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In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
  Community Networking '96 Papers
The difficulties of raising funds in rural communities was recognised the funding arrangements which were structured around the program providing the bulk of the initial capital funds and covering most of the operating expenses during the first two years of the telecentre life.
Funding was conditional both on the local community showing that they believed that the facility would be of benefit to their community and on the preparation of a realistic business plan which showed reasonable prospects of self-sufficiency after two years.
Communities which fail to recognise these changes and adapt to them will be bypassed by them while those which recognise the changes and engage them will be part of the mainstream and benefit from its growth.
www.laplaza.org /about_lap/archives/cn96/crellin.html   (2486 words)

  
 NEWSLETTER  16 Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The second community is that of the Sephardi Jews who immigrated to Greece at the end of the fifteenth century, after their expulsion from Spain.
After the rebellion of the Christian community, which began in Trikala in 1430, most of the churches in the region including in Ioannina, were destroyed and the Christians were forbidden to live within the walls.
Others bear communal information that also serve as historical documents: for example, the death of members of the congregation during pogroms, a fire in the Jewish quarter, a burglary of sacred objects and their return to the synagogue.
www.hum.huji.ac.il /cja/NL16/NL-16-5.htm   (4958 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Arta
Much of the population lives in the west, within the Aous valley, the south and east of Arta, further southeast, the Athamanian mountains and the southeast with a few parts of the north are the least populated.
Athamanian Mountains, situated in the northeast and is part of the Pindus ranges.
The famous landmark which is over the Aous river is Arta's Old Bridge on its west side.
all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Arta   (384 words)

  
 understanding arta factor...
In theory, Arta was expected to stand for a movement that was born from the Djibouti sponsored Somali National Peace Conference (SNPC) held in mid 2000.
Although this definition may seem mockery for Arta’s opponents, the principal guidance of the peace proposal included a ‘Convoy of Peace’ (Geeddi Socodka Nabadda), which was to involve a process to transform the Somali conflict into peace by sending the traditional leaders to all Somali regions.
Looking from the Arta perspective, while the TNG contravenes its own enchanted 'Arta spirit', the prospect of its policy looks bleak as its initial action signals that the myth of militarism is yet to die in Somali politics.
www.somaliawatch.org /archivedec01/011216401.htm   (2229 words)

  
 A Short History of the Jews of Greece:Ancient Times to the 1940's
The Jewish community of Thebes was so closely identified with the silk industry that Roger II of Sicily (1095-1154) forcibly moved almost the entire community to Sicily to introduce the silk industry in his Norman kingdom.
Whatever the difficulties, the former Romaniot communities of Constantinople, Edirne (Adrianople), Thessaloniki, and Rhodes were forced by the weight of numbers and cultural superiority to adopt not only the minhag but also the language of the newcomers.
The Jewish communities of Mistras, Tripolis, and Kalamata were decimated; the few survivors moved north to settle in Chalkis and Volos, still under Ottoman rule.
www.greecetravel.com /jewishhistory/ancient.html   (2015 words)

  
 The Jews of Yiannina
The janina community is the largest and most representative Romaniote Greek jewish community,whose members are descendants of the Greek Jews living in the Byzantine Empire.
During the first half of the 13th century the town was part of the despotate of Epirus and the jewish community suffered from persecutions.
As the Romaniote community expanded, a minyan spread to Harlem and later, a synagogue to The Bronx.
members.tripod.com /~Yiannina/Romaniotes.html   (1904 words)

  
 The US proposal for the Interim Agreement on Kosovo - Koha Ditore, Kosova Albanian Daily, on 17 September 1998
The citizens and national communities in Kosovo shall enjoy, without limitation, human and democratic rights and shall be given the choice to be represented in all organs of authority.
The national communities shall be legally equal and shall not use their additional rights so as to endanger the additional rights of other national communities or the rights of citizens of the Republic of Serbia of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Each national community is to be represented on the Council in proportion to its share of the regional population or by one member, whichever is the greater.
www.bndlg.de /~wplarre/back207.htm   (3047 words)

