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  The City of Merritt
Merritt is located 271 Kilometres (168 miles) northeast of Vancouver in the heart of the Nicola Valley.
With a population of approximately 8,000, and a trading area of approximately 15,000, Merritt is the commercial centre for the area.
Merritt was incorporated as a City in 1911, by this time the community's economy had diversified to include coal mining, which would continue to be a major industry up until the 1930s.
www.merritt.ca   (336 words)

  
 William G. Merritt
Merritt is entitled to be called one of the fathers of the creamery industry in Barton County, and as Mrs.
Merritt is a member of the State Dairy Association, and while no one has taken a greater interest in the business of dairying than he, his work has been done quietly and he has never sought advertisement for his achievement.
Merritt received a common school education in Iowa and as a wife and mother she shared all the adversities and struggles of the early days in Barton County.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1919ks/m/merritwg.html   (1376 words)

  
 George Graham Reviews Tift Merritt's "Bramble Rose"
Merritt passed on a demo tape of songs she had penned, some from her time in New York, and Hutchins was enchanted.
Merritt is has all the right assets for a winning alt.country artist -- an appealing but slightly rough-hewn voice, a style than can range from laid-back to bringing kind of emotion that Patsy Cline could give to a song.
Merritt in an interview said that it was actually about her desire to get away on vacation to Canada.
georgegraham.com /reviews/tmerritt.html   (1136 words)

  
 Abraham Merritt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abraham Merritt (January 20, 1884-August 21, 1943) was an American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction.
Merritt married twice, once in the 1910s to Eleanore Ratcliffe, with whom he raised an adopted daughter, and again in the 1930s to Eleanor H. Johnson.
The book The Black Wheel was published in 1948, after Merritt's death; it was written using previously unpublished material by Bok as well.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abraham_Merritt   (308 words)

  
 Merritt Community Capital Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Merritt Community Capital Corporation (originally the Community Alliance for Syndicated Housing, Inc.) was formed in 1989 to provide corporate equity capital to housing developments built by non-profit corporations to serve the housing needs of low-income residents.
Merritt Capital continues to balance its investment portfolio with respect to geography and risk by diversifying acquisitions throughout the state of California, increasing the number of investments with experienced developers and using conservative cash flow projections to analyze project investments.
Merritt Community Capital Corporation's mission is to provide equity capital for affordable housing throughout California and to revitalize neighborhoods through the construction, rehabilitation and long-term asset management of these units.
www.merrittcap.org   (269 words)

  
 JS Online: Merritt earns his wings
Merritt averaged a double-double at Wauwatosa East as a senior, played for a respected coach in George Haas and towered over most of his competition, never facing a player his height.
Merritt wasn't a bruiser, especially not for a big man, but he could score and had a nice touch with his jumper.
There will be bumps and bruises for Merritt along the way, and not just the clobbering her gets in practice from Robert Jackson and the assistants with their pads, but that's all right.
www.jsonline.com /sports/marq/jan02/13599.asp   (710 words)

  
 The House of Tomorrow | Stephin Merritt
Merritt has gained official recognition as one of the country's best recent songwriters; the "Cole Porter of his generation".
Merritt credits much of his singular compositional ability to his early grounding in classic Top 40 pop, notably the shimmering structural perfection of ABBA (which he cites as his favorite band).
Merritt's lovely melodies are complemented by lyrics ripe with melancholy personal insights and bittersweet imagery.
houseoftomorrow.com /merritt.php   (369 words)

  
 Tift Merritt: Tambourine - PopMatters Music Review
Merritt, whose voice is indeed a marvel, was immediately thrown into the genre's pantheon after a mere album.
Likewise, Merritt is all over the place on this album, but the songs cohere into a single artistic statement marked by consistent craftsmanship and passionate performance.
The first sound is Merritt's voice, and what a glorious, sexy things it is. Searing with sensual longing, she reflects, "I've got a postcard / With an old address / A picture of Houston / In a beat up mess".
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/m/merritttift-tambourine.shtml   (994 words)

  
 TBJ-oct03-cover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Merritt was impressed with Judge Dara when they met, and had pushed for his inclusion on the governing council.
Merritt also believes officials involved in rebuilding Iraq would be wise to involve more of the legal community in putting together the judiciary and writing a new constitution.
Supreme Court justices told Merritt that their caseload increased from 1,000 to 40,000 a year during that time because of increased crime brought about by the strain that the sanctions put on the population.
www.tba.org /Journal_Current/oct03/TBJ-oct03-cover.html   (1520 words)

  
 Tift Merritt: Tambourine: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Merritt is still working on her image-- for now, she's more likely to be described in terms of her forebears than in laudatory descriptors-- but on "Good Hearted Man" she gives her best shot.
Merritt's lyrics are sentimental and unspectacular but her sanguine voice infuses otherwise run-of-the-mill verses about finding a suitable bedfellow with fresh blood.
Merritt has a long way to go before she runs the risk of being mistaken for A-league stars like Emmylou Harris and Dusty Springfield.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/m/merritt_tift/tambourine.shtml   (409 words)

