The Tale Of John Titor The Time Traveler From Year 2036

This is The Tale of John Titor The Time Traveler From Year 2036


Who is John Titor?
Since 2 November 2000, John Titor appeared in the forum with the name Timetravel_0, Amrik soldiers claiming to be from the year 2036. He pulled his time machine post photos and manuals. John was ordered back to the 1970s to take his grandfather's ancient computer (IBM 5100). In his time (2036), UNIX computers have problems (like Y2K) and the IBM 5100 which is only able to handle it! John should be back to his time but he stopped by in 2001 to warn his parents of threat in the near future. That's when John appeared on the forum. March 21, 2001, but later John excused himself back to his time and since then he never appeared again in the forum.


Is he REAL or FAKE?
John claimed that his name was just a pseudonym. His real name is never revealed. He says he was born in 1998 and his parents live in Florida. John is certainly a shock when his parents know who John was. John also had to meet himself (which was 3 years old at the time). John left a few things from the future to his parents and asked them to make a video of his departure back to the future. The things is now kept by the lawyer of John's parents and it is said to be destroyed. Video departure of John was sent to several people but never published. Surprisingly, after the departure of John, John's parents moved from Florida. Moments later, two devastating hurricanes struck the area! Did they move because John had warned them?

Controversy

However, people who do not believe him pressured with a question that if John is really from the future, why John did not warn the world about the tragedy of WTC 9/11, Bali bombings, and the tsunami Aceh which has put the world at shock. But people who believe in  him defending John that those tragic event is nothing compared to World War 3 and the 2015 civil war which tore America into five fractions (that's why John did not consider it important to mention the WTC tragedy, etc.).


Time Travel Theory (Grandfather PARADOX)
Old people think, if A back into the past and kills his grandfather before the grandfather had descendants (father / mother of the A), then the A will disappear. Because without a father / mother, the A will not born. But problems arise. If in the past, the grandfather was dead before he had any offspring, how might the A can exist in the past to kill him? For logic, the future has been rewritten and the A should be lost. Then why the A could kill his grandfather in the past? Paradox / problem is called the Grandfather Paradox.


John Titor said that the paradox is WRONG. For if the A back into the past or forward into the future, he will land on ANOTHER WORLD similar but different. In order to more easily explained, as the URLs of the river which consists of trillions of drops of water. World / our time is a drop of water which flows along drops in other water forms a stream. John's world and our world are similar, both like drops of water. By visiting our times, John jumped from the world and landed in our world. Although our times are similar to the past of the world John was in, our world are not the same. If John killed his grandfather and sisters in our world, the grandfather of John which comes from his world will remain safe. For the person who killed John in the other people who we are similar but different. So basically, if we return to the past and wish I could change something to make future changes, it could never happen. Because the changes happened to affect only the world that we visited.

Due to our world with the world of John is not the same, although similar, there are several things that may not happen according to the "prophecy" John. John expressed some terrible events of his time. Those events may not happen in our world because our world and the one John enters are DIFFERENT. BUT with a presence in our world and the actions to divulge some of the events which MAY have changed the future of our world without us knowing! (Eg, just maybe, the world we should not be able to create a time machine in the near future but because John tell his experience, scientists will be challenged to create a time machine sooner. As a result, the world we know ahead of time machine which should be)


According to the physics formula, the further we traveled back in time, the world that we encounter will be more different. It may be in the world of the past that we went to, humans fail to evolve. Due to this, we return to the origin is also not easy. We'll land on which the world similar but not identical, similar to events in the film series "Sliders".


Because the number of parallel worlds was incalculable, impossible for a time to return to the same period 2 times because he'll land on another world. So John can not come back to our world in the year 2001 2 times or more. John Titor if any one else, so John was definitely John who came from the world / the OTHER (who never came into the world / our time).


"FORECAST" JOHN vs REALITY IN 2008
It's easy to think of John as the lying science-fiction, many people agree that there is something horrible about him. For highly accurate scientific explanation! Professor Ronald Mallet of the University of Connecticut confirmed the theory of John and even reportedly was building a time machine! Some predictions of John (in the 2001 sound stupid) started to come true!


1. JOHN: Olympic Games 2004 is the last one. The next Olympic Games scheduled to take place in 2040.
REALITY: As do we know, many people are calling for a boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics because China is considered not to respect Tibetan Rights. If true boycott the Olympics may fail!


