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5 dead, 3 injured in overnight northeast Baltimore fire
Officials: Firefighter falls through floor; Man jumps from window
An adult and four children are dead and three people, including two firefighters, were injured in a ravaging two-alarm house fire in northeast Baltimore, fire officials said.
A call shortly after 2 a.m. reported a fire in the 5600 block of Denwood Avenue near Moravia Road, Baltimore City Fire Department spokesman Kevin Cartwright said.
Captain Roman Clark said the victims were identified as 55-year-old Nancy Worrell, 1-year-old James Holden Jr., 2-year-old Kaniyah Scott, 4-year-old Darryl Stewart and 7-year-old Tykia Marky. Fire officials said the victims were found on the second floor in a back bedroom.
Fire officials said family members told them there were smoke detectors in the home, but officials said a preliminary investigation shows that, so far, that doesn't appear to be true.
"A total of 10 people were in home, and five escaped before we arrived," Baltimore City Fire Chief James Clack said.
Firefighters said they heard people screaming for help and encountered heavy flames and smoke emanating from the first floor up through the second floor.
Shade Worrell, 19, managed to rescue her 2-month-old son Vance by tossing the child out a window into the arms of her nephew. She said her 2-month-old is OK. She jumped out the same window.
Shade's son, Darryle, and his sister Kaniyah were killed in the blaze. Sharron Fenner said she lost her son, James Holden Jr.
Escape routes were hard to find. Shade's father, Will, managed to jump to safety from a second-floor window, but her mother, Nancy Worrell, did not flee to safety. Her sister, Barbara Hopkins, said Nancy was the primary caregiver of the children and she believes she died trying to save their lives.
The man who jumped from the home was taken to the Johns Hopkins Bayview Burn Center, where he was listed in critical condition early Friday morning.
He wasn't the only one injured. Upon receiving reports of children trapped inside, firefighters swiftly began operations inside the structure.
"Firefighters took hose lines inside the house to try to suppress the fire when one of our firefighters fell through the second floor," Cartwright told 11 News.
Two firefighters got hurt battling the inferno. One fell through the second floor of the home into the basement and landed on another firefighter. Both were taken to the Bayview Burn Center with non-life-threatening injuries and are listed in good condition.
The blaze was caught on cellphone video by neighbor Phil Buie, who said he woke up to sirens and smoke.
"You could see the fire coming out the windows. The Fire Department tried to get it out the best they could, but it was rolling," he said.
Fire investigators and police arson detectives will review the charred wreckage to find a cause. They said they believe it may have started because clothes were left too close to a furnace in the basement.
Neighbors said they are worried this may be another case of arson. There have been two recently in that community.
Fire officials say so far, there's no evidence to support that theory.
"Preliminarily, there are no details and no eyewitness accounts that this may have been (arson), but it can't be ruled out," Cartwright told 11 News.
Firefighters were able to gain control of the fire in about an hour and 40 minutes.
Family members told Franciotti that they don't know how or where the blaze began. The Red Cross is helping about 30 members of the family, many of whom are children.
Community mourns lost family members
On Thursday evening, stuffed animals and lighted candles decorated the entrance of the scorched home, while neighbors and loved ones prayed and leaned on each other for strength.
Tykia Marky's young friends hung onto their parents in confusion, while others shared memories.
"We both liked to go on the trampoline," said friend Kyaire. "She was kind and generous."
"She was a very lovable child. She hugged everyone, and it is just so amazing that yesterday, she went around hugging the adults, telling them, 'I love you.' Little did we know that would be the last time we would see her," said Cecilia Johnson, an official at Moravia Park Elementary.
"To lose a child and a mother -- and I've been in both places -- is just heart-wrenching. As a community, we have to support each other," Johnson said.
City leaders release statements
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake released a statement about the fire Thursday morning, saying in part, "I ask all the citizens of Baltimore, especially neighbors in the Frankford community, to pray for the victims and keep the family in their thoughts. They will need our continued care and assistance as they mourn the loss of their loved ones. … Fire Chief Jim Clack and I are enormously proud of the heroic efforts of our firefighters, who responded to the scene within minutes and rushed into the blaze to do everything possible to reduce the loss of life."
She continued, "As a city, we must continue to be vigilant in our efforts to prevent fatal fires by ensuring that every home in Baltimore has working smoke alarms. If you, your relative or a neighbor is in need of free smoke alarms, please call 311."
Rick Hoffman, president of the International Association of Firefighters Local 734, released a statement Thursday morning.
"First off, my heartfelt condolences to the family that lost loved ones today in one of the early morning fires. Our prayers go out to the injured firefighters and their families as well. I don't want to use this to get on a soapbox and beat the same drum. Nor do I want to play God and pretend to have a crystal ball to have the ability to see the future and say the companies that were shut down would have had a better outcome this morning. What I believe is a non-arguable point is that the Baltimore City Fire Department is doing a lot more with fewer resources and is spread too thin. But Baltimore can rest assured the men and women of this department are here to proudly serve."
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Amy Bickel
The Hutchinson News
It didn't take long for the hot Kansas wind to dry down this year's wheat crop as the Reno County harvest was in full swing this weekend.
The lights of combines glistened in fields late into the night Saturday and Sunday with conditions staying dry enough to cut.
Reno County farmer David Stroberg and his family were among the busy operations bringing in the wheat this weekend. Among the crew was son Scott and daughter Andrea Kitch, who was driving a combine.
His wheat was still soft when he checked it Thursday. However, the 90-plus-degree temperatures coupled with the hot winds "changed things dramatically," he said, adding that the family's harvest started harvest Friday night.
Stroberg said test weights were good - 59 to 62 pounds. No. 1-grade wheat is 60 pounds or better.
"Variety made the difference," he said of some his lighter testing bushels.
He didn't have yields figured, but this year's harvest was shaping up to be decent.
"That big snow we had in February, that helped our wheat," he said of a storm that left more than 2 feet of snow. "It provided good cover, insulated it. We got two inches of moisture from it, and that was a really big deal."
It appears south central Kansas could have a good harvest thanks to the moisture in late winter and spring.
At Valley Co-Op near Winfield, test weights are averaging 60 pounds a bushel, according to Kansas Wheat. Early yield reports indicate the crop at 50 bushels an acre.
Harvest is now occurring in the entire southern half of Kansas, Kansas Wheat reported Sunday afternoon. That includes as far north as Scott City, where Kansas Wheat Commissioner Rich Randall said he began harvest Saturday. Test weights are averaging 58 pounds a bushel, he said, and one field averaged 25 bushels an acre, although the farmer told the agency continuous crop wheat is expected to yield much less due to the drought.

