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Derek Boogaard Dead

The passing of Derek Boogaard has taken a profound toll on the fans who knew the player best, those of the Minnesota Wild. Boogaard played the first five years of his profession in Minnesota, and in that time between 2005 and 2010, he became possibly the most beloved player in the history of the franchise.

My favourite Boogaard memory was meeting him with my brother. Tyler was on his two-week leave from Iraq the same time that Boogey came to our municipality. We waited in line for four hours to be the first to get together with him, and he was SUCH a sweetheart. Boogaard was someone that carry my brother and I closer to each other, and because of that he supposed more to me than I think most people can appreciate.

Derek came in on Entirely occasions to our establishment and was very nice! I remember helping him once and at first, not knowing who he was, treated him like anyone else. He was super kind and didn’t have any complaints. Then I found out who he was at my table and I straight away felt star-struck. He was an astonishing athlete and he will forever be missed.

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Osama Bin Laden Dead

Osama Bin Laden Dead:Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles—Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist, was killed in Pakistan as the result of a U.S. military operation, President Obama announced to the nation Sunday night.

The historic revelation comes about four months before the 10th anniversary of the devastating Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, which were executed by the Al Qaeda network helmed by Bin Laden and prompted the start of a war on terror that has dominated U.S. foreign policy.

Bin Laden, 54, was a member of a wealthy Saudi family and has been on the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives List since 1999.

Bin Laden broke with Saudi leaders over their beliefs regarding Israel. He was eventually denounced by his family and gave up citizenship.

Al Qaeda has taken responsibility for the bombings of U.S. embassies in 1998 in Tanzania and Kenya. More than 200 people were killed in the attacks.

Al Qaeda has also claimed responsibility for other attacks on other symbols of U.S. power around the globe. It has spawned local organizations in hot spots from Iraq to Afghanistan.

The announcement by Obama from the East Room of the White House came eight years to the day after President Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq, the so-called “Mission Accomplished” speech from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.

Members of Congress were briefed on the news by Vice President Joe Biden throughout the weekend, according to a Senate aide.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, related the news to mourners at a memorial service for political consultant Kam Kuwata. Feinstein said Obama was announcing it on TV as she spoke. However, she announced the news well before Obama began to speak.

An extraordinary view of Aurora Borealis

An extraordinary view of Aurora Borealis: also known as the Northern Lights, was provided on Youtube by an airplane passenger on a flight from San Francisco to Paris.

The traveler, Youtube handle nbolt, shot a photo approximately every two miles on the 11-hour trip, which equates to a snap of the photo every two seconds. The photos were made with a 5d2, a time-lapse controller, and a 16mm–35mm camera, along with an iPhone.

Nbolt posted the results as a time lapse video that can be found with a quick Google search. He duly notes that photos were not taken during take-off and landing in order to satisfy FAA rules. Those are a computer model, nbolt said in a blog post.

In all, 2,459 photos were condensed into two minutes. They also include amazing shots of the Canadian tundra. Nbolt said he had a whole row to himself on the Air France flight and the crew allowed him to set up a tripod and other gear to take the photos.

According to Wikipedia, an aurora is a natural light display in the sky that occurs mostly in the polar regions. They are caused by the collision of charged particles directed by the Earth’s magnetic field.

Jamie Oliver Food Revolution

Jamie Oliver Food Revolution:Jamie Oliver tried to launch a new season of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, but he was met with some stiff resistance. The unintended message he delivered was one from West Coast America: Don’t take our cheeseburgers away from us, you pushy Brit!

Shoved out of the L.A. school system early on in the hour (if he thought the bureaucracy in Huntington, W. Va., was tough, he had not reckoned with an L.A. school board), Oliver took to the streets.

He went to an L.A. burger joint to try and win a convert, a site on which to practice his good-nutrition ideas. As someone who admires and partakes of Los Angeles’ many fine independent fast-food establishments when I visit, I was ambivalent as he tried the patience of the owner of Patra’s, a good-looking L.A. burger joint (I haven’t eaten there). Oliver tried to convince the guy to re-do his menu with healthier items that would cost this small-businessman more money, which cost would be passed on to his customers. Can you blame the man for not wanting to be used as Jamie Oliver’s guinea pig, and to lose business while Oliver passes off yogurt smoothies as milk shakes?

Oliver is great at the grand gestures. The climax to the first hour was to have an empty school bus (“this icon of trust,” as Oliver put it) filled with the amount of white sugar consumed by students in the L.A. school system in a week. The sugar — 57 tons of it — overflowed the bus. It made a great impression… on the 20 people who showed up.

But his showboating gestures don’t make for coherent arguments, either with school officials or, ultimately, with TV viewers, I would guess.