2. JOHN: In 2001, John called a poem "A Soldier's Winter" (An Army Cold Musin). He claimed that the poem was written by a military personnel Amrik. When the poet died, his poetry edited and used as a symbol in the John.
REALITY: In our time, a retired Army colonel from Amrik named Larry Cluck wrote a poem entitled "A Soldier's Winter" AFTER John mentioned it!


3. JOHN: time machine power supply black hole. The black hole technology has been started since the early 2000s. In his time, black holes easily created with a special machine.
REALITY: (February 23, 2007) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, at the Sandia National Laboratory, researchers created a machine called Z. Then electricity was stolen from the city to turn on the giant generator engine for Z. Resultant energy is directed into a vacuum chamber and forming a mini "sun" which is hotter than the core temperature of our sun. Too hot, "the sun" went off and turned into a mini black hole which could suck up anything (even light!). The black hole could even suck up everything and cause the apocalypse. But luckyly, the mini black hole was destroyed immediately after created. The study of black holes has been started since 1990. Reportedly, they would develop a black hole into alternative energy. Z machine can also melt the diamonds in just a blink of an eye!


4. JOHN: Cancer and AIDS is still prevalent in his time, but scientists are finding other ways to fight cancer, by using a VIRUS!
REALITY: In Calgary, Canada, in 2007, scientists developed a virus which can be used to fight cancer cell, the virus was called VSV. The virus was successful in terminating cancer cells on experiment objects, rat lab.


5. JOHN: time machine C204 model which is made by the U.S. military.
REALITY: The U.S. military since 1989 has developed a means of generating gravity rotating / spinning gravity device (project 8914-I). This tool is very big and tall, vertical shaft rotates anti-clockwise. Spins so fast that the dimension of time and space are distorted. Electromagnetic energy which is generated. This tool is similar to C204.


6. JOHN: Internet in his time did not depend on the ISP. the new model of Internet could "stand" alone (apart from the backbone), can be installed anywhere, can be moved. And has its own energy.
REALITY: Intel developed the Wi-Fi technology which can transmit data as far as 60miles! Residents in remote outback can use the internet at a later date. This technology is called "Rural Connectivity Platform" (RCP) consists of a processor, "radio", special software and an antenna. Being able to send data 6.5 megabits / sec! This tool only requires solar energy to function!

7. JOHN: Mad cow disease outbreak in his time and will kill more people without stopping.
REALITY: This is NOT endemic diseases like bird flu. But research on the tribes of Papua New Guinea (the Fore) shows that the germs that cause mad cow can hide in the human body for 56 years without showing any symptoms? Many people exposed to the Fore similar to mad cow disease (due to cannibalism), but they lived many years before finally die horribly (paranoid / crazy and die). Experts theorize that it is most likely for people to suffer from mad cow disease without knowing it for decades. And when the disease was already "mature", no cure can help.


8. JOHN: Stephen Hawking has a wrong theory about the one mini black hole, that it can not be hold as the black holes will evaporate as soon as formed.
REALITY: A few years after the departure of John, Stephen Hawking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_hawking) really changed his theory about the black hole when he visited the laboratory CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research Agency). Stephen was amazed at CERN could produce mini black hole and success in holding it!


"Forecast" That did not happen, or maybe not yet
1. America will fall into poverty and chaos caused by large-scale natural disasters. US residents who survived will be starved and irritated because of the civil war. America will be torn apart. Large cities will be razed to the ground. Having risen from the destruction US will have a president with (some of which represent areas of US president who split). Life becomes simpler. There was no factory which creates luxury products, vehicles, and light meals / canned. People will produce their own food (farming / gardening) because many of the area exposed to radiation and disease. People will do a lot of reading and speaking. Religious life will rise (because of all the trauma in disaster, war, and death).


2. China took advantage of the narrowness and the chaotic time in the US, China will invade Taiwan, Korea, and Japan! The signs to that direction has emerged. China to spend a lot of money to renew its weapons. It even make the US curious.


3. Russia is also becoming crazy, attacking the U.S., EU, and China. As a result, the European Union will be broken. European countries and China will be destroyed by the Russian.


