Stephen Furst, actor and filmmaker known for playing Flounder in 'Animal House', has died due to complications from diabetes, TMZ has learned.
Stephen's son Nathan tells us his father died at his home in Ventura County, CA early Friday morning surrounded by loving friends and family. He and his brother Griff said about their dad, "He was a beloved husband, father and kind friend whose memory will always be a blessing."
Furst battled with diabetes for years, and later became a spokesperson for the American Diabetes Association.
Along with playing Kent 'Flounder' Dorfman in the 1978 comedy classic, he also had starring roles on "Babylon 5" and "St. Elsewhere." He directed a few episodes of 'Babylon 5' as well.
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One of the best parts of the entire series is when Vir gets his wish... One of the best characters of that series IMHO. Him and that guy from 'Lost in Space'... forgot the name...
[Iran Press TV] British media have censored the death of hundreds of people who have bit the dust in the Grenfell Tower fire in west London, a local resident has said.
The more than 500 people unaccounted from Grenfell Tower fire are dead, Nadia, whose family name was not given and identifies herself on social media as DJ Ayla, told Press TV.
London Police Commander Stuart Cundy told news hounds on Saturday that 58 people are feared dead in the fire.
According to reports, however, the building was home to about 600 people.
Nadia told Press TV's correspondent in London, Camilia Shambayati, that only 76 out of some 600 people who were living in the building where she grew up, had been accounted for and more than 500 residents were still missing.
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Not being reported is the green tech impact. Insulation was highly flammable material green tech. Once ignited had a chimney stack effect and ran the building very very fast. No sprinkler system also. Adoring green tech so much will cause an under reported impact. Easier to attack a politician should the media wish to divert attention. I have been working many hours but I still can glean information or perhaps speculate. Perhaps here some could elaborate a bit more. Now at this moment I am thinking of Bright pebbles.
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It is all proof that liberals are more a threat to humanity than anything.
Green is more important than a fire alarm or sprinklers or staircases.
They incinerate people in their own living quarters. How efficient.
The liberal utopia is brighter than you ever thought. Fell that green warm, very warm love for the planet envelop you and your whole block and you will feel good about yourself as you go up in a towering inferno.
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They are going to scapegoat the contractor for this. When the fault lies with the regulator allowing flammable material to be used.
Coating the outside of a highrise with flammable material would appear to be madness. But I'll bet the reason can be traced back to the need to claim making buildings 'more energy efficient' would save money as well as saving the planet.
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The tenants were told to shelter in place until someone came to get them. In a structure fire, that is murder.
Long before the flames reach you two other deadly elements will reach you first and fast. 1) Smoke. Smoke from a structure fire can contain over 300 different chemical toxins replacing oxygen in the air you breath. It is like being gassed at Auschwitz, but worse. 2) Heat. The first thing that happens to your lungs when you inhale super heated air is the searing of the lungs bronschioles and cilia, the airways and balloon like clusters of tissue that absorb oxygen from the air and into the blood stream. These tissues are very fragile and sensitive and will sear and collapse very quickly. With no oxygen from the lungs you suffocate very quickly all the while area around you is heating up rapidly as well.
In hot structural fires the heat in areas may become so high that spontaneous combustion occurs in items in the room. At the same time the smoke is so intense you can put your hand a couple of inches from your face and not see it.
The bureaucrats whose jobs it is too educate newly elected officials and emergency responders of codes should also be held accountable. Many times they don't even read the codes and instead implement their own policies which are all over the map.
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Residents of such buildings should put together a fund with which to bribe inspectors. Works for everybody else.
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Both my daughter and I are pretty certain that there were a heck of a lot more residents in the Grenfell Tower: large families, illegal sub-lets, friends crashing with friends ... so yes, I can see 600 residents. Some reports have it that there were 120 units; single bedroom, and two-bedroom. That would average out to 5 residents per unit, in a town where housing costs are out of sight.
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# 7 yes, that makes sense. So much information is hidden on purpose. Journalism is dead. Seems more and more information is controlled in many parts of the world. We know governments manipulate information. I suppose people like Soros have known this for years. The elites at work always in the background or trying to be hidden. That would explain why the modern day con job is so successful(with Obama over and over again).
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#5 The tenants were told to shelter in place until someone came to get them.
Having worked in a couple tall office buildings (20-50 stories), standard procedure if memory serves, was to evacuate 2 floors above and two below the fire. But these were modern office buildings with sprinklers and fire stops and fire hose stations.