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Heading out of Grinton, we rounded a corner at what looked like a back street to be confronted by a vertical wall of a lane. There was a tiny reprise before another steep section emerged that kept rising and turned from a smooth track, to a bumpy one, to a fully lumpy one. We stopped a couple of times to 'admire the view' and nodded hellos to mountain bikers who were also climbing up Fremmington Edge.
|Nick pushing his bike is a rare sight
|Amanda & Ged almost at the top
|Ian showing off with his sensible gear ratio, suspension & tyres
Atop Marrick Moor the wind was still fierce as we climbed further albeit a more gradual incline. We met some land rovers who were off up the tops for motoring fun and also some scrambling motor cycles. But we carried on beyond the tracks and towards a grassy descent where it took a little while to figure out just where the bridleway was. Soon we were enjoying some smooth descent, but this soon turned in to a technical rocky downhill section. We all lined up awaiting our turn.
The cold winds had frozen my hands and I interspersed riding with pushing since my raynauldsy fingers made effective braking impossible. But everyone else fully enjoyed that descent.
Passing some beautiful landscape, we were soon at Langthwaite & the pub.
Those who ride with Simeon were well prepared with packed lunches. Alas the Red Lion was lacking much food choice, so a couple of us cycled up to CB Inn heading up towards the Tan Hill Rd. The view up Arkengarthdale was amazing and the sun was trying to break through.
We enjoyed a really nice lunch & this place lives up to it's reputation. Amanda left the ride here to spend the afternoon with her husband and the rest of us enjoyed some more climbing up the other side of the valley along the side of the wonderfully named Cringley Hill.
This was a really fun bit of moorland followed by a fast descent to Nova Scotia, so fast that we managed to miss our intended turn off, but instead found a steep bit of tarmac to enjoy that brought us to Healaugh where we took the road and then the greenway along the riverside to find a perfect afternoon tea stop in the form of a beautiful view whilst flasks and rations were pulled from saddle bags.
Ian, Nick, Eileen, Stephen & I went to the pub for halves and brews and it was mild enough to sit outside. Ged headed back up to the hostel for his lift home with Dave. A lovely way to end a brilliant weekend of cycling.
The map for the route can be seen here.
I had thought I'd take the monday morning commute by car to rest my legs after three challenging days in the saddle, but I was greeted by such glorious weather that I couldnt resist a cycle commute and I havent had any days off the bike yet. And my legs are telling me about it!
It was lovely to meet up with riders that I see so rarely, but the usual suspects turning up was as always greatly appreciated - you know who you are ;-) Thanks for your company & making the trip brilliant!
Special thanks to Gerald (in his mid-70s) who was the only person to complete the full three days with me & was great company. On Sunday morning at breakfast, he'd asked if I was feeling fit this morning, to which I replied 'of course', his reply 'I was worried about that'.
Planning and leading rides for a group of well seasoned cyclists can be a little bit of an intimidating experience. Our club certainly has some massive personalities and some very strong views are held & I think that the history of past rides & leaders can sometimes get in the way of new people trying out those shoes with confidence. Since I didn't know this area at all where others did, I had been filled with trepidation at the start of each day, but by the end of each day I was buzzing with the success of the routes and the enjoyment that everyone seemed to have had.


