led me to meet Big Sean, and I developed a relationship with [Island Def Jam head of A&R] Karen Kwak and [Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Island Def Jam Music Group] L.A. Reid at the time. They got to know me and that led to them offering me a job.
What were some of those accomplishments that that made Def Jam want to hire you?
It was simple things, like being able to grab Big Sean and take him from scratch. I'm really good at taking things from scratch and helping develop them, versus chasing after the hottest thing going.
I came in when Watch The Throne was happening. It wasn't like I was actively working on the project, but I came in with some insight that helped bring records like "Otis," "Made In America," and "No Church In The Wild."
I come from an era where you just build something. Me and Common built what we built from Chicago from scratch. Then helping Kanye get to where he's gotten. Being involved with helping extend the success of Jay-Z.
When people get to see me interact with the creative giants, they see the perspective and the respect. A lot of times, people don't have that respect, from a music perspective, with the music people.
For example, I came in when Watch The Throne was happening. It wasn't like I was actively working on the project, but I came in with some insight that helped bring records like "Otis," "Made In America," and "No Church In The Wild."
Those were our creative discussions. Behind the scenes, you don't see them, but when you can, it's like, "Hey, it would be a good idea if we do this with a lot of artists. Let him have this position."
Was that in the plan for you to be at Def Jam?
Absolutely. Once I was starting the Big Sean album last year, I did make the statement, like, "You know what? I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna go in here and talk to L.A. [Reid] and I'm gonna work for them." It was a short-term plan.
But then L.A. Reid left. That kind of led to me being torn between going where he was going and going to Def Jam with Karen Kwak, who kind of was the person standing by my side during that process.
Long story short, I had a meaning with L.A., and I told him 'I want to learn from you because I feel like I'm you. You're a producer who worked with Babyface. I'm a producer and worked with Kanye. I'm trying to transfer into this executive place. You've done what I'm trying to do.'
This is what I mean about finding ways to not be satisfied with the simple things that our generation acts like is the pinnacle of success. I'm looking at people who have real success and longevity. They're gonna have something for their children when they're gone. They're gonna have enough time to spend with their children.
It's so hard to get everything, but I want it all. I know it's a 40-year process, not a four-year process. You can make $100 million in four years, and don't have it in 10 years. We've seen it.
What did L.A. tell you?
I asked Jay-Z one day what he thought I should do, and he told me, "Bet on yourself. Don't bet on someone else." Those words were the words that made me know I'm gonna do what I'm supposed to do and build my legacy.
What it led to was a situation where I was actually gonna go work with him at Epic. It ended up that Karen and [Island Def Jam CEO] Barry Weiss believed in and invested more into me. It kind of outweighed that relationship that I was trying to build with L.A.
I asked Jay-Z one day what he thought I should do, and he told me, "Bet on yourself. Don't bet on someone else." Those words were the words that made me know I'm gonna do what I'm supposed to do and build my legacy, whatever that is—be it big or small. I got this far not depending on anyone. I got to go further depending on myself.
What did you learn in your tenure as the president of G.O.O.D. Music?
Sometimes those titles are glorified. I can't even say that things were set up so that it could really be constructive in that sense. I think it was more-so Kanye needed a break, and I was a competent guy that everybody could talk to and respect. I said, "Okay, cool. Take a break. Let me see what I can do."
I tried to bring a business structure. The first thing I did was figure out who's actually signed. I said, "Who's signed? Okay, Big Sean is signed. Who's what?" It led to me putting a lot of effort into Sean and Common, which as a producer, is something I would have done anyway. Working there gave me the authority to exercise those relationships without feeling like I'm stepping on toes.
You worked with Common on The Dreamer, The Believer. As a VP at Def Jam, is it a conflict for you to work with a non-Def Jam artist like Common?
No. I've got car routes in my deal, so there's certain things I can work on that's not in the system, due to long-standing relationships. Common is one of them. People that I've had long working relationships with that are at a certain level, [I can work with them]. I can work with gold and platinum artists outside, plus people that I've had those long relationships with. It's not a conflict in that sense.
