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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Ten Americans accused of trying illegally to take 33 children from Haiti had met with a Haitian police officer and a Dominican official the week before being stopped at the border, interpreters who worked with the group said Wednesday.

One interpreter said the officer offered to help the Americans with the paperwork required  take the children out of the country.

The Americans -- five men and five women, some of whom are members of Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho --were arrested in Haiti after being turned back from the Dominican Republic border on Friday night.

A Haitian lawyer representing the Americans told reporters Wednesday that the arrests were illegal and that their clients had only been trying to help.

The Americans, who were interviewed Wednesday by Judge Isai Jean Louis, are to appear Thursday before the attorney general, who is handling the case, lawyer Edwin Coq said.

Around noon Wednesday, Haitian authorities took away for questioning a Haitian police officer who works at the Dominican Embassy, officials said.

They said he would be asked whether he provided illegal paperwork to the Americans to facilitate their efforts to remove the children from the country.

Three interpreters who had translated for the Americans told CNN that the Americans met last week at least twice with the officer -- at the embassy and consulate.

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The Americans have said they had the permit they thought they needed from the Dominican authorities, but the Dominican consul general told CNN that that was not the case.

Carlos Castillo said he met Friday with Laura Silsby, the leader of the group. He said he told her the documentation was not in order and warned her that, if she were to attempt the trip, she could be accused of child trafficking.

"The Haitian authorities contacted me, they called me, and they told me that she was telling them she had the authorization from the Dominican authorities to cross the border, which was a lie," Castillo said.

CNN's Karl Penhaul attempted to get comment from the jailed Americans in Haiti's capital, but they would not discuss the matter, responding to his questions by singing "Amazing Grace" and praying.

The group, New Life Children's Refuge, said it was "rescuing" abandoned children by moving them to the Dominican Republic, where it was building an orphanage. The group's effort came after an earthquake last month killed tens of thousands in Haiti.

The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince said Sunday that the Americans had been detained for "alleged violations of Haitian laws related to immigration."

SOS Children's Villages, where Haitian authorities took the 33 children after the Americans' arrests, said at least 20 of the kids aren't orphans and many others have relatives such as aunts and uncles.

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Several residents of the village of Calebasse, more than an hour from Port-au-Prince, told CNN this week they had voluntarily handed over their children to Silsby.

The parents said Silsby told them she would give their children a better life and promised that they could see them whenever they wanted.

Told Monday that many of the children had living parents, Silsby said during a jailhouse interview, "I did not know that."

She added, "In our hearts, our intention was to help children that had been orphaned or abandoned by their parents."

But the interpreters said they translated conversations between Silsby and the parents in Calebasse and that Silsby must have been aware of the children's status.

Jean Sainvil, a pastor who helped find children from a camp in the Delmas neighborhood of the capital, told CNN that the Americans told him they were seeking orphans.

Sainvil said he rounded up 20 children and handed them to the Americans on Thursday, though the translators put the number he helped at 13.

Some of those who were receptive to his call apparently included parents. "One of them turned five children over," he said. "Mother came out with children, said 'You can have them all,' she doesn't have a home, she is hopeless."

He said no money changed hands.

One interpreter said representatives of the group met with a Haitian police officer on January 26. The officer told Silsby that her group couldn't gather Haitian children as they were doing, but then offered his help, the interpreter said.

"They met a police guy and he told them that he could help, and he was helping them with some paper," interpreter Steve Adrien said. "We did not meet him in a police station, but in the street in a car."

The Americans met again with the man in Port-au-Prince on Thursday, near the Dominican Embassy, the translator said.

"He was helping Laura [Silsby] to get in touch with the ambassador in the Dominican Embassy," said Isaac Adrien, Steve's brother and another of the interpreters.

He said the group came away from the meeting with a document from the embassy that the Americans took with them to the border Friday.

Though the group said it planned to start an orphanage in the Dominican Republic, it has no experience running an orphanage, has not registered as an international adoption agency and has not filed with the U.S. government as a nonprofit.

Church pastor Clint Henry was unfazed. "I believe that the kind of knowledge that it takes to begin an organization that works that way was in place," he told CNN. "The kind of employees that it takes to successfully run an orphanage, those were going to be hired."

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the matter "unfortunate."

"We know how to do this in the right way and it was unfortunate that, whatever the motivation, that this group of Americans took matters into their own hands," she said, adding that U.S. authorities were in discussions with the Haitian government "about the appropriate disposal of their cases."

Government approval is needed for any Haitian child to leave the country, and the group acknowledged that the children have no passports.

