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The Doomed Costa Concordia Part III
Post Date: 2012-01-25 05:54:16 by Tatarewicz
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Part 3: 'People Were Screaming and Pushing' At about 10:30 p.m., the officers mutinied on the bridge of the capsizing Concordia. Apparently only one officer, a Greek, was still on Schettino's side. The others decided that Roberto Bosio, a captain from Liguria and who was on board as a guest, would assume command of the ship. Bosio, anxious to begin the evacuation immediately, started issuing orders. The loudspeakers finally sounded the emergency alarm at 10:58 p.m., triggering a panic among the passengers. "People were screaming and pushing and shoving," says retiree Karlheinz Knapp. He lost balance while on his crutches, and suddenly he found
Costa Concordia Part II
Post Date: 2012-01-25 05:35:19 by Tatarewicz
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The Doomed Costa Concordia A Maritime Disaster that Was Waiting to Happen Part 2: 'We'll Sound the Siren for You' It was shortly after 9:30 p.m. when the drama began. The Concordia was bearing down on Giglio at 15 knots, which was much too fast. Schettino, the first officer, the second officer and a female officer were standing on the bridge. The captain changed course by a few degrees, passing very close by the island. Schettino would later tell investigators that he had intended to salute a great old man: Mario Palombo, a retired captain. Palombo was at sea for 43 years, including 23 years with Costa. Schettino served as a first officer under Palombo. And Palombo has a ...
Modern cruise shuips - too tall to sail
Post Date: 2012-01-25 05:30:48 by Tatarewicz
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Seven days have now passed since the Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy. The moon is shining as the men stare at the wreckage of the capsized cruise ship, not far from the harbor entrance. Two of the men are local Italians from the island, who have spent the last few days in a desperate struggle, and who have saved many lives in the process. They are comforting the third man, an Indian from Mumbai, who is still hoping for a miracle. The Indian, Kevin Rebello, misses his brother Russell, 33. Russell was a steward on the Concordia and had been traveling the world's oceans for the last five years. Russell had assured his family that he earned good tips in his job, and ...
Malaysia Ministry seeks recordings of strange noises in sky
Post Date: 2012-01-25 03:26:43 by Tatarewicz
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The Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry wants to collect audio recordings of the purported strange noises in the sky heard by residents of Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. In a Sinar Harian report, Deputy Minister Datuk Fadillah Yusuf said the ministry was collecting as much "evidence" as possible on the bizarre happening so it could submit its report to the National Space Agency (Angkasa) for further investigation. "This incident is no laughing matter. We hope those who have audio or video recordings of the noises can come forward so we can investigate," said Fadillah, adding that any evidence can be sent to the Petrajaya parliamentary service centre in Jalan Astana, ...
“Dirty, Filthy, Christians”: Treatise On The Most Dangerous Death Cult In Human History
Post Date: 2012-01-25 03:09:52 by Tatarewicz
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“Dirty, Filthy, Christians”: Treatise On The Most Dangerous Death Cult In Human History By David L. Booth (1953-2009) Special Offer: $37.88 plus $4.50 Shipping and Handling [US Funds] In 1977, during a search for his family roots from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Henry County Virginia, a young, and recently discharged US Army Soldier, journeyed to the Smoky Mountains following the path of his ancestors, who during the American Revolutionary War, fought with their militia counterparts from Eastern Tennessee in the 1780 Battle of Boyd’s Creek defeating the Cherokee Indians who had allied themselves with the British. Unbeknownst to this young man, however, was that the ...
Himalayan Ninja Goats - video
Post Date: 2012-01-24 12:46:02 by Lod
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Spain's Franco-era probe judge Baltasar Garzon on trial
Post Date: 2012-01-24 09:16:22 by Tatarewicz
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A high-profile Spanish judge has gone on trial accused of violating a 1977 amnesty law by investigating civil war and Franco-era crimes. The prosecution of Baltasar Garzon, who famously indicted late Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet, has been brought by two right-wing groups. They say he overstepped his powers by investigating the disappearance of 114,000 people between 1936 and 1975. He says the acts were crimes against humanity and so not subject to amnesty. Human rights groups have described the Supreme Court trial as a scandal. Relatives of victims from the civil war and the subsequent dictatorship of General Francisco Franco were among those demonstrating in support of Judge ...