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It's become kind of a cliché by now to point out that this new golden age of television (which started with "The Sopranos") has given much more prominent roles to anti-heroes: lead characters that are deeply flawed or downright evil.
"Breaking Bad" took this to a whole other level.
Walter White cavorted with Neo-Nazis, was responsible for the death of his brother-in-law, kidnapped his own daughter, let Jesse's girlfriend die in front of him (when he could have saved her), and then rubbed that fact in Jesse's face.
And in having White do all that, "Breaking Bad" accomplished something that no other TV show really accomplished: It got the audience rooting against the main character. In the episodes leading up to the end, at least some audience members really wanted Walt to go down and for his brother-in-law Hank to stand as the main hero.
Other anti-hero shows (like "The Sopranos") never really got the audience to straight-up turn against the main character.
And yet despite all this, the show found a way to get the audience back on his side in the final scene. In the excellent penultimate episode, Walt is shown at the worst state of life someone can be in: isolated from the world, dying of cancer, hated by his family. It was just enough to get the audience psyched about the prospect of him coming back to town, machine-gunning some Nazis, and distributing justice to his old business partners, who screwed him out of a fortune.
And that's exactly what he did; and it was awesome, especially the machine-gunning Nazis part, which is an infinitely satisfying thing to watch. And that's part of the magic of TV. It can take a main character to levels of evil that you can't imagine, and in the span of a few minutes you're back on his side.
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Nature and Science
October 2018
Recent Releases
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
Vince Beiser
What it is:
the story of sand. (Yes, sand.)
Why you should read it:
From concrete to glass to computer chips, sand is the "literal foundation of modern civilization."
Fun fact:
Due to increasing demand and dwindling supply, there now exists a black market for sand, run by ruthless sand cartels who control the supply to industry.
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Eric R. Kandel
What it's about:
Bridging psychology and neuroscience, this illuminating book reveals what we can learn about human cognition by studying brain disorders.
discussions of autism, mood disorders, schizophrenia, dementia, PTSD, and addiction, to name just a few.
About the author:
Eric R. Kandel is a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist.
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen
What it's about:
molecular phylogenetics, which uses biopolymers (DNA, RNA, and proteins) to study the evolutionary history of organisms and determine relationships between species.
three "big surprises" that will make you rethink your understanding of evolution: the domain of Archaea, the process of horizontal gene transfer, and a probable ancestor of humans previously unknown to science.
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang
What it is:
a thought-provoking examination of the long-standing relationship between science and the military-industrial complex, with a special focus on astrophysics and the aerospace industry.
Who it's for:
readers interested in the intersection of science, industry, and politics; anyone who wonders what the proposed U.S. Space Force might look like.
Author alert:
Well-known astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson teams up with longtime editor and frequent collaborator Avis Lang for this eye-opening book.
Focus on: Trees
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
David George Haskell
What it is:
a fascinating literary tour of 12 trees from all over the world, ranging from a Callery pear in New York City to a ceibo tree in the Amazon rainforest.
About the author:
David George Haskell is a professor of biology and environmental studies, as well as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for
The Forest Unseen
Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Jill Jonnes
What it's about:
Urban trees don't always get credit for all that they do -- for example, improving air quality, absorbing excess rainwater and surface runoff, saving energy, and inspiring cities' human inhabitants. This engaging natural history aims to change that perception.
Why it matters:
From the stately specimens that grace the National Mall to the scrappy sapling of
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
, trees have always played an important role in American life
American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
Eric Rutkow
What it's about:
Environmental lawyer and historian
Eric Rutkow demonstrates how the history -- and destiny -- of the United States is inextricably linked to its millions of acres of forest.
Did you know?
Twenty percent of freshwater reserves originate in U.S. forests, which are threatened by the average American's annual consumption of 250 board feet of lumber and 700 pounds of paper.
You might also like:
Martin Doyle's
The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
Colin Tudge
What it's about:
There are an estimated 60,000 species of tree worldwide. But what are these organisms, exactly? A British biologist explains -- and the answer isn't as straightforward as it appears.
Why you might like it:
Author Colin Tudge distills an enormous amount of information into an accessible introduction to all things arboreal.
Don't miss:
Thirty-three intricate line drawings of tree specimens.
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
John Vaillant
Inquiring minds want to know:
What prompted a logger-turned-activist to cut down the world's only giant golden spruce tree?
What it's about:
Expanding on an article he wrote for the
New Yorker
, author John Vaillant recounts the destruction of K'iid K'iyaas, a centuries-old Sitka spruce with unusual golden needles located in British Columbia's Haida Gwaii archipelago.
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a...
Peter Wohlleben; translated by Jane Billinghurst
Did you know?
Trees have families and friends, memories, sophisticated communication systems, and even the ability to feel pain.
Why you might like it:
Without sacrificing scientific accuracy
author Peter Wohlleben enchants readers with combination of lyrical vignettes and anecdotes about his experiences as a forester in Germany.
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Early in July, Monsanto rolled out the red carpet for farm media in North Dakota, promoting its new, yet highly controversial, herbicide-resistant genetically engineered (GE) seeds. Touted at an industry field day in Cass County, these new soybean seeds are designed to be used with the volatile herbicide, dicamba — a close cousin of 2,4-D.
Dicamba-resistant soy is still awaiting USDA approval, as are 2,4-D-resistant corn and soy. And after receiving hundreds of thousands of comments opposing the approval of these crops, the agency recently extended its decision-making timeline. Despite the outcry, however, Monsanto has plowed full speed ahead, planting and spraying these crops in large, field-sized "Ground-Breaker" demonstration plots in North and South Dakota and in research plots in undisclosed locations.
Farmers, as well as other concerned citizens, are particularly worried about pesticide drift, crop damage and health harms that would likely accompany planting and spraying of dicamba- and 2,4-D-resistant crops.
Most at risk are fruit, nut and vegetable growers around the country, whose produce is highly susceptible to severe damage from 2,4-D and dicamba — herbicides known to volatilize and drift for miles. In one incident in California's San Joaquin valley, 2,4-D drifted 100 miles from where it was applied, damaging 15,000 acres of cotton and a pomegranate orchard along the way.
Not buying "improvements"
At the field day in July, a Monsanto representative claimed that the corporation was working on a new formulation of dicamba that wouldn't volatilize quite so easily or drift quite so far. The Monsanto employee acknowledged that dicamba residue in sprayer tanks would also be a serious problem, but explained that if growers are "good," "sophisticated" and "rigorous" in following detailed directions about nozzle size, wind speed and cleaning out their sprayers with a complex, 10-step triple-rinse that uses additional chemicals, then risk of destroying their own or neighbors' crops with inadvertent dicamba exposure could be minimized.
Waiting and watching until winds are precisely between 3 and 10 mph? Not so feasible when you have to schedule a pesticide applicator's visit to your field well in advance. Triple rinse likely to take more than an hour (and that then requires proper disposal of contaminated rinse water)? That's a lot of water to expect farmers to use, in a time of unpredictable rain and increasing water scarcity. Sounds a lot like a company set-up to blame the farmer as soon as anything goes wrong.
Produce industry leaders aren't convinced either. Steve Smith, Agriculture Director at Indiana-based Red Gold, the largest tomato processor outside of California, firmly rejected Monsanto's assurances. In an interview last week, Smith described Monsanto's guidelines as "woefully inadequate." Predicting growers will see a surge in dicamba-caused crop damage, Smith explained:
"Both the volatility and the direct drift threat are very real with dicamba. And it's not just to our crop. It's to homeowners and rural gardeners, it's to landscapes in the countryside, and we believe there's going to be a lot of people that's going to see effects from this."
Grape growers are also getting worried. With new wine industries emerging in virtually every state across the country — providing growers with a much-needed economic boost and way to diversify their production — reaction to the possible introduction of 2,4-D and dicamba crops has been negative.
Pesticide drift: Old problem, about to get worse
"We disked it up. They were gone. Two and a half acres of nothing, just bare ground." —Brett Middlesworth, Indiana tomato grower, describing crop loss due to herbicide drift
For years, pesticide drift has been hurting farmers, damaging their crops and making families in rural communities sick. One Indiana tomato farmer lost $45,000 worth of his crop, and sustained permanent damage to his larynx after getting sprayed with RoundUp last summer. Organic farmers in Minnesota lost their organic certification and their crops as a result of drift. A generation of rural communities in California and Hawai'i have been getting sick, while government agencies inexplicably delay implementing rules to safeguard children's health.
If 2,4-D and dicamba crops are introduced into the picture, the drift problem will quickly go from bad to worse. I've already written about the livelihood harms, and my colleague, Margaret Reeves, has warned of the health harms of these herbicide-based GE crops.
Apparently aware of growing opposition to these new herbicide-resistant crops (and in particular, farmers' worries that they will drive the emergence of yet more resistant "superweeds"), Monsanto is planning to offer financial incentives to farmers to spray additional types of herbicides. And if soybean growers don't adopt the new dicamba seeds, their conventional (or even their RoundUp-Ready) soy will be threatened, as dicamba drifts over from their neighbors' fields. So they'll pretty much have to get with the dicamba program.
Monsanto's latest product line might boost company sales for a time, but it fails to provide a pathway towards the safe, healthy and sustainable farming that American farmers want and deserve. For state-of-the-art, innovative pathways to such a vision, check out the ecological farming methods practiced by growers across the United States today.
Once again Monsanto is trying to destroy the the environment and us. Why is the government so oblivious to what is happening with our farms? Why are they backing Monsanto and their poisons which will contaminate our waters and lands? Wake up people and demand change from the government.
UPDATE: Monsanto recently held another field day in Camden Point, MO, one of 20 such sites around the country, through which Monsanto aims to reach 10,000 ag input dealers. These field days are a core part of Monsanto's PR promotion of its new "Roundup Ready Xtend" crop system (crops engineered to be resistant to glyphosate, dicamba and sometimes glufosinate as well).
See DTN's Progressive Farmer's coverage: http://www.dtnprogressivefarmer.com/dtnag/common/link.do;jsessionid=1BDFFE3981A0C155A8DF4D8CFAF6CA1A.agfreejvm1?symbolicName=/ag/blogs/template1&blogHandle=agequipment&blogEntryId=8a82c0bc3e43976e01405eb1539c14c9.
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This video pretty much does what it says on the tin. The fish in question belongs to a species of pearlfish — small, tropical fishes known to seek out shelter inside various species of invertebrates... and if you happen to be a sea cucumber, "inside" means you're going to have these little guys all up in your anal pore.
The pearlfish treats the cucumber's anus like you might a garage, reversing into the cucumber slowly but surely until it's disappeared from view almost entirely. I just wish I knew how the cucumber feels about all this.


