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towering inferno almost all the floors of the tallest building in chechnya's capital grozny turned into ashes by a massive blaze. the heaviest exchange of rocket attacks following the ongoing palestinian prison riots and street clashes over the death of a former hamas member in israeli custody. the war of words soars on the korean peninsula with many south koreans fearing conflict as pyongyang suspends access to a crucial industrial zone jointly run with seoul. with the presidential race now underway in venezuela we take a look at whether any of the main candidates could fill the shoes of the late. top stories this hour.
live from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day a fire is raging in the tallest skyscraper in the chechen capital grozny more details now from our correspondent lindsey france. around six pm local time reports came in that a large fire has started around the thirtieth floor of the one hundred forty five meter tall olympus building now that is a part of the cross in the center complex that was just completed in two thousand and eleven the luxury hotel and apartment building now this building contains the largest clock to sit on top of the building and the entire world helicopter from neighboring areas is being flown in to battle the flames for the top of the building because local fire brigades are unable to reach those floors now according
to local police everyone had been evacuated from the building before any injuries could occur and so at this point no injuries are reported in this incident whatsoever and the cause of the fire is still under investigation i had a criminal investigation has actually been opened to see whether or not fire safety rules have been violated now this entire complex cost around two hundred fifty million dollars to build and it actually contains the apartment that a french actor gerard depardieu received as a gift for a chechen leader runs on cut off just a short time ago so at this point we do not know the cause of the fire no reported injuries at this point there are more than three hundred people on the ground there fighting the fire and keeping an eye on the situation we will also be keeping an eye on it to bring you any details as the situation unfolds. reporting that tensions are once again flared up on the border between israel and gaza as well as
in the west bank palestinian militants rocket attacks on tuesday and early this morning with israel returning to the susan street clashes with the death of a former hamas member in israeli custody. the details over the past forty eight hours there has been increasing auscultation in in the mood all over the all over the western and of course in gaza of course we should start with that that's where fire took place between the palestinians and israeli armed forces. reportedly shot several mortars into the israeli territory israel retaliated with an air raid the first the first such raid since november since november so this cease fire and then and then palestinians from the gaza strip. have sent several more rockets into israel we don't know about any we haven't heard about any damages or injuries or deaths because of the fire teams but. remain so that the tension is
running stream lehi the clashes continue they were specially raging today in hebron which is the hometown of. the. palestinian prisoner who died in this really wasn't appropriately treated according to his family he wasn't treated by medical by medical professionals until february of this year when he was finally told that he has terminal cancer and that he literally has days to live not leave a lot of people happy obviously they're going to continue with their struggle and we will see more protests in nearest future just february is thirty year old prisoner dying from a heart attack that caused a flurry of protests among palestinians palestinian prisoners themselves went on strike they went on a hunger strike in fact they have done so in this case two you have to understand there is. almost five thousand palestinians in israeli jails right now and palestinians during their protest continuously ask israeli officials to either
release those prisoners or at least treat them appropriately however it doesn't seem to be the case at least according to the palestinian authorities because as you as you see the palestinian prisoners keep dying like in this particular case it looks like there was no like no medical aid was given at an appropriate moment and this of course leaves palestinians incredibly frustrating and then of course there is the issue of these really occupation of several palestinian lands as well as the issue of settled settlements so obviously all of these issues just piled on top of one another and the mood obviously grows with every day. and palestinian journalist khaled who's in hebron which has seen some of the worst clashes over the past two days explains why the people on the streets are refusing to calm down. a state of widespread anger and diggnation over the. what many people here.
pretty mediated by israelis palestinians think. that there. was a direct result will be really criminal negligence as well as moral powerlessness this is the second thing. to die in israeli jails less than sixty days so it is rarely is cannot be given the benefit of the doubt at all potential for. all out confrontation with israel. it's always there but i don't think. hamas in particular is eager to escalate the situation. this time at least everyone expects both sides to maintain. self-restraint and we hope that the situation will not.
all out confrontation in gaza. north korea has bolted workers from the self from entering a jointly operated factory zone it's pyongyang's latest move in the conflict between the neighboring states which has been simmering in recent weeks the key song industrial park has been one of the few successful efforts of reconciliation between the two koreas from which the economies of both countries benefit south korea based journalist joseph kim has more. south korean president is newly elected north korea doesn't want to test her limits and perhaps she's willing to change her policies towards north korea and the game's main objective is actually to start a dialogue with the u.s. with north korea's recent. what the u.s. calls provocations it's actually been easier for the united states to convince its military back into the studio something that the pentagon has said that it was wanting to do to rebalance back into east asia so because of this we've seen
a larger increased presence of military expansion by the u.s. into east asia during these early one drills something that we haven't seen before we're seeing a lot of money spent despite the eighty five billion dollars budget cut that the u.s. is currently going through these threats from north korea or what people say are perceived threats have actually become common and lending to many people in south korea but this time around the rhetoric has actually gotten a lot harsher so many south koreans are actually getting more of an eerie feeling on what this might turn out to be i don't feel a direct threat but i'm getting a little anxious sense can't even the south korean government is taking a coup worse this time so it feels like it is getting closer when the u.s. is more forceful it has a less positive effect from the perspective of a south korean citizen i feel anxious and it doesn't feel like protection. of an
enemy first of all it's not the first time north korea has issued threats so to us we don't feel the threats we don't perceive them to be dangerous but it seems there are a lot of things happening inside kim regime it seems that the u.s. is doing those things to make correct evaluation on king john so that the nuclear problem doesn't see it and i'm putting stress with south korea with the joint military drills but i don't think it is really helping in terms of into korean peace to the. well let's just recap the events that have been developing on the korean peninsula of late young yang announced plans to revive a nuclear reactor has been shut down for six years it previously said that all of its missile systems have been mobilized and on high alert and the north also declared itself to be in a state of war with its southern neighbor washington has been taking more sonot steps by upping its military presence in the area its navy sent a second guided missile destroyer to the korean peninsula monday that's off the
u.s. stealth will planes arrived in the region following the deployment of nuclear capable b. fifty two long range moments well gregory and it she's on the advisory board of the korea policy institute he believes there are hidden motives behind washington's moves united states hundreds bases throughout the middle of it throughout the world . if north korea collapses united states stablished military bases right on the border with china and then circle mind of that nation. also consider middle deposits and north korea which would be used for exploitation by u.s. corporations and united states. has never tolerated a country that won't criticize economy of the service of a foreign corporation they want to know that about north korea knows that if they are of course diplomatically going to go this year but if they're threatened or only respond with firmness so you were kind of a feedback loop where your bottom instructions come and cut off on
a door stations were never at work and nothing since since the last several years obama is following a policy of what he called strategic patience which is enough to act a slow strangulation of north korea through sanctions and economic measures in the hope that all collapse at some point in time. coming up in the program this hour here on r t with open all means the u.n. adopts a treaty aimed to control the exports of conventional weapons hoping to advance humanitarian concerns but critics say it's phrasing leaves too much room for interpretation. plus a daring taliban attack claims dozens of lives in afghanistan just a day after president karzai offered the militants a chance to enter politics that and plenty more for you after this break stay with us.
for about international airport in the very heart of moscow. continue. here in r.t. the race for the top job is kicked off in venezuela as the country's acting president nicolas maduro prepares to take on his main opposition rival and he kept pretty low is both are going to replace the country's late charismatic president hugo chavez who died last month following a long battle with cancer with the former confident and visit needed to chavez is looking to continue in the footsteps of his predecessor the central state governor has failed to deliver a free market economy and strengthen ties with the west including. dr francisco he's head of latin american studies at middlesex university and he says
despite the good intentions the chances of completely securing the top jobs as. nicolas maduro has demonstrated to be a formidable communicate so easy person the several to use in body language he used the masses very well he conveys a good message this is very good very astute politically and i think he's doing very well that's why he's leading in the polls is gaining if you like from the spontaneous outpouring of grief or for chavez is he capitalizing for want of a better word on the grief. oh i'm sure there is a lot of sentiment about it i mean now that chavez was a figure of haters in the international media now the population in venezuela realize how much he was loved was two million actually that came out in the streets to be a bit him fair world i think possibly was the biggest demonstration in the history
of the country and any candidate whoever they are would be foolish not to use it however the key point is that i think is the message people are saying you know the mother is saying to them do you want the continuation of what you had with him for forty years improving it perfect a need or do you want to go back to the bottle days of the public which the british represent and the message in that sense is very clear last model isis is reading between ten to forty percent in the polls. when police are unfit to protect women from abuse in india technology comes to the rest you can find out on our website at the moment engineers have come up with their answer to sex crimes and that is a great this is sapping police alerting brar. almost seven decades after the end of world war two its legacy still towards berlin and you can learn about the latest alert at the german capitals central railway station at r.t. dot com. the united nations has adopted its first ever treaty designed to
