China is a country on the move. Millions have left their homes in the country’s rural interior to seek work in the booming cities. But not all of them can afford to take their children with them. Xie Xiang Ling is one of those who has been left behind and she told Al Jazeera her story.
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I saw the yahoo news ad about the couple in north dakota and was just wondering what would be the WORST declining rural community in the USA? As in what community is losing the largest amount of it’s population?
my hometown of Salem IN, bc it is soooo boring that the whole entire young generation wants to leave bc there is NOTHING TO DO. and yet, our school wonders why we have so many pot heads? Its like our town stopped progressing after railroad usage dropped. my grandma remebers salem as successful and thriving. we used to have a drive in, a bowling alley, a roller rink, ect. Now, we have nothing and have to drive over a half an hour away just to do something.
btw: ive never done drugs, and never plan to.
I’ve moved to a rural area with a septic tank instead of a mains sewer.
I am not sure what chemicals I can use together because I don’t want the tank to build up poisonous or explosive fumes.
What is the best way to keep the toilet clean safely.
I don’t see why septic tanks are unique to Ireland, and think you might get some better answers if you posted in the Home and Garden section.
Personally, I use a combination of everything the local shops sell and have never had any problem.
Anyway to answer the question, I’d have to say the only way to keep the toilet really clean would be to sh*t in the hot press.
Explore a few parts of my adopted hometown – Taisha – with me and 3 of the new JETs from Izumo.
We go to Hinomisaki todai (lighthouse) and also to the famous IzumoTaisha shrine.
more about IzumoTaisha:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo_Taisha
Thanks to Lauren for being my cameraman during some clips and thanks to all three of the new ALTs – Eric, Ashley and Lauren – for hanging out with me on a hot, hot Monday.
Enjoy the tour!
-Jason
PS – Jacob the dragon is named after Ken Tanaka’s Jacob the Happy Rabbit
Check out Ken’s channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/helpmefindparentsRabbit.
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I.e. Rural area with private phone company. No other services advertised on the web are available in this particular area. No towers (antennae) in the area for a minimum of 30+ miles any direction for service….roaming or local in regard to cell phones. Most rural residents would benefit from cell phone use due to miles between neighbors and difficult road conditions for ranchers and farmers, tourists and recreational enthusiasts.
Since internet and cell phone companies are private entities and not government entities, there is no governmental agency that will be able to help you. You would need to contact companies yourself or possibly get together with other interested residents to do this.
I am a volunteer in an Australian New South Wales Rural Fire Brigade. We are an urban fringe brigade and go to approx 150 – 200 emergency calls a year.
Every year we discuss fundraising and end up doing the same old boring raffle.
We have just formed a fundraising committee within the brigade to get together to brain storm ideas.
I am curious what other people in similar non profit community organisations do for their fundraising.
In 2003 schools all over the country were being challenged to find new sources of financial support; and those in Junction City, Oregon were no different.
One thing that was different, however, is that this small community just north of Eugene is home to the notorious Long Tom Grange – one of the fastest growing granges in Oregon and home of the annual Daffodil Drive Festival. In 2002 Grange member and author Danuta Pfeiffer suggested that their members “drop everything” to do something about the funding of their schools.
Thus was born a unique fund-raising calendar featuring “The Men of the Long Tom Grange”. During the summer of 2003 local photographer Jamie Hooper and a dozen willing volunteers (enthusiastically supported by their wives) began creating a series of not-quite-revealing portraits.
Finally in late August the news media including Eugene’s Register-Guard, the Tri-County News, and local TV. stations were invited to the final shoot for the front and back cover of the calendar. As the media arrived at Pfeiffer Vineyards (location of the shoot) they were met at the gates by a group of vocal "protesters" – and "protesters protesting the protesters".
After the cover photography was done enthusiastic TV. crews broke through the cordoned-off press area to get an “up close and personal” interview with the subjects.
Nude Calendar Fundraising
In Vermont, the 2002 Men of Maple Corner fundraising calendar — featuring men ages 60 to 78 in various stages of undress — raised more than $500,000, far surpassing the modest goal of $30,000 for improvements to the local community center in Calais, Vt. Proceeds from the 2003 calendar will benefit at least 11 nonprofit groups.
In New Hampshire, women from the town of Tamworth, population 2,200, raised more than $75,000 for 25 local organizations with their 2002 Women of Tamworth fundraising calendar. The 2003 sequel, Tamworth Men in Hats, features men fishing, playing the banjo, hunting and in other activities wearing nothing but hats.
