Tragedy in NYC
A hot plate warmed food in the darkened kitchen in Brooklyn, allowing an Orthodox Jewish mother to feed her family while observing the Sabbath prohibition on lighting a flame. Upstairs, she and eight children slept.
A hot plate warmed food in the darkened kitchen in Brooklyn, allowing an Orthodox Jewish mother to feed her family while observing the Sabbath prohibition on lighting a flame. Upstairs, she and eight children slept.
That
small convenience led to the city’s deadliest fire in eight years,
after flames that began in the kitchen ripped through the home, trapping
seven children ages 5 to 16 in their bedrooms, as their mother and a
15-year-old sister, cloaked in thick smoke, jumped out of second-floor
windows. They were the only two survivors.
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Rick Price
This reminds me of the good old days. I had two good computers running Windows XP, the most wanted operating system in the world....and they both went bad. Of course they were old but they sure didn't last long. So I went to Wal-Mart and looked over all of the DOS computers they had from lowest to highest price. JUNK! Even up to a grand if I had that kind of money, they all looked like they would be in the trash heap quickly...so I just said no and ran this BLOG from one of the piecers I had left at home. It looks nice enough but for some reason folks thought I was out of town. My website no longer looked like it was from Ferry County.........Well I'm back here once more until I can relearn programming and those who know me after my Guillain Barre, know this isnt going to be an easy task. Al Camp of the Omak Chronicle wanted me to get into it back in the late 1990's. I should have taken him up on it. Meanwhile here we are until I can teach myself once more. Nothing is impossible.,
Werner Dirla
The exotic pet trade has a way of introducing destructive and potentially dangerous creatures to places in which they don't belong, and Florida's sunny, warm climate makes for a perfect home for many of these invasive species.
People buy a small snake, lizard, or colorful fish, and when it gets too big to handle, they dump it in an area in which they figure it will fit in. But if these unleashed creatures fit in too well, they not only thrive in their new homes — but without natural predators they can wreak havoc on the surrounding ecosystem, unbalancing it and potentially wiping out the native animals.
Lately we've heard a lot about the Burmese pythons and the more aggressive African rock pythonsthat wildlife officials fear will wipe out the foxes, rabbits, deer, raccoons, opossums, and bobcats of the Everglades.
But another creature that Florida wildlife officers are trying to get a handle on is the Nile monitor lizard, a cousin of the most famous monitor lizard, the Komodo dragon, which has been spreading through the state since at least 1990.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook
hands on Friday at a summit in Panama, a symbolically charged gesture as
the pair seek to restore ties between the Cold War foes.
A photograph showed Obama and Castro, both wearing dark suits,
chatting in a small group of leaders at the summit's opening ceremony. A
White House official confirmed the two men shook hands and spoke
briefly.
"This was an informal interaction and there was not a substantive conversation between the two leaders," the official said.
A NEW SUNSPOT EMERGES: A new and potentially significant sunspot is emerging over the sun's northeastern limb: image. Amateur astronomers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor the large active region as it turns toward Earth this weekend.
"This was an informal interaction and there was not a substantive conversation between the two leaders," the official said.
A NEW SUNSPOT EMERGES: A new and potentially significant sunspot is emerging over the sun's northeastern limb: image. Amateur astronomers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor the large active region as it turns toward Earth this weekend.
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Many spend their spring breaks taking advantage of the last few good days of skiing and snowboarding on Mt. Spokane, but with the mild winter, those days are long gone as the statewide snow pack is only 22-percent of normal.
It's an alarming sight at Mt. Spokane where the snow is barely a few inches deep where it should be at least knee deep.
“Normal we wouldn't see any of this vegetation and we'd barely see that,” Dave Kreft with Natural Resources Conservation Service said.
Kreft has been measuring the snow pack on Mt. Spokane for the last 13 years.
“Normally this site would only melt out the end of May, here we are the end of April and we're already melted out," he said
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