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 | | Leksand and Rättvik are therefore well suited for a study of development processes in rural areas that seem to be successful, while the observed differences between the two concerning the timing of changes from decrease to increase or vice versa make a comparison interesting. | | | Leksand and Rättvik are therefore well suited for a study of development processes in successful rural areas, while the observed differences between the two concerning the timing of changes from decrease to increase or vice versa make a comparison interesting. | | | The municipality of Rättvik, in co-operation with the employment agency, aims to extend this project to the education of mainly unemployed women in stock raising and landscape restoration. |
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http://www.abdn.ac.uk/arkleton/RESTRIM/docs/swedish-context-report-final.doc
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| | Political divisions of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Chongqing is an extreme example of this — the rural population of this municipality exceeds its urban population. | | | This was an attempt by the imperial government to discourage separatism and warlordism through a divide and rule policy. | | | The two SARs were established in 1997 and 1999 when the sovereignty of the two entities was transferred (from the United Kingdom and Portugal respectively) to the People's Republic of China. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_divisions_of_China
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| | SARM - 1997 Annual Resolution No. 21 |
| | Carol Teichrob : The department will review the issue of tax penalties and discounts as set out in The Rural Municipality Act, 1989. | | | WHEREAS, the rate of penalty charged to arrears of taxes in rural municipalities is based on the bank rate of the Bank of Canada on December 1 of the preceding year as outlined in Section 360 of The Rural Municipality Act, 1989 ; and | | | THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, The Rural Municipality Act, 1989 be amended to give rural municipal councils the power to set the tax arrears penalty rate for their municipality, as is the case in urban municipalities. |
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http://www.quantumlynx.com/sarm/Res/1997res21.html
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| | Croatia |
| | A more critical problem is that bankers in the area consider that mortgages in the rural areas are not a viable form of guaranty because they can't be realized. | | | LDCs are composed of staff from the municipalities and members of the municipality. | | | This can be registered in the local municipality. |
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http://www.undp.org/sum/sum_reports/Country_Reports/croatiadb2.html
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| | Service Nova Scotia - Municipal Services - Municipal Contacts |
| | There are 22 incorporated villages, that are part of the rural municipalities and not municipalities themselves. | | | Nova Scotia has 55 municipalities: 3 regional municipalities, 21 rural municipalities and 31 towns. | | | Please use the online inquiry form if you have any questions, comments or suggestions. |
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http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/muns/contact
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| | R.M. of Alexander, Traverse Bay Wastewater Treatment Lagoon, Summary |
| | On March 27, 1997, the Department received a Proposal indicating that the Rural Municipality of Alexander wanted to construct a wastewater treatment lagoon to service a portion of the Rural Municipality of Alexander and the Rural Municipality of Victoria Beach. | | | The Rural Municipality has indicated that Jackfish Creek normally dries out in the summer, in the area of the lagoon discharge. | | | Unless there is an over-riding concern for human health, chlorine should not be used for disinfection. |
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http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/envapprovals/archive/archive97/summaries/4247.html
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| | Government Liquor Control Act, 1923-24 (Canada) |
| | If any territory forming part of a rural municipality where a local option by-law is in force be detached and added to another municipality where no such by-law is in force or becomes part or all of some newly created rural municipality. | | | Each of the said petitioners is a resident elector of the municipality of____________________ | | | The petition to the judge may be by an elector of such municipality, or by the council thereof, and the proceedings for obtaining the judge's decision shall be the same, as nearly as may be, as in the case of a recount as aforesaid. |
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http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/HISTORY/e1920/senj1926/liquorcontrol.html
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| | Municipal Government #99-642 - 1999 PROVINCIAL-MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS APPROVED - Government News Release |
| | Road projects were a priority in rural municipalities, with approvals for 46 road construction and upgrading projects, two rural water supply projects, two joint water supply projects with urban municipalities and one joint waste disposal project. | | | Approved provincial funding for individual projects in 51 rural municipalities, 12 cities, 15 towns, and 15 villages ranges from $2,300 to $1,846,300. | | | Municipal Government #99-642 - 1999 PROVINCIAL-MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS APPROVED - Government News Release |
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http://www.gov.sk.ca/newsrel/releases/1999/07/21-642.html
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| | Baltic Balance |
| | As rural areas to participate are chosen the parishes of Alsterbro and Bäckebo Alsterbro was earlier an industrialised area, where most of the businesses have been closed down since the sixties. | | | Municipality of Nybro is situated in the southern part of Kalmar connty. | | | Nybro: Development of an optimization model for public transport in rural areas |
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http://www.balticbalance.se/index.php/nybro?eZSESSIDbaltic=86a707447cb3e8864232b696fa56cfd7
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| | The President of the Republic of Estonia: The President of the Republic is touring the County of Tartu |
