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Hooimaand in Drenthe

Juli – Hondsrug / Drenthe

Drenthe – herfst 2009

Vergezicht vanuit de Hunzevallei – Drenthe, 6 November 2009

Gemeente Borger – Odoorn / Drenthe

Den 11. november kan alle borgere i Tinglev og omegn få overblik over, hvordan det står til med deres sundhed. Her kan man nemlig besøge en sundhedscafé, som Aabenraa Kommunes Sundhedscenter står bag.

Arrangementet finder sted i og ved Borgerhuset i Tinglev, Tinglev Midt 2, onsdag den 11. november kl. 11-17.

Blodtryk, blodsukker, kondital, fedtprocent, lungefunktion, balanceevne og lungernes indhold af kulilte. Alt det står sundhedscentrets medarbejdere og en stribe foreninger klar til at måle i sundhedscaféen. Mod betaling kan man desuden få målt sit kolesteroltal.

Sundhedscaféen er et samarbejde mellem Aabenraa Kommunes Sundhedscenter, Hjerteforeningen, Danmarks Lungeforening, Diabetesforeningen, Forebyggende Hjemmebesøg, Misbrugscenteret, Bibliotekerne og Distriktspsykiatrien.

- Udover de forskellige målinger står vi til rådighed med vejledning, så besøgende kan få hjælp til at blive sundere på en måde, der passer ind i den enkeltes liv, fortæller sundhedsfaglig medarbejder i Rødekro Sundhedscenter Elsebeth Hynding Petersen.

- En udvidelse af Sundhedscaféen er samarbejdet med biblioteket. Her er der gjort klar med let tilgængeligt materiale om en sundere livsstil, så man kan blive klogere også efter, at caféen er slut.

Udenfor Borgerhuset kan besøgende opleve Aabenraa Kommunes Sundhedsbus. Sundhedspersonalet i bussen rådgiver og vejleder om sundhed, og her kan besøgende få kastet lys over bl.a. deres kondition.

Pressen er velkommen til at dække sundhedscaféen med journalist og fotograf.

Kontaktinformation:

Sundhedsfaglig medarbejder i Rødekro Sundhedscenter, Elsebeth Hynding Petersen, telefon 74 33 21 58 eller ehp@aabenraa.dk .

Gloria Borger is on to something.  Her latest comments on the fate of Obama’s efforts show her anxiety over his hurdles.

Now that a key Senate committee has finally moved a health care bill, President Obama can get to work to try and figure out a final version of reform.

Now that Gen. Stanley McChrystal has recommended a large troop buildup in Afghanistan — setting off an internal debate about recalibrating strategy — the president can decide what he wants to do about the war.

And now that the stock market is on the rebound — while unemployment remains high — Obama can figure out how to come up with a “son of stimulus” package that targets jobs.

Tough decisions are part of the president’s job description, after all.

But here’s the tricky part: how to convince the public that you — and government — will do the right thing, or are even capable of it.

Gloria – here is a trickier part – how to get the media to take off the blinders.  You say that since the stock market is on the rebound (with high unemployment), Obama is free to come up with a “son of stimulus” package that targets jobs.

Really?

What was the “Mother of all stimulus packages” all about if not preserving jobs?

Back in January, Obama’s pleas for congressional action on the stimulus was all about creating jobs – 3 million of them to be exact.

See MSNBC – Obama’s stimulus promises jobs

By all measures, the “Mother” stimulus bill has been a flop so far.  Especially so when employment is considered.  If JOBS was the reason for the Mother bill, why should anyone believe him when he says that NOW jobs are the reason for “Son of Stimulus”?

This is not some brainwashing by a president who has been dead for years and out of office for decades.  It is a confirmation of what we can plainly see.  The government is not so trustworthy – even on matters of compassion and good intentions.

No amount of cheerleading from the political pundits and teleprompter readers will make us believe what we can see for ourselves. The Obama administration has been less than successful on the fronts you’ve mentioned.

Afghanistan – Obama’s hand-picked general openly is saying (in not so many words) that Obama is not giving him the troops required for victory and Obama’s inaction on the matter wastes time that makes victory less likely.