Conclusion
Both John Titor real or fake, it will not change the fact that we are on the verge of a new world. And Z machine experiments with black holes, will soon open a new dunia2. Let's hope there will be no accidents as events in the film The Mist where monster2 other world into our world due to errors in the opening dimension of the project. But it must be admitted, "spooky" to know that some "predictions" John Titor was true!


Other Story about John Titor
Someone claiming to be from year 2036 to year 2000 came to post on internet forums, claiming to be American soldiers in the years 2036 to 1975 on a mission to take the world's first portable computer that is IBM 5100, and dropped in 2000-2001 to see his family.
As for the pros and cons of these people in the forum became a hot topic at the time, because he can prove the things that will happen in the NCC, he also upload a photo of his time machine, how it works, and also spread the scientific formula of time the machine is in the forum .


Some people on the forum started to strafe John Titor with a variety of questions, the conclusion that it could be that John Titor is a person who has an intelligent and in-depth knowledge of science which, although John claimed to specialize in History is not on the field of computers and science.

Who is John Titor? He admitted that he was born in 1998 in Florida, he took on the task of the year 2036 to 1975 to take an IBM PC 5100, which according to him where pc's are interchangeable languages ​​unix solve a variety of languages. According to him it was only technology in IBM PC which only several people alone who know the technology and never again will put in his next generation pc until 2036.
According to him all the unix system time error will face in the years 2036, that's why 5100 IBM becomes very important.


It is instantly recognized by the IBM, and they were shocked, because only 5 people knows about it, and it also happened in 1975.


As for the concept of a time machine, John admitted the machine C204 could only bring 3 people at a time, which is owned by the American military in 2036, and there is the time machine rather strange things in his future, there is another type which is C206 which is greater made by GE (General Electric) can be up to 7 people. This machine is only able to bring them to the maximum of 60 years to the past with the speed of 10 years per hour.


Time machine theory according to John Titor
1. Whatever I do with going to the past will not change my future, because we live in a different dimension. So according to him that the future is a decision. whatever decisions are made which, in the future it is no answer.
2. Time machine so long as the weight of his form with Load Ammunition Boxes reach 500kg, he must put the device in the car with a powerful suspension, and if in turn will hit a small black hole which takes us back to the past. and when it was all be sucked into a black hole that includes his or her car to the place of destination in the trip will be very hot, it's hard to breathe, and if you aim it later turns out there who objects or walls blocking your presence at the same point at the automated machines time will switch off. so you do not move from one point to the other, but you move to another dimension.
3. The laws of quantum physics theory Everett-Wheeler is distinguished for a time machine, this model can also be called the Many-Worlds Interpretation or in other words many possible outcomes that will occur in the future based on today's decision, his example, if I go back to 1975 to kill my grandfather, then I go back to 2036, I will continue to exist, as did my parents. But on the dimensions of 1975 my future and my parents do not exist anymore. That is the one explanation of the many worlds interpretation.


Prediction

• John is never going to give predictions for sports related tips, or to enrich themselves
• John is never going to give predictions to the someone to avoid death, accident, tragedy.
• John would never appoint / full name someone who will take effect later in the future.

Ok John in his posts never give predictions directly, the following is a summary of his prediction which has been the subject of discussion during the fifth month of the John november 2000 - march 2001.