The number of Haitian orphans taken to the United States after the earthquake -- those whose approval and paperwork had been in the bureaucratic pipeline at the time of the disaster -- is 578, with 44 others awaiting transportation, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.

CNN's Dan Simon in Meridian, Idaho; Karl Penhaul in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and Jill Dougherty in Washington contributed to this report.

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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Environment, economy, elections, education. All E words, and all part of this Monday edition of CNN Student News. From the CNN Center, I'm Carl Azuz.

First Up: Oil Spill

AZUZ: First up, officials are moving on to plan C to try to stop the oil that's gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. They've tried remote controlled subs. They've tried a giant dome. We're gonna have more on that in a second. What is plan c? A lot of junk! Basically, you stuff the leak with trash and try to clog the thing up. So, what about the containment chamber, the giant dome they were planning to drop over the leak? The thing didn't work. Crystals formed on the dome and made it float. Officials haven't totally given up on the idea, but they're considering other options, including junk.

As this oil spill starts to wash ashore, meanwhile, it could have a huge impact on several industries. About 40 percent of the country's seafood harvest comes from the Gulf Coast. Fishermen, dock workers, restaurant owners: All of them could be affected by this, as supplies go down and prices go up. The biggest challenge is how to get all of this oil under control and then to get the oil out of the water. Allan Chernoff shows us how the government gets ready for these kinds of situations.

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ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, NEW YORK: When trying to clean up a giant oil spill, how does the oil industry know exactly what to do, what techniques are going to work? The research is done right here at OHMSETT, the Oil and Hazardous Materials Simulated Environmental Test Tank. This facility is run by the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, and it is the largest of its kind in the entire world.

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CHERNOFF: Oil sprays into the water, a slick forms and expands, but it's all intentional. Here, the government creates controlled oil spills in a giant tank more than two football fields long. Operators create ocean wave conditions, then they use various techniques to clean it all up. There are three primary plans of attack for cleaning oil spills in the water: burn the oil, apply chemical dispersants to break it down, or manually remove it. All three are at work in the Gulf of Mexico. Today, cleanup experts are practicing manual techniques to remove oil.

Taking oil off the surface of the water is kind of like peeling the filling off of an oreo cookie; you're skimming it. And that's what all these various devices do. They skim the oil off the water. Depending upon the grade of oil, how heavy it is, you use a different type of skimmer.

At OHMSETT, all different types of oil are sprayed into the tank from a moving bridge. Workers can test skimmers, various dispersants, even burning, all in a safe, enclosed environment that simulates the ocean's salinity and even its wave patterns.

We all know oil is lighter than water. That's an advantage when it comes to cleaning up a spill, because the oil sits on top of the water. Using those booms, oil can actually be pushed into that skimmer, and then it's sucked up using this giant vacuum.

Cleanup workers from private industry, government and 24 countries around the world have come here to practice and research such techniques, including responders trying to clean the Gulf of Mexico right now.

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Unemployment Numbers

AZUZ: We will continue to keep you updated on that story. Now, to unemployment. Last month, the U.S. unemployment rate went up, from 9.7 percent to 9.9 percent. Some experts are actually saying that's a good sign. What? The unemployment rate includes people who are actively looking for a job. Let's say you're out of work. In March, you're so discouraged that you don't think it's worth it to even look for a job. In that situation, you're not part of the unemployment rate. Then in April, you think there's a better chance of finding a job, so you start looking. Now, you are included in the rate. So, according to some experts, the fact that unemployment rate went up, means that more people are feeling more optimistic about the economy. But the bottom line is, there are still more than 15 million Americans out of work.

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UK Election

AZUZ: The question is, who is going to live at 10 Downing Street? The UK is trying to figure that out after last week's parliamentary elections. None of the parties got a majority of seats. So now, a scramble is on. In the UK, people vote for members of parliament. Whichever party wins a majority of the seats in parliament gets to form the new government, and that party's leader usually becomes prime minister. Gordon Brown has held that job since 2007. He heads up the Labour Party. But they only got 29 percent of the vote in last Thursday's election. The Conservative Party, which is led by David Cameron, got 36 percent. Over the weekend, Brown and Cameron both met with Nick Clegg. He is in charge of the Liberal Democrat Party, which got 23 percent of the vote. Clegg could form a coalition -- basically, sort of team up -- with either the Labour Party or the Conservative Party and then together, form a majority.

