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With Ethiopian Pullout, Islamists Rise Again in Somalia
Thursday, January 22, 2009
NAIROBI -- The departure of the last Ethiopian tanks from Somalia's capital is ushering in a new phase of conflict in a nation known for clan warfare: a battle for power among militias flying Islamist banners.
In some ways, the situation in Somalia, where people have long practiced a moderate and mostly apolitical form of Islam, has circled back to where it was when the Ethiopians invaded two years ago. The U.S.-supported operation was intended to oust a popular movement of moderate and radical Islamists that had taken over the capital and that the United States accused of having ties to al-Qaeda.
But the operation drove the more radical Islamist fighters, known as al-Shabab, into a brutal insurgency against the Ethiopian occupiers and the secular, transitional government their invasion installed. After the deaths of at least 10,000 people and the displacement of 1 million, Ethiopia and the United States are now supporting a political compromise that stands to return to power some of the same moderate Islamist leaders they originally ousted.
Those leaders, in turn, face an even worse version of the same problem they had when they first tried to govern: how to control the Shabab, which the United States has labeled a terrorist group. After fighting a two-year-long insurgency, the Shabab has split off from the core movement and become more radical and battle-hardened, with various factions controlling much of southern Somalia.
Militarily, the Shabab is now the biggest threat to the fragile transitional government and the moderate Islamists seeking to become part of it.
At the same time, the Shabab is showing signs of internal divisions. And with the Ethiopians' exit, it is facing an array of new challengers, including local militias and warlords with such nicknames as White-Eyed and Greasy who are restyling themselves as Islamists.
"A lot of militia groups and warlords are now trying to adapt to this new Islamist fashion, to reorganize themselves under the Islamist banner and crush the Shabab," said Ali Said, director of the Center for Peace and Democracy, which operates in exile in Nairobi. ". . . I think they are just taking the label as a political opportunity, but it has a long-term impact -- the risk is that it can push Somalia into a long-lasting religious war."
In the south, for instance, a group known as the Juba Valley Resistance Movement is marketing itself as an anti-Shabab militia allied with moderate Islamists. "The international community needs to support us," said Mohamed Amin Abdullahi Osman, its leader. "We are against Shabab and want to defeat it."
In the same region, a warlord named Barre Hiiraale who was ousted by the Shabab in October is attempting to revamp his image by associating himself with an old and widely respected moderate Muslim group, al-Sunna wal Gama'a. Hiiraale's militia has successfully fought the Shabab in several towns in southern Somalia in recent weeks.
The traditional leaders of al-Sunna have held news conferences and lectures in an attempt to disassociate themselves from Hiiraale's rhetoric.
"Every day there's a new group in the name of Islam," said Abdi Abdullahi Osman, a young Somali who fled to Kenya in recent months and said he is sympathetic to Shabab and al-Sunna. Hiiraale "is not al-Sunna. He's a warlord who's just changed his shirt."
The political journey of Yusuf Mohamed Siad Inda-Ade, a.k.a. White-Eyed, illustrates how fluid allegiances can be in Somalia.

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INE is happy to announce a new class dedicated to the recently introduced Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) certification. The first CCDE Practical Bootcamp is to be run on May 1-5th in Chicago, right before the actual CCDE practical exam that is scheduled on May 6th. Our goal was designing a "last-week" refresher and booster class to finalize your CCDE exam preparation. Students are assumed to have solid theoretical knowledge of the exam's technology base prior to attending. This blog posts gives you a quick overview of the class structure and pre-requisites you should meet in order to benefit the most from this training offer.
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Cisco is now formally announcing the availability of the CCDE practical exam. The exam is currently scheduled to take place on February 11, 2009 in Chicago and London. CCDE, on par with the award winning CCIE certification, recognizes the growing number of networking experts who have in-depth infrastructure design knowledge, which enables them to assess network business requirements. Candidates can access CCDE blueprints and a list of recommended training materials on the CCDE web page.
If you took Cisco written exams before, prepare to see something unusual. First of all, don't look down at the "written" test just because it's a "written" test. Consider the following reasons to advocate CCDE:
1) They are going to run the CCDE test just four times a year.
2) Cisco is going to utilize just a few (2-4) selected VUE centers worldwide.
3) It's really hard to braindump *that* much of material, even if someone tries .
Combined together with new tightened VUE security measures this should provide enough program integrity and thwart brain-dumpers (if they only could be defeated . Besides, there are no obvious solutions to each section – and I think that many alternatives are viable.
The exam itself it broken down in a few large "modules" or sections. Each section focuses on a certain network topology. They provide you with a *lot* of background information on each task: functional specification, SLA documents, business goals, justifications and constrains, engineering team emails, etc. You would probably spend a lot of time reading through the documents before actually going into each section. This is kind of unusual for folks that got used to the CCIE exam
During the test you answer well-known multiple-choice questions, justifying your design etc. Most notably, you can draw network diagrams using the Adobe flash engine that allows creating different topologies based on task functional specifications. To me, it was one of the hardest parts – coming with an unique topology, matching the business goals and restrictions. I doubt anyone (besides maybe Russ White) could end up with the same topology that the exam designers had on mind
The biggest problem of the test: after about 4-5 hours, it's really hard to comprehend what's your next scenario or task is about. Unlike the CCIE lab, where you know what you are actually doing, with the CCDE you may easily get lost in the labyrinths of your imagination. You start losing your concentration after reading so many documents and thinking of different designs. Releasing the exam in 8-hours format may be too much stress for most "normal" people. Hope they would make some adjustment for the production release.
From technical standpoint, the exam is mostly about generic Layer 3/Layer 2 networking technologies. It covers a lot of topics from IGP (ISIS, OSPF, EIGRP), BGP, MPLS, QoS and Security areas. It perfectly correlates with the written CCDE test, but this time you have to put all the things working together. The level of the understanding required to answer each question may vary from moderate to pretty deep (sometimes).