Health Care – I submit to you that Obama has allowed the Senate to dictate how they want the reform to work.  Obama has little say on the matter now that he has said he will sign just about anything that comes across his desk.

Just those few issues alone show that an inexperienced person like Obama will have more difficulties in leading others.  Obama’s skills in working with small groups don’t scale well.  It shows.

The results will ultimately fall short of heightened expectations created mostly by Obama himself as a candidate.  Hope is not a strategy.  Well wishes, noble intentions and Nobel Prizes are not enough.

Gloria, Gloria, Gloria.   Borger complains that Republicans aren’t held to do anything but bash Obama’s plans.

She opines:

In my next life, I’d like to be an opposition party leader. What fun to go to work every day knowing you will always be right, largely because your ideas will remain untested.

So you propose theories to your heart’s content, with vague plans and proposals guaranteed to make any voter smile. If we were in charge, you sing, the people would have tax cuts! More money in their pockets! And no deficits! But more jobs!

And, oh, what about the great pleasure of taking on the poor guy who won? On any particular day, the president is either a socialist (health care), a captive of environmental greenies (climate change) or a dithering commander in chief who disagrees with his generals and can’t make up his mind (Afghanistan). Name-calling. Can’t beat that for a job.

All the while, you — the “serious” opposition — continue to intone to the public “we want to work with him, of course.”

Of course, you don’t.

Where do I begin?  First, tell me where Obama and Democrat ideas have been “tested”.  Health care?  Environmental emission reductions?  Where is the scientific EVIDENCE?  Where is the economic testing that proves we won’t get crushed by the new taxes?

Where was Borger when democrats demonized Bush while he was trying to keep Muslim extremist terrorists from killing Americans?  Every program he implemented was bemoaned by Democrats as trampling rights.  Perhaps the programs did go over the line – but where was the loyal opposition’s alternative plans?  You know, John Kerry (he served in Vietnam, in case you didn’t know that) proposed many vague strategies that would work far better than anything the “poor” guy who won (Bush) could muster.  He even voted for one particular Bush backed proposal before he voted against it.  All the while the Democrats claimed that they just wanted to work with Bush.  Must be nice.

Even the late Senator Kennedy was able to write the “No Child Left Behind” bill thanks to a gracious bipartisan offer by Bush.  Afterwords Kennedy bitched that Bush didn’t provide enough funding.  The hard core media didn’t bother to call Kennedy out on the fact that Congress funds the programs and Kennedy, as a very senior senator was in a better position to lobby he own colleagues than Bush.

Borger, like the rest of her liberal colleagues neglects to note that Democrats control the show so 30 suggestions offered in the form of legislation have been shot down before even making it to the floor of the House alone.  That is just since his holiness, the “Hope” took office in January.

Here is a list of House Resolutions proposed by Republicans this year (as of September): H.R. 77; H.R. 109; H.R. 198; H.R. 270; H.R. 321; H.R. 464; H.R. 502; H.R. 544; H.R. 917; H.R. 1086; H.R. 1118; H.R. 1441; H.R. 1458; H.R. 1468; H.R. 1658; H.R. 1891; H.R. 2520; H.R. 2607; H.R. 2692; H.R. 2784; H.R. 2785; H.R. 2786; H.R. 2787; H.R. 3141; H.R. 3217; H.R. 3218; H.R. 3356; H.R. 3372; H.R. 3400; H.R. 3438; H.R. 3454; and H.R. 3478.

So much for the BS that the GOP is offering nothing.

The ongoing line of bull-feces emanating from the sewer-pipes of Congressional Democrats and Media types needs to stop – for their own sake.  Eventually, this internet-thing will catch on and so will the public.  My bet is that most people already have.

Borger suggests that the GOP is bluffing when they refuse to go along with Obama.  She cannot conceive that there is actual difference in opinion and that Obama’s plan could be more damaging than “doing nothing”.

Borger implores Obama to call the GOP’s “bluff” by making them an offer they cannot refuse like tax breaks.  Perhaps she means that he should actually compromise and abandon his liberal ideals.  Who knows?  Her thought is to get the GOP to go from saying “no” to “yes”.