  
 Samuel Merritt
Merritt spent more and more time in the East Bay, until, in 1863, he moved to Oakland and built a comfortable new home for himself on the east side of Jackson Street.
Merritt also used his many skills to insure that Oakland became the terminus for the great overland railroad.
With overlapping legal obstacles evaporating, Merritt began to focus on his pet project — developing his property along the edge of the tidal slough.
www.cshouse.org /Pages/samuel_merritt.html   (462 words)

  
 The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt
Gilbert Stroud Merritt was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1936.
Those who have clerked for Judge Merritt have had the unique opportunity for exposure to the impressive breadth and depth of his legal knowledge-forged in his many years of private practice, teaching and serving as a U.S. Attorney and the soundness of his legal judgments.
Beyond providing his clerks what was, as one termed it, “a fourth year of law school,” Judge Merritt has shown a deep interest in the welfare and continuing professional development of those who worked with him by remaining accessible and involved in the development of their careers in the law.
www.innsofcourt.org /Content/Default.aspx?Id=346   (980 words)

  
 Merritt, British Columbia
Merritt and the Nicola Valley exposes the traveller to the soft, wind-stirred beauty of thriving ranchlands.
Merritt replaced Nicola to become the central service community in the area to serve the local coal mines and area ranches.
Merritt is also at the junction of four major highways serving the High Country area.
www.bcadventure.com /adventure/explore/high_country/cities/merritt.htm   (374 words)

  
 Merritt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
DJ MERRITT has been one of the ground breakers in the New York club scene since 1989, playing his unique blend of hard-house, tribal and progressive beats on the main floors of some of the city's best known clubs.
He is one of the originators of the SUGAR BABIES party which ran for seven years, was one of the main players in the long running latin-house party CAFE CON LECHE and was the first d.j.
MERRITT has taken his sound all over the U.S. and CANADA as well as JAPAN and POLAND.
www.robpromotions.com /dj/merritt.html   (261 words)

  
 The Merritt Parkway
The Merritt Parkway, a 37-mile stretch of Route 15 in Fairfield County, is known as the Queen of Parkways with good reason: it's the most scenic highway in Connecticut, and recognized as one of the most scenic of its kind in the nation.
When the Merritt opened, a few at-grade intersections remained, including one at the Newtown Turnpike (the bridge was not complete), and at Rocky Hill Road in Trumbull (until it was rerouted).
Though a planning number for the Merritt Parkway was legislative route 1A, denoting a role as a bypass for US 1, the Parkway had no posted route number for the first 10 years of its existence.
www.kurumi.com /roads/ct/merrittpkwy.html   (3039 words)

  
 Merritt Parkway
The Merritt Parkway is of national significance as an outstanding and largely intact example of the early twentieth-century parkways created as an outgrowth of the City Beautiful Movement.
The Merritt is significant in the history of transportation because it culminated a generation of experiments in combining the talents of engineers, landscape architects, and architects to create parkways that served recreational purposes and gave aesthetic pleasure while providing safe transportation.
The planners of the Merritt's landscape, A. Earl Wood and Weld Thayer Chase, gave priority to fitting the roadways into their naturalistic surroundings, to healing the wounds of construction, and to complementing the bridges.
www.loc.gov /bicentennial/propage/CT/ct-4_h_shays1.html   (417 words)

  
 Venture Kamloops: City of Merritt, BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
City of Merritt, BC Located at the heart of the Coquihalla Highway System, Merritt is a dynamic community with a population of over 8,000.
While Merritt retains its strong ties to the resource economy, this is balanced with growth in knowledge and lifestyle based industries, small business, and recreation and tourism.
Merritt has made a strong commitment to embracing the changing economy, with internet access, fibre-optic links, and video conferencing available in the community.
www.venturekamloops.com /Pages/merritt.htm   (439 words)

  
 Merritt Parkway (CT 15)
Merritt, however, suggested that the road be called the "Merritt Parkway" to convey a sense of the natural beauty of the proposed route.
During the 1970's and 1980's, as the character of the Merritt Parkway shifted from scenic byway to a commuter alternative for the Connecticut Turnpike (I-95), the Connecticut Department of Transportation made a number of safety improvements, including the addition of acceleration and deceleration lanes and steel guardrails.
The Merritt Parkway Trail, which is planned to connect with north-south trails along the US 7 and Housatonic Valley corridors, is intended to become part of the East Coast Greenway from Maine to Florida.
www.nycroads.com /roads/merritt   (4510 words)

  
 Merritt Research Services: Privacy
Merritt Research provides its service to you subject to the Merritt Research Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, which shall be deemed part of the Terms of Service.
Merritt Research will not review, share, distribute, print, or reference any such data querying constraints except as provided in the Merritt Research Terms of Service, or as may be required by law.
Merritt Research also implements an advanced security method based on dynamic data and encoded session identifications and hosts the Services in a secure server environment using firewalls, biometric identification and other advanced technology to prevent interference or access from outside intruders.
www.merrittresearch.com /terms/privacy.htm   (1146 words)