Blackberry Playbook Launched April 19

Blackberry Playbook Launched April 19:Research In Motion released details of its new BlackBerry Playbook, which will be officially launched April 19. Three models will be available, all with Wi-Fi capability.

The basic, 16 gigabyte PlayBook will sell for $499, the same price as an Apple iPad. The 32-gigabyte and 64-gigabyte versions will cost $599 and $699 respectfully, also equal to iPad models with the same storage size.

While the iPad is built with a 9.7-inch touch screen, the PlayBook features a 7-inch touch screen It weighs less than a pound and sports dual cameras like the iPad. However, the cameras provide better resolution than the iPad’s.

The BlackBerry tablet also offers HDMI output. It will be widely available in the U.S. and Canada, and preordering is
available now at Best Buy.

Allentown PA Explosion

Allentown PA Explosion:

Officials now say three people were killed and two others missing after a blast in Allentown is.

Allentown Fire Chief Robert Scheirer 79 explosion at the age of 4 months late on Wednesday night said the victims range.

Lehigh County coroner Scott said he more serious for two people “recovery mode” I still was.

Six people have already been reported missing, but officials say Scheirer think one of them was not home at the time of the blast.

Identify those killed yet released.

Fire burned through the night to control natural gas leak that has apparently been limited to end fuel fire is now under.

Has two homes were completely leveled and destroyed six other houses is considered. Another 16 homes were damaged.

Said that there 12 inch cast – iron important for this part of any history of leaks, and there before the explosion of gas odors were about a call, based on what Swope read UGI Utilities Inc.

The people who live near the site of blast that was realized that all was sucking out of the room just before the explosion described.

“I yelled out my ‘are you alright?’ Wife and said ‘I think I’m fine. This is a car on fire,” said Antonio Arroyo.

Antonio said he ran outside and saw that was a whole house were leveled, a place now where it once stood in a raging ball of fire.

“What I saw, I can not believe,” Arroyo said.

He and his wife, a nurse, only the clothes on their backs with their house gone.

“Much is happening or what was happening or what the house go out. We had to go just about there was no time to think,” Arroyo said water.

The blast happened on Wednesday at 10:50. Firefighters were leveled homes on the block to find the fire arrives. Lehigh Valley to help fire personnel were called in from all around the fire of war support.

After the fire was brought under control about 4:00 am Thursday.

Investigators said Thursday that he is not definitively because of the explosion was natural gas, though he certainly save on the scene was indicated by the contracts.

What officials know that natural gas is fed as a result of fire, destruction in.

Scheirer chief told Action News, “He knew that because of gas still in the fire we had coming out of your street was leaking, so we did not extinguish this section because we wanted the gas constant to stop burning .. ”

Some 600 people at midnight in their homes and were forced to flee from their apartment. He fairgrounds a Jewish community center and city hall moved to an agricultural emergency, the staff had worked through the night. Thursday morning they were going far allowed to go home.

Emergency management officials consider amazing those evacuations fire going in a whole block and there were fears of another explosion.

Eight residents of a local minor illnesses are checked out for the hospital was taken. One firefighter suffered an injury tkny.

Philadelphia, a gas main caught on video last month in the explosion in the sky sent a 50-foot ball of fire, a utility worker killed, six injured and forced dozens from their homes. Hell) Fire officials were investigating the explosion.

BREAKING NEWS: Fairport Harbor, Ohio Gas Explosion

BREAKING NEWS: Fairport Harbor, Ohio Gas Explosion:

There are no reports of injuries from fires that broke out this morning in northeast Ohio community.

Authorities say the built-up pressure natural gas lines led to a fire and explosion in a house.

Village of Fairport Harbor, with a population of about 3000 people, was briefly evacuated the order – but when the situation has stabilized, people were told to stay indoors and turn off the gas. Evacuated residents who gathered at the community center is now returning home.

Authorities say that the fires were raging in homes, apartments and other buildings and seriously damaged at least two.

They plan to examine each structure in the village on the gas issue.

gas company said the gas pipeline system was returned to normal pressure.

St. Petersburg Times Online

St. Petersburg Times Online:

Two St. Petersburg police officers were killed Monday morning in a shootout with a suspect whom the police tried to serve a warrant for the arrest of a crime, police spokesman said.

SWAT team surrounded the house where the gunman had barricaded themselves, said Mike Puetz, spokesman for the Police Department. The talks have come into contact with the suspect, who did not immediately determined.

Two St. Petersburg police officers and a third officer, deputy marshal of the United States, were taken to Bayfront Medical Center, where police officers were found dead. Deputy Marshal was in stable condition, the spokesman said. Three were not identified.