The last thing to mention, is that you can get a decent feeling of the real test by running the demo exam at : CCDE Flash-Based Demo.
After all, even though I'm not sure I'm going to pass, it feels like the exam was fun enough to justify a long trip Compared to CCDP, it's more about generic routing network design than Cisco "approved" template solutions.
Cisco is definitely on the right track, doing a great job by increasing their exam integrity. It could be doubted, whether CCDE actually tests design skills, but it sure is a great test on Layer 3 technologies implementation
Cisco posted an announcement today on the CCDE page of the Cisco Learning Network.
REGISTER NOW for the BETA Practical Exam
Cisco is now registering beta candidates for the CCDE Practical Exam. Cisco has finished development of the second exam needed to attain the CCDE certification, the practical exam, and is now soliciting candidates for the beta delivery.
Cisco will be offering this beta delivery of the exam on October, 1 in Chicago, Illinois at a VUE professional testing center. Only candidates that have a passing score on the CCDE qualification exam may register and participate in this exam. Exam beta pricing is $980US. Register Now by email at: email@example.com
Luckily for me I live in Chicago so it won't be too far of a trek. If the written exam is any indication of the content that will be tested on in the practical exam, it's sure to be an interesting one. The good news is that I have just under three months to finish reading the few hundred thousand pages of Solutions Reference Network Design guides.
Also as a side note the Chicago Cubs are still in first place in the National League! If you are going to be in town for the CCDE beta shoot me an email. Maybe we can arrange an Internetwork Expert sponsored field trip to playoff baseball at Wrigley Field!
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A Note To Ben, Hank, And Vikram
Saving the individual home owner is going to take more than a little rate freeze.
Dear Ben, Hank and Vikram:
My Santa letter is out the window and I am willing to accept the fact that this year we may have to settle for coal. Ironically the relative strength in Peabody Energy (BTU) should have given us a clue.
Rather than pen a piece for the North Pole, I thought it better to write some of our dear friends.
Ben, First of all, hang in there. You are in a tough spot and I can't imagine doing what you do. We have already had a pretty rocky relationship. The whole Maria Bartiromo thing really screwed me up, however I let that go after your surprise 50 basis point cut. Now however, this wishy washy way in which you're handling the credit crunch has to go. Aside from the poor timing of the announcement, we all know that a $40 bln infusion isn't going to cut it and whether you like it or not, the financial markets aren't too impressed. While I have no clue what the answer is, the bottom line is we need to see you pack a punch and take the bull by the… um, bear by the tail and shake this stuff up a bit. Yes, I am a trader but I am also a citizen and I have to gain a little security when I hear your plans. So far, I am not feeling secure.
Hank, I'll save the pep talk because I know you can handle the heat, but from my vantage point it's as if you're trying to bail water out of a sinking ship with a spoon. We all know you understand the art of perception and the mortgage plan has helped that, but c'mon, in all reality will a freeze really work? Isn't the plan really putting a band-aid on a massive wound? It's unfortunate, but companies need to go out of business. Alesoc Financial's (AFN) drop from $11.99 to today's price of $3.90 or American Mortgage Acceptance (AMC), which is currently trading at $1.63, down from $19.87 this year, is clearly telling us the losers are dropping out while Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) are starting to look as if they will live to fight another day. Let's let the free markets work this out, but if you want to save the individual home owner, it is going to take more than a little rate freeze. It is sad to say, but debt is going to have to take care of debt here, and let's just bite the bullet and allow these individuals to refinance for a 50-year note at a fixed rate.
Vikram, Welcome to Citigroup (C). I am sure you are well qualified and I am looking forward to see what you have in store. All eyes are on you and your stock and you really do have the opportunity to set the stage for other banks. I think everyone agrees that your move to bring back on the balance sheet your Structured Investment Vehicles (SIV) was a good one but please come clean with the fact that you really have no clue what these assets are worth. Furthermore, if you have to cut the dividend, just cut it and get it over with. We're resilient and we can handle it, but taking major investments from sovereign funds and paying them major interest may not be the best solution to handle liquidity issues. At this point, we're more interested in pure honesty even if it is painful. Let's get all the dirt out in the open and deal with it.
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March 11, 2014 13:10 ET
Acquisition adds depth to new commercial licensing business 500px Prime
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 11, 2014) -
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500px, a premier photography community for discovering, sharing, buying and selling inspiring photos, announced its acquisition of Authintic, an analytics technology company. The purchase brings additional data sciences and advertising industry expertise as 500px enters the photo licensing business.
Since last year, 500px has been developing its commercial licensing marketplace with the goal of making its growing collection of 37 million photos available for purchase. This acquisition will help convert the billions of consumer signals being collected each month into increasingly useful tools for advertisers.
"As we open up our community's photos to creative agencies, advertisers and publishers, it's important we treat our buyers and photographers with the highest level of transparency and respect - especially when it comes to using data for recommendations," said Oleg Gutsol, CEO of 500px. "Authintic's founders are leaders in privacy-based advertising technologies and recommendation engines. They also bring a wealth of experience as former advertising industry executives, entrepreneurs, and business leaders. It's a perfect fit."
Authintic, with offices in Toronto and New York City, focuses its technology on providing customer recommendations from permission-based social signals. "When we started Authintic, we saw an opportunity to help drive data-informed advertising. Photos play an increasingly important role in all forms of creative, and getting to the right photo quickly is key. We're thrilled to join 500px as they transform commercial photography licensing."
Cherwenka joins 500px as Managing Director, 500px Prime-the commercial licensing marketplace currently in beta. Authintic's Chief Science Officer, Christopher Berry, joins as Data Scientist in Residence.
