Speakers of forms of Mandarin other than the standard typically refer to the variety they speak by a geographic name — for example Sichuan dialect, Hebei dialect or Northeastern dialect, all being regarded as distinct from the standard language.

* Rocket Festival — Tradition bamboo rockets of Laos and Northeastern Thailand

* Ceiba speciosa — Palo borracho ( Southern Brazil, Northeastern Argentina, Paraguay )

Also in 1884, a railroad — known then as the New Orleans and Northeastern — was built from Meridian, Mississippi, through Hattiesburg to New Orleans.

* Pickled tripe — Pickled white honeycomb tripe once common in the Northeastern United States.

Also known as Wafer Ash, it is native to North America, from southern Eastern Canada, the Great Lakes region and the Northeastern U. S .; southward through the midwestern and southeastern U. S. to the southern state of Florida, westward to the Southwestern United States in Utah — Arizona, and southward through central and eastern Mexico to the southwestern state of Oaxaca.

Some localities in the Northeastern United States, for instance, have tried to block students from registering to vote as local residents — instead encouraging them to vote by absentee ballot at their primary residence — in order to retain control of local politics.

As a result, the PC was relieved of its obligation to pay fees to various Northeastern railroads — the Lehigh Valley included — for the use of their railcars and other operations.

The paper took issue with the fact that the CRTC's original notice of hearing was published only in Le Droit, and not in any of the region's local media — thereby giving the francophone community in Northeastern Ontario little notice of either the pending transaction or the deadlines for reviewing and submitting comments regarding the application.

* HYP — an initialism referring to the " Big Three " Northeastern U. S. colleges: Harvard College, Yale College, and Princeton University

* Northeastern University — large private university best known for its Co-op program.

To determine a National Champion, the winners of each league playdown in four regional championships — the Fred Page Cup ( Eastern Region-Maritimes, Quebec, Ottawa District ), the Dudley Hewitt Cup ( Central Region-Southern Ontario, Northeastern Ontario, Northwestern Ontario ), the Anavet Cup ( Western Region-Manitoba and Saskatchewan ), and the Doyle Cup ( Pacific Region-Alberta and British Columbia ).

( The reverse — use of Northeastern state E-ZPass transponders in I-PASS facilities in Illinois — was actually working as early as May 2005.

* The Beanpot — An annual hockey tournament involving Boston University, Northeastern University, Boston College, and Harvard, all located in and around Boston.

* Middle Low German ( 14th — 16th century, during the heyday of the Hanseatic League, particularly in Northern and Northeastern Europe.

* Roosevelt District — Serving Northeast Philadelphia-Serving Northeast Philadelphia From the Delaware River ( East ) to the Northeastern Philadelphia City Line ( North and West ) to Roosevelt Blvd ( South ).

* Alnus maritima — seaside alder, east coastal North America, plus disjunct population in Oklahoma

* Frank Sonleitner — University of Oklahoma

Currently all of the states in the Deep South and a number of states in the Midwest, Plains, and Rocky Mountains regions have right-to-work laws ( with five states — Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi and Oklahoma — going one step further and enshrining right-to-work laws in their states ' constitutions ).

The number of " false positive " reports based on misidentifications is considerable ; in a nationwide study where people submitted spiders that they thought were brown recluses, of 581 from California only 1 was a brown recluse — submitted by a family that moved from Missouri and brought it with them ( compared to specimens submitted from Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, where between 75 % and 90 % were recluses ).

" The program, starring Barton MacLane, was the story of a U. S. marshal in Oklahoma Territory — deputies played by Don Collier, Jock Gaynor and Bruce Yarnell — and the outlaws that they pursued.

The territorial boundaries claimed as sovereign and controlled by the Native American nations living in what was then known as the Indian Territories — the portion of the early United States east of the Mississippi River not yet claimed or allotted to become Oklahoma -- were fixed and determined by national treaties with the United States Federal government under terms recognizing these entities as dependent but internally sovereign, or autonomous nations under the sole jurisdiction of the Federal government.

They returned to the NBA Finals after winning 57 games, winning a close 6-game 1st round series against the Portland Trail Blazers ; dethroning the NBA Champions of the past two years — the Los Angeles Lakers — in the Western Conference Semifinals ( four-game sweep ); and defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder in 5 games in the Western Conference Finals on home court in Dallas to win their second Western Conference Championship.

On their way to their honeymoon, they are stopped by an Oklahoma state trooper — apparently Jacy left a note telling her parents all about their plan.

ashei Sudworth ( D. M. Hunt 1989 ), grows in the western portions of its range — northern Texas, Oklahoma, and into southern Kansas.

Hendricks — all of whom were land promoters from Weatherford, Oklahoma — when they learned that the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad ( CO & G ) was coming to the area ( in 1898, the CO & G Railroad completed its western route to Weatherford ; beginning in 1901, it continued building west ).