Volcano Ash

AZUZ: Well, we're staying in Europe. An ash cloud from a volcano is causing problems for airplanes. And if that story sounds familiar, it's because it is! This is the same volcano and the same problem. It's in southern Iceland under a glacier; it's been erupting since last month. The problem is the ash that you are seeing right here. If this ash gets into a jet's engine, it can cause the engine to fail. Back in April, concerns about the ash shut down air travel across most of Europe for nearly a week. This weekend, several hundred more flights were canceled, and some officials closed airports in Italy, Spain and Scotland.

Word to the Wise

RICK VINCENT, CNN STUDENT NEWS: A Word to the Wise...

zero tolerance (noun) a policy of strictly enforcing rules and laws, without making exceptions

Zero Tolerance

AZUZ: The state of Georgia, where we are, has a zero tolerance policy about weapons in school: any kind of weapon -- gun, knife, chain -- strictly forbidden on campus. A 14-year-old student named Eli Mahone was recently affected by this. He couldn't find his backpack one morning. You've probably experienced that yourself. So, Eli grabbed another backpack to use for the day, and he got to school before he found out that the backpack had a knife in it. It was a two-and-a-half inch blade that he uses when he goes fishing.

ELI MOHONE, ARRESTED UNDER ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY: I get to school. I mean, it was just like a regular day. I went to reading and, I don't know, one of my friends told me, "Is that yours?" And when I looked down, there was a knife on the ground and it was mine.

AZUZ: Eli took the knife and turned it in himself to the principal's office. But here's where zero tolerance kicked in, and Eli got in serious trouble: the policy does not allow school administrators to consider the circumstances. So, following that policy, school officials and police treated this as a crime. And a teen who'd never broken the law before was arrested and sent to a youth detention center. Eli was also expelled from the school, and he had to go to an alternative school with students who'd committed serious crimes.

AIMEE HENSLER, ELI MAHONE'S MOTHER: It was basically like standing outside your body watching as it was going on. I mean, I never imagined seeing him handcuffed and put in the back of a police car.

AZUZ: Eli's mom got in touch with a state senator. He crafted a bill that would relax Georgia's zero tolerance policy. The bill passed the state House and Senate; it's waiting for the governor's signature. As far as zero tolerance policies go, a local judge says they are effective in fighting certain types of crimes, but critics argue they go too far in schools.

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Before We Go

AZUZ: We've stuffed a lot in today's show, but hopefully you have room for just a bit more. A lot more. But it's worth it. This might be the world's biggest burger. 590 pounds! A Canadian chef concocted this creation. Of course, he had to use a special grill, one that has a forklift inside to flip the patty. Sure, he's trying to break someone else's record, but it's to raise money for a charity.

Goodbye

AZUZ: So if they were to ever meat, the old record holder might grill him for a while, but we doubt he'll have any beef with the new guy. Whoo! All right, we're having fun with this story. You guys have an excellent day. We're looking forward to seeing you tomorrow when CNN Student News returns on HLN, online or on iTunes. We'll see you then!

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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria imposed a 24-hour curfew Saturday in the northern city of Kano after assailants killed scores of people and wounded others in a hail of gunfire and coordinated bombings of eight government sites.

A military official told CNN that at least 156 people were dead and feared the number would rise.

"The hospitals are not equipped to deal with the influx and severity of the injuries, so we are expecting that figure to go up further," the official said.

Nwankpa Nwankpa, a Red Cross information officer in the capital, Abuja, said 50 people were injured in the attacks. He said that search and rescue operations are underway and volunteers are working to assist those hurt.

The attacks targeted several police stations, barracks and the building housing the assistant inspector general of police in Kano, Nigeria's second largest city.

A passport office, state security headquarters and the immigration office were also hit, police said.

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Terrified residents barricaded themselves in their homes, said Rev. Murtala Mati of the Christian Association of Nigeria.

"The government is really trying but we are afraid ... we are all scared," he said.

During the attack, assailants entered a police station, freed detainees and bombed it, authorities said. They later canvassed the area in a car led by motorcycles, spraying targets with gunfire.

Islamist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the blast in a phone call to the Daily Trust, according to journalists at the newspaper.

Nigeria closed its borders Saturday with Cameroon and Niger, whom it has accused of allowing the militants to move freely into Nigeria.

The government has put in place a state of emergency, and a large deployment of troops has been sent to the north of the country.

African Union commission chairman Jean Ping condemned "in the strongest terms" the attacks Saturday, and expressed his condolences to the families of those killed and his concern for the many people who were injured.

