Costa Concordia UPDATE :: "Ship Righted"

I May Not be the Most Interesting Man Alive ....
Captured by Pat Darnell | Sep 17, 2013 | Bryan TX

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"I may not be the most interesting man in the world, but give me $400 million dollars and I will flip your ship." Senior Salvage Master Nick Sloane is welcomed by the inhabitants of the Giglio island after the parbuckling operation which succesfully uprighted the Costa Concordia

Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/costa-concordia-salvage-operation-live-2279122#ixzz2fBuFOWoX

Members of the US salvage company Titan and Italian firm Micoperi work at the wreck of Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship near the harbour of Giglio Porto.

Salvage workers attempt to raise the cruise ship today in the largest and most expensive maritime salvage operation in history, so-called "parbuckling", to rotated the ship by a series of cables and hydraulic machines.

A photo of Indian waiter Russel Rebello is shown by his brother Kevin near the stricken ship Costa Concordia

Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/costa-concordia-salvage-operation-live-2279122#ixzz2fBv9RsK2

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http://www.businessinsider.com/plan-to-salvage-costa-concordia-wreck-2012-12?op=1
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/04/world/europe/costa-concordia/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16587849
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16591495
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2012/02/bbc-news-costa-concordia-what-next-for.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10311659/Costa-Concordia-salvage-operation-live.html
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2013/sep/16/concordia-salvage-operation-giglio-parbuckling-live-updates
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24104741
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/costa-concordia-salvage-operation-live-2279122

Death Ship "Carnival Spirit"

[Picture LINK]  Paul Rossington and Kristen Schroder, from New South Wales state, were discovered missing Thursday morning after the Carnival Spirit docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, at the end of a 10-day journey, said New South Wales Police Superintendent Mark Hutchings.

Rescuers search for Australian couple who fell overboard - CBS News: "Carnival Corp. has been plagued by a series of high-profile problems in recent years. Last year, the Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy, killing 32 people. Also last year, the Costa Allegra caught fire and lost power in the Indian Ocean, leaving passengers without working toilets, running water or air conditioning for three days. Costa is a division of Carnival Corp.

In February, passengers aboard the Carnival Triumph spent five days without power in the Gulf of Mexico after an engine-room fire disabled the vessel. Those on board complained of squalid conditions, including overflowing toilets and food shortages."

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Comments

"... The Great and Powerful Oz said...

I'm afraid I have never seen the attraction in floating highrise hotels, so I don't care much about the industry.
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Yea OZ,
I concur with you. A work mate once replied to a female in the office who was bragging about a wonderful 12 day cruise around the Caribbean.

His reply: Why would I spend a lot of money to spend 12 days with 2,000 people I neither know or most likely wouldn't like on a boat I could not escape from?"

She frowned and walked away.

Frank and I "High-Fived" and went back to work. [Toejam said...September 28, 2012. LINK] ..."


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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57583828/
http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2012/09/salvaging-costa-concordia.html
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/09/2-carnival-cruise-passengers-missing-off-australian-coast/
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2012/01/moopigs-trend-spotter-department-cruise.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2012/02/moopigs-news-up-department-cruise-ship.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2012/07/costa-concordia-ship-wreck-near-italy.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/03/moopigs-vacation-like-kennedys-carnival.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2012/12/costa-concordia-update-salvage-scheme.html

Costa Concordia UPDATE :: Salvage Scheme

Captured by Pat Darnell | Dec 31, 2012 | Bryan TX

60 Minutes ran a story on the salvage of the cruise ship disaster, Costa Concordia, grounded and listing on the rocks of Giglio, Italy, since January 14, 2012.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Lessons learned in Concordia disaster have brought changes to cruise industry safety
• Disaster cast shadow on industry that maintains it is one of the safest modes of transport
• Sen. Rockefeller says cruise lines getting free ride on backs of U.S. taxpayers
• Industry group says members pay required taxes and plenty of port and other fees

 Plan To Salvage Costa Concordia Wreck - Business Insider: "Because the Costa Concordia is in a nationally protected marine park and coral reef, it must be removed from the area before it can be dismantled, posing countless difficulties. In a report on the efforts to remove the wreck, 60 Minutes' Leslie Stahl visited the site and recounted the remarkable salvage operation, which has a $400 million price tag."

The-plan-is-to-rotate-the-ship-upright-and-onto-an-underwater-platform. The-steel-that-makes-it-up-weighs-three-times-as-much-as-the-eiffel-tower-it-will-be-embedded-in-the-seafloor

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Hydraulic-pulleys-will-pull-the-costa-concordia-upright.

Then-it-will-float-up-leaving-more-of-its-structure-above-the-surface.

