PHOTOS AND TRIBUTE VIDEO: 11 Years Later...9/11

9/11 TRIBUTE VIDEO (11 YEARS LATER) (2012) [THE 20 MOST POWERFUL PHOTOS OF 9/11]

 

 

Remembering the tragic day of September 11,2001 exactly 11 years later.
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Often referred to as 9/11, the attacks resulted in extensive death and destruction, triggering major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism and defining the presidency of George W. Bush. Over 3,000 people were killed during the attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., including more than 400 police officers and firefighters.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET

 

Video by: A-Lex (Nashville United Promotions 2012)

 

 

The Dangerous Side Of Facebook...Teenage Boy Stabbed To Death After Gatecrashers Stormed A Party That Had Been Publicized On Facebook

Crime Scene

 

The scene in Colchester where a seventeen year old boy has been stabbed to death while attending a house party

A promising A-level student was stabbed to death after a quiet house party spiralled out of control when gatecrashers spotted an invite on Facebook. Jay Whiston, 17, collapsed after being stabbed in the stomach during an altercation over a mobile phone at the party in a quiet suburb of Colchester, Essex.

Partygoers described how the well-behaved teenage gathering, at which the host’s parents were present, descended into chaos as a large number of uninvited guests turned up and began to cause trouble.

According to witnesses, Mr Whiston, who lived with his family in Clacton, was stabbed when he attempted to intervene in a row over a mobile phone.

Paramedics, who were called to Marlowe Way in Colchester shortly after 10pm on Saturday evening, rushed Mr Whiston to Colchester General Hospital but he was pronounced a short time later.

Facebook, as Jay’s tragic killing reminds us, is not a virtual Postman Pat who delivers letters, parcels and bills. No, Facebook is like standing in the street, megaphone in hand, yelling your message to neighbours and passers-by. If it is a bit of gossip, be prepared for everyone to spread it. If it is an invitation, be prepared for a mob to turn up.

In other words, no one really can control the website, which can seem like a foreign land to parents who remain uninitiated to its rules. Mike Butcher, the Europe editor of the online publication TechCrunch and a new media expert, explains: “If you create an event page in Facebook, say for a party, you may think this is a private space, but information can spread far wider than you ever intended. There is no control.”

A public place without boundaries, where everyone is linked: good friends with total strangers, drug dealers connected to vulnerable loners, gangs to innocent school children. No wonder alot of parents are now Facebook-wary. Indeed, the parents of Laura Guthercole, who hosted the party that ended so tragically for Jay Whiston, were also cautious and sensible. They stayed in their detached house to supervise proceedings, and Laura had sweetly handwritten notes to neighbours to apologise for any noise – but when 200 people turned up, events spiralled out of their control.









Source: Cristina Odone via Telegraph

Fans Pay Tribute To Late Actor Michael Clarke Duncan During Public Viewing Of Casket

A large crowd turned out Sunday for a public viewing of Duncan's casket.The four-hour, closed-casket celebration of his life was held at the Hall of Liberty in Hollywood Hills' Forest Lawn Park cemetery.
There was also a viewing on a screen of "The Green Mile," the film that made Duncan a star.
The private family ceremony will take place Monday.

Miss Nigeria Ireland 2012 Scheduled For The 22nd September

 

The fifth edition of Miss Nigeria Ireland is scheduled to take place on the 22nd of September 2012 at the Red Cow Hotel, Dublin.

Guest artistes and comedians like KAS, DJ Daley, Fabu D, Pop Dogg, Youngest Oldman and many others are expected to be there.

Plane Stowaway Plunges To His Death In The Middle Of A London Street

• Police say man, believed to be in 30s, could have fallen thousands of feet

• Found on car parked on road in affluent London suburb of Mortlake

• Street is around 10 miles away from Heathrow Airport and on flight path

• Aviation expert believes he froze to death; it appears body fell out of hold

• Man thought to be from North Africa and suffered multiple injuries

• Residents described 'monstrous bang' and body parts flying 20ft away

 

Police were investigating today whether a man whose body was found in a residential street in London was a stowaway who fell from a plane as it prepared to land at Heathrow.

The body of the man was discovered in Portman Avenue, Mortlake, south west London, yesterday morning.

Locals in Mortlake, south west London, said the man had suffered multiple injuries and parts of his body had flown up to 20ft away ‘like a melon being whacked’ - but nobody else was injured.

Billy Watson, 26, who lives opposite where the man fell, saw the body ‘all twisted up’ and believed it belonged to someone of Albanian or Moroccan origin.

He said: ‘His head was twisted one way and one of his legs was the wrong way round. His hip had popped out and one of his arms was behind him the wrong way.

‘Bits of his body were just everywhere, and the police were putting their cones by them. The bits had spread about 20 to 30ft away and there was a bit of him in front of my car.

‘He was wearing blue jeans, white trainers and a dark jumper. There was a big pool of blood coming from his head. No-one was around him when I first saw him.

Richard Taylor, from the Civil Aviation Authority, said this kind of incident was not the first of its kind and added that there was very little chance of survival for stowaways.

He said: ‘The temperatures in the undercarriage reach -40C (-40F) at high altitudes, so the person has basically frozen to death. There is virtually no chance of someone surviving that.’

‘It is a very dangerous environment. Very often people get crushed to death by the landing gear when it retracts. It is surprising that people still do it. I guess they don’t realise they have very little chance of surviving.’

He added: 'When the landing gear comes down at the other end, a couple of miles from the runway and about 2,000ft in the air, if there is a person who had died they would fall out.'

The flight path over Portman Avenue where the body was found, around 10 miles from Heathrow, is where the planes opens their undercarriage and lower wheels ready for landing.

A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said officers were called to Portman Avenue at about 7.55am yesterday “following reports of a dead body”.

She said: “The death is currently being treated as unexplained. A postmortem examination will be held in due course. Inquiries are ongoing to establish the male’s identity.”