Both companies originally started out of Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone, one of Canada's largest incubators.
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500px is a premier photo community for discovering, sharing, buying and selling the highest quality photography. Millions of people visit the 500px website and mobile apps monthly from around the world to find the most inspiring photography.
The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada where it was founded in 2009 and has an office in San Francisco, USA. 500px has raised over $10 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Harrison Metal, ff Ventures, and other investors.
Learn more about 500px at: http://500px.com/about
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Authintic is an analytics technology provider helping marketers use opt-in personal data for better advertising. Founded by an advertising executive and a data scientist, Authintic is leading the industry shift toward privacy-based advertising technologies.
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Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten introduces readers to Marine Col. Jeff Vold and Lt. Col. James MacVarish to comment on Cindy Sheehan and her friends: "Reservist says protesters are breaking faith." Kathy writes:
Across Iraq, Americans and Iraqis are working together to reclaim the country from Baathists and terrorists. They are building or refurbishing schools, hospitals, roads and sewer systems. "The battle with the terrorists left Fallujah in rubble," says Vold. "But every day, people thanked us. 'We might have to rebuild our house,' they said, 'but you gave us back our city.'"
Do the Washington protesters know about these great strides? Vold can't say. "When I got back from Iraq, I was disappointed — astounded, really — to read the news. The media was saying it's all a failure, while we saw successes around us every day."
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Come with us to the UK Style by French Connection event where the flavor of the evening is animal prints! We catch up with the super-hot Carmen Electra, who tells us her favorite designer and reveals her favorite style of footwear (hint: it's not what you expect!), and we also chat with beauty Jaime King, who offers some style tips and talks about what happened when she showed up in the same dress as a famous socialite! Hosted by Tatiana Diana.


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Energy Security and Prosperity in Australia — A Roadmap for Carbon Capture & Storage
On 15 February, the CO2CRC released "A Roadmap for Carbon Capture and Storage", including three detailed working paper reports. The Roadmap contains analysis and recommendations for policy makers and industry on much needed efforts to ensure CCS deployment in Australia. The work was authored by the University of Queensland and Gamma Energy Technology, and was overseen by a steering committee comprising the Commonwealth Government, NSW Government, CSIRO, CO2CRC Limited, ACALET and ANLEC R&D.
On CO2 storage, the Roadmap briefly outlines a pathway to ensure the appraisal of prioritised storage basins. The Institute endorses the Roadmap's focus on two key areas:
- Prioritisation and then exploration of specific sedimentary basins; and
- Confirmation of national storage capacity that could be utilised by CCS facilities.
A series of incentives including grants and tax incentives could potentially spur these storage exploration activities.
The Institute also strongly endorses the Roadmap's view of the significance of legal and regulatory frameworks for supporting CCS deployment. We note particularly:
- The Roadmap's recommendation that legal and regulatory models be harmonised, to ensure a consistency of approach Australia-wide. The Institute strongly supports the need for a consistent approach to regulation, which will provide certainty for operators and help promote investor and public confidence in the technology.
- The findings of the Institute's Legal Fellowship report, with regard to the need for greater clarification around the requirements of monitoring regime, which have been highlighted in the Roadmap.
While Australia's legal and regulatory frameworks offer some of the most advanced models of CCS-specific regulation in the world, the Institute recognises that further improvements will be necessary. To this end, the Institute endorses the recommendations for further development.
On other aspects, the Roadmap's working papers allude to the need to consider appropriate policy and commercial arrangements, including general incentives to establish a business case for large scale CCS deployment, as well as methods to address counterparty risk which may inhibit full-chain project development.
The Roadmap will serve as an important focal point for stakeholders advocating for CCS in Australia, and will provide a platform for further work feeding into the Australian Government's review of climate policy in 2017 and beyond.
Download the Roadmap Report here.
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Your computer experience is made up by three things: processing speed, graphics and sound. Any one of those three can keep you from being completely immersed in your program. Of the three, sound is the simplest to fix by exchanging external speakers for the speakers provided with your computer. All you have to do to add speakers is plug them in and turn on the speakers and the sound on your computer. No uncertainties involved at all.
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|Seminary of the Immaculate Conception Annual Golf Classic
Enjoy a day of golf, brunch, refreshments, a cocktail buffet and exciting raffles, including a golf trip to Ireland, weekend getaways and Broadway tickets. All proceeds will be used for the improvement of Seminary facilities.
The event will honor John and Peggy O'Brien, the event chairpersons.
Established in 1930, the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Huntington, N.Y., is the Roman Catholic center for theological education and pastoral and spiritual formation for the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
|Monday, August 6, 2007 Registration begins at 11:00 a.m.
|Garden City Country Club Garden City, N.Y.
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|About The Diocese of Rockville Centre
The Diocese of Rockville Centre was formed in 1957 and covers 1,222 square miles in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The diocese serves approximately 1.4 million Catholics (total population in both counties is approximately 3.3 million). There are 134 parishes in 115 towns. Last year over 20,000 baptisms, 18,000 confirmations, 20,000 first communions and 5,000 marriages took place in the diocese. There are 2,137 students in Catholic kindergarten, 23,825 in primary or elementary school, 12,628 in secondary school and 3,300 in higher institutions. There are 76 Catholic elementary and high schools and one Catholic college in the diocese. Catholic Health Services of Long Island consists of five hospitals, three nursing homes, two home-care agencies, two senior housing complexes, a community-based home for those with special needs and a hospice. Last year, Catholic Charities assisted more than 80,000 individuals who are poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged on Long Island. For more information, visit www.drvc.org
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Try to remember the feelings you had the first time you drove a car. You were probably a little scared, but also very excited. There was also an enormous sense of freedom. Freedom is something everyone strives towards.
