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During the first two weekends of October each year, Fulton County, Illinois, welcomes the world to the villages, parks, and bridges of Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive.

Joan Johnson

There is a need for a fleet of such boats. Each boat could serve a cluster of villages and thus reach tens of thousands of people.

Sanjoy Hazarika

Several others at the camp who regularly visit their villages say there is a need for more shelters, infrastructure and jobs in the valley [where their homes are].

Vivian Tan

In these four villages, control and prevention actions will be started.

Upma Chawdhry

People are out in the open. You and I know, we're standing here, it's getting cold, we're getting wet, we can go to a tent in a moment. The people out in these villages cannot.

Rob Holden

We must overcome any negative perceptions about the new site. We're removed from the center of the state where The Villages are located. The staff passed out hundreds of maps showing it's a short drive to Southwest Florida.

Jeff Mielke

The earthquake was felt in several towns and villages of Gujarat state, but there were no reports of any damage or casualties.

Amit Shah

Just imagine how many villages and towns became a heap of rubble and how many people got buried.

Ahmed Khan

The drugs are free or inexpensive, but distribution on this scale in rural villages and poor areas is a big, expensive job. Donations from foundations and wealthy countries helped fund the distribution in Egypt, and more of that same support is needed for campaigns in other countries.

Gary Weil

We still have villages in very remote areas that have not been accessed.

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer

They are targeting the ethnic resistance groups and ethnic minorities living in the villages.

Sunai Phasuk

The stages in the desert in Mauritania are less dangerous than those in the bush or in villages.

Dominique Serieys

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore H. White

In the villages, residents live together with their pigs. They also regularly drink water that has not been boiled.

Perry Jigibalom

We asked them to leave yesterday. I had some of the villages checked again today, because some people didn't want to leave their homes.

Rosette Lerias

A number of villages in Kashmir were wiped out ... We are facing difficulties in reaching those areas as most of the roads there are either blocked or wiped out by the landslides.

Aftab Khan Sherpao

It may require some bor­row­ing, using the village's bond­ing agreement.

Steve Schultz

This is a wanton and indiscriminate destruction of this country's cities and villages, ... There is a lot of evidence of mass killing.

Thomas Wilson

We'll strive to ensure all villages will have monitoring and reporting workers.

Jia Youling

In many villages, up to 60% of the population is made up of pensioners.

Vasily Nesterenko

There is that potential if some of the low-cost handset and infrastructure initiatives being promoted by manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson can help operators in India, China and Africa push coverage further inland and reach the smaller townships and villages.

Jake Saunders

First of all, we have good ballplayers who play within themselves. No. 2, we have proper chemistry. We have players that enjoy playing together. The support of our community is the No. 3 reason. The Villages Merchants receive funding for entry fees to the various tournaments from local establishments.

Dick Kanyan

To punish villages by cutting budgets if they are led by Islamic leaders, especially if those villages are led by Islamic Movement activists, is fascist.

Ahmed Tibi

The overwhelming empirical evidence of current residence of retirement villages is that they don't go in at early ages. The majority go in middle-to-late 70s.

Bob Stimson

What is suggested is a time-bound program to identify those villages which must be relocated because they are located in crucial tiger habitats.

Sunita Narain

I fell in love with The Villages the first day, and it was it for me.

Ron Hart

There are many villages in China that have this kind of problem with village finances. Villagers are often suspicious of their leaders on money issues.

Guo Feixiong

As far as protection of rural areas and protection of the population in the villages is concerned, perhaps it has never been so bad since 2003.

Gemmo Lodesani

We have examined all of our sources of intelligence, what towns and villages have been damaged primarily by fires set by the Serb forces as they've gone through, as well as by shooting them up with artillery and tanks and those kinds of things.

Thomas Wilson

I thought of it as a gesture. It planted a seed in my mind. I decided to explore cemeteries in rural villages.

Dick George

We heard through the authorities in the North that at least 15 to 20 villages have been destroyed.

Juan Martinez

The Villages has the largest bicycle club in the two-county area. They're a high user of these types of facilities, and it's in their best interest to advance this type of transportation.

Mike Woods

We have sent smaller 1-ton vehicles to carry the food, as the 15-ton trucks were unable to move in smaller villages that were accessible. We plan to have animals such as donkeys or horses to help transport the food later.

Amjad Jamal

The Villages has over 50,000 folks living on-site and every venue was right there intact. We have to overcome the perception our venues will not be one place.

Jeff Mielke

We've just added another 10,000 people to The Villages. The Senior Games just keeps growing, too, and it's getting bigger and better every year.

Terry Wilson

Usually there are bodies around the villages. There are mass graves outside. When I say mass graves, I mean large pits in the earth, maybe 10 to 20 bodies in them, and these pits, 20 to 30 pits around the villages.

Phil Cox

This event is always Cocoa Village's biggest and we should greatly exceed last year's attendance if the weather cooperates.