| | Calling at the Limited Company Vinnal in the rural municipality of Vara, the President took interest in how the company had managed to gain a foothold in such a specific market like manufacturing timber construction-components. | | | Jaan Õunapuu welcoming the visitors on the border of the rural municipality of Nõo, invited the Head of State to a farm, Soone by name, to meet one of the most progressive farmers in the County of Tartu. | | | Mrs Rüütel at the same time called at the Kindergarten of Luke, a library and a local heritage museum in the rural municipality of Nõo, and met with members of the Women's Club of Puhja. |
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http://www.president.ee/dokument.php?gid=29245
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| | cuhansen |
| | The typology di-vides the municipalities into 1) suburban and outer ring municipalities, 2) large urban municipalities, 3) small urban municipalities, and 4) rural municipalities. | | | If we take a look at the types of grants represented in the municipal inquiry, we get an idea of how the political preferences are turned into rules. | | | The inquiry showed however that 133 local autorities already granted higher support than they would be obliged to if the new rules were implemented. |
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http://www.alli.fi/nyri/nyris/nyris5/cyhansen.htm
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| | Nuus: Two Worcesterites honoured for community service |
| | He was chosen as the first contact between the national Land Claims Commission, the Breede Valley Municipality and the 110 people who had lost their land during the apartheid years, and he held this voluntary post for two years. | | | Charles was himself a free-lance journalist and with his own articles he too tried to give non-racial sport, especially in the rural areas, the widest coverage. | | | Sc.) and a BA (Hons.) in social work from the University of the Western Cape, has dedicated 30 years towards the plight of rural and disadvantaged sports people in the Western Cape and South Africa. |
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http://www.breede.com/article.asp?newsID=59
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| | Serbia and Montenegro, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2004 |
| | All municipal and rural units are branches of the republic police. | | | Unlike in previous years, there were no reports that police used beatings or threats of beatings to deter detainees from filing claims of abuse on prior occasions. | | | During the March riots, measures taken by KFOR and UNMIK police to protect themselves and others as well as to control the crowds resulted in several deaths of Albanian protesters and some allegations of police abuse. |
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http://belgrade.usembassy.gov/policy/reports/050328a.html
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| | Canadian Rural Partnership - Rural Dialogue - Abitibi-Ouest Dialogue Summary Report Internet Access to Government of Canada Programs and Services |
| | This exercise was part of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Rural Team action plan and was aimed at identifying the connectivity needs of the region's citizens, determining their level of satisfaction to access Government of Canada programs through the Internet in their region, and enabling discussions on this subject. | | | The participants, aware of the role of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Rural Team, recommended follow-up by the members. | | | Participants indicated that response times in rural regions seem longer than in urban areas. |
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http://www.rural.gc.ca/dialogue/report/qc/lasarre_e.phtml
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| | Bromölla Municipality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the municipality are several cultural houses, rural museums and mansions that can be visited. | | | Bromölla is a municipality and town in Scania in southernmost Sweden. | | | Bromölla boosts remains from the Stone Age, and even some findings of dinosaurs. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brom%C3%B6lla
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| | RCoW Rural Watchdog: July 2005 |
| | Whilst a ward councillor may well be recognised throughout his ward, it is unlikely that any new rural candidate has a high enough profile to be recognised throughout the municipality to get the quota required for election. | | | With the abolition of wards, I would have to represent all of the people in the municipality... | | | Those interested in forming a Rural Ratepayers group are urged to contact the writer by email at gnaylor@bordernet.com.au or by visiting the Watchdog Forums at http://forums.farvista.net. |
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| | Magister/Kandidatuppsatser 1997 |
| | This paper is a minor case study of the political and administrative structure of the multicultural Kommundelsnämnd Norr (KDN), an autonomous area within the municipality of Lund, with regards to its organizational efforts to aptly deal with its large number of second- and third generation immigrant youths. | | | The aim of this essay is to try to find the differences and similarities of two public libraries in the town of Kristinehamn and the rural community of Vara during the year 1994. | | | The final conclusion is that the material of this essay supports the opinion that the idea of public libraries is stronger than the political differences in Vara and Kristinehamn. |
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http://www.hb.se/bhs/upps-97.htm
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| | Arvika kommun - English: About Arvika |
| | The municipality of Arvika is situated in western Värmland and is thus part of the Värmland County Council. | | | During the district merger in 1971 Arvika district was formed from Arvika town and the rural districts of Brunskog, Stavnäs, Glava, Älgå and Gunnarskog. | | | Elis of Tasere, brother of the sculptor Christian Eriksson, is often considered the archetype of the people of Arvika, who are known as "jössehäringarna". |
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http://www.arvika.se/engelska/enarvika.php
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| | County - encyclopedia article about County. |
| | Specific use of the term to describe political subdivisions has varied by country, usually to describe a local rural or semi-rural government within a county. | | | The county of Oslo is equivalent to the municipality of Oslo. | | | , municipality municipality or "general-purpose district" (compare with: "special-purpose district") is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/County
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| | Report - VTI – Sveriges ledande transportforskningsinstitut |