Is there pressure for you to produce on Def Jam albums now?
It is, but it's not a pressure in all of the things that I was already working on. The situation worked well, because I was already working on Nas, I was already working on Sean, I could have worked with Pusha T. So that's just me doing my job anyway. Now I can follow through a little better from an executive place.
Through your career, you didn't always sell a ton of records. Is there more pressure for you to sell records now?
I never had a publicist and never tried to do anything to make myself get the credit. Rick Rubin was my inspiration. He did a lot for hip-hop and went off in other genres. He's still doing humongous records, yet you don't see him in the forefront. You don't say, "Hey, Rick Rubin got the new Adele" —but he right there doing it.
It's not like I'm trying to guess or figure it out. I'm humble enough to ask when I don't know. I know how to work with people and get help. It's not about me proving anything. When you're young, you're still trying to prove you're good. I'm not trying to prove anything, I'm just trying to get good results. That's how you have a career. Keep getting good results. It's less pressure now. It's actually fun and easy now.
You've been around for a long time, but weren't truly appreciated until the last few years, when Kanye gave you the shoutout on "Big Brother" and then Jay did the same on "D.O.A." You're one of the few people who got appreciated late in their career as opposed to early in their career.
A lot of that has to do with the fact that I never had a publicist and never tried to do anything to make myself get the credit. I really was just trying to grow as a human being and as a producer. I always had it mapped out in my head that it would go like that, but I never really knew that it would fully end up going that way. It was kind of amazing to see it happen.
I really mapped it out after [producer and Def Jam co-founder] Rick Rubin. He was my inspiration. I used to study who I wanted to be like, and it was [the late Atlantic Records producer] Tom Dowd and Rick Rubin. They had these really long careers, but they really did a lot for people and music that was not seen.
I like how Rick Rubin did a lot for hip-hop and then went off in other genres. He's still doing humongous records, yet you don't see him in the forefront. You don't say, "Hey, Rick Rubin got the new Adele"—but he right there doing it.
Do you see yourself becoming the President of Def Jam one day?
I've heard some of that. That would be me looking ahead. I'm not looking ahead. I'm looking at where my feet are now. I'm gonna be a really good Executive Vice President. If I do this good, then I do this good. [Laughs.] Again, there's no hustle in my actions. Let me do what I have, and be the best at what I do. If I do this really good, does it even matter who's the president?
We talking about titles, but what do they even mean? You got more control to do what? You're getting a little more money? Okay, well I got access to make money. I'm a producer. I have access to sell, grow, and develop artists. I have a label here also. I got everything that I need. I'm not worried about whether I am that or not.
How He Affected Watch The Throne
You mentioned bringing insight into Watch The Throne. In what way did you affect songs like "Otis?"
It was just conversation between me, Jay, Kanye, and a few other people. I think Q-Tip was there. It just came out because they were like, "What do you have for the album?" They played what they had, and I was like, "I don't know if I have anything with this direction. It's just not what I do. If I do it I've got to really think it out and make it creative—and I don't have that right now. I don't even know if I wantto have that right now."
I was like, 'The sample record that Kanye does with no co-producer, where is that? The record that's not based on anything else that has that personality that he does.' We challenge each other, so I was like, ''You're just going to do an album, and you're not going to do one of those? What's up?' Kanye was like, 'Okay. I got that,' and they did it a couple days later.
In all fairness though, it wasn't like I was better than this or that, or that what they were doing wasn't good. It was just that, at that moment, that wasn't a path that any of us had done musically, and I didn't understand why we were going there. I still do records like "I Do It," so it's not like an "I'm better than thou" attitude. But at that point, I just felt like, "That's not what I thought we were going to do."
A lot of times I'm very outspoken with my opinion, respectfully. At that time, I felt like the album was missing those records—there's a Kanye element that people want. We can't get a Kanye/Jay-Z album without that.