The AU rejects terrorism in all its forms, the statement said, and gives Nigeria its full backing in its efforts to end terror attacks.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is "appalled at the frequency and intensity of recent attacks in Nigeria, which demonstrate a wanton and unacceptable disregard for human life," his office said Saturday in a statement.

"In voicing solidarity with the government and people of Nigeria, the secretary-general also expresses his hope for swift and transparent investigations into these incidents that lead to bringing the perpetrators to justice," the statement added.

In December, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in four northern states. The declaration followed a series of Christmas Day attacks on Christian churches blamed on the Boko Haram group.

The man suspected of masterminding those attacks, named Kabiru Sokoto, was briefly captured this week before escaping police custody while being transferred to another prison.

Several police officers and the local commissioner are under investigation over his escape. A 50 million naira ($307,000) reward was also offered by police Thursday for any information leading to Sokoto's re-arrest.

Northern Nigeria has been wracked by religious violence in recent weeks, including a spate of attacks in early January that killed at least 25 Christians.

Boko Haram has been blamed for months of widespread bloodshed, with churches and police stations among the targets.

CNN's David McKenzie contributed to this report.

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JESSUP, Maryland (CNN) -- The beer is flowing, the polka band is playing, and dancers are twirling across the dance floor.

Couples dance at Blob's Park, a dance hall that owes its revival, in part, to the economic downturn.

Blob's Park lives again.

The popular Bavarian beer hall and weekend nightspot had closed its doors in 2007, the victim of an unlikely foe: progress. Developers, eager to build on the 400 acres of prime real estate in the bustling Baltimore/Washington, D.C., corridor, had purchased the 400 acres upon which the dance hall sat.

It was the end of an era for the farmland first owned by Max Blob, a German immigrant, who, among other things, helped found America's first "Oktoberfest" 70 years ago.

Blob was the great-uncle of Max Eggrel, who grew up on the land in Jessup, Maryland.

Standing on that farmland recently, Eggrel recalled the old days.

"We would farm during the week and have a biergarten during the weekend," Eggrel says.

Those weekend events were held in a small, wood-framed building situated between rows of golden crops. The building would come to be known as Blob's Park, a restaurant, dance hall and German-style biergarten. It opened in 1933.

Thousands of patrons came to know the dance hall, which saw most of its business on Friday and Saturday nights.

But time marched on, and developers came calling.

"My brother ran the park until New Year's Eve (of 2007), and the rest of my family members decided, with the pressure from developers, to sell the land," Eggrel says.

"Our land butts right up to Fort Meade and the NSA (National Security Agency) facility," Eggrel explains. Fort Meade is currently going through major renovation and upgrades on its facility. The fort is part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program implemented by the Department of Defense in 2005 that will see thousands of new jobs on base.

With all these jobs comes a need for housing, Eggrel says.

"There are people that are going to be working there, and they are going to have to live somewhere, and so this is one of the spots."

Private developers are expected to build townhomes, condominiums and retail storefronts on the rolling hills of farmland where Blob's Park stands.

But that's somewhere in the future. For now, the economic crisis gripping the country has played a role in the revival of Blob's Park.

With the economic slowdown, developers couldn't see spending all the money on building upon the land since there currently isn't a demand.

"The infrastructure is going to take time to develop. There is no water or sewer on the property right now," adds Eggrel, who still lives on the property.

Once the land was sold and Blob's Park shut down, Eggrel found himself gazing out his front yard at the facade of a dance hall and all the open space surrounding it.

"The building was sitting there, just inviting someone to jump in and bring it back," Eggrel says. That's exactly what he set out to do.

But it wouldn't be an easy task.

"To open it back up took a sizable financial risk," Eggrel says. "I just had the vision that it could succeed again and be bigger then it was before, and I was just willing to take that risk."

Eggrel took his idea to the developers and a few attorneys. The developers agreed to rent 40 acres of the land back to Eggrel, a small portion compared to the land he grew up on, but it gave Eggrel the right to reopen the doors to Blob's Park.

Eggrel spent five months renovating the hall, and in January 2009 he and his employees reopened the doors to the public.  Watch the action on the dance floor Â»

The hall currently has a three-year lease, but Eggrel speculates the dancing could go on for as many as 10 years -- or so he hopes.

Eggrel says his customers share a deep affection for his place. For $8, they can listen to or dance to live musicians who play for five hours every Friday and Saturday night.

The customers who keep coming back to the hall week after week have as much fondness for the hall as the owner himself.

"Every week someone else comes up to me and thanks me for opening it back up," Eggrel says.

