Joe Rollino, termed as the Strong man of New York was killed in a car crash. The 104 year old veteran was crossing a street near his home in Brooklyn. He was knocked down with fatal injuries on head and chest. His pelvis was reportedly broken. Though he was rushed to the hospital after the accident, Joe succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. At the peak of his career, Joe weighed 68 kgs and was counted among the strongest men of his time.

He was a strong vegetarian through out his life and till recently could still bend the coins through his fingers. Rollino started his career as a strongman in 1920. He was a part of the Oldtime Barbell and was a member of the Strongmen organization. He was a much respected man who bravely took part in the World War II. He became a traveling boxer and adopted a name as Kid Dundee.

Louis Scarcella, 59 who was his fellow companion in the Coney Island Polar Bear Club, New York’s oldest winter swimming club said that Rollino was popularly called as “Great Joe Rollino’. He also said that Joe was a great man who had a strong will to survive. The preliminary investigations have ruled out the possibility of high speed car or alcohol consumption as the reason behind the strong old man’s unexpected death.

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There is a lot of buzz about Mitch Fatel’s comedy and the topics which he chooses which include ‘Inverted nipples’ etc. Mitch Fatel is a stand-up comedian in New York and he has recently released ‘Mitch Fatel Is Magical’ DVD, which had premiered on Comedy Central.This DVD Mitch Fatel is Magical is currently one of the top 100 selling Stand up DVDS on Amazon.

Fatel performs regularly at the famed Comedy Cellar. He has performed on the Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O’Brien and worked as a correspondent on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In 2006 Mitch took home honors as the “Best Stand-Up Comedian” at the Aspen Comedy Festival says wiki.

The review of Mitch Fatel is Magical here says that the theme of the DVD is Anatomy -Human anatomy and how Fatel can tie it in to sex. He’s really good at tying it in to sex.

More details and news about Mitch Fatel can be accessed by visiting his website here.

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In what could have been a major terrorist attack just days ahead of the New Year, a Nigerian suspect who later confessed to his links with the dreaded Al -Qaeda, was today nabbed on board an U.S commercial flight upon its landing in Detroit.

It was learned through further interrogation of the suspect that he was attempting to blow up the flight mid - air and the United States officials have already labeled this as an attempted terrorist attack. The commercial Delta flight which fortuitously escaped this terror bid, took off from Egypt with 273 passengers and 11 crew members on board.

As per eyewitness accounts it was barely twenty minutes before the flight was supposed to land at the Detroit airport that some passengers heard strange popping noises like some crackers going off. It was further learned from the passengers and airline officials that just as the suspect was attempting to blow up the flight mid - air one of them lunged at him and subdued him in the nick of time.

The man had ‘some kind of incendiary device he tried to ignite’ in a bag strapped to his body, U.S. officials told NBC News. Other officials told NBC station WDIV-TV of Detroit that the device was a mixture of powder and liquid, which failed to ignite when the passenger tried to detonate it during the plane’s descent into Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.

A close call indeed for the 273 passengers!

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Imagine a person not having a bank account…too hard to think right? In today’s world, it’s almost impossible to get by without an account in bank. But are bank accounts always helpful? What about the requirements like having a minimum balance and the transaction charges while using ATM card etc?

So here is the better option…NetSpend. It is the largest prepaid debit card processor and marketer in the United States. The benefits is has are no credit check, no overdraft fees, and no interest charges along with managing the bank account.

Keith Owens, Tahlequah center manager for Advance America Cash Advance, said about NetSpend, “We take payroll checks, and rather than convert them to cash, we load them on a prepaid Visa card through NetSpend. That card works just like a bank-issued debit card, except there’s no overdraft fees. When the balance reaches zero, you can’t use the card.”

NetSpend debit card is under promotion these days and Owens, who owns one, feels that it’s more useful and secure than the bank’s debit card.

NetSpend is obviously a better option to manage money in today’s world.

What are you waiting for? Hurry up and open an account in www.netspend.com to meet all your demands and solve all your problems and to start a better way to banking solutions…

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It was just another day in a Texas Fort Hood army base. Soldiers were marching and drill where being carried out. All of a sudden and out of the blues, gunshots were heard and 12 soldiers died in a jiffy while 31 others were injured.

Military spokesmen. Lt. General Bob Cone said in Texas that the shooter was an Army soldier who opened fire in a “readiness facility.” It’s been assured that the shooters were killed. On the other hand, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas told Fox 4 News that one shooter was in custody and “another is still at large.”

“It was a processing center where soldiers are processed to go to Iraq or Afghanistan. “Our hearts go out,” she said. “These are soldiers who are getting ready to go out to Iraq or Afghanistan and their families were under stress already. This was just a terrible tragedy and we don’t even know the extent of it yet.”

The base is one of the largest installations in the country and it accommodates about 218,000 people.

President Barrack Obama was bewildered to hear the news and said that the event was “horrifying.”

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It’s a great time for all those gizmo freaks who want to buy electronics at black Friday discount rates but hate the crowd. Keeping the excess crowd in mind, Walmart has decided to throw some early discounts and you would want to know how early? And we would be saying as early as November 7th!

So want to know what has Walmart in store for you? They will offer the HP Pavilion G60-519WM Entertainment Laptop for $298 in stores while supplies last and for $298 you get a 15.6″ screen, Intel Celeron processor, 3 GB of RAM, 250 GB hard drive and a Light scribe DVD burner with Dual Layer support.

