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In the News (Mon 9 Nov 09)

  
  Shelter hostels Amsterdam - Home - Shelter Christian Hostels Amsterdam
The Shelter Jordan hostel wil be closed between 11 November 2007 and February 2008.
The Shelter City hostel already has these size rooms and will remain open.
We were previously known as the Shelter youth hostels.
www.shelter.nl   (118 words)

  
  Shelter
Shelters are also a stepping-stone to rebuilding lives and a livelihood and provide a platform for launching home-based businesses.
When shelters are urgently needed and there is inadequate time to construct permanent shelters, SFL enables beneficiaries to build durable transitional shelters.
These shelters are temporary in nature, but utilize basic materials which can be reused in the construction of a permanent home in the future.
www.shelter.org /sectors/shelter.php   (0 words)

  
 Shelter England: the housing and homelessness charity
A new survey by Shelter has shown that 80 per cent of 18 to 34-year olds are worried about house prices - and less than 40 per cent believe they could afford to buy within the next 10 years.
Shelter today welcomed the creation of the new homes and communities agency, but warned that housing delivery on the ground was the key.
Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, has called for an inquiry to examine the claim that white families are missing out on council houses.
england.shelter.org.uk /home/index.cfm   (167 words)

  
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Shelter Systems' Portable Fish Koi Pond Covers have been used to protect ponds from winter weather and leaves and at the same time allow 90% of the sun light (more than glass) to reach the water.
Shelter Systems' Portable Pond Covers being dome shaped have a minimal surface area for their volume and are thus easy to keep warm with a stove (installation instructions are included with each tent).
Shelter Systems' Portable Fish and Koi Pond Covers perform excellently in strong wind due to their many, evenly space anchor points, the fact that the covering is drum tight and that they are shaped to shed the wind.
www.shelter-systems.com /fish-pond-covers.html   (0 words)

  
 FEMA: Are you Ready?
Sheltering is appropriate when conditions require that you seek protection in your home, place of employment, or other location where you are when disaster strikes.
Sheltering outside the hazard area would include staying with friends and relatives, seeking commercial lodging, or staying in a mass care facility operated by disaster relief groups in conjunction with local authorities.
The length of time you are required to shelter may be short, such as during a tornado warning, or long, such as during a winter storm.
www.fema.gov /areyouready/shelter.shtm   (0 words)

  
 AAA Wilderness Survival: How to Build a Shelter
After deciding where to place the shelter door, emplace a stake and tie the first line (from the lower lateral band) securely to it.
This shelter is unsatisfactory, however, when snow is falling as even a light snowfall will cave it in.
As a final step in constructing this shelter, add shingling material or branches on top of the debris layer to prevent the insulating material from blowing away in a storm.
www.geocities.com /aaawildernesssurvival/shelter.html   (0 words)

  
 Shelter Insurance - How We Handle Claims
Shelter Insurance has proven time and time again its dedication to immediate and complete response when our insureds need us most.
If your area is struck by a catastrophic storm and Shelter has a large number of claims to process, then we will send a storm team, made up of claims adjusters from Shelter Claims offices all across our operating territory to assist our local claims personnel in handling your claim on a timely basis.
Shelter adjusters generally contact policyholders within 24 hours after a claim is received.
www.shelterinsurance.com /shelterwebnew.nsf/e0087b5460c4a721862569c2005fa85a/61b0d0a408dd575986256aa8004ba0d1!OpenDocument   (0 words)

  
 Ansche Chesed Homeless Shelter   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The men’s homeless shelter at Congregation Ansche Chesed (100th Street at West End Avenue) is open seven nights a week, 365 nights a year, thanks to the efforts of volunteers.
After staying at the shelter for a while, a client may move to a subsidized SRO (single room occupancy) apartment.
The role of the shelter is to be a safe place for its guests to wash, eat, relax, and sleep.
www.anschechesed.org /activities/shelter/index.htm   (0 words)

  
 Taliesin West
All of the interesting student shelters were built as part of a student's education at the fellowship.
Each student that lives in a shelter is responsible for maintaining it and is allowed to add their own touches to the shelter in the process.
The steel roofing of this shelter was done partially by the contractor and partially by the students who were building the shelter.
www.peterbeers.net /interests/flw_rt/Arizona/taliesin_west/taliesin_west.htm   (0 words)

  
 Safehouse of Seminole - Shelter
The shelter program of Safehouse of Seminole exists to serve victims of domestic violence and their children who believe that they are in imminent danger in their current living environment.
If the client is seeking shelter they are put in direct contact with a shelter advocate who does the initial telephone screening.
A client may not be initially admitted because the shelter is full, her need for shelter does not relate to domestic violence or she presents a serious health risk.
www.safehouseofseminole.org /shelter.html   (0 words)

  
 What to Do If You Have Concerns about Your Local Shelter
These shelters may be municipal animal care and control facilities funded by the city or county, or they may be private, nonprofit humane societies.
If your local shelter is in need of improvements and the individuals in charge are not receptive to your concerns, then you may need to develop a base of support within your community to work toward change.
Remember, working with the shelter and building a relationship based on cooperation, instead of alienation, is more effective and more likely to benefit the animals of your community in the long run.
www.hsus.org /pets/animal_shelters/what_to_do_if_you_have_concerns_about_your_local_shelter.html   (0 words)

  
 Storm Shelters
If you decide that you want to invest in a storm shelter, you will need to decide whether you want to install a pre-manufactured shelter, or have a shelter built from plans like those in the excellent guidebook by FEMA and the Wind Engineering Research Center.
There are storm shelters that are meant to be built into a new home, there are storm shelters that are meant to be installed in an existing home, there are storm shelters that are meant to be installed in the ground adjacent to a home.
Shelters may be partially sunk into the ground, then banked with soil.
www.tornadoproject.com /safety/shelters.htm   (0 words)

  
 Shelter Island Historical District
In 1871 a group of 24 Brooklyn clergymen and laymen, incorporated as the Shelter Island Grove and Camp Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church, purchased the Chase acres on the condition that the two factories converting mossbunker herring to fertilizer—a most decidedly malodorous process—be removed.
Today the Shelter Island Heights Property Owners Association is committed to preserving the distinctive character of the community, its historic buildings and its physical environment.
The Shelter Island Heights Historic District remains a unique embodiment of sensitive community development, based on respect for the natural landscape, a 19th century American ideal and practice from which we have much to learn.
www.shelter-island.org /heights.html   (0 words)

  
 CNN.com - Police: Man kills wife in domestic violence shelter - Sep 22, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On Monday night her husband, armed with a shotgun, pushed past a staff worker who was leaving the shelter for the night, then shot his wife in the kitchen, investigators said.
The shelter has panic buttons, an alarm system and locks on every window and door, but its location is not secret.
Some advocates agree a shelter is difficult to hide in a rural area.
www.cnn.com /2006/US/09/22/shelter.killing.ap   (0 words)

  
 Shelter   (Site not responding. Last check: )
SHELTER is intended to offer an environment for collaborative, team development of large knowledge based systems in a manner facilitating sharing and reuse.
SHELTER facilitates sharing and reuse by helping developers find candidate material to reuse and ensuring that it is used properly.
At the end of the effort, the final version of SHELTER will be made available to DoD and the DARPA research community for consideration as a common foundation for further research and development in knowledge representation construction environments.
www.isi.edu /isd/shelter/shelter-home.html   (0 words)

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