| | Municipalities are assigned to nine groups according to the classification of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities: suburban municipalities, metropolitan areas (Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö), large towns, medium towns, other large municipalities, industrial municipalities, rural municipalities, other small municipalities and rural municipalities in thinly populated areas. | | | This also applied to the number of uncontrolled pedestrian crossings. | | | The risk of being killed in the other municipalities was 3–4 times that in these three groups of municipalities. |
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http://www.vti.se/templates/Report____2797.aspx?reportid=2448
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| | Finland Sub-regions |
| | Anttola and Mikkelin mlk rural municipalities merged with Mikkeli municipality. | | | Saari and Uukuniemi rural municipalities merged with Parikkala. | | | (This figure doesn't include the 16 municipalities in Åland.) In some cases the municipalities are still further subdivided. |
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| | The Herald : News |
| | Cape Town WITHIN hours of the start of the 15-day window for defections, the DA had lost both Cape Town and Drakenstein, the largest rural municipality in the Western Cape. | | | While the NNP/ANC alliance was, short-sightedly, billing its gains in Cape Town as a victory, it was ignoring the fact that voters were enraged at the way they had been betrayed. | | | Cape Town has been stolen not from me or from the DA but from the voters of this fair city, said Mr Morkel, who has pledged to carry on as an ordinary councillor. |
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| | Lomma kommun - Information in English |
| | The municipality, situated in the west of Skåne on the coast ofÖresund, was formed in the 1960s when the small market town of Lomma was merged with the large rural district of Flädie. | | | Within the municipality there are more than 100 associations, societies and clubs offering a wealth of activities and interests. | | | The remaining 1,200 inhabitants live either in one of the villages of Fjelie, Önnerup, Lilla Lomma and Alnarp or in the outlying rural areas. |
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| | Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua :: Non-Profit Tent Shows and Theatre |
| | Big Top Chautauqua is proud to co-sponsor Torbjorn Lahti, the father of the eco-municipality movement in Sweden, who will return to the Chequamegon Bay this summer for his second visit this year. | | | He will bring a Swedish delegation that represents SEKOM, the national Swedish organization of eco-municipalities, including the rural region of Robertsfors, which is currently developing model strategies for building rural economies that are sustainable. | | | There will be time during this free evening of pie and politics to meet and talk personally with the Swedish delegation. |
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http://www.bigtop.org/schedule/calendar_day.php?m=06&d=21&y=2005
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| | The County Journal - Washburn, Wisconsin |
| | The delegation also represents work being done in the rural region of Robertsfors, which is developing model strategies for building sustainable rural economies. | | | Torbjorn will bring a Swedish delegation with him representing the National Association of Swedish Eco-municipalities (SEKOM), including Lars Thunberg, SEKOM chair; Tommy Persson, SEKOM coordinator and Lena Bengten, coordinator of the town of Lulea. |
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http://www.washburnwi.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=203162
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| | The President of the Republic of Estonia: The President of the Republic to visit the County of Tartu |
| | In the afternoon, the President and Mrs Rüütel will visit a day nursery at Elva, thereafter, the Head of State is going to familiarize himself with peat industries at Sangla and call at the Limited Company Vinnal in the rural municipality of Vara. | | | First, they are going to call at the farm of Andres Tamme in the rural municipality of Nõo. | | | The President is also scheduled to meet with local government leaders at the community centre of Tartu, to call at the "Biomeedikum" of Tartu University and the Port of Tartu. |
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http://www.president.ee/dokument.php?gid=29157
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| | Centar za kulturu mira i nenasilja - Activities, Jan-Jun 2002 |
| | In April 27/28, a Gathering was held in Tuzla, in which participated 32 women of different ethnic and religious backgrounds, from 18 organisations, from urban and rural communities of both entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Federation and the Republika Srpska), and from Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia! | | | Unfortunately, the Open Society Fund BandH has for the third year refused our application for this next group as well as for the projected International Youth Camp in Tuzla itself, in which the partners are BFE, CCPN, the Tuzla Municipality, and the Ministry for Education of Tuzla Canton. | | | "Partners for the Future - II" was held in Tuzla, 25-27 April, as a follow-up meeting of the project begun in December 1998 with the support of the World Council of Churches (WCC). |
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http://balkansnet.org/ccpn/activity-jan-jun-02.html
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| | Welcome to Västerbotten |
| | In Umeå municipality, the Tavelsjö, Hörnefors and Sävar parishes are part of the rural areas. | | | In rural areas the percentage is up to 25%. | | | - Nordmaling: Norrfors former church accounting district and the Nyåker area |
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http://www.welcometovasterbotten.se/default.asp?ML=21317
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| | com.telia.ics.architecture.presentation.ActionPage |
| | Large parts of rural areas in the Municipality of Boden, located in the north of Sweden, are gaining access to broadband via ADSL today through a built-out network infrastructure provided by Skanova. | | | Last winter, a number of other Swedish municipalities with long distances between central locations and communities in rural areas chose similar solutions like Boden's, such as the towns of Överkalix and Kalix in Norrbotten County, Kalmar County and Stenungsund, Tjörn and Orus in Bohus County. | | | By selecting a core network from Skanova, the Municipality of Boden has received a cost-effective and quick solution for implementing important parts of its broadband strategy. |
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http://www.startsidan.telia.se/com/telia/ics/portal/apps/press/PressReleasePage.html?id=103128&disclaimerId=&referer=PressIngressPage.html&lang=EN&year=2003
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