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This is the cover photo of my set Spring Celebration 2011 [বসন্ত উথসব ২০১১(Bashanto Uthsob) ]
This Photo was taken on 13th Feb 2011 / 01 Falgun 1417 Bangoli Calender Yr at 4:30 pm , from Rabindro Sorobor [ A open air Cultural Venue ] Dhaka BANGLADESH . All the photos are Candid and with less treatment, The Spring Celebration here in BANGLADESH is Commonly known as Bashanto Uthsob,[ Bashanto is :
A name of Color
A name of most soothing weather
A name of flowery days
and Most Interesting season here in Bangladesh ]
This is the 1st Day of Falgun[ Falgun is a Bangoli Calendar Month ] Every Bangoli Calendar Year on 13th February comes as Our celebration day, Same As Valentine day on 14th Feb , We Follow both the day as our Valentine day, 13th Feb as for Bangoli and 14th Feb as FOR western culture,
The First day of Falgun is memorable for its colorful celebration. People from all age and categories celebrate this day with joy amd Festivities to welcome the spring season . They celebrate this day with folk dances , music, recitations and rallies throughout the country to commemorate the Bashanta Uthsob. Girls ware Yellow sarees and Boys wear Yellow Panjabees to celebrate the day, Most of the youth and children’s Painted their faces to make the day more colorful . At the same time , people hope that the coming days will be full of light and Joy,
The Spring [BASHANTO ] Comes to Bangladesh is the end state of Winter and the beginning of Summer, with new leafs in the branches of trees ,
Beds are full with Flowers in the garden and The Bird [KOKIL] Twitted are all the Happening in Spring [Bashanto ]
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Persecución Religiosa: Interrogatorio en clase
Era un día soleado, y en el aula resonó la voz alta de la docente china. Boqian y sus compañeros de clase escuchaban a la maestra con atención. De repente, se abrió la puerta y entró el subdirector de la sección educativa. Le susurró algo al maestro chino, luego el profesor chino dejó de dar una conferencia y se hizo a un lado. El subdirector tomó el puntero, golpeó dos veces en la pizarra y luego preguntó con voz severa: "¡Todos! ¿Hay algún creyente de Dios en tu familia"? Los estudiantes negaron con la cabeza y respondieron: "No". Boqian, que se estaba sentado en el medio de la tercera fila, comentó ligeramente, que sus padres eran creyentes en Dios. Recordó que su madre una vez le había dicho, "China es un estado autoritario sin libertad religiosa. El PCCh no permite que las personas adoren al Dios verdadero, sino que se resisten fanáticamente a Él y a Su obra. Los creyentes en China corren el peligro de ser arrestados en cualquier momento o lugar y sufrir la cruel persecución del PCCh". Boqian sabía que nunca les diría a los maestros que él y sus padres creían en Dios, de lo contrario las consecuencias serían inimaginables.
El subdirector parecía insatisfecho con las respuestas de los estudiantes, y luego sacó del bolsillo un reproductor MP5 negro, lo levantó y les dijo a los estudiantes: "¿Quién ha visto alguna vez a un jugador así? ¿De quién es la familia que tiene ese jugador"? Muchos estudiantes se miraron el uno al otro y no sabían qué tenía que ver el reproductor del MP5 con la investigación de si había algún creyente en sus familias. Pero Boqian sabía claramente en su corazón que los hermanos y hermanas de la iglesia, incluyendo a sus padres, solían usar este tipo de reproductor para leer la palabra de Dios, escuchar himnos y ver películas del evangelio, pero no se atrevió a decir una palabra. Temió que le daría algo a la maestra. Luego, el subdirector miró a cada estudiante y dijo con dureza: "Quien sea que hable es un buen estudiante y será citado. Si descubro que alguien sabía algo y no lo dice, será disciplinado y nunca podrá graduarse sin problemas". Después de escuchar eso, Boqian se sintió nervioso nuevamente. Una vez más, pensó en las palabras de su madre: "El gobierno del PCCh está lleno de astutos trucos. Instalan cámaras en las calles para monitorear a los creyentes; además, van de puerta en puerta realizando inspecciones para buscar a los creyentes a fin de verificar las tarjetas de residencia, y también utilizan unidades de trabajo y escuelas para investigar si hay algún creyente en la familia de alguien. Una vez que encuentran a un creyente de Dios, lo arrestarán y perseguirán, y sus incrédulos miembros de la familia se verán implicados y perderán sus trabajos, y sus hijos perderán las oportunidades de seguir estudiando. El gobierno del PCCh realiza investigaciones tan fanáticamente solo por el deseo delirante de capturar a todos los cristianos y establecer un país sin Dios en China". Boqian sabía que la razón por la que el líder de la escuela actuó de esa manera ese día fue porque ellos eran dirigidos por el PCCh. Para encontrar a los creyentes de Dios, obligaron a los estudiantes a hablar sobre si había creyentes en sus familias a través de engaños y amenazas. El PCCh fue de hecho demasiado insidioso y malvado. Pensando en eso, Boqian se dio cuenta de que el truco de Satanás se escondía detrás de este acontecimiento. Si él era tímido y temeroso, los maestros verían los agujeros, lo que pondría en peligro a su familia y a los hermanos y hermanas. Decidió que, en cualquier caso, no vendería a sus hermanos y hermanas, y mucho menos traicionaría a Dios, y que oraría a Dios y confiaría en Él para vencer la tentación repentina de Satanás.
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41. Highland Hilaria Vasquez 21:43.76 41 38 3
42. North Yadira Perez 21:49.62 42 39 5
43. Foothill Erica Castro 21:53.39 43 40 5
44. Centennial Stephanie Dittman 21:55.56 44 41 4
45. Independence Natalie Ambriz 22:08.45 45 42 2
46. Stockdale Madison Schutzner 22:14.92 46 43 6
47. Highland Katherine Mayberry 22:16.42 47 44 4
48. Centennial Jorey Braughton 22:18.95 48 45 5
49. North Kaylee Meyer 22:20.98 49 46 6
50. Garces Lauren Brown 22:21.19 50 47 2
51. Golden Valley Denise Silva 22:23.90 51 48 2
52. Foothill Violeta Quintanar 22:24.92 52 49 6
53. Highland Desiree Martinez 22:25.59 53 50 5
54. Independence Sara Sullivan 22:25.95 54 51 3
55. Garces Lizbeth Lopez 22:28.11 55 52 3
56. Garces Tammy Vu 22:35.68 56 53 4
57. West Selam Habebo 22:39.75 57 x 1
58. Shafter Leana Lara 22:51.69 58 54 5
59. Independence Carlie Croxton 22:55.06 59 55 4
60. Cesar Chavez Rosa Montanez 22:57.28 60 x 1
61. Foothill Maria Zepeda 22:57.55 61 56 7
62. Garces Marissa Machado 22:57.92 62 57 5
63. Shafter Mayra Torres 23:00.88 63 58 6
64. Golden Valley Carmelita Aguilar 23:04.07 64 59 3
65. Ridgeview M. Salgado 23:14.56 65 60 7
66. Golden Valley Anna Avina 23:20.23 66 61 4
67. Golden Valley Ninive Alveno 23:26.73 67 62 6
68. Golden Valley Mercedes Salgado 23:26.73 68 63 5
69. Centennial Paige Anderson 23:30.27 69 64 6
70. Garces Sammie Lobardo 23:34.37 70 65 6
71. Arvin Bianca Quinonez 23:41.85 71 x 2
72. Kern Valley S. Hinkey 23:42.47 72 x 1
73. Frontier Ariel Driskill 23:43.12 73 66 1
74. Centennial J. Estrada 23:50.91 74 67 7
75. Kern Valley S. Hazzard 23:51.80 75 x 2
76. Garces G. Ortiz 23:54.66 76 68 7
77. North Priscilla Cruz 23:55.51 77 69 7
78. BHS Kristina Logan 24:04.10 78 70 5
79. Frontier Jasmine Mattos 24:05.42 79 71 2
80. Stockdale Delilah Diaz 24:10.83 80 72 7
81. West Wennie Agbalog 24:28.90 81 x 2
82. Wasco Anna Orozco 24:29.57 82 73 2
83. Wasco Ruby Jacabo 24:30.22 83 74 3
84. Tehachapi Anna Duke 24:33.57 84 75 2
85. Wasco S. Castellon 24:42.66 85 76 6
86. Independence Shelby Woolf 24:58.35 86 77 6
87. BHS Sarah Stidham 24:58.76 87 78 6
88. Arvin Gaby Gomez 25:04.17 88 x 3
89. Highland Cristina Valenzuela 25:05.21 89 79 6
90. McFarland Monica Gonzalez 25:42.30 90 x 1
91. Tehachapi Susie Cuevas 25:57.15 91 x 3
92. Wasco B. Medina 26:00.11 92 80 4
93. Cesar Chavez Shannan Albay 26:00.32 93 x 2
94. BC Tiffany Rodriguez 26:26.77 94 x 1
95. Tehachapi Ariel Deval 26:50.73 95 81 4
96. Wasco A. Rios 27:14.74 96 82 5
97. Independence Samantha Antu 27:17.44 97 83 5
98. Tehachapi L. Shoemaker 27:44.92 98 84 5
99. BC Victoria Wheeler 28:09.47 99 x 2
100. Tehachapi J. Bahera 29:20:93 100 85 6
101. Frontier T. See 29:29.12 101 86 3
102. Frontier Savanah Olson 30:18.04 102 87 4
103. Frontier A. Rojas NT 103 88 5
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Why even MILD Covid is now being linked to long-term heart trouble: Millions of us have had the infection - and recovered in days. Now worrying research suggests there could be a nasty sting in the tail
Two weeks after falling ill with Covid TV doctor Xand van Tulleken thought he was on the mend, when he suddenly took a turn for the worse.
‘I woke at 3am with my heart rate rushing at 170 beats per minute [it should have been about 60] and in a chaotic rhythm. I felt bad: faint, sweaty, breathless, panicky,’ he says.
This was March 2020, at the start of the pandemic, when little was known about the typical course of the infection.
But Xand’s training as a public health doctor left him in little doubt that he had developed atrial fibrillation, a dangerous heart rhythm disorder where abnormal electrical impulses cause an irregular and often racing heartbeat. It can lead to stroke and, in extreme cases, heart failure.
‘I believed that my heart-rhythm problem arose most likely as a result of the virus inflaming my heart,’ he says. Realising the seriousness of the situation he raced by taxi to University College Hospital in London.
‘The emergency doctors shocked my heart to stop it temporarily, allowing it to restart in a normal rhythm, a process called cardioversion,’ he adds.
With his heart beating more normally, Xand was prescribed bisoprolol, a type of beta-blocker — medication that alters the heart’s response to nerve impulses, slowing its rate to reduce the risk of further heart-rhythm problems. But it didn’t.
‘My heart went into atrial fibrillation several times after that, meaning I had to go through the cardioversion process repeatedly,’ he says.
A year after his original infection, in 2021 Xand had to return to hospital for an ablation, a procedure that uses freezing liquid nitrogen to ‘burn’ heart tissue, creating scarring that disrupts the electrical signals that cause irregular heartbeats.
‘Surgery took about 90 minutes and I was awake throughout,’ he recalls. ‘It wasn’t painful but it definitely wasn’t enjoyable. When it got to the bit where they froze the heart tissue with liquid nitrogen in a balloon threaded through my artery, I was gripped by a sense of impending doom.’
Xand now feels recovered, mercifully. But millions of fellow Britons have been left facing similarly dangerous and debilitating heart problems in the wake of Covid.
Some 23 million Covid infections have been recorded in the UK, although it’s estimated that many more cases have gone unrecorded because those affected weren’t tested.
Two million people in the UK are living with long Covid, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed in June. It classified long Covid as experiencing symptoms more than four weeks after a coronavirus infection.
Fatigue is the most common, followed by shortness of breath, loss of sense of smell and difficulty concentrating, according to the ONS, but more worryingly there are also significant reports of long-term heart-related problems.
In March, the potential scale of such problems was revealed by a paper in the BMJ. The study of more than 47,000 people who’d been hospitalised with Covid-19 showed that they were about three times more likely than uninfected people to face major cardiovascular problems within eight months of being taken to hospital.
It’s not only people who were hospitalised who have been affected. A study in March of 150,000 Americans found serious heart complications can occur in people who seem to have recovered from a mild infection. The report in the journal Nature Medicine, led by Dr Ziyad Al-Aly, an epidemiologist at Washington University, St Louis, in the U.S., found that people who’d had Covid faced substantially increased risks for 20 conditions, including heart attacks and strokes, in the following 12 months.
In patients who’d been admitted to intensive care the risk of conditions, such as myocarditis (inflammation of the heart that reduces its pumping ability) and blood clots in the lungs, was at least 20 times higher than in uninfected people. But even those who had not been hospitalised had increased risks of many conditions, ranging from an 8 per cent increase in heart attacks to a 247 per cent increase in myocarditis.
Scientists have long known that respiratory infections such as flu can trigger heart disease. This is because they cause inflammation, which plays a major role in cardiovascular illnesses.
However, a Covid infection seems to cause a much higher incidence of problems, and following much milder levels of initial illness.
‘It is not only surprising but also profoundly consequential that the risk is evident even in those [who had mild infections],’ says Dr Al-Aly. ‘That’s what makes this likely a serious public health problem.’
But why? One possibility is that the virus’s spike protein — which it uses to invade human cells — can cause an outbreak of localised inflammation in heart tissue that is so intense that it damages the muscle. Dr Zhiqiang Lin, an assistant professor of cardiology at the Masonic Medical Research Institute in New York, exposed human heart tissue in the lab to spike proteins from Covid-19 and HCoV-NL63, a coronavirus that infects the respiratory system without harming hearts.
He found Covid-19 sparks an immune response in heart cells whereas the other coronavirus did not. He believes that causes excessive inflammation which damages heart cells and causes myocarditis.
But Covid may also harm cardiovascular health in another way, according to a study by Houston Methodist Academic Medical Centre, Texas, published in August. This found that patients with long Covid heart symptoms may have double the normal risk of having unhealthy endothelial cells, which line the inside of the heart and blood vessels.
Endothelial cells play a key role in dilating the arteries and helping to get blood to the heart when we do physically strenuous activities. Patients with unhealthy endothelial cells, a condition known as microvascular dysfunction, are at higher risk of heart failure and death.
Dr Mouaz Al-Mallah, a cardiologist who co-authored the paper, explains in the journal JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging: ‘When a patient exercises they need more blood delivered to the heart to be able to provide blood to the entire body ... But in some patients with Covid, we noted it’s not increasing to the degree it should be.’
Dr Al-Mallah’s team scanned the hearts of nearly 400 patients with long Covid. The scans showed they were twice as likely to have unhealthy endothelial cells inside the heart and blood vessels. ‘This may potentially explain why some patients are having chest pain and shortness of breath because their heart is not getting that extra blood,’ Dr Al-Mallah wrote.
Not everyone is convinced that the dangers are widespread, however. In a small study of 52 people, Professor Gerry McCann, a cardiac-imaging specialist at the University of Leicester, found that people who had recovered after being hospitalised with Covid-19 had no greater rate of heart disease than people who had similar underlying cardiovascular conditions such as high blood pressure, but who had remained uninfected by the virus.
He is working on a larger study with around 1,200 participants. ‘The more data we’re acquiring, the less impressed we are with the degree of myocardial injury,’ he told Good Health.
‘There is no doubt Covid is associated with heart problems in hospitalised patients, although it is relatively uncommon. Those who are hospitalised tend to have other risk factors such as older age, obesity and pre-existing cardiovascular disease.’
He adds: ‘There are mixed reports on the extent of heart problems from researchers using imaging techniques. Some of the abnormal findings are of uncertain clinical significance and we are not sure how much of the changes are related to pre-existing conditions.’
Other British researchers disagree that the extent of cardiovascular dangers are exaggerated.
Colin Berry, a professor of cardiology and imaging at the University of Glasgow, said: ‘Professor McCann’s study has serious limitations because it only studied 52 patients. I would concentrate on much larger studies that have greater statistical power such as the American ones, which do show widescale problems.’
Professor’s Berry’s own study, published in Nature Medicine in May, covered 1,306 former Covid patients. It found that one in eight people who had been hospitalised with the virus between May 2020 and March 2021 were later diagnosed with myocarditis.
‘Prior to Covid they had been fit and healthy,’ he says. ‘I think that the damage is more than just to these patients’ hearts but to their wider cardiovascular systems.
‘It may also involve their blood vessels, which helps to explain why such long Covid patients are showing physical problems and loss of quality of life.’
Dr David Strain, a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter who specialises in viral infections, also believes Professor McCann’s results may not represent the whole picture.
‘The patients he studied are generally being followed up after they have left hospital, when the main danger period has passed,’ he says. ‘Beyond three months there seems to be a negligible risk of bad cardiovascular things happening.’
Dr Strain argues instead that the majority of heart problems emerge in a period that lasts from six to eight weeks after Covid infection. ‘This is the period when we see rates of heart attacks, strokes and blood clots going up,’ he says. ‘During this post-infection danger period, Covid picks on your weakest parts, such as your heart and arteries.’ Over the longer term Dr Strain says worrying evidence is mounting to suggest that the virus can hide dormant in our bodies for months or even years.
‘If the virus can hide in the body then anything that weakens a person’s immune defences — such as physical stress, infection or reinfection with another strain of Covid — may allow the virus to re-emerge,’ he says. ‘There is evidence to suggest long Covid can be caused by the virus persisting, and having surges subsequently may cause cardiovascular disease.’
This, Dr Strain says, is why it is crucial people getting over Covid take things very easy when recuperating from the virus. ‘From what we see, people who return to work early are more likely to get post-Covid problems,’ he warns.
Professor Berry agrees. ‘I advise long Covid patients to keep active, but to stay within their own limit,’ he explains. ‘Go for short leisurely walks and if you can do that well, try brisk walks — but don’t overdo it.’
Xand van Tulleken wishes he had taken things more slowly two years ago in the wake of his Covid infection. ‘I did not try to take it easy,’ he says. ‘Even on the day I suffered the first bout of atrial fibrillation, I went straight into work.’
As a result, ‘I went into a downward spiral. Being post-Covid and with heart worries, I felt depressive, miserable,’ he says.