Hold on before you rush to Walmart. We would like to let you know that this notebook uses an Intel Celeron processor rather than a faster dual-core or Core 2 duo processor. If you are using it for regular browsing the web, managing your photo collection and working on documents, it would be a perfect bet. But if you are thinking about doing some heavy duty stuff with it then forget about it and just wait for black Friday.

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For Texas People:

The official release date of the July bar results were originally scheduled for November 7th i.e. tomorrow. But hey! We all know the real deal! Every time somehow or the other they always come out a day early. Keeping that in mind Texas Board of Law Examiners Website is being watched every second.

All those budding lawyers are sitting in front of their pc and keeping an eye on the screen and their obviously continuously clicking that cute little refresh button on their browsers as well. Well good luck with all that refreshing and hers wishing you all the best and hope all of you pass with flying colors.

For NYC people:

You people still reading this? Come on now, where is your mind? The results are already out on Buffalo Business First. Well here is wishing all the aspiring to be lawyers a good luck before they open the link. And congratulations to those who have already opened the link and passed. And better luck next time for those people who have already opened the link and couldn’t make it, i.e. if you are willing to appear for it again or else move on friend, there are lots of other things to do in life and this definitely not the end.

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The Bellingham middle school is a place for 580 students who come here every weekday to study. It was just another day for the school authorities and the students on Wednesday. Little did they know that the next morning they would wake up and find their school reduced to nothing but ashes!

It was 1am on Thursday when a tremendous fire broke out in the school building. Too add to the misery, there was heavy wind blowing all around which fanned the flames to a humongous size. The fire was so strong and spread so quick that the firefighters did a quick search of the school and found no one inside before they were forced to withdraw.

The fire burned until dawn and all they could do was to watch the 106 year old building collapse and get reduced to ashes. The cause of the fire is still unknown. School District spokeswoman Tonya Rowe said the building was undergoing a seismic retrofit.

The school authorities are searching for a new space to accommodate the students and resume school activities.

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Neda was beautiful young woman who lived in Iran. She loved music and played keyboard. She was caring and emotional girl in her childhood. When she grew up, she had a strong opinion for Iranian politics. She and her mother often had political debates and discussions. The smart young woman diead a few months back, after she had been shot in the heart during a pro-democracy demonstration in Iran. Her death video was even caught on tape.

Neda’s mother often joined her in the street protests that erupted after Iran’s disputed June 12 presidential election. But that fateful day she couldn’t go with her and Neda had to leave without her. Nedas mother said “I told her to be very careful, and she said she would.”

Neda was accompanied by her music teacher that day. She would often call her mom and give her updates regarding the protest. The last time Neda’s mom had a talk with her was when she called Neda and Neda said she was on her way back home. Neda was a few steps away from her car when she heard a firing sound. And the next moment, she was lying on the floor with a bullet on her chest.

Neda’s mom came to know about the video of her daughter being shot, a few days later. “But when I returned home, I did see the video,” she said. “It was enormously painful. So painful that I’ve never been able to watch it again all the way through to the end.

“It was the moment of seeing her give her life, the life leaving her body. That was very painful. The look in her eyes at that moment. I wake up with that look in her eyes every morning; I go to bed with the image of that look in her eyes every evening.”

“I want to say that the moment that bothers me the most — that bothers me terribly — is the moment Neda got shot. That’s because Neda was an extremely brave person. Ever since she was a child, she was brave and fearless. So that moment when she got shot, I saw it in the video, she couldn’t believe it — that she had taken a bullet. So much so that she takes a look at her body. And when she sees she’s been shot, she takes a few steps backwards and then falls. The only words she managed to utter was: ‘Teacher, I’m burning.’ And people said she passed within 44 seconds.”

Neda’s mom visits her grave every Friday. “People go and write on her grave in red ink the word ‘martyr,’” she said, “and then the authorities go and wipe it off.” “I saw Neda as a martyr from the start. Neda was a martyr for her homeland.”

Since the incident, Neda has become a household name. Her name has crossed all borders and reached people far away.

“As a message to everyone, I really want to thank the whole world, “said Neda’s mom. “And I don’t really know how to thank them, so I ask of you: Please find the right words for me.
“I can’t tell you how much it has warmed our hearts, how much it’s helped us.”

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Today morning, Nicaragua coast was struck be a tremendous blow by Mother Nature as hurricane Ida blasted into Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast. More than 200 people had to abandon their homes and the power was knocked out at many portions. Heavy down pours and strong winds have kept officials from evacuating about 80 people on Cayos Perla. Authorities are trying to get them out with the help of speed boats. The storm continued to aim north toward Honduras, Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and possibly the Gulf of Mexico.

Around 10 am today, the storm was 75 miles north of Bluefield’s, Nicaragua, crawling northwest at 6 mph with sustained winds of 75 mph. As the stone is over land, it’s been predicted that it will slow down before it reaches the open sea.

A long range forecast predicts that it might regain tropical storm strength, move into the Gulf by Tuesday morning and generally aim toward Louisiana. But that’s just an assumption. “There is no electricity on the island and telephone is out and there is little water,” said Perez, Nicaragua’s National Civil Defense director.

Central America is currently facing howling winds, torrential rains and battering waves but experts predict it to be a compact storm.

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