Joanne Youngblood

We had bought a house in The Villages, and planned to rent it out for a while. However, we had a day that was 40 below. My husband came home and announced that we were moving to Florida right away.

Patty Krueger

Sales have probably picked up a bit, ... People who live in The Villages and have never had a cart have come in and bought one.

Kyle Johnson

A first step in reconstruction is re-drawing maps of the 650 affected villages in the tsunami zone. Teams of Indonesian farmers are working with villagers under guidelines to identify and agree on public and private property lines.

Jonathan Simon

Certainly hunting and fishing are a big part of outdoor recreation but of our nine interactive villages, that's only two of them. We still have seven others. We have myriad different things to do that don't necessarily have anything to do with hunting and fishing.

Jack Nugent

I think it's just going to make North Park a cultural hub in the city, ... and people will start coming back into our older urban communities and urban villages because so much of this is going on.

Toni Atkins

For some places, like the villages, they said they were too far away. For Aldi, they said military operations were taking place.

Jose Diaz

Already elephants are migrating out of the parks to the periphery near villages to hunt for water.

Connie Maina

I'm kind of surprised because bluegrass isn't in demand in The Villages. It's rock 'n' roll and country.

Tom Shaw

China is running fiber (optic cable) everywhere. It is going into apartment blocks and whole villages.

Terry Walsh

The conflict by modern standards has been going on since 2003, when they saw a large rebel uprising. But this is still not correct. The first reports I heard of burned and bombed villages was in 1993 and massacres in 1998. This is not a new conflict; this is a slow conflict over time.

Brian Steidle

I like being part of The Villages, and the way it's run. And I like meeting people. People are comforted by the fact that we're here.

Walt Fennell

It's not surprising as many people would rather vote in their village constituencies. Many candidates have bought or hired boats to take voters back to their villages to vote.

Johnson Honimae

I have no animosity toward them at all. I've seen their little villages. They're dirt poor, poor as field mice.

Macon Hawkins

The situation in Kosovo is very difficult and dangerous. The offensive by Serbian police and military forces continues, as well as the shelling of Albanian villages ... In other parts of Kosovo, repression continues.

Ibrahim Rugova

The main problem is protection of civilians in rural areas, in villages and outside the camps in general.

Gemmo Lodesani

Keeping the schools in the communities will have an effect on the quality of life in the villages.

Calvin Jones

They try to destroy our dignity, rape our women, our sisters, shoot the men with lizard guns, burning our villages, slaughter our children with knives.

Ahmed Mansour

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in cities. But the girls stay home, become leaders in the community and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

Greg Mortenson

Other villages think we are millionaires, but we are not. We are still living at poverty level.

Johnny Ahtuangaruak

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Ann Veneman

We went to a number of villages and people got up and started dancing and started pulling us up to dance as well.

M. Powell

We have taken all the measures to block any traffic through the Serb villages, in particular Albanian traffic, which could inflame the situation.

Peter Cameron

We are always concerned about everything that has to do with the environment in which we have to live. Since The Villages is essentially built out in Marion County, I don't think we will have much additional impact.

Pete Wahl

A man probably responsible for 50 deaths, the burning of hundreds of homes, destruction of villages and who currently holds several dozen people as hostage.

Phil Goff

This exposes residents to The Villages' outdoor clubs.

Scott Grimes

All villages are grasping for better ways of doing this.

Jack Ardaugh

A lot of disabled people here are integrated into the school system. There, they're grouped together in homes. There's a lot of villages in really bad situations. There is no safety net there; there's no social services. There's very little government help.

Robert Rose

We'll have things like tug-of-war and other games between families and different festival villages. There will be a guy with a megaphone encouraging people to get involved.

Mathaus Waldorf

I have interviewed the refugees and civilians from these villages who testified to this.

Phil Cox

Most of the miners that you see in the movie were actual miners that live in that town or in villages nearby.

Stephen Daldry

Everybody enjoys coming to The Villages. There's no push, push, push, push. Everybody has a ball helping us out.

Art Bjork

My career ended when I was 9 years old. It's been a long time. Like everything else in The Villages, there's something you always wanted to do, and here you get the chance.

Diane Dean

They are back with friends, to their villages, but they are not back home yet.

Sadako Ogata

In two of the coaches there will be 10 teams of volunteers, who will fan out on bicycles to nearby villages to create awareness through one-to-one interactions, street theater and other interpersonal communication methods.

S.y. Quraishi

We're working with the mayor's in basically identifying the best spots for these places, based on lessons learned from the old sirens. The footprints of the different villages have actually expanded. We're also working with some of the different businesses in the areas.

Frank Blas

Diseases do not know borders. They do not know borders between villages. They do not know borders between countries.

Dr. David Nabarro

Its weapon of choice for attacking villages is an anti- aircraft cannon. It has been the main organization responsible for the brutal killings and mass depopulation that's going on in Kosovo.

Doug Henderson

The arks provide support to keep the kids within their villages. Otherwise a lot of these children become street children and have no one. Eventually, a lot of them end up getting AIDS and becoming part of the problem.