‘Lots of people have gone through this stuff. Fortunately I had the support of my parents, who encouraged me to exercise gently and cooked for me. My twin brother Chris has been hugely helpful with recovering my health by getting me to eat well, not eating junk food and ultraprocessed foods to aid my general health.’
He adds: ‘Professor Toby Hillman was my doctor at the clinic for people with Covid complications. He said his best advice for anyone with long Covid is to rest.’
Thanks to a combination of Xand taking this on board, and having the successful cardioversion op, he says: ‘I now feel amazing.
‘I can go for a run every morning and feel healthy.
‘Convalescence is what we all need after Covid. It sounds such an old-fashioned word, but as a nation we have lost the concept of convalescence. We need to get it back.’
fortune.com/well/2022/09/20/bf-7-new-covid-subvariant-ris...
Just in time for fall, there’s a brand-new COVID variant making headway in the U.S.
A new COVID strain started to create waves among virus trackers this week, outpacing nearly all other variants of interest scientists are tracking in the U.S. this autumn.
The variant, which scientists have named BF.7—short for BA.5.2.1.7—comprised 1.7% of sequenced infections last week in the U.S., according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Other variants jockeying for the top spot right now—held by BA.5, at 85%—include BA.4.6, which comprised 10.3% of infections, and BA.2.75, which comprised 1.3%.
Scientists are taking notice of BF.7 because it’s making headway in an increasingly crowded field of Omicron subvariants. For months they’ve watched BA.2.75—dubbed Centaurus by the Twitterverse—as a variant of interest with potential to surge this fall. But this week, BF.7 surpassed it.
Potentially more transmissible than BA.5
BF.7 is only beginning to grow off in the U.S., but it’s already taken off in other countries.
So far Belgium has seen the lion’s share of BF.7 cases identified globally: 25%. Denmark, Germany, and France have each seen 10% of the world’s identified cases so far, according to cov-lineages.org, a COVID data repository updated daily by contributors from universities in England, Scotland, and Australia, among others.
The new subvariant was first reported by the CDC as part of cases of BA.5, which rose to prominence this summer. But the CDC recently broke it out into its own category when cases topped 1%, Dr. Stuart Ray, vice chair of medicine for data integrity and analytics at Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine, told Fortune.
“The same growth advantage in multiple countries makes it reasonable to think that BF.7 is gaining a foothold,” and that it’s potentially more transmissible than parent BA.5, Ray said. Children of variants “don’t grow relative to their parent unless they have an advantage.”
While nothing is known about the severity of disease BF.7 might cause, so far all Omicron subvariants have had similar severity, he added.
The new subvariant has a change in the spike protein—a feature that allows it to enter cells—seen in other Omicron strains making headway. It also has a change in the nucleotide sequence—sometimes referred to as the blueprint of an organism—that could cause it to behave differently than other subvariants. But the extent to which it will diverge, if it does at all, is currently unknown, Ray said.
COVID is continually evolving to become more immune evasive, according to Ray, and Omicron is spawning exponentially. He added he wouldn’t be surprised to see a new variant altogether this fall.
“It’s been a while since we went from Alpha to Beta to Gamma to Delta, then to Omicron,” he said. “We may be complacent. This may be feeding into the notion that this is behind us.”
The tangle of Omicron spawns—with or without a new parent variant—could make for a rough fall and winter, Ray said.
His advice? Continue to mask and get your booster. And remember that the pandemic isn’t over.
“There are people who predicted COVID would be over by Easter of last year,” he said.
Peter Sommeregger (* 1946 in Wien), Schriftsteller und Musikjournalist
Humanistisches Gymnasium in Wien. Buchhändler in München und Berlin. Ab 2005 Rezensionen für das Opernmagazin Orpheus. Rezensionen und redaktionelle Beiträge für Operalounge und info-netz-musik. Lexikalische Beiträge für MUGI (Musik und Gender im Internet).
Bibliographie (Auswahl)
Die drei Leben der Jetty Treffz – der ersten Ehefrau des Walzerkönigs
Wien : Seifert Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-902924-76-6
"Wir Künstler sind andere Naturen" : das Leben der sächsischen Hofopernsängerin Margarethe Siems
Wien : Seifert Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-902924-64-3
Frida Leider - Sängerin im Zwiespalt ihrer Zeit / Eva Rieger ; unter Mitarbeit von Peter Sommeregger
Hildesheim ; Zürich ; New York : Georg Olms Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-487-08579-1
In: Leo Blech : Komponist - Kapellmeister - Generalmusikdirektor / Centrum Judaicum. Jutta Lambrecht (Hg.)
Berlin : Hentrich & Hentrich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95565-091-9
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The Willows at Willow Grove Day Camp is a camp for 3 and 4 year old children. This unique camp experience offers your child an early opportunity to learn and socialize with children their own age.
During the first week of camp, lots of fun was had as the children and counselors got to know each other. “Sun and Surf” was our first week theme. The children really enjoyed decorating their bucket and shovel memo pads during Arts and Crafts. Along with this activity, the Polar Bears and Penguins enthusiastically participated in Nature, Gymnastics, Dance, Tennis and Soccer. We are looking forward to the next seven weeks of fun-filled activities.
Willow Grove Day Camp provides summer fun for kids who live in Willow Grove, Abington, Blue Bell, Hatboro, Horsham, Huntingdon Valley, Lafayette Hill, Philadelphia, Plymouth Meeting, Southampton and the surrounding areas. For more information on the Willows and Willow Grove Day Camp please visit: willowgrovedaycamp.com/willows.html
1. detsember - Marsa Alam
The indigenous tribes of Wadi Al-Gemal and its surroundings. The Beja Tribe is one of the Red Sea mountains' main ethnicity as it reaches from southern Egypt into eastern Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea. It can be divided into four main tribes: Bisharin, Ababda, Hadendoa and Beni Amer. Only the first two inhabit Egyptian territories, mainly in the southern parts of the eastern desert. Ababda are the original dwellers of Wadi Al-Gemal, while Bisharins are inhabitants of the Jabel Elba region located in the southeastern most corner of Egypt. While both are nomadic pastorals, Ababda have abandoned their original tradition of livestock herding due to extended drought conditions that have forced them to live in areas closer to commercial urban centres. This in return has exposed them to a wider range of income generating alternatives. Though both tribes originally speak different dialects of an oral language called "To Bedawie" or Rotana as is commonly known, Ababda have deserted their mother tongue for Arabic.
Though Bisharins, inhabitants of the Jabal Elba region, also live in a drought prone area, their territory is actually part of Egypt's biggest national park -- Mountain Elba National Park -- in addition to being a politically disputed area between Egypt and Sudan. Both the remoteness of the area and the difficulties associated with reaching and entering it have both helped the Bisharins to maintain their pastoral nomadism and preserve their original culture and traditional way of living.
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www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=BEI
Beja البيجا
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Shopping for Pie
A Shopping ‘Marathon’
To Help Raise funds for
Kelpie Snowbear's Brain Surgery
Pie's Story
Kelpie Snowbear, Also known as "Pie"
Is a Sl Blogger and store owner.
She recently found out she has a brain invader
in the middle of her brain. Her
Doctor is concerned it May be a Pineocytoma
which is a rare type of brain Tumor, of the pineal Region of
the brain. Do to Kelpies every growing symptoms her Doctor recommends surgery.
Do to where it is Located, and its Rarity she must
go out of state for surgery, Her current insurance will not cover
anything out of state. The cost is VERY high. 167,000USD.
Kelpie was able to find another insurance that will drop the
OUT OF POCKET of 167,000 to between 28-70 K USD.
She can not enroll on this insurance until Nov. So right now her
surgery is postponed until the insurance kicks in and until we have the
out of pocket. As ALL of the Out of pocket must be paid A MONTH before surgery.
About Event
This is a Store to Store type of event. It is free to join. You must make at least one item to sell in your in world store or even your marketplace if you do not have a in world store at this time. You must have between 20-100% of each sale go to the fundraiser.
If you would like to know more Or be a part of this 'Marathon' Contact Kelpie Snowbear
via Im or Notecard. She will send you a welcome folder.
** New stores can join in at anytime, also you can leave the event and pick up your items at anytime,
just give me a heads up, as I like to keep the list of items for sale, up to date on the blog.
If you would like to know more of Kelpie's story:
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From Edmunds (http://www.edmunds.com/ford/taurus/2008/review.html) -
What Edmunds.com says
The reborn 2008 Ford Taurus hits the dance floor with some fresh moves courtesy of a 263-horsepower V6. The engine upgrade, along with the Five Hundred's pre-existing comfortable cabin, cavernous trunk and top-notch safety scores, make the new Taurus a worthy candidate for a full-size sedan.
Pros
Extra-large backseat and trunk, outstanding crash test scores, comfortable ride, good visibility, available all-wheel drive.
Cons
High front seats create an odd driving position that might be uncomfortable for taller drivers, transmission occasionally slow to downshift.
What's New for 2008
Ford resurrects the Taurus nameplate for 2008 by affixing it to a much-improved Five Hundred. A more powerful engine, a nicer and quieter cabin, a retuned suspension and a corporate three-bar grille are the major highlights.
Introduction
Name recognition and awareness are no doubt important for automotive manufacturers. For example, look no further than the 2008 Ford Taurus. Ford has pulled the Taurus nameplate out of its one-year dirt nap in hopes of getting back into the thick of the large family sedan game. But is the public's awareness of the Taurus name a good thing or bad? Though a hero car back in the 1980s and early '90s, more recent iterations of the Taurus were dated and anonymous, a favorite of image-dulling rental car agencies and a not-so-favorite of middle management types who received them as company cars.
The Taurus revival is combined with the death of the Ford Five Hundred, a large sedan introduced a few years ago that never sold like the company had hoped. Although it offered a large cabin and an impressive ride and handling balance, the Five Hundred was let down by weak engine performance and a lack of refinement.
Thankfully, the 2008 Ford Taurus gains a number of improvements as part of its return. Under that familiar Five Hundred sheet metal are much improved running gear and additional features. In fact, Ford says there are more than 500 changes. A 263-hp V6 replaces the lame 203-hp V6, and a more responsive six-speed automatic replaces the sluggish continuously variable transmission (CVT) across all trim levels.
Other improvements for this large family sedan include the adoption of stability control, a "Ford Sync" system (that allows hands-free use of mobile phones and digital music players), improved cabin materials and more sound insulation for a quieter ride.
With its major performance infusion, addition of key safety and luxury features, and available all-wheel drive, the Ford Taurus is the best it's been in a long time. Given the Taurus' size (along with the fact that the Ford Fusion now battles stalwarts like the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry), you'll probably want to cross-shop it against full-size sedans like the Chrysler 300, Hyundai Azera or Toyota Avalon. Though still slightly deficient in terms of style (compared to the 300) or all-around polish, the Taurus is certainly worth consideration.
The last few days have been a flurry of activity with building on the river and wet lands. But, in between I have gone to a bunch of new places and back to some of my favorite venues.
Xavier & I love to salsa. So we did a search and wham, we found >Latin Palace Dance Club. Couples were dancing in dressy attire to wonderful salsa music. Wearing a tuxedo without a shirt and me in a short cocktail dress, it so reminded Xavier & me of Miami clubs.
A stopover at Organica to catch the last hour of DJ Qee's set woke us up with a nice psy jolt! So good to hear Qee's dynamic sounds and see old friends.
A brand new club called Fear FM sent me a tp. I got to meet owner/builder Cypher Webb. Beautifully built by Cypher, he was also spinning an awesome set of hardstyle and goth rock. I had a blast there. Cypher is also recruiting DJ's so peeps, give him a shout!
It was so late on Thursday night (Fri morn?) that I just had to stop off and say hi to DJ Xavi at The Cave. Owner Tasty Hax was there, too. I run into her at every party!
Friday afternoon, I got a tp from one of the builders. I ended up at Blackhearts 80's club. I love the funkiness of this club. So simple. It feels like a rock n roll club. Halloween was coming and the Pillsbury Dough Boy showed up! LOL!
Late night, and Xavier & I headed for DJ Nebulae's set at Piranha. Xavi loves this club. He set his JMD Effects hud on and we were in psy heaven. We always have fun at Shad's club!
In between all the craziness, I hit New Berlin's Electro Smog. Gee... I can't seem to get enough of this place. Zap Hax was hosting and DJ djleftydc Denja was spinning a sweet set of tunes.
Another new place I landed upon was Le Ghetto Hype. This is a fun club of alternative and eclectic tunes. Owner DJ Frederick Neberle & partner ARNAUD Mureaux have built a wonderful place to hang.
Off to Divaz Lounge! DJ 8wall Wrigglesworth just sent me a tp! OMG, 8wall is spinning at Divaz.
I met 8wall at Dance Island last year and then over at Nutrie. He spins a very chill set of house and minimal tunes.
But, the highlight of my night was at Old Factory listening to DJ Jeangilles Anthony. This frenchman is an artist. Beautiful industrial noise layered with a hardstyle beat... then transcending into experimental music... psychedelic experimental noise. LOL! and I fell asleep there... just couldn't leave!
Late night on Friday, Xavier and I ended up at DJ Digital Francis' Le Pardis de Digital Nation. It was an after party and Digi was spinning. Xavi & Digi started a "stump me" game. I think Digital was very impressed with Xavier's musical knowledge. They bro-downed the entire night leaving me and DJ Snowkitty dumbfounded... 'cause neither of us knew any of the tunes. LOL! I think Xavier has a new favorite dj now!
Marni Turkel is one of the world's most skilled growers of orchid species and a renowned ceramist. Now after decades of collecting rare and fascinating species orchids, she has moved from her ceramics production to propagation of her vast collection of very rare orchid species. Her lab is brimming over with flasks of vigorous seedlings of rare and choice species not available anywhere else. Many of the species she is propagating for sale have never been offered in the US before. Unlike most growers who set seed pods via self-pollination, Marni goes to great lengths to procure pollen from other clones; these outcrosses ensure greater genetic diversity and stronger progeny.
Never satisfied with mediocrity, Marni is an innovative and resourceful person who is continually researching and experimenting so that her flasks come out beautifully. A great number of the species she has in her lab have never been propagated artificially before and she has had to pioneer new techniques to cater to the varied needs of different orchid species' seeds in flask.
I'm an enthusiastic customer, having bought a number of her excellent flasks. I have had very good results with the seedlings I have de-flasked, they are quite strong growers with very few losses.
