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Costa Concordia Ships Bell Submerged

Surviving passengers on the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship are being offered a lump sum of 11,000 euros ($14,400) each in compensation, the cruise line said Friday.

The decision was reached during a meeting between Costa Cruises and consumer groups, the Italian Association of Tour Operators said.

The massive liner struck rocks and rolled over onto its side in shallow waters off an island on Italy’s Tuscan coast on January 13, leading to a panicked overnight evacuation and at least 16 deaths. Another 16 people are missing.

Franco Gabrielli of Italy’s civil protection agency, who is heading the rescue operation, said 14 of the bodies found have now been identified.

Efforts were under way Friday… Continue reading

The Delta Mariner 01/27/2012

BENTON, Ky. – Two spans of a southwest Kentucky bridge collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship that carried aviation parts. No injuries were immediately reported, state transportation officials said.

The Delta Mariner struck the main span of the Eggner Ferry Bridge on Thursday evening at U.S. Highway 68 and Kentucky Highway 80, said Keith Todd, spokesman for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. State inspectors are on their way to determine how much of the bridge, which opened to traffic in 1932, was damaged.

“At this point, we don’t believe there was any loss of life,” Todd said.

He said there also were no injuries on board the boat. He was unable to say where the… Continue reading

Grandma In Storage Locker

Now i have truly seen it all!

A casket containing a woman’s remains was found in a Clearwater storage unit Thursday afternoon, and it appears a family’s secret has been unearthed.

“We do have a body, and we think that it’s Grandma,” said Joelle Castelli, with the Clearwater Police Department.

According to a manager at U-Stor Self Storage Unit at 1217 Lakeview Roa, the people renting unit B8 were warned last week they were behind on their rent.

That’s when a family member said not to go in there, because of the body inside. The managers thought the claim was an excuse to buy more time, and paid little attention.

By Thursday, when no check arrived,… Continue reading

Dog Rescued From Fukishima Exclusion Zone

Inside The Fukushima Exclusion Zone. When you stand in the center of Japan’s exclusion zone, there is absolute silence. The exclusion zone is the 20-kilometer (12-mile) radius around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, an area of high radiation contamination.

On March 12, the day after the quake and tsunami hit, 78,000 people were evacuated out of this area, believing they would return within a few days. As such, thousands of people left with their dogs tied up in the backyard, cats in their houses and livestock penned in barns.

Nearly a year later, animal carcasses litter the region.

Cows and pigs starved to death, their bones still in pens. Dogs dropped dead with disease.… Continue reading

WWE's New Network Launch Details

Following nearly a decade of successful channel launches by most major sports properties, the WWE is deep into negotiations with In Demand on a deal that would see the wrestling operation launch its cable channel in early spring, according to numerous media and sports industry sources.

WWE executives have told cable and satellite operators that it is expecting to reach 40 million homes for its April 1 launch, an impressive number that would put the channel on par with sports networks like Fuel and Fox Soccer.

To achieve that distribution number, WWE would still have to cut carriage deals with more than just In Demand, a consortium of the nation’s biggest cable operators: Comcast, Time… Continue reading

At a Fultondale City Council Meeting on 01/25/2012, Mayor Jim Lowery denied wanting to possess the Home Field Sports Grill property.

From AL.COM article on the subject.

FULTONDALE, Alabama — The battle between Fultondale officials and the owner of the closed Home Field Sports Grill took another turn on Wednesday.

Responding to recent allegations that the city was trying to obtain the property at 1501 Decatur Highway, city council members passed a resolution that stated: “The City does not desire to purchase, acquire, receive or otherwise take possession of that property for any reason. The City has no use for that property. The City only desires for that property, like all other properties in the City, to be used in… Continue reading

President Barack Obama 2012

President Obama delivers the 2012 State of the Union Address to Congress and our nation.

I was very impressed with his speech. If all he said comes true it will be great. Unfortunately it will soon be election time.

THE PRESIDENT:  Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:

Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq.  Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought — and several thousand gave their lives.

We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United… Continue reading

Ted Peters - The Man With The Golden Voice

Apparently he crashed and burned after the spot light went out.

In early January, a journalist in Ohio came across a homeless man possessed of a “golden radio voice.” That man, as you probably know, was Ted Williams, and the journalist’s video footage of him quickly became a hit on the internet and television. Williams got a makeover seemingly overnight, and soon he was doing voice-overs for Kraft products, appearing in TV ads, and fielding an announcing job offer from the Cleveland Cavaliers. But then reality struck.

After getting into an altercation with his daughter, an altercation for which he was not arrested, Williams was pressured into going into rehab for… Continue reading

Mayor Lowery..

I hereby appoint you the FidoSysop’s Hall Of Shame Inductee Award!

For those of you that are just tuning in. My Friend John Douglas of Fultondale Alabama, has a 21 year established small business. The Home Field Sports Grill as it is called was somewhat damaged in the April 27′th 2011 Tornado that tore through Fultondale.

It did quite a bit of damage to the business, but Mr. Douglas said it was not excessive. Even Google earth photos show the roof is still intact.

Since then, The City of Fultondale has came up with excuse after excuse attempting to discourage the Douglas Family from repairing and reopening their 21 year established business, and rejecting his plans that are… Continue reading

Judge Michael Malihi

Is this for real??

Attorney Orly Taitz says it will be ’100 times bigger than Watergate.’

A Georgia judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court in Atlanta Thursday for a hearing on a complaint that says Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen and can’t be president.

Orly Taitz, the California attorney who brought the legal challenge to Obama’s name on the March Georgia presidential primary ballot, says this is what she has been working for over the last three years.