1. John said initial Tipler and Kerr, a scientist who will take effect with a time machine. Name the two men were tracked and apparently they exist and they are professors of physics.
2. The basic concept of a time machine will be put forward by CERN in 2001, in 2000-2001 there's not many fact who know about the Organization of CERN, and in 2001 was bener pd CERN invented the concept of black hole states, where it will be the basis of a time machine.
3. John Titor gave details of a time machine that he used our KPD, which contains the magnetic housing units for dual microsignularities, Electron injection manifold to alter mass and gravity of microsingularities, Cooling and x-ray venting system, Gravity sensors (VGL system), Main clocks ( cesium 4 units), Main computer units (3). Scientists claim today and machine-made operational way which allows to perform John's time travel.
4. Fast predictions about American John, he stated that starting in 2004 USA will start a civil war, in which between the years 2004-2008 there were demonstrations and unrest in the USA, in 2008-2015 the peak of the civil war.
5. World war 3 will start in 2015, he said Russia will attack America with nuclear in 2015, automatically stop the civil war in America and they are united against russia and the U.S. will only be formed into five states with the president of each state with its capital move to nebraska. According to him big cities in America will be destroyed also in Europe, China, and the Middle East. As for who was not involved in world war 3 is South America and Australia, New Zealand. This war will eliminate 3 billion world population.
6. Mad cow disease outbreak and will intensify in 2036, because the disease can dwell in the human body during 30 more age and get to work as we go from the old, the disease has no cure, while AIDS, cancer can be overcome by using viruses to fight cancer itself (theory of cancer has been proven in our times).
7. Food and clean water is very difficult to obtain due to the nuclear radiation, in the year 2036 everyone will be very careful with food / drink that will be in its consumption, John said he was very scared in 2000-2001 which saw the interchangeable at will like ordering food in fastfood without checking the health food.
8. The future will return to farm life, religion will become very strong, a lot of people who regretted the PD3 only because of the political game.
9. John had stated in NY there will be a skyscraper that will disappear in the near future (9/11) and found no his weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East (Iraq) continue to make American politics to war.
10. IT developments will greatly expand, he said that would be a lot of people will create their own video and upload them to the internet (youtube) and internet system will be independent with a small tool with only the use of solar energy can emit a signal so far 60miles (wi-max)
11. In the year 2036 hydrogen energy and solar thermal energy plays a very important factor and more efficient
12. You are now just past the terrible disaster which, try again and thought what the dreaded 1 to 1.5 years ago (year 1999), by mailing in the forum which is intent on Y2K disaster, they claimed that John had returned to 1975 to notify the scientists about Y2K disaster.
13. According to John, the social life of society today is very severe, because we are all so lazy, selfish, individualistic, indifferent to socialize like in the future, and many who spend the time to reply useless stuff. Wake up and try to see the state for all around us, the more natural condition is broken, the earth is dying again.
14. In the year 2036 there is no organization that will protect your health, so if you are seriously ill, get ready to dig your own grave. (currently we have health insurance from the US for the entire population)
15. Temperature in the world would be much cooler.
16. I know about the virtual prediction about the year 2012, something unique will happen, like the story about red sea egypt. but that does not make the world apocalypse.
17. Yahoo and Microsoft is no longer exist in 2036.
18. MARS AND UFOs, until the year 2036 we still do not anything on Mars, so anything about UFO still a mystery, although scientists in 2036 had stated that the UFO / alien also is time traveler of the future and Alien is the humans who have evolved from natural changes / radiation / war, they were aliens who have internal body structure and organ that's the same with humans.

John Titor last post date 21 March 2001 to say goodbye, and he went back to the year 2036.


John Titor never asked him to record the time machine when he used to go back to the year 2036 and uploaded to the Internet through a family lawyer Larry Harber, but somehow it does not record video uploads, some say the tape was taken by the American intelligence.


When John returned to 2036, the family soon moved to nebraska Titor, a week after that happened ferocious typhoon hit Florida and destroy homes in florida Titor.


Currently Titor family secret existence, and for the public who wish to make contact with his family can go through his lawyer Larry Harber.


Some things are suggested John tells us,
* Do not eat or use products from animals which feed on carrion or eat each other.
* Do not kiss or have sex with people you do not know
* Learning is basic sanitation and water purification
* Make a habit is to use a firearm, learn to shoot and clean guns.
* Always provide medical box and learn to use it
* Find 5 friends who is in between radius 100mil you believe in and are always in contact.
* Pick up a copy of the U.S. Law and read it
* Decrease your eating
* Look for a bicycle and two sets of spare tires, bike for 10 miles a week
* Think about what you should take if you must leave the house within 10 minutes and will never return again.

Top Success Stories Of People Who Quit Their Jobs - Part 1

Thinking you shouldn't quit your job because you thought it will eventually ruin your life, then you should read this top success stories of people who quit their everyday jobs. This is actually the first part of the trilogy story that i've collected from the internet, hope you all like it.


Success after quitting your office job is not guaranteed. But for some people can get lucky once said 'I quit. "With hard work and determination, they can now turn to gain success.


The following is the success stories of people who quit their everyday jobs. These people could gain millions of dollars and creating their own wealth.