Specifically "Otis," that was the record. I was like, "The sample record that Kanye does with no co-producer, where is that? The record that's not based on anything else that has that personality that he does." We challenge each other, so I was like, "You're just going to do an album, and you're not going to do one of those? What's up?"
Kanye was like, "Okay. I got that," and they did it a couple days later. So I'm not taking credit for it, I'm just saying that from a business perspective, I heard a comment where Barry Weiss was like, "That's real A&Ring."
You're still an outspoken guy...
Well, when necessary. I don't speak out of place, but if you ask me, I will definitely speak the truth. Also, my opinion is my opinion. I don't feel the need to force anybody to agree or disagree with me. But if you ask me, I do feel it's important to speak with confidence about my feelings about whatever the questions are. That's just being comfortable in your skin and being honest, no matter the outcome of your honesty. It just worked for me in life, not even just music.
Is there a specific instance you remember where you were very outspoken about something?
Yeah, I did it a little on Watch The Throne. Early on, I felt like Jay and Kanye were icons and I told them I didn't agree, as a fan, with the direction they were going. Everybody's looking at me like, "Who are you?"
I'm like, "I'm just me, but I want my feelings on the record that I want more from you guys. It's not even about who does it. I just want more from you icons. I want you guys to push it forward. You're going to sell, because you're already big. But you guys are important to push this forward. Push intelligence and decadence and all of the above forward in a creative manner."
What was their reaction to that?
With people like Jay and Kanye, the people around them have opinions, but their security is being around them. They saw me say, 'I'll just go do Big Sean while you do that,' and it was more credible at that point, even though we had known each other and worked together.
Sometimes it was, "Yeah, whatever." Sometimes it was, "You know what? You're right." Again, all these things aren't to act like I made something. I just wanted to be a voice, and sometimes that voice was heard, and sometimes it was ignored.
I had been working with both of them a lot up to the point of making those statements, and then after I made those statements, I just kind of didn't come around much any more. They were like, "Man, what's up?"
I was like, "I told you, that's not where I want to go, and I don't think y'all should go there." And I was like, "Yeah. I'll pass up the money and everything, and I'll go do something else, because I believe in what I believe in—right or wrong."
A lot of times with people like that, the people around them have opinions, but their security is being around them. They saw me say, "I'll just go do Big Sean while you do that," and it was more credible at that point, even though we had known each other and worked together. It was like, "Wow, you'll really just go work on that and make that really good? You know what, your points have been earned here."
That's interesting that for you it was more about the quality than the look.
I'm past the look. You know why? Because history is the look. The moment is not the look. There's certain records I did that were really good, but no one talks about them. But I can still get a handshake off of "I Used To Love H.E.R." I can still get a comment or smile from someone that says, "Man, I appreciate that." It's heartfelt and it means something. So those other things help pass the time and make a dollar here and there, but that's not what I'm here for now.
Is that something you bring as an A&R, challenging artists to be better?
Absolutely. For a lot of these artists, that's what it's all about; bringing the fun and the challenge in the workplace, versus making it so calculated about sales and airplay. What about the pursuit of excellence amongst our peers? I like to challenge whoever I'm working with.
Jay-Z even challenges me. He'll walk in and be like, "What you got? You ain't got nothing." I'll be like, "Oh yeah? I really don't? What about this right here? What you got for this?" So that's just an energy and a spirit that really is part of the producing that we don't get to do in this era, because there's so many beat tapes. It's like, "Send me the beat. I'll just lay something."
In your new life as an A&R you have to work with artists who might have big egos as their fame grows? How do you manage the egos that you have to deal with?
Jay-Z challenges me. He'll walk in and be like, 'What you got? You ain't got nothing.' I'll be like, 'Oh yeah? I don't? What about this? What you got for this?' So that's just an energy and a spirit that really is part of the producing that we don't get to do in this era, because there's so many beat tapes.