As for poor SCfI, if Joseph Mendiola ever shows up again, he's going to faint. Kidding aside, part of the fun of Rantburg is you get to hang around people from widely different knowledge domains, each of which comes with its own set of TLAs. (Three Letter Acronyms)
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Yikes. Posted re TLA (I think it was ten) elsewhere ealier, only to tune back in to find this had already been posted. Just what the doctor ordered... more grist for MOABAFC theory (most or all 'burgers are Fred's characters (possibly to include self)).
I'll start a list of Rantberg acronyms and in time give it to a mod to post on the side bar when I have enough. Hopefully one or more of the mods will be willing to add to it.
I'm not including the most common internet avronyms because anyone can easily look them up on the internet. Only the weird Rantberg ones.
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If the Daily Mail is correct, the cladding used was only legal for low rise buildings, and not highrises.
What happens when these schemes are dreamed up is that demand suddenly far exceeds existing supply (experienced contractors in this case) and much of the work is done by people with little experience and often outright cowboys.
Which is what happened in Australia when a roof insulation program was brought in that resulted in a number of deaths.
[Local.de] The man who shot and critically injured a policewoman near Munich on Tuesday was a US citizen born in Bavaria, according to a US media report
Thirty-seven-year-old Alexander Bischof from the US state of Colorado has been identified as the shooter by various family members, broadcaster Denver7 reported on Wednesday.
According to Denver7, Mr. Bischof has been in trouble with the law in various more or less minor ways since he was a juvenile.
On Tuesday a man shot a policewoman in the head after stealing her colleague's gun at Unterföhring station on the outskirts of Munich. Police have still not confirmed the identity of the attacker in the assault that also left two bystanders injured with bullet wounds.
The Local could not reach the Munich police department for comment on the shooter's identity.
The shooter is currently in a secure psychiatric unit after being apprehended shortly after fleeing the scene. Prosecutors have charged him with attempted murder.
The shooter is currently in a secure psychiatric unit after being apprehended shortly after fleeing the scene.
According to Denver7, Bischof had arrived in Munich from Athens on Monday evening as part of a trip around Europe. He slept in Munich airport before travelling on the S8 metro line into the city on Tuesday morning.
Eyewitnesses have described how he was acting in an unusual way and talking to himself on the train.
He then suddenly, and without apparent cause, punched a commuter in the face who had just entered the carriage. Other passengers intervened, while the police were also alerted.
At Unterföhring station, two officers detained the suspect and took down his details in a routine manner, according to police chief Hubertus Andrä.
But then the suspect attempted to push the male officer in front of an oncoming train. In the ensuing scuffle, the man stole the officer’s gun and fired several shots at his female colleague, with one bullet wounding her in the head.
The 26-year-old officer remained in a critical condition in hospital on Thursday afternoon.
Who needs to hajj at the Qaaba when you have the Prophet's very own certified cloak at home?
[AnNahar] A long queue of men and women standing in separate lines extends from an Istanbul mosque to see a centuries-old garment pressed down flat inside an glass exhibition case: the Prophet Mohammed's sacred cloak made of linen, cotton and silk.
The Hirka-i Serif (the Noble Cloak) was brought to Istanbul in the seventeenth century, at a time when the Ottoman Empire controlled much of the Islamic world deep into today's Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... Every year, during the holy Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, the cloak is put on special display at the Hirka-i Serif mosque in Istanbul, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors.
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[DAWN] SAHIWAL: A man killed a woman for refusing his marriage proposal in Barkat Town on Friday.
Farzana, 28, a resident of Barkat Town, had got married with Rahim 10 years back but her husband died soon after marriage. Her parents married her off again with another man but they divorced. Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another kaboom... Farzana allegedly developed relations with Asif, a resident of the same town, who asked her to marry him but she refused to accept his proposal.
On night between Thursday and Friday, Asif visited Farzana at her house and they again had an argument over the marriage issue. At this, Asif shot up her and she was struck down in his prime. The suspect expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after committing the crime.
The body was handed over to Farzana’s family after autopsy.
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A man killed a woman for refusing his marriage proposal
Sort of what the Left has been doing since the election. Better to destroy the gov than accept the 'demos' rejection.
[DAWN] A newborn girl child was thrown in a dumpster at Vehari Chowk in Multan by unidentified people, police has said on Saturday, quoting eyewitnesses.
Eyewitnesses had quickly informed Rescue 1122, which took the baby girl to Nishtar Hospital. Doctors at the hospital say the child is not in any danger.
Police has recorded witness statements and started an investigation. The Rescue 1122 team will hand the child over to an Edhi Foundation team.
This is not the first such incident, as 'unwanted' new-born children, often girls, are frequently abandoned by their families and left to fend for themselves.
The Edhi Foundation has been criticised in the past by right-wing organizations for providing cradles outside its offices, urging parents to leave newborn children there instead of abandoning them to the elements. Right-wing organizations, many of which also condemn contraceptives, claim these cradles 'promote' promiscuity.