Shep and Ian Murray, Vineyard Vines

Two brothers, Shep and Ian Murray was frustrated with their work behind a desk at a company in Manhattan. Shep Murray previously was an Account Executive at an advertising company, while Ian Murray worked at a small public relations firm. In 1998, Shep Murray resigned, his brother followed 10 minutes later.

They then took cash from credit cards to start a Vineyard Vines, a tie which is based in Martha's Vineyard. The idea they took cash from credit cards was scorned and considered stupid.

At first, they sold the ties it in a backpack, on the beach, on boats and in bars. They sold out 800 tie in the first week. They quickly memasannya again, paying debts and moved into its first office. A decade later, their business now covers the entire clothing line.


Currently there are 18 retail stores throughout the country Vine Vineyard, and the network can be found in nearly 500 stores. Vineyard Vine expected to print the sales up to U.S. $ 100 million in 2011.

Bill Phelps and Rick Wetzel, Wetzel's Pretzels

Bill Phelps

Bill Phelps and Rick Wetzel formerly worked together at Nestle Wetzel's Pretzels when the concept was born. Both are on a business trip when Wetzel said to Phelps about his wife's idea to create a large, soft pretzels and sold at the mall. That night, they sat at the bar and describe its business plan on a cloth napkin.

Rick Wetzel

Wetzel then sold his Harley Davidson to fund the exercise of business is at leisure. They took a partner to create the recipes in the kitchen Phelps. And when the time came to open the store, they tried to convince the owner of the mall to come to their house and try his creation. And it turns out that the mall owners like the taste, so willing to rent space to store Wetzel's Pretzels first.


That was 1994. A year later, Wetzel and Phelps get his luck when they get some package deals (to quit) from Nestle. They open again in a few shops before deciding to mewaralabakannya in 1995. Currently there are Wetzel's Pretzels 250 stores across the U.S., with locations in Japan and India are expected to be opened this year. Sales across the region is estimated to reach U.S. $ 100 million with sales growth reached 9% in 2011.

Terry Finley, West Point Thoroughbreds

Terry Finley completed his military duty in 1990 when he and his wife, Debbie and then buy a horse for U.S. $ 5,000. Horses that are named Sunbelt's won his first race and was caught Finley.

"Doing what you love and make a professional is much better than just working for a living," said Finley.


West Point Thoroughbreds now buy 20-25 horses each year, form a group of investors who can make a profit when his horses won, breed and sell. Since 2007, their horses have won more than 20% of the race, thus making them able to reap U.S. $ 16 million. Their annual sales to reach U.S. $ 7 million.

This top success stories of people who quit their jobs is clearly a great inspiration for times like today, as for you younger people out there be determined and confident in gaining your success, good luck !

Daily Treat: Megaupload Shutdowned By The FBI, Owners Arrested

Megaupload has been Shutdowned By The FBI and Owners are reportedly Arrested, could you believe that after all this time the file sharing sites that are quite popular, from this day can not be accessed anymore because it is force-closed by the FBI and U.S. Justice Department.

Closure of Megaupload was called because on that site found many pirated content that violates intellectual property rights.

As reported by the LA Times, in addition to the megaupload.com site closure, founder of Megaupload is also charged with violating intellectual property rights law.

Kim Dotcom (formerly named Kim Schmitz) and Mathias Ortmann, the two founders Megaupload, rumored to have been arrested in New Zealand.

Currently, Megaupload http://www.megaupload.com addresses which have been inaccessible again. Similarly, all download links that is placed on the Megaupload file can not be accessed.

However, the group Anonymous, via his Twitter account (@ YourAnonNews), mentions Megaupload already online again. However, this time not using http://www.megaupload.com address, but with a "direct hit" to the IP number, http://109.236.83.66.

On that page, there is the inscription:
WE DO NOT HAVE ANY DOMAIN NAME FOR NOW, ONLY THIS IP ADDRESS (http://109.236.83.66) pishing THE SITES TO BEWARE!
This is the NEW SITE MEGAUPLOAD! We Are Working to be back full again

Based on this information, it looks like Megaupload is trying to get online again. We'll just wait and see how they will react on this shutdown of megaupload.com by the FBI.

Daily Treat: Katy Perry Kissed A Fan In Jakarta Live Concert

Jakarta - Katy Perry Kissed A Fan In Jakarta Live Concert, by doing that she has successfully made the audience smile in 'California Dreams Tour' on Thursday night, especially for Adry (21). Adry invited onto the stage with Katy Perry and had the opportunity to talk and even kissed by the singer of 'Fireworks'.

