Is the famous falls on the Big Sioux River from which the city takes its name. Right now we are on one of the main thoroughfares of sioux falls, south dakota. I lost some of the older buildings of sioux falls where you get a good feel for what would be considered the main street of sioux falls. This is part of the sculpture walk in downtown sioux falls. To the left is the federal courthouse. You can see that it is built out of this pink sioux falls quartz, which is on the reasons the sellers chose this because it is an plentiful supplies. That would be downtown sioux falls, or is that representative of historical sioux falls . John historical sioux falls. Downtown is coming back. For a while downtown moved out to the west side where the malls where. There has been a big resurgence in downtown sioux falls, like a lot of downtown in many cities across the country. To break down the population are the Ethnic Diversity here as far as numbers are concerned. John well, let me give you a fact
Dakota for over 100 years to my new book from warm center to ragged and takes its title from mister got Scott Fitzgerald who is the author of probably most famously of the great gatsby and if you remember your gatsby from back in high school or college, you remember that nick karoly was from minnesota. Nick karoly went off to war, this would have been world war i and when he came back, he decided that he thought it would be sort of doll to move back to minnesota. Which he saw as the ragged edge of the universe. And he decided to move to new york and he got mixed up in the roaring 20s. On long island with gatsby and all that cast of characters from his book. But in the end, when he sees what happens to many of these characters, he begins to see the old midwest where he came from as the warm center of the world. So that contract is what i tried to draw in my new book, from warm center to ragged edge. In the decades after the civil war, the midwest was seen by many commentators as the pac
Here we go. Please, monsieur, let us commence with the lesson. Oh professor, theres something i wanted to ask you. Do you really think that you can make a great violinist out of me . Well, i can do something, but it will take time. How old are you . Why . How much time have we got left . audience laughs please, monsieur, let us commence with the lesson. Okay, okay. doorbell rings oh, theres the door. Ill get it, ill get it. You stay here rochester will get it. Yes. And close the door. door closes alright, monsieur, let us commence with the lesson. stomps foot audience laughs [mary] hello, rochester. Hello, miss livingstone. audience applauds mr. Benny in . Hes upstairs. Professor leblanc is giving him a violin lesson. Oh for heavens sake. After all these years, youd think hed give up taking violin lessons. Its like throwing good money after bad. Professor hasnt gotten the bad money yet. Well, rochester, please go up and tell mr. Benny im here, will ya . Yes, maam. [professor] wait no,
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Weve all served in government and seen both ends of that dynamic, where the highs feel pretty high and the lows feel really low. This is the lowest it gets, and there is a question about what is putin doing . His speech, when he took the formal step in crimea, created a whole set of really serious questions about what the idea that russia is the most divided nation, the vision of ethnic identity. All these things are incredibly destabilizing, and youve seen in western european embrace of some of these ideological points by the far right. So again, this is a genie being let out of the box here. David . Until putin bailed us out on the chemical weapons issue, russias role was nothing but negative and destructive t. Wasnt blocking the resolutions, it was selling and providing arms and weapons for assad to slaughter syrians. Russia was guilty aiding and abetting that slaughter, that massacre. And so russia has, in my view, been so counter to our interests in syria, and the chemical weapons