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The history of the Hungarian Mint is closely intertwined with the 1000-year traditions of Hungarian coinage, which first began with the minting of the silver denar under Hungary's first king, St. Stephen, in 1001.
In the middle of the 13th century, the monetary reforms of King Robert Charles of Anjou saw the establishment of several minting chambers, the most important of which was founded in Körmöcbánya (Kremnitz, now Kremnica in Slovakia) in 1328. This mint, the direct predecessor of today's Hungarian Mint, became world famous for the quantity and quality of the gold coins it produced.
After World War I, the Körmöcbánya mint was dismantled and transported to Budapest, where it was reestablished as the Hungarian Royal Mint in 1925.
Following the end of the pengő currency after the end of World War II, the mint continued to operate under the name "Hungarian State Mint" and struck forint coins.
In 1992, the Mint was transformed into a company limited by shares. Initially, the National Bank of Hungary (NBH) held a majority interest, and since 1998 the NBH has been the sole owner. The company has had international quality management certification since 1996. In 2001 MNB Érmekereskedelmi Rt. (NBH Coin Trading Ltd) was merged into the company.
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Closed circuit television shows terrorists inside Westgate mall.
The Somali terror group that stormed a Kenyan mall, killing more than 60 people, has a larger U.S. contingent than any other al Qaeda offshoot, said U.S. officials, and is now more prone to mount deadly attacks on targets outside Somalia.
Al Shabaab's attacks on foreign targets include an attempt to kill a U.S. congressman visiting Mogadishu in 2009. Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., was uninjured in the mortar attack.
Via Twitter, al Shabaab has claimed that six of the jihadis holding hostages at Nairobi's Westgate mall are Americans, and provided names for what it said were individuals from Minneapolis, Kansas City, Maine, Illinois and Arizona.
Senior officials said that U.S. law enforcement has run the list of U.S. persons named on Twitter as involved in the Kenya mall attack against the list of U.S. persons known to be affiliated with Al Shabaab. They have found no match at this time.
Officials said it was possible that the names were of individuals unknown to them, or that they were aliases acquired after U.S. jihadis arrived in Somalia, or that the Twitter information was false.
"At this point, we have no definitive evidence of the nationalities or identities of the perpetrators," said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki at a Monday afternoon briefing.
There were about 250 foreign nationals in al Shabaab in 2011, said officials, including Arabs, European converts and ethnic Somalis who were legal citizens of the U.S. and European countries. About 50 al Shabaab fighters were U.S. passport holders, including many young Somali-Americans from Minnesota and infamous Arab-American jihadi rapper Omar Hammami.
American members of al Shabaab carried out three suicide bombings in Somalia between 2008 and 2011. All were from Minnesota. The terror group recently released a 39-minute on-line video called "The Path to Paradise: From the Twin Cities to the Land of Two Migrations" memorializing three Minnesotans who had died fighting in Somalia.
But in 2011, al Shabaab began losing on the battlefield, and losing badly. After Kenyan, Ugandan and African Union troops drove al Shabaab from Mogadishu, the Somalia capital, and a stronghold in the coastal city of Kismayo, the numbers of foreign nationals plummeted.
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Gunmen stormed a crowded shopping mall frequented by Westerners in a brazen midday attack
"Our rough estimate of U.S. passport holders in al Shabaab is now about 20," a U.S. official said Monday. "And in terms of where they are in the hierarchy, there are some Americans who are military commanders, but they will never be emir or deputy emir."
But the official cautioned that "these are guys we know about, guys who we have full IDs on," and there remains a concern that there are U.S. citizens "who we didn't track."
Many of the U.S. fighters were recruited in American cities with large concentrations of Somalis, particularly Minneapolis-St. Paul, where as many as 90,000 Somalis live, the highest concentration outside the home country. Much of the early recruiting was done at a single mosque in Minneapolis, but officials said it was often done "peer to peer" rather than by a single recruiter.
While non-Somali recruits from around the world were usually fighting for Islam, said an official, the ethnic Somalis were also susceptible to a nationalistic appeal. They were urged to come home to fight the armies of Somalia's neighbors, including Ethiopians, an ancient enemy. As one U.S. official said, "The pitch was, 'Your father fought against the Ethiopians. What are you doing?'"
An official said some foreign nationals were killed fighting for al Shabaab, including at least 10 Minnesotans. Hammami was apparently killed earlier this month as part of an internal Shabaab struggle. Other foreign nationals left Somalia to join up with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al Qaeda's robust Yemeni arm. Yemen is a few hundred miles across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia. Some of the U.S. jihadi recruits just went home, the official said.
No American, including Hammami, has ever risen high enough in al Shabaab's ranks to be on the U.S. government's terror target list, said officials. American-born AQAP cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was on that list, and was killed in a U.S. air strike in Yemen in 2011.
A U.S. official said, however, that al Shabaab's misfortunes on the battlefield have only made it more dangerous outside Somalia's borders. Prior to 2011, much of the group's energy was spent trying to run the country and enforce strict adherence to fundamentalist Islam.
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Women carrying children run for safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree in Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi September 21, 2013.
"They have lost so much power in Somalia," said the official, "that instead of having to do governance and enforcing sharia, now they can do external attacks."
The official also said that al Shabaab has begun to regroup, and recover from its military setbacks, even as 4,000 Kenyan troops continue to occupy southern Somalia.
"It's really too early to say if al Shabaab's latest attack is the beginning of a broader campaign in Kenya," said a U.S. official, "or a desperate attempt to compel Nairobi to withdraw its troops from Somalia."
Al Shabaab has mounted small attacks in Mombasa, Nairobi, and Kenyan border towns, often using hand grenades, but was thwarted in two larger schemes. Kenyan authorities said they had stopped a terror plot aimed at Nairobi in 2012, and U.K. authorities disrupted a potential al Shabaab conspiracy in London in its early stages.
In 2009, before African troops pushed them out of Somalia's population centers, al Shabaab tried to kill Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., head of the House Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on Africa, with a mortar attack in Mogadishu. Al Shabaab took responsibility for the failed attack, which came just days after U.S. Navy SEALs killed Somali pirates who had taken a U.S. ship captain hostage in the Indian Ocean.
In 2010, more than 70 people were killed in an al Shabaab attack in Uganda on fans watching the World Cup soccer final.
The al Shabaab hostage standoff at the Westgate mall in Nairobi is now in its third day. The death toll is now at 68, with 175 injured, and a number of hostages are still being held by jihadis. While U.S. citizens were among the injured, no Americans have been confirmed dead.
A U.S. official said, however, that information that al Shabaab issues via Twitter, whether it is promising external attacks or claiming specific U.S. members, should be taken with a grain of salt. Last month, al Shabaab claimed via Twitter to have killed CIA officer Gary Schroen, who led CIA operations in Afghanistan after 9/11. Gary Schroen is alive and well.
NBC News' Richard Esposito, senior executive producer for the Investigative Unit, Chief Justice Correspondent Pete Williams and WBNC's Jonathan Dienst contributed to this report.
More from NBC News Investigations:
- Video suggests al Qaeda and al Shabaab alliance
- Born in the USA, but now among Somalia's Islamist terrorists
- PHOTOS: Gunmen attack mall in Kenya
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I've been running a small time webserver for a couple of websites, a blog and a multi-user dungeon for years and am considering upgrading. I've always simply used whatever old desktop machines I had lying around for the server and since my pages don't see a lot of traffic that was fine. Now, however, I'm learning more about running servers in true development environments. I have been exposed to a few of the differences in dedicated server hardware and desktop hardware. I am debating whether it's worth it for me to go the extra mile, spend the extra money and learn about true server hardware in order to assemble a server. Or if I should just stick with what I know and build myself a low power usage multi-core desktop to use that as a server same as I always do.
So the question is, what are the differences between server and desktop hardware and what do you gain by using server hardware for servers?
And for my specific case, are those gains worth the time and effort if it's a small time server for small time projects?
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Musical Theatre West Announces OKLAHOMA! Cast
Paul Garman, Executive Director/Producer of Musical Theatre West, is proud to announce the cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA!, previewing February 15, opening February 16 at 8pm, and continuing through March 3. Davis Gaines (LA's Phantom of the Opera, Ovation Award winner for Musical Theatre West's Man of La Mancha) makes his Los Angeles-area directorial debut with this production. As with all Musical Theatre West productions, OKLAHOMA! is locally-produced in Long Beach with professional actors from Broadway, national tours, film and television, including the best in local talent.
Principal cast includes Bryant Martin as Curly McLain, Madison Claire Parks as Laurey Williams, Luke Hawkins as Will Parker, Teya Patt as Ado Annie Carnes, Christopher Newell as Jud Fry, Saundra McClain as Aunt Eller, Stephen Grant Reynolds as Andrew Carnes, Steve James Ewing as Dream Curly, Katya Preiser as Dream Laurey, and Amin El Gamal as Ali Hakim. The rest of the cast includes Josh Christoff, Kaylen Danz, Chris Duir, Jenna Gillespie, Christopher Wayne Hamby, Jacob Haren, Blair Hollingsworth, Chris Holly, Will Huse, Ashley Matthews, Madison Mitchell, Whitney Muscato, Ariel Neydavoud, Ramone Owens, Jane Papageorge, Allison Paraiso, Stacey R. Parker, Dylan Pass, Hannah Simmons, Michael Starr, Matthew J. Vargo, and Carly Wielstein.
This year marks the 70th Anniversary of OKLAHOMA! which was the first collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, whose later shows included Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. Through the story of two cowboys who flirt with and fight for the women they love, OKLAHOMA! changed the face of musical theatre and features the classic songs "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top," and "People Will Say We're in Love.
The opening weekend of OKLAHOMA! is sold out, and due to overwhelming demand, three performances have been added to the run. OKLAHOMA! previews on Friday, February 15, at 8pm, opens on Saturday, February 16, at 8pm, and continues through Sunday, March 3. Performances are Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm and 8pm, and Sundays at 2pm and 7pm.
Tickets for OKLAHOMA! are on sale now and can be purchased online at www.musical.org or by phone at 562-856-1999 x4. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Musical Theatre West Box Office located at 4350 E. 7th Street, Long Beach, CA 90804 from 12pm to 6pm, Tuesdays through Saturdays. Musical Theatre West performs at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center located at 6200 E. Atherton Street, Long Beach, CA 90815. Tickets start at $20.
OKLAHOMA! is the second show of Musical Theatre West's 2012-2013 60th Anniversary Season. Musical Theatre West's Season Sponsors are the Ackerman Family/Evalyn M. Bauer Foundation and Ken and Dottie Reiner.