As for the economy and Blob's Park, Eggrel has this to say: "I hope it takes a long time to rebound. The longer this place stays open, the happier I'll be. And so will hundreds of other people."

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text: and

text: German

text: style

text: biergarten

text: It

text: opened

text: in

text: Thousands

text: of

text: patrons

text: came

text: to

text: know

text: the

text: dance

text: hall

text: which

text: saw

text: most

text: of

text: its

text: business

text: on

text: Friday

text: and

text: Saturday

text: nights

text: But

text: time

text: marched

text: on

text: and

text: developers

text: came

text: calling

text: My

text: brother

text: ran

text: the

text: park

text: until

text: New

text: Year

text: 's

text: Eve

text: of

text: and

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: my

text: family

text: members

text: decided

text: with

text: the

text: pressure

text: from

text: developers

text: to

text: sell

text: the

text: land

text: Eggrel

text: says

text: Our

text: land

text: butts

text: right

text: up

text: to

text: Fort

text: Meade

text: and

text: the

text: NSA

text: National

text: Security

text: Agency

text: facility

text: Eggrel

text: explains

text: Fort

text: Meade

text: is

text: currently

text: going

text: through

text: major

text: renovation

text: and

text: upgrades

text: on

text: its

text: facility

text: The

text: fort

text: is

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: Base

text: Realignment

text: and

text: Closure

text: BRAC

text: program

text: implemented

text: by

text: the

text: Department

text: of

text: Defense

text: in

text: that

text: will

text: see

text: thousands

text: of

text: new

text: jobs

text: on

text: base

text: With

text: all

text: these

text: jobs

text: comes

text: a

text: need

text: for

text: housing

text: Eggrel

text: says

text: There

text: are

text: people

text: that

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: working

text: there

text: and

text: they

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: to

text: live

text: somewhere

text: and

text: so

text: this

text: is

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: spots

text: Private

text: developers

text: are

text: expected

text: to

text: build

text: townhomes

text: condominiums

text: and

text: retail

text: storefronts

text: on

text: the

text: rolling

text: hills

text: of

text: farmland

text: where

text: Blob

text: 's

text: Park

text: stands

text: But

text: that

text: 's

text: somewhere

text: in

text: the

text: future

text: For

text: now

text: the

text: economic

text: crisis

text: gripping

text: the

text: country

text: has

text: played

text: a

text: role

text: in

text: the

text: revival

text: of

text: Blob

text: 's

text: Park

text: With

text: the

text: economic

text: slowdown

text: developers

text: could

text: n't

text: see

text: spending

text: all

text: the

text: money

text: on

text: building

text: upon

text: the

text: land

text: since

text: there

text: currently

text: is

text: n't

text: a

text: demand

text: The

text: infrastructure

text: is

text: going

text: to

text: take

text: time

text: to

text: develop

text: There

text: is

text: no

text: water

text: or

text: sewer

text: on

text: the

text: property

text: right

text: now

text: adds

text: Eggrel

text: who

text: still

text: lives

text: on

text: the

text: property

text: Once

text: the

text: land

text: was

text: sold

text: and

text: Blob

text: 's

text: Park

text: shut

text: down

text: Eggrel

text: found

text: himself

text: gazing

text: out

text: his

text: front

text: yard

text: at

text: the

text: facade

text: of

text: a

text: dance

text: hall

text: and

text: all

text: the

text: open

text: space

text: surrounding

text: it

text: The

text: building

text: was

text: sitting

text: there

text: just

text: inviting

text: someone

text: to

text: jump

text: in

text: and

text: bring

text: it

text: back

text: Eggrel

text: says

text: That

text: 's

text: exactly

text: what

text: he

text: set

text: out

text: to

text: do

text: But

text: it

text: would

text: n't

text: be

text: an

text: easy

text: task

text: To

text: open

text: it

text: back

text: up

text: took

text: a

text: sizable

text: financial

text: risk

text: Eggrel

text: says

text: I

text: just

text: had

text: the

text: vision

text: that

text: it

text: could

text: succeed

text: again

text: and

text: be

text: bigger

text: then

text: it

text: was

text: before

text: and

text: I

text: was

text: just

text: willing

text: to

text: take

text: that

text: risk

text: Eggrel

text: took

text: his

text: idea

text: to

text: the

text: developers

text: and

text: a

text: few

text: attorneys

text: The

text: developers

text: agreed

text: to

text: rent

text: acres

text: of

text: the

text: land

text: back

text: to

text: Eggrel

text: a

text: small

text: portion