control the global trade in conventional weapons the act was already dubbed historic although the document has no inforced meant mechanism so let's take a closer look at what is a means to achieve the treaty bans countries from exporting arms to embargoed states or weapons to those who could use them to carry out war crimes or acts of terrorism the document also requires states to prevent conventional arms reaching the black market the un chief said that the document will become a powerful new tool to help prevent human rights abuses in some states point out that the deal is ambiguous and lacking clarity or he's got a church can report what it means for the world's major arms exporters. the us accounts for thirty percent of global arms sales russia twenty six percent germany friends china seven six five percent respectively the figures are provided by the stockholm international peace research institute they cover the last four years of
arm sales by the way this global. is worth around seventy billion dollars and four out of five of the world's largest stakeholders in this business happen to be permanent members of the un security council two out of which abstained from the vote that is russia and china they cite a lack of clarity in the language of the treaty in the part where it says arms transfers should be subjected to risk and human rights assessments first so it's a. arms sales to the buyers record on human rights which sounds like a very good idea but then this raises all kinds of questions like do brain or saudi arabia have a perfect human rights record so the treaty leaves lots of room for all kinds of interpretations russia being actually supportive of the effort to regulate arms sales says it abstained from voting for the treaty also because it has not been arms sales to non-state actors. despite the calls of
a number of states it was not reflected using the ban of the supply of weapons to north ryde state and this is a significant shortcoming. in that because of the effectiveness of the international arms trade treaty. even though the united states supported the treaty at the way congress has made it clear that they will not let anyone tell the us who to sell arms to so it would be like the kyoto protocol the one that's obligations on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases the u.s. also signed it and yet never ratified it gun manufacturers like lockheed martin or a northrop grumman have an origami of lobbyists on capitol hill to make sure that their ability to sell weapons and profit is not constrained in any way but then thomas countryman the assistant secretary of state at the american delegation to the talks defended the treaty saying it will actually give american weapons manufacturers a better competitive competitive position in the world so maybe the u.s.
government is actually trying to help its gun producers by supporting the treaty anyway the international community seems united on one thing and that is something has to be done about the unabated flow of arms in the world but as they say the devil is in the details in washington i'm going to check out. the taliban has claimed responsibility for attacking government offices in western afghanistan at least forty four people have reportedly been killed a more than ninety wounded you. in the time of its the deadliest attack in the country for more than a year the latest violence comes despite attempts by kabul to appease the militants the afghan president has said the taliban could be given the chance to enter politics and even contest the country's top post according to the taliban leader may run for the presidency in next year's elections but only if the militants renounce terrorism and to two parties you see coming over who's reported from afghanistan believes the cause is just playing politics while he's closeness to the
west makes him a lame duck president. he's made this point numerous times before calling for the taliban to participate in elections is that stand is so open and democratic that even will omar working to disarm essentially going to run for office of course the reality is that this is a complete political nonstarter because the taliban have been very clear in their position they do not see the karzai government as being legitimate they have openly called it as a puppet of the united states they refused to hold any sort of negotiations much less the constitution as legitimate or offer any sort of candidate so again this is just sort of wishful thinking perhaps or rather a rhetorical remark by president hamid karzai than any sort of reality on the ground because the taliban has refused to negotiate with him there really isn't very much that cars i can do in the situation for the taliban the number one position is this actively to remove all foreign troops from the ground in afghanistan in order to do that why negotiate with the so-called puppet government
when we can talk to the occupiers themselves but there's divisions within the taliban as well do they actually hold negotiations or do they fight until the occupiers if the u.s. forces leave the country there's also divisions within the obama administration about this because while this war has been encouraged probably costly to the united states and the taliban has long been an enemy for the u.s. many factions in the administration see the political solution as the only possible sort of way forward i mean it's. it's been more than clear that military might isn't enough to eradicate the taliban so somehow talks have to take place but at the end of the day i don't think anyone actually relisted expects peace with the taliban anytime in the next few years for sure when i was in afghanistan most of the afghans that i've spoken to have seen this deadline with the looming trepidation in fact they think that once the americans draw down and there's no indication the americans will fully withdraw from the country but of course that will leave a massive power vacuum there is the potential for the country to descend into civil
war and it also really remains to be seen what happens with the elections in two thousand and fourteen because again if the country doesn't isn't seen as sort of having a legitimate. nonna corrupt elections it really could spark much much much further unrest than we've seen so far as the british government champions for further sturdy schools of families across the nation is struggling to put food on the table meanwhile supermarkets and restaurants are throwing perfectly edible products away already pretty boy has more plums so that's again going to be good going into the deserts. down here we've got. lots of. speed. again. goods and absolutely free daniel volunteers at the people's kitchen it's an eco conscious collective in east london and their aim to save food that would have been thrown away by shops and markets at the end of
a day's trading today daniel and chef tom are preparing to wow two hundred dinah's with a feast made from discarded food as a chef of simply being wise to every restaurant in. the supermarket even larger scale at these big markets so the food that we're taking is not good enough to so to get to throw away it's kind of agree there's a forgotten nobody's really doing anything about it in the western world and it's just sad really that nobody has respect for the food it's just kind of ok to get someone to run those people starving not just in the other countries where this food came from. in this country one in five of the u.k. population lives below the poverty line but there's a dramatic discrepancy the rest of the population spends an average of just eleven percent of its budget on food to the institute of mechanical engineers says that that's fueling a tragic throwaway culture with four point four million tonnes of food. avoidably
each year in this fridge. it's ridiculous you know loads of reasons you can see. these are just perfectly good maybe one or two bad ones really a matter of sorting them having someone to sort them so this is a huge scale the fact that someone managed to salvage for their kitchen is likely to end up here phil in fact over ten billion pounds worth of food is thrown away in the u.k. each year that's a colossal amount of waste to such a tiny island and before fruit and vege even hits the shelves up to three quarters of it is discarded by farmers just not looking good enough. at the moment we pay supermarkets and other food businesses to trash the planet to grow food and waste a third of it we need to make a demand as consumers they change their behavior as well when we go to a supermarkets and see that all the carrots straight and all the apples look the
same we need to say. why do all those fruits and vegetables look the same what did the supermarket do with all the demand actually they stock fruit and vegetables as they grow in a huge variety of uniformity the competitive supermarkets don't help by tempting customers to. consumers alert into buying excessive quantities of food up to half of which ends up in the bin or spent many years visiting the skips of supermarkets and literally you open up a skip and what you see is a ray of perfectly fresh good vegetables and fruit and other foods that have been thrown away and most people think gosh how disgusting to get food. it's true it is disgusting but what's disgusting is that with throwing away the consumption food and every link in the supply chain continues to a perfect project. dan can keep proving that finale there really is such
a thing as a free lunch. he east london. without charge and starving for just. being engaged in a desperate act of defiance for nearly two months and risk to their health is growing rapidly but u.s. officials continue to downplay the scale of the crisis. clash on this issue later on. so these individuals that thomas keeps wanting described as innocent based upon the obama administration's review have had the opportunity to go in front of a federal judge and get an order requiring their release and failed to do so so suggesting that the court has concluded there is a legal basis to hold them so i think thomas overstates his case and then with respect to what charles is saying you know if you're trying that so now because i tried not to engage in a little spanish i don't want to engage in or if you are a lawyer or you a lawyer a little level i think that i think let me finish please i don't want to get in this question as
a political matter but i think it's going to be very difficult for any president whether it's obama or bush or republicans or democrats in congress to want to expend political capital on a politically unfavorable call it is that i have to do it justice what does that have to do is just what does that have to do with justice is half what does it have to do it just exactly thomas go ahead yes it's tough but you do it it's tough but you do it you do the right thing by the way i don't know whether you know it but i'm the guy who won the right behavior as corpus for those people and if you really know what it's a very thin review of the most any evidence that the government has could you could justify their holding it under hey b.s. that's why the administration did a thorough detailed review for each individual to see whether they really posed a threat and it concluded they don't and they should be released. and you can see the crosstalk debate in full in the next year on. what you've seen
the footage on this very channel another going online the newest member of the r.t. family the video agency ruptly is now working at full speed and you can find that brand new web site at roughly dots t.v. it's designed to give the world's media access to stories and perspectives mainstream news providers ignore the project kicked off less than a year ago but it's already creating waves in the news making world. providing real time and archive footage from a world wide net for the string its police headquarters in operating twenty four seven with state of the art technology so do go online and get involved with the new generation of video news content raptly to be. well now time for business with katie and his she is in studio with this she said the situation in cyprus is helping the popularity all of us saw coin just as a bit bizarre it's called the bit coy and it's because investors want some west
side to talk their money but we're going to be questioning is it safe what is it that's what we're going to be coming up after the break in business well great thanks a lot. credit free. free. free. free. free. old free blog video for your media project free media. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we. covered.