  
 [kcc-news] News: The KLA General Headquarters declares an amnesty for two Tanjug reporters: ARTA (27 November 1998) ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Initially, Ambassador Petritsch was asked to give a detailed evaluation of the recent American plan, for what the international community is mounting pressure on both sides to accept, due to the time factor.
KOSOVA (LDK press conference) Rugova: "Kosova, closer to independence or an international protectorate, this year" Prishtina, 27 November (ARTA) 1900CET -- "The situation in Kosova is still very tense, with bad consequences, and this is due to the large Serb police and military force presence", said Ibrahim Rugova in his regular press conference.
As for the situation of the dislocated, President Rugova said that "much more needs to be done to ensure their return home, and that this would have much more effect if NATO troops were deployed".
www.alb-net.com /pipermail/kcc-news/1998-November/000001.html   (3479 words)

  
 Kosova: AMERICAN DRAFT DOCUMENT Version 2 - News: ARTA (8 October 1998)
The national communities shall be legally equal and shall not use their additional rights as to endanger the rights of other national communities or the rights of citizens.
Each national community with at least ()% of the population of the commune shall be represented on the Council in proportion to its share of the regional population or by one member, whichever is greater.
Communal police authorities shall file an ex parte request with Republic courts for the arrest and transfer of individuals that are reasonably believed to have violated criminal laws of Kosovo.
www.bndlg.de /~wplarre/back212.htm   (7681 words)

  
 Arta (Djibouti Faction's Descision...
In another attempt to confuse the international community and with the futile intention to undermine the recently established Somali National Reconciliation and Restoration Council, the Arta (Djibouti) Faction has unilaterally formed and announced a new committee for the National Reconciliation Process.
These preconditions of the international community were that the Arta Faction should refrain from violence and engage in peaceful constructive dialogue within the Somali communities.
The communities of Puntland State of Somalia will continue to use the existing Somali passports as the only temporary travel documents until a National Central Government is finally formed on the basis of a negotiated Federal System.
www.somaliawatch.org /archivemay01/010508601.htm   (425 words)

  
 Scoop: ARC launches new transport organisation
We have worked extremely hard to have ARTA up and running a month early, which is a credit to ARC councillors and staff, the ARTA Chief Executive and the Board.
The ARTA Chief Executive, Alan Thompson, says he recognises the past issues and challenges of improving Auckland’s transport network but believes the new structure will allow ARTA to focus exclusively on transport integration, with a key emphasis on improving customer service.
His main focus for ARTA in the shorter term is to further improve customer service across all modes of public transport, and in integrating transport across the region.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/AK0412/S00010.htm   (1816 words)

  
 ARTA: Media Center
ARTA – The American Russian Theatrical Alliance, is gathering signatures and compiling sources to successfully launch a new “Eco-friendly” world-class Center, here in Los Angeles.
Basically, our aim is to improve “the community” here for established actors and directors; to give them more opportunities to develop artistically, experiment with new ideas and a diversity of other artists, as well as create projects for financial profit.
All they have requested is proof that Los Angeles’ established artistic community is interested in and supportive of this idea.
www.betteracting.com /mediacenter.htm   (668 words)

  
 Jewish Web Index - Make it easier for you to do your personal research
Today, it is the largest Jewish community and dates from the first century C.E. After the sixth century, Jewish life left, and in 1705, the city had 20 Jewish families, the descendants of exiles from Spain.
In July, 1942, the Jewish Community was forced to pay several million to the Nazis to ransom Jewish men who were forced into working for the Germans, with the understanding that they would be freed later and the community would be left alone.
Yomtov Yacoel was the lawyer for the community and liaison with the Nazi civilian representatives.
jewishwebindex.com /italy.htm   (5861 words)

  
 The Jewish presence in Greece and the Balcans - culture, sacrafice, holocaust,
At the end of the 15th century, Thessaloniki became a melting pot for European Jewish communities that brought their exotic sounding names to the city's congregations; Calabria, Majorca and Lisbon were among its 30 separate Jewish communities.
An interesting characteristic of this Jewish community is that all the homes were built connected to each other and near the river Penios.
There were close ties between the Jewish communities of Veria and Thessaloniki and when the Apostle Paul (49 B.C.E.) was expelled from Thessaloniki, he came to Veria's synagogue to deliver his message.
members.tripod.com /gulnbla/travel.htm   (3122 words)