text: compared

text: to

text: the

text: land

text: he

text: grew

text: up

text: on

text: but

text: it

text: gave

text: Eggrel

text: the

text: right

text: to

text: reopen

text: the

text: doors

text: to

text: Blob

text: 's

text: Park

text: Eggrel

text: spent

text: five

text: months

text: renovating

text: the

text: hall

text: and

text: in

text: January

text: he

text: and

text: his

text: employees

text: reopened

text: the

text: doors

text: to

text: the

text: public

text: Watch

text: the

text: action

text: on

text: the

text: dance

text: floor

text: Â

text: The

text: hall

text: currently

text: has

text: a

text: three

text: year

text: lease

text: but

text: Eggrel

text: speculates

text: the

text: dancing

text: could

text: go

text: on

text: for

text: as

text: many

text: as

text: years

text: or

text: so

text: he

text: hopes

text: Eggrel

text: says

text: his

text: customers

text: share

text: a

text: deep

text: affection

text: for

text: his

text: place

text: For

text: they

text: can

text: listen

text: to

text: or

text: dance

text: to

text: live

text: musicians

text: who

text: play

text: for

text: five

text: hours

text: every

text: Friday

text: and

text: Saturday

text: night

text: The

text: customers

text: who

text: keep

text: coming

text: back

text: to

text: the

text: hall

text: week

text: after

text: week

text: have

text: as

text: much

text: fondness

text: for

text: the

text: hall

text: as

text: the

text: owner

text: himself

text: Every

text: week

text: someone

text: else

text: comes

text: up

text: to

text: me

text: and

text: thanks

text: me

text: for

text: opening

text: it

text: back

text: up

text: Eggrel

text: says

text: As

text: for

text: the

text: economy

text: and

text: Blob

text: 's

text: Park

text: Eggrel

text: has

text: this

text: to

text: say

text: I

text: hope

text: it

text: takes

text: a

text: long

text: time

text: to

text: rebound

text: The

text: longer

text: this

text: place

text: stays

text: open

text: the

text: happier

text: I

text: 'll

text: be

text: And

text: so

text: will

text: hundreds

text: of

text: other

text: people

question: What were the plans for the land when the developers purchased it?

answer: build on the 400 acres of prime real estate in the bustling

text: build on the 400 acres of prime real estate in the bustling

question: Who leased back the land from developers?

answer: Max Eggrel,

text: Max Eggrel,

question: When did the club close its doors?

answer: 2007,

question: What type of dance hall opened in 1933?

answer: German-style biergarten.

text: German-style biergarten.

question: When did the dance hall open?

answer: 1933.

question: When did the dance hall reopen?

answer: January 2009

text: January 2009

question: Who leased enough land to open it again?

answer: Max Eggrel,

text: Max Eggrel,


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(CNN) -- The reaction to Kanye West's hijacking of the microphone from Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards came quickly and unequivocally.

Kanye West took the microphone from Taylor Swift during her speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

Celebrities and fans alike expressed their disapproval of West interrupting Swift's win for Best Female Video to tout his appreciation of nominee Beyonce.

"Taylor, I'm really happy for you," West said after grabbing the microphone from a clearly stunned Swift. "I'll let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!"

Elliott Wilson, founder and chief executive officer of Rap Radar, sat in front of members of West's entourage at the live Sunday night awards show and said the mood quickly turned from one of surprised amusement to anger.  Watch West grab the microphone from Swift Â»

"At first, people weren't sure if it was kind of like a gag," Wilson said. "You could feel everybody being nervous and not knowing if it was a prank or something. Then people started booing him really loud."

Wilson said he believes that West -- who he said bounded on stage from his seat in the front row near Beyonce -- intended to have his say before allowing Swift to continue but said the rapper became angered by the crowd response in a moment that wasn't captured by the MTV cameras.

"The reaction to his tantrum was so strong ... and what happened was, he gave everybody the finger," Wilson said.

Stars taking to Twitter returned the sentiment with some harsh words for the sometimes mercurial rap star.

Singer Pink tweeted, "Kanye West is the biggest piece of [expletive] on earth. Quote me," and Joel Madden of the band Good Charlotte tweeted, "All i'm saying is Taylor Swift is a young chic and you just walk up and grab the mic."

Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton said via Twitter that "Taylor Swift deserved that award, damnit. It is what THE PEOPLE voted! My heart broke for her, she looked so sad at the end of that moment."

Singer Katy Perry weighed in with "F--- u Kanye. It's like you stepped on a kitten."