Susan Mackay

Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.

David Brinkley

The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month.

Paul Theroux

Yesterday, our positions were heavily attacked by Angolan and Zimbabwean warplanes and the result was that hundreds of people were killed -- mainly men, women and children living in surrounding villages.

Bizima Karaha

Although these incidents have occurred in only a few rural villages, the Communist Party of China and the government have attached close importance to this issue and are looking for ways to tackle the problem.

Ouyang Song

He's a former minister, it's much easier for the mayors of small villages to give their signatures to Villiers.

Paul Bacot

It's mountainous land, and so that requires that you do very tight villages. You know, there's a lot of pluses to that. First of all people get to know one another. It's a real community.

Mike Brandt

Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.

Terry Riley

Our aim is to provide shelter and clothes to all the affected people before the onset of winter. Therefore, it has been decided that Army will adopt two villages, while Indian Air Force, BSF, CRPF and ITBP will adopt a village each for reconstruction.

Vinod Kumar

There is potential to push those numbers to 3.5 billion if some of the low-cost handset and infrastructure initiatives being promoted by manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, and Ericsson can help operators in India, China and Africa push coverage further inland and reach the smaller townships and villages.

Jake Saunders

I don't see a voluntary return of more than 1 million displaced people to their villages to start in the next three weeks because of lack of security.

Jan Pronk

These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.

Aytekin Sir

Although these incidents have only occurred occasionally in a few rural villages, the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the government have attached close importance to this issue and are looking for ways to tackle the problem.

Ouyang Song

We are looking at not just a bacteria being active in one herd of pigs but over a fairly wide area, with isolated villages. Gathering information in that sort of situation is difficult.

Bob Dietz

This is a project where everybody wins: the villages will get power, the cliffs won't be damaged and it will be a work of art.

Hiro Yamagata

It's very, very difficult to deal with all the birds in one go. All the people may not come forward. That's why we're making multiple efforts in some villages.

Vijay Kumar

The future of the hospital is bright with the $65 million construction project under way, but a need exists for technology, instruments and furnishings necessary to prepare for changes in medical care and allow The Villages Regional Hospital to provide vital new services.

Gerald Tucker

[The spirits moved inside the cottonwood branches to listen to the words coming from the villages.] See now, ... Look at the end of the broken off branch. If you see a star in the center, then this is a good place, where people speak kindly of one another.

Mary Louise

Evil finds itself in the large cities, the small cities, the villages, ... Wherever there is an individual who is willing to respond to that evil, you're going to find it. I don't think there is rhyme nor reason to this.

Dennis Rogers

Locating villages is difficult for helicopter pilots. Adding an extra hour of flying time in the search for a landing zone is straining airframes.

Douglas Duncan

The church needs some things as well. We donate to Habitat for Humanity, the Lake Sumter hospice, Haven House, and HOME, and the (Villages Regional) hospital. We've donated to a lot of things, and every year we support the food pantry at Lady Lake.

Sue Clabby

Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult.

Michael Scott

We are going to anyone who's developing in these areas to look for alternative sources, such as surface water, to meet their needs in the future. This is not just a Villages problem. It's a regional problem.

Barbara Vergara

The Bay Club looks like a castle in Italy and as you drive around the community you have a feel of little separate European-style villages.

Landon Thomas

We laid out a lot of money on the thought that the rain forest is going to be in Johnson County. Some of the initial interest did coincide with the rain forest going in Coralville. We had thought of marketing (Villages of Tiffin) as a less expensive option for businesses, and they would have the same access to some of the touristy type of attractions.

Jim Angstman

To see our people returned to their own original villages.

Abdul Latif

They are trying to draw the military into a full-scale battle that will cause the destruction of towns and villages. When that happens, you will have 30 to 50 percent of the young men from these places joining MEND.

Dimieari Von Kemedi

Unlike the farmers in 'AIDS villages' who sold blood, these people are very spread out and don't know each other. They only slowly find out they are HIV positive and that there are others like them.

Hu Jia

I don't think any other mission could be this rewarding for us. We have large American flags painted on both sides of all of our Chinooks. When we land in these villages the people point to the flags and let us know how grateful they are that we have come to help.

Commander Majwalter Bradley

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Adrian Smith

We had 30 villages before, now we only have 29. One was removed from the map.

Eulogio Dala

We absolutely want to be in The Villages and can't wait to open.

Eric Brewer

The Villages Relay for Life is one of the bigger relays. It speaks volumes of The Villages residents and their passion of banding together and giving back to something that helps so many others. I'm truly amazed by the residents and their giving hearts.

Emmy Slaughter

After that, it will be permanently displayed at The Villages Chamber of Commerce at Spanish Springs, unless something changes, but right now that is the plan.

Ellen Hoffman

With a current elephant population of 600, the (Shimba Hills) National Reserve is choking. The elephants destroy the habitat, break park fences and cause mayhem and destruction in villages surrounding the park.

Edward Indakwa