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
www.andynoise.com/fallbtchalf08.html
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
1 GALVIN GONZALEZ 1:11:30 5:28 1/8 1/98 M3034
2 David Bacus 1:14:52 5:43 1/4 2/98 M2024
3 ZACHARY HOLT 1:21:52 6:15 1/10 3/98 M1319
4 JORDAN PERRY 1:23:34 6:23 1/8 4/98 M2529
5 Rudy Montoya 1:23:49 6:24 1/11 5/98 M4044
6 Jose Salcedo 1:25:28 6:32 2/4 6/98 M2024
7 Timothy Anderson 1:25:33 6:32 1/18 7/98 M5054
8 Chris Anderson 1:26:31 6:37 2/10 8/98 M1319
9 Diego Diaz 1:26:58 6:39 1/14 9/98 M3539
10 JOHN PURCELL 1:28:22 6:45 3/10 10/98 M1319
11 SHAWNA ROUNTREE 1:29:00 6:48 1/8 1/73 F2529
12 CREGG WEINMANN 1:29:53 6:52 2/18 11/98 M5054
13 Craig Gardner 1:30:40 6:56 3/18 12/98 M5054
14 Javier Cruz 1:31:16 6:58 1/11 13/98 M4549
15 Steve Dirkse 1:31:23 6:59 2/14 14/98 M3539
16 WALTER PAVLAKOVICH 1:31:36 7:00 4/18 15/98 M5054
17 David Little 1:32:46 7:05 4/10 16/98 M1319
18 Ezequiel Gonzalez 1:32:47 7:05 5/10 17/98 M1319
19 Alec Briones 1:33:03 7:07 1/9 18/98 M5559
20 Damon Wilstead 1:33:55 7:11 2/8 19/98 M3034
21 BART VANDERWAL 1:35:35 7:18 2/11 20/98 M4044
22 John Lee 1:35:55 7:20 5/18 21/98 M5054
23 Roehl Caragao 1:36:29 7:22 2/11 22/98 M4549
24 MARK OGILVIE 1:37:25 7:27 3/11 23/98 M4044
25 Dave Hoglund 1:37:26 7:27 2/9 24/98 M5559
26 JEFF GIUMARRA 1:37:29 7:27 3/8 25/98 M3034
27 Jacob Scott 1:37:32 7:27 6/10 26/98 M1319
28 JAMES BELL 1:37:32 7:27 6/18 27/98 M5054
29 Charolette Cholometes 1:37:40 7:28 1/9 2/73 F3034
30 DAVE MEEK 1:38:36 7:32 3/14 28/98 M3539
31 Daniel Ramirez 1:39:18 7:35 3/9 29/98 M5559
32 AARON ALBAY 1:39:25 7:36 7/10 30/98 M1319
33 COURTNEY MOORE 1:40:16 7:40 1/1 3/73 F1319
34 Richard Black 1:40:35 7:41 7/18 31/98 M5054
35 JOSE MONTELONGO 1:40:44 7:42 4/14 32/98 M3539
36 Klaus Benamy-Hackel 1:41:14 7:44 4/9 33/98 M5559
37 MICHAEL RAMIREZ 1:41:20 7:45 2/8 34/98 M2529
38 Raul Gonzalez 1:41:31 7:45 5/14 35/98 M3539
39 Freddie Bingham 1:42:33 7:50 4/8 36/98 M3034
40 Mike Gonzalez 1:42:47 7:51 3/11 37/98 M4549
41 Gerry Saba 1:43:55 7:56 4/11 38/98 M4044
42 DAVE PEGLER 1:44:04 7:57 5/11 39/98 M4044
43 DEBBIE WALLACE 1:45:03 8:02 1/12 4/73 F4549
44 EDDIE PAULSEN 1:45:25 8:03 6/14 40/98 M3539
45 Gary Enns 1:45:33 8:04 7/14 41/98 M3539
46 GREG FONTES 1:45:33 8:04 4/11 42/98 M4549
47 JOE SWEET 1:45:35 8:04 5/8 43/98 M3034
48 Sara Bradford 1:45:52 8:05 2/9 5/73 F3034
49 Daniel Tavarez 1:46:31 8:08 8/14 44/98 M3539
50 Connie Tavarez 1:46:35 8:09 1/5 6/73 F3539
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
51 Todd Witwer 1:47:12 8:11 8/18 45/98 M5054
52 MARK WITCHER 1:48:41 8:18 9/18 46/98 M5054
53 Roy Walford 1:50:02 8:24 1/3 47/98 M6064
54 HAYLEY TOBIN 1:50:13 8:25 1/14 7/73 F4044
55 Amy Fredericks 1:50:33 8:27 1/2 8/73 F6064
56 KELLY LOPEZ 1:50:45 8:28 2/14 9/73 F4044
57 ROBERT JOHNSON 1:50:48 8:28 5/9 48/98 M5559
58 JOSHUA GARZA 1:50:50 8:28 6/11 49/98 M4044
59 Eric Wolf 1:50:52 8:28 3/4 50/98 M2024
60 Derek Jeffery 1:51:02 8:29 3/8 51/98 M2529
61 BROOKS RICHARDSON 1:51:25 8:31 10/18 52/98 M5054
62 Tony Jeffery 1:52:52 8:37 7/11 53/98 M4044
63 Mike Moore 1:53:34 8:41 5/11 54/98 M4549
64 DAVE COWLES 1:54:34 8:45 8/11 55/98 M4044
65 Brian Cisneros 1:55:06 8:48 8/10 56/98 M1319
66 John Wilson 1:55:22 8:49 2/3 57/98 M6064
67 Mike Barella 1:55:26 8:49 9/11 58/98 M4044
68 FRANCISCO RAMIREZ 1:55:29 8:49 9/14 59/98 M3539
69 Jose Torres 1:56:33 8:54 9/10 60/98 M1319
70 Yolanda Hughes 1:56:38 8:55 3/14 10/73 F4044
71 Keith Stearmon 1:56:40 8:55 4/8 61/98 M2529
72 BOB BARTON 1:57:15 8:57 6/11 62/98 M4549
73 JOHN OPHEIM 1:57:22 8:58 3/3 63/98 M6064
74 Margaret Patterson 1:57:26 8:58 2/12 11/73 F4549
75 Jim Cowles 1:57:28 8:58 1/2 64/98 M6569
76 PHILIPPE IGOA 1:58:11 9:02 7/11 65/98 M4549
77 KATE QUINN 1:58:11 9:02 1/7 12/73 F5559
78 Ken Berckes 1:58:18 9:02 11/18 66/98 M5054
79 CARMEN ALBANES 1:58:25 9:03 1/11 13/73 F5054
80 KATHRYN JOSLIN 1:58:28 9:03 3/9 14/73 F3034
81 Darlene Savage 1:59:12 9:06 3/12 15/73 F4549
82 CHRIS DANFORTH 1:59:57 9:10 8/11 67/98 M4549
83 JUAN CERVANTES 2:00:23 9:12 4/4 68/98 M2024
84 JOSIE MARTIN 2:00:31 9:12 2/11 16/73 F5054
85 TAMMY GARCIA 2:01:31 9:17 4/14 17/73 F4044
86 Carol Weston 2:01:47 9:18 2/2 18/73 F6064
87 Esther Ray 2:02:16 9:20 2/7 19/73 F5559
88 Bob Ziemet 2:02:25 9:21 2/2 69/98 M6569
89 TRACY HUBBELL 2:02:40 9:22 5/14 20/73 F4044
90 ERIC BERLIN 2:03:45 9:27 12/18 70/98 M5054
91 craig smith 2:04:15 9:30 9/11 71/98 M4549
92 Jialan Su 2:04:21 9:30 4/9 21/73 F3034
93 DANIEL RODRIGUEZ 2:04:29 9:31 13/18 72/98 M5054
94 Greg Adkins 2:04:32 9:31 10/14 73/98 M3539
95 Tawnie McCaa 2:04:55 9:33 1/2 22/73 F2024
96 ROY PIERUCCI 2:04:56 9:33 6/9 74/98 M5559
97 ALICIA BROWN 2:05:39 9:36 2/5 23/73 F3539
98 Kevin Higgins 2:05:49 9:37 14/18 75/98 M5054
99 Guido Climer 2:06:11 9:38 11/14 76/98 M3539
100 Lonnie Stockton 2:06:16 9:39 6/14 24/73 F4044
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
101 CHARLES MATHER 2:06:55 9:42 5/8 77/98 M2529
102 Meg Reimers 2:07:10 9:43 7/14 25/73 F4044
103 Barb Johnston 2:07:27 9:44 3/11 26/73 F5054
104 Katie Nickell 2:07:27 9:44 8/14 27/73 F4044
105 HOPE ROE 2:07:39 9:45 4/12 28/73 F4549
106 RODERICK MARCIA 2:07:45 9:46 6/8 78/98 M3034
107 Connie Taylor 2:07:46 9:46 5/9 29/73 F3034
108 Nicole Panero 2:07:50 9:46 2/8 30/73 F2529
109 Cory Bringman 2:08:26 9:49 3/5 31/73 F3539
110 LONDO WHITNEY 2:09:11 9:52 12/14 79/98 M3539
111 Odette Hudson 2:09:27 9:53 3/7 32/73 F5559
112 Clarissa Wilstead 2:09:49 9:55 3/8 33/73 F2529
113 JEFF COOMBER 2:09:58 9:56 15/18 80/98 M5054
114 Susan James 2:10:43 9:59 4/11 34/73 F5054
115 JOAN COLLIN S 2:11:42 10:04 5/11 35/73 F5054
116 Denise Haynes 2:11:43 10:04 5/12 36/73 F4549
117 Peg Baird 2:13:42 10:13 6/11 37/73 F5054
118 REBECCA WALKER 2:15:22 10:20 4/8 38/73 F2529
119 Troy Wells 2:15:29 10:21 10/11 81/98 M4044
120 Fred Little 2:15:29 10:21 16/18 82/98 M5054
121 Brock Sheela 2:16:35 10:26 7/8 83/98 M3034
122 Pedro Segura 2:16:59 10:28 7/9 84/98 M5559
123 DELORES CORTEZ 2:17:12 10:29 1/2 39/73 F7099
124 Jennifer Fendrick 2:17:26 10:30 4/5 40/73 F3539
125 Rachel Taylor 2:17:48 10:32 5/8 41/73 F2529
126 DANIEL J. RAMIREZ 2:17:49 10:32 13/14 85/98 M3539
127 Angelica Rogers 2:18:22 10:34 7/11 42/73 F5054
128 Jason Gutierrez 2:19:10 10:38 6/8 86/98 M2529
129 Maria Steele 2:19:13 10:38 8/11 43/73 F5054
130 Janice Horcasitas 2:19:16 10:38 4/7 44/73 F5559
131 DALE VAN SCHAACK 2:20:54 10:46 5/7 45/73 F5559
132 MARILYN JOHNSON 2:20:56 10:46 6/7 46/73 F5559
133 Deanna Koelewyn 2:23:11 10:56 6/12 47/73 F4549
134 Karen Briltz 2:23:15 10:57 9/14 48/73 F4044
135 PEGGY SCHUH 2:23:29 10:58 9/11 49/73 F5054
136 RICHARD GARRETT 2:23:30 10:58 10/11 87/98 M4549
137 JOSHUA ST. CLAIR 2:24:23 11:02 10/10 88/98 M1319
138 DAVID CHAPIN 2:25:02 11:05 7/8 89/98 M2529
139 JOANNA THOMAS 2:25:03 11:05 6/8 50/73 F2529
140 Paula Badasci 2:25:14 11:06 10/14 51/73 F4044
141 Joe Saldana 2:26:19 11:11 17/18 90/98 M5054
142 carol montez 2:29:10 11:24 7/12 52/73 F4549
143 Lynda Ernst 2:30:26 11:29 8/12 53/73 F4549
144 Maria Mendoza 2:31:06 11:33 7/8 54/73 F2529
145 Christine Gibson 2:34:12 11:47 8/8 55/73 F2529
146 Cheryl Scott 2:35:09 11:51 11/11 91/98 M4044
147 Renee Candelaria 2:35:46 11:54 9/12 56/73 F4549
148 Becky Whitehead 2:37:09 12:00 2/2 57/73 F7099
149 David Martino-Carr 2:38:34 12:07 8/9 92/98 M5559
150 Cheryl Wahl 2:39:43 12:12 10/12 58/73 F4549
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
151 Brad Wahl 2:39:43 12:12 11/11 93/98 M4549
152 CAROL MONJE 2:41:13 12:19 10/11 59/73 F5054
153 SHELLEY JOHNSON 2:41:41 12:21 11/14 60/73 F4044
154 MICHAEL GARCIA 2:41:42 12:21 9/9 94/98 M5559
155 Yiota Harrelson 2:43:32 12:29 6/9 61/73 F3034
156 Kim Aviles 2:44:28 12:34 12/14 62/73 F4044
157 JULIE LEE 2:47:44 12:49 13/14 63/73 F4044
158 Eva Ramirez 2:47:48 12:49 7/9 64/73 F3034
159 Melanie Reed 2:47:53 12:49 14/14 65/73 F4044
160 GEOFF MCAVOY 2:49:14 12:56 8/8 95/98 M2529
161 SUSAN ORMEROD 2:54:42 13:21 11/12 66/73 F4549
162 Kenadee Mishler 2:58:06 13:36 2/2 67/73 F2024
163 Phyllis Martino-Carr 3:00:00 13:45 7/7 68/73 F5559
164 Kathy Berckes 3:00:04 13:45 11/11 69/73 F5054
165 Rafaela Cisneros 3:01:09 13:50 5/5 70/73 F3539
166 Dwayne Mishler 3:02:07 13:55 18/18 96/98 M5054
167 Elizabeth Luckhardt 3:03:22 14:00 12/12 71/73 F4549
168 Ana Arreola 3:03:54 14:03 8/9 72/73 F3034
169 IAN BYERS 3:06:51 14:16 8/8 97/98 M3034
170 Gisela Gomez 3:08:08 14:22 9/9 73/73 F3034
171 Robert Sandoval 3:08:08 14:22 14/14 98/98 M3539
©2008 Bakersfield Track Club
This is a Hex excavated Truncated Cube "truncated hexahedron" composed entirely of square and triangle origami units.
I made this for my niece. She loves the color purple and dragons.
There are 6 central faces that used Dragon artwork in the center of Double stopper modules. used 3 different dragon pictures.
**Purple-gray-dragon image cube centers: 6 Double Stopper modules (Tomoko Fuse's Kusudama Origami, page 52) I used images of purple dragons edited to the correct size to for the center of the double stoppers. I used 3 different dragon images between 6 faces.
**Floral print Square cube walls: 12 Square Flat Unit modules (from Tomoko Fuse's Unit Polyhedron Origami, page 8.) They're made from two whole sheets of paper, allowing me to color each side of the squares differently. I used 3 different floral patterns.
**Purple tetrahedron walls: 24 Equilateral-triangular Flat Unit II modules (from Kunihiko Kasahara's Origami Omnibus, page 204.) I started using regular triangle modules that had 3 flaps ( from Tomoko Fuse) that had 3 flaps, however the complexity of the units persuaded me to revert back to the equilateral triangles which have 3 pockets no flaps These units have three flaps and no pockets, requiring joining tabs to be folded so they could insert into the sides of the roomy Square Flat Unit modules.
**Black tetrahedron corners/bases: 8 Equilateral-triangular Flat Unit II modules (from Kunihiko Kasahara's Origami Omnibus, page 204.) I glued all but one corner , Where I only glued 1 flap, so it acts as a door to reveal a hidden compartment that I hid a pewter dragon inside.
All of the units used in this have a side length which is exactly 1/2 the length of the original sheet of paper, meaning they are all compatible.
Total of 65 sheets of paper to complete this project, including 24 sheets of Floral/Japanese Print Origami paper. ( Not including the joining tabs)
Excuse the poor photo quality do to inadequate lighting. I will try to get a better picture.
This model and my Valentine Themed Cube
were inspired by Ardoniks halloween-hexexcavated-truncated-cube
Our Lady & The English Martyrs, Cambridge
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Yesterday I revisited St Peter for internals and finished of Cambridge, visiting seven Victorian built churches only one of which, Our Lady & The English Martyrs, is worth writing up.
At first sight I wrote OLEM off as a Victorian Gothic monstrosity but as I wandered around the exterior I was struck by the quality of the building and the interior stunned me with lots of rather good glass and impressive architecture (oh and apart from three revisits, Babraham, Guilden Morden and Stow cum Quy, that finished the north west quadrant).
The Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, or OLEM, is situated in the heart of the city of Cambridge. An imposing example of the 19th Century Gothic Revival, it was built to the designs of Dunn & Hansom of Newcastle between 1885 and 1890, and founded solely by Mrs Yolande Marie Louise Lyne-Stephens, a former ballet dancer at the Paris Opera and Drury Lane, London, and widow of a wealthy banker. She promised to build the church on the feast of Our Lady of the Assumption, and Monsignor Christopher Scott - the first Rector - also wished to commemorate the Catholic Martyrs who died between 1535 and 1681, over thirty of whom had been in residence at the University.
Designed by architects Dunn and Hansom of Newcastle and built by the Cambridge firm of Rattee and Kett, OLEM is constructed in Casterton, Ancaster and Combe Down Stone. The church is a traditional cruciform structure in the early-decorated style with a large tower at the crossing, a polygonal apse and a west bell tower with a 65-metre spire, visible for miles around Cambridge. Quite often, it is quoted by visitors and local residents as a location point. The approximate internal dimensions of the church are: length 48 meters [156 ft] width across the aisles 16 meters [51 ft] width at the transepts 22 meters [71 ft], the height of the nave 15 meters [71ft].
Inside and over the west door stands the figure of Our Lady of the Assumption crowned with lilies and standing on the crescent moon with the vanquished serpent beneath. The west window shows the English Martyrs arranged in two principal groups, the clergy on the south side with St John Fisher in their midst and the laity on the north grouped round St Thomas More.
Beside the South aisle is an ancient statue of Our Lady with the Child Jesus. This statue is understood to be a gift in 1850 from Emmanuel College, which was built on the site of a Dominican Priory dating back to 1274. The Church of the Black Friars of Cambridge contained a statue of Our Blessed Lady to which much pilgrimage was had. Although unconfirmed this could be that statue.
The Chapel of the Holy Souls with the book of Remembrance is located at the west end of the south aisle. The sculpture above the altar depicts the solace and relief of the Holy Souls in Purgatory through the intercession of Our Lady and the angel who comforted Our Lord in Gethsemane. The Chapel is now appropriately used at the two great Christian celebrations: at Easter for the Empty Tomb indicating the Risen Lord, and at Christmas for the Crib.
The aisle windows were almost completely destroyed when the church was struck by a bomb on 1941, but were subsequently replaced in their original form. They epitomise the various sufferings of the English Martyrs, their being brought before the Council, racked, hung, drawn and quartered in the sight and sympathy of the faithful. The windows of the north aisle portray Carthusians, St Thomas Moore, B. Margaret Pole and others, while the south aisle is made a “Fisher Aisle”, devoted to scenes from the life of St John, Cardinal Bishop of Rochester, who in so many important ways is identified with Cambridge.
The best general impression of the interior is obtained from the gateway in the iron screen dividing the nave from the ante-chapel. The heads of the four great preachers of Our Lady’s Graces are carved in the four corners of the nave. The windows along the nave represent saints connected with the Church in Britain, arranged approximately in chronological order from east to west with a few additional figures in the eastern windows.
The Rood which is between the nave and the sanctuary is of the type known as “Majestas”; the figure of Our Lord, with glorified wounds, robed in alb, stole and pallium [as High Priest] and crowned [as King “reigning from the Tree”]. This was the earliest type of crucifix; the realistic figure, now almost universal, did not come into general use until the beginning of the thirteenth century. The cross, inspired by that at Nuremberg, is about 6 metres high, carved in oak; the figures of Christ and of Our Lady and of Saint John are of Kauri pine. They were carved locally by Mr. B. Maclean Leach and completed and blessed in 1914.
Beyond the present, modern altar is the High Altar with the relics of Saints Felix and Constantia, martyrs of the early Church. The tabernacle and ornaments of the altar are of exquisite French workmanship from Lyons. The baldacchino which covers the High Altar is similar to that over the tomb of Robert the Wise (1275-1343) at Santa Chiara, Naples. It is one of the earliest forms of adornment of a Christian altar. At the top is the figure of Our Lord in glory supported on each side by angels in act of adoration.
The design and the re-ordering of the sanctuary was done by Mr. Gerard Goalen of Harlow after the Second Vatican Council. On 7th April, 1973, Bishop Charles Grant consecrated the present central. The original High Altar has subsequently been used mainly for reservation of the Blessed Sacrament.
CIF CENTRAL SECTION CHAMPIONSHIP
Liberty High School - Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Central Section Grand Masters
At Liberty
Team standings--unavailable.