  
 ARTA — Member Directory
Individualized, comprehensive, holistic recovery services within a healing farm community for individuals who are at least 18; residents may graduate to long-term, supportive housing and employment opportunities in Asheville, NC.
Windhorse Associates is an innovative therapeutic community approach to recovery for individuals struggling with serious psychiatric disturbances.
The services at Windhorse Associates are individually tailored in close communication with each client and family, and represent a wide range of intensity and structure.
www.arta-ne.org /directory.html   (751 words)

  
 LDDH - Diffusion d'information N°3/LDDH du 24/06/00
To inform the international community that PUNTLAND STATE OF SOMALI has no any official delegates sent to Arta to represent Puntland State communities and that any attempt by Djibouti authorities to hand-pick persons to represent us will be considered an illegal act and hostile provocation against Puntland State.
The Traditional clan elders and delegates of the Somali Peace Process and reconciliation Conference now convened at Arta in the Republic of Djibouti, address themselves to both the local and international community, that their conference is not designed to create any destability or turmoil in Somali's peaceful regions, where peace and administration is operating.
Moreover, is started at the bottom, and that neighbouring communities resolve their problems by non-violent methods.
www.lddh-djibouti.org /lddh/lddhdi3.htm   (1093 words)

  
 YOEL
The oldest organized Jewish communities were established as early as 400 B.C. and flourished during the reign of Alexander the Great and the following Hellenistic period.
Rich Jewish Communities were to be found all along the Aegean Coast and in the greek mainland.
These old communities of the hellenistic times and then one of the Roman, Byzantine and early Ottoman periods, adopted the greek language, were known as " romaniot " (hellenized latin word meaning greek) Jewish communities and developed the so-called MINHAG - ROMANIA.
www.sefarad.org /publication/lm/028/yoel.html   (1140 words)

  
 Arta
Arta (Greek: Άρτα, Albanian: Artë)is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece.
The eastern boundary is bounded with the Acheloos River and the western boundary up to near GR-5/GR-21 jct is the Louros River.
The famous landmark which is over the Arachthos river is Arta's Old Bridge on its west side.
www.mlahanas.de /Greece/Regions/Arta.html   (390 words)

  
 Preserving Jewish Heritage in Greece
Fortunately, a great many artifacts, religious objects, and costumes of the Romaniot and Sephardic communities have been preserved, many of which were bequeathed to the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens, which opened in the late 1970s.
After the War, it served the Jewish community as its communal synagogue, since most of Salonika's synagogues were desecrated and destroyed by the Nazis.
The small Jewish communities of Greece, such as Ioannina, Halkida, Rhodes, and others, with populations of fewer than 60 people, are as endangered as Chania and Veroia were 20 years ago.
www.archaeology.org /online/features/greece   (2118 words)

  
 The Newsletter of the Greek Jewish Monuments VOL. 1, NO. 1, Summer 1998
In this case, the name of the newsletter "all the community" refers to the people of a special community who share the vision of preserving the Greek Jewish heritage, a heritage unique in the world, combining Romaniot, Sephardi, and Ashkenazi traditions, with roots lost in antiquity.
In the first century A.D., Greek Jewish communities were visited by St. Paul the Apostle during the course of his second journey, where he preached Christianity in the synagogues at Philippi, Thessaloniki (Salonika), Veroia, Athens, and Corinth.
The small Jewish communities of Greece, such as Ioannina, Halkida, Trikala, and others, with populations of less than 60 people, are endangered as much as Veroia and Hania were 20 years ago.
www.sefarad.org /hosted/english/KhK/001/index.html   (2628 words)

  
 The Investment Framework Article 3
Certain communities of the eparchy of Lagadas of the Prefecture of Thessaloniki, the eparchy of Troizinia, the municipalities of Methana and Poros and certain communities of the Prefecture of Attica.
The frontier regions of the border Prefectures (except Corfu) up to 20 kilometres from the border, as well as the muncipalities and communities whose administrative boundaries are intersected by the limits of the 20 kilometre zone.
The Prefecture of Attica (except the eparchy of Troizinia, the islands of Aegina, Spetses, Hydra and the eparchy of Kythera), the Prefecture of Thessaloniki (except the eparchy of Lagadas and certain communities).
www.hri.org /MFA/economy/etba/article3.htm   (850 words)