To really do this you've got to have people skills. You've got to deal with human beings. That's just a part of that job and task. It's no different than if you have to work at any job. It's still people skills that let you advance. If you're working where you are, and somebody in your office or system has an ego, how do you deal with it? If you deal with it well, it's going to lead to success.
I don't really make much of myself. I don't have enough ego to care about somebody else's ego. It really doesn't matter to me. I'll come in the room, and I won't even say who I am, much less say what I did. I'm just Dion. I'm in the room, "Hey, how's it going?"
If you're bigger than me, great. If you feel the need to let me know, that's fine too. When it comes to doing the work or the job, I know what I'm doing, and I'm humble enough to not be the biggest guy in the room all the time. I'm just cool, and I'm comfortable in myself.


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The Lengths of Nolan
Of course, you knew there would be a "but". For a summer blockbuster, it's not bad at all, is the faintest of praise. It's not like the competition is exactly a pantheon of cinematic glory.
My feelings about the film are similar to those of Dennis Cozzalio, who wrote a long, thoughtful post that relieves those of us who agree with him from having to say a whole lot more. He says, "It's not a dreamer's movie, it's a clockmaker's movie," and that sums it up well for me. I didn't strain as much to keep up with the background and plot as he did, but I suspect that's just because I'm very familiar with science fiction exposition. (I think Abigail Nussbaum also has a lot of insight into the movie, particularly from the SF angle.) The puzzle aspects of the film are fun, and they keep our brains engaged while watching, which is more than can be said for most summer blockbusters.
It's awfully long. That was the biggest impression the movie made on me. It wasn't as annoying to me as The Dark Knight, a film I thought so extraordinarily bad in many ways that I just couldn't get much pleasure at all out of watching it the first time (it's actually an interesting film to re-watch, I think, once you no longer expect it to be particularly good on the whole, because there are some moments of magic, and the ways that it's bad are, at least to me, interesting). Inception is entertaining. But it's awfully long.
I recently watched Christopher Nolan's first feature, Following. It's clever and enjoyable in that utterly-contrived-puzzle way that is Nolan's forte. It's also 69 minutes long. Just about the right length for its content. I haven't seen Memento for a while, but I remember it feeling more or less economic in its narrative -- or, at least, I don't remember it lasting for forty days and forty nights like The Dark Knight.
That got me wondering...
I looked up the running times of all his feature films on IMDB, and made a chart:
Interestingly, The Prestige is the only film with a significant move downward in length. Further, it's the one Nolan film I hold in really high regard -- it is, indeed, easily one of my favorite films of the past decade. (Some of the reasons are purely personal rather than aesthetic or rational ones -- I've a fondness for stories about stage magicians and for novels by Christopher Priest, and as adaptations of novels go, I agree with Priest that it's an excellent one.)
For those of us who prefer Nolan's less ... prodigious ... work, there is hope: Inception is four minutes shorter than The Dark Knight, so perhaps his future movies will reverse the trend toward epic length and give us a few more films of the quality of The Prestige. With luck, Nolan will not prove such hopes to be less real than dreams.
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Length correlates with budget here and it is a more general point that summer blockbusters have increasingly stretched to tortuous lengths. I agree that it would be healthy for Nolan to make a film for the budget of The Prestige (about a quarter of The Dark Knight) but presumably he is about to plunge straight into Batman 3ReplyDelete
Hi Matt. I recently discovered your blog & love what I've read so far. It's proving quite the task to catch up (at this rate I never will) but it's well worth it.ReplyDelete
Anyway, your length-focused criticism of Inception is one that I've seen applied increasingly more often in the past few years in respect to films in general. Perhaps it's just the venue of analysis your blog provides, but this is the first time I've given the issue much thought, & my stance, for now, is that using length itself as a focal point for criticism is beating a straw dog. After all, 2001: A Space Odyssey & The Godfather are also very long films, but I've never once heard complaints about that regarding the latter, while every person I've spoken to who did not enjoy the former indicated length as the primary reason for their dissatisfaction: my point being, I think additional factors are responsible for a film feeling too long. It actually has very little to do with the run-time itself (though of course a 90 minute film will always feel shorter than a 120+ minute one).