The question I have for Gloria is, “Why?”

Democrats control the House, Senate and White House.  They won.  They have tried to sell their agenda and the public is less than enthused.  Without media support, poll numbers would be worse than they are now.  Perhaps Gloria and her pals need to start covering the issues without their pink tinted glasses on.

It is just a thought.

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Alaskan malamute    ‘Kinuk’

Zaterdag 19 september 2009 werd voor de 9e keer in Borger / Drenthe de ’survival voor baas en hond’ gehouden waarbij baas en hond tijdens een 10 km. lange voettocht samen opdrachten kunnen uitvoeren.  Er waren honden bij die voor geen goud de door scouting met balken en drijftonnen gemaakte oversteek over het Kanaal Buinen-Schoonoord maakten, maar sommigen zagen hun kans schoon …

De foto’s op deze site zijn voor het grootste deel in een zéér lage resolutie weergegeven. Veel foto’s (originelen) hebben posterkwaliteit.

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Organisatie:

Reddingshondengroep Drenthe en Kringgroep Hollandse Herders Noord Oost Nederland

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Midden en rechts: Alessandro Ballan en Robert Gesink (Rabo)  Dank je wel Jan K. voor de wielrennernamen

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Doorkomst Vuelta ‘09 door Borger / Drenthe

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Bram Tankink

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Niet goed? Tikje sneller?

Ronde van Spanje 2009: Alexander Efimkin

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La Ronda Espanola: Matthias Russ – doorkomst Borger / Drenthe 17.00 uur

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64th Vuelta A España – doorkomst in Borger / Drenthe 17.00 uur

As Summer breathes his last, hot, dying breath, I see where I AM, and realize that I am long overdue for a reckoning with where I WAS but a short time ago.

Last May found me finishing up my tenth year at Lockney High School, home of the mighty fighting Longhorns of Lockney, Texas.  Great place to work.  Wonderful, blessed community.

And I was in the depths of a despondency of my own design.  It wasn’t where I was supposed to be any more.  And I was faced with a decision: leave the comfort, security, and familiarity I had grown into for the last 14 years of my life, OR stay and continue to spiral downward.

Believing that God had called me to do so, I chose to resign my position in late May.

Some would call what I and my family did “stepping out on faith,” and would use reverent tones in doing so, like we were saints.  In all honesty, we did what we have always done (to one degree or another): we put all trust for our future in the hands of an almighty, omnipotent God who has never yet proven us foolish for having done so.

And we waited.

I sent out multiple job applications in a variety of public and private fields.  And heard nothing.

And we waited.

I had a fantastic couple of interviews with McLean I.S.D., and remarked to my wife, “If they DON’T offer me this job, it HAS to be God.”  And they were silent, and evasive for weeks.

And we waited.

I had another fantastic interview at Caprock High School in Amarillo.  Again, I felt reasonably sure that THIS must be the perfect place.  And I never heard from them again.

And we waited.

One day saw me interviewing at Hedley I.S.D. in the morning, where they promptly offered me a job… on the spot.  They were hungry to fill a spot, and I could sense that.  I almost said YES.  That afternoon, I interviewed at Borger High School.  Having come from a job offer, I may have exuded a bit more confidence than any of my other interviews… I don’t think I did, but who really knows?  It was a good conversation — I met and spoke with principal Tony McCarthy, and his enthusiasm for the changes being wrought in the school and community of Borger, Texas, was very contagious.

And we waited.  A few days.

I was offered the job in Borger, and called to accept the following day.

We had roughly a month to sell our house, find and buy a new one, and pack/transport/unpack all our stuff before the school year began.

Then we saw God, who had watched US wait on him, begin to MOVE.

We listed our house the next Monday, and sold it in two days…

We shopped houses in Borger on Friday, and made an offer on Saturday… which was accepted, after a few negotiations, in a few days.

We packed up our house, and closed on it in a further two and a half weeks.