When your boss tells you to do something you don't want to do, you feel like you don't have any freedom. In this position you long to be the boss – so you can have a taste of freedom. Then one day, after you've become the boss, you have a really upset customer, and they demand so much from you. Again you will feel your life is dictated by outside events. You have no control over your own destiny. You might even wish that you were back in your old position, because you don't want to deal with the responsibility your job now entails. You don't know if you can pay the price the freedom has cost. With new found freedom comes new responsibility.
If you speak to someone who wears glasses they might say they are free, but if you talk to someone in a wheelchair they might disagree. They both have some kind of handicap. One of them can't see well, the other can't walk. Their difference is how they look at their disability. One sees it as an impediment, the other, just another step to getting ready in the morning. Thus we can see the true meaning of freedom, the ability to do what you want, when you'd like to do it. With this definition we can assume that most people believe they are free due to their current situation; with a change in situation comes a change in your perception of your freedom. Now if we were to learn how to see beyond our initial reaction to a change, numerous different paths to being free would become available. Freedom becomes malleable; it becomes whatever we shape it to be.
All in all, humans make their own freedom. If they think they're free than they are, if they don't, than they're not. Although this freedom is granted from ones self it comes at a price. That price is the responsibility to use this freedom in the right way. Without that, freedom could not exist. I believe that freedom comes from within, and always entails some sort of responsibility.
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I just stepped on the scale (at night, which is not one of my brightest ideas) and it scared the shit out of me! Pardon my French, but according to the scale I now weigh 103 kilograms! Last time I weighed myself the number I saw was 98,8. There is no need to say I am not behaving too well, I need to step up my game. I have been eating too many ice creams and chocolate treats and it needs to stop right now. So, I came up with a summer challenge that will help me to reach a lower weight.
The plan
- Eat clean
- Prepare a weekly menu every single Sunday, before the next week begins
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- Track points with the Weight Watchers ProPoints system
- Workout at least 3 times a week
- Quit drinking Diet Coke
My workout schedule
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- Start date: July 10th
- End date: August 31st
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- Goal weight: 94 kilograms or less
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I know I can do this but I have been cutting myself way too much slack lately. If I want to reach my goal weight I need to act now! You've all seen my progress pictures and know how unhappy I still am with how I look. But that's going to change. Starting tomorrow…. (oops!)
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each autumn we take a lovely drive upstate to go apple picking...
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which is 15 minutes from the orchard.
i just love old cemeteries...the statues and iron gates.
another thing i love to do is read all the old fashioned names.
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Sino-Russian relations took on a warmer glow on Tuesday as President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
Russia and China get friendly over trade and energy deals
Russia and China get friendly over trade and energy deals
As relations with the West worsen namely over Ukraine, Russia is turning towards the east in a bid to secure business with China.
During his three day visit Li has signed energy, trade and finance agreements.
At Tuesday's meeting President Putin pointed out that China is among the leading nations who invest in Russia's economy.
In response the Chinese premier said the two neighbours were perfectly placed for developing joint projects. "With Russia being the largest county in the world by territory and China the largest by population, the two economies could complement each other," Li said.
One of the most significant examples of Russia's shift to the east as Putin tries to avoid isolation due to western sanctions is a huge gas deal.
Under a 30-year agreement , Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom will supply 38 billion cubic meters of gas to China each year starting 2019. That is around 10% of all Gazprom's sales.


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LINDEN—Linden High School students were learning about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs during the Great Depression.
The students viewed photographs taken by the famous Depression-era photojournalist Dorothea Lange. Working in pairs, the students were given a Depression-era photograph to evaluate and had to create a story about the people in their photographs using the information they learned about the Great Depression.
As a team they had to come up with New Deal programs that could help the people in that era. Students learned about various New Deal programs that are still in use today, such as FDIC and Social Security. This assignment allowed students opportunity to look back and learn how previous generations coped with tough economic times.
Miesha Chavis and Alice Rodriguez of Linden High School learn the hardships of the Great Depression.
Linden High School students Lexie Torres and Ana Mendez examine the toll of losing a job and the impact on families.
Briam Pichardo and Kenny Larrahondo of Linden High School study the Great Depression era.
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Stray dog blows minds
TALK about going from the doghouse to the penthouse.
Esky the kelpie-cross is one lucky dog.
Two months ago the precocious pup was on death row at the Esk pound.
Today she is in training to become a RAAF explosive detection dog and will soon help protect some of the world's most important people.
RAAF dog handler Corporal Heath Webber is Esky's trainer and one of the people directly responsible for the lovable pup's stay of execution.
After contacting the Somerset Regional Council to assess unwanted dogs for the RAAF, Cpl Webber was pleased to stumble across such a promising pooch.
"Esky was supposed to be put down but she has pretty much saved herself by wanting to chase a ball," Cpl Webber said.
"She was a bit timid in the kennels but we put that down to shyness.
"We did an assessment with her by throwing the ball and her ball drive was just fanatical. That's the key.
"If they are desperate to chase the ball and hunt for the ball they are a very good candidate for training."
Esky is two months into her training and already is ahead of the curve.
Cpl Webber expects her to be ready after eight months, compared to an expected training period of up to a year.
Equally happy about Esky's new career is Somerset Regional Council local law supervisor Steve Burgess.
Mr Burgess said Esky had been a dumped dog who stood little chance of a reprieve until the RAAF came along.
"She was found wandering down in the Fernvale area and had no identification or microchip," Mr Burgess said
"We get quite a lot of dogs dumped on the Brisbane Valley Hwy and often they are kelpie breeds. We had tried to rehouse her but with no success, so she was set to be euthanised in two days."
Mr Burgess said the RAAF looked for specific attributes in their dogs and had trialled about 20 dogs from the Esk facility.