Once-the-ship-is-upright-the-extra-buoyancy-should-make-it-float.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/plan-to-salvage-costa-concordia-wreck-2012-12?op=1
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/04/world/europe/costa-concordia/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16587849
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16591495
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2012/02/bbc-news-costa-concordia-what-next-for.html

MooPig's Brain Industries :: "Roundup by Monsanto"

Those Who Should Hear This will, of course, Not Listen...
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Oct 14, 2012 | Bryan TX

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Roundup Herbicide Linked To Parkinson's-Related Brain Damage: "Published this month (April, 2012), the new study entitled "Glyphosate induced cell death through apoptotic and autophagic mechanisms," investigated the potential brain-damaging effects of herbicides, which the authors stated "have been recognized as the main environmental factor associated with neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease.("1"1 Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2012 Apr 4. Epub 2012 Apr 4. PMID: 22504123)

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Are you feeling brain damaged? It could be 'Roundup' herbicide that you put down on those pesky weeds in your lawn. People around here use it like it is a deterrent to demon possession. They spray this Monsanto brand on all the errant grass that might creep into their flower beds... they spritz the stuff from their leaky little Indian water pumps into the environment like it was table salt.

If the millionaires next door use it, well then everyone should use it. Goddamn!

At article: ... EXCERPT | " ... Here we report a patient with parkinsonism following chronic occupational exposure to glyphosate. A previously healthy 44- year-old woman presented with rigidity, slowness and resting tremor in all four limbs with no impairment of short-term memory, after sustaining long term chemical exposure to glyphosate for 3 years as a worker in a chemical factory. The chemical plant produced a range of herbicides including: glyphosate, gibberellins, and dimethyl hydrogen phosphite; however, the patient worked exclusively in the glyphosate production division. She only wore basic protection such as gloves or a face mask for 50 h each week in the plant where glyphosate vapor was generated. She frequently felt weak. Two months before she came to our clinic, she had experienced severe dizziness and blurred vision. ... "

Is your hand shaking; is your finger numb? Have you been laying down 'Roundup' for the past ten years or more? Did you wear gloves and protective clothing when you sprayed the stuff all over the place? Did you wear a protective aspirator while you exposed your family, your neighbors and their pets to your mad induced brutal attacks on weeds and unwanted grass?

Modes of Toxicity

• Carcinogen
• Endocrine Disruptor
• Genotoxic
• Biocide
• Cytotoxic
• Bioaccumulator
• Hepatotoxic
• Teratrogenic
• Clastogenic
• Oxidant
• Aquacidal
• Mutagenic
• Aromatase Disruptor
• Glutathione Down-regulator
• Malondialdehyde Up-regulator
• Necrotic
• Nephrotoxic ( Sayer Ji. no date. HERE)

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22504123
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/glyphosate-pesticides-leads-neurodegeneration-caenorhabditis-elegans
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/effect-pesticides-cell-survival-liver-and-brain-rat-tissues
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/exposure-glyphosate-andor-mnzn-ethylene-bis-dithiocarbamate-containing
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/measles-vaccine-and-glyphosate-induced-parkinsonism-has-been-reported
http://wakeup-world.com/2012/07/30/monsantos-roundup-herbicide-toxic-to-life-in-parts-per-billion-range/
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/research-roundup-diluted-450-fold-still-toxic-dna
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/glyphosate
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/parkinsonism-after-chronic-occupational-exposure-glyphosate-has-been-reported

MooPig FWD Email :: Massive Texas Drinking Water Radiation Cover-Up

Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Jan 22, 2012  |  Bryan TX

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Massive Texas Drinking Water Radiation Cover-Up Exposed: Top Gov Officials Knew All Along And Kept Silent :: "The emails that were ordered to be released by the state attorney general reveal radiation tests of public drinking water were falsified to prevent Federal violations that would have required the local water systems to be cleaned up.

Instead the Texas bureaucrats went along with the ploy to cover up the levels of radiation in water to protect their fascist corporate puppet masters and poisoned the public over the last 20 years causing an untold number of cancers and other illnesses." ( Higgins, Alexander. May 20, 2011. HERE)

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They need to get together with the think tanks and the spin doctors and come up with an excuse for why this cover up was allowed to go on for 20 years while people were poisoned with cancer and murdered by lying crooked politicians and government bureaucrats.


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http://theintelhub.com/2011/05/20/massive-texas-drinking-water-radiation-cover-up-exposed-top-gov-officials-knew-all-along-and-kept-silent/
http://texasvox.org/2010/11/17/radiation-in-houstons-tap-water-compounded-by-tceq-%E2%80%98lowballing%E2%80%99-radiation-scores-in-drinking-water-throughout-texas/

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MooPig's REWIND :: Discovered Images Department

The NYC Solution :: Diversity!
Retrieved for Ed Purposes by Pat Darnell

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Options of pictures found in Google Images prior to image recognition software trials is regarded ... plagiarism in posting these is "unintended." We simply like this image... don't you?