Protecting houses from bushfires
Post Date: 2012-01-24 07:30:33 by Tatarewicz
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Clearing vegetation close to houses is the best way to reduce the impacts of severe bushfires, according to a team of scientists from Australia and the USA who examined house loss as a result of Black Saturday. The research involving 12,000 measurements at 500 houses affected by the Black Saturday fires was only made possible by the sheer size of the devastation of February 7, 2009. “More than any other major wildfire in Australia, Black Saturday provided an unprecedented opportunity to learn about the effects of land management on house loss,” said senior author Dr Philip Gibbons from The Australian National University. The research team found that fuel reduction close to ...
Avoid This Gold Coin Scam
Post Date: 2012-01-23 07:51:32 by Tatarewicz
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Avoid disappointment and future regret. That's the last line of a gold coin commercial I saw on television the other night. I knew right then I wanted to tell you about it, but I wanted to see the commercial once more to get all the details. And while it may be obvious to some — or even most — who've seen it, I thought it was worth 600 words of our time to air out this stinky mess. Avoid This Gold Coin Scam The two-minute ad starts off with a neighborly male voice telling you: The original $50 Buffalo gold piece is America's purest gold coin ever. It was the first one ever struck using .9999 — that's four nines! — pure 24k gold. Its design was ...
New US Postal Rates in effect, Jan. 22nd
Post Date: 2012-01-22 16:22:05 by Shoonra
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Poster Comment:Today, Sunday, January 22, 2012, new postage rates went into effect in the US. True to form, the US Postal Service, displaying the sort of management skill that brought it to its present state of near-bankruptcy, refused to post the complete list of new rates until today, the same day they became effective. This undoubtedly meant that a great many businesses around the country sort of jammed up in their outgoing mail for the last couple of days until they could find out what postage to put on their outgoing stuff. The "FOREVER" stamps that had been selling for 44¢ are now worth (and will sell at) 45¢. The new first class rate for letters is: 45 cents for ...
Local's top ten German novelists
Post Date: 2012-01-22 05:08:44 by Tatarewicz
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In this week's Local List we run through our favourite German novelists. It was no mean feat to pick just 10 in a country which has produced arguably some of the world's most influential literature. Even though this list stretches from war narratives to sexual awakenings, the Romantic Movement to post-modernism, it can only scratch the surface of the wealth of authors Germany has to offer. We even decided to leave out the man generally regarded as Germany's greatest writer - Goethe - because his best-known works were plays and poems. So click through the gallery and check out our choices - from Günter Grass to Cornelia Funke, there should be something to suit even the ...
Mein Kampf headed for German newsstands
Post Date: 2012-01-22 04:21:10 by Tatarewicz
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British publisher Peter McGee says he plans to publish excerpts from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and sell them in Germany. “It is about time that the broader public is given the opportunity to deal with the original text,” he told Der Spiegel newsweekly. McGee says he will publish critical commentaries alongside the excerpts from Mein Kampf, which will go on sale in Germany the week after next. He plans to print three 15-page editions, with a print run of 100,000 each. The British publisher caused controversy back in 2009 when he published Zeitungszeugen (“Newspaper Witness”), which included annotated facsimiles of Nazi newspapers like Der Angriff and the ...
Man tells court it was dog who strangled wife
Post Date: 2012-01-22 03:42:59 by Tatarewicz
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A German man suspected of strangling his wife has pointed the finger at the family dog instead, saying the Labrador could have smothered her to death by accident. The 50-year-old man was convicted of manslaughter after his wife was found strangled to death in their bathroom in Düsseldorf November 2010, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Monday. But his conviction was overruled by a federal court which said that the fact the woman was strangled for several minutes did not necessarily on its own mean she was killed intentionally, and now the case is being heard again – complete with a witness who is an expert on dogs. The man’s lawyer said he and his wife had been ...
Payroll of Alberta's bureaucrats doubles in a decade
Post Date: 2012-01-20 03:27:23 by Tatarewicz
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CALGARY — Alberta’s public sector wage bill has increased nearly twice as fast as the national average over the last decade, according to a new University of Calgary study. Authors Ken Boessenkool and Ben Eisen found that provincial civil servants, health workers, university staff and school board employees have pocketed almost all of the Alberta government’s rise in revenues over the last 10 years as their wage increases outpaced their counterparts elsewhere in the country. “Huge gaps in per employee costs have opened over the last decade,” said Eisen, “and it’s contributing to the province’s deteriorating financial position.” The study ...