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Killer B is the jinchūriki of Gyūki — the Eight-Tails. He is capable of transforming into various forms that resemble his tailed beast, until he finally takes on the complete form of Gyūki. So far, he has displayed a greater variety of forms than any other jinchūriki. Unlike most jinchūriki, he has full control of Gyūki's power. According to some Kumogakure shinobi who passed by and saw his full Eight-Tails form, the Fourth Raikage had forbidden him from fully transforming.
Version 1
Using his own chakra, Killer B can freely and quickly form a red demon cloak that surrounds his body, which creates his "Version 1". Once activated, his canine teeth and nails extend. The cloak itself gives Killer B paws of chakra around his hands and horns on his head. He can also create an additional set of horns on his forearms to use for his Lariat attack. The attack power of this form is very high as Killer B can either decapitate a person with a single smash of his forehead or if his Lariat connects he can completely blow away their entire chest causing massive damage, and even destroy a massive platform where he trains.
He enters a three-tailed form during his fight with Taka; and one, four, seven, and eight-tailed forms at different points during his battle with Kisame. Kisame's Samehada is able to absorb up to six of these tails at a time. Like Naruto's first three tailed forms, these tails are translucent with bubbles of chakra forming on the surface. Other than an incremental increase in Killer B's strength and speed, there are no obvious differences between the number of tails.
Version 2
By tapping into Gyūki's chakra reserves, Killer B can enter his "Version 2" (バージョン2, Bājon Tsū) forms. As stated by Sabu, this is done by forming the chakra into a human shape. These transformations are meant to give him an edge in battle without completely releasing Gyūki, as that would endanger anyone around him. To transform into Version 2, B forms eight Version 1 tails and wraps them around his body transforming him into Version 2, creating a crater underneath him. He can also enter Version 2 from his full Eight-Tails form.
The version 2 chakra cloak is much darker than version 1. In this form B's overall appearance changes drastically and while in this form, B becomes more muscular, and if necessary can create chakra bones, such as the bull's skull, to increase the strength of his attacks.
When struck by Samehada, only Gyūki's chakra is absorbed, so Killer B reverts to a version 1 form with the same number of tails. So far only the version 2 eight-tailed form has been seen, so it is unknown whether he can activate version 2 with fewer than eight tails. The amount of chakra in this form is so great that when Nagato absorbed it, it returned him to his appearance before he had used the Summoning: Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique techniques.[1]
Partial Transformation
Killer B has an extremely high degree of control over Gyūki's power, to the point where he could not only create different versions of the tailed beast chakra cloaks, but limbs of the beast itself. When partially transforming his fist, he could send Might Guy flying over half the length of the Island Turtle with a single toss, as well as catch A's punch without receiving any damage. Partially transforming to use Gyūki's tentacles, he gains a high degree of dexterity, witnessed when he stacked geometrically shaped boulders one on top of the other and his free use of the tentacles like extra limbs.
Full Eight-Tails Form
While fighting Taka, Killer B managed to wound Sasuke long enough to fully transform into Gyūki, in which his skin is destroyed in a similar fashion as Naruto when he reaches the fourth tail and above.[2] Although he was forbidden to fully transform by his brother due to its immense power, B tends to ignore this order, as he transforms to train or to fight formidable foes, above other reasons.
In this form, he is able to create a Tailed Beast Ball in front of his mouth and releases it as a widespread blast, causing destruction on a large scale. He can also create tremendous winds which can level a significant part of a forest with ease. In this form he is immensely durable, able to endure Amaterasu for a considerable amount of time-enough time to perform a Body Replacement Technique with a tentacle. He is also extremely fast in this form, able to block Amaterasu with his fist and strike extremely quickly with his tentacles. In addition, Killer B also has shown to have as much physical strength as Gyūki, enough to catch Kurama's Tailed Beast Ball and block the full blast out from hitting Naruto.
See Also
- Gaara's Jinchūriki Forms
- Yugito Nii's Jinchūriki Forms
- Yagura's Jinchūriki Forms
- Rōshi's Jinchūriki Forms
- Han's Jinchūriki Forms
- Utakata's Jinchūriki Forms
- Fū's Jinchūriki Forms
- Naruto Uzumaki's Jinchūriki Forms
- Kinkaku's Jinchūriki Forms
- Sora's Jinchūriki Forms


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Fashion Hits and Misses at the 2012 American Music Awards
Stars such as Justin Bieber (who won the Artist of the Year award) and Christina Aguilera came out to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the American Music Awards. Pastel tones and metallic dresses dominated the red carpet.
Look at the slideshow after the jump to see which celebrities were the best and worst dressed at this year's AMAs.


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LONDON, May 17 (UPI) -- British actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson says she is penning a contemporary screen version of the musical "Annie."
The BBC said Will Smith is producing the film, which will star his 11-year-old daughter, Willow.
Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, the father of an infant daughter with singer Beyonce, is writing new tracks for the New York-set musical, which will begin shooting next year.
Jay-Z had a hit several years ago with "Hard Knock Life," an R-rated rap song that riffs on a tune from "Annie."
Some other songs from the original stage musical, such as "Tomorrow," will also be included on the new movie's soundtrack, Thompson said.
"I think it's a very good combination," the BBC quoted Thompson as saying. "We're looking for directors so the management will come up with a director in the next week or two weeks."
Thompson, who has acted with Will Smith in "Men in Black 3" and "I Am Legend," won an Oscar for her screenplay for "Sense & Sensibility." She also wrote and starred in the Nanny McPhee movies.
Based on the long-running comic-strip, "Annie" follows the adventures of a young orphan trying to find her biological parents just as a kind-hearted millionaire offers to adopt her. The original version was set during the 1930s, but the new edition will take place now.


