Sentences with phrase «abbotts village»

The incident — in which Turkey said a Russian warplane violated Turkish airspace for roughly 17 seconds — comes four days after Turkey accused Russia of bombing villages in northern Syria inhabited by Syrian Turkmen and called for an immediate end to Russia's military operation close to the border.

Born in 1970 in a village near Sevnica, Slovenia, which was then part of Yugoslavia, Melania moved to New York to pursue her modeling career in 1996 and became a permanent U.S. resident in 2001 and a citizen in 2006.

«It takes a village,» may be incredibly old wisdom, but it's still true despite the fact that very few of us actually live in villages.

It now has the distinction of being the only Smurf village in the world (that we know of) and the town hosts regular tours and events — some related to mushrooms, for which the area is known, and which both Smurfs and Spaniards love.

Pinkerton urges us in no uncertain terms that «building your village — building it and sustaining it — is a matter of life and death.»

According to Holly deGraaf, Interim General Manager and Director, Retail Operations and Public Relations at Ten Thousand Villages Canada, «The highest [impact is made] when what [bloggers] share and write doesn't look like --[or better yet, isn't]-- a paid endorsement.

Eventually, Emily decided to move out of her first apartment and headed into the city to comb through listings in the Village Voice in the hopes of finding a new place.

One reason this community is getting top marks is it offers everything a little village should offer — walking distance to all amenities, scenic ocean front — and it's only a 25 - minute drive to downtown Victoria.

While Amazon squabbles with U.S. aviation bureaucrats, the Swiss postal service is already delivering packages to Alpine villages by UAV.

As a kid, I remember hearing a story about a village that wanted to honor their king with a barrel of wine.

So he set out to replicate the results, conducting another so - called Hole In the Wall experiment in a poor rural village, where the kids didn't even speak English.

Like the neighbouring South - East community, Sidney North - East is a decent 30 - minute drive to downtown Victoria — a distance no longer considered extreme — plus it boasts a village - like feel.

Perth Surveying Services has won a $ 2.7 million contract with John Holland to work on the Wheatstone LNG construction village.

But keep in mind, it takes a village to create a product.

Village / Town Halls If you're holding a conference, renting out a function room or hall in your town or village isn't a bad idea.

Kim will meet with South Korean president Moon Jae - in at the border village of Panmunjom.

A gas derrick at the village of Sabetta in the Kara Sea shore line on the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic circle on April 16, 2015.

In the latest controversy involving the giant social network's news judgement, Facebook (fb) removed an iconic photo from the Vietnam War: A picture of a young Kim Phuc running naked down a road after her village was hit by napalm.

The village, which sprang up near the port city of Tianjin in 2011, is actually an outlet mall with more than 200 shops.

Will you build a hospital in a remote village?

From cancer and stroke survivors to super agers in Sardinian villages and your average modern day citizen, wherever scientists look they seem to find huge benefits from actually looking another person in the eyes, Pinker reports.

The founder, an immigrant himself, created the retirement community to resemble an Indian village.

In some ways, Forrec started small in working on The Villages.

CardioInsight found a way to 3D map the heart's electrical activity, but it took a village of funding resources to get there.

«I was taking a slow boat down the Mekong Delta from Thailand to Laos, and we stopped for the night in a small village along the Mekong.

Village Capital, a not - for - profit that uses a unique peer - selection method to guide investments, is trying to change the stats behind Darrisaw's pitch.

With help from Citi Community Development, Village Capital recently hosted three pitch competitions, each designed to show venture capitalists and other investors that they really are missing out by not investing in women and people of color.

«We are putting local villages to work,» says Jeremy Shute.

Despite Forrec's success with The Villages, the company hasn't actively pursued other retirement community projects.

Lake Sumter Landing taps into the nostalgia for small town America and is designed to resemble a seaside village.

The Villages decided to expand and recruited Forrec to design a second — and then a third — town centre.

«When we started marketing that to our pipeline of clients, interest just went crazy,» says Villages vice-president Tracy Mathews, who is also Morse's daughter.

«A lot of investors say they don't know where to find minority and women entrepreneurs,» says Nasir Qadree, Village Capital's director of education.

DiFruscio visited The Villages and came away impressed.

His small place in New York's East Village quickly garnered a loyal following, and Holden, who comes from a fishing family in Maine, has since opened up three restaurants.

But St. Elizabeth Village isn't content to stop there.

Forrec's work with Universal Studios led to an unusual client for the company — H. Gary Morse, who had developed a prosperous retirement community in Florida, later dubbed The Villages, complete with pools and golf courses.

But the event, presented this spring by Village Capital and Citi Community Development in New York, also showed that sometimes, the gulf between entrepreneurs and their would - be advisors can be somewhat more difficult for diverse entrepreneurs to bridge.

Johnson moved to the neighbourhood, St. Elizabeth Village, six years ago, after her husband passed away.

Baker has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice and Esquire and dozens of other major domestic and foreign publications.

Laurie Garrett, one of the globe's most gifted writers on global public health issues, has a timely and scary essay on foreignpolicy.com about the nasty norovirus plaguing athletes in the Olympic village — a bug one expert calls the «perfect human pathogen.»

This stark contrast has forced him to consider new ways villages in India can access power in safe ways.

That's part of the reason The Villages has been successful — the community actually attracts curious tourists.

She lived in a small village in Pakistan that was invaded by the Taliban, and at age 11 she utilized a cell phone to call a BBC reporter who wrote up a blog that would bring awareness to unknown atrocities being committed in her area, the Swat Valley.

Villages with cultures all their own.

Indeed, some so - called rural villages in China boast steel mills and factories, while one, Beishanmen, near the city of Xi'an, recently erected a 23 - storey apartment tower.

Council is considering starting a commuter ferry service to bring workers to Kitimat from nearby coastal villages.

«It became too difficult to turn a profit last year, so I closed the canteen and went to find work as a cook,» said Zhang, who left Bianqiang village 14 years ago.

It takes a village to innovate.

As the old proverb says, «It takes a village to raise a child.»