So far Esky is the only dog to make it through to training.
"It makes my boys feel great. Euthanasia is not a job any of us like," he said.
"Anything that gives a dog a second chance is good for everyone."
Esky will soon join other RAAF explosive detection dogs that have been used at events such as the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the visit of the US President.
- Esky was dumped at Fernvale with no identification or microchip.
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La Sagrada Familia
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Construction began in the 1880s and continued through Gaudí's death in 1926 until 1936, when it was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War. Work continued intermittently from 1940 until the 1990s, when work accelerated to complete the cathedral by 2026.
This has proven controversial because the design is deviating significantly from Gaudi's original plans, which are on display in the museum in the crypt. There has also been controversy over the siting of a high speed train tunnel which passes very close by the foundations.
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Agostino Renna named as President & CEO of GE Lighting EMEA
GE Lighting announced that Agostino Renna had been named president and CEO of GE Lighting Europe, Middle East & Africa effective 2 January 2013. Renna, who will report to GE Lighting president & CEO Maryrose Sylvester, succeeds Phil Marshall who has led GE Lighting Europe, Middle East & Africa, since 2008. Marshall has left GE Lighting to pursue a position outside of the company.
"Agostino Renna's experience, leadership and significant sales and marketing background make him an outstanding person to continue the transformation of the Lighting business in the region," said GE Lighting president & CEO Maryrose Sylvester. "Agostino has demonstrated outstanding management qualities and has the ability to sharpen our strategic focus to lead GE Lighting Europe, Middle East & Africa to achieve strong, sustained growth in 2013 and beyond.
Renna most recently was Vice President, Growth & Market Strategy for GE-Canada with responsibility for the long term growth and market positioning of all GE's businesses in Canada. Prior to joining GE, Renna spent 14 years at Johnson Controls Inc., where he worked in Canada, the US and Europe. He held leadership roles in sales, marketing, strategy and general management culminating with a position leading Johnson Controls' Energy Solutions division for Europe, the Middle East and Africa based in Brussels, Belgium.
Renna was born in Montreal, Quebec and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University. He speaks 4 languages fluently. He is a regular speaker at conferences and roundtables that focus on addressing global energy challenges. While in Belgium, Renna was an Executive in Residence at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, where, in his lectures, he brought a strong practioner's perspective to the topics of sales, marketing, strategy and leadership.
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2016 Cóyotl Awards Ceremony at Furlandia
The sixth annual Cóyotl Awards was held this Saturday evening at Furlandia in Portland, Oregon. Attendance was easily triple last year's ceremony, and the event was also enjoyed by members watching it live-streamed over the internet. You can watch the video yourself here:
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LocationLas Vegas, NV
5220 E Russell Rd
Las Vegas, NV 89122
New 2018 Forest River RV Sunseeker 3050S Ford For Sale in Las Vegas, NV
The Ford chassis Sunseeker 3050S features a full wall slide on the driver's side of this class C motorhome.
The living and kitchen areas feature a sofa with overhead cabinets, a two door refrigerator or optional four door refrigerator, and a pantry along one wall. The opposite side has an L-shaped kitchen countertop with three burner range, overhead microwave and cabinets, angled double kitchen sink and a flip down countertop extension. There is also a dinette with overhead cabinets.
The rear bedroom has a queen bed with nightstands on both sides as well as a shirt closet on one side. Across from the bed, you will find two wardrobes with linen storage between them and space for an optional TV. The split bathroom is part of this private bedroom. It has a private toilet area with a toilet and tub/shower combination on one side. Across the hall there is sink with a hamper.
Above the cab you will find a standard 60"x80" bunk, and extra storage, or you can choose optional cabinets with a 42" TV or optional 32" TV with twin bunks.
Outside choose an optional TV plus more!
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Chassis: Ford
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|Fresh Water Capacity
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|Grey Water Capacity
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|Black Water Capacity
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|Furnace BTU
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|Fuel Type
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|220 in
|Number Of Bunks
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|Axle Weight Rear
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|Water Heater Capacity
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|13500 btu
|Basement Storage
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|Gross Combined Weight
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The thicket is dominated by thorny shrubs and small trees. It has an understory of grasses and forbs. Hawthorns (Crataegus) and European buckthorn are the dominant species, but alder-leaved buckthorn, honeysuckles, multiflora rose, and privets are also abundant. Scattered trees, including box elder, white ash, bird cherry (Prunus avium), white pine, bitternut hickory, and red oak are emerging through the canopy of tall shrubs. The herb layer has a weedy component and includes moneywort (Lysimachia nummularia), willow-herb (Epilobium coloratum), forget-me-not (Myosotis scorpioides), grasses (Poa), and self-heal.
A small meadow west of the recreation way has been mowed regularly and is dominated by hay grasses (Phleum pratense and Festuca elatior). Forbs include white bedstraw (Galium mollugo), tall buttercup (Ranunculus acris), self-heal, wild carrot (Daucus carota), field garlic (Allium vineale), plantains (Plantago), chickory (Cichorium intybus), and dandelion (Taraxacum officinale).


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Online credit marketplace Lending Club said Thursday that it has bought Springstone Financial for a consideration of $140 million. To help finance this transaction, Lending Club raised $50 million in debt financing and also $65 million in an equity round from funds and accounts managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Wellington Management Company, BlackRock and Sands Capital. Based in Westborough, Mass., Springstone Financial is a provider of affordable financing options for consumers seeking to fund private education and medical procedures. Lending Club's backers include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Capital, Foundation Capital, Thomvest Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Lending Club, the nation's leading online credit marketplace, announced today that it has acquired Springstone Financial for a total consideration of $140 million in cash and stock. Springstone provides affordable financing options for consumers looking to finance private education and elective medical procedures through a network of over 14,000 schools and healthcare providers.
