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• Writing Thru The Funky Blues -

  A landmark newspaper strike
  in the early Sixties presaged the
  trouble the American Press is in today . . .
  
  I had been a very active student journalist under the aegis of Columbia J School no less as background to the event when I found myself in the [...]
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• The Last Orange -

  Who Lost Miami?
  
  Miami's Big Orange icon is being renamed La Gran Naranja this New Year’s Eve, leaving many North Americans in SoFlo feeling disgruntled. It's the end of an era.
  
  # Another case of rental ambiguity.
  This is only the tip of a [...]
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• News Notes From Florida -

  Jeffrey Soffer, a principal in Turnberry Associates, survived a Thanksgiving helicopter crash in the Bahamas. His company is most well known in SoFlo for the Aventura Shopping Mall and the iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach Hotel.
  
  # A chronic problem in law enforcement: the potential theft of drugs [...]
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• Cyber Antics -

  A Taliban official
  has inadvertently leaked . . .
  
  his mailing list of more than 400 email
  contacts, Neil McAllister reports at The Reg.
  
  # Max Fisher reveals the e-mail trick
  Petraeus and Broadwell used to communicate.
  
  ... [...]
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• Who Said What -

  Tell me, Show me, Listen . . .
  
  Hillel Italie reports on the new 18th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the first in a decade. Bartlett's was originally published in 1855.
  
  # Graphic attempts to diagram those believed
  to be involved in the current Petraeus affair.
  [...]
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• Missteps & Misdirections -

  Diabetes is the cause of most lower limb amputations in the U.S., but you would never know that if you were watching American TV in recent weeks.
  
  In heavy rotation is a commercial featuring scary amputation portraits which are designed to persuade viewers that Smoking is the most [...]
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• Weekend Browsing -

  Today is Remembrance Day . . .
  
  The morning began badly; it got off on the wrong foot because the yammering bobble heads on American TV aggressively tried to ruin the occasion by inserting yesterday's news into their program. The resignation of a general was not an appropriate topic' [...]
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• Knocked Out of Top Spot -

  Broward County FL has just experienced a major upset in its power structure with the ouster of Al Lamberti from the office of Sheriff.
  
  The BSO is probably the largest such office in this country and can have a significant impact on the quality of life here.
  [...]
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• Been Away For Yonks -

  The elegant and witty bicker team of
  Nick and Nora Charles, along with their clever
  dog Asta, visited us in several Hollywood movies.
  
  They were originally created by Mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. The movies were followed by an American TV series. The stories from The Thin Man [...]
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• Late Notes (2#) -

  Bal Harbour's Police Department may have a small footprint, but apparently, it's had a very long reach nationwide.
  
  It has been ordered by the DOJ to end its Federal Forfeiture Program after that enterprise allegedly seized millions of dollars worth of drug money.
  
  # NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing [...]
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