Now, we sit on the eve of closing on our new house in Borger, and four days before classes begin at the high school.  I’m teaching IPC (Integrated Physics and Chemistry,) a course new to me, and a challenge that I eagerly look to meeting.  I am in a room which is (to put it kindly) unfinished, but which reeks of potential.  I have a list of roughly 110 students who I will be meeting for the first time soon (and many of their parents in just about half an hour.)

And we have the birth of our new son, Samuel Journey, to look forward to on the 2nd of October.

Ask me whether I prefer the calm or the storm, and I’ll likely point to the Captain of our ship, who is steadfast in either, and still hasn’t let us down.

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Borger – gerstveld in avondgloed.                                                                                           Gemeente Borger-Odoorn / Drenthe

Borgerne i Aabenraa Kommune er gode til at sortere affald. Faktisk så gode, at mængden af affald fra dagrenovation er faldet med 12,5 % på et år. Mængden af storskrald til forbrænding og til losseplads er også faldet i samme periode med henholdsvis 27 % og 20 %. En ny kampagne skal gøre os endnu bedre.

- Vi kan mærke, at siden vi indførte affaldssortering direkte hjemme hos borgerne selv, er folk blevet mere bevidste om, hvad der kan genbruges, og hvad der er godt eller skidt for miljøet, siger Inga Hagen Christensen fra Affald & Genbrug i Aabenraa Kommune. Vi ved, at borgerne gerne vil gøre det rigtigt, og derfor sætter vi en kampagne i gang, der blandt andet informerer om, hvordan man undgår uheldige eller farlige situationer, når skraldemanden udfører sit arbejde.

En del af informationskampagnen har fokus på, hvordan affald lægges i renovationsbeholderen. Al affald skal nemlig i lukkede poser, men specielt her i sommerperioden er der ofte løs grillaske i beholderne. Og det kan være både ubehageligt og farligt, hvis skraldemanden eller borgeren selv får aske og støv i ansigtet, når låget åbnes.

Adgangsforhold er et andet fokusemne. – Vi får jævnligt henvendelser fra borgere, der mod forventning ikke har fået tømt deres renovationsbeholder. Det kan skyldes, at køretøjer er parkeret, så skraldebilen ikke kan komme forbi. I 2008 måtte skraldebiler vende om 159 gange på grund af spærrende biler. På den måde kan beboere på en hel gade risikere ikke at få tømt affaldsbeholderne. En anden årsag kan være, hvis affaldet ikke er sorteret. Skraldemanden må nemlig ikke tømme beholdere i genbrugsbilen, hvis affaldet ikke er sorteret korrekt, idet man risikerer, at et helt læs kasseres på modtageanlægget.

Der foretages gennemsnitligt 23.500 tømninger hver uge fra 30.000 boliger og sommerhuse i Aabenraa Kommune.

Informationskampagnen, der kører året ud, fortæller på plakater og i annoncer, hvordan vi bliver endnu bedre til at håndtere affaldet til gavn for både miljøet og os selv.

FAKTA:

· Affald fra husholdninger i 2008: 56.523 t svarende til 1,9 t pr. bolig. Der er cirka 30.000 boliger, inkl. sommerhuse i Aabenraa Kommune.

· Mængden af dagrenovation er faldet fra 14.922 t til 13.052 t svarende til 12,5%

· Storskrald til forbrænding er faldet med 27,4 % til 2.504 t

· Storskrald til losseplads er faldet med 20 % til 2.136 t

· På én måned er der foretaget 94.094 tømninger i kommunen.

· Der er afleveret 5.000 t genbrugeligt affald i 2008

· Salget i Genbrugsbutikken i Bov er steget med 30 % fra 2007–2008

Kontaktinformation

Ingeniør Børge Nielsen, Affald & Genbrug, tlf. 73 76 76 18

Kommunikationsmedarbejder Jenny Grundahl, tlf. 73 76 77 59

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Waterjuffers in een paringswiel

Kanaal Buinen-Schoonoord/Gemeente Borger-Odoorn

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Ik houd nog een beetje vakantie

Borger / Drenthe  – Drive-in Show van Radio NL