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Coast Guard told captain: go back aboard

Do you hear me? the Coast Guard officer shouted as the captain of the grounded. Costa Concordia sat safe in a life raft and frantic passengers struggled to escape after the ship rammed into a reef off the Tuscan coast. The dramatic recording made public Tuesday shows Capt. Francesco Schettino resisted orders to return to his ship to direct the evacuation, saying it was too dark and the ship was tipping perilously. The exchange came to light as the death toll nearly doubled to 11 after divers pulled the bodies of four men and a woman, all wearing life vests, from the wreckage. The Costa Concordia had more than 4,200 passengers and crew on board when it slammed into the reef Friday off the tiny island of Giglio after Schettino made an unauthorized maneuver from the ship’s programmed course — apparently to show off the luxury liner to the island’s residents. [...] the recording of his conversation with Italian Coast Guard Capt. Gregorio De Falco makes clear he fled before all passengers were off — and then defied De Falco’s repeated orders to go back. The audio, first made available on the website of the Corriere della Sera newspaper and authenticated by the Coast Guard, was broadcast throughout the day on Italian television to a stunned nation. The five bodies discovered Tuesday were adults in their 50s or 60s, each wearing the orange vests that passengers use, indicating they were not crew members, said a Coast Guard spokesman, Cmdr. Filippo Marini. Navy spokesman Alessandro Busonero told Sky TV 24 the holes would help divers enter the wreck more easily. Mediterranean waters in the area were relatively calm Tuesday with waves just a foot high, but they were expected to reach nearly 6 feet (1.8 meters) Wednesday, according to meteorological forecasts. The safe removal of the fuel has become a priority second only to finding the missing, as the wreckage site lies in a maritime sanctuary for dolphins, porpoises and whales. Smit’s operations manager, Kees van Essen, said the company was confident the fuel could safely be extracted using pumps and valves to vacuum the oil out to waiting tanks.

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SIDEBAR: 

Something is not right with this Captain, something smells funny. Was he paid a large amount of money to do this and walk away, like a mafia hit. Or was he drinking or drugs on the job and didn’t give a damn. Or is he a heartless SOB and everyone for themselves so to speak. He should definitely be held accountable for all those innocent lives, that thought they where traveling in safety, and security.

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VODKA CARAMEL FRIED CHICKEN – whoo-hoo!

Very simple to prepare, and afterwards will make you slap yo Mama, lol lol

Vodka Caramel Fried Chicken

ingredients:  1. Cut up chicken,   2. 1  1/2 cups of Milk,   3. 1  2/3 cups of Vodka Caramel,    4. 1 tsp of Sea Salt,   5.  1 tsp of sugar,    6.  2 eggs beaten,   7.  1 tsp of Black Pepper.

Ok here we go, such fun

Place cut up chicken is a plastic container that we will cover later.  Mix all the rest of the ingredients together in a bowl.  Pour liquid over chicken in plastic container and cover.  Put in fridge for 3 hrs.

Ok, now we are ready to cook this fantastic chicken.

Make sure each piece of chicken is covered in flour, place in a skillet of 2 cups of Olive Oil and 1 stick of butter.  Cook over a med-high temperature until golden brown.  Now don’t start snacking until all is done, you won’t want to eat the rest of your meal.   Feeds 4 folks.

Added attraction – Add spinach, carrots, or corn, or a fresh salad to compliment your meal.

(recipe by Lennis)

 

                               

Uhmnnnnnn I like that………

Manifesting Results –

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Evelyn Lauder Dies At 75 – “The Estee Lauder”

The beauty mogul sadly passed away this weekend.

Evelyn died at her Manhattan home on Saturday.

The Estee Lauder senior corporate vice president and founder of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation has been an inspiration to women worldwide.

In her time working at Estee Lauder, founded by her mother-in-law, Evelyn has helped to develop countless lines in skincare, make-up and fragrance, receiving the Fragrance Foundation Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.

As well as her good business sense, Evelyn is remembered for her warmth, generosity and unrelenting work as a philanthropist.

She was “an American icon”, Tommy Hilfiger has said of his former colleague.

In 1992 she founded the pink ribbon breast cancer campaign alongside friend and fashion editor Alexandra Penney, dishing out the bows at Lauder counters with self-examination charts.

Later the same year she also launched the Estee Lauder Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign to raise funds, and the following year the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Nearly 20 years on the ribbon has become a ubiquitous symbol of breast cancer awareness and over 65 million have been distributed. Funds raised have helped to open the Evelyn H Lauder Breast Centre in New York.

Bruins 5, Canucks 2: Bruins Extend a Bruising Series to the Limit

The Boston Bruins will live to play another day, forcing a Game 7 in Vancouver with a 5-2 victory. Scoring four times in the first period, the Bruins established an early lead and never relented.

The series has stayed true to form. The Canucks have won each game in Vancouver, where goaltender Roberto Luongo has been marvelous. In Boston he is a sieve. Go figure.

He was pulled after allowing three goals in a span of 3 minutes 4 seconds of the first period Monday night. In Games 2 and 3 here, he allowed a total of 12.

While Boston fans howled with glee inside TD Garden, a couple of hundred Canucks fans sat mutely, having traveled across the continent to see a beatdown.

Brad Marchand, Milan Lucic, Andrew Ference and Michael Ryder struck for the goals over a 4:14 span. Luongo was pulled after Ference’s goal, having stopped 5 of 8 shots in a mere 8 minutes 35 seconds of play.