“This will be 100 times bigger than Watergate,” she said Saturday morning, referring to the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon in 1974. “There are high ranking judges and federal officials who are involved… Continue reading

FidoSysop's 60th Birthday

I almost didn’t have this years birthday.

At 60, I just figured i would skip it, being 59 and holding sounded like a better deal to me.

But unfortunately the old biological clock just keeps on ticking..

At 20 I was totally crazy.. More sex drive than common sense.

At 30 life was pretty good. Sex was even better. I was somewhat more edumicated about life in general, but still had a lot to learn.

At 40 It really thought I knew it all.. But i was starting to slow down somewhat. Often i would rather take a nap then have sex.

At 50 i became somewhat rusty and squeaked and complained about all those aches and… Continue reading

Holy Crap! The internet is at war right now!

If you haven’t heard, Megaupload, the file-sharing giant known for hosting pirated material and download links, has officially been shutdown by the feds earlier today (1/19).

In retaliation, Anonymous, the hacker group known for killing websites in seconds, has targeted and taken down SEVERAL large government and industry-lead websites (and this is only the beginning…) including the RIAA’s official site, Universal Music Group, MPAA.org, the U.S. Copyright Office, BMI, Justice.gov and more; they’re all currently being hit with DDoS attacks by the group. This is supposedly the hacker’s larger coordinated attack in history! What’s next?! Well you know what they say, revenge is a bit*h. Let the game’s begin!… Continue reading

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand police raided several homes and businesses linked to the founder of Megaupload.com, a giant Internet file-sharing site shut down by U.S. authorities, on Friday and seized guns, millions of dollars, and nearly $5 million in luxury cars, officials said.

Police arrested founder Kim Dotcom and three Megaupload employees on U.S. accusations that they facilitated millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue. Extradition proceedings against them could last a year or more.

With 150 million registered users, about 50 million hits daily and endorsements from music superstars, Megaupload.com was among the world’s biggest file-sharing sites. According to a U.S. indictment, the site,… Continue reading

Yea!

We Won!

While I DO NOT Support Piracy.. I do support my rights as a Website Operator not to be Censored by Overzealous Government Abuse Of Power!

SOPA and PIPA would give the Feds too much power, and with Government Power Comes Abuse, plain and simple.

When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo and throwing doubt on their future viability.

The Senate had been scheduled to hold a procedural vote next week on whether to take up the Protect IP Act (PIPA) — a bill that once had widespread, bipartisan support. But on Friday, Senate Majority… Continue reading

The sun has unleashed a blast in Earth’s direction, and that should cause brighter-than-normal auroral displays this weekend. Skywatchers won’t be the only ones monitoring the storm: The folks in charge of power grids and orbiting satellites will also be on guard to make sure the disturbance in the (geomagnetic) force won’t be disruptive.

Word of today’s blast, technically known as a coronal mass ejection or CME, comes via SpaceWeather.com’s Tony Phillips. NASA says the outburst sparked an M3.2-class solar flare, as well as a stream of electrically charged particles that is due to interact with Earth’s magnetic field on Saturday. “Viewers can be on the lookout for increased aurora,” NASA says.

M-class flares are capable of causing brief radio… Continue reading

Thrust from obscurity to notoriety overnight, Capt. Francesco Schettino is the man at the center of the questions and recriminations over the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster.

As transcripts emerge of his conversations with the Italian coast guard on the fateful Friday night the ship ran aground, the 52-year-old’s every word is being pored over for clues as to what happened.

A picture is beginning to develop of a man who spent decades at sea, but who his employers say did not live up to his training or responsibilities at the helm of his ship.

With at least 11 deaths confirmed and about two dozen people still missing, Schettino may face charges including manslaughter, shipwreck and abandoning a ship when… Continue reading

Giglio, Italy. Italian authorities are considering when to call off the search for survivors aboard the wreck of the cruise liner Costa Concordia, the coast guard said Thursday, as rescuers used explosives to blow new holes in the ship in search of victims.

Authorities are mulling when to change the operation from rescue to recovery, coast guard spokesman Cosimo Nicastro said Thursday. Divers continued their search of the wreck into Thursday evening.

At least 11 people are known to have died in the disaster, and 21 are still missing, according to the Italian Crisis Unit.

Coast guard records published Thursday by an Italian newspaper pile further pressure on the captain of the Concordia and his officers, suggesting that the authorities… Continue reading

The captain of the Costa Concordia was ordered by the coastguard to return to the stricken ship after claiming that the evacuation was almost complete when it had scarcely begun, according to transcripts of radio calls and telephone conversations published on Tuesday.

The transcripts indicate that the captain, Francesco Schettino, said he was going to return to the vessel. But two Italian newspapers, which published the transcripts, said that he instead walked from the rocks where the liner had come to rest to the port of Giglio.

A witness who boarded the cruise ship Costa Concordia after it ran aground has added damning claims about the behaviour of the captain of the vessel. Mario Pellegrini, the deputy mayor of Giglio,… Continue reading

City Hall Is "Not Friendly" To Home Field!

Sure looks that way to me.

Especially since the CDA (Commercial Development Authority of Fultondale) owns the vacant lot next door. Which by the way was obviously paid for with taxpayers money.

Add in Fultondale Building Inspectors, Ed Hawkins and Darrel Aldrich, who are listed on the CDA’s Corporate Records. And it STINKS to High Heaven!

Snippet from Wikipedia: Eminent domain is an action of the state to seize a citizen’s private property, expropriate property, or seize a citizen’s rights in property with due monetary compensation, but without the owner’s consent. The property is taken either for government use or by delegation to third parties who will devote it to public… Continue reading