Picking the Brightest, Most Efficient Light Bulb
Post Date: 2012-01-19 05:20:13 by Tatarewicz
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The light bulb used to be one of the simplest hardware-store purchases. Now a walk down the lighting aisle prompts an assortment of questions. Is it energy efficient? Will it switch on fast? Can I put it on a dimmer? What is a lumen? How long will it last? Why so pricey? Why is it a weird color? Buying a light bulb is a lot more daunting than it used to be. Questions abound: Is it energy efficient? Is it a weird color? Can I put it on a dimmer? WSJ's Katherine Boehret has all the answers to help find the right light bulb for you. Here's a brief guide to some bulb basics, with help from Consumer Reports ratings, and a peek at what the future holds for the light bulb (hint: ...
LiveLeak com Lucky people compilation
Post Date: 2012-01-18 09:53:58 by James Deffenbach
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Sheldrake - telepathy on C2C Thurs night
Post Date: 2012-01-18 05:22:01 by Tatarewicz
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The Extended Mind Date: 01-19-12 Host: George Noory Guests: Rupert Sheldrake Former director of studies in biochemistry and cell biology at Clare College, Cambridge University, Rupert Sheldrake, will discuss his work on the extended mind and human intuitive abilities including telephone telepathy, and how dogs know their owners are coming home. Website(s): sheldrake.org Book(s): The Science Delusion Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance
Why Gay Parents May Be the Best Parents
Post Date: 2012-01-17 08:41:20 by Tatarewicz
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Gay marriage, and especially gay parenting, has been in the cross hairs in recent days. On Jan. 6, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a New Hampshire audience that children are better off with a father in prison than being raised in a home with lesbian parents and no father at all. And last Monday (Jan. 9), Pope Benedict called gay marriage a threat "to the future of humanity itself," citing the need for children to have heterosexual homes. But research on families headed by gays and lesbians doesn't back up these dire assertions. In fact, in some ways, gay parents may bring talents to the table that straight parents don't. Gay parents "tend to be ...
Blue Bird of Happiness
Post Date: 2012-01-16 19:02:03 by James Deffenbach
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Poster Comment:Got this in email from a fellow bird lover and couldn't resist posting it.
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Post Date: 2012-01-16 17:08:55 by Eric Stratton
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Buddy of mine sent me this, said he was talking to his dad about income tax and his dad sent him this taking the contrarian view. I haven't had time to look at it, but I immediately got hung up at the beginning when it said something that to me rendered the entire analysis flawed. I thought I'd throw this piece of red meat out there and then come back and see what it looks like in a bit a little later and before reading the entire piece. ****************** Income Tax Myths"There's just no law requiring you to pay federal income taxes."The most basic myth of tax protestors is that there is simply no law mandating the payment of income taxes. Frequently one can ...
Anyone else wearing shorts today?
Post Date: 2012-01-16 15:19:57 by PSUSA2
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60F, during what is supposed to be the coldest part of the year. If this is global warming, it's not so bad.
Slavik_Avenger puts the smackdown on Gatlin (or is it Gaytlin?)
Post Date: 2012-01-16 13:47:15 by James Deffenbach
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#12. To: Gatlin, *Thank the Neoconwhores* (#8) ah, I'd rather tell you how Romney is kicking Ron Paul's ass and that Romeny is now assured of the nomination. Must make your leftist, gay heart quack in man-love, you bootlicking, Marxist pond scum oxygen thief. Slavik_Avenger posted on 2012-01-16 11:34:23 ET Reply Trace Poster Comment:That was great!
Suspect in California killings of homeless men is an Iraq war veteran
Post Date: 2012-01-15 01:55:09 by Tatarewicz
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Former Marine Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, of Yorba Linda appeared deeply troubled when he returned home and for a year had been telling relatives that he was seeing and hearing things, an uncle says. A 23-year-old former Marine who some say was distraught after combat service in Iraq has been named a suspect in the serial killings of four homeless men in Orange County. Itzcoatl Ocampo of Yorba Linda was chased by bystanders Friday after the most recent stabbing death behind a fast-food restaurant in an Anaheim shopping center parking lot. Ocampo remained in police custody without bail Saturday and is expected in court on Tuesday. "We are extremely confident that we have the man who is ...
lp is gone? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-01-14 22:55:45 by wudidiz
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The Story of Your Enslavement
Post Date: 2012-01-13 21:13:43 by christine
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