In Vail, Colo., firefighters, chefs, extreme skiers and others teamed up to produce the Vail Undressed calendar and netted more than $30,000 in fundraising aid people in a financial crunch because of a medical crisis.
In Aiken, S.C., the Still Magnolias calendar raised nearly $180,000 for the Aiken Area Council on Aging. The fundraising calendar features photos of women ages 60 to 84 golfing, knitting, playing the piano.
http://grangecalendar.com/
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/10/13/offbeat.calendar.boys.ap/index.html
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/08/04/b1.cr.longtom.0804.p1.php?section=cityregion
http://www.fundraising-ideas.org/DIY/nudecalendar.htm
How many of you from rural towns have been polled on political issues? If you haven’t do you feel the same as I that our opinion doesn’t matter to the pollsters?
never been polled… I feel so left out 
I don’t think my opinion doesn’t matter to the pollsters… I know it doesn’t. I’m not part of the Chicago-thug liberal agenda.
Many parents from the 80’s era believed that raising their children a rural or suburban environment was best and safest choice for their families. Now some children from that era are "blaming" their parents because they weren’t exposed enough…to crime, violence, and multiple races. So now these kids are living in dnese city environments.. seemingly to make up for it, exposing themselves to the crime + violence that their parents worked so hard to sheild them from…what do you think? Will they move back to the suburbs? What should the parents do now? How guilty should the parents feel?
Parents should never feel guilty unless there has been some sort of abuse and living in a rural area hardly constitutes abuse. People prefer to blame their parents for ridiculous reasons, such as this one, in order to excuse their own shortcomings and avoid any responsibility for their own lives. Who knows what people will do or where they will live? And whatever the children decide to do after growing up is up to them and the parents bear no blame one way or the other, that is just puerile.
Synopsis
A short experimental film shot totally in a studio, it is about the relationship between an Aboriginal daughter and her white mother. The daughter, now the sole carer of her dying mother, dreams of far away places.
Curator’s notes
A short film written and directed by Tracey Moffatt, Night Cries is promoted as a possible sequel to Chauvel’s feature film Jedda. What would have happened had Jedda survived, and became the primary carer of her white mother? Moffatt, one of Australia’s most famous visual artists whose work is internationally acclaimed, continues her use of constructed environments, with no outdoor scenes filmed in this work. Shot entirely indoors, the design work of Steven Curtis in Night Cries can also be seen in Moffatt’s feature film BeDevil. The beautiful use of rich colours, reflections and sounds open up the indoor environment of the set, and suggests the grand expanse of physical landscapes.
Moffatt’s use of famous Aboriginal singer Jimmy Little, who sings ‘Royal Telephone’ in Night Cries, evokes the presence of Christianity, and its role in the assimilation of Aboriginal peoples. The haunting textures of the painted landscape can then perhaps be reflective of a gradual change in how Aboriginal people relate to the land as a consequence of assimilation. The haunted look in the eyes of the Aboriginal daughter (Marcia Langton), is loaded with a sense of what could have been. The final scene of Night Cries is reminiscent of a scene from Jedda, when the newborn infant is laid on the table next to the white mistress of the house, and both begin to cry. This scene in Night Cries revisits the pain and anguish of Jedda, as the now grown Aboriginal daughter lies in a foetal position next to her white mother, and once again cries. Assimilation, then, can be understood as a pain experienced by both the Aboriginal daughter, as well as the white mother.
Tracey Moffatt is an artist who continues to challenge the social construction of Aboriginality and how it is nationally and internationally viewed.
Romaine Moreton, curator
http://www.ubu.com/film/moffatt_rural.html
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Found a piece of really cheap land (a little over 1K/acre) and just wondering the cost it would be to have solar electricity there – no electricity yet in the area b/c it is very rural and about 20 minutes from town.
thank you so much!! :O)
Hey, no thank you! Those websites are not solar related — they’re about appliance repair. Come on people!
It depends on how much electricity you plan to
use, and how many days storage capacity you’ll
require. – Those winters can be fierce.
(If you plan to use electric cooking, heat, or A.C. -
forget it).
You’ll need:
*Solar panels to gather a days worth of power in about
4 hours.
*A charger/inverter unit of the proper size for the load.
* Batteries with storage capacity for two days of the load.
Experience has shown that the system will cost
about what you’d pay for 15 – 20 Yr.s worth of utility power.