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I think it’s hypocritical the use of the West (but let me say of the “advanced World”) not thinking and axploiting the Third (and Fourth) World, unless when there is some tragedy in that Countries. Let’s face the last one: the Earthquake in Haiti. Do you heard somebody talk about Haiti before? Nope. There was someone goin’ on holiday to the Dominican Republic, someone to Jamaica, someone to Cuba but nobody to Haiti. In Haiti there are hotels but I think that’s the poverty next door irritating: you see huts just in front of you like an insult to your holiday and to your right to take a rest. After the Earthquake everybody is sayin’ “poor men… they have nothing…”. They did have nothing even before. Now they are even more in troubles and need everybody’s help. But please, dear westerner, after you donate for Haiti, don’t forget Haiti. Don’t clean your conscience with just a donation.

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199 athletes were eliminated from the final classification of the Florence Marathon for misconduct tackling the competition. It was possible to identify these players unfair with Timing Data Service, a company that provides management services for enrollment and tracking orders arrival with a chip active and passive systems that have carried out checks along the route.
The staff of the Florence Marathon explains: “The marathon is a test that requires passion, commitment and effort, a challenge themselves with before with others, deal with honesty and fairness. For us it is a duty identify those athletes who reach the result “cheating”, perhaps by cutting the path to save miles, and for that, every year, we implement extremely rigid controls on the course. We convinced that it is also a sign of deep respect to the thousands of competitors who finish
regular 42 kilometers and 195 meters”.
Of the 199 athletes removed from the order of arrival, after being passed the finish line, 12 didn’t start, or not being on the route, 96 are withdrawn not have completed the race and the 91 disqualified, for which irregularities journey to inconsistencies of time in fractions controlled.
The most singular, was also highlighted through audits visual, was that of an athlete passed on a bicycle. Following the inspection results are regularly classified 8170 athletes and 25 disabled.

(via Adrenaline Channel)

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Last Minute Marathon Tips: shot with Nikon D90 from Mike Kobal on Vimeo.

• Italian

- this morning I wake-up at 4 AM ’cause the dog of our neighbours was howling and yelping. No sign of the neighbours (I even call ‘em at the phone but… no way). At 4:30 AM I realized I’ll never get back to sleep so I went out for a run.
- the weather was very humid, so I found difficult to ran 12 Km with a total pace of 5.41 min/Km
- I tried to take the train before than usual and it was cancelled
- the Italian Railways stopped a train coming from Bologna, but it was full, so I did the half of the trip standing.
- I must redo a “Ghost” image, ’cause someone formatted the external USB disk with NTFS (remember: if you have an external USB disk and you use it not just with Windows, do not format it with NTFS but use FAT32)
… and now it’s just 10:30 AM…