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A Bizarre Case That Could Make Some Good Law
Carol Anne Bond learned that her best friend was having an affair with her husband, so she spread toxic chemicals on the woman's car and mailbox. Postal inspectors discovered this plot after they caught Bond on film stealing from the woman's mailbox. Rather than leave this caper to local law enforcement authorities to resolve, however, a federal prosecutor charged Bond with violating a statute that implements U.S. treaty obligations under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention.
Bond pled guilty and was sentenced but now appeals her conviction on the ground that the statute at issue violates the Tenth Amendment — in that her offense was local in nature and not properly subject to federal prosecution. The Third Circuit declined to reach the constitutional question, holding that Bond did not have standing to raise a Tenth Amendment challenge and that, following Supreme Court precedent, a state actor must be a party to the suit in order to challenge the federal government for impinging on state sovereignty. Bond now seeks Supreme Court review on the ground that the statute, as applied to her, is beyond the federal government's enumerated powers.
Cato joined the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence in filing a brief supporting Bond's request. We argue not only that a defendant clearly has standing to challenge the constitutionality of the statute under which she was convicted, but that lower courts' assumption that both the power to make treaties and Congress's power to make laws executing those treaties are unconstrained by the Constitution. This assumption is premised on a perfunctory acceptance of an overly broad interpretation of Missouri v. Holland, 252 U.S. 416 (1920). That reading of Missouri v. Holland, however, is contrary to precedent, has been undermined by subsequent Court decisions, and if allowed to stand, will seriously undermine the notion that the federal government is one of only limited, enumerated powers.
The Court's recognition that the constitutional issues Bond raises warrant serious review would begin the process of reconsidering the meaning of Missouri v. Holland and its progeny. Beyond the obviously erroneous ruling on standing here, this case offers the opportunity to reinforce limits on the expansion of federal criminal law into areas that should be handled at the state and local levels.
Many thanks to Cato legal associate Trevor Burrus for his help with our brief, which you can read here. The Court will be deciding early in the new year whether to hear the case.


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Adam Levine's ex, Anne V., has moved on and is already dating 30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto, reports say.
"The Voice" judge was reportedly blindsided by his split from Anne V., whose given name is Anne Vyalitsyna, after two years together. In February, Page Six reported exclusively that Levine appeared "heartbroken" at a Super Bowl party. However, the pair did not make their break official until April, when Vyalitsyna issued a statement that read, "Adam and I have decided to separate in an amicable and supportive manner."
Now, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model and Victoria's Secret Angel has been linked to Leto. Sources tell In Touch Weekly that the two appeared very cozy earlier this month during a night out at the Chateau Marmont.
"They spent the whole night together," the source says. "[They] were all smiles and sharing a drink."
Anne V.'s rep has denied the report, telling the website Gossip Cop that there is "no truth" to the report.
Still, it appears that Levine is taking some time off from dating. The Maroon 5 singer recently shot down a public invitation from Jennifer Love Hewitt saying, "That was aggressive. It was really sweet. Beautiful life, you know, when a beautiful woman says nice things about you."


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Today the Greencastle Commemoration Committee staged a parade from the Whitewell Road, around the Whitewell area, and then back down the Whitewell Road to Bawnmore, where there was a commemorative event at the Bawnmore Memorial Garden.
This event has taken place over a number of years and the Volunteer Sean McIlvenna Republican Flute Band from Glasgow regularly appears at the parade. The band is named after Sean McIlvenna, a member of the IRA who was born in North Belfast but later moved south of the border. He was killed on 17 December 1984 at Blackwaterstown when he was shot after taking part in an IRA landmine attack on a UDR patrol vehicle.
I thought the parade was smaller than in previous years. It usually consists of a colour party and two bands with a crowd of mainly young republicans walking between them. The crowd was certainly smaller than usual and the second 'band' was actually only half a band. The only Sinn Fein figures I recognised were Gerry Kelly and Gerard O'Reilly.
The event in Bawnmore commemorates, amongst others, three IRA men - Charles McCrystal, Samuel Hughes and John McErlean - who were killed on 7 April 1972 when a bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely in a garage in Bawnmore Park.
Tonight there was a 'function' in the Fountain Bar on the Shore Road, with the Volunteer Sean McIlvenna Band, a republican group named Phoenix Folk and an entrance charge of £5.
Next year is the 40th anniversary of the deaths of the three IRA men and it will be interesting to see how republicans mark that anniversary but over the past few years this has been a rather dismal and disorganised event and one that has been on the decline.


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HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi has selected four faculty members from campuses across the university system as the recipients of the 2006 Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. In memory of the late Frances Davis who taught mathematics at Leeward CC and UH Mānoa for 19 years, the award recognizes UH faculty members who demonstrate outstanding dedication and excellence as teachers of undergraduate students.
Amy Donahue is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at UH Mānoa. As a teaching assistant, Donahue has taught several introductory philosophy courses and has proved to be a stellar teacher. Her passion for philosophy enables her to challenge her students and provide them with tools from various traditions to analyze and critique their beliefs and actions. Her professor noted, "Her innovativeness of approach, analytical acumen, connecting the philosophical material to be taught with personal moral and political commitment and sheer dedication to the job, set standards that even we—senior and seasoned teachers can emulate."
Grace Ihara was an associate professor in speech at Honolulu Community College. She is posthumously recognized for bringing her wealth of knowledge and experience as a speech pathologist into the classroom. She helped many students "find their voices" and use them responsibly. She collaborated with colleagues to find ways to help students discover and use the power of speech. Ihara was also working on a curriculum that would enhance cross-cultural communication for non-native speakers of English. A colleague wrote, "Combining discipline and affection, high humor and keen wisdom, Grace exemplified and embodied—always with a unique sense of personal style—the best practices of her discipline."
Kendall Inada is an insturctor of classics in the Department of Languages and Literature of Europe and the Americas at UH Mānoa. Students elect Latin not only because of its intrinsic importance, but because of Kendall's reputation as a teacher and the caliber of his instructional aids, which employs scenes from history, mythology, and popular culture. In 2003, Inada founded the first Classics Club at UH, which explores the classical influences on present-day moviemaking. A colleage comments, "He has become an indispensable member of the Classics faculty, who has devoted himself to teaching the lower-level language courses with rigor and compassion."
Lorelle Solanzo-Peros is an instructor of hospitality and tourism at Maui Community College. Since being hired as the program's sole faculty member in 2001, she has redesigned the curriculum to meet national accreditation standards. Under the new curriculum, rigorous classroom academics are combined with focused internship and mentoring opportunities to provide a strong, experential educational foundation that will prepare students to be leaders and managers in the hospitality industry. A student wrote, "My journey at Maui Community College has been great because there was a teacher like Ms. Lorelle Solanzo Peros."
The recipients will be recognized for their contributions to the university along with other award recipients at a system-wide ceremony in September.