The Funeral Profession’s Top 5 Biggest Challenges
Originally Published on the funeralOne Blog
This year at NFDA, we challenged everyone to be the change — starting with what THEY thought was their biggest challenge in funerals. Attendees were asked to drop their ball into the tube that represented their biggest challenge, and these were the results…
Now that we’ve identified our biggest pain points, it’s time to stop talking about what the future of funerals could look like and start taking action. Here’s how you can tackle the funeral profession’s top 5 biggest challenges right now…
1. Educating Families
When families understand the value of a funeral service, they choose products and services beyond the basic package. The key is to bridge the gap between what you know and what they know.
Successful marketing is more than just creating a Facebook Business Page or buying a TV ad. It’s about connecting with families before they need your services.
71% of today’s families don’t want a traditional funeral, and with Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials entering the market, the craving for funeral personalization will only continue to grow.
Funeral professionals are quick to write off cremation as the enemy of the funeral profession… but it doesn’t have to be. With a 65.5% cremation rate that’s still growing, it’s time that you embraced it.
5. Low-Cost Providers
Only 51.9% of families agree that funerals are an important tradition in life. If this trend remains, families will always go for the lowest cost… until funeral homes start proving their value.


As a producer, Marcus has been closely linked with Dixon and Âme’s Innervisions label and their unique brand of emotive club music for the entirety of his career. Friendship and a genuine interest in human interaction continue to inform all of his creative efforts. Those principles have led to collaborations with Peter Pardeike, Osunlade, Prins Thomas, Âme’s Frank Wiedemann, Daniel Bortz, Mr. White (of Larry Heard fame) and UK singer/songwriter Fink.
Whether it’s original material or remixes for The xx, Tevo Howard & Tracy Thorne, UR’s Gerald Mitchell and labels like DFA or Running Back, Marcus’ tracks run the gamut from dancefloor-ready jams to the expansive ambience of Vermont, his production duo with Motor City Drum Ensemble that has brought forth two acclaimed LPs on Cologne institution Kompakt Records.
His latest release with Innervisions, „Broad Horizons“ not only showcases his connection with house music, it also hints at his love of dub and reggae. This open-minded approach to music is what makes Marcus Worgull succeed as a DJ who can perfectly read his audience, without losing his instinct for deep haunting grooves that feed his soul.


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Director, Domestic Social Development
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Conference call with news media, November 23, 2009
The Catholic bishops have advocated for decades for affordable and accessible health care for all, especially the poor and marginalized. The House and Senate bills make great progress in covering people in our nation. However, the Senate bill would still leave over 24 million people in our nation without health insurance. Whereas, the House bill covers 96 percent of those eligible for coverage, but that still leaves18 million people without insurance. This is not acceptable. Even if a final bill is passed that doesn’t cover 100 percent of all people, we must continue to strive for full coverage.
If a bill is passed into law, the very poor in our country will have access to health care through the Medicaid program. The bishops support the expansion of Medicaid eligibility for people living at 133 percent or lower of the federal poverty level, but again the House bill does a bit better in that Medicaid eligibility is expanded for everyone below 150 percent of the federal poverty level.
The affordability credits will help lower-income families purchase insurance coverage through the Health Insurance Exchange. However, the Senate bill would still leave low-income families earning between 133 and 250 percent of the federal poverty level financially vulnerable to health care costs. Overall, the average subsidy provided for in the Senate bill is $1,300 less than the average subsidy in the House bill. Improvements to the bill should be made so that low-income families have reasonable out of pocket expense for health care. No family should have to choose between safe and decent housing and health care coverage for their children. No family should face financial burden because of a health need.
Both bills include reforms that will strengthen families and protect low-income and vulnerable people such as eliminating denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions including pregnancy; eliminating life time caps; offering long-term disability services; and extending dependent coverage to uninsured young adults -- are significant steps toward genuine health care reform. We urge Congress to maintain these provisions.These moral criteria and policy objectives are not marginal issues or special interest concerns. This legislation is about life and death, who can take their children to the doctor and who cannot, who can afford decent health care coverage and who are left to fend for themselves.

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It is difficult to accept the Anaheim Police Department's explanation of why investigators kept quiet a string of robberies and other attacks--including a rape--at Disneyland-area motels. Police Chief Joseph T. Malloy said secrecy was necessary in order to conduct the investigation that led to the arrest of three men. But, had the incidents been made public from the start, perhaps there would have been no crime spree to stop. The suspects may have been identified and apprehended sooner or, at least, tourists and area residents would have been forewarned and been able to take extra precautions.
As it was, police informed only motel and hotel managers of a series of incidents in which three men terrorized hotel guests with a knife and guns. They left it to individual managers to institute additional security precautions or warn their guests. That was an abdication of the Police Department's duty to protect.


It must be OnePlus season, because while the company is widely expected to launch a new handset tomorrow, likely dubbed the OnePlus 3T, we’re also hearing new rumors about the OnePlus 4 that suggest the phone will be a huge upgrade.
According to a Weibo leaker, the OnePlus 4 will have a 5.3-inch 2K AMOLED display, which would be a slight drop in size but a huge boost in resolution above the OnePlus 3’s 5.5-inch 1080p screen.
The mention of AMOLED is slightly surprising though, as OnePlus is rumored to be switching to LCD for the OnePlus 3T, due to AMOLED supply shortages – so it could be that this rumor is erroneous for the forthcoming handset.
The leaker adds that the OnePlus 4 will use a Snapdragon 830 or 835 processor, up from a Snapdragon 820 in the OnePlus 3, and come with 6GB or 8GB of RAM, where the OnePlus 3 has 6GB.
While we don’t know exactly how powerful the 830, let alone the 835, will be, that’s a generational upgrade and should amount to a sizeable boost in power.
The phone will also apparently have a glass body in place of the OnePlus 3’s full metal jacket, a 4000mAh battery (up from 3000mAh in the OnePlus 3), a dual-lens camera with some sort of augmented reality and mixed reality functions, and 128GB of built in storage.
The very first image
The details are accompanied by what seems to be a low-quality render of the phone, showing a black back and the aforementioned dual-lens snapper, but without the antenna band visible at the top of the OnePlus 3.
The leaker also notes that the phone could be called the OnePlus 5. There’s no reason given for skipping 4, but it could be because 4 is almost a homophone for ‘death’ in some Asian dialects, and is considered unlucky.
There’s a lot to take in here, but we’d take it all with a pinch of salt. The OnePlus 4 is likely still a long way off yet, and this is the first major leak surrounding it, with the usual lack of source for the specs.
Still, if this is accurate then the OnePlus 4 (or 5) could be one of the more powerful and interesting phones of 2017.


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Historic St. Andrews Beach
From 1959 to 1966, the Dolphin Club Lounge provided lively entertainment for visitors to the historically black St. Andrews Beach.
Juke joints like this one once stretched across the southeastern United States. On remote Jekyll Island, the Dolphin Club Lounge provided African Americans with their own community gathering place to eat, drink, and socialize during segregation.
This cozy little nightclub offered dining and entertainment options for beach-goers. It featured a lobby, kitchen, public and private dining rooms, dance floor, small stage, bar, and rooftop patio. Remembered by local patrons as a classy nightclub, it showcased many top black entertainers of the era.
A big draw for the popular nightspot was its music. Doo-wop, rhythm & blues, soul, and rock & roll all found a home here, aided by concert promoter Charlie Cross. Crowds packed the lounge to join in the excitement, dancing, and live entertainment.
From the beginning, the Dolphin Club Lounge offered performances by local house bands, like the Swinging Turbans and the Doves. The lounge also attracted an impressive array of famous musicians touring on the Chitlin Circuit, including B.B. King, Clarence Carter, Millie Jackson, and Percy Sledge.
Today, the former Dolphin Club site continues to serve up entertainment
through its 4-H programs.
On the Chitlin Circuit
The Dolphin Club Lounge is largely remembered for the popular music it drew to Jekyll Island, as part of the Chitlin Circuit.
The Chitlin Circuit was a string of black owned nightclubs that flourished primarily in the South, during the time of segregation. These clubs provided safe places for traveling black entertainers to perform for black audiences.
The traveling circuit attracted many legendary musical pioneers, whose performances gave rise to the sounds of rhythm and blues, soul, and rock and roll.
While it lasted, the Chitlin Circuit offered a platform for hundreds of black musicians to play and earn a living.
In its time, the Chitlin Circuit formed an important part of black culture and left behind a tremendous legacy of splendid music for all.