"The acquisition of Springstone is significantly expanding the services we offer to help consumers achieve their goals," said Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche. "Parents looking to finance their children's education and patients undergoing elective procedures will now have access to Lending Club loans and benefit from responsible, transparent and affordable financing options."
Mike Gilroy, CEO of Springstone, said, "Lending Club has established a great reputation as an innovator. We've built strong bridges between providers and patients and between educational institutions and parents. We're excited to become part of the Lending Club platform, which will bring new financing options to our network."
As part of the financing of this transaction, Lending Club also announced the closing of an equity capital raise. Investors in the $65 million round included funds and accounts managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Wellington Management Company, LLP, BlackRock and Sands Capital.
"We believe that Lending Club has an opportunity to transform an important part of the banking system into a transparent online marketplace," said Henry Ellenbogen, Portfolio Manager at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. "The Springstone acquisition is another step in that direction, and we are very excited at the prospect of being a long term equity partner of Lending Club."
Lending Club also raised $50 million in debt financing to fund the acquisition.
Since facilitating its first loan in May 2007, Lending Club has more than doubled annual loan volume each year. By using technology and an innovative process, Lending Club matches creditworthy borrowers with investors looking for yield. Borrowers benefit from rates generally lower than credit cards, and the platform's investors have enjoyed solid returns. As of April 17, 2014 more than $4 billion in personal loans have been originated through the Lending Club platform, enabling more than 250,000 consumers to achieve their financial goals. Lending Club recently launched a small business loan platform designed to help small business owners access affordable credit.
About Lending Club
Lending Club utilizes technology and innovation to reduce costs and offer borrowers better rates and investors better returns. Over $4 billion in personal loans have been issued through the Lending Club platform. The Company has been prominently recognized as a leader for its growth and innovation, including being named one of Forbes' America's Most Promising Companies three years in a row, a 2012 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and one of The World's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Finance by Fast Company in 2013. Lending Club is based in San Francisco, California. More information is available at: https://www.lendingclub.com. Currently only residents of the following states may invest in Lending Club notes: CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, KY (accredited investors), LA, MN, MO, MS, MT, NH, NV, NY, RI, SD, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, or WY.
About Springstone
Founded in 2007 by Mike Gilroy, Jim Donovan and Mike Donovan, Springstone has established a reputation for high quality service and consumer-friendly terms. Springstone provides affordable financing options for consumers to finance private education and elective medical procedures through a network of over 14,000 schools and healthcare providers. In 2013 Springstone facilitated over $340 million in loans for elective medical procedures and educational expenses including private school tuition and tutoring. Springstone operates two primary websites, https://secure.springstoneplan.com/ and https://secure.yourtuitionsolution.com/. Springstone was advised on this transaction by Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L. P.
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I know that I have been away from this site for far too long. I have written many thoughts that I would love to share but just never could seem to find the time to get them into coherent sentences. As usual, life got in the way.
To catch you up, the detox was great and I should probably do it again. While it was hard to give up caffeine, I bravely fought through the cravings to emerge victorious on the other side. The easy drinks were tasty and fun to concoct and I have continued to create these types of meals.
Now that summer has arrived, I am excited to tell you all about my garden. I am growing tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, and many varieties of herbs. Because I don't have much land for cultivating, some tomatoes are in pots, but are growing like crazy. I love being able to use the fresh herbs in many summer dishes and am very excited to start posting these tasty creations on here for your enjoyment. In the meantime, feast your eyes on some of my handiwork.


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Mark 7:13 "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered:"
Friday, August 1, 2014
The Evolutionary Science of Homophobia, and how Homosexuality proves Creationism
I'm rare among modern Pro-Gay Christians in also being a Fundamentalist/Bible Literalist, and visa-versa. What I find saddest about that is I've had trouble on Facebook finding fellow Pro-Gay Christians who are also enemies of the Theory of Evolution.
See, the arguments the Republican Party Christians use when they're trying to add secular non Biblical reasons for supporting their position on Homosexuality, all in fact sound very Darwinian and Materialist to me. Insisting that only the sex that can continue the reproduction of the species is valid. To Evolutionists the only reason sex is so pleasurable is to motivate us to engage in it and make sure the species continues.
And I have encountered Atheists online who are Homophobic for all these reasons. It's not just radical Christians who propagate modern Homophobia. These encounters were on IMDB a long time ago so I can no longer document them. But these were Atheist individuals who had no problem questioning my masculinity (the usual overlap of Sexism and Homophobia) for not liking Sports, and liking TV shows stereotypically meant for women. They pretty blatantly accused all Bisexuals of just lying for attention. They claimed they weren't homophobic but clearly were.
It's because I believe in Intelligent Design and Six-Day Young Earth Creationism, and that God gave us a Spirit and a Soul, not just flesh, that I believe sex has a spiritual purpose too, not just biological. And because I don't hand wave away the Song of Solomon and it's details I know that God is okay with sexual expressions that are non reproductive. Sex is also an expression of Love, the love between a Man and a Woman is not the only love The Bible considers valid.
To some of the most Anti-Christian people out there right now, it's pretty obvious that Homophobia wouldn't exist at all if it wasn't for The Bible verses that get misused on that subject. But I think that assumption is wrong.
The Homophobia of the last two centuries is a uniquely vile monster unprecedented in earlier eras of Secular or Church history. However the basic fallen human sensibilities that lead to it can be documented to have existed in the BC era (Plato). Just look at how Julius Caesar was denigrated by being called "Every woman's man and every man's woman". The roots of the Church's homophobia seemed to enter the Church very early on, but no earlier then it's Anti-Semitic tendencies which popped up in the Second Century. The seeds of Evolutionary thinking also existed among the Greek Philosophers, like Anaximander, Empedocles, Epicurus and Lucretius (Epicurus is known to have condemned Homosexuality). And it was Augustine of Hippo (the same Church Father most responsible for codifying Traditional Christianity's prudishness) who was among the first Christians to reject a literal interpretation of Genesis.