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It wasn't all Superbowl last week.
Ballard News-Tribune. February 12, 2014
Brooklyn to Ballard
While many in Seattle were focused on what would become a historic moment first in a New York stadium on New Jersey soil and then in downtown Seattle there was another historic moment taking place. Janet Yellen was sworn in as the first woman to be Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. This interested me as a woman, as the daughter of an economist, but it actually came closest to home for me sitting across from Donald Kentop.
Like Yellen, Don Kentop was born and raised in Brooklyn. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson H.S. in 1952; Yellen graduated Valedictorian from Fort Hood H.S. in 1963. They were both educated in public high schools in Brooklyn, New York; neither of them at the legendary magnet Stuyvesant High School. Yellen couldn't attend Stuyvesant because she was female.
Even before Yellen's high school years Kentop was studying history at New York University. One day he happened to read a plaque on an academic building in Washington Square. That's how he learned that NYU's campus included the building formerly known as the Asch Building, the site of what was the deadliest fire in American labor history: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911.
Although the fire that led to the death of 147 workers, almost all young immigrant workers, mostly female, had been a scandal and a rallying cause for unions and worker safety in the early 1900s, it had been mostly forgotten by the late 50s, eclipsed by the sinking of the Titanic, the Stock Market Crash, and two World Wars. There were just three plaques. But with the 50th anniversary, just when Kentop had been recalled to the Army Reserves during the 1961 Berlin Crisis, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire regained its role in labor history, even as it continues to serve as grim counterpoint to ongoing conditions in factories overseas.
Kentop went on to live a full life, one that eventually brought his family to Seattle, and to Ballard. However the memory of that relatively inconspicuous plaque stayed with Kentop, from his years writing song lyrics for a friend's music in Brooklyn, through the teaching degree he never used, the time in the Army, his marriage to a Canadian nurse he met at Columbia, years in sales for 3M and then a second act after traveling with his family in a VW Camper Van through Europe for a year in the 70s. An adventure that proved to him, "There were choices in life."
After retirement as a Drug & Alcohol counselor at Ballard Hospital and later Ballard Swedish, Kentop returned to writing, which had mostly been a youthful pursuit. He was interested in poetry, at first thinking that it looked easy, so he could do it too. As he became more interested in the craft, completing a poetry program through the UW's certificate program, he became less and less confident. "It's very hard," he realized.
For the last 10-12 years he has been involved in poetry groups and coordinated poetry readings in Fremont. He's had a chapbook published through Rose Alley Press and used mostly free verse to explore social issues. Perhaps unconsciously triggered by a return to student days the subject of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire drew his attention. He began reading the newspaper accounts, oral histories from survivors recorded in their later years, trial transcripts, obituary notices.
The result is a book length collection of poems, "Frozen by Fire" that is in its final writing stages, and will be accompanied by archival photographs from Cornell University's collection. Kentop has been reading selections at various literary events, including the monthly "It's About Time Writers' Reading" series at the Ballard Library. Once published Kentop hopes to be able to present his work at schools and organizations. Although there are excellent books and studies on the subject Kentop doesn't know of any other poetry collections that are dedicated to the subject of the fire.
From the time that I first heard Kentop read from "Frozen by Fire" to when we sat down for an interview I was struck by how I would never have taken the tall, deep-voiced man with Brooklyn still in his voice for a poet. A stalwart attendee at the second Thursday of the month library event, but a self-described introvert, Kentop credits his wife Carol for getting him to interact as much with the world as he does.
Kentop always knew that facts and lives of that infamous day could not be reduced to a plaque on a building. The conditions that included so many immigrants, locked doors, underage workers and inhumane labor practices must not be forgotten, and they still exist. In less than half an hour the lives surrounding those of 500 people working on the upper floors of the Asch Building were tragically altered; 147 victims, and not a survivor, witness or victim's family left unscarred. Over half of the fatalities were teenagers for whom education was not even a choice.
This collection has become the life work that Kentop is meant to share. First indicted but later acquitted the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory owners ultimately had to pay out just $75 for each life lost. Fifty years later a girl in Brooklyn still couldn't attend the best high school. But now, 113 years later there can perhaps be some reckoning in history, as far from Brooklyn Kentop gives voice to the lives of young women who jumped rather than be burned alive, and a girl from Brooklyn becomes Chair of the Federal Reserve.


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The North Belfast News is the paper that just keeps getting it wrong and the recent edition of Saturday 17 May was no exception.
North Belfast News journalist Evan Short wrote an article about the closure of St Kevin's Luncheon Club in North Queen Street. In the first paragraph of the article he stated:
TORY cuts as part of welfare reform have closed a cross community lunch club that has served as a vital lifeline to pensioners for the last 25 years.
Then in the third paragraph he wrote:
The club manager Pat Anderson found out last week that due to welfare reform the organisation that employed them through a training scheme was no longer able to offer positions.
Later on in the article he said:
Liam Maskey from Intercomm said he was very disappointed that they couldn't continue with the funding but the reform of welfare had made it impossible.
Three times in the article it is stated that the closure of the luncheon club was caused by welfare reform, in spite of the fact that welfare reform has not been implemented in Northern Ireland. In fact 'Tory welfare cuts' have nothing to do with the closure of the luncheon club. so let's set the record straight.
There have been no cuts to the funding of community services in Northern Ireland because of welfare reform and it is important that we do not cause concern to people that the reform of the welfare system is impacting on funding for community services. The two are totally separate.
Moreover the proposed changes to the social security system in the Welfare Reform Bill (NI) 2012 are still being considered by the Northern Ireland Assembly and have not yet been implemented here. So if they haven't been implemented how could welfare reform be the cause of the closure.
Reading through the article and trying to make some sense of it, it seems that the club was run by Intercomm and that they employed staff through a training scheme for which funding is no longer available. In that case Intercomm have lost a contract to another provider and it is nothing to do with welfare reform. This was probably a DEL contract and had nothing to do with DSD, which deals with welfare and welfare reform.
I know you can't believe everything you read in the press but in the case of the North Belfast News it might be better to ask, can you believe anything?
The closure of the club will be a blow to those senior citizens who have attended it and it is deeply regrettable but the cause of the closure is in no way connected to welfare reform.


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Mike Lag and his wife Kim had planned on spending the second day of their trip to Chicago on Saturday relaxing with a good book at the Chicago Park District's Promontory Point, off 55th Street in Hyde Park.
Those plans were derailed, however, as the popular lakefront park was closed to the public for the wedding reception of Star Wars creator George Lucas and Chicago businesswoman Mellody Hobson.
The Carol Stream couple said they were unfazed by the lack of access.
"I'm a huge George Lucas fan," said Mike Lag, 43. "He can do what he wants."
The lavish wedding reception caused a stir in the normally serene park better known for its picturesque views of the city's skyline than the bank of TV cameras and cameras flashing while an A-list of celebrity guests arrived.
More than 50 people, many nearby residents, flocked to the corner of 55th Street and South Shore Drive, where an army of stretch golf carts waited to shuttle guests through the pedestrian tunnel under Lake Shore Drive and into the reception.
The crowd cheered at the entrance of Robin Williams, who mugged for clicking cameras and bowed. Al Roker strolled in later, as did Rev. Jesse Jackson, dressed in a tan suit and appearing serious days before his son, former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., was scheduled to be sentenced in a federal corruption case. Several in the crowd buzzed about the rumor that Prince would be performing.
Bobby Ray, 38, lives at just across South Shore Drive from the pedestrian tunnel. He said he planned to grab a bottle of wine, open his window and "steal a Prince concert."
Tony Berkley, 47, made a three-hour drive with his three children from their home in Kalamazoo, Mich., all in the hopes of seeing the man behind his kids' favorite film.
"I estimated I've spent $3,500 on Lego Star Wars," he said. "I want a glass of champagne."
Armed with toy light sabers and a Star Wars backpack, Berkley's children said they wanted to see some of their favorite movie characters, especially Harrison Ford.
Several nearby residents said they were pleased with the positive attention given to Hyde Park, as well as the fresh coat of paint and landscaping work done in advance of the event.
"Hyde Park still gets a bad rap," said Stephany Contrella, 26, who joined friends for a barbecue across Lake Shore Drive from the point. "I think it's cool the park down here gets recognition."
But not everyone was happy with the party.
Dan Goldman, 70, said he was upset his plans to sit and take pictures at the park were blocked by the large, white temporary fence and security team surrounding the park's western edge.
"(Lucas) should be embarrassed," Goldman said. "President Obama I would accept. But a Hollywood director? This is just crap. The city should not do that."
Earlier in the afternoon, curious passersby ventured through the freshly painted Lake Shore Drive underpass and up to a white fence between the park and the lakefront bike path.
Some stopped to ask what was happening, while others marveled at the large, tent-like structure where guests would likely party the night away.
"When I woke up Monday morning and saw them setting up, I thought it must be something for Obama," said Steven Platzer, 62, who passed by on his bicycle to get a closer look at the set up. "They must have paid a bloody fortune."
What went on inside? Only the newlyweds and their guests knew.
As the party began, Chicago police on bicycles closed off public access to the underpass and kept people on the bicycle path from stopping to check out the action.
"It's kind of like our little spot," said Roger Eichorn, 35, a Hyde Park resident, about Promontory Point. "Now, it's been taken over by the 0.1 percent. Or, the 0.01 percent, or some small percentage."
Tribune reporter Antonio Olivo contributed.