"Initially she just ask legal age in Indonesia, but probably because she was confused so she look for a guy who would open the his shirt then go ​​up to the stage. I spontaneously took off my shirt, she then suddenly seeing at my direction, and i continued to be appointed, ask how old am i? where do i live, and then immediately told me to climbed onto the stage. I did not at expect this at all, i am really happy" he told local press via telephone on Friday.

Adry, who admit to being a huge fans of Katy Perry did not have the time to wear his shirt when told to go up onto the stage with his idol. Endless shouts were heard throughout the men's arrival at the stage when Katy also took the opportunity to touch the Adry's body and comment on the tattoo when Adry still bare chest. Not only that, Adry also got a chance to be kissed by Katy Perry.

"Absolutely doesn't know would be kissed, I instantly felt like speechless, stunned, confused myself, I do not even thought at all. Then she ask me why I carry a mobile phone, then i say 'You want to take a picture with me? Want to kiss me on the cheek? 'the words just came out without i thinking first" he admits.

The man who majored in law, several times repeated the scene of taking photos when Katy Perry kissed him. He admitted he was very nervous and shaky.

"Beyond expectations really, I can't believe it went like this," he concluded.


That was the luckiest guy, right? could you believe that? Katy Perry kissed a fan in Jakarta live concert ^_^

Daily Treat: Latest Luxury Cruise Ship Accident, Ran Aground Off The Coast Of Tuscany

The story of the latest disastrous accident out at the sea, as quoted from Yahoo News: A Luxury cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, sending water pouring in through a 160-foot (50-meter) gash in the hull and forcing the chaotic evacuation of some 4,200 people from the listing vessel early Saturday. Three bodies were recovered from the sea.

There were reports that three other people had died after the accident late Friday night near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, but those reports were not yet confirmed, Coast Guard Cmdr. Francesco Paolillo said.

Twelve hours after the accident, the ship was lying virtually flat, its right side submerged in the water.

Passengers complained the crew failed to give instructions on how to evacuate the Costa Concordiaand that the evacuation drill was only scheduled for Saturday afternoon. Authorities still hadn't counted all the survivors.

Luxury Cruise Ship Accident Happens At Night

"It was so unorganized, our evacuation drill was scheduled for 5 p.m.," said Melissa Goduti, 28, of Wallingford, Connecticut, who had set out on the cruise of the Mediterranean hours earlier. "We had joked what if something had happened today."

Helicopters plucked to safety some 50 people who were trapped on the ship after it listed so badly they couldn't launch lifeboats, Paolillo told The Associated Press in Rome by telephone from his command in the Tuscan port city of Livorno. Some survivors were rescued by boats in the area. Coast guard rescuers were continuing to search the ship for passengers.

Passenger Mara Parmegiani, a journalist, told the ANSA news agency that "it was like a scene from the Titanic."

Survivor Christine Hammer, from Bonn, Germany, shivered near the harbor of Porto Santo Stefano, on the mainland, after stepping off a ferry from Giglio. She was wearing elegant dinner clothes — a cashmere sweater, a silk scarf — along with a large pair of hiking boots, which a kind islander gave her after she lost her shoes in the scramble to escape, along with her passport, credit cards and phone.

Luxury Cruise Ship Accident In The Morning

Hammer, 65, told the AP that she was eating her first course, an appetizer of squid, on her first night aboard her first-ever cruise, a gift to her and her husband, Gert, from her local church where she volunteers.

Suddenly, "we heard a crash. Glasses and plates fell down and we went out of the dining room and we were told it wasn't anything dangerous," she said.

The passengers were then instructed to put on life jackets and taken to the life rafts, but Hammer said they couldn't get into them because the cruise liner was tilting so much the boats couldn't be lowered into the cold sea. The passengers were eventually rescued by one of several boats in the area that came to their aid.

Luxury Cruise Ship at the night of the accident

"It was terrible," Hammer said, as German and Spanish tourists were about to board buses at the port.

"No one counted us, neither in the life boats or on land," said Ophelie Gondelle, 28, a French military officer from Marseille. She said there had been no evacuation drill since she boarded in France on Jan. 8.