The Stoics who were the adversaries of the Epicureans and argued for Intelligent Design were all for Same-Sex love. Their Monotheism was by no means Biblical but still monotheistic. The original Stoics that is, Roman Stoics like Cicero did tend to disapprove of Same-Sex relations because of the prudish nature of Roman society.
But our modern notions of Sexual Orientation were purely the invention of Enlightenment and Victorian scientists and psychologists. And indeed it was not originally conservative Christians who (from the Evolutionists' POV) "Rejected Science", who first sought to proclaim Homosexuality a "Pathology", to label it a mental disorder the same as Pedophilia, or an addiction the same as Alcoholism, and Lesbianism in particular an example of how scary and threatening untamed female sexuality is, and thus labeled it another symptom of "hysteria". No, it was Secular Scientists who first did this, Scientists who whether professing "Christians" or not, embraced the ideas of Darwin and Galton and their fore-bearers.
Creationists have a long history of pointing out how the Evolutionary theory has contributed to the history of the evils of Racism and Eugenics. Darwin's book was racist in it's very name, and filled with Racist and Sexist comments. I would not however fall into the trap of saying that Evolution created Racism, I would say it's the other way around.
It's now a proven scientific fact that Homosexuality and Bisexuality are perfectly natural and normal variations of human and animal sexuality. And to me that is a problem for the Theory of Evolution, whether Evolutionists want to admit that or not. I know all the usual arguments about how homosexuality can be genetic even when homosexuals don't usually reproduce, but those are rationalizations. If the Evolutionary model were true, any genes that do not further propagate the species should have been gotten rid of by "Natural Selection" ages ago.
Now the key objection an Atheist Evolutionist would make here is that they would not, today at least, campaign for making it illegal, or calling anything immoral. But my point is at it's core, seeing Gay Sex as worthless because they can't reproduce, is inherently Materialist.
So I think Creationists should embrace LGBT people, as proving what Jesus said about being "Born Eunuchs", and disproving the logic of Darwinian Natural Selection.
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"If the Evolutionary model were true, any genes that do not further propagate the species should have been gotten rid of by 'Natural Selection' ages ago."ReplyDelete
Nope. I mean, you would be right if genetic inheritance was childishly simple, but it isn't. It SOOO isn't.
Even if we stayed within the scope of Mendelian genetics there's nothing preventing "detrimental" mutations from hanging around and popping up from time to time. For example, I'm colorblind. This isn't a huge detriment to my survival right now (aside from the odd disagreement with a traffic light), but hundreds of thousands of years ago, it would have been. I might have been less able to tell a ripened fruit from an unripened one or, more unlikely, I might have been less able to see a tiger hiding in the grass ready to pounce. But even if we assume the worst and the tiger kills me before I have a chance to reproduce, my colorblindness gene will live on through my sister.
The genes that made my broken color receptors live on my X chromosome, which I got from my mother. Because I only have one, those are the receptor genes I'm stuck with and, as a result, my eyes don't see reds and greens quite right. My sister, on the other hand, sees them just fine because she has two X chromosomes: one from our mother and one from our normal-sighted father. His receptor genes override the broken ones even though my sister still carries and can pass on both. This is called a dominate-recessive relationship. The color genes are dominant while the broken genes are recessive. After my untimely death, she will live on and eventually have children of her own, with a 50% chance of passing that recessive gene on. Any boys who inherit that recessive gene will be like me and might suffer the same fate, but her daughters have a 50% chance of carrying the gene the same way she does (and this assumes that her mate isn't also colorblind). Her carrier daughters will eventually pass the gene to their daughters, who will pass it on to their daughters, and so on and so on, up an ever-branching tree. Even though the gene will never become common, it will never completely go away (assuming there isn't some bottlenecking event that lowers genetic diversity, but that's a whole other subject).
This is a very simple example, but as I said earlier, genetics is not simple and Mendel is just the beginning. Gene regulation can get frustratingly complex and counter-intuitive. Not all traits are governed by a single gene, many are governed by multiple genes spread across multiple chromosoms. Some genes need to be activated by a Rube Goldberg-like sequence of activations. Sometimes these activations are dependent on environmental stresses like the caloric intake of the mother during gestation, or the caloric intake of the infant, or the caloric intake of the adolescent, or any number of different stimuli. There are countless understood genetic processes that allow otherwise detrimental or benign mutations to slip through the cracks of natural selection. This isn't a rationalization, it is a well known, demonstrable, fact of genetics. The fact that you don't personally understand it isn't a mark against evolutionary theory.Replies
Doesn't change my grander point, the the architects of modern Homophobia were Evolutionists. And Christians sound awfully Materialist in their anti-Gay Rehtoric.Delete
They also sound awfully Christian, with all their talk about the sanctity of marriage and how "it's Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve". But of course, you dismiss all that as the product of an incorrect interpretation of the Bible. It's almost as if these people reached their conclusions about homosexuality beforehand, then grabbed at any and every straw that would seem to justify it without taking the time to think it through.ReplyDelete
So even if I accepted your ridiculous assertion that it was Victorian-era darwinism and not 20th century social conservatism that gave rise to modern anti-homosexual sentiments, that doesn't matter one bit. As I explained above, anyone who tries to use evolution to justify their homophobia is demonstrably wrong and betrays a childish understanding of how evolution works. But what's more is that they're also committing a naturalistic fallacy. Just because you think you understand how the world is, it does not then follow that this is the way things ought to be. It's called the "Is-ought" problem and its a logically fallacious form of argument that is mostly used by pseudoscientists and other ideologically-motivated charlatans.
