Sunday, May 20, 2012

SEVERE EARTHQUAKE HIT MAJOR CITIES IN ITALY ...6reported dead over 50 hurt ...Video below

As we earlier promised, when we broke the story of the horrific earthquake experience in some major cities in Italy, here is the report, as compiled by Nkem Ike for Gistclan.

At least six people were killed and more than 50 others injured today in a 6.0-magnitude earthquake - one of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy.
The quake toppled buildings and sent residents running into the streets, emergency services said.
The first tremor struck at 4am and was measured at 6.0 on the Richter scale. It was followed by an aftershock of 5.1 around 12 hours later - watched by millions as it happened during a live news broadcast on Italian TV.
Thousands of people fled into the streets in their nightclothes following the first shock and emergency services quickly flooded into the area. Civil defense agency official Adriano Gumina described it as the worst quake to hit the region since the 1300s.
Four people killed were factory workers on the overnight shift when their buildings, in three separate locations, collapsed, defense agency chief Franco Gabrielli said.
Mr Gabrielli said: 'At the moment the main priority is those people who have had to leave their homes - we need to get them into temporary accommodation as quickly as possible.

'We will be asking for a state of emergency to be declared by the government.'

He also said, two women died - apparently of heart attacks that may have been sparked by fear. Sky TG24 TV reported one of them was about 100 years old. Pope Benedict XVI expressed his condolences with those affected by the earthquake asking God to 'have mercy on those that have died and ease the suffering of those that have been hurt.'

Two of the dead were workers at a ceramics factory in the town of Sant'Agostino di Ferrara. Their cavernous building turned into a pile of rubble, leaving twisted metal supports jutting out at odd angles and the roof mangled.
Fellow worker Stefano Zeni said: 'There is immense damage, but the worst part is we lost two people.'
Reports from Italy said one of the dead had worked the shift of an ill colleague. Elsewhere in the same town, another worker was found dead under factory rubble.
In the town of Ponte Rodoni di Bondeno, a worker also died after factory collapsed emergency workers were reported as saying.
Nearly 12 hours after the quake, the sharp aftershock alarmed the residents of Sant'Agostino di Ferrara and knocked off part of a wall of city hall. The building already had been pummeled by the pre-dawn quake, which left a gaping hole on one side of it.

The aftershock also knocked down the clock tower in the town of Finale Emilia, injuring a firefighter, with TV pictures showing the firefighter lying in the street near the rubble.

Videos posted on YouTube indicated that older buildings had suffered damage. Roofs collapsed, church towers showed cracks and the bricks of some stone walls tumbled into the street during the quake.
As dawn broke over the region, residents milled about the streets inspecting the damage. In Finale Emilia, elderly people took shelter after being evacuated to a sports centre.
Finale was also the scene of a amazing rescue when the alarm was raised for five year old Vittoria Vultaggio from the United States after a relative called emergency services in Rome as he could not get through to his family to find out how they were.

Firefighters dragged her from the crumbled wreck of her home and rushed to hospital where doctors said she was in a 'stable condition' but she was being kept under observation with her family who all survived keeping a vigil by her bedside.
Sites of artistic heritage across the region, which boast centuries old church towers, palazzos and castles, were also destroyed or seriously damaged in the quake.
Antonio Pasqua Recchia, director general of Italy's artistic heritage department said there had been 'severe damage over a wide area of the Emilia Romagna region with many, many structures affected.'

Officials from the Consorzio Grana Padana and Parmigiano which supervises the production of Parmesan cheese in the region said that at least 300,000 wheels of the famous cheese had been destroyed at a cost of more than 250 million euros.

The tremors were also felt as far as Venice in the north east and towards Milan in the north east.

The quake destroyed dozens of historic buildings - among them the famous 700 year old Torre dei Modense in Finale Emilia which was badly damaged in the initial tremor and then came down in the aftershock.
The town's mayor Fernando Ferioli was in tears as he told Italian TV: 'It's terrible - a thousand years of history gone in just a few seconds. We have suffered severe damage to parts of the town.'
In late January, a 5.4-magnitude quake shook northern Italy. Some office buildings in Milan were evacuated as a precaution and there were scattered reports of falling masonry and cracks in buildings.
In 2009, same thing repeated, a devastating tremor killed more than 300 people in the central city of L'Aquila.

...Below is the video of the incident

FACEBOOK CEO, MARK ZUKERBERG WEDS LONG TIME GIRLFRIEND, PRISCILLA CHAN ...Details of the wonderful nuptial

Status update: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg tied the knot with longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan in an intimate wedding at his Palo Alto, Calif., home on Saturday.