400 relay--1. Bakersfield (Hunt, Turner, Johnson, Norwood), 42.28; 2. Clovis East (Bourbon, Scott, Smith, Woods), 42.58; 3. Redwood (Stewart, Ray, Root, Coles), 43.07; 4. Central (Newsome, Bigelow, Hammack, Phillips), 43.15. 1,600--1. Chris Schwartz, Foot, 4:15.80; 2. Jonathan Sanchez, Buch, 4:17.48; 3. Eric Battles, CW, 4:20.34; 4. Jesse Arellano, Mad, 4:21.56. 110H--1. Ethan DeJongh, MtW, 14.49; 2. Sean Johnson, Buch, 14.66; 3. Jon Funch, CW, 14.81; 4. Isiah Crunk, Wash, 15.17. 400--1. Maurice Lewis, Ed, 49.08; 2. Isiah Purvis, Lib, 49.13; 3. Daniel Lozano, Stock, 49.35; 4. Jelani Hendrix, Ed, 49.62. 100--1. Brendon Bigelow, Central, 10.62; 2. Emmanuel Turner, Bak, 10.81; 3. Matt Sumlin, Gar, 10.91; 4. Chris Lopez, GW, 10.98. 800--1. Anthony Mitchell, North, 1:54.19; 2. Aric Champagne, MtW, 1:54.97; 3. Andrew Campbell, CW, 1:55.69; 4. Arturo Ramirez, Centennial, 1:55.83. 300H--1. DeJongh, MtW, 37.93; 2. Cody Alves, Sel, 37.94; 3. James Smith, CE, 39.03; 4. Sean Johnson, Buch, 39.28. 200--1. Brendon Bigelow, Central, 21.29; 2. Isiah Purvis, Lib, 21.96; 3. Mario Navarette, Sanger, 22.04; 4. Chris Lopez, GW, 22.29. 3,200--1. Chris Schwartz, Foot, 9:24.19; 2. Jonathan Sanchez, Buch, 9:24.99; 3. Jon Ross, CE, 9:26.42; 4. Danny Vartanien, Buch, 9:26.42. 1,600 relay--1. Edison (Hendrix, Carter, Boughton, Lewis), 3:17.86; 2. Liberty (Hill, Garside, Affentranger, Purvis), 3:18.95; 3. Bakersfield (Miller, Turner, Johnson, Gooden), 3:20.06; 4. Clovis East (Ellis, Defonska, Woods, Smith), 3:22.40. PV--1. Andrew Lohse, Mad, 15-0; 2. Michael Peterson, CE, 15-0J; 3. Jeff Brenner, Cl, 14-6; 4. Frankie Puente, Sel, 14-0. SP--1. Dayshan Ragans, Foot, 60-7; 2. Matt Darr, Fron, 52-8.75; 3. Troy Rush, CW, 52-8.5; 4. Christian Millard, CE, 51-10.5. TJ--1. Johnny Carter, Ridge, 48-3; 2. Tyler Thompson, Shaf, 47-3; 3. Chris Kelly, Ridge, 46-11.5; 4. Jordan Smith, Central, 46-10.5. D--1. Dayshan Ragans, Foot, 199-2; 2. Jacob Budwig, Fowl, 168-8; 3. Niko Gomes, Cl, 164-10; 4. Matt Darr, Fron, 157-7. LJ--1. Kenny Phillips, Central, 23-4; 2. Tyler Thompson, Shaf, 21-11.5; 3. Dillon Root, Red, 21-11; 4. Kevin Norwood, GV, 21-8.75. HJ--1. Kenny Phillips, Central, 6-8; 2. Isiah Griggs, Bak, 6-6; 3. George Robbins, West, 6-4; 4. Jeff Brenner, Cl, 6-4J.
Notes: Top three in each event advance to state meet, May 30-31 in Norwalk. The two wild cards with the best times/marks from all sections also advance.
Girls track
Central Section Grand Masters
At Liberty
Team standings--unavailable.
400 relay--1. Edison (Eng, Scott, Thompson, Sears), 47.16; 2. Bullard (J. Williams, Riddlesprigger, Baisch, L. Williams), 48.17; 3. Tulare Western, 48.73; 4. Bakersfield (Torres, Belt, Brown, Wandick), 48.80. 1,600--1. Saleh Barsarian, Cl, 5:02.98; 2. Meghan Marvin, Cl, 5:03.02; 3. Chloe Allen, CW, 5:04.62; 4. Allison Gonzales, Ex, 5:11.52; 100H--1. Alyssa Monteverde, CW, 14.59; 2. Brianny Williams, Ed, 14.60; 3. Taylor Jackson, Fr, 15.04; 4. Jen Melton, CW, 15.37. 400--1. Breanna Thompson, Ed, 56.64; 2. Dedrea Wyrik, Sun, 57.49; 3. Lasasha Aldredge, Central, 58.12; 4. Taylor Donaldson, Reed, 58.13. 100--1. Megan Del Pino, CW, 11.66; 2. Jenna Prandini, Cl, 11.74; 3. Lynn Williams, Bul, 12.00; 4. Brushay Wandick, Bak, 12.01. 800--1. Allysa Mejia, Reed, 2:17.47; 2. Molly Pahkamaa, ElD, 2:17.73; 3. Katie Fry, Ex, 2:18.74; 4. Ashlee Thomas, Centennial, 2:19.77. 300H--1. Alyssa Monteverde, CW, 43.92; 2. Taylor Jackson, Fron, 44.86; 3. Brianny Williams, Ed, 45.69; 4. Alana Alexander, Centennial, 46.12. 200--1. Megan Del Pino, CW, 23.94; 2. Dominique Whittington, Lem, 24.65; 3. Brushay Wandick, Bak, 24.69; 4. Breanna Thompson, Ed, 24.90. 3,200--1. Jordan Hasay, MP, 10:24.78; 2. Meghan Marvin, Cl, 10:59.96; 3. Chloe Allen, CW, 11:06.19; 4. Corina Mendoza, Mad, 11:32.06. 1,600 relay--1. Edison (Burk, Thompson, Scott, Smith), 3:54.89; 2. Stockdale (Cady, Anderson, Mello, S. Anderson), 3:58.26; 3. Clovis West (Laidley, Capriotti, Del Pino, Monteverde), 3:59.02; 4. Reedley, 3:59.07. D--1. Anna Jelmini, Shaf, 162-5; 2. Alex Collatz, Stock, 148-6; 3. Carey Tuuamalemalo, Taft, 130-9; 4. Janae Coffee, CW, 121-6. LJ--1. Jenna Prandini, Cl, 18-7.25; 2. Lynn Williams, Bul, 18-0.75; 3. Alana Alexander, Centennial, 17-6.75; 4. Ja'Nia Sears, Ed, 17-6.5. HJ--1. Alyssa Monteverde, CW, 5-4; 2. Cristina Muro, GW, 5-2; 3. Katherine Mahr, Buch, 5-2; 4. Marish Riddlesprigger, Bul, 5-2J. SP--1. Anna Jelmini, Shaf, 44-0.75; 2. Destanie Yarbrough, CE, 37-10; 3. Heather Vermillion, Red, 37-9; 4. Tasha Firstone, CW, 36-6.5. TJ--1. Alana Alexander, Centennial, 38-3.75; 2. Jenna Prandini, Cl, 38-3; 3. Goziam Okolie, 36-10.5; 4. Alex Collatz, Stock, 36-2. PV--1. Allison Berryhill, CW, 11-6; 2. Amanda Klinchuch, Lib, 11-6J; 3. Cheree Jones, King, 10-6; 4. Emily Falkenstein, Buch, 10-6J.
Notes: Top three in each event advance to state meet, May 30-31 in Norwalk. The two wild cards with the best times/marks from all sections also advance.
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Off Sonora Pass Highway 108 , a bumpy dirt road #077 (watch for boulders), leads out to Leavitt Lake & this pristine Sierra Nevada creek. A high clearance vehicle is required; 4x4 recommended during snowy months.
El Templo de Viracocha ( Cultura incaica - Imperio incaico )
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Raqchi es un sitio arqueológico de los Incas en la región Cusco en Perú también conocido como el Templo de Wiracocha. Un pueblo cercano tiene el mismo nombre. Ambos se encuentran alo lado del Río Vilcanota ( Rio Urubamba ). El sitio ha experimentado un reciente aumento en el turismo en los últimos años, con 83.334 visitantes al sitio en 2006, frente a 8.183 en 2000 y 452 en 1996.
A 117 km ( 2 horas ) desde la ciudad Cusco se encuentra una de las construcciones mas grandes de los Incas. El templo fue destruido en la conquista, pero lo que hoy queda es suficiente para encender la imaginacion y ver cuan grandioso fue 92 metros ( 302 ft ) de largo y 25.5 metros ( 84 ft ) de ancho. El templo es de paredes de adobe y la base de piedras volcanicas ( el Andesita ) en el estilo tipico de los Incas. Esto Templo se compone de un muro de adobe central de la altura entre 18 y 20 metros. Está flanqueada a cada lado por una hilera de once columnas. Antes de su destrucción por los españoles, el templo tenía el mayor techo en el tiempo de Imperio Inca, que tiene su pico en la pared central ( 18 y 20 metros ), a continuación, se extiende sobre las columnas en anchura de 25 metros ( 82 ft ) más allá de cada lado. El templo solo para ser el edificio más grande en el Imperio Inca.
El complejo tambien incluye areas residenciales y graneros, donde se guardaban alimentos. Junto al templo al norte son doce viviendas, que habría albergado a los sacerdotes y los administradores locales. El salón está dividido en lotes separados cuadrado mayor de los cuales es aproximadamente 4x6m. Todos tienen nichos en las paredes que podrían haber sido utilizados para el almacenamiento. Para el lado oriental del templo son unos 100 qolqas (.almacenes rondas.) en líneas paralelas, cada uno mide unos 10 metros ( 33 ft ) de diámetro. Estos almacenes se utiliza para mantener los granos, como el maíz y quinoa. Los depósitos también son únicos ya que a diferencia de otras estructuras en todo el imperio que no son cuadrados acorralado. La razón de esto es desconocido. Un empleo ritual de los productos alimenticios y una economía de campo perfecta se consideran como probable. las hambrunas eran desconocidas antes de la llegada de los españoles en el imperio de los Incas.
Al oeste del templo es un gran campo, ahora se utilizan por los lugareños para la agricultura,
que podría haber sido un parque de atracciones o mantener desbordamiento de fieles desde el mismo templo. En el extremo occidental de este campo es un conjunto de baños como en los sitios importantes a lo largo del imperio.
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Viracocha - Lugar de la adoración del Creador Grandes - Viracocha - por los Incas
Viracocha también llamado el dios de la varas es el
más destacado entre los dioses del ámbito andino.
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Viracocha
una deidad de creador pre-andina
otras versiones de nombre Viracocha
Huiracocha y Huiraccocha, Ticci, Tiqsi o Tiksi.
p.ej. - - - en quechua
Qun Tiqsi Wiraqucha
Kon Titi Wiracocha
antes de la conquista por los españoles ( Conquista )
de todos los pueblos del espacio cultural de los Andes adüera
Viracocha es puesto a menudo ( sin embargo por las incas )
inmediatamente con el creador mundial Pachakamaq ( Pachacámac ),
esporádicamente también el nombre compuesto Pachakamaq-Wiraqucha en.
En la mitología de inca "Qun Tiksi Wiraqucha" es el creador de la civilización
y una de las deidades más importantes en la mitología la inca.
En una leyenda es contado,
él tenía con su mujer mamá Qucha ( la madre el mar )
un hijo, Inti ( el sol ) y una hija, la mamá Killa ( la luna )
Los cronistas señalan que Viracocha vino de Tiahuanaco.
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For the final time from historic Complex 17, the oldest active pad at Cape Canaveral, a Delta 2 rocket, itself the last one from Florida and next-to-last planned Delta 2 overall, sends NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft on a mission to orbit the moon. The rocket flew in the Heavy configuration with slightly larger solid rocket boosters than a normal Delta 2, for the sixth time. Once arriving on New Years Eve, 2011, after a long low-energy spiral outward from Earth, the GRAIL probes will spend three months studying the moon's gravity, thermal properties and the makeup of its interior.
It was the final launch from Complex 17, which saw is first launch in January 1957 with the Thor IRBM, the predecessor to Delta. Then in 1960, on the first Delta mission, Echo 1, the world's first communications satellite, was launched. And in the six decades since, countless scientific probes such as Mars Pathfinder, Spirit & Opportunity, Phoenix, Genesis, Stardust and many more, plus dozens of GPS satellites and others, all launched from these twin launch pads, A & B.
Golden West Invitational
@ Cutler Park in Visalia
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Varsity Girls
Team Scores:
1. Clovis East 51 2. Reseda (LA) 75 3. North 182 4. Bakersfield 193 5. Highland 199 6. El Diamante 231 7. Golden West 235 8. Yosemite 245 9. Exeter 247 10. Firebaugh 300 11. Monache 309 12. McFarland 317 13. Central Valley Christian 329 14. Redwood 336 15. Tulare Western 336 16. Sanger 375 17. Hoover 421 18. Cesar Chavez 438 19. Woodlake 448 20. Wasco 461 21. Delano 522 22. Porterville 558 23. Sierra 737 24. Fowler 737 24. Fowler 777 25. Parlier 779 26. Farmersville 785 27. Hanford 791 28. Orosi 818
Team Scores by Divisions:
Extra Large Schools: 1. Clovis East 37 2. Reseda 53 3. Bakersfield 104 4. North 106 5. Highland 114 6. Tulare Western 166 7. Sanger 178 8. Hoover 201 9. Delano 227
Large Schools: 1. Golden West 46 2. El Diamante 49 3. Monache 75 4. Redwood 80 5. Cesar Chavez 106 6. Porterville 138 7. Hanford 205
Medium Schools: 1. Yosemite 42 2. Exeter 52 3. McFarland 61 4. Woodlake 91 5. Wasco 100 6. Parlier 188 7. Orosi 201
Small Schools: 1. Firebaugh 27 2. Central Valley Christian 29 3. Fowler 99 4. Sierra 101 5. Farmersville 110
Individual Results (3.0 miles): 1. Katie Fry (Exeter) 19:23.7 2. Ashley Katchadourian (Clovis East) 19:53.0 3. Celcilia Lopez (North) 20:10.2 4. Jetzabel Velazquez (Reseda) 20:12.2 5. Kacy Kurushima (Clovis East) 20:24.7 6. Courtney Sharar (Clovis East) 20:28.7 7. Colleen Warmerdam (Yosemite) 20:37.7 8. Sarah Baker (Bakersfield) 20:38.7 9. Shelby Sutton (Exeter) 20:39.7 10. Chandler Feigel (Sanger) 20:41.5 11. Michelle Vasquez (Reseda) 20:53.3 12. Sarah Tomamichel (Clovis East) 20:58.0 13. Linda Ramos (Firebaugh) 20:59.7 14. Nichole Berry (Highland) 21:02.3 15. Yanet Uranga (Reseda) 21:04.5 16. Gabby Lerma (Bakersfield) 21:06.2 17. Molly Pahkamaa (El Diamante) 21:06.9 18. Kacie Van Hofwegen (Central Valley Christian) 21:09.3 19. Cebriana Avina (Tulare Western) 21:10.4 20. Alejandra Gutierrez (Wasco) 21:14.1 21. Dennise Mercado (Highland) 21:14.8 22. Nato Germano Zashuili (Reseda) 21:24.4 23. Andrea Monzon (Reseda) 21:31.5 24. Corina Garcia (McFarland) 21:34.6
Varsity Boys
Team Scores:
1. McFarland 30 2. Clovis East 74 3. Avenal 125 4. Tulare Western 172 5. Highland 198 6. Parlier 204 7. Golden West 206 8. Wasco 216 9. Reseda (LA) 10. Redwood 303 11. Woodlake 310 12. Cesar Chavez 392 13. Yosemite 411 14. Bakersfield 440 15. North 472 16. El Diamante 476 17. Farmersville 481 18. Monache 502 19. Sanger 510 20. Delano 526 21. Orosi 529 22. Firebaugh 533 23. Tranquillity 545 24. Exeter 568 25. Porterville 677 26. Sierra 758 27. Central Valley Christian 794 28. Kingsburg 815 29. Hanford 818 30. Strathmore 904
Team Scores by Divisions:
Extra Large Schools: 1. Clovis East 20 2. Tulare Western 56 3. Highland 65 4. Reseda 92 5. Bakersfield 158 6. North 167 7. Sanger 175 8. Delano
Large Schools: 1. Golden West 37 2. Redwood 58 3. Cesar Chavez 76 4. El Diamante 96 5. Monache 96 6. Porterville 146 7. Hanford 192
Medium Schools: 1. McFarland 15 2. Parlier 79 3. Wasco 82 4. Woodlake 5. Yosemite 136 6. Orosi 165 7. Exeter 167 8. Kingsburg 227
Small Schools: 1. Avenal 15 2. Farmersville 74 3. Firebaugh 84 4. Tranquillity 90 5. Sierra 141 6. Central Valley Christian 148 7. Strathmore 187
Individual Results (3.0 miles): 1. Justin Vilhauer (Redwood) 15:40.9 2. Germay Tesfai (Hoover) 16:02.2 3. Alfonso Cisneros (McFarland) 16:14.0 4. Jesus Chavez (Golden West) 16:21.1 5. Marco Camaigo (McFarland) 16:21.6 6. Marco Perez (McFarland) 16:23.4 7. Noe Cruz (Clovis East) 16:25.5 8. Jason Freeman (Clovis East) 16:26.9 9. Zach Segouia (Clovis East) 16:32.0 10. Eddie Garcia (McFarland) 16:34.9 11. Edward Bautista (McFarland) 16:35.7 12. Francisco Nava (McFarland) 16:37.0 13. Matt Morris (Golden West) 16:37.7 14. Martin Rios (Cesar Chavez) 16:40.3 15. Jonathan Garcia (Parlier) 16:41.5 16. Gerardo Alcala (McFarland) 16:51.6 17. Ramon Guzman (Woodlake) 16:52.8 18. Jose Ramirez (Avenal) 16:53.7 19. Christian Gonzales (Exeter) 16:55.7 20. Jose Perez (Parlier) 16:56.4 21. Julio Martinez (Avenal) 16:57.6 22. Roberto Rodriguez (Tulare Western) 17:00.1 23. Joseph Rosales (Clovis East) 17:01.4 24. Brandon Croft (El Diamante) 17:04.0 25. Roberto Lopez (Avenal) 17:05.3
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Une démarche de développement durable
Le centre de production horticole, c'est 13 300 m2 de serres qui figurent sans doute parmi les plus modernes et performantes du pays. "Nous n'avons pas voulu nous contenter de remplacer les vieilles serres de Créteil et Limeil-Brévannes, explique Thierry
Deman, responsable de la production florale et arboricole de Plaine centrale. Notre objectif, c'était de créer un site de production qui garantisse un haut rendement, respecte l'environnement et offre au personnel de bonnes conditions de travail. C'est
pourquoi nous nous sommes inscrits dans une démarche HQE (haute qualité environnementale) de développement durable."