The shooting occurred in thousands of Florida police officers gathered at the American Airlines Arena in Miami to attend the funeral of two Miami-Dade police, who were also trying to serve an arrest warrant when they were shot and killed a fugitive on Thursday. Fugitive was killed by police.

The police arrived at home, in 3734 two hundred and eighty Fifth Avenue. S., shortly before 7 am Monday to serve as a crime warrants, authorities said. As the officers entered the house, they removed a resident, who told the officers the suspect was hiding in the attic, Mr. Puetz said.

As officers tried to gain access to the attic, the suspect shot the officers. The police punched a hole in the side of the house to remove the wounded officers, and authorities have also used tear gas.

Officers who arrived at the house did not expect the person for whom they work order to be there, said St. Petersburg Police Chief Chuck Harmon, adding that they had been there a few weeks before, and he was not there. They intended to interview the friend, but when they arrived, she told them that the suspect was in the attic.

Mr. Harmon said that at the moment, the officers called for backup. One officer went to the attic to get the suspect who began firing down at him. Suspect captured one of the officer’s guns and used it as well as his own, Mr. Harmon said. There were over 100 shots between the SWAT team, police and the suspect, “he said.

Mr. Puetz said they did not know that the gunman was wounded in the house or lying in wait. ” Police cordoned off six blocks radius around the home. Near school, Thurgood Marshall High School principal, was placed on Lockdown.

St. Petersburg Times identified the gunman as Hydra Lacy Jr., a well known criminal sex. But police have not released the name of the suspect.

This incident is the latest case of police officers being shot in the last few days. In addition to the two officers who were killed in Miami on Thursday, two sheriff’s deputies were shot on Sunday in Port Orchard, Washington, gunmen opened fire at a police station in Detroit on Sunday, wounding four officers, and an officer was shot during a traffic stops in Oregon on Sunday.

Cluster shooting deaths of police officers comes after a particularly deadly year for law enforcement. In 2010, 60 federal, state and local staff were killed by gunfire, 20 percent more than the figures in 2009, when 49 were killed while on duty, in accordance with national law enforcement officers memorial fund, a nonprofit organization that monitors Police deaths.

“It does not look good from the beginning of this year,” said John Timoney, former police chief of Miami. “And as a rule, January is one of the quieter months of cold weather. Now suddenly we are seeing more cases, together with higher body counts officials. This is very unusual, and the main cause for concern.”

In 2010, 10 of the shooting deaths occurred in five cases, when several employees at the time were killed by a gunman.

Woman Falls In Fountain (Video)

Woman Falls In Fountain (Video):

So this chick walks through the mall and straight to the fountain, because she is so busy text she is completely unaware of her surroundings.

Fall of Katie Marrero Cruz was caught on video security camera shopping center, and it is nearing 2 million views on YouTube.

And apparently, she now wants to sue the mall to make her famous.

“I have not received an apology that I received was,” At least, no one knows what it is you, “Marrero said in an interview with” Good Morning America “today.” But I knew it was me. ”

And, of course, she was not embarrassed enough to give an interview to Good Morning America. Like all first-class people looking to make a quick buck, she jumped in front of cameras.

Marrero was so forgotten that she had no idea what happened until her face into the water.

“Unfortunately, I did not have anything to capture and retain my balance,” she said.

Kermit Gosnell killed 7 Babies With Scissors

On Wednesday Prosecutors charged a Philadelphia abortion doctor with murder claiming he killed viable babies by cutting their spinal cords with scissors after removing them from mothers late in their pregnancies.

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams charged Dr. Kermit Gosnell and nine associates with seven counts of murder involving babies, but said hundreds of others likely died in the squalid clinic that Gosnell ran from 1979 to 2010.

The defendants face first-degree murder in the cases of seven babies for which there is substantial evidence, Williams said. The babies were born alive and viable, he said.

“My comprehension of the English language can’t adequately describe the barbaric nature of Dr. Gosnell,” Williams said at a news conference.

Williams said he may seek the death penalty for Gosnell, 69, who with his associates was arrested on Wednesday.

Gosnell was charged with murder, infanticide, conspiracy, abortion at 24 or more weeks and other charges.

Pennsylvania law prohibits abortion after 24 weeks except to save the life of the mother or avoid serious health risk to her.

The doctor committed murder under the law, the prosecutor said at a news conference.

“I am aware that abortion is a hot-button topic,” he said. “But as district attorney, my job is to carry out the law.

“A doctor who cuts into the necks severing the spinal cords of living, breathing babies, who would survive with proper medical attention, is committing murder under the law,” he said.

Women who came to the clinic were given medication to induce delivery, and the viable babies were killed by Gosnell and his associates, Williams said.

The charges follow a year-long investigation by a grand jury, whose report was unveiled on Wednesday.