VMA nominee Kelly Clarkson took to her blog to publish an open letter to West. "What happened to you as a child?? Did you not get hugged enough??" she asked.

On Monday, "Taylor Swift," "VMAs," "Kanye's" and "Beyonce" were top trending topics on Twitter.  Watch Swift respond to what happened Â»

Wilson, a noted hip-hop journalist, said there was a great deal of tension inside the event Sunday night before West and his girlfriend, model Amber Rose, left the show.

"It was almost like wrestling, when the good guy turns bad and the crowd turns on him," Wilson said. "Every time his name was mentioned, people booed."

Wilson said he believes that alcohol may have played a part in West's actions, given that the rapper appeared both on the red carpet and inside the arena with a bottle of cognac.

Wilson added that West is well known for such behavior. He appeared uninvited onstage at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards, walked out of the 2004 American Music Awards after losing in the Best New Artist category and reportedly threw a backstage tantrum at the 2007 VMAs because he did not perform on the main stage.

"I think Kanye came in to be the bad boy, but he obviously had an emotional spaz moment because he is cool" with Beyonce and her husband, Jay-Z, Wilson said. "I think the alcohol blurred his judgment."

Wilson said attendees at the awards show were allowed to have drinks at their seats.

Emil Wilbekin, managing editor of Essence.com, said West may have gone too far with his antics this time.

"I think that it was not Kanye's place to speak for Beyonce or to ruin Taylor Swift's moment," Wilbekin said. "It's OK for Kanye to rattle off about himself, but I think he crossed the line when he decided to speak for other people."

Though West is known for having a healthy ego, Wilbekin said, his actions may be damaging the very legacy the rapper claims to want to leave.

"He's talked about wanting to be Elvis; he's talked about wanting to be the new king of pop," Wilbekin said. "It's almost like he's overshadowing himself by getting in his own way with his mouth."

West apologized to Swift via his blog.

As for Swift, the young singer gave her acceptance speech after Beyonce graciously invited her onstage during her win for Video of the Year.

West's disruption wasn't the only one the evening offered, Wilson said. During a performance by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, rapper Lil Mama rushed the stage.

Wilson said that from his vantage point in the audience, the female rapper, who also serves as a judge on MTV's "America's Best Dance Crew," was neither expected nor wanted as part of the performance. iReport: Is civility dead?

The stars' behavior might have long-lasting consequences, Wilson added.

"I wouldn't be surprised if MTV banned alcohol [at the event] next year," he said.