  
 Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Greek
By the beginning of the 20th century, the Jews of such communities as Ioannina, Arta, Preveza, and Chalkida still spoke a form of Greek that was somewhat different from the Greek of their Christian neighbors.
The Holocaust decimated the Romaniote communities to such an extent, that practically no competent speakers of this language variety remained alive.
The survivors were not numerous enough to maintain a linguistic milieu, and the younger generation moved to Standard Modern Greek in Greece, Hebrew in Israel, and English in the USA.
www.jewish-languages.org /judeo-greek.html   (456 words)

  
 Jewish Heritage in Greece (Part 5)
The historic synagogue at 35, Kotsou Str., was built after the 1846 fire that destroyed the old structure and its extensive library.
In the 1920s and '30s, communal life and festivities were faithfully observed and the sukkoth could be seen in the terraces and the balconies of the neighborhood.
The Jewish Community of Ioannina, the capital city of the region of Epirus, was founded around the 8th century A.D. The Ioannina Community is the largest and most representative Romaniote Greek Jewish Community, whose members are descendants of the Greek Jews living in the Byzantine Empire.
www.gogreece.com /learn/jewish4.htm   (694 words)

  
 ARTA reflexions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
New-age husband and wife musicians Irena and Vojtech Havel consider their music primarily a way to communicate - not only with each other, but also with their instruments and with their audiences.
In 1991, with the lutenist Rudolf Merinsky, she recorded Lute Songs in 16th and 17th century Europe, for ARTA Records (CD), followed in 1993 by the prize-winning CD with the same company: Sephardic Songs (Czech Music Fund award, and second place in the Grammy Classics vocal music contest).
Mispacha's repertoir consists primarily of prayers, and in Mispacha's approach singing is taken back to its initial highest mission- the expression of human spirituality.
www.arta.cz /artrefl.htm   (1644 words)

  
 Ethnic Communities Part I: HNL & ANC - UrbanPlanet.org
There are also many Brazilian owned or operated businesses serving the growing community like restaurants, Self improvement businesses, clinical, health, capoeira schools, martial arts, clothing outlet, travel agencies, etc basic stuff that would be expected that would support a growing ethnic or cultural population.
Gammarano was amongst dozens of community leaders and transplanted Dominicans who listened to speeches from, among others, Francisco Del Rosario, the new honorary consul for the Dominican Republic in Alaska.
Now, however, the Korean Community Association is warming to the effort and shares its monthly newsletter with the newspaper.
www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=12904   (6661 words)

  
 KhK-OnlineArchive
This can easily be seen in the fact that large Jewish communities existed in the all of the Ottoman lands until the end of the Empire.
As a non-Muslim community in the Ottoman Empire, the Jews kept their own courts, schools, and welfare systems; this type of community was known as a millet.
The first seder is held in the Volos synagogue's community room, and is attended by nearly 60 men, women, and children.
www.yvelia.com /kolhakehila/archive/documents/features/features_001.htm   (6940 words)

  
 San Pedro Valley News-Sun | Serving communities of Benson, St. David, Pomerene, Cascabel, Mescal, J-Six and Dragoon
While saying goodbye to family, friends and Benson is difficult, Joey Taylor is excited about what lies ahead as he prepares to serve his country in the United States Navy.
Taylor's grandmother, Arta Taylor, said while the family is "very worried," they are happy for him.
As part of his four-year enlistment, Taylor said he will serve overseas and ultimately, if all goes well, he plans to make the Navy a career.
www.bensonnews-sun.com /articles/2004/09/08/news/news1.txt   (580 words)

  
 Home | communities.madison.com
WYOU staff are often asked by community organizations to record public events.
Parents and other community member can help prepare projects for art classes, collect supplies (see our WISH LIST), contribute to the general upkeep of the center, and/or serve on the Board of Directors.
Good communication skills and ability to handle and restrain live reptiles a must.
www.madison.com /communities/volunteer.php?letter=W   (3192 words)

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