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I’ve always been suspicious of the big consultancy firms. When I worked on a project in Whitehall some years ago, I watched a team from one of the major outfits at work. An ultra-cautious, ass-covering junior minister was required to make a decision about a project. Rather than ask hard questions himself, he ordered an investigation by a Big Consultancy Firm. The firm sent in a squad of sharp-suited kids who went around asking silly questions for a week and then produced a stupefyingly obvious PowerPoint presentation which told the minister what he wanted to hear. The bill for this hogwash came to £70k. The minister thought it was good value because (a) it wasn’t his money, and (b) it provided him with a document he could wave at the Public Accounts Office if any questions were subsequently raised about the decision. The whole thing was astonishingly cynical, unprofessional and shoddy.
Now comes an interesting report from Information Week about allegations contained in lawsuits filed last week in an Arkansas federal court by the US Department of Justice. The complaints claimed the defendants — companies like Sun, HP and Accenture — paid or received kickbacks from dozens of companies in violation of federal law, while denying that they had such arrangements.
Accenture figures prominently in the government’s complaints.
While Sun and HP allegedly paid millions of dollars each year in kickbacks, Accenture allegedly accepted them in the form of “system integrator compensation,” rebates, and marketing assistance fees. The company earned all three from Sun and HP, according to the complaint.
As a consultant for the government, Accenture was hired as an objective adviser in choosing vendors and purchasing IT equipment, software, and services. The government, however, says Accenture and its purchasing subsidiary, Proquire, were less concerned with their client, and more interested in profits and revenue from partners. “As a result, millions of dollars of kickbacks were sought, received, offered, and paid between and among the defendants with the alliances in violation of the False Claims Act and other federal statutes and regulations,” the complaint said.
Between 1998 and 2006, Accenture earned more than $4 million in cash from system integrator compensation, the complaint said. Between 2001 and 2006, Accenture received such fees from EMC, HP, IBM, Informatica, Mercury Interactive, NCR, PeopleSoft, and Sun. With the exception of Sun and HP, none of the other companies are accused of any wrongdoing.
Accenture also received rebates and marketing assistance fees that were based on a percentage of the revenue in reselling partners’ hardware, software, and services. Under government regulations, such rebates or fees should be pass on to the government.
Accenture, for example, earned more than $32,000 in rebates from HP in July 2002, and more than $2 million in marketing assistance fees between 2003 and 2005 from Sun, according to the complaint.
Without telling the government, Accenture also negotiated steep discounts on hardware, software, and services, and then sold them to the government at higher prices. “Accenture personnel were instructed to constantly look for ways to structure government contract transactions so as to provide for greater opportunities to maximize resale revenue often at the direct expense of its government clients,” the complaint said.
Thanks to Nick Carr and Bill Thompson for alerting me to this particular example of ingenious consultancy ‘services’.


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Lesson 1 - What is character design?
Throughout this lesson, we will examine what character design is as well as your responsibilities as a designer in the animation studio. I will discuss my own experiences, how I got started, as well as doing a visual breakdown of my influences, thereby, giving you a better understanding of what I'm thinking about when seeking inspiration. In this class, you will be given your first assignment, which will consist of creating a character based off a description so that I can see what your skill level is, giving me a better understanding of how I will work with you one-on-one.
Lesson 2 - Thinking, Looking, Doing.
"Get the fundamentals down and everything else you do will rise." This week I will be discussing Thinking, Looking and Doing. We will cover more design fundamentals and answer the most common question, "Where do I begin?" We will cover topics such as basic shapes, variation and the importance of strong silhouettes. I will discuss my own personal drawing exercises with you, which will help break those artist's blocks that we all get at times. You will also be given your scripted assignment that you will carry out from start to finish.
Lesson 3 - Construction/Caricature
In this class, we will cover the importance of construction. We will discuss what it means to avoid the ladder and tap into the realm of caricature. We will examine design issues such as contrast in angles and shapes and much more. I will give and demonstrate for you another great drawing exercise that you will be using for years to come. On top of all this, you will also be able to download my own 20 week drawing program. We will have two assignments this week.
Lesson 4 - The features
We will discuss more design principles and start breaking down some individual features, such as hands, eyes, noses, ears, and mouths. We will start fleshing out our characters some more.
Lesson 5 - Clean-up
In this lesson, we will cover scale and proportion. I will also do a lecture on clean-ups. As a designer, you may not often be called upon to perform this task, but you might have to do it from time to time. This will not be an illustrator lecture, but a clean-up-by-hand procedure. I will also be demonstrating another creative side assignment for you to have fun with during the week as well as continuing on with your main assignment.
Lesson 6 - Turnarounds
Today we will cover the important topic of turnarounds, a must if you want to work as a character designer in the industry.
Lesson 7 - Expressions and Attitudes
This week we will be covering expressions and attitudes. We will cover rythm, balance and flow. I will also do a brief color demo on my characters. You will be given another creative exercise to do during the week in addition to your main assignment.
Lesson 8 - Memory sketching and how to approach keeping and drawing in a sketchbook daily.
Today, we will be discussing the importance of drawing in your sketchbook, what you should be observing and why this will help you grow. We will also talk about the importance of memory sketching and what to look for.
Lesson 9 - The business of art and putting together a successful portfolio.
We will discuss the business side of art, being a professional, meeting deadlines, ending procrastination and ways to simplify your life. This means getting organized and staying on track. I will also cover putting together your portfolio to get yourself started.

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Method Man, Baby, Missy Elliott, Jaylib, SWV and more.
My first time using Ableton and first attempt at a chopped and screwed mix. Some of my favorite hip hop and RNB tracks chopped and dropped down to 80 BPM for that extra lean. Best served with some of that purple drank.


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The role of online computer games in our lives holds preeminent significance, especially in these ages of state of the art technologies such as the world wide web. People are increasingly becoming connected to the internet for a variety of purposes including shopping, buying and selling things, social networking and a lot more.
To lay both hands on online video games and online computer games, you have to first find an appropriate online game store which can take care of your unique requirements and needs. You can also download free online games and take pleasure in them but you need to look at the right places before competing for online computer games. The most appealing the main online multiplayer games such as the mmog games and the online rpg games is that you play with real players from far and wide and actually play as a complete team against a common adversary.
The paradise and spur that the mmog free online games such as call of duty online and sauna games endows you with will really appeal to your penchant. Cracked Games For pursuing this activity, due to have to stride right out of the comfort of your abode as the only thing you require is a computer and an active internet connection.
The addiction of the online computer games will really attract you off you as you will find yourself connected to the computer monitor screens all night at stretch. The world wide web is the best place looking for relevant mmog free online games; however you need to consider certain nice features such as the market repute of the online game store, security facets of its payment gateways, if it keeps it games collection up to date, and a lot more things.
You will also be greatly amazed by the choice of such free online games that are accessible in a particular online game store. Name any game and you’re sure to find it on the internet orb. The unpredictability factor of the aforesaid online computer games makes them more alluring and lucrative.
When you have played enough against computer players, you’re sure to correctly guess their next move and this will really make the game boring, but when you are playing with and against real players in an online rpg games or mmog games, you will find that you can never picture your adversary’s next move. And this fact will really make your experience adrenaline flowing and enticing.
The high quality and digitally enhanced graphics of such online computer games augmented with shock inspiring sounds will really push you to the edge of your seats while playing and will undoubtedly attract you off you. And to top it off recent surveys have shown that playing these games can also help hone the human brain and skills such as quick reflexes, memorizing power, etc. You also avail the chance to display your expertise by reviewing highest scores which will then be viewed by die hard gaming enthusiasts from all over the globe.Read More

