Array-ne 10k raceOverall winnersMale, Joshua Foulds, 35:43Female, Kara Tustin, 40:37Age 19 and underJoshua Foulds, 35:43Jim Boyer, 35:54Alyson Destefana, 58:09Cassandra Destefana, 1:00:03Age 20-29David Crown, 36:04Mike Leathers, 40:14Kara Tustin, 40:37Katrina Pohlman, 43:00Age 30-39Chris Thompson, 40:39Sean McMenamin, 42:52Sharon Dellos, 44:27Shellee Copley, 47:16Age 40-49Mike Scherer, 37:49Wendell Smith, 40:40Betsy Thompson, 48:13Heidi Howard, 53:11Age 50-59Tom Sneddon, 42:11Tom Cook, 43:34Penny Gray, 52:22Kathy Brechbiel, 58:46Age 60 and upRandall Pellow, 48:36Jim Cain, 49:315k raceOverall WinnersMale, Brian Fuller, 15:28Female, Connie Barko, 17:48Age 11 and underMike Dennison, 23:10Madison Bierley, 23:52Aaron Dennis, 23:58Joanna Pokrzywa, 25:57Age 15 and underClayton Webber, 18:49Britain Weyant, 19:18Lauren LehmanAmy Kauffman, 21:16Age 19 and underJared McGahen, 16:04Andrew Amy, 16:05Kali Renincer, 19:40Kelly MacDonald, 20:51Age 20-29Brian Fuller, 15:28Holden Comeau, 16:11Connie Barko, 17:48Sarah Bounds, 19:24Age 30-39Louis Hoffman, 19:35Steven Brown, 19:36Abby Gruber, 22:52Amy Beaver, 23:07Age 40-49Kevin McKee, 17:32Jamie Davis, 19:39Robin Richardson, 24:17Paula Maravich, 24:37Age 50-59Darwin Ellerman, 20:57Denny Lebo, 21:00Nancy Bixler, 24:13Linda Parsons, 28:22Age 60 and upBill Harrison, 25:28Bill Ditenhafer, 25:55Martha Bergster
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The trial model of administration was an initiative of the Council of Australian Government (COAG) which has replaced ATSIC (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Commission) which was abolished by the Howard government in 2005.A senate estimates committee heard on 2 November that the COAG trial had exactly the opposite affect as was intended and where as previously Wadeye had to deal with 60 government agencies for funding, it now must deal with 90. His report has not yet been officially released but has been leaked to prominent politicians including Senator Evans and the Government Senator Bill Heffernan.Wadeye, a town of 2,200 people, suffered major riots between rival gangs earlier this year and Senator Heffernan has blamed the riots on the facts that the youths of Wadeye were âbored shitlessâ. Heffernan believes more police are required but also points the finger at education.The only school in Wadeye is a Catholic school, the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. There are 600 primary school age children in Wadeye but only room for 300 at the school. The median age at death is between 45 and 54 years, compared to 78 years for non-Aboriginal people in Australia.Labels: Aboriginal issues, COAG, Wadeye
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-ne Mega Merger Of Sime Darby, GHope & GuthrieThe Good, The Bad & What you need is also Sime Energy & Utilities, Sime Manufacturing, Sime Infrastructure and Sime Plantations. If Sime Darby stays listed when the plate is so huge, even when all units make a lot of money, it would not be reflected in the real value behind Sime Darby. As you can raise funds via the seperate business units, there is no longer a need for the holding company to be listed.If I was the adviser, I would use the listed vehicles of Golden Hope and Guthrie to inject the various assets to align the business, for example I can inject all plantations into Golden Hope, and all infra related businesses into Kump Guthrie. Sime Properties suddenly looks very good with the prime pieces of development under Guthrie, and I think it would be a much easier sell under the Sime UEP Properties banner.That is also why I have rated PNB as the better manager of resources and in strategic planning.
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Name: Stormie…3 Astrology sign: Scorpio4. Hair color: Dark brown 6. Single or taken: taken14..Sibling’s name: KatrinaHAVE YOU EVER …..15. by a lover, by family, you name it.29. Season: Autumn - I love to feel the leaves crunching under my feet33. Ice cream flavor: coffee, vanilla bean35. Candy/chocolate: dark chocolate kisses since i got a bag full on my b-day37. A new spelling of my name by Audre Lorde, all of Audre Lorde’s poetry,and anything by Zora Neale Hurston, J. Sport to watch on TV : football, golf, tennis, gymnastics46. Movie: the color purple, it’s a wonderful life, wizard of oz49. Disney movie: good question…the lion king 50. Chocolate or vanilla ice-cream? Vanilla, more specifically vanilla bean55. TV or the computer? Mexicans: Anasazi and beautiful history of Teotihuacan 63. Hand: lover (Freudian huh…)THE PAST 3 DAYS, HAVE YOU……..69. Watched a movie? Watched TV? of course81.Told someone you love them?