As dawn neared, a painstaking search of the 290-meter (950-foot) long ship's interior was being conducted to see if anyone might have been trapped inside, Paolillo said.

"There are some 2,000 cabins, and the ship isn't straight," Paolillo said, referring to the Concordia's dramatic more than 45-degree tilt on its right side. "I'll leave it to your imagination to understand how they (the rescuers) are working as they move through it.

Luxury Cruise Ship Accident

Some Concordia crew members were still aboard to help the coast guard rescuers, he said.

Paolillo said it wasn't immediately known if the dead were passengers or crew, nor were the nationalities of the victims immediately known. It wasn't clear how they died.

Some 30 people were reported injured, most of them suffering only bruises, but at least two people were reported in grave condition.

Paolillo said the Concordia was believed to have set sail with 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew members.

Some passengers, apparently in panic, had jumped off the boat into the sea, a Tuscany-based government official, Grosseto prefect Giuseppe Linardi, was quoted as saying. Authorities were trying to obtain a full passenger and crew list from Costa, so they could do a roll call to determine who might be missing.

Luxury Cruise Ship Accident

The evacuees were taking refuge in schools, hotels, and a church on the tiny island of Giglio, a popular vacation isle about 18 miles (25 kilometers) off Italy's central west coast. Those evacuated by helicopter were flown to Grosseto, while others, rescued by local ferries pressed into emergency service, took survivors to the port of Porto Santo Stefano on the nearby mainland.

Passengers sat dazed in a middle school opened for them, wrapped in woolen blankets with some wearing their life preservers and their shoeless feet covered with aluminum foil.

Survivors far outnumbered Giglio's 1,500 residents, and island Mayor Sergio Ortelli issued an appeal for islanders — "anyone with a roof" — to open their homes to shelter the evacuees.

Luxury Cruise Ship Accident From Up In The Air

Paolillo said the exact circumstances of the accident were still unclear, but that the first alarm went off about 10:30 p.m., about three hours after the Concordia had begun its voyage from the port of Civitavecchia en route to its first port of call, Savona, in northwestern Italy.

The coast guard official, speaking from the port captain's office in the Tuscan port of Livorno, said the vessel "hit an obstacle" — it wasn't clear if it might have hit a rocky reef in the waters off Giglio — "ripping a gash 50 meters (160 feet) across" in the side of the ship, and started taking on water.

The cruise liner's captain, Paolillo said, then tried to steer his ship toward shallow waters, near Giglio's small port, to make evacuation by lifeboat easier.

Luxury Cruise Ship Accident

But after the ship started listing badly, lifeboat evacuation was no longer feasible, Paolillo said.

Five helicopters, from the coast guard, navy and air force, were taking turns airlifting survivors still aboard and ferrying them to safely. A coast guard member was airlifted aboard the vessel to help people get aboard a small basket so they could be hoisted up to the helicopter, said Capt. Cosimo Nicastro, another Coast Guard official.

Costa Cruises said the Costa Concordia was sailing on a cruise across the Mediterranean Sea, starting from Civitavecchia with scheduled calls to Savona, Marseille, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Cagliari and Palermo.

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It said about 1,000 Italian passengers were on board, as well as more than 500 Germans, about 160 French and about 1,000 crew members.

The Concordia had a previous accident in Italian waters, ANSA reported. In 2008, when strong winds buffeted Palermo, the cruise ship banged against the Sicilian port's dock, and suffered damage but no one was injured, ANSA said. - Latest Luxury Cruise Ship Accident, Ran Aground Off The Coast Of Tuscany as quoted from Yahoo News Online.

World's Strongest Couple Rob Reinaldo and Vanda Pessoa

Ready to go to the gym? Do a round or two? Meet the World's Strongest Couple Rob Reinaldo and Vanda Pessoa. 

Rob Reinaldo, 29, and her partner Vanda Pessoa, 29, has been named as a partner with the body terkekar and strongest in the UK. Within a week they were able to spend more than 100 eggs, in order to get the perfect muscle shape. In addition to eating lots of eggs, the pair is regular exercise for five hours every day. They prepare the body well built to compete in bodybuilding competitions world level, "Mr. and Ms. Universe" at the end of this year.

As reported by the Daily Mail, every morning the couple would get up at 04.00. 