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This statement necklace is for the person who loves to show off their unique style! It is hand forged from iron with a bronze inlay and deep red copper. The sculptural element measures about 3" x 4" which is big enough to be seen but small enough to wear often. It comes on a hand forged iron chain.
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I gazed out at the snow-covered peaks as our bus rumbled along the twists and turns of the bumpy road carved into the Atlas Mountains. We had just reached 7,200 feet and we were now on the descent. With my phone in hand, I opened the camera app and leaned forward, trying to capture just a fraction of the beauty of this sun-illuminated landscape surrounding us in all directions. My ears were popping, and although I was captivated by the views, I was still on high alert. Road signs warned drivers to take caution. There were times I was convinced we were headed straight off the cliff.
As we continued careening down the mountain, not only were all of us students snapping pictures of the breathtaking views, we also formed an impromptu choir. One after another, we sang along to old classics. I knew almost all of the songs. Once someone chimed in with “Sweet Caroline,” I no longer noticed the mountains nor the other people in the bus. All I could think about were when times were easier and life was simpler. A flashback took me to my first and only Major League Baseball game—“Sweet Caroline” was played during the seventh inning stretch. It was in April 2008, and I was in fifth grade. My dad and stepmother were dedicated Red Sox fans, and the game they took me to pitted the Red Sox against the Baltimore Orioles. Somewhere I still have pictures we took during that afternoon. In the scene that flooded my mind on the bus in the Atlas Mountains, I am holding a balloon I got during the game. Along with “Sweet Caroline” playing over the loudspeakers, there are digital messages displayed on a board in the outfield. My dad pointed to the board and told me to watch it as it changed from one message to another. It was not long until my name and a he wrote to me flashed brightly on the board. I will always remember that.
To top it off, the Red Sox won.
On the bus, tears began to form in my eyes, but I didn’t cry. At that moment, all I wanted was to be with my dad and stepmother, talk to them, tell them I love them. Although I may never get to see them again, I was comforted by the connection I felt with “Sweet Caroline.” The song brought me back to the one thing I still have—my memories.

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The fourth Republican presidential debate was marked by intense clashes between the four contenders on stage: Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Vivek Ramaswamy.
While these candidates aimed to position themselves as the GOP’s top alternative to former President Donald Trump, their attacks on each other overshadowed their criticisms of Trump’s leadership. Here are five key takeaways from the debate:
DeSantis and Ramaswamy’s Focus on Haley
Nikki Haley emerged as a central figure during the debate, as DeSantis and Ramaswamy criticized her. DeSantis questioned her stance on transgender issues, while Ramaswamy targeted her ties to Boeing and accused her of corruption.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie regained some of the energy that characterized his performance in the 2016 presidential primary debates. Christie portrayed his opponents as immature and ill-prepared for the job, making it challenging for DeSantis and Ramaswamy to gain traction. Although his allegiance to Trump has changed, Christie criticized his opponents for being afraid to take on the former president.
Avoiding Confronting Trump
Christie highlighted the reluctance of the other candidates to directly confront Trump, referring to him as “He who should not be named.”
He suggested their hesitation might stem from their aspirations for the vice-presidential nomination or future presidential prospects. Only Christie made a sustained case against Trump, emphasizing the importance of speaking the truth.
DeSantis and Culture Wars
DeSantis used two domestic culture war issues, ESG investing, and transgender rights, to portray Haley as a moderate. He criticized her stance on gender-affirming care for transgender minors and tied her support from wealthy donors to the ESG investing movement. This tactic aimed to paint Haley as out of touch with conservative values.
Ramaswamy’s Conspiracy Theories
Vivek Ramaswamy, possibly in his final appearance on the debate stage, voiced extreme conspiracy theories. He claimed that the January 6 attack on the Capitol was an inside job, Big Tech stole the 2020 election, and the government lied about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11.
Ramaswamy also mentioned the “great replacement” theory, labeling it part of the Democratic Party platform. His closing statement dismissed the climate change agenda as a hoax.
The fourth Republican presidential debate showcased the intense competition between the candidates, with personal attacks overshadowing critiques of Donald Trump. Nikki Haley’s rise in the race drew attention from her opponents, while Chris Christie made a comeback by criticizing his rivals and Trump. The candidates’ reluctance to directly confront Trump and their focus on culture war issues highlight their challenges in differentiating themselves in a crowded field. Vivek Ramaswamy’s embrace of conspiracy theories added an extreme voice to the debate. As the primary race progresses, these takeaways shape the dynamics of the Republican Party’s search for a viable alternative to Donald Trump.


Mars Ready Tesla Roadster Images Teased by Elon Musk
Elon Musk has teased images of the cheery red Tesla Roadster that will be put in the Martian orbit loaded inside the SpaceX's Falcon heavy rocket.
Tesla Roadster inside Falcon heavy rocket ready for Mars orbit takeoff. Representative Image. (Image: Instagram/Elon Musk)
When Elon Musk, the dynamic and the non-human (because of the kind of plans he has for Earth) CEO of Tesla Inc. revealed his plans to launch the SpaceX’s Falcon heavy rocket into the Mars orbit earlier this month, everybody thought he was crazy. And no, it wasn’t due to the Falcon heavy rocket that people thought he is crazy. It’s the announcement that the Falcon will be loaded with a newly launched Tesla Roadster that has left everybody flabbergasted.
Now Elon Musk has started to tease the same audience with all the images of the Tesla Roadster on his Instagram account, proving that he is not that crazy after all. The images showcase a cherry red Tesla Roadster, which, according to Musk, will last a billion years in the elliptical orbit around the sun.
A Red Car for the Red Planet Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring. Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel. The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit.
The caption of his Instagram photoset reads – “Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring. Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel. The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit.”
The launch will take place next month at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. He earlier tweeted "Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing 'Space Oddity'. The destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn't blow up on the ascent".
"Falcon Heavy" is the follow-up to SpaceX's "Falcon 9" rocket. It is a more powerful rocket that SpaceX hopes to use for missions to the Moon and Mars. The rocket was originally supposed to take a flight back in 2013 or 2014, but its maiden flight is now pegged for January 2018.
Tesla Roadster is an all-electric battery-powered, four-seater sports car prototype from Tesla. Musk has stated that the Roadster would be the quickest vehicle in the Tesla lineup, with a new acceleration mode called "Maximum Plaid".
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On July 28, 2021, the Arkansas legislature effected a wide-reaching change to the state’s DWI law.
Most notably, the “look-back” period for misdemeanor DWI charges, A.C.A. 5-65-111, was increased from five to ten years. For sixth offense DWI charges, the look-back period is now twenty years–a full two decades. The waiting period to seal or expunge old misdemeanor charges was similarly increased.
In Arkansas, DWI 1st through 3rd offense are all misdemeanor charges. This recent change fully doubled the time during which a person’s prior misdemeanor charge can be used against him on a subsequent misdemeanor DWI.
Curiously, however, the legislature did not amend or alter the law regarding the look-back period for fines and driver control suspensions. The look-back period for those purposes was left at five years.
That means that a hypothetical defendant could have a felony DWI #4 (based on 3 priors each from 9 years ago) and be looking at 1 year in prison minimum but only up to $1,000 fine (only a 1st within 5 years), and only a 6 month driver’s license suspension (with the possibility for a restricted license to continue driving).
Thankfully, many prosecutors are sympathetic to what a ridiculously rolled out change this has been. Arkansas was already a very strange place for DWI charges, where prosecutors are stripped of their power to dismiss or reduce DWIs to lower level offenses. With this change, the legislature has effectively turned the maze into a labyrinth.