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text: hijacking

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text: the

text: microphone

text: from

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text: mood

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text: believes

text: that

text: West

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text: said

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text: on

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text: from

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text: seat

text: in

text: the

text: front

text: row

text: near

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text: say

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text: to

text: continue

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text: rapper

text: became

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text: the

text: crowd

text: response

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text: a

text: moment

text: that

text: was

text: n't

text: captured

text: by

text: the

text: MTV

text: cameras

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text: reaction

text: to

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text: tantrum

text: was

text: so

text: strong

text: and

text: what

text: happened

text: was

text: he

text: gave

text: everybody

text: the

text: finger

text: Wilson

text: said

text: Stars

text: taking

text: to

text: Twitter

text: returned

text: the

text: sentiment

text: with

text: some

text: harsh

text: words

text: for

text: the

text: sometimes

text: mercurial

text: rap

text: star

text: Singer

text: Pink

text: tweeted

text: Kanye

text: West

text: is

text: the

text: biggest

text: piece

text: of

text: expletive

text: on

text: earth

text: Quote

text: me

text: and

text: Joel

text: Madden

text: of

text: the

text: band

text: Good

text: Charlotte

text: tweeted

text: All

text: i

text: 'm

text: saying

text: is

text: Taylor

text: Swift

text: is

text: a

text: young

text: chic

text: and

text: you

text: just

text: walk

text: up

text: and

text: grab

text: the

text: mic

text: Celebrity

text: blogger

text: Perez

text: Hilton

text: said

text: via

text: Twitter

text: that

text: Taylor

text: Swift

text: deserved

text: that

text: award

text: damnit

text: It

text: is

text: what

text: THE

text: PEOPLE

text: voted

text: My

text: heart

text: broke

text: for

text: her

text: she

text: looked

text: so

text: sad

text: at

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: that

text: moment

text: Singer

text: Katy

text: Perry

text: weighed

text: in

text: with

text: F---

text: u

text: Kanye

text: It

text: 's

text: like

text: you

text: stepped

text: on

text: a

text: kitten

text: VMA

text: nominee

text: Kelly

text: Clarkson

text: took

text: to

text: her

text: blog

text: to

text: publish

text: an

text: open

text: letter

text: to

text: West

text: What

text: happened

text: to

text: you

text: as

text: a

text: child

text: Did

text: you

text: not

text: get

text: hugged

text: enough

text: she

text: asked

text: On

text: Monday

text: Taylor

text: Swift

text: VMAs

text: Kanye

text: 's

text: and

text: Beyonce

text: were

text: top

text: trending

text: topics

text: on

text: Twitter

text: Watch

text: Swift

text: respond

text: to

text: what

text: happened

text: Â

text: Wilson

text: a

text: noted

text: hip

text: hop

text: journalist

text: said

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: great

text: deal

text: of

text: tension

text: inside

text: the

text: event

text: Sunday

text: night

text: before

text: West

text: and

text: his

text: girlfriend

text: model

text: Amber

text: Rose

text: left

text: the

text: show

text: It

text: was

text: almost

text: like

text: wrestling

text: when

text: the

text: good

text: guy

text: turns

text: bad

text: and

text: the

text: crowd

text: turns

text: on

text: him

text: Wilson

text: said

text: Every

text: time

text: his

text: name

text: was

text: mentioned

text: people

text: booed

text: Wilson

text: said

text: he

text: believes

text: that

text: alcohol

text: may

text: have

text: played

text: a

text: part

text: in

text: West

text: 's

text: actions

text: given

text: that

text: the

text: rapper

text: appeared

text: both

text: on

text: the

text: red

text: carpet

text: and

text: inside

text: the

text: arena

text: with

text: a

text: bottle

text: of

text: cognac

text: Wilson

text: added

text: that

text: West

text: is

text: well

text: known

text: for

text: such

text: behavior

text: He

text: appeared

text: uninvited

text: onstage

text: at

text: the

text: MTV

text: Europe

text: Music

text: Awards

text: walked

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: American

text: Music

text: Awards

text: after

text: losing

text: in

text: the

text: Best

text: New

text: Artist

text: category

text: and

text: reportedly

text: threw

text: a

text: backstage

text: tantrum

text: at

text: the

text: VMAs

text: because

text: he

text: did

text: not

text: perform

text: on

text: the

text: main

text: stage

text: I

text: think

text: Kanye

text: came

text: in

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: bad

text: boy

text: but

text: he

text: obviously

text: had

text: an

text: emotional

text: spaz

text: moment

text: because

text: he

text: is

text: cool

text: with

text: Beyonce

text: and

text: her

text: husband

text: Jay

text: Z

text: Wilson

text: said

text: I

text: think

text: the

text: alcohol

text: blurred

text: his

text: judgment

text: Wilson

text: said

text: attendees

text: at

text: the

text: awards

text: show

text: were

text: allowed

text: to

text: have

text: drinks

text: at

text: their

text: seats

text: Emil

text: Wilbekin

text: managing

text: editor

text: of

text: Essence.com

text: said

text: West

text: may

text: have

text: gone

text: too

text: far

text: with

text: his

text: antics

text: this

text: time

text: I

text: think

text: that

text: it

text: was

text: not

text: Kanye

text: 's

text: place

text: to

text: speak

text: for

text: Beyonce

text: or

text: to

text: ruin

text: Taylor

text: Swift

text: 's

text: moment

text: Wilbekin

text: said

text: It

text: 's

text: OK

text: for

text: Kanye

text: to

text: rattle

text: off

text: about

text: himself

text: but

text: I

text: think

text: he

text: crossed

text: the

text: line

text: when

text: he

text: decided

text: to

text: speak

text: for

text: other

text: people

text: Though

text: West

text: is

text: known

text: for

text: having

text: a

text: healthy

text: ego

text: Wilbekin

text: said

text: his

text: actions

text: may

text: be

text: damaging

text: the

text: very

text: legacy

text: the

text: rapper

text: claims

text: to

text: want

text: to

text: leave

text: He

text: 's

text: talked

text: about

text: wanting

text: to

text: be

text: Elvis

text: he

text: 's

text: talked

text: about

text: wanting

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: new

text: king

text: of

text: pop

text: Wilbekin

text: said

text: It

text: 's

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question: What did people do when West's name was mentioned?

answer: e booed.

text: e booed.

question: What is Kayne West known for?

answer: hijacking of the microphone from Taylor Swift

text: hijacking of the microphone from Taylor Swift

question: What star interrupted Taylor Swift's speech?

answer: Kanye West's

text: Kanye West's