I think the blog post by Dennis Cozzalio you mentioned (thanks for that) contains a better idea of what lies beneath the oppressiveness of the run-time: while far from the only factors, both pacing & tone contribute a great deal to how long a feature feels, as well as how "comfortable" one finds the length. I don't have the link, but I recall a blog post from back when The Dark Knight came out; its premise was that the frenetic & relentless pace of TDK (as well as its uniformly dour tone) accounted for the length criticism, & that - ironically - extending some shots, lingering on scenes, would have made it feel shorter even if doing so would actually prolong the experience.
For my part, Inception didn't feel long to me. I think I tend to have more patience than others regarding movie length (I consider 2001 the best film ever made, long or not), but I can still understand where people are coming from. Editing is probably the greatest lost art in film for the better part of the past two decades, perhaps longer, & I think most directors don't understand how to correctly pace films anymore in respect to their content. It's a bit baffling. Nolan, in my book at least, covered his ass by having Inception's form mirror its content: the labyrinthine nature of the narrative structure ties in to the desired architecture of the dreams, & the film seeming too long resembles how more time passes in dreams than in reality. Still, there are plenty of other criticisms to weigh it down, namely how thin most of the characters were. On a side note, I think Cillian Murphy & Marion Cotillard's work saved this film from being a complete let down.
Thanks, gentlemen, for the great comments -- you're absolutely right about length and budget, Martin. There are lots of reasons, I think, for what feels (I haven't crunched any data) like a general move toward longer films, and I've certainly nothing against length per se (I much prefer the longer version of The New World, for instance). It's a purely subjective sense of what feels justified for the story, and I certainly know various viewers respond in different ways -- most of the audience I saw the short version of New World with seemed to hate it and think it was way too long, and plenty of folks I know thought Inception and The Dark Knight flew by. I filled the post with personal qualifiers because I know there are lots of viewers who feel exactly the opposite of me. I just thought the trend was worth noting.ReplyDelete
Ryan's mostly right, I think, that length is an ancillary element of our evaluation of any film. I don't entirely agree that a 90 minute film will always feel shorter than a 120 minute film. While that's certainly mostly true, something like Tarkovsky's My Name is Ivan at 95 minutes probably feels longer to most viewers than Casino Royale at 144 minutes. The first time I saw Public Enemies (140 mins), I was sure Michael Mann had made his shortest movie in ages, and was stunned to find out what time it was when I left the theatre!
My sense of Dark Knight feeling eternal was more from getting more and more angry at the story, cinematography, and editing choices as it went along than from its pace, really. The length just meant my frustrations with the film were going on and on and on...
I'm totally with you, Ryan, on Cillian Murphy and Marion Cotillard. I loved them both, and have loved them in everything I've seen them in -- I was just telling somebody today that he should see Breakfast on Pluto and The Wind that Shakes the Barley to see some more wonderful work by Murphy. I've seen some criticism of Cotillard for her role in Inception, and I don't at all agree with it, but I also thought she was fabulous in Public Enemies, and even some defenders of that film hated her. There's something about her performances in English that seems to really bother some people. I actually thought all the performances in Inception were good -- my frustrations with Nolan are generally not about his actors (though I agree with Jim Emerson that he didn't seem to know what to do with the goldmine that was Heath Ledger's performance). I thought DiCaprio gave one of his best performances in Inception, oddly enough -- it's somewhat similar, as many people have said, to his work in Shutter Island, but I didn't particularly care for him there (I was indifferent to the movie, but have resigned myself to the fact that I am indifferent to Scorcese's films in general). In Inception, he's especially good in silent moments -- he's really learned to use his eyes to convey entire worlds of emotion and possibility. I love Joseph Gordon-Levitt in anything, and Tom Hardy is, I expect, likely to be seen as one of the great actors of our time, if he can keep getting good roles (he has brief moments of wonder in Inception, but to really see what he can do, we have to look at something like Bronson).