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Bird and Moon is one of those comics that shows up in my twitter feed, but that I haven’t had a chance to check out.
It is excellent. Scientifically factual, and at the same time funny. Well-drawn and clear. Precise. And much easier to carry around in book form than to find in my twitter feed.
It’s obvious from the tiny details in Sean Grigsby’s book Smoke Eaters that he is a professional firefighter (a fact that his bio confirm) and he puts that knowledge to good use in this fast-paced romp through a future US where dragons have emerged from the earth and destroyed all but a few city-states.
It’s a breath of fresh air to see firefighters fighting dragons instead of knights (with both laser swords and lances, no less!). And it’s also a breath of fresh air to have a protagonist old enough to be my father leading the pack.
If you liked Flex by Ferrett Steinmetz, the pacing of the writing and the stubbornness of the protagonist will feel familiar… but not a big surprise since they’re both published by Angry Robot.
All in all a romp of a read.
This is the third of the October Daye series, which means I’m… checks trademark… about seven years behind so far.
October Daye is a changeling (half fae and half human)
I read the first book, Rosemary and Rue, because it was a gift from my cousin and she said that Toby was an inspiration to her. The first book was a very good murder mystery with a lot of world building and things to learn. It didn’t grab me the way I expected, possibly because in the first book Toby wasn’t ready to be an inspiration to anyone, just as Wade Wilson isn’t quite ready to be who he is at the beginning of his arc.
But my cousin, always wiser than me, had sent me the first two books, and in the second, A Local Habitation, Toby solves a different kind of murder mystery—one that takes place in an Information Technology space—and that’s my real-life territory right there. I was hooked.
An Artificial Night is much less murder mystery and much more adventure sequence, with Toby attempting to save the lives of a number of both fae and human children from a monstrous and insanely powerful individual named Blind Michael.
The best way I can describe the book is that I picked it up at about 6pm, read two thirds of it by 9:25 and thought than only an hour and a half had passed. I ate some food and drank some water (apparently we mortals need to do that) and then polished the rest of the book off by 12:30.
It grabbed me, is what I’m saying. Grabbed me, hauled me all over San Francisco and the fairy lands, and dropped me back off on the sofa six hours later dehydrated and a bit confused on why I’m a boring human being.
If this is your kind of thing, it is worth the ride.

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creating functional classics
It could be argued that espresso machine design reached it’s peak in the workshops and foundries of northern Italy in the mid 20th century, and everything since then has been a bit boring! There’s a certain character about machines of that era that just exude flair, passion and artistry. And while not many of us are lucky enough to own a Gaggia Esportazione, Cimbali GranLuce, La Pavoni Concorso, La San Marco Lollobrigida or Faema Urania, it’s certainly true that any vintage coffee machine is eminently restorable to perfect working condition given enough love and attention.
Whether you’ve got an older second hand machine that you want to bring up to scratch for domestic or cafe use, or you’ve uncovered a gem in a forgotten corner of the garage, I can help you with either a complete restoration from start to finish, or a particular aspect if you’re doing most of the work yourself. My aim with restorations is always function before aesthetics – what’s the point having a shiny beautiful machine if it makes rubbish coffee or no coffee at all. After that, anything is possible including installing modern electrical systems, re-plating or re-manufacturing worn parts, re-spraying paintwork and reproducing original factory artwork. My preference and advice is always to preserve original finishes where possible, as this preserves character and adds value to the machine in the long term.
Naturally these hands-on processes can be very time consuming, and I assess and quote each restoration project as a flat labour fee plus expenses, according to the result you want to achieve.


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A Baptist minister in Yukon has a good shot of being the first Republican to serve in the House District 60 post, thanks to redistricting that moved the post from a predominantly Democratic area to a more evenly split district taking in much of the west Oklahoma City metro area.
The Rev. Dan Fisher, who describes himself as a social conservative, has raised 20 times the amount of money of his Democratic opponent and more voters live in the El Reno and Yukon area where he is better known. Latest campaign reports showed he raised $47,878 as of Aug. 13, compared with $2,278 raised by Democrat Kendra Menz-Kimble.
“This district is stronger Republican, and I honestly think that this year is going to be a strong year for Republicans,” Fisher said. “We've run pretty hard, so I think we're in good shape. But you never know until the votes come in.”
Fisher, of El Reno, won 54 percent of the vote in the June 26 Republican primary election. Menz-Kimble, of Hinton, was unopposed. They meet in the Nov. 6 general election.
The new House District 60, which takes effect in mid-November, carves out sections of Canadian and Caddo counties. It now covers the western Oklahoma counties of Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and Roger Mills. Rep. Purcy Walker, D-Elk City, has served 12 years in the Legislature and can't seek re-election because of legislative term limits.
The district was moved because of the population shift from rural to urban areas. The new District 60 includes rural areas and most of the main population areas west of Yukon, El Reno and Hinton. A column of the district extends south to Carnegie.
District 60 has been Democratic since 1965, when members of the House began being elected by district instead of by county. Democrats a year ago outnumbered Republicans almost 2-1 in the current District 60 — 11,170 to 5,947 with 1,644 independents.
Voters who will cast ballots in the reconfigured District 60 are mostly Republican. Voter registration numbers two weeks ago showed about 8,800 Republicans, 7,800 Democrats and about 1,900 independents.
Menz-Kimble, 41, said it will be difficult to keep the district a Democratic seat.
“However, I believe that I'm not the average Democrat,” she said. “I am very concerned about the gridlock that I feel like our state's been in due to the issues with partisanship.
“Canadian County and Caddo County are drastically different,” Menz-Kimble said. “Caddo County is very rural and there's a lot more poverty there …. In Canadian County they're more concerned about attracting new businesses.
Fisher, 53, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Yukon, is seeking his first political office. He regularly attends meetings of the High Noon Club, made up of about 150 people who meet weekly at a west Oklahoma City gun range.
Menz-Kimble works as an office manager at the K2 Vet in Hinton, where her husband, Shane, is the veterinarian. She, too, is seeking political office for the first time.
Menz-Kimble said her primary concern is education. Oklahoma is near the bottom in public school funding, which she thinks adversely affects recruiting businesses to the state.
She said she is concerned about efforts this past session to reduce the state's personal income tax, which brings in about $2 billion, or about 30 percent of the money appropriated by legislators.
“Reducing taxes always sounds great, but you still have to find a way to pay for things,” Menz-Kimble said. “That's been my concern with a lot of bills that have been brought up is that we're going to reduce taxes but we still have to pay for roads, we still have to pay for all these things that the government is responsible for and they don't show the other part of the plan.”
Fisher said he supports reducing the personal income tax.
“Every time that we reduce taxation, that puts more money in the pockets of business owners and citizens to spend in the way that they would choose,” he said. “It creates growth financially. Companies will be more prone to come in here.”
Fisher said he is concerned that while members of the Republican-controlled Legislature have talked the past two years of cutting state spending, the state budgets have increased.
Fisher said he also supports changing rules in the House of Representatives so that committees would hold a hearing on each member's bills.
Fisher said he also would like to see more openness in the House.
“Everything kind of happens behind closed doors,” he said. “We need the people to see more. Whenever you close the door, people just automatically suspect that something wrong is going on behind it.”


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The Immaculate Misconception
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Written by Michael Geoghegan, Simon Riley
This is a story about belief, family and honour. Sinead O’Reilly is a pregnant 16-year-old schoolgirl living in West Belfast with her grandparents Daniel and Bronagh O’Reilly. Bronagh is the matriarch of this dysfunctional family and a devout, pious, dour Catholic to boot, who will stop at nothing to maintain her standing in a community that doesn’t want her. Sinead’s underage pregnancy is both the last straw and unbeknownst to Bronagh, her salvation as she is thrown a dubious lifeline by their GP who informs Bronagh that ‘although pregnant Sinead is still a virgin’. If Bronagh can get the birth proclaimed immaculate by the Vatican then God only knows what is possible.


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Before Matt Greer opened Caboose Brewing Company in Vienna, VA, he had many non-restaurant related jobs including building technology apps. After realizing his hometown was a beer desert, he knew he needed to do something about it.
Evan Matz moved his family to Virginia to be a part of a wonderful community, where he brought craft beer and food with the opening of his Crafthouse locations.Veterans who went into the restaurant industry after the military share why it’s important to support vet-owned businesses.Boston Chef Chris Coombs states his opinion on the minimum wage movement. Employees at his restaurants earn livable wages, 20-30% above the minimum wage.Effective restaurant marketing strategies can put your restaurant on the map. Chris Coombs, Chef & Co-owner of Deuxave, shares his best social media tips.Chef Chris Coombs of Boston’s Deuxave prefers the traditional tipping model for his restaurants so his employees earn livable wages versus the minimum wage.Opening a new restaurant amidst Boston’s real estate bubble is posing big challenges to local restaurants. Tapestry co-owner Meghann Ward shares her story.