They rushed to cardio exercise and weight training before the move. To produce rapid muscular body, the couple from Peterborough should also consume up to six proteins with a combined weight of food every day more than 6,500 calories. Rob had also been crowned as Britain bodybuilding champion five times. He also praised his wife, Vanda, as the strongest woman he had ever met. "Vanda has always supported my profession, and he cooks all my food very much. He began to come to the gym with me 11 years ago and he was my faithful partner during practice," said Rob.

Rob began to compete in bodybuilding competitions since 2004. He also has achieved success over 34 international bodybuilding competition. Now, not only he who will compete in the competition. The wife also will participate in a championship with him. Rob said they were proud on Vanda. "Clearly there are differences in weight, but he (Vanda) is crucial and pushing me hard.

The best form I ever get when I started practicing with him. " Rob and Vanda met in school in Portugal and began training together in 2000. This was before they moved to England in 2004 and has a n ak Gui, 8. Rob had previously been crowned Mr UK in 2010 and won the Dexter Classic. However, long-term ambition is to win the contest Mr. Rob. Universe. Vanda has also been competing in the Ms. Universe contest in Hamburg, Germany, in November this year.

The couple is hoping to bring home two to the British crown. "I must learn to concentrate on yourself. This is a great training together. I like muscular body and felt very good when the coach. I continue to train in the first three months of pregnancy and return to the gym one month after giving birth, "said Vanda. Thanks to his hard training, Rob has a height of 5 feet 1 inch (155 cm) with a weight of 120.6 kilograms. Meanwhile, Vanda has a height of 5 feet (152 cm) with a weight of 70 kilograms.

Rob also always eat six protein, heavy foods, and 12 eggs and 1 kilogram of white meat or fish every day. "I had been a skinny kid and it took 14 years to form the body. I do not miss each weight training session. I also underwent a strict diet and tend to eat less meat and more fish, which is beneficial to build muscle, "said Rob. For him, maintaining the shape of the body as a high need disciplines. If the violation rules by consuming foods and beverages can damage the quality not the success he has achieved.

This is definitely one of the best couple out there, we cannot deny the love we saw on their eyes, can we? Thumbs up to the world's strongest couple Rob Reinaldo and Vanda Pessoa ^_^

Daily Treat: North Korea To Punish Insincere Mourners On The Death of Kim Jong Il

Yep, you read the title right on, North Korea is reportedly punishing insincere mourners on the death of Kim Jong Il

North Korean authorities are punishing mourners who failed to exhibit sincere sadness and despair after the death of Kim Jong Il on Dec. 17, the Daily NK reported Wednesday.

The online North Korean newspaper, which is published by opponents of the governing regime, said a source in North Hamkyung Province revealed the information. The source told the paper “authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn’t participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didn’t cry and didn’t seem genuine,” according to the Daily NK.

There are an estimated 200,000 offenders and families held in North Korean prison camps, according to a May 2011 report from Amnesty International. The report details two types of camps known as “zones.” One zone, known as a Total Control Zone, is for people who have committed “serious crimes.” People in these camps are never released.

The second type of zone, called a Revolutionary Zone, are camps for people who have committed what North Korean authorities perceive as less serious crimes. These crimes may include making critical comments toward government policy or trying to cross the border. Sentences in Revolutionary Zone camps can range from a few months to 10 years.

The report estimates that 40 percent of inmates in the camps will die from malnutrition, and every former inmate interviewed for the report had witnessed at least one public execution while being held.

The late Hwang Jang Yop, a North Korean defector and former official, described similar punishments after the death of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il’s father and the founder of North Korea, in 1994.

“The party conducted surveys to see who displayed the most grief, and made this an important criterion in assessing party members’ loyalty,” Yop wrote. “Patients who remained in hospitals and people who drank and made merry even after hearing news of their leader’s death were all singled out for punishment.”

The Daily NK said its source also reported that North Koreans who were accused of being critical of the country’s dynastic system were being sent to re-education camps or banished with their families to remote areas.

North Korea today said that Kim Jong Il’s body will be embalmed and enshrined in the palace that houses his father’s remains. The country also said it plans to build a new Kim Jong Il statue and construct “towers to his immortality.”

So, what do you think of this news regarding the north korea reportedly punishing insincere mourners on the death of Kim Jong Il? Do you think it is appropiate? Should they really do it?