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I myself have noted a trend toward longer comments on the Mumpsimus...so that sometimes it feels that they extend beyond the length of the original post. But that may be due simply to their differing appearance, which is to say a decrease in the horizontal but an increase in the vertical. I have considered copying the posts and the resulting comments into Word so that I can do an accurate word/letter count, but I will leave that for the true blog aficionados. Now it is on to see what Hal Duncan has to say!ReplyDelete
Your attempt at cleverness is noted, Ralph. Now I'll just wait for you to pay me $150 million for my latest blog posts.ReplyDelete


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Gaming is a controversial topic and after a recent referendum passed in a northwest Florida community allowing slot machines at a local pari-mutuel facility, the conversation of gaming in the community continues.
A Supreme Court ruling on April 27, 2012 affirms the legislature's ability to authorize slot machines throughout the state of Florida. So, what does this mean for your community? According to Marc Dunbar, a partner at the Pennington Law Firm in Tallahassee and a Professor of Gaming Law at Florida State University, "if you go into other states where rural counties, particularly counties that are on state lines, or on state borders like Washington County, Gadsden County, Hamilton County that have authorized slot machine gaming, hundreds of millions of dollars in capital investment has flowed into those rural counties." Dunbar also feels the recent referendum in Gretna, Florida that shows the majority of voters approved to allow slot machines at the local pari-mutuel facility, will not only affect that town but also the surrounding areas. He says, "you are talking about somewhere around 800 to a thousand jobs and we're not talking about low wage jobs, we're talking about very good jobs and so some folks will live in Tallahassee, some folks will live in Gadsden County, some folks will live in Liberty County. All of those folks will have very good stable well paid jobs."
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State Attorney General, Pam Bondi issued a seven-page opinion on January 12th 2012 regarding slot machines and pari-mutuel facilities in Florida which concludes that additional legislative authorization is required for a slots-approving referendum. Sowinski states "obviously, the attorney general's opinion is going to have a direct bearing on those communities. We think the attorney general's absolutely correct." However, Dunbar says "I'm pretty convinced that the attorney general opinion was driven more by political motivations than really at the end of the day doesn't have the legal foundation that will ultimately be affirmed by a trial judge."
Residents of Tallahassee have their own opinions on what slot machines at pari-mutuel facilities can offer local communities. Four community members had this to say:
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Whether you are for or against gaming, it is already big business in Florida and the question remains...what happens next? According to Dunbar, "I hope that as things move forward, the legislature will take a hard look at it and say that's what we need to do, we need to create a gaming commission to essentially strictly regulate, oversee the activity but maximize the dollar, the tax dollar and the capital expenditure dollar that we can receive from the activity that's already going on in our state."
Other gaming jurisdictions such as Nevada, New Jersey and Mississippi, have plannery gaming commissions whose authority is to oversee all gaming within the state. Currently, Florida has 5 different state agencies that touch gaming in some form or fashion. To read the Attorney General's opinion in its entirety, go to http://myfloridalegal.com/webfiles.nsf/WF/JMEE-8QFQJC/$file/1201.pdf.


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Out-flows that have been hovering around 900 cubic feet per second will start going up at 5 p.m. today until they reach 1,900 cfs by 7 p.m., according to the Corps.
Similar increases will take place Wednesday evening until the out-flow reaches 2,500 cfs, the Corps says.
It's the first increase in out-flows since the fall.
Sturdy upper Rogue in-flows helped the lake surge from 10 feet shy of normal two weeks ago to about six feet ahead of its normal filling schedule for today, the Corps reported.
Another storm front is forecast to hit the region at the same time as today's increased flows from Lost Creek Lake, which is Jackson County's largest reservoir.
Out-flows are not scheduled to change at Applegate Lake, which remains about 11 feet shy of normal for today,
The Corps announced its flow changes just minutes ago.
— Mark Freeman
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