C'est ainsi que les constructions ont été intégrées dans leur environnement, que les serres ont été travaillées et disposées pour limiter au maximum l'impact visuel, que les arbres et les haies existants ont été préservés et que les matériaux choisis (bois,
verre, aluminium, acier inoxydable, linoléum, peintures sans solvant) l'ont été pour leurs faibles nuisances environnementales.
À l'intérieur, la plupart des réseaux ont été enterrés et l'éclairage a été réalisé avec des luminaires basse luminancepour améliorer le confort visuel.
Les équipements bruyants ont été mis dans des lieux isolés pour limiter les nuisances sonores, des siphons ont été placés régulièrement sur les dallages pour faciliter le nettoyage du sol, des ouvrants de pignons et de toiture ont été installés pour permettre
le brassage et le renouvellement de l'air.
Des économies d'eau et d'énergie
Mais le respect de la démarche HQE est surtout sensible dans la gestion économique et écologique de l'énergie et de l'eau.
De nombreuses dispositions ont ainsi été prises pour réaliser des économies de chauffage et améliorer le confort de travail du personnel (énergie humaine) : orientation des serres dans l'axe nord-sud pour un ensoleillement maximum, utilisation d'un verre spécial pour une filtration positive des rayons solaires (rétention
des UVA), régulation informatisée du climat et installation d'une chaudière à grand volume d'eau, mise en place de chaînes de production pour diminuer les déplacements, les efforts et contraintes physiques, concentration des aires de culture
autour de la galerie de travail.
Par ailleurs, tout a été conçu pour limiter les prélèvements d'eau et supprimer les rejets. C'est ainsi qu'un bassin de récupération des eaux de toiture a été réalisé et qu'un système d'arrosage, fondé sur le drainage et le recyclage des eaux de sol
a été mis en œuvre (voir encadré).
Ce sont bien, ainsi, des serres du XXIe siècle qui ont ouvert à Mandres-les-Roses. Un univers de fleurs et de plantes vertes certes, mais aussi de tapis de convoyage, de ponts roulants et de chariots mécaniques, car l'automatisation est omniprésente et a
permis à chaque étape de la production (rempotage, fertilisation ...) et de la manutention (transport du terreau, des plaques de culture ...) d'éliminer la plupart des tâches pénibles. Quant aux ordinateurs dont la présence peut également surprendre, ils
gèrent, ni plus ni moins que le chauffage, l'arrosage et le climat.
Un système d'arrosage innovant
En matière de développement durable et de protection de l'environnement, les serres communautaires se situent à la pointe de la technologie. Alors que les dégâts causés aux nappes phréatiques par les engrais et traitements divers sont depuis longtemps avérés et que l'eau devient un bien de plus en plus précieux, les serres communautaires ne polluent pas et permettent de réaliser des économies. Elles le doivent à l'installation d'un système d'arrosage qui met en œuvre le recyclage des eaux d'arrosage et la récupération des eaux de pluie (ou eaux de toiture). Comme le montre le schéma ci-dessous, le recyclage des eaux d'arrosage s'effectue par filtration à travers une toile perméable et une couche de roche volcanique au pouvoir tampon, disposées sous les plantes. Les eaux de pluie, elles, sont récupérées dans un bassin de 500 m3. Après mélange et fertilisation dans une station de pompage, eaux de pluie et d'arrosage sont dirigées sur les rampes d'arrosage.
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Architect is Sou Fujimoto.
The Pavilion is open until 20 October 2013
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The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 is designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.
He is the thirteenth and, at 41, youngest architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery. The most ambitious architectural programme of its kind worldwide, the Serpentine's annual Pavilion commission is one of the most anticipated events on the cultural calendar. Past Pavilions have included designs by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Frank Gehry (2008), the late Oscar Niemeyer (2003) and Zaha Hadid, who designed the inaugural structure in 2000.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most important architects coming to prominence worldwide, Sou Fujimoto is the leading light of an exciting generation of artists who are re-inventing our relationship with the built environment. Inspired by organic structures, such as the forest, the nest and the cave, Fujimoto's signature buildings inhabit a space between nature and artificiality. Fujimoto has completed the majority of his buildings in Japan, with commissions ranging from the domestic, such as Final Wooden House, T House and House N, to the institutional, such as the Musashino Art Museum and Library at Musashino Art University.
Occupying some 350 square-metres of lawn in front of the Serpentine Gallery, Sou Fujimoto's delicate, latticed structure of 20mm steel poles will have a lightweight and semi-transparent appearance that will allow it to blend, cloud-like, into the landscape and against the classical backdrop of the Gallery's colonnaded East wing. Designed as a flexible, multi-purpose social space - with a café sited inside - visitors will be encouraged to enter and interact with the Pavilion in different ways throughout its four-month tenure in London's Kensington Gardens.
Julia Peyton-Jones, Director, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, said:
"We are thrilled to be working with one of the most fascinating architects in the world today. A visionary, who has conceived an extraordinary response to our invitation to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Sou Fujimoto has designed a structure that will enthral everyone that encounters it throughout the summer."
Describing his design concept, Sou Fujimoto said:
"For the 2013 Pavilion I propose an architectural landscape: a transparent terrain that encourages people to interact with and explore the site in diverse ways. Within the pastoral context of Kensington Gardens, I envisage the vivid greenery of the surrounding plant life woven together with a constructed geometry. A new form of environment will be created, where the natural and the man-made merge; not solely architectural nor solely natural, but a unique meeting of the two.
The Pavilion will be a delicate, three-dimensional structure, each unit of which will be composed of fine steel bars. It will form a semi-transparent, irregular ring, simultaneously protecting visitors from the elements while allowing them to remain part of the landscape. The overall footprint will be 350 square-metres and the Pavilion will have two entrances. A series of stepped terraces will provide seating areas that will allow the Pavilion to be used as a flexible, multi-purpose social space.
The delicate quality of the structure, enhanced by its semi-transparency, will create a geometric, cloud-like form, as if it were mist rising from the undulations of the park. From certain vantage points, the Pavilion will appear to merge with the classical structure of the Serpentine Gallery, with visitors suspended in space."
Fujimoto is the third Japanese architect to accept the invitation to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, following Toyo Ito in 2002 and Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA in 2009
CHESTER GOULD
Chester Gould / DICK TRACY (November 20 ,1900 –May 11 ,1985 ) was a U.S. cartoonist and the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip , which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977 . Gould was known for his use of colorful, often monstrous, villains .
Early years
Chester Gould was born and raised in Pawnee, Oklahoma . In 1919 , his family moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma where he attended Oklahoma A & M (now Oklahoma State University ) and was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, until 1921 . That year, he moved to Chicago where he transferred to Northwestern University . He graduated from Northwestern in 1923. Fascinated by the comics since childhood, Gould quickly found work as a cartoonist and was hired by the William Randolph Hearst 's Chicago Evening American newspaper for whom he produced his first comic strips "Fillum Fables" beginning in 1924 and "The Radio Catts". He also produced a topical strip about Chicago, "Why It's a Windy City." Gould married Edna Gauger in 1926 and their daughter, Jean, was born in 1927.
Dick Tracy
In 1931 , Gould was hired as a cartoonist with the Chicago Tribune and introduced the Dick Tracy cartoon. He drew the comic strip for the next 46 years from his home in Woodstock, Illinois . His work on the strip won him the Reuben Award for 1959 and 1977. He was also given a Special Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1980.
Gould's stories were rarely extensively preplanned as he preferred to improvise his stories as he drew them. While fans praised this style as creating exciting stories, it sometimes created awkward plot developments that were difficult to resolve. A notorious case was when Gould had Tracy trapped in an inescapable deathtrap in a caisson . Gould first depicted Tracy addressing Gould personally and having the cartoonist magically extract him. It was a move that his publisher, Joseph Patterson , personally vetoed and ordered a redraw of the sequence.
Gould visited the workshop of an engineer friend named Al Gross who invented the walkie-talkie , a portable two-way radio and the pager . Gross was working on a wrist-watch version of the two-way radio which he showed to Gould. Gould asked Al Gross if he could use this concept in his Dick Tracy comic strip. Gross said yes and in January 1946, Dick Tracy started wearing the wrist radio. [2] Gould created a cartoon character named Brilliant, an engineer who worked for a company run by cartoon character Diet Smith. Brilliant was modeled after Al Gross. Whenever Gould needed a futuristic invention that his cartoon characters could use, Al Gross would give him ideas such as the video security camera, handheld video camera, and wrist video camera.
Late in the period of Gould's control of it, the Tracy strip was widely criticized as too right-wing in character, and as excessively supportive of the police . This commentary argued that Gould was using the strip to push his own right-wing agenda such as attacking the rights of the accused at the expense of storytelling. Additionally, the late 1950s saw a changing newspaper readership that was perhaps less tolerant of Gould's grotesque style. Whereas in the 1940s when Gould introduced an odoriferous, chewing tobacco spitting character, B.O. Plenty, with little significant complaint from readers; the later introduction of the crooked lawyer named "Flyface" and his relatives, all of whom were surrounded by swarming flies at all times, created a negative reader reaction strong enough for papers to drop the strip in large numbers. There was then a dramatic change in the strip's paradigm to feature science fiction plot elements, with regular visits to the moon. This led to an increasingly fantastic procession of enemies and stories that largely abandoned the strip's format of urban crime drama. The Apollo 11 moon landing prompted Gould to abandon this phase. Finally, Dick Tracy was beset by the overall trend in newspaper comics away from strips with continuing story lines and toward those whose stories are largely resolved within one series of panels.
Gould, his characters and improbable plots were satirized in the Fearless Fosdick sequences (supposedly drawn by "Lester Gooch") appearing within Al Capp 's comic strip Li'l Abner ; a notable villain was Bomb Face , a gangster whose head was a bomb.
Gould retired December 25, 1977 and died May 11, 1985 of congestive heart failure. His life and creations are memorialized in the Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock, Illinois.
Sample: Arrrrgh! I'm you! You're me!
Somewhere in Konami, there is a box where all Really Stupid Ideas go. It may be an orange crate, a novelty cookie tin, or just a sturdy cardboard box that looked too useful to toss. I am convinced that the box exists, and that it was opened sometime in 1998, because no other facts will adequately explain Hybrid Heaven.
Let's take a deep breath and get started...
Aliens exist. Some of the aliens are nice, and others are evil. Evil but wily. They want to take over Earth, which just goes to show how desperate the galactic real estate situation is getting. So one of the evil aliens infiltrates the mothership of a nice alien race on its way to peacefully explore the planet Earth. The ship arrives at its landing site under New York City (apparently, the Manhattan bedrock is a myth), evil alien enslaves good aliens, and starts creating an unholy hybrid (of what, is not explained) clone army to take over the planet. All this multitasking leaves him little time; hence he has no name other than 'The Master'. He also makes hybrid clones that look exactly like certain people (like the American president) so he can pull switcheroos. The technology for sucking out people's memories comes in real handy whenever a swap takes place. Luckily, a lone Secret Service Agent has nothing better to do than get in The Master's way...
Is there even a point in criticizing a video game for having an appalling plot, terrible dialogue, and barely cardboard characters?
My answer is yes. There's 'pretty bad' like Metal Gear Solid, which wants to marry Clancy-style political-military-adventure thriller to the Japanese giant-robot anime tradition (some traditions should be dumped, and widow burning and giant robots are two of them), then there's bad like a rotten egg. Metal Gear's bad writing doesn't get in the way of much that is good about the game, while Hybrid Heaven's stinks to—well, high heaven. Hell, given a team of good disciplined writers with a sense of humor, it would still be possible to write a decent Metal Gear game. Outrageous villains, great gadgets, cool hero, hot babes, lots of suspension of disbelief -- this is stuff of James Bond after all. Can't say the same for Hybrid Heaven.
The hard truth is, the game industry is indifferent to decent writing overall, and particularly deluded when it comes to action games. The culture of the latter is that of teenage boys who aren't particularly interested in anything except what mainstream pop culture dishes out to them, and it shows. Having translated and played a fair number of plot-intensive video games, I can say with confidence that most of these writers do not have a clue what they are doing. They wouldn't last a day in even TV or film, yet they're allowed to put out crap like "You are Nick Vrenna. It is the year 2009. You have been falsely incarcerated inside a high security underground prison where illegal genetic experiments are taking place" without anybody batting an eyelash. Good thing too. Blinking might get in the way of shooting, causing you to lose precious, precious points.
So what if a game has great playability, beautiful graphics and all the works? If you're playing a game and the hero's girlfriend/communication officer (note to Hideo Kojima: you don't know a lot of women, do you?) is bugging him about commitment issues while he's hiding from recon inside an enemy installation, point at the so-called writers and laugh at them really loudly. In public. So these game producers think you're that stupid? Swallow it, give it good reviews, fail to call them on the idiocy and you've proven that yes, you are that stupid. Bring on the sequels, feed me more of that non-nourishing, vaguely headache-inducing stuff. I wouldn't recognize quality if it came up and bit me on my numb-from-too-much-sitting ass!
Demand better. It's no coincidence that there's nothing but sequels and formulas coming out of this relatively new, multibillion-dollar industry.
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Εκκλησιαστικοί ύμνοι
Ύμνος Χριστιανικού Βιώματος | Η Αγάπη του Θεού μας Φέρνει Κοντά
Αν και μας χωρίζουν αμέτρητες θάλασσες και βουνά,
είμαστε ένας λαός, χωρίς σύνορα ανάμεσα μας,
με διαφορετικό χρώμα δέρματος
και μιλώντας διαφορετικές γλώσσες.
Επειδή τα λόγια του Παντοδύναμου Θεού μας καλούν,
εξυψωνόμαστε ενώπιον του θρόνου του Θεού.
I
Αν και μας χωρίζουν αμέτρητες θάλασσες και βουνά,
είμαστε ένας λαός, χωρίς σύνορα ανάμεσα μας,
με διαφορετικό χρώμα δέρματος
και μιλώντας διαφορετικές γλώσσες.
Επειδή τα λόγια του Παντοδύναμου Θεού μας καλούν,
εξυψωνόμαστε ενώπιον του θρόνου του Θεού.
Υπάρχουν οι ηλικιωμένοι, με κάτασπρα μαλλιά
και οι νεαροί, λαμπεροί και ακτινοβόλοι.
Χέρι με χέρι, ώμο με ώμο,
συνεχίζουμε να περπατάμε μαζί μέσα από αέρα και βροχή,
ενθαρρύνοντας ο ένας τον άλλον εν μέσω αντιξοοτήτων.
Με ομόνοια εκπληρώνουμε το καθήκον μας.
Οι καρδιές μας είναι συνδεδεμένες,
γινόμαστε έμπιστοι στην ζωή.
Η αγάπη του Θεού μας φέρνει πιο κοντά.
II
Τα λόγια του Θεού είναι η πηγή του ζωντανού νερού.
Απολαμβάνοντας τα λόγια του Θεού,
οι καρδίες μας γεμίζουν γλυκύτητα.
Η παίδευση των λέξεών Του,
η κρίση των λέξεών Του,
εξαγνίζουν τις διεφθαρμένες διαθέσεις μας.
Μόνο αν κλαδευτούμε και αντιμετωπιστούμε
έχουμε ανθρώπινη ομοιότητα.
Στην αρνητικότητα και αδυναμία,
στηρίζουμε ο ένας τον άλλον.
Είμαστε μαζί στην αντιξοότητα.
Στεκόμαστε μάρτυρες, νικάμε τον Σατανά.
Δραπετεύουμε από το σκοτάδι και ζούμε στο φως.
Πιστοί και υπάκουοι,
είμαστε η εκδήλωση του μεγαλείου του Θεού.
Γνωρίζουμε την δικαιοσύνη και ομορφιά του Θεού.
Βιώνουμε τους αμέτρητους τρόπους που ο Θεός μας αγαπά.
Φωλιασμένοι στην θαλπωρή του Θεού,
οι ζωές μας στην γη είναι όπως στον ουρανό.
Μόνο με τον Θεό υπάρχει αγάπη,
μόνο με την αγάπη υπάρχει οικογένεια.
Όλοι όσοι αγαπούν τον Θεό είναι μια οικογένεια.
Ερχόμαστε κοντά στην αγάπη του Θεού.
Τα λόγια του Θεού είναι μαζί μας όσο μεγαλώνουμε.
Ζώντας στην όμορφη βασιλεία,
λατρεύουμε τον Παντοδύναμο Θεό για πάντα.
Λα λα λα… Λα λα λα… Λα λα λα…
Λα λα λα… Λα λα λα… Λα λα λα…
Μόνο με τον Θεό υπάρχει αγάπη,
μόνο με την αγάπη υπάρχει οικογένεια.
Όλοι όσοι αγαπούν τον Θεό είναι μια οικογένεια.
Ερχόμαστε κοντά στην αγάπη του Θεού.
Τα λόγια του Θεού είναι μαζί μας όσο μεγαλώνουμε.
Ζώντας στην όμορφη βασιλεία,
λατρεύουμε τον Παντοδύναμο Θεό.
λατρεύουμε τον Παντοδύναμο Θεό για πάντα.
λατρεύουμε τον Παντοδύναμο Θεό για πάντα.
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«Πηγή εικόνας: Εκκλησία του Παντοδύναμου Θεού»
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On Isola Bella in Lake Maggiore.
A look around the Borromeo Palace and it's amazing gardens.
Isola Bella (lit. 'beautiful island') is one of the Borromean Islands of Lago Maggiore in north Italy. The island is situated in the Borromean Gulf 400 metres from the lakeside town of Stresa. Isola Bella is 320 metres long by 400 metres wide and is divided between the Palace, its Italianate garden, and a small fishing village.
Until 1632 the island—known only as l’isola inferiore or isola di sotto—was a rocky crag occupied by a tiny fishing village: but that year Carlo III of the influential House of Borromeo began the construction of a palazzo dedicated to his wife, Isabella D'Adda, from whom the island takes its name. He entrusted the works to the Milanese Angelo Crivelli, who was also to be responsible for the planning the gardens. The works were interrupted around middle of the century when the Duchy of Milan was struck by a devastating outbreak of the plague.
Construction resumed when the island passed to Carlo’s sons, Cardinal Giberto III (1615–1672) and Vitaliano VI (1620–1690); the latter in particular, with the financial backing of his elder brother, entrusted the completion of the works to the Milanese architect Carlo Fontana and turned the villa into a place of sumptuous parties and theatrical events for the nobility of Europe.