Adjacent stations were established at Davenport — now Kellond, Oklahoma — to the north, and Hamden, Oklahoma to the south.

It is the region ’ s largest trading center due to its relative distance from the county seat of Antlers, Oklahoma — 36 miles.

South of Clayton is Clayton Lake State Park — which is surrounded by a pine tree forest — and northwest of town is Sardis Lake ( Oklahoma ), a U. S. Army Corps of Engineers dam which impounds the water of Jack ’ s Fork Creek.

Many residents shop in Antlers, Oklahoma and Hugo, Oklahoma — particularly in the large Wal-Mart store located in the latter town.

* 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — later renamed Community of Christ — is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois

** Community ecology: community — keystone species — mimicry — symbiosis — pollination — mutualism — commensalism — parasitism — predation — invasive species — environmental heterogeneity — edge effect

Dartmouth has one secondary school — formerly ( Dartmouth Community College ) now Dartmouth Academy — an all-through school for those aged 3 – 18, and two primary schools: ( Dartmouth Primary school ( now part of Dartmouth Academy ) and St John the Baptist R. C.

Italy was one of the Founding members of the European Community — now the European Union ( EU ).

In common use are such terms as Lusophone, meaning Portuguese-speaking, and Lusitanic, referring to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries — once Portugal's colonies and presently independent countries still sharing some common heritage.

The primary conflict of the series is the members of the Tribulation Force against the Global Community and its leader Nicolae Carpathia — the Antichrist.

The classes are designed to expose students to the rigor of college academics and to the four principles of the college mission — Excellence, Equity, Community, and Service.

In 1970, the Park Chung Hee government launched the Saemaul undong ( New Community Movement ) as a rural reconstruction and self-help movement to improve economic conditions in the villages, close the wide gap in income between rural and urban areas, and stem urban migration — as well as to build a political base.

It consists of three colleges — North Seattle Community College, Seattle Central Community College ( including the Wood Construction Center and Seattle Maritime Academy ), South Seattle Community College ( including the Georgetown Campus ) — and the Seattle Vocational Institute.

In 1979 the American feminist writer Fran Hosken ( 1920 – 2006 ) presented research about it — The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females — to the first Seminar on Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, sponsored by the WHO.

Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes — for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place.

After Robinson's retirement from baseball, his wife, Rachel Robinson, pursued a career in academic nursing — she became an assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing and director of nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

* The Prana Program — Eliminating Global Health & Hunger Challenges

* Ambassadors of Light — World Health & World Hunger Project

The Nutrition Source, a website maintained by the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, summarizes the current evidence on the impact of dietary fat: " Detailed research — much of it done at Harvard — shows that the total amount of fat in the diet isn't really linked with weight or disease.

Unlike the Accident Insurance and Health Insurance programs, this program covered all categories of workers — industrial, agrarian, artisans and servants from the start.

152 — The Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers shows the solicitude of the Church for the sick by helping those who serve the sick and suffering, so that their apostolate of mercy may ever more effectively respond to people ’ s needs.

Le Morvan advocates a third approach — he dubs it the " Health Approach "-- that explores when skepticism is healthy and when it is not, or when it is virtuous and when it is vicious.

* Joseph E. Rall † — National Institutes of Health

At the Oregon Health and Science University, for example, the median patient who ultimately received an organ waited only three weeks for a heart and three months for a pancreas or liver — but 15 months for a kidney, because demand for kidneys substantially outstrips supply.

The study's author, University of London psychologist Alex Mesoudi, recommends reporters to follow the sort of guidelines the World Health Organization and others endorse for coverage of any suicide: Use extreme restraint in covering these deaths — keep the word " suicide " out of the headline, don't romanticize the death, and limit the number of stories.

* Health and Safety Executive, website of the UK Health and Safety Executive, useful search terms on this site — isocyanates, MVR, asthma

* Secretary — Marjorie Colebut-Jackson ( Chairwoman of Judicial / Health & Human Services Committees and Co-Chairwoman of the Family Protection & Reunification Team )

** State Health Facts — Data on health care spending and utilization, including Medicare ; provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Once care moves beyond the services required by the Canada Health Act — for which universal comprehensive coverage applies — there is inconsistency from province to province in the extent of publicly funded coverage, particularly for such items as outpatient drug coverage and rehabilitation, as well as vision care, mental health, and long-term care, with a substantial portion of such services being paid for privately, either through private insurance, or out-of-pocket.

However, the Health Council of Canada — with a mandate to monitor and report on health reform — complained in 2007 that progress has stalled.

In winter, some parts of Ulaanbaatar can reach daily average concentrations of a particular type of PM known as PM10 — particles with a diameter of 10 microns or smaller — that are 70 to 85 times the maximum daily exposure recommended by the World Health Organization ( WHO ).

* National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health — Logging safety