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Chew a leaf and you'll quickly understand the claim that stevia is 200-300 times sweeter than sugar is probably on the conservative side.
The dark green leaves grow 2-3 inches long on waist high plants and are harvested and dried, much like tobacco.
Stevia leaves have very little smell even when ripped apart, but a couple of chews into even part of one of the small leaves is something akin to eating a large spoonful of sugar — it's sweet, but not exactly like sugar.
Stevia is native to Paraguay and has been grown in parts of South America for hundreds of years. It is an all natural, non-nutritive, no calorie sweetener. It is used extensively in Paraguay and surrounding countries as a sweetener.
Stevia is being grown for the first time this year in research plots and in commercial fields in North Carolina and Georgia. While it's not likely to replace cotton and corn any time soon, Stevia does present an interesting opportunity for a few farmers in the Southeast.
The crop is grown much like tobacco says Phillip Winslow, superintendent of the Caswell Research Farm in Kinston, N.C. He says they planted the crop using transplants and a reconfigured tobacco planter that also resembles a sweet potato transplanter.
So far, Winslow says weeds have been the biggest problem in growing the crop.
Obviously, there's not many herbicides, really only one, labeled for use on the crop. The good news is Stevia doesn't have many natural pest enemies in the Southeast — at least not yet.
Hal Teegarden, vice-president of agriculture operations for Sweet Green Fields, says his company is committed to building acreage of stevia in the Southeast. "Our home office is in Bellingham, Wash., and we contract with farmers out there to grow it for our company."
Teegarden, who worked for a number of years in the tobacco industry, says Sweet Green Fields saw the need for expanding operations into other parts of the U.S. and the Southeast was a natural place because of the similarity between growing stevia and growing tobacco and sweet potatoes.
In most cases when a new crop comes into an area there are costs associated with buying or building the technology needed to grow it.
With stevia in the Southeast, the technology involved with equipment needed to plant, harvest and dry a crop, like tobacco, has been around for a long time.
In many cases the equipment needed is already there and growers know how to use it, which speeds up the learning curve on growing stevia, Teegarden says.
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In the Southeast, Teegarden says stevia can be grown as a rain-fed crop, which gives the region a big advantage over production in other parts of the country, which rely on irrigation to produce the crop.
"The North Carolina Department of Agriculture is always interested in helping farmers find new crops to grow and to help them develop markets with these crops, so it was a natural for us to put in tests here at the Caswell Research Farm," Winslow says.
From a personal perspective, he says, the challenge of growing something naturally that can replace artificial sweeteners further piqued his interest in growing stevia.
"Sweet Green Fields, and in particular Hal Teegarden, have been very helpful in helping us get the crop planted and have been here all along the growing season to help in any way they can — it's been a real good working relationship, Winslow says.
"We are trying to introduce stevia to the Southeast in a way that will require very little additional investment for growers. If they are in the tobacco business, or have been and still have some equipment, they will find stevia can be planted with very little risk," Teegarden says.
He explains that Sweet Green Fields provides all the transplants for growers, and could probably provide seed, if a grower was set up to produce their own transplants in a greenhouse.
Though they are the first to move production into the Southeast, Sweet Green Fields isn't the only company trying to boost stevia production in the U.S. Chowcilla, Calif.,-based S&W seeds harvested a 114 acre site in California last year.
Teegarden says the demand for stevia in the food and beverage markets continues to grow. It can be found in a number of vitamin water products and Stevia in the raw is growing in popularity for use in food products.
Coca Cola is now test marketing stevia in two of its Sprite products in four cities in the U.S.
While some food and drink industry leaders have hailed stevia as the miracle sweetener, there have been a couple of troublesome areas that have forced some large drink manufacturers to take a second look.
Initial sales and projections are impressive, but the plant's extracts have a strong aftertaste, often compared to liquorice, and are far more expensive than artificial sweeteners including aspartame, saccharin and sucralose.
RebA is one end product from stevia plants that is marketed to various food and beverage companies for use as a natural sweetener.
Steviol glycosidesare responsible for the sweet taste of the leaves of the stevia plant (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni).
Steviol glycoside compounds range in sweetness from 40 to 300 times sweeter than sucrose extracted from sugar beets or sugar cane. They are heat-stable, pH-stable, and do not ferment.
They also do not induce a glycemic response when ingested, making them attractive as natural sweeteners to diabetics and others on carbohydrate-controlled diets.
From a farmer's perspective in the Southeast, the opportunity to grow stevia as a cash crop comparable in value to soybeans and corn is there, says Teegarden.
"In the near future — next couple of years — we would like to see a thousand acres or so produced commercially in the Southeast. After that, the opportunity to grow stevia will increase with market demand. I don't know what the future acreage may be, but with the interest in stevia by both food and beverage companies, the demand could be huge," he adds.
Currently, stevia is being grown commercially in southeast Georgia and in Bertie County in northeast North Carolina. Production has gone well in both commercial operations and there is a lot of interest in both areas, Teegarden notes.


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Captain Balinda Stonehearth is a level ?? boss human elite found in Stonehearth Outpost in Alterac Valley.
Balinda is a rival of Captain Galvangar, although unlike her counterpart, she is a caster boss.
"Captain Balinda Stonehearth commands a massive human unit reinforcing the Stormpike clan in the valleys of the Alterac Mountains."[1] (APG 169)
If Balinda is left alive throughout the battle, she can urge the Alliance players with battle cries, giving them the 'Stormpike's Salvation' buff, increasing all friendly player hitpoints by 20% for 2 minutes. She will grant this buff immediately after the death of Captain Galvangar, and will reapply it every 10 minutes. Killing her will result in honor for the Horde forces and Frostwolf Clan reputation, and prevent Alliance players from gaining this buff.
At the end of the game, if Balinda is still alive, she yields bonus honor, experience and reputation with the Stormpike Clan.
- Fireball
- Frostbolt
- Cone of Cold
- Arcane Explosion (unlike the Mage equivalent, has a 2 second cast time)
- Ice Block (note duration is only 4 secs compared to 10 secs)
- Summon Water Elemental - summons a Greater Water Elemental to assist Balinda in battle. Unlike the mage equivalent, Balinda's water elemental has 1 second cast times and is immune to all crowd control.
- Aggro: Begone, uncouth scum! The Alliance shall prevail in Alterac Valley!
- Take heart, Alliance! Throw these villains from Alterac Valley! (Alliance players receives Stormpike's Salvation buff (+20% health points for 2 minutes))
- Reset: Filthy Frostwolf cowards! If you want a fight, you'll have to come to me!
Balinda has had various spells tweaked, added or removed since her original implementation.
- Mass Slow - used to slow up to 5 players on her aggro table
- Polymorph - was removed as she would often polymorph targets in melee range, then subsequently break it with Arcane Explosion.
Patch changes
- Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Now casts Ice Block.
- Patch 2.4.0 (25-Mar-2008):
- Captain Balinda Stonehearth can no longer be interrupted, silenced, or have her spells slowed. In addition, her water elemental cannot be banished, and does increased damage.
- Captain Balinda Stonehearth has had her health total reduced to match the health total of Captain Galvangar.
- Hotfix (2008-01-08): "Hit points significantly increased."
- Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): Can now summon a water elemental.
- Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Added.