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[FOX] The Army has begun mandatory transgender sensitivity training for soldiers. The training covers everything from "transfemale" soldiers to transgender shower etiquette to dealing with a male soldier who becomes pregnant.
Yes, good readers. Within the ranks of the greatest fighting force known to mankind ‐ the baby’s daddy could also be the baby’s momma. Click here to see the photo.
"That pregnancy scenario is beyond words," Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty executive director Ron Crews told me. "This is an example of how this social policy can be used simply to promote personal agendas at the expense of taxpayers with no regard for being what the military is all about."
The matter of male soldiers with child is tucked away inside the Army’s "Policy on the Military Service of Transgender Soldiers Training Module, Tier 2: Commanders and Leaders."
One of my readers serving in the Armed Forces was kind enough to send me a copy of the training briefing ‐ mandated during the Obama Administration.
"The training module specifically outlines key roles and responsibilities of commanders, transgender soldiers, military medical providers and administrative management organizations," Lt. Col. Jennifer Johnson told USA Today. "This training is mandatory for all uniformed members, as well as Department of the Army civilians."
The briefing materials cover all sorts of scenarios ‐ from shower stall etiquette to "transfemale" soldiers deployed to anti-LGBT countries.
[The Hill] All seven bodies of U.S. sailors who were unaccounted for after a Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan on Saturday have been found dead.
The U.S. Navy said Saturday night that the crew members were found in a flooded compartment of the USS Fitzgerald, and are being taken to Naval Hospital Yokosuka to be identified.
"The families are being notified and being provided the support they need during this difficult time," the Navy said in a statement. "The names of the Sailors will be released after all notifications are made."
An official confirmed to CNN late Saturday that all seven missing had been found dead.
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Wondering about the quality of the OD at the time of impact....failure to take dramatic action suggests paralyzed by indecision or totally unaware. Sadly, lives were lost and others have seen their career end by what wasn't done by the officer entrusted with lives and the ship.
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Ay-Pee: "The damage to the destroyer suggests that the container ship, the ACX Crystal, might have slammed into it at a significant speed."
I stand corrected
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The container shipwas seen making a U-turn before the collision on some ship trackers, a move that has raised questions about what happened.
All of the ACX Crystal's 20-member Filipino crew were safe, according to Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen K.K., which operates the ship.
The Japanese coast guard questioned crew members of the ACX Crystal, and is treating the incident as a case of possible professional negligence, said Masayuki Obara, a regional coast guard official.
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The only way this could have happened is if the Fitzgerald wasn't monitoring primary radar and the container ship was running without running lights and her transponder was off.
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I will bet you dollars to donuts that the container ship that hit the uss Fitzgerald was piloted by a NORK operative. The Fitzpatrick was part of the USS Ronald Reagan battle group. The Fitzgerald provides missile defense to the group. Some NORK ships need some limpet seacocks.
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There's a lot of possibilities.
Again, we don't know, and we won't know until a board of inquiry is convened.
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The container ship needs to be quarantined and nobody gets off, and the ship is guarded 24/7. We also need to have a team at the shipping company hq and find out what we can there. I do not have a nose like my dawg, but I can smell a rat halfway around the world.
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nice catch 3dc
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A lot Alan. If you look at UFO sightings, they go more from the old traditional disk one to "cigar" and triangle based when stealth fighters were starting to be tested.
The "dogfighting test" he referred to in his article was a _software test_ of the plant's control software,e engine throttle was limited in software. If you hit full throttle, nothing would happen. So naturally if it went through high speed high angle turns it lost energy, lost the dogfight. The ones in _service_ don't have this limitation.
It's just that he was wilfully dishonest in his report and it got a lot of traction.
Texas passed a law to make marriage under age 18 illegal.
On Thursday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill banning child marriage, in the state with the second highest rate of underage marriage.
Before this new law, 16- and 17-year-olds could marry in Texas with parental consent, according to advocacy group Tahirih Justice Center, which helped draft and drive the bill to get passed. What’s more, a child of any age could get married with judicial approval.
This new law includes one exception: Those ages 16 and 17 can marry if they have been legally emancipated from their parents. In Texas, this still sets a firm minimum age for marriage at 16.
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Have they also banned getting pregnant before age 18 too? Although, DNA verification of the sperm donor followed by a quick snip to prevent recidivist behavior might go a long way in solving that.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAWN] SAHIWAL: A man killed a woman for refusing his marriage proposal in Barkat Town on Friday.
[The Hill] All seven bodies of U.S. sailors who were unaccounted for after a Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan on Saturday have been found dead.