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Karembeu helped Nantes FC secure a league championship before he gained a transfer to Serie A with Sampdoria.Karembeu’s successes with the French international side led to a transfer to Real Madrid and UEFA Champions League success. Karembeu retired in 2005 after short spells with Servette and Bastia.Since retiring the 35 year old has played an active role in the Oceania Football Confederation as a FIFA and OFC Ambassador for the game. Karembeu will be on hand to help launch the new OFC Champions League competition in Auckland next week and will appear on Sky TV’s World of Football alongside Fred de Jong and Dennis Katsanos.
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By, IRIN PlusNews, November 23, 2006KIGALI - The continued poverty and suffering in Rwanda, 12 years after the genocide, is spurring local people to take responsibility for orphans rather than wait for handouts.I survived the genocide but my parents did not. After looking after my brothers and sisters I looked around and saw many more children who needed support, like I received from friends and neighbours when I was a child, said Emmanuel Ngabire, who founded of the Rebero Orphans Centre with Leonce Mpenzi. The centre, in the suburb of Gikondo, in the capital, Kigali, cares for 70 orphans and 18 widows who contracted the HI virus through sexual violence during the genocide.An estimated 270,000 Rwandan children have lost one or both parents to AIDS-related illnesses, while 800,000 people are thought to have died in the genocide, leaving the country with the highest number of child-headed households in Africa. Rape was deliberately used to intimidate members of the minority Tutsi community and moderate Hutus. The Rebero centre, where the children come to play after school each day, is supported largely by a group of Rwandan professionals, who donate an average of US30 per month to feed the children and widows, and also chip in for medical expenses and other emergencies.Jacqui Sebageni, one of the centre’s benefactors, commented, When we first met these two young men in April, I was struck by the fact that even though they were themselves on a survival level, they reached out to help people in the same situation.NGOs and the government provide support in their respective capacities, but orphans also need the guidance and support that people with intact families often take for granted. Because of our countrys history, most Rwandan families that have some means are supporting four or five other families,” Sebageni said. Mpenzi met many of the centres patrons while working as a waiter at Kigalis Intercontinental Hotel. When he had enough pledges of support, he left his job and became a full-time volunteer at the centre.Twenty-three of the children are HIV-positive, including Jean-Pierre, 6, (not his real name), a shy football enthusiast. “Both his parents are infected,” Mpenzi said. “The whole family is on antiretrovirals and his parents are too poor to pay the small fees … when he starts primary school next year.”Jean-Pierres family, like the families of other orphans and widows supported by the centre, receives seven kilos of beans and six kilos of flour every month.Another beneficiary is Venancia Nyirabuzara, 53, whose husband and much of her extended family were killed during the genocide, leaving her with three children. She contracted HIV after surviving a brutal sexual attack when she was three months pregnant and transmitted it to her son, now 12 years old.I wanted to die after the genocide; even when I started falling ill and had a serious skin infection I refused to seek medical treatment, Nyirabuzara said. I hated everyone around me and my children suffered; we had little food and no money because I didn’t work.Ngabire visited her five months ago and encouraged her to join a support group for women who were HIV-positive as a result of suffering sexual violence during the genocide. He also started bringing her weekly rations of flour and beans, and urged her to be tested and seek treatment.He took me to meet these women who showed me that I was not the only one with the same problem. I can be free and talk to them about my illness and my experience, Nyirabuzara said. My children are also happier now that I am more active and not so depressed; I realised that when I was suffering, they were as well.Since she began a course of life-prolonging antiretroviral medication five months ago, her CD-4 count [which measures the strength of the immune system] has risen from 210 to 320, but she has not yet told her son that he is HIV-positive, or that she is, but hopes she will have the courage to do so soon.Ngabire and Mpenzi are trying to build a home where they can focus on caring for underprivileged HIV-positive children. God protected me during the genocide and I promised that I would protect others, said Mpenzi. Our community must care for these orphans - if we care for each other we will never see the same kind of killings again.kr/ok/he[ENDS]
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