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A recent partnership between two global fintech companies, one with a significant presence in Tampa, allows customers to settle restaurant bills with cryptocurrency, pay incrementally and easily split bills within a large party.
Lavu offers a restaurant management and point-of-sale (POS) system for thousands of restaurants across 65 countries. Saleem S. Khatri, CEO of Lavu, said that while the company focuses on small-to-medium sized businesses, its clients include several major universities, United Airlines and a multinational technology company – named after fruit – with a market cap worth over $2 trillion.
While he could not say the company’s name on record, Khatri said it utilizes Lavu’s hardware and software in all its cafeterias.
Based in Albuquerque, Khatri opened a large Tampa office in August of 2021. The Harvard Business School graduate and several of his top executives now operate out of the rapidly expanding office, which is on pace to become the company’s largest later this year. Last week, he announced a joint offering with global payment solution Verifone that integrates Lavu’s restaurant software with Verifone’s FLEX payment solution and Advanced Payments Method platform.
“Like all good things in life, it wasn’t planned.” said Khatri. “We want restaurants to grow, and anyway that they can drive additional revenue, we’re excited about.”
The first product to emerge from the innovative partnership is a combination of Verifone’s Engage e285 device and Lavu’s tablet-based POS system. Utilizing the integrated platform, customers can pay using Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, stablecoins, prominent crypto wallets, PayPal or Venmo.
Patrons then complete the transaction on their smartphone without ever opening their physical wallet or handing over a credit card.
Saleem S. Khatri, CEO of Lavu, relocated to Tampa in August of 2021.
Khatri said the partnership with Verifone started as a way to offer an integrated payment solution in places like Thailand – without the need to reconcile credit card payments outside of Lavu’s POS software.
“That was the first reason we decided to work with Verifone,” said Khatri. “But what we found is, the crypto thing has just taken off.
“That’s what is really resonating with people.”
Khatri called the process super simple. Lavu provides clients with an iPad, cash drawer and Verifone device that enables owners to manage staff, inventory, payroll and “do everything that you would need to do to run your restaurant business.”
The system allows credit card payments but focuses on the tap and pay method popularized by Apple and Google Pay. Crypto enthusiasts use a similar payment method, opening their digital wallets and then tapping their phones on the receiver. Khatri added that the service does not require users to download additional mobile apps.
“It’s super clean and super easy,” he said. “A very elegant solution, and there’s a lot of reasons why restaurants like it.”
Khatri, once an executive officer with the Department of Treasury’s Office of Financial Stability, where he helped guide the $79 billion “Auto Bailout,” said the new system reduces a restaurant’s two highest costs – labor and credit card processing fees.
He said an establishment with $100,000 in monthly sales spends $3,000 in credit card fees, and utilizing cryptocurrency mitigates that expense.
“There are fees associated with this crypto thing because it’s just getting started,” said Khatri. “But the fees are much lower.”
The ability to seamlessly pay using cryptocurrency is not the only unique feature of the system. Customers can use their phones to scan QR codes on receipts and settle their bills instantly, and there is also a buy-now-pay-later service.
While spreading payments out over time might seem ideal for the average person celebrating at a fancy restaurant, Khatri said he was surprised to learn people use the feature for a $30 UberEats order.
“We’re doing all of these things for restaurants … to help offset the staffing shortages, high costs with inflation, and we’re even working with …” said Khatri before stopping midsentence.
He then said Lavu “is doing something with drone delivery for food.” While he could not provide further public details at this time, he called the next partnership “very futuristic.”
Lavu is actively expanding throughout the Tampa Bay market. Khatri noted that most of his marketing and sales team joined him at the regional office off Henderson Boulevard in Tampa. In addition to “a handful” of local small businesses, he said the Tampa Sports Authority is a client.
“Tampa people are amazing, and we just absolutely love it here,” said Khatri. “So, we’re definitely going to make some noise here.”
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For over a month, protests against First Quantum Minerals, a Canadian mining company, have gripped Panama. The Vancouver-based First Quantum owns the country’s largest copper mine, Cobre Panama, through a subsidiary named Minera Panama. The generous terms of the company’s mining concessions, both in Panama and elsewhere, have seen it rise to become one of Canada’s largest miners.
Cobre Panama is an open-pit copper mine located in the Donso district of Colon Province, an area of bountiful biodiversity. It is the largest single private investment in Panamanian history. The mine comprises 5 percent of the country’s GDP and 75 percent of its export earnings. These facts, regularly publicized by First Quantum as evidence of the company’s importance to Panama’s economy, raise two important questions: If the mine generates so much wealth, why is it that Panamanians themselves see so little of the profits? And, is the generation of that supposed wealth worth the environmental risks?
First Quantum inherited the mine’s contract from another Canadian company, Petaquilla Gold, in 2013. Petaquilla had signed a contract with the Panamanian government in 1997, which the country’s supreme court ruled to be unconstitutional after Panama’s Environmental Advocacy Center (CIAM) filed a lawsuit against it. The lawsuit argued that “the concession was given without public bidding, without consultation with the communities and without a true environmental impact study.”
Initially, Quantum resisted the ruling, but the court upheld the decision in 2021. As a result, the government forced the company to enter new negotiations, which progressed badly. At one point, the Panamanian government unilaterally halted production at Cobre Panama. The Justin Trudeau government responded by dispatching officials to vouch for First Quantum with the Panamanian government.
On October 20, the company and government came to a new agreement, the terms of which remain highly generous to First Quantum. The contract not only gives First Quantum the right to continue its open-pit operation for at least another twenty years. “Among its provisions,” writes Andrea Salcedo, “it allows First Quantum to make offers on land it deems necessary for its operations. If the owner declines the offer, the contract states, the company can ask the government to seize it on its behalf.” Given Central America’s violent history of land dispossession, especially related to mining, this is an extremely worrying provision.
Since the passing of the new contract, Panamanian society has erupted in protest. In the Globe and Mail, Niall McGee writes: “The contract was denounced by environmentalists, Indigenous groups, labour activists and religious groups, who opposed it both because of its financial terms and because of the impact the open-pit mine has on the environment.”
Protesters are blocking roads and ports, and disrupting major infrastructure. First Quantum, which denounced the protesters’ methods as “illegal and violent,” has seen its market value plummet by 40 percent. Meanwhile the Panamanian government claims the popular mobilizations are costing the state $80 million per day. This public pressure led President Laurentino Cortizo to halt new mining approvals and announce a public referendum on whether or not the contract with First Quantum should be repealed. The vote will be held on December 17.
Ordinary Panamanians, who are dealing with high inflation and unemployment, are sick of being excluded from decisions concerning their country’s extractive industry. They are also alarmed by the environmental risks, which include the contamination of drinking water and the deforestation of land on the mine’s thirty-two-thousand-acre plot. A rallying cry of the protests, “Panama is worth more without mining,” calls to mind the example of El Salvador, which banned metals mining outright in 2017.
Of course, the public has known about these dangers for a long time. In April 2022, the Panama Worth More Without Mining movement released a report that found over two hundred “serious” breaches of environmental commitments by the project managers, including “the felling of 876 hectares . . . in an area of high biodiversity and international importance,” inaction on the promised reforestation of 1,300 hectares, and “the discharge of waste from the tailings tank into natural bodies of water without official endorsement.”
Environmentalists are, however, not the only people opposed to the mining contract. Trade unions, students, and much of the broader public, fed up with the negotiations’ lack of transparency, have also stood up against the company.
The protests have turned deadly. On November 7, an enraged driver shot two protesters at a roadblock; police have also used repressive measures against the resistance. On November 16, fishermen tried to block the entry of a ship into the Punta Rincon International Port, owned by First Quantum. The National Aeronaval Service (SENAN) chased them away amid clouds of tear gas and pellet ammunition, causing numerous injuries.
Opposition to the Cobre Panama project is not new. When Panama began negotiating its free-trade agreement with Canada in 2010, MiningWatch cited the project as an example of the “existing threats to Indigenous peoples and the environment.”
In 2011–12, for instance, the country rose up demanding the annulment of mining and hydroelectric concessions on indigenous territory. Then president Ricardo Martinelli dispatched the riot police, killing one protester, injuring thirty-two, and detaining forty. Protesters responded by blockading the entrances to the Cobre Panama mine and another mine owned by Petaquilla. Ultimately, the social mobilization was so powerful that Martinelli agreed not to sanction mining projects on or near Ngäbe-Buglé territory.
Ten years later, in the summer of 2022, nationwide protests swept the Central American country, with diverse social groups calling for the Cortizo government to guarantee the economic security of the population in the face of rising food and fuel prices. The protesters represented a broad coalition of sectors: teachers, students, trade unionists, farmers, indigenous organizations, and anti-mining activists. Amid state repression, their program quickly widened beyond the inflation crisis to include the government’s inaction on poverty, unemployment, housing, corruption, indigenous rights, and more. The current opposition to First Quantum must be viewed as a continuation of these progressive protest movements.
The Canadian government has been silent on the uprising in Panama, but its attitude toward the protests can be surmised. When Cortizo halted production at Cobre Panama last year, the Trudeau government acted to ensure production continued, with Canada’s trade minister Mary Ng liaising between First Quantum and Panama’s commerce and industries minister Federico Alfaro.
Moreover, readers may know that Canadian mining companies are prominent investors in Central America and Latin America generally, their mines often serving as flashpoints of environmental, economic, and social unrest. In response to such conflagrations, the Canadian government always provides diplomatic and material support to governments that repress the protests and keep the extractive machinery moving, as evidenced by Ottawa’s unconditional backing of the Peruvian government’s massacring of indigenous-led protests last year, which claimed the lives of forty-nine.
Fealty to the Latin American mining sector explains a great deal of Ottawa’s foreign policy. It explains why Canada supported Ecuador’s corrupt and discredited former president Guillermo Lasso, as well as why it launched a legal assault on AMLO’s overhaul of the Mexican mining industry, which sought to grant the state greater control of Mexico’s natural resources.
However, broader geopolitical considerations also provide context for Canada’s response to events in Panama. Ottawa’s Critical Minerals Strategy, for instance, is a major policy through which it aims to “delink” its tech inputs from China as part of the new Cold War. Copper, the metal produced at Cobre Panama and one of the minerals identified as “critical” by the Canadian government, is a key input required to produce electrical vehicles (EVs). China currently leads the way in producing EVs, but greater control over the crucial mineral would make Canada less dependent on the People’s Republic.
The hope of Canadian and Panamanian elites is that both parties can advance their aims without having to respond to the democratic challenges to either Cold War saber-rattling or environmental degradation.
We don’t yet know how the December 17 referendum will unfold, but we know this: the Panama uprising is a direct challenge not only to First Quantum, but to Canadian mining policy in general, as well as Canada’s unearned image as a global champion of environmentalism, democracy, and human rights.