  
 Merritt College
The purpose of the Merritt College Web site is to provide information about Merritt College, their programs and services.
Merritt College makes no warranties, either expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness, reliability or suitability of the information.
Merritt College disclaims all responsibility for accuracy, content and/or appropriateness of these external pages.
www.merritt.edu   (123 words)

  
 Merritt Parkway Conservancy - About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Parkway is named for Congressman Schuyler Merritt, who long represented the southwestern part of Connecticut in the U.S. Congress and who championed the construction of a parkway to parallel U.S. Route 1.
Significantly, given the Merritt's subsequent development, Norwalk's truck highway was separated from residential development with a 100' buffer strip intended to increase property values along the existing railroad right-of-way.
Aside from the workers employed directly in construction, the Merritt project would stimulate employment in all sectors of state's building industry, as contracts were let for grading, road laying, bridge construction, and landscaping.
www.merrittparkway.org /history.htm   (1918 words)

  
 Tift Merritt: MusicWorld® Hitmakers Story
Merritt has indeed been playing small clubs in North Carolina and learning her craft, though not quite for a decade.
Merritt studied literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and won awards for her short stories.
Merritt met several Nashville songwriters and industry types, including Frank Callari, who became her manager and ultimately got her the record deal.
www.bmi.com /musicworld/onthescene/200211/tmerritt.asp   (400 words)

  
 Tift Merritt: A Heel Of a Singer (washingtonpost.com)
The road was a major influence on "Tambourine." Merritt admits that her debut was a tad hushed and introspective, elements that were less dominant as her band toured behind the critically acclaimed album.
By 2000, Merritt had won the songwriting contest at the annual Merlefest music festival and No Depression had dubbed her one of "five emerging insurgents on the edge of center stage." Along the way, the Carbines became Tift Merritt and the Carbines and eventually just Tift Merritt.
Merritt says her teachers encouraged her "just to be creative and write whatever I wanted to write, though I was writing short stories and for the most part kept my songs to myself.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A53152-2005Apr14.html   (1575 words)

  
 Vanderbilt News:Law School to honor Judge Gilbert S. Merritt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Merritt is stepping down this year as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Prior to his appointment to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Merritt was the U.S. Attorney for Middle Tennessee from 1966-69.
Merritt earned his law degree from Vanderbilt in 1960 and later taught law and served as assistant dean of the law school.
www.vanderbilt.edu /News/news/oct96/nr12.html   (264 words)

  
 Connecticut Roadtrips - Merritt Parkway
Also part of CT 15, the Merritt Parkway is part of a parkway corridor (also includes Hutchinson River Parkway in New York State) connecting New York City with New Haven and Hartford.
Merritt Pkwy / CT 15 directional sign in Greenwich.
CT 8 and CT 108 overhead on Merritt Pkwy.
www.gribblenation.net /nepics/ct/merritt   (180 words)

  
 Merritt, British Columbia, Canada
Merritt is the service centre for the ranch country of the Nicola Valley, and provides an excellent base for exploring the many outdoor recreational opportunities in the area.
The surrounding Merritt Forest District supports stands of Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine, and subalpine fir at higher elevations; Douglas fir and ponderosa pine are found on the lower benchlands.
Located on the northwest shore of Nicola Lake, 22 km north of Merritt, Monck Provincial Park is a good park for the entire family, where camping, boating, water-skiing, fishing, swimming and hiking are popular activities.
www.britishcolumbia.com /regions/towns?townID=3422   (1593 words)

  
 Pop auteur Stephin Merritt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Yet chances are, we'll be reading fewer and fewer of Merritt's TONY witticisms: The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs—a sprawling, three-disc manifesto that established him as not only Cole Porter but also the Prince of 21st-century pop—has sold at least 50,000 copies since its September 1999 release.
Merritt's band has graduated from smaller venues like the Knitting Factory and moved up to Irving Plaza and Battery Park's Castle Clinton, where, after a well-received month-long swing through Europe, it will play a quasi-homecoming gig on August 3.
Merritt doesn't actually go to New York clubs (though he did work at the Pyramid on Avenue A—for two weeks), but he'd be into recording an album of house music.
www.timeoutny.com /features/253/253.ft.merritt.html   (1273 words)

  
 The Taxpayers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Merritt, who was the GOP nominee for the same office in 2000, is president of an auditing and accounting firm and is a former Wake County Commissioner.
Under Merritt's leadership, Wake County residents received a 17% property tax cut while a record number of new schools were being built.
Merritt, a family man and community leader, is president of Merritt, Petway, Mills and Hockaday, P.A., a full service accounting and auditing firm with offices in Raleigh and Zebulon.
www.ncgop.org /election_2004/Merritt_State_Auditor_2004.html   (675 words)

  
 The Merritt Group | Expert Consulting on Stereoscopic Displays & Applications
Merritt has over 25 years of experience in the operational use of stereoscopic 3D displays and the application of research and development in sensory and perceptual science to remote-presence systems.
Merritt is a member the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), the Society for Information Display (SID), the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), and the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).
Merritt and Andrew Woods of Curtin University of Technology co-teach a popular short course on stereoscopic displays and applications at each annual conference.
www.merritt.com   (382 words)

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