Another logically fallacious form of argument regularly used by ideologically-motivated charlatans is called the genetic fallacy. It's when you try to argue against a position by appealing to that position's origins and not its actual merits. I don't know why I was reminded of that just now.Replies
I'm anaylizing where their logic comes from and pointing out hypocrisy.Delete
No you aren't. What you did was vaguely and sloppily recall other people's logically fallacious arguments, assume that these arguments have a causal relationship to evolutionary theory, then tried to use that assumption as the basis for some moralistic judgement against people who understand and teach evolution.Delete
You might as well say that the people who discovered that the Earth was round were pedophiles. Your argument is so laughably insane that I'm having trouble believing you're real.
My objective is to convince Christians to rethink what they think about Homosexuality. Not to condemn anyone.Delete
"I have more faith in creationists then people who believe in evolution, a lie created to justify racism and eugenics."Delete
That is an implicit moral condemnation of anyone who accepts evolutionary theory.
That was me making a glib comment to show where I stand in a comment section on TheMarySue, a website I wouldn't be following at all if I hated liberals.Delete
So glib that you defended it, even linking to this article in defense of it. Sorry, I don't buy that excuse. The condemnation is strong in you.Delete
Yes, you follow me to my Blog that is entirely dedicated to opposing condemnation and accusing me of condemning people.Delete
A blog where you say racism created Evolution (it didn't). A blog where you say homophobia is a consequence of evolution (it isn't). All in defence of statements about how you don't trust people who don't agree with your narrow interpretation of the Bible. What conclusion am I supposed to draw from that?Delete
And you're the one who linked to this article. I didn't "follow" you so much as accepted an open invitation.
I was joking around when I made that statement, but it does relate to my real views which why I linked to here.Delete
The objective of this blog is Tolerance.
Well considering that no one there got the joke and instead took it as an intolerant insult, I'd say your failing that objective.Delete
- AnonymousApril 22, 2016 at 11:09 PM
Can traits that are beneficial for reproduction of females, like desiring men, also appear in males?ReplyDelete
Homosexuality has been around forever. The problem is not homosexuality itself but how it's used as some kind of social engineering tool by bad people for bad ends. When governments start publicly discussing what people can do in their own bedrooms, and furthermore...where people can go pee pee and poo poo...you know something rotten is afoot.ReplyDelete


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Have you ever looked into someone eyes for the entirety of a conversation? Have you ever stood too close to someone? It feels different and makes the moment memorable, even if it wasn't the most comfortable one. It's my firm belief that these tiny sparks of excitement add up to make life more exciting. The awkward is where I find joy.
I do not come from some bizarre family, nor do I believe myself to have an extra-special mind. However, I have an unnatural affinity for word-play. My path to awkward began with puns, worked my way up to allusions and lately I reference anything I can find a relation to in a conversation. Some of my favorite times are those when the other person doesn't understand the joke at first. After letting it sit for a second, or explaining it because I'm aware they won't understand, the rewarding response comes. Even if they don't find it funny, I do. That brief void in-between, where the tension is thick as the person searches them self for meaning, is undoubtedly awkward. Will they remember it? Indeed, they will.
Back in high school, I was leadership at several youth retreats. I was pretty famous among the kids at these not because I was very kind or really cared what they had to say, but because in the smaller community my out-of-the-norm behavior and attitude brightened people's day and opened their eyes to behold the wonderful land of social awkwardness. I noticed, that the larger the audience, the less effective a tactic it was. This lead me to believe that the reason more people didn't embrace the awkward joys in life is because there weren't enough to demonstrate it.
While each day is unlike the day before it, life is repetitive. This repetition becomes very dull, sometimes very quickly. Those moments or thick tension, the gaps in the norm, the out of place events remove you from the doldrums, if only for a jiffy. The breaks from normality are those you remember, that's what stories are made of. I make a personal effort to bring such little joys to peoples' lives, not only because I enjoy it, but because I believe that they do too. Uncommon diction, lame jokes, or speaking song lyrics are not beyond my realm, nor should they be beyond anybody's.
It's ironic that in a conformity-driven society, such as ours, where people feel the need to follow the crowd, that bits that don't go with the flow are the best remembered. I bring a piece of me to the lives of others to make their lives a tad more vibrant. That's what I'm about. Few know what to call it, only how if makes them feel: awkward.
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[caption id="attachment_24414" align="alignnone" width="640" caption="Image courtesy of Soundcloud Storywheel"][/caption]San Francisco electro-pop band The Limousines are embarking on their very first European tour in mere days -- they'll be in Sweden on Thursday -- and to immortalize that milestone, lead singer Eric Victorino created a audio/visual slideshow for us using Soundcloud's new Instagram mashup, Storywheel.
"I've been doing this a long time. I've only felt the way I feel right now a couple of times," Victorino said on Facebook Monday. "Gio [Giusti] and I started this band as a hobby. We were strangers. Now we're best friends getting ready to fly to Europe tomorrow morning. Holy shit. Breathe... Alright, let's do it."
Victorino was previously in the rock band Strata. He and Giusti bonded over email after being introduced by a mutual friend, and later formed The Limousines -- an alum of the MTV PUSH program.
In the midst of packing his bags, Victorino threw together this (click, click) little slideshow for us, featuring snaps of pets, hairdos and very muscular calves -- all narrated in a much less nostalgic tone than the above Facebook post.
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FIFA approves stricter sanctions for racism
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius — Football clubs face much tougher penalties for serious racist abuse, including being relegated or having points deducted, after FIFA approved sterner punishments at its annual congress Friday following recent problems in Italy and England.
The new regulations say serious or repeat offenses by a club or its fans could also lead to a team being banned from a tournament, such as the Champions League.
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