PRACTICE LOVING THEM:

Here are some things you are not supposed to love. Practice loving them:
Sex
Money
Yourself
Power
Glory
Fame
Success
Winning
The Adulation of Others
Being Better
Having More
Knowing How
Knowing Why
Knowing God

“THE THINGS YOU WANT MOST”

Yet I tell you this: love, love, love the things you desire – for your love of them draws them to you.

These things are the stuff of life. When you love them, you love life! When you declare that you desire them, you announce that you choose all the good that life has to offer!

So choose sex – all the sex you can get! And choose power – all the power you can muster! And choose fame – all the fame you can attain! And choose success – all the success you can achieve! And choose winning – all the winning you can experience!

Yet do not choose sex instead of love, but as a celebration of it. And do not choose power over, but power with. And do not choose fame as end in itself, but as a means to a larger end. And do not choose success as the expense of others, but as a tool with which to assist others. And do not choose winning at any cost, but winning that costs others nothing, and even brings them gain as well.

Go ahead and choose the adulation of others – but see all others as being upon which you can shower adulation, and do it!
Go ahead and choose being better – but not better than others; rather, better than you were before..
Go ahead and choose having more, but only so that you have more to give.

And yes, choose “knowing how” and “knowing why” – so that you can share all knowledge with others.
And by all means choose to KNOW GOD, in fact, CHOOSE THIS FIRST, and all else will follow.

All of your life you have been taught that it is better to give than to receive. Yet you cannot give what you do not have.

Strauss-Kahn assembles crisis team to fight back

The former IMF chief’s advisers will have their work cut out for them, and they may have to use different approaches to handling his legal problems in the United States while trying to bolster his reputation in his native France and beyond.

This may be why the range of damage-control specialists being assembled is so diverse. People consulted or hired so far include ex-CIA spies, experienced New York criminal investigators and some of the best-connected public relations specialists in the French-speaking world.

Strauss-Kahn, who is under house arrest in New York, has denied charges of a criminal sexual act, attempted rape, sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching. The case could take several months to come to court.

The Frenchman has just found a more permanent place to stay following four days in jail and several more in an apartment besieged by media hordes. A person close to Strauss-Kahn’s entourage, who asked to remain anonymous, said only now that he and his wife Anne Sinclair have finally settled in a two-story townhouse in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood are they and their lawyers able to start mapping out a defense strategy.

In Washington, the team is in the process of signing up TD International, a “strategic advisory” firm which offers both public relations and investigative services and is staffed and run by former CIA operations officers and U.S. diplomats.

In New York, according a person familiar with the arrangement, the team has hired a private investigations firm experienced in criminal cases. The firm, Guidepost Solutions, describes itself as a “full-service investigations and security consulting firm.”

In Paris, Strauss-Kahn’s team has sought counsel, at least informally, from some of his long-time personal advisers affiliated with Euro RSCG, one of France’s best-connected PR outfits. While the firm has denied it is involved, a source close to Strauss-Kahn’s entourage said at least some of the advisers who have worked with Strauss-Kahn in the past are quietly advising him again now.

Precisely what Strauss-Kahn’s defense team expects — or hopes — each of these firms to do is unclear.

SIDEBAR – Do you believe he is capable of rape? Has this one on way to long, and he
finally got caught? Should he be held accountable for his actions?

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Ex-IMF boss remains jailed

The former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) remained in jail on Friday after defence lawyers cited problems meeting bail conditions.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who denies charges of attempting to rape a hotel maid, posted bail of $1m.

He agreed to be confined to a flat rented by his wife, with an electronic monitor and kept under guard.

But residents of the Manhattan building refused to accept him, forcing lawyers to find other housing, reports said.

Mr Strauss-Kahn is charged with seven counts including four felony charges – two of criminal sexual acts, one of attempted rape and one of sexual abuse – plus three misdemeanour offences, including unlawful imprisonment.

His accuser is a 32-year-old widow originally from Guinea in west Africa who reportedly told authorities Mr Strauss-Kahn accosted her after she entered his hotel room to clean it.

Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, denies the allegations and on 6 June is set to enter a formal plea.

He has spent four nights at the notorious Rikers Island jail in New York City since his arrest on Saturday over the alleged incident at the Sofitel hotel.

TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS

‘When a blind man leads a blind man, they both end up falling in the ditch’ (Matthew ) (15:14TM)

Your development, and in some cases your healing, can only take place when you walk with the right people!

Remember the story of the scorpion that asked a frog to carry him across the river because he could not swim? How do I know you will not sting me? the frog asked. If I do, we’ll both drown, he replied. So the scorpion hopped on. Half way across the river the scorpion stung him. As they were drowning the frog said, ‘You promised you wouldn’t. Why did you sting me? The scorpion replied, I cannot help it, it’s my nature to sting.

Learn to recognize toxic relationships and walk away from them before they take you down with them. A toxic relationship is like a body part with gangrene; if you do not amputate, the infection will spread. Unless you have the courage to cut off what will not heal, you will end up losing much more.

You cannot partner successfully with someone who does not share your goals. When you feel passionately about something but they do not, it is like trying to dance the fox trot with someone who only wants to waltz. You picked the wrong dance partner. Do not get tied up with someone who does not share your God-given purpose.

Some issues can be corrected through teaching and leadership, but you cannot teach somebody to care. And if they do not care, they will infect your environment, ruin your productivity and break your rhythm with constant complaints.
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After reading the article regarding Toxic Relationships below I decided to share as I believe that a lot of us have been and some of us still are in these kinds of relationships, but thank God most of us had enough sense to get out of them and if you are still in one – Run for your very life! LOL