The completion of the gardens, however, was left to his nephew Carlo IV (1657–1734). They were inaugurated in 1671.
The island achieved its highest level of social success during the period of Giberto V Borromeo (1751–1837) when guests included Edward Gibbon, Napoleon and his wife Joséphine de Beauharnais, and Caroline of Brunswick, the Princess of Wales. It is said that Caroline, having fallen in love with the place, did her best to convince the Borromeo family to sell her Isola Madre or the Castelli di Cannero islands; her request being turned down, she established herself on the banks of Lake Como at Cernobbio in the Villa d’Este.
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ceiling
"PRAYING FOR JAPAN"
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I had just finished dinner on Friday, March 11th when a friend called me with the news that Japan had been hit by a massive earthquake. I had been busy all afternoon and hadn't heard the news. I immediately turned on my computer and watched in horror as streamed video from various news networks showed the tsunami racing across Japan's northeastern coastline, washing away everything in its path. It was an incredible sight.
Unfortunately, this was only the beginning as damage to four of Japan's six nuclear reactors caused by the earthquake threatened to create an even grreater disaster. Daily warnings about radiation levels followed. And then, just when it looked like things couldn't get any worse for Japan, it began to snow...
Nearly two weeks have past since Japan suffered its worst crisis since World War II. A stream of photos from the disaster stricken area show the magnitude of the catastrophe. One image shows rescue workers sifting through the rubble of a destroyed factory looking for survivors as snow falls heavily around them. Another shows an old woman staring at empty shelves as she pushes a cart along the aisle of a supermarket. A third picture shows a group of men sitting in dirty lawn chairs around a camp fire, cooking noodles and reading tattered newspapers while another shows a lone aid worker on a bicycle speeding through what was once a bustling city, piles of rubble on either side of the mangled road. Over 7,000 people have died, thousands more are missing, about 450,000 people are now homeless, and more than one million people have no drinking water.
Having lived in Japan for many years in the 1990's, it saddened me to see such a terrible thing happen to such a wonderful country. So, when I heard that Gwaneumsa temple here in Jeju was going to do a special ceremony for the people of Japan on Sunday, March 20th, I jumped at the chance to take part.
I arrived at the parking a lot in front of Ora stadium at 8 am and hopped onto the bus bound for the temple. Nearly every seat was taken. A good sign that Japan is in the hearts of many Korean people. Within 10 minutes we had arrived at Daewonjeongsa temple, the starting point for our aproximately 7 km "meditation" walk to Gwaneumsa temple. As we headed out, rain started falling. It rained... and rained... and rained.
Two rain soaked hours later, we finally arrived at Gwaneumsa. Not wasting any time, the monks shepparded us to a pagoda in the central courtyard area. Around the pagoda we went, a sort of "cleansing" ritual for the soul that removes bad spirits.
Next we headed inside for the main ceremony. It was packed with people. The temple's senior members entered the room and the ceremony quickly began. The next hour was similar to what most Buddhist ceremonies look like in Korea. But, about half way through, the priest began to pray for Japan, calling for health, happiness, and a strong future for the country. Then, near the end of the ceremnony, another priest called out the names of Japanese people and prayed for their strength in the face of such trying times. It was a touching moment.
A blanket of fog had moved in while we were inside, creating a wonderful atmosphere around Gwaneumsa and prompting me take a few extra minutes to walk around the complex and gather my thoughts before heading back to the bus. I rounded a corner and saw a young monk make his way across a courtyard and between two buildings. I took one photo before he disappeared into the foggy unknown.
It brought my thoughts back to Japan, its future also unknown. Rebuilding the tsunami ravaged areas will take time. It will be difficult and there will be a lot of pain. My thoughts go out to the people of Japan and I pray for a speedy recovery for the country.
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
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Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
1 GALVIN GONZALEZ 1:11:30 5:28 1/8 1/98 M3034
2 David Bacus 1:14:52 5:43 1/4 2/98 M2024
3 ZACHARY HOLT 1:21:52 6:15 1/10 3/98 M1319
4 JORDAN PERRY 1:23:34 6:23 1/8 4/98 M2529
5 Rudy Montoya 1:23:49 6:24 1/11 5/98 M4044
6 Jose Salcedo 1:25:28 6:32 2/4 6/98 M2024
7 Timothy Anderson 1:25:33 6:32 1/18 7/98 M5054
8 Chris Anderson 1:26:31 6:37 2/10 8/98 M1319
9 Diego Diaz 1:26:58 6:39 1/14 9/98 M3539
10 JOHN PURCELL 1:28:22 6:45 3/10 10/98 M1319
11 SHAWNA ROUNTREE 1:29:00 6:48 1/8 1/73 F2529
12 CREGG WEINMANN 1:29:53 6:52 2/18 11/98 M5054
13 Craig Gardner 1:30:40 6:56 3/18 12/98 M5054
14 Javier Cruz 1:31:16 6:58 1/11 13/98 M4549
15 Steve Dirkse 1:31:23 6:59 2/14 14/98 M3539
16 WALTER PAVLAKOVICH 1:31:36 7:00 4/18 15/98 M5054
17 David Little 1:32:46 7:05 4/10 16/98 M1319
18 Ezequiel Gonzalez 1:32:47 7:05 5/10 17/98 M1319
19 Alec Briones 1:33:03 7:07 1/9 18/98 M5559
20 Damon Wilstead 1:33:55 7:11 2/8 19/98 M3034
21 BART VANDERWAL 1:35:35 7:18 2/11 20/98 M4044
22 John Lee 1:35:55 7:20 5/18 21/98 M5054
23 Roehl Caragao 1:36:29 7:22 2/11 22/98 M4549
24 MARK OGILVIE 1:37:25 7:27 3/11 23/98 M4044
25 Dave Hoglund 1:37:26 7:27 2/9 24/98 M5559
26 JEFF GIUMARRA 1:37:29 7:27 3/8 25/98 M3034
27 Jacob Scott 1:37:32 7:27 6/10 26/98 M1319
28 JAMES BELL 1:37:32 7:27 6/18 27/98 M5054
29 Charolette Cholometes 1:37:40 7:28 1/9 2/73 F3034
30 DAVE MEEK 1:38:36 7:32 3/14 28/98 M3539
31 Daniel Ramirez 1:39:18 7:35 3/9 29/98 M5559
32 AARON ALBAY 1:39:25 7:36 7/10 30/98 M1319
33 COURTNEY MOORE 1:40:16 7:40 1/1 3/73 F1319
34 Richard Black 1:40:35 7:41 7/18 31/98 M5054
35 JOSE MONTELONGO 1:40:44 7:42 4/14 32/98 M3539
36 Klaus Benamy-Hackel 1:41:14 7:44 4/9 33/98 M5559
37 MICHAEL RAMIREZ 1:41:20 7:45 2/8 34/98 M2529
38 Raul Gonzalez 1:41:31 7:45 5/14 35/98 M3539
39 Freddie Bingham 1:42:33 7:50 4/8 36/98 M3034
40 Mike Gonzalez 1:42:47 7:51 3/11 37/98 M4549
41 Gerry Saba 1:43:55 7:56 4/11 38/98 M4044
42 DAVE PEGLER 1:44:04 7:57 5/11 39/98 M4044
43 DEBBIE WALLACE 1:45:03 8:02 1/12 4/73 F4549
44 EDDIE PAULSEN 1:45:25 8:03 6/14 40/98 M3539
45 Gary Enns 1:45:33 8:04 7/14 41/98 M3539
46 GREG FONTES 1:45:33 8:04 4/11 42/98 M4549
47 JOE SWEET 1:45:35 8:04 5/8 43/98 M3034
48 Sara Bradford 1:45:52 8:05 2/9 5/73 F3034
49 Daniel Tavarez 1:46:31 8:08 8/14 44/98 M3539
50 Connie Tavarez 1:46:35 8:09 1/5 6/73 F3539
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
51 Todd Witwer 1:47:12 8:11 8/18 45/98 M5054
52 MARK WITCHER 1:48:41 8:18 9/18 46/98 M5054
53 Roy Walford 1:50:02 8:24 1/3 47/98 M6064
54 HAYLEY TOBIN 1:50:13 8:25 1/14 7/73 F4044
55 Amy Fredericks 1:50:33 8:27 1/2 8/73 F6064
56 KELLY LOPEZ 1:50:45 8:28 2/14 9/73 F4044
57 ROBERT JOHNSON 1:50:48 8:28 5/9 48/98 M5559
58 JOSHUA GARZA 1:50:50 8:28 6/11 49/98 M4044
59 Eric Wolf 1:50:52 8:28 3/4 50/98 M2024
60 Derek Jeffery 1:51:02 8:29 3/8 51/98 M2529
61 BROOKS RICHARDSON 1:51:25 8:31 10/18 52/98 M5054
62 Tony Jeffery 1:52:52 8:37 7/11 53/98 M4044
63 Mike Moore 1:53:34 8:41 5/11 54/98 M4549
64 DAVE COWLES 1:54:34 8:45 8/11 55/98 M4044
65 Brian Cisneros 1:55:06 8:48 8/10 56/98 M1319
66 John Wilson 1:55:22 8:49 2/3 57/98 M6064
67 Mike Barella 1:55:26 8:49 9/11 58/98 M4044
68 FRANCISCO RAMIREZ 1:55:29 8:49 9/14 59/98 M3539
69 Jose Torres 1:56:33 8:54 9/10 60/98 M1319
70 Yolanda Hughes 1:56:38 8:55 3/14 10/73 F4044
71 Keith Stearmon 1:56:40 8:55 4/8 61/98 M2529
72 BOB BARTON 1:57:15 8:57 6/11 62/98 M4549
73 JOHN OPHEIM 1:57:22 8:58 3/3 63/98 M6064
74 Margaret Patterson 1:57:26 8:58 2/12 11/73 F4549
75 Jim Cowles 1:57:28 8:58 1/2 64/98 M6569
76 PHILIPPE IGOA 1:58:11 9:02 7/11 65/98 M4549
77 KATE QUINN 1:58:11 9:02 1/7 12/73 F5559
78 Ken Berckes 1:58:18 9:02 11/18 66/98 M5054
79 CARMEN ALBANES 1:58:25 9:03 1/11 13/73 F5054
80 KATHRYN JOSLIN 1:58:28 9:03 3/9 14/73 F3034
81 Darlene Savage 1:59:12 9:06 3/12 15/73 F4549
82 CHRIS DANFORTH 1:59:57 9:10 8/11 67/98 M4549
83 JUAN CERVANTES 2:00:23 9:12 4/4 68/98 M2024
84 JOSIE MARTIN 2:00:31 9:12 2/11 16/73 F5054
85 TAMMY GARCIA 2:01:31 9:17 4/14 17/73 F4044
86 Carol Weston 2:01:47 9:18 2/2 18/73 F6064
87 Esther Ray 2:02:16 9:20 2/7 19/73 F5559
88 Bob Ziemet 2:02:25 9:21 2/2 69/98 M6569
89 TRACY HUBBELL 2:02:40 9:22 5/14 20/73 F4044
90 ERIC BERLIN 2:03:45 9:27 12/18 70/98 M5054
91 craig smith 2:04:15 9:30 9/11 71/98 M4549
92 Jialan Su 2:04:21 9:30 4/9 21/73 F3034
93 DANIEL RODRIGUEZ 2:04:29 9:31 13/18 72/98 M5054
94 Greg Adkins 2:04:32 9:31 10/14 73/98 M3539
95 Tawnie McCaa 2:04:55 9:33 1/2 22/73 F2024
96 ROY PIERUCCI 2:04:56 9:33 6/9 74/98 M5559
97 ALICIA BROWN 2:05:39 9:36 2/5 23/73 F3539
98 Kevin Higgins 2:05:49 9:37 14/18 75/98 M5054
99 Guido Climer 2:06:11 9:38 11/14 76/98 M3539
100 Lonnie Stockton 2:06:16 9:39 6/14 24/73 F4044
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
101 CHARLES MATHER 2:06:55 9:42 5/8 77/98 M2529
102 Meg Reimers 2:07:10 9:43 7/14 25/73 F4044
103 Barb Johnston 2:07:27 9:44 3/11 26/73 F5054
104 Katie Nickell 2:07:27 9:44 8/14 27/73 F4044
105 HOPE ROE 2:07:39 9:45 4/12 28/73 F4549
106 RODERICK MARCIA 2:07:45 9:46 6/8 78/98 M3034
107 Connie Taylor 2:07:46 9:46 5/9 29/73 F3034
108 Nicole Panero 2:07:50 9:46 2/8 30/73 F2529
109 Cory Bringman 2:08:26 9:49 3/5 31/73 F3539
110 LONDO WHITNEY 2:09:11 9:52 12/14 79/98 M3539
111 Odette Hudson 2:09:27 9:53 3/7 32/73 F5559
112 Clarissa Wilstead 2:09:49 9:55 3/8 33/73 F2529
113 JEFF COOMBER 2:09:58 9:56 15/18 80/98 M5054
114 Susan James 2:10:43 9:59 4/11 34/73 F5054
115 JOAN COLLIN S 2:11:42 10:04 5/11 35/73 F5054
116 Denise Haynes 2:11:43 10:04 5/12 36/73 F4549
117 Peg Baird 2:13:42 10:13 6/11 37/73 F5054
118 REBECCA WALKER 2:15:22 10:20 4/8 38/73 F2529
119 Troy Wells 2:15:29 10:21 10/11 81/98 M4044
120 Fred Little 2:15:29 10:21 16/18 82/98 M5054
121 Brock Sheela 2:16:35 10:26 7/8 83/98 M3034
122 Pedro Segura 2:16:59 10:28 7/9 84/98 M5559
123 DELORES CORTEZ 2:17:12 10:29 1/2 39/73 F7099
124 Jennifer Fendrick 2:17:26 10:30 4/5 40/73 F3539
125 Rachel Taylor 2:17:48 10:32 5/8 41/73 F2529
126 DANIEL J. RAMIREZ 2:17:49 10:32 13/14 85/98 M3539
127 Angelica Rogers 2:18:22 10:34 7/11 42/73 F5054
128 Jason Gutierrez 2:19:10 10:38 6/8 86/98 M2529
129 Maria Steele 2:19:13 10:38 8/11 43/73 F5054
130 Janice Horcasitas 2:19:16 10:38 4/7 44/73 F5559
131 DALE VAN SCHAACK 2:20:54 10:46 5/7 45/73 F5559
132 MARILYN JOHNSON 2:20:56 10:46 6/7 46/73 F5559
133 Deanna Koelewyn 2:23:11 10:56 6/12 47/73 F4549
134 Karen Briltz 2:23:15 10:57 9/14 48/73 F4044
135 PEGGY SCHUH 2:23:29 10:58 9/11 49/73 F5054
136 RICHARD GARRETT 2:23:30 10:58 10/11 87/98 M4549
137 JOSHUA ST. CLAIR 2:24:23 11:02 10/10 88/98 M1319
138 DAVID CHAPIN 2:25:02 11:05 7/8 89/98 M2529
139 JOANNA THOMAS 2:25:03 11:05 6/8 50/73 F2529
140 Paula Badasci 2:25:14 11:06 10/14 51/73 F4044
141 Joe Saldana 2:26:19 11:11 17/18 90/98 M5054
142 carol montez 2:29:10 11:24 7/12 52/73 F4549
143 Lynda Ernst 2:30:26 11:29 8/12 53/73 F4549
144 Maria Mendoza 2:31:06 11:33 7/8 54/73 F2529
145 Christine Gibson 2:34:12 11:47 8/8 55/73 F2529
146 Cheryl Scott 2:35:09 11:51 11/11 91/98 M4044
147 Renee Candelaria 2:35:46 11:54 9/12 56/73 F4549
148 Becky Whitehead 2:37:09 12:00 2/2 57/73 F7099
149 David Martino-Carr 2:38:34 12:07 8/9 92/98 M5559
150 Cheryl Wahl 2:39:43 12:12 10/12 58/73 F4549
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
151 Brad Wahl 2:39:43 12:12 11/11 93/98 M4549
152 CAROL MONJE 2:41:13 12:19 10/11 59/73 F5054
153 SHELLEY JOHNSON 2:41:41 12:21 11/14 60/73 F4044
154 MICHAEL GARCIA 2:41:42 12:21 9/9 94/98 M5559
155 Yiota Harrelson 2:43:32 12:29 6/9 61/73 F3034
156 Kim Aviles 2:44:28 12:34 12/14 62/73 F4044
157 JULIE LEE 2:47:44 12:49 13/14 63/73 F4044
158 Eva Ramirez 2:47:48 12:49 7/9 64/73 F3034
159 Melanie Reed 2:47:53 12:49 14/14 65/73 F4044
160 GEOFF MCAVOY 2:49:14 12:56 8/8 95/98 M2529
161 SUSAN ORMEROD 2:54:42 13:21 11/12 66/73 F4549
162 Kenadee Mishler 2:58:06 13:36 2/2 67/73 F2024
163 Phyllis Martino-Carr 3:00:00 13:45 7/7 68/73 F5559
164 Kathy Berckes 3:00:04 13:45 11/11 69/73 F5054
165 Rafaela Cisneros 3:01:09 13:50 5/5 70/73 F3539
166 Dwayne Mishler 3:02:07 13:55 18/18 96/98 M5054
167 Elizabeth Luckhardt 3:03:22 14:00 12/12 71/73 F4549
168 Ana Arreola 3:03:54 14:03 8/9 72/73 F3034
169 IAN BYERS 3:06:51 14:16 8/8 97/98 M3034
170 Gisela Gomez 3:08:08 14:22 9/9 73/73 F3034
171 Robert Sandoval 3:08:08 14:22 14/14 98/98 M3539
©2008 Bakersfield Track Club
el.kingdomsalvation.org/videos/seventeen-the-hell-you-are...