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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles police officer who opened fire in a Burlington department store days before Christmas and killed a suspect in an assault and a 14-year-old girl in a locker room was identified on Thursday as a veteran of the force who also ran a non-profit for low-income children.
Los Angeles police identified William Jones, who was assigned to the North Hollywood area of the country’s second largest city, as the officer who fired at least three shots with his long rifle. He has worked in the department for about a dozen years, according to a profile published last year by the University of Louisville, his alma mater.
The LAPD released an edited video package online Monday that included 911 calls, police radio transmissions, body camera footage and surveillance video from the December 23 shooting. The series of footage showed the suspect’s erratic movements in the store, his attacks on several customers and the moment Jones fired his weapon. The 911 calls show that the police received conflicting information, first being told that the suspect assaulted people with a bicycle lock and later that the suspect may have been armed and shot inside the store.
In the footage, police officers – including Jones – gave no commands to the suspect, who was shot down the aisle from a bloody assault victim. He could be seen holding the metal bicycle lock he was using at the time of the assault and a work of art when he was shot. No firearms were found.
The LAPD said one of Jones’ bullets pierced a wall behind the suspect and hit Valentina Orellana-Peralta, 14, who was in a locker room with her mother trying on Christmas dresses. Valentina fell to the ground, started getting cramps and died in her mother’s arms.
“I tried to wake her up by shaking her, but she did not wake up,” the teenager’s mother, Soledad Peralta, said in a statement read at a press conference this week.
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Footage released by police shows Jones was asked to “slow down” more than a dozen times by other responding officers before shots were fired. He has been put on administrative leave, the department confirmed to USA TODAY.
Tom Saggau, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Protective League, which represents LAPD officers, told USA TODAY that Jones had been a modeling officer before the shooting.
Jones launched a nonprofit with his wife, called Officers For Change, aimed at helping children in low-income households, he said. The charity primarily collected and requested donations from other officers, allowing them to distribute school supplies and backpacks prior to the school year, Saggau said. In his spare time, Jones also helped coach a football team, he added.
“There would not be a department in the country that would not want him as a police officer,” Saggau said. “This was horrible and tragic. But this was not an officer with an obvious character flaw or anything.”
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Jones grew up in Kentucky and moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to work in the entertainment industry, according to the profile published online by the University of Louisville.
He became interested in police work while out in the West and completed his communication training online while working with the LAPD, the profile says. The story, published in December 2020, notes that he “spent eight years on patrol and the last three years working as a community leader.”
Saggau said inaccurate reports of an active shooter likely fueled a mindset that officers needed to quickly stop the threat to prevent death. In these situations, he said, officers were preparing for the worst case, which is why Jones came prepared with a long rifle instead of a less lethal weapon.
Since the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, police departments across the country have changed procedures and protocols for responding to active shooters. Instead of securing an area and waiting for backup, law enforcement has been trained to engage immediately on the spot.
A bulletin sent in 2003 to all Los Angeles police officers, which the LAPD confirmed to U.S. TODAY is still valid, defined an active shooter as an armed person, “who has used deadly force on other people and aggressively continues to do so while have unlimited access to additional victims. “
While the suspect, identified by police as Daniel Elena Lopez, 24, was not armed with a gun, officers can be heard in released police footage saying he was in the middle of attacking a woman in the seconds before they approached.
The bulletin noted that officers need to “assess the situation objectively, assess their options and act accordingly.” It notes a range of dangerous situations, from suspects actively shooting to those holding hostages, and says that misunderstandings of the term active shooter had caused “a premature response” with rapid deployment tactics used in an active shooting situation.
An active shooting presentation from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which has jurisdiction over a large area around the city, notes that the primary goal when law enforcement officers contact a suspect is to “stop the suspect’s deadly behavior” and “take the suspect into custody” with least possible force. Officers should “give clear and precise orders to the suspect.”
On why Jones did not shout any commands to the suspect, including dropping weapons or coming out with his hands up, Saggau said that will be the focus of investigators.
“None of us know what went through that officer’s head,” he said. “I would never dare to put myself in the position of the officers. They will be lots of research and questions, but what the public should do is try to put themselves in that officer’s place at that moment.”
Contributor: Mary Ramsey, Louisville Courier Journal
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Los Angeles police ID officer who killed teenage girl in Burlington shooting


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UK-based Christopher Ward are launching a special version of their C70 Brooklands Chronograph. This special series celebrates Britain’s original Grand Prix, which led to the creation of the Formula 1 Championship. The watch is equipped with a Swiss ETA quartz calibre that underwent control and certification by the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres.
«The striking design of the Brooklands (Great Britain), the Cunningham Stripe (USA), the Rosso Corsa (Italy), the Grande Epreuve (France), the Ascari (Belgium) and the Silver Arrow (Germany) reflects the chassis colours of each nation’s racing colours – with the year of victory, the race track and the name of the winning driver engraved on the reverse of the case.»
We’ve published a page explaining the interest in Chronometer-certified watches throughout history. The ETA calibre used in the C70 Brooklands special edition splits time into tens of seconds. It also benefits from thermo-compensation, a technology mastered by the Swatch Group movement factories in the 1990’s. As a consequence, it is far more accurate that your average quartz watch.
Quartz watches split time by exploiting the electromechanical phenomenon known as Piezoelectricity. When a continuous electrical current runs through it, the quartz crystal starts resonating at a constant frequency. Crystal oscillators for watches are manufactured to vibrate at 215Hz (32,768 Hz), a frequency that will then be halved 16 consecutive times by a processor to obtain the second (unit of time).
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Ryan Neelam is Director of the Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program at the Lowy Institute and is Project Lead on the annual flagship publication, the Lowy Institute Poll.
Prior to joining the Lowy Institute, Ryan spent 14 years as an Australian diplomat. He was most recently Australia’s Deputy Consul-General in Hong Kong and acted as the head of the consulate during an extended period of political upheaval in the territory and the onset of the Covid pandemic.
Ryan was previously posted to the Australian Mission to the United Nations in New York, where he represented Australia on global economic, climate change and human rights issues, was a key Australian negotiator of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and served on Australia’s UN Security Council team during its 2013–14 term.
In Australia, Ryan served as the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade’s Deputy State Director for NSW, and in Canberra he has contributed to Australia’s UN, climate and development policies.
Ryan holds a Bachelor of Economics and Social Sciences (Honours) from the University of Sydney.