The couple, who met at Harvard and have been going steady for more than nine years, took the plunge in front of an group of fewer than 100 family members and friends, according to an eyewitness account. The surprised guests reportedly thought they had gathered to celebrate Chan's graduation from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, May 14, 2012.
Zukerberg with wife, Priscilla
Zuckerberg made the marriage all the more official and public by, of course, changing his status on Facebook from "In a Relationship" to "Married."

The union of the two lovebirds added another momentous event to the 28-year-old's week, who on Friday made one of the most anticipated moves in finance history by taking his company public.

So what does a multi-billionaire give his college-sweetheart-turned-fiancée for a ring? A company spokeswoman said Zuckerberg designed the ring himself which featured "a very simple ruby."
Perhaps, kids will follow afterwards.

However, while some will say that Priscilla Chan just got so lucky, but it is really Zuckerberg who is lucky to have a girl like her. She's a Harvard graduate, has her doctorate, influenced him to create the Facebook Organ Donor app, and has been by his side since way before he had all his billions. So glad he didn't end up with one of Hollywood's ding dongs instead stated an insider.

MAN BREAKS BREAKS CHILD BEARING RECORD ...FATHERS 30 KIDS WITH 11 WOMEN +Pictures Of All The Women Here

Desmond Htchett, the record breaker
A man who has fathered 30 children by 11 different women is asking the courts to give him a break from paying child-support.
Desmond Hatchett, 33, of Knoxville, Tennessee, has reportedly set a Knox County record for the number of children he has managed to reproduce with individual women, including one who worked for Victoria's Secret.
However, Hatchett is claiming to be a victim of his own success with the ladies, as he has become unable to make child-support payments and was back in court again this month asking for help.
Only bringing in a minimum wage salary, Hatchett legally has half of his pay check taken from him by the state every month which is divided among his 30 children.
In theory, Hatchett's obligations to his children would have him paying anywhere from $25 to $309 to the mothers of his enormous brood.
In reality, after half his pay is deducted, the virile dad is only able to provide the mother's of his children the paltry sum of $1.49 a month.
The child support payments are based in part on the ages and needs of the children that Hatchett has produced and the 33-year-old's oldest child is 14-years-old.
Desmond explained to Fox2Now.com how it all snowballed out of control financially for him: 'I had four kids in the same year. Twice.'
Asked in a TV interview whether he can 'keep up with it all', the 33-year-old said he knows all their names, ages and birth dates.

In 2009 when he first appeared in court on charges that most of the mothers were not receiving child support, he had 21 children.

At the time, he said he was not going to father any more kids, but he ended up having nine more in the past three years.
He said: 'I didn't intend to have this many, it just happened.'
When asked about the state of affairs with Hatchett, the Knox County child support clerk's office assumed a resigned air.

'Yes, we've got several cases with Mr. Hatchett,' said Melissa Gibson, assistant supervisor with the Knox County court to the LA Times.

    Below are Pictures of the 11 women, some with their kids. Story continues after the pix











When asked if the court would appreciate Hatchett to stop his sperm donations across the county, Gibson expressed a tongue in cheek response.
'If there's something out there like that, I'm unaware of it,' said Gibson.
'It definitely needs to be.'
Confirming that Hatchett is believed to be the Knox County record holder for fathering the most children, Gibson said that he might be a record holder in many different states let alone Tennessee.
Not able to provide specifics on the details of Hatchett's case, Gibson did confirm that the youngest child is a toddler and the oldest is 14.
Listed on a court door, the 11 women who are seeking child-support payments from Hatchett all live within the Knoxville city area.
One woman, Zenobia Alexander, who calls Detroit, Michigan her home town, used to work for Victoria's Secret as a sales associate and says on her Facebook page that she has three children, but is single.
Calling herself 'outspoken', Alexander states that: 'I just want to live life and raise my children the right way.'
Another of the women listed, Kayla Reed, is 21-years-old and has a four-year-old girl and again, lists herself as single.

One woman, Delishia Brown has two children, although it is not known which of the children are Hatchett's and on her Facebook page she says that she has been in a relationship since June 25 2008.
The state cannot order Hatchett to stop making babies. He hasn't broken any laws, according to the report. He has, however, set a Knox County record for his ability to produce.
Keith Pope, Hatchett’s attorney in 2009 told WVLT in Tennessee: 'You look at when they filed, how many children they have – he has several mothers that he has two children with. And, it’s tough.'

 Watch The Court Hearing Video Here
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