«Μικρέ. Δεν ξέρεις πως το Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα είναι αθεϊστικό; Ενάντια στην πίστη ; Στην Κίνα, ποιος Θεός υπάρχει; Πού είναι ο Θεός σου;» «Μην νομίζεις ότι επειδή είσαι νεαρός θα είμαστε επιεικείς μαζί σου! Αν συνεχίσεις να πιστεύεις στον Θεό, θα καταλήξεις νεκρός!» Με τέιζερ στα χέρια, η κινεζική κομμουνιστική αστυνομία ορμά προς αυτόν τον νεαρό, που είναι γεμάτος με μώλωπες. Το όνομα του νεαρού είναι Γκάο Λιανγκ και τότε ήταν 17 ετών. Γύριζε στο σπίτι του αφού είχε διαδώσει το ευαγγέλιο μαζί με έναν μεγαλύτερο αδελφό, όταν συνελήφθη από την κινεζική κομμουνιστική αστυνομία. Εκείνοι δεν του έδωσαν τίποτα να φάει, ούτε τον άφησαν να κοιμηθεί για τρία μερόνυχτα. Τον ανέκριναν, προσπάθησαν να τον εξαναγκάσουν σε ομολογία και τον υπέβαλαν σε σκληρά βασανιστήρια. …
Πηγή εικόνας: Εκκλησία του Παντοδύναμου Θεού
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Muskrat, Oso Flaco, CA
wdfw.wa.gov/living/muskrats.html
Muskrats get their common name from their resemblance to stocky rats and from the musky odor produced by their scent glands.
Muskrats weigh 2 to 4 pounds and reach lengths of 18 to 25 inches, including their 8- to 11-inch, sparsely haired tails. Their coat color is generally dark brown, but individuals can range from black to almost white. Muskrats have partially webbed hind feet that function as paddles and much smaller front feet used primarily for digging.
Muskrats are found throughout still or slow-moving waterways, including marshes, beaver ponds, reservoirs, irrigation canals and ditches, and marshy borders of lakes and rivers. They don’t live in mountainous areas where cold weather makes their food unobtainable.
Food and Feeding Habits
Muskrats eat a wide variety of plants, including cattails, sedges, bulrush, arrowhead, water lilies, pondweed, and ferns. They also eat alfalfa, clover, corn, and other crops if muskrats find them in their territories.
Although muskrats will eat shellfish, snails, fish, frogs, and salamanders, such animal foods are a small part of their diet, and are generally consumed when plant foods are scarce.
Muskrats normally feed within 150 feet of their main dwellings; however, they will travel much farther in search of food.
When muskrats become too numerous, an “eat-out” can occur where nearly all the available food is eaten. The eat-out area becomes virtually uninhabitable for muskrats, and only a few animals may be found where dozens or more once were.
Muskrats make a valuable contribution to aquatic communities. By harvesting plants for food and den sites, they create open water for ducks, geese, shorebirds, and other wildlife. In addition, a variety of animals—including snakes, turtles, frogs, ducks, and geese—use muskrat lodges and platforms to rest and nest in. However, muskrats are considered pests when their burrowing activity damages dams and dikes, and when their feeding activity damages new plantings and crops.
Peter Mikhael Reel - 2009
The Mind Of The Green Apple
petermikhael.com/previews/htmls/rich_v_1
Okay.. Let’s make some flash stuff. Depends on the green apple of the original website design. I’ll explain every page individually in further steps.
The Mind Of The Green Apple Game
petermikhael.com/previews/htmls/green_apple_game
Continue with my project the mind of the green apple. I start to make a new flash game. Eating apples is my idea. Actually I got the idea when I’m driving. It has 3 frames long.
CHA International Website
Go back to CHA-International as a freelancer XHTML/CSS designer. The website design by me. Developed by Ahmed Abdel-Aliem.
Tarek Nour Communications – Intranet 5.0
Video – Demo Reel - www.youtube.com/watch?v=La0Z-l6mIN8
Unlike the internet, which is a public network of computers, an intranet is a private network of computers that functions only within the boundaries of Tarek Nour Communications.
Yahya Al Bishri Website
Yahya Al Bishri website one of the most interesting project I worked in. under management of RUBICS Business Solutions.
Tarek Nour TV Website
Video POINTNOUR’s campaign for TNTV - www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_1F8h4cvpE
Al Kahera Wal Nas is a new Channel by TNTV a company under Tarek Nour Comunications.
RUBICS Business Solutions Website
Video RUBICS website design – Behind The Scenes - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4-0raXuDKA
RUBICS Business Solutions website a full 2d/3d website design from scratch.
OLYMPIA Health Club Website
OLYMPIA Health Club website. Released under management of RUBICS Business Solutions.
Tarek Nour Advertising Website
TNA has been a pioneer in advertising since its inception as the first Egyptian private sector Advertising Agency in 1978. Through three decades of listening to local consumers.
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www.emergencyrooms.org/sprengelmuseum.html
----------Sprengel Museum exhibition Press release ----------
Sprengel Museum Hannover
PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING!
09. October 2011 – 15. January 2012
Sprengel Museum HannoverSprengel Museum Hannover
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE
LOWER SAXONY SAVINGS BANK FOUNDATION
PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! is an exhibition of the works of 31 photographers on a floor area of over 2,000 square metres. Since HOW YOU LOOK AT IT in 2000, this exhibition is the first and only one to provide an all-embracing overview of artistic photography from the 1960s to the present day. The exhibition has been organized by the Sprengel Museum Hannover in collaboration with the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation. Starting out from the Foundation’s collection of large groups of works by both American and European photographers, the only collection of its kind in Europe, the exhibition explores the history and perspectives of the ‘documentary style’ of photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! constitutes yet a further step towards establishing Hanover as an important centre for artistic photography in the north of Germany.
The starting points of the exhibition are the works of Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, John Gossage, Nicholas Nixon, Martin Parr and Michael Schmidt. The artist photographers Rineke Dijkstra, Paul Graham, Thomas Struth and the photographers of the generations that followed, such as Jitka Hanzlová, Stephen Gill, Jochen Lempert, Elisabeth Neudörfl, Heidi Specker and Tobias Zielony, visualize the world with a style of photography that adheres strictly to the medium and yet is highly subjective. Max Baumann, Boris Mikhailov, Rita Ostrowskaja and Helga Paris extend the perspective with experiences of their own confrontations with different political systems, while Laura Bielau, Thomas Demand, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Wolfgang Tillmans and Jeff Wall use the documentary style of photography as a means of exemplifying the phenomena of visual perception. Many of the works are being exhibited for the very first time.
Integrated into the exhibition are three successive Project Rooms organized by three guest curators and each taking place for the duration of one month. They thematize three different methods of collecting and three different ways of using photography.
From 9.10. until 30.10.2011 the artist Thierry Geoffroy will investigate the idea behind the title of the exhibition – PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! – and ask: Who calls whom and what, and for what purpose, and out of what interests? On 1.11.2011 Markus Schaden will be setting up a study room devoted to the photography book as a ‘storage medium’ and collector’s item. From 6.12.2011 until 15.1.2012 Wilhelm Schürmann will be exposing the obsessions that can be the driving force behind a private collection of photographs, graphics, paintings and sculptures.
In the run-up to the exhibition HOW YOU LOOK AT IT at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, which was curated by Thomas Weski and Heinz Liesbrock on the occasion of EXPO 2000, the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation began to purchase comprehensive groups of works by selected American and European photographers. Since then, the collecting activity of the Foundation has been focused on those works of photography that may be understood to be in the tradition of the ‘documentary style’ (Walker Evans, 1903-1975) and have been exercising a strong influence on photography since the end of the 1960s. Thus it has been possible – thanks not least to the recommendations of a high-calibre advisory board – to build up a photographic collection distinguished by its concentration on groups of works. In this regard the collection is unique in Europe.
The Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation’s collection and its perspective are now to be the subject of the present exhibition, which is being mounted jointly with the Sprengel Museum Hannover and also in the context of the Museum’s own well-cultivated photography tradition, which began in 1979 and can boast exhibitions of such great exponents of photography as Karl Blossfeldt, El Lissitzky, Judith Joy Ross and Michael Schmidt, to name only a few of many, or the “SPECTRUM” International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony. ‘Collecting’ manifests itself here as an open system that operates self-reflexively in the aforementioned Project Rooms and is future-oriented and discussion-friendly in the exhibition’s supplementary events.
PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! is accompanied by a copious publication (Steidl, Göttingen). Visitors will also be offered a comprehensive information programme.
The exhibition has been curated by Inka Schube, Curator for Photography and Media Art, Sprengel Museum Hannover, and Thomas Weski, Professor of “Curatorial Cultures”, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig.
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
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Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
1 GALVIN GONZALEZ 1:11:30 5:28 1/8 1/98 M3034
2 David Bacus 1:14:52 5:43 1/4 2/98 M2024
3 ZACHARY HOLT 1:21:52 6:15 1/10 3/98 M1319
4 JORDAN PERRY 1:23:34 6:23 1/8 4/98 M2529
5 Rudy Montoya 1:23:49 6:24 1/11 5/98 M4044
6 Jose Salcedo 1:25:28 6:32 2/4 6/98 M2024
7 Timothy Anderson 1:25:33 6:32 1/18 7/98 M5054
8 Chris Anderson 1:26:31 6:37 2/10 8/98 M1319
9 Diego Diaz 1:26:58 6:39 1/14 9/98 M3539
10 JOHN PURCELL 1:28:22 6:45 3/10 10/98 M1319
11 SHAWNA ROUNTREE 1:29:00 6:48 1/8 1/73 F2529
12 CREGG WEINMANN 1:29:53 6:52 2/18 11/98 M5054
13 Craig Gardner 1:30:40 6:56 3/18 12/98 M5054
14 Javier Cruz 1:31:16 6:58 1/11 13/98 M4549
15 Steve Dirkse 1:31:23 6:59 2/14 14/98 M3539
16 WALTER PAVLAKOVICH 1:31:36 7:00 4/18 15/98 M5054
17 David Little 1:32:46 7:05 4/10 16/98 M1319
18 Ezequiel Gonzalez 1:32:47 7:05 5/10 17/98 M1319
19 Alec Briones 1:33:03 7:07 1/9 18/98 M5559
20 Damon Wilstead 1:33:55 7:11 2/8 19/98 M3034
21 BART VANDERWAL 1:35:35 7:18 2/11 20/98 M4044
22 John Lee 1:35:55 7:20 5/18 21/98 M5054
23 Roehl Caragao 1:36:29 7:22 2/11 22/98 M4549
24 MARK OGILVIE 1:37:25 7:27 3/11 23/98 M4044
25 Dave Hoglund 1:37:26 7:27 2/9 24/98 M5559
26 JEFF GIUMARRA 1:37:29 7:27 3/8 25/98 M3034
27 Jacob Scott 1:37:32 7:27 6/10 26/98 M1319
28 JAMES BELL 1:37:32 7:27 6/18 27/98 M5054
29 Charolette Cholometes 1:37:40 7:28 1/9 2/73 F3034
30 DAVE MEEK 1:38:36 7:32 3/14 28/98 M3539
31 Daniel Ramirez 1:39:18 7:35 3/9 29/98 M5559
32 AARON ALBAY 1:39:25 7:36 7/10 30/98 M1319
33 COURTNEY MOORE 1:40:16 7:40 1/1 3/73 F1319
34 Richard Black 1:40:35 7:41 7/18 31/98 M5054
35 JOSE MONTELONGO 1:40:44 7:42 4/14 32/98 M3539
36 Klaus Benamy-Hackel 1:41:14 7:44 4/9 33/98 M5559
37 MICHAEL RAMIREZ 1:41:20 7:45 2/8 34/98 M2529
38 Raul Gonzalez 1:41:31 7:45 5/14 35/98 M3539
39 Freddie Bingham 1:42:33 7:50 4/8 36/98 M3034
40 Mike Gonzalez 1:42:47 7:51 3/11 37/98 M4549
41 Gerry Saba 1:43:55 7:56 4/11 38/98 M4044
42 DAVE PEGLER 1:44:04 7:57 5/11 39/98 M4044
43 DEBBIE WALLACE 1:45:03 8:02 1/12 4/73 F4549
44 EDDIE PAULSEN 1:45:25 8:03 6/14 40/98 M3539
45 Gary Enns 1:45:33 8:04 7/14 41/98 M3539
46 GREG FONTES 1:45:33 8:04 4/11 42/98 M4549
47 JOE SWEET 1:45:35 8:04 5/8 43/98 M3034
48 Sara Bradford 1:45:52 8:05 2/9 5/73 F3034
49 Daniel Tavarez 1:46:31 8:08 8/14 44/98 M3539
50 Connie Tavarez 1:46:35 8:09 1/5 6/73 F3539
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
51 Todd Witwer 1:47:12 8:11 8/18 45/98 M5054
52 MARK WITCHER 1:48:41 8:18 9/18 46/98 M5054
53 Roy Walford 1:50:02 8:24 1/3 47/98 M6064
54 HAYLEY TOBIN 1:50:13 8:25 1/14 7/73 F4044
55 Amy Fredericks 1:50:33 8:27 1/2 8/73 F6064
56 KELLY LOPEZ 1:50:45 8:28 2/14 9/73 F4044
57 ROBERT JOHNSON 1:50:48 8:28 5/9 48/98 M5559
58 JOSHUA GARZA 1:50:50 8:28 6/11 49/98 M4044
59 Eric Wolf 1:50:52 8:28 3/4 50/98 M2024
60 Derek Jeffery 1:51:02 8:29 3/8 51/98 M2529
61 BROOKS RICHARDSON 1:51:25 8:31 10/18 52/98 M5054
62 Tony Jeffery 1:52:52 8:37 7/11 53/98 M4044
63 Mike Moore 1:53:34 8:41 5/11 54/98 M4549
64 DAVE COWLES 1:54:34 8:45 8/11 55/98 M4044
65 Brian Cisneros 1:55:06 8:48 8/10 56/98 M1319
66 John Wilson 1:55:22 8:49 2/3 57/98 M6064
67 Mike Barella 1:55:26 8:49 9/11 58/98 M4044
68 FRANCISCO RAMIREZ 1:55:29 8:49 9/14 59/98 M3539
69 Jose Torres 1:56:33 8:54 9/10 60/98 M1319
70 Yolanda Hughes 1:56:38 8:55 3/14 10/73 F4044
71 Keith Stearmon 1:56:40 8:55 4/8 61/98 M2529
72 BOB BARTON 1:57:15 8:57 6/11 62/98 M4549
73 JOHN OPHEIM 1:57:22 8:58 3/3 63/98 M6064
74 Margaret Patterson 1:57:26 8:58 2/12 11/73 F4549
75 Jim Cowles 1:57:28 8:58 1/2 64/98 M6569
76 PHILIPPE IGOA 1:58:11 9:02 7/11 65/98 M4549
77 KATE QUINN 1:58:11 9:02 1/7 12/73 F5559
78 Ken Berckes 1:58:18 9:02 11/18 66/98 M5054
79 CARMEN ALBANES 1:58:25 9:03 1/11 13/73 F5054
80 KATHRYN JOSLIN 1:58:28 9:03 3/9 14/73 F3034
81 Darlene Savage 1:59:12 9:06 3/12 15/73 F4549
82 CHRIS DANFORTH 1:59:57 9:10 8/11 67/98 M4549
83 JUAN CERVANTES 2:00:23 9:12 4/4 68/98 M2024
84 JOSIE MARTIN 2:00:31 9:12 2/11 16/73 F5054
85 TAMMY GARCIA 2:01:31 9:17 4/14 17/73 F4044
86 Carol Weston 2:01:47 9:18 2/2 18/73 F6064
87 Esther Ray 2:02:16 9:20 2/7 19/73 F5559
88 Bob Ziemet 2:02:25 9:21 2/2 69/98 M6569
89 TRACY HUBBELL 2:02:40 9:22 5/14 20/73 F4044
90 ERIC BERLIN 2:03:45 9:27 12/18 70/98 M5054
91 craig smith 2:04:15 9:30 9/11 71/98 M4549
92 Jialan Su 2:04:21 9:30 4/9 21/73 F3034
93 DANIEL RODRIGUEZ 2:04:29 9:31 13/18 72/98 M5054
94 Greg Adkins 2:04:32 9:31 10/14 73/98 M3539
95 Tawnie McCaa 2:04:55 9:33 1/2 22/73 F2024
96 ROY PIERUCCI 2:04:56 9:33 6/9 74/98 M5559
97 ALICIA BROWN 2:05:39 9:36 2/5 23/73 F3539
98 Kevin Higgins 2:05:49 9:37 14/18 75/98 M5054
99 Guido Climer 2:06:11 9:38 11/14 76/98 M3539
100 Lonnie Stockton 2:06:16 9:39 6/14 24/73 F4044
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
101 CHARLES MATHER 2:06:55 9:42 5/8 77/98 M2529
102 Meg Reimers 2:07:10 9:43 7/14 25/73 F4044
103 Barb Johnston 2:07:27 9:44 3/11 26/73 F5054
104 Katie Nickell 2:07:27 9:44 8/14 27/73 F4044
105 HOPE ROE 2:07:39 9:45 4/12 28/73 F4549
106 RODERICK MARCIA 2:07:45 9:46 6/8 78/98 M3034
107 Connie Taylor 2:07:46 9:46 5/9 29/73 F3034
108 Nicole Panero 2:07:50 9:46 2/8 30/73 F2529
109 Cory Bringman 2:08:26 9:49 3/5 31/73 F3539
110 LONDO WHITNEY 2:09:11 9:52 12/14 79/98 M3539
111 Odette Hudson 2:09:27 9:53 3/7 32/73 F5559
112 Clarissa Wilstead 2:09:49 9:55 3/8 33/73 F2529
113 JEFF COOMBER 2:09:58 9:56 15/18 80/98 M5054
114 Susan James 2:10:43 9:59 4/11 34/73 F5054
115 JOAN COLLIN S 2:11:42 10:04 5/11 35/73 F5054
116 Denise Haynes 2:11:43 10:04 5/12 36/73 F4549
117 Peg Baird 2:13:42 10:13 6/11 37/73 F5054
118 REBECCA WALKER 2:15:22 10:20 4/8 38/73 F2529
119 Troy Wells 2:15:29 10:21 10/11 81/98 M4044
120 Fred Little 2:15:29 10:21 16/18 82/98 M5054
121 Brock Sheela 2:16:35 10:26 7/8 83/98 M3034
122 Pedro Segura 2:16:59 10:28 7/9 84/98 M5559
123 DELORES CORTEZ 2:17:12 10:29 1/2 39/73 F7099
124 Jennifer Fendrick 2:17:26 10:30 4/5 40/73 F3539
125 Rachel Taylor 2:17:48 10:32 5/8 41/73 F2529
126 DANIEL J. RAMIREZ 2:17:49 10:32 13/14 85/98 M3539
127 Angelica Rogers 2:18:22 10:34 7/11 42/73 F5054
128 Jason Gutierrez 2:19:10 10:38 6/8 86/98 M2529
129 Maria Steele 2:19:13 10:38 8/11 43/73 F5054
130 Janice Horcasitas 2:19:16 10:38 4/7 44/73 F5559
131 DALE VAN SCHAACK 2:20:54 10:46 5/7 45/73 F5559
132 MARILYN JOHNSON 2:20:56 10:46 6/7 46/73 F5559
133 Deanna Koelewyn 2:23:11 10:56 6/12 47/73 F4549
134 Karen Briltz 2:23:15 10:57 9/14 48/73 F4044
135 PEGGY SCHUH 2:23:29 10:58 9/11 49/73 F5054
136 RICHARD GARRETT 2:23:30 10:58 10/11 87/98 M4549
137 JOSHUA ST. CLAIR 2:24:23 11:02 10/10 88/98 M1319
138 DAVID CHAPIN 2:25:02 11:05 7/8 89/98 M2529
139 JOANNA THOMAS 2:25:03 11:05 6/8 50/73 F2529
140 Paula Badasci 2:25:14 11:06 10/14 51/73 F4044
141 Joe Saldana 2:26:19 11:11 17/18 90/98 M5054
142 carol montez 2:29:10 11:24 7/12 52/73 F4549
143 Lynda Ernst 2:30:26 11:29 8/12 53/73 F4549
144 Maria Mendoza 2:31:06 11:33 7/8 54/73 F2529
145 Christine Gibson 2:34:12 11:47 8/8 55/73 F2529
146 Cheryl Scott 2:35:09 11:51 11/11 91/98 M4044
147 Renee Candelaria 2:35:46 11:54 9/12 56/73 F4549
148 Becky Whitehead 2:37:09 12:00 2/2 57/73 F7099
149 David Martino-Carr 2:38:34 12:07 8/9 92/98 M5559
150 Cheryl Wahl 2:39:43 12:12 10/12 58/73 F4549
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
151 Brad Wahl 2:39:43 12:12 11/11 93/98 M4549
152 CAROL MONJE 2:41:13 12:19 10/11 59/73 F5054
153 SHELLEY JOHNSON 2:41:41 12:21 11/14 60/73 F4044
154 MICHAEL GARCIA 2:41:42 12:21 9/9 94/98 M5559
155 Yiota Harrelson 2:43:32 12:29 6/9 61/73 F3034
156 Kim Aviles 2:44:28 12:34 12/14 62/73 F4044
157 JULIE LEE 2:47:44 12:49 13/14 63/73 F4044
158 Eva Ramirez 2:47:48 12:49 7/9 64/73 F3034
159 Melanie Reed 2:47:53 12:49 14/14 65/73 F4044
160 GEOFF MCAVOY 2:49:14 12:56 8/8 95/98 M2529
161 SUSAN ORMEROD 2:54:42 13:21 11/12 66/73 F4549
162 Kenadee Mishler 2:58:06 13:36 2/2 67/73 F2024
163 Phyllis Martino-Carr 3:00:00 13:45 7/7 68/73 F5559
164 Kathy Berckes 3:00:04 13:45 11/11 69/73 F5054
165 Rafaela Cisneros 3:01:09 13:50 5/5 70/73 F3539
166 Dwayne Mishler 3:02:07 13:55 18/18 96/98 M5054
167 Elizabeth Luckhardt 3:03:22 14:00 12/12 71/73 F4549
168 Ana Arreola 3:03:54 14:03 8/9 72/73 F3034
169 IAN BYERS 3:06:51 14:16 8/8 97/98 M3034
170 Gisela Gomez 3:08:08 14:22 9/9 73/73 F3034
171 Robert Sandoval 3:08:08 14:22 14/14 98/98 M3539
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Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
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Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
1 GALVIN GONZALEZ 1:11:30 5:28 1/8 1/98 M3034
2 David Bacus 1:14:52 5:43 1/4 2/98 M2024
3 ZACHARY HOLT 1:21:52 6:15 1/10 3/98 M1319
4 JORDAN PERRY 1:23:34 6:23 1/8 4/98 M2529
5 Rudy Montoya 1:23:49 6:24 1/11 5/98 M4044
6 Jose Salcedo 1:25:28 6:32 2/4 6/98 M2024
7 Timothy Anderson 1:25:33 6:32 1/18 7/98 M5054
8 Chris Anderson 1:26:31 6:37 2/10 8/98 M1319
9 Diego Diaz 1:26:58 6:39 1/14 9/98 M3539
10 JOHN PURCELL 1:28:22 6:45 3/10 10/98 M1319
11 SHAWNA ROUNTREE 1:29:00 6:48 1/8 1/73 F2529
12 CREGG WEINMANN 1:29:53 6:52 2/18 11/98 M5054
13 Craig Gardner 1:30:40 6:56 3/18 12/98 M5054
14 Javier Cruz 1:31:16 6:58 1/11 13/98 M4549
15 Steve Dirkse 1:31:23 6:59 2/14 14/98 M3539
16 WALTER PAVLAKOVICH 1:31:36 7:00 4/18 15/98 M5054
17 David Little 1:32:46 7:05 4/10 16/98 M1319
18 Ezequiel Gonzalez 1:32:47 7:05 5/10 17/98 M1319
19 Alec Briones 1:33:03 7:07 1/9 18/98 M5559
20 Damon Wilstead 1:33:55 7:11 2/8 19/98 M3034
21 BART VANDERWAL 1:35:35 7:18 2/11 20/98 M4044
22 John Lee 1:35:55 7:20 5/18 21/98 M5054
23 Roehl Caragao 1:36:29 7:22 2/11 22/98 M4549
24 MARK OGILVIE 1:37:25 7:27 3/11 23/98 M4044
25 Dave Hoglund 1:37:26 7:27 2/9 24/98 M5559
26 JEFF GIUMARRA 1:37:29 7:27 3/8 25/98 M3034
27 Jacob Scott 1:37:32 7:27 6/10 26/98 M1319
28 JAMES BELL 1:37:32 7:27 6/18 27/98 M5054
29 Charolette Cholometes 1:37:40 7:28 1/9 2/73 F3034
30 DAVE MEEK 1:38:36 7:32 3/14 28/98 M3539
31 Daniel Ramirez 1:39:18 7:35 3/9 29/98 M5559
32 AARON ALBAY 1:39:25 7:36 7/10 30/98 M1319
33 COURTNEY MOORE 1:40:16 7:40 1/1 3/73 F1319
34 Richard Black 1:40:35 7:41 7/18 31/98 M5054
35 JOSE MONTELONGO 1:40:44 7:42 4/14 32/98 M3539
36 Klaus Benamy-Hackel 1:41:14 7:44 4/9 33/98 M5559
37 MICHAEL RAMIREZ 1:41:20 7:45 2/8 34/98 M2529
38 Raul Gonzalez 1:41:31 7:45 5/14 35/98 M3539
39 Freddie Bingham 1:42:33 7:50 4/8 36/98 M3034
40 Mike Gonzalez 1:42:47 7:51 3/11 37/98 M4549
41 Gerry Saba 1:43:55 7:56 4/11 38/98 M4044
42 DAVE PEGLER 1:44:04 7:57 5/11 39/98 M4044
43 DEBBIE WALLACE 1:45:03 8:02 1/12 4/73 F4549
44 EDDIE PAULSEN 1:45:25 8:03 6/14 40/98 M3539
45 Gary Enns 1:45:33 8:04 7/14 41/98 M3539
46 GREG FONTES 1:45:33 8:04 4/11 42/98 M4549
47 JOE SWEET 1:45:35 8:04 5/8 43/98 M3034
48 Sara Bradford 1:45:52 8:05 2/9 5/73 F3034
49 Daniel Tavarez 1:46:31 8:08 8/14 44/98 M3539
50 Connie Tavarez 1:46:35 8:09 1/5 6/73 F3539
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
51 Todd Witwer 1:47:12 8:11 8/18 45/98 M5054
52 MARK WITCHER 1:48:41 8:18 9/18 46/98 M5054
53 Roy Walford 1:50:02 8:24 1/3 47/98 M6064
54 HAYLEY TOBIN 1:50:13 8:25 1/14 7/73 F4044
55 Amy Fredericks 1:50:33 8:27 1/2 8/73 F6064
56 KELLY LOPEZ 1:50:45 8:28 2/14 9/73 F4044
57 ROBERT JOHNSON 1:50:48 8:28 5/9 48/98 M5559
58 JOSHUA GARZA 1:50:50 8:28 6/11 49/98 M4044
59 Eric Wolf 1:50:52 8:28 3/4 50/98 M2024
60 Derek Jeffery 1:51:02 8:29 3/8 51/98 M2529
61 BROOKS RICHARDSON 1:51:25 8:31 10/18 52/98 M5054
62 Tony Jeffery 1:52:52 8:37 7/11 53/98 M4044
63 Mike Moore 1:53:34 8:41 5/11 54/98 M4549
64 DAVE COWLES 1:54:34 8:45 8/11 55/98 M4044
65 Brian Cisneros 1:55:06 8:48 8/10 56/98 M1319
66 John Wilson 1:55:22 8:49 2/3 57/98 M6064
67 Mike Barella 1:55:26 8:49 9/11 58/98 M4044
68 FRANCISCO RAMIREZ 1:55:29 8:49 9/14 59/98 M3539
69 Jose Torres 1:56:33 8:54 9/10 60/98 M1319
70 Yolanda Hughes 1:56:38 8:55 3/14 10/73 F4044
71 Keith Stearmon 1:56:40 8:55 4/8 61/98 M2529
72 BOB BARTON 1:57:15 8:57 6/11 62/98 M4549
73 JOHN OPHEIM 1:57:22 8:58 3/3 63/98 M6064
74 Margaret Patterson 1:57:26 8:58 2/12 11/73 F4549
75 Jim Cowles 1:57:28 8:58 1/2 64/98 M6569
76 PHILIPPE IGOA 1:58:11 9:02 7/11 65/98 M4549
77 KATE QUINN 1:58:11 9:02 1/7 12/73 F5559
78 Ken Berckes 1:58:18 9:02 11/18 66/98 M5054
79 CARMEN ALBANES 1:58:25 9:03 1/11 13/73 F5054
80 KATHRYN JOSLIN 1:58:28 9:03 3/9 14/73 F3034
81 Darlene Savage 1:59:12 9:06 3/12 15/73 F4549
82 CHRIS DANFORTH 1:59:57 9:10 8/11 67/98 M4549
83 JUAN CERVANTES 2:00:23 9:12 4/4 68/98 M2024
84 JOSIE MARTIN 2:00:31 9:12 2/11 16/73 F5054
85 TAMMY GARCIA 2:01:31 9:17 4/14 17/73 F4044
86 Carol Weston 2:01:47 9:18 2/2 18/73 F6064
87 Esther Ray 2:02:16 9:20 2/7 19/73 F5559
88 Bob Ziemet 2:02:25 9:21 2/2 69/98 M6569
89 TRACY HUBBELL 2:02:40 9:22 5/14 20/73 F4044
90 ERIC BERLIN 2:03:45 9:27 12/18 70/98 M5054
91 craig smith 2:04:15 9:30 9/11 71/98 M4549
92 Jialan Su 2:04:21 9:30 4/9 21/73 F3034
93 DANIEL RODRIGUEZ 2:04:29 9:31 13/18 72/98 M5054
94 Greg Adkins 2:04:32 9:31 10/14 73/98 M3539
95 Tawnie McCaa 2:04:55 9:33 1/2 22/73 F2024
96 ROY PIERUCCI 2:04:56 9:33 6/9 74/98 M5559
97 ALICIA BROWN 2:05:39 9:36 2/5 23/73 F3539
98 Kevin Higgins 2:05:49 9:37 14/18 75/98 M5054
99 Guido Climer 2:06:11 9:38 11/14 76/98 M3539
100 Lonnie Stockton 2:06:16 9:39 6/14 24/73 F4044
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
101 CHARLES MATHER 2:06:55 9:42 5/8 77/98 M2529
102 Meg Reimers 2:07:10 9:43 7/14 25/73 F4044
103 Barb Johnston 2:07:27 9:44 3/11 26/73 F5054
104 Katie Nickell 2:07:27 9:44 8/14 27/73 F4044
105 HOPE ROE 2:07:39 9:45 4/12 28/73 F4549
106 RODERICK MARCIA 2:07:45 9:46 6/8 78/98 M3034
107 Connie Taylor 2:07:46 9:46 5/9 29/73 F3034
108 Nicole Panero 2:07:50 9:46 2/8 30/73 F2529
109 Cory Bringman 2:08:26 9:49 3/5 31/73 F3539
110 LONDO WHITNEY 2:09:11 9:52 12/14 79/98 M3539
111 Odette Hudson 2:09:27 9:53 3/7 32/73 F5559
112 Clarissa Wilstead 2:09:49 9:55 3/8 33/73 F2529
113 JEFF COOMBER 2:09:58 9:56 15/18 80/98 M5054
114 Susan James 2:10:43 9:59 4/11 34/73 F5054
115 JOAN COLLIN S 2:11:42 10:04 5/11 35/73 F5054
116 Denise Haynes 2:11:43 10:04 5/12 36/73 F4549
117 Peg Baird 2:13:42 10:13 6/11 37/73 F5054
118 REBECCA WALKER 2:15:22 10:20 4/8 38/73 F2529
119 Troy Wells 2:15:29 10:21 10/11 81/98 M4044
120 Fred Little 2:15:29 10:21 16/18 82/98 M5054
121 Brock Sheela 2:16:35 10:26 7/8 83/98 M3034
122 Pedro Segura 2:16:59 10:28 7/9 84/98 M5559
123 DELORES CORTEZ 2:17:12 10:29 1/2 39/73 F7099
124 Jennifer Fendrick 2:17:26 10:30 4/5 40/73 F3539
125 Rachel Taylor 2:17:48 10:32 5/8 41/73 F2529
126 DANIEL J. RAMIREZ 2:17:49 10:32 13/14 85/98 M3539
127 Angelica Rogers 2:18:22 10:34 7/11 42/73 F5054
128 Jason Gutierrez 2:19:10 10:38 6/8 86/98 M2529
129 Maria Steele 2:19:13 10:38 8/11 43/73 F5054
130 Janice Horcasitas 2:19:16 10:38 4/7 44/73 F5559
131 DALE VAN SCHAACK 2:20:54 10:46 5/7 45/73 F5559
132 MARILYN JOHNSON 2:20:56 10:46 6/7 46/73 F5559
133 Deanna Koelewyn 2:23:11 10:56 6/12 47/73 F4549
134 Karen Briltz 2:23:15 10:57 9/14 48/73 F4044
135 PEGGY SCHUH 2:23:29 10:58 9/11 49/73 F5054
136 RICHARD GARRETT 2:23:30 10:58 10/11 87/98 M4549
137 JOSHUA ST. CLAIR 2:24:23 11:02 10/10 88/98 M1319
138 DAVID CHAPIN 2:25:02 11:05 7/8 89/98 M2529
139 JOANNA THOMAS 2:25:03 11:05 6/8 50/73 F2529
140 Paula Badasci 2:25:14 11:06 10/14 51/73 F4044
141 Joe Saldana 2:26:19 11:11 17/18 90/98 M5054
142 carol montez 2:29:10 11:24 7/12 52/73 F4549
143 Lynda Ernst 2:30:26 11:29 8/12 53/73 F4549
144 Maria Mendoza 2:31:06 11:33 7/8 54/73 F2529
145 Christine Gibson 2:34:12 11:47 8/8 55/73 F2529
146 Cheryl Scott 2:35:09 11:51 11/11 91/98 M4044
147 Renee Candelaria 2:35:46 11:54 9/12 56/73 F4549
148 Becky Whitehead 2:37:09 12:00 2/2 57/73 F7099
149 David Martino-Carr 2:38:34 12:07 8/9 92/98 M5559
150 Cheryl Wahl 2:39:43 12:12 10/12 58/73 F4549
Bakersfield Track Club Half Marathon and 5K
November 15, 2008
Half Marathon
Place Name Time Pace Div/Tot Sex/Tot Div
151 Brad Wahl 2:39:43 12:12 11/11 93/98 M4549
152 CAROL MONJE 2:41:13 12:19 10/11 59/73 F5054
153 SHELLEY JOHNSON 2:41:41 12:21 11/14 60/73 F4044
154 MICHAEL GARCIA 2:41:42 12:21 9/9 94/98 M5559
155 Yiota Harrelson 2:43:32 12:29 6/9 61/73 F3034
156 Kim Aviles 2:44:28 12:34 12/14 62/73 F4044
157 JULIE LEE 2:47:44 12:49 13/14 63/73 F4044
158 Eva Ramirez 2:47:48 12:49 7/9 64/73 F3034
159 Melanie Reed 2:47:53 12:49 14/14 65/73 F4044
160 GEOFF MCAVOY 2:49:14 12:56 8/8 95/98 M2529
161 SUSAN ORMEROD 2:54:42 13:21 11/12 66/73 F4549
162 Kenadee Mishler 2:58:06 13:36 2/2 67/73 F2024
163 Phyllis Martino-Carr 3:00:00 13:45 7/7 68/73 F5559
164 Kathy Berckes 3:00:04 13:45 11/11 69/73 F5054
165 Rafaela Cisneros 3:01:09 13:50 5/5 70/73 F3539
166 Dwayne Mishler 3:02:07 13:55 18/18 96/98 M5054
167 Elizabeth Luckhardt 3:03:22 14:00 12/12 71/73 F4549
168 Ana Arreola 3:03:54 14:03 8/9 72/73 F3034
169 IAN BYERS 3:06:51 14:16 8/8 97/98 M3034
170 Gisela Gomez 3:08:08 14:22 9/9 73/73 F3034
171 Robert Sandoval